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THE HESPERIAtfi the breaking up of any gathering of sensible students. THE HESPERIAN. (HESPERIAN STUDENT.) Issued semi-monthly by the HEsr-ERlAN Publishing Associ ation, of the University of Nebraska. C. S. ALLEN, '86, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ASSOCIATES: WILL OWEN JONES. 'S6. E. C. WIGGENHORN, Sy. E. FULMER, 'S7. H. P. BARRETT, '8S. Business Manager - - - Wm. N. Fletcher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, per college year, One copy, one half year, Single copy, $1.00 SO .10 ADVERTISING RATES ON AITLICATION. Address all communications to the HESrERlAN, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. EDITORIAL NOTES. The desirability of a full attendance at chapel is quite unanimously agreed upon. Now let us have the attendance, and the Faculty ought by all means to set the example. If the University, individually and collectively, did not return devout thanks on Thursday for the material bless'ng of the past year, it should have done so. The prosperity of the institution during the year has been unprecedented. An occasional lecture before the University would do much toward unifying the institution and break ing down society prejudice. If there is already too much work on hand some of it can profitably be dropped. One good address each term on some sub ject of general interest will do fully as much good as the regular society exercises The patronage given this paper by the business men of Lincoln has always been liberal. The pat ronage giver these same men by the students should also be liberal. Our friends can do us a great seivice by dealing only with the firms who invite them through our columns to do so. Fair treatment will always be secured, as our advertisers are as a rule thoroughly responsible parties. One of the most sensible innovations proposed this year is the closing of University meetings at or before ten o'clock. . Better health, more work and less liability to unfriendly criticism are some of the benefits to be gained by making this change. Ten o'clock, standard time, is certainly late enough for The demand for an ''investigation into the af fairs of the medical department" is silly, through no harm can possibly come from it. This "investiga tion" business should be begun in the city and not at a great distance from police head-quarters. If Uni versity men are proven guilty of any crooked work they will receive no protection from the University authorities. If the policemen are ready, let the show go on. A Few of the young men of the University need to be reminded that there is nothing funny in their new practice of destroying college property. It is vandalism pure and simple and will not be tolerated by public sentiment among the students, much less by the authorities. Law protects the campus as well as the house of the private citizen, and violators of the law are to be punished in regular form through the municipal courts. The thing that must be secured for our Univer sity within the next five years is a gymnasium. No room nttea up with a pair of gloves and a broken Indian club will do; it must be a permanent insti tution with a large buildiDg, a regular instructor, and the best equipment that can be secured. How this much desired end is to be reached in an un solved problem, but its importance calls for ear nest and continued agitation of the question. The Hesperian is informed by the contractor, Mr. C. H. Cowing, that he has placed the steam heating apparatus in the main buildintr ai-arnnr. able loss to himself financially. The work, how ever, gives no indication that it has been careWlv or cheaply done; on the contrary it gives the lie di rect 10 me croaKers who insist that "contracts are never carried out honestly." Mr. Cowing is a o,. - ate of Cornell University, of the class of 8. anH re sides superintending his contracts here, has made nubiboi inenos among the University people. The number of graduates of the Universitv who are occupying responsible positions in other institu tion is steadily on the increase. At the beginning of the present year Mr. Geo. G. Hitchcock, of the class of '83, was elected to a rjrofessorshin in fhf growing college of Pierre. Dakota. Mr. Geo. W. Hotslord, 84, has just entered uoon hi Ht.M: c Prof, of Latin and English in St. Cliarles Coll in Missouri. The records mad hv UntU r i. .. tlemen when students among us warrants the asser tion that as instructors thev will achieve mnro th ordinary success.