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THE HESPERIAN.
(HESPERIAN STUDENT.)
Issued semi-monthly by the Hesperian Publishing Associ
ation, of the University of Nebraska.
C. S. ALLEN, '86, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
associates:
WILL OWEN JONES, '86. E. C. WIGGENHORN, '87.
E. FULMER, '87. H. P. BARRETT, '88.
Business Manager - - - - Wm. N. Fletcher.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
United effort should now be made for a year ofun
paralleled progress." Eighteen hundred and eighty-six
must be made a good year for the University.
The University is feeling the effects of legislative
blundering in financial matters. If there isanything
that a. legislature is good for, the patient public has as
yet failed to discover it.
full of heartiness and hope. We hope for growth;
for a wider reputation without, and for a warmer and
more complete social life within. May a new year
find tie University striving for better things, and
may it leave us richer in having used every opportu
nity for improvement.
The musicale and art reception at the close of the
fall term would give an outsider the impression that
the departments of music and art are in a flourishing
condition for "foundlings." The appeal made by
the Chancellor for a more hearty support for this ru
dimentary College of Fine Arts ought to awaken the
entire University to a sense of its responsibility in
this matter. Every student and professor can assist,
if so disposed, by quietly advertising the fact that we
have real artists among us, and that pupils are need
ed. The ghost of some insulted proof-reader has per
sistently haunted The Hesperian for years. Occa
sionally we congratulate ourselves that he has been
'laid," but, like the famous apparation in one of
Wm. Shakespeare's plays, he inevitably returns, to our
gieat discomfiture. We mention the matter only for
the purpose of giving notice that our friends need
not trouble to call with the information that we ought
to secure a new proof reader. We are consciuus of
the defects and are trying to work a reformation
from within.
From the reports to the Regents from the agricul
tural farm, it will be seen that that department of the
University is prospering. It makes but very little
stir and bustle, but in a quiet way it is doing much
better work than ever before in its history.
The abolition of military drill during the winter
term is one of the most sensible innovations intro
duced in that department for some time. It will
tend to increase the interest in the spring and fall,
and as these are the only terms suitable for martial
operations, the results will be satisfactory to all con-cerned.
It is time to plan for still another new building.
The University is now growing almost as rapidly as
the one structure under way and the indications are
that when it is occupied we will be as badly crowd
ed as at present. An Agricultural Hall will be count
ed among the "absolute necessities" less than a year
hence.
Thb Hesperian wishes the University a Happy
New Year; not the conventional greeting but one
The recent accident has called out the usual num
ber of cranks who insist that the Laboratory chimney
fell because it was not properly built. They recall
the disaster of 1870, when the chapel roof crushed
through to the basement, injuring several workmen,
and prophesy that as much trouble will be experienced
with the Laboratory as with the main building, the
construction of which was notoriously faulty. We
would advise them to dry their tears. An examina
tion of the work under way shows it to be honestly
done. The accident was caused by carelessness or
ignorance. The Hesperian is not personally ac
quainted with Mr. Lanham, the contractor, and conse
quently is not prejudiced in his favor. We be
lieve that he has not dealt fairly with the Univer
sity in the matter of time, but when the building is
completed it will undoubtedly be satisfactory in ev
ery detail.
The Regents at their last meeting took an action
of some importance to The Hesperian. The debts
of the paper are assumed by the University, which,
in turn, takes posession of the office and material,
leasing the same to the association at a nominal ren
tal. The- change places us at once "even with
