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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1886)
tv- , - o THE HESPERIAN. K Chorue. Ilcro wo havo fossils or dog and cats, Plioccno Monkeys and Tertiary rats, Acids and beakers and all such staff free, And a Jolly professor of chcailsterco. Exccpt $5.00 a term to "cover breakage." As the above seems to have a leaning toward the Scientific course it must be thrown out. Nothing with any kind of a bias on can serve as a song for the whole great and united University. A POINT OK ORDER. J. R. FOREE. I like a' game of foot ball With medics on the Green. I like to play with paper wads Whene'er a Prof, is seen; Bat of all the things that come about To stake tho dead alive. It is to hear the Prep girls sing A song in number Five. This hardly rises to the dignity of a college song. We fear that Mr. Forec has mistaken his calling. His strong point appears to lie in the management of Hesperian boards, board ing clubs, etc., and he might as well understand that to dabble in poetry is a dreadful waste of the time that he should spend in thinking up a scheme for next Hallowe'en. The following is a store-house of litciary treasure. Mt. Frost should continue in this line, as his high imagination or exubercnt fancy, or something, like that will certainly give him a place among English poets. We deeply regret that the Literary Course has made it impossible for him to leave out an allusion to History, as it makes useless a poem that would otherwise become our shouting song and endure as long as the University. THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY IDEA. II Y A. L. FROST. When Greece and Home were not so Ancient as at present, could be seen Far down the vistas of the past That strewed with wrecks the 'pathway Of Time, germs, like seeds to grow. Of a grand Institution. Romulus And Remus, when brother smote with brother And laid low, knew not that here In pialrlo West was to be reared an Kdiflco wherein is taught I lie use of brain Rather than brawn; else would they throw Aside all hate, embrace, declare "we care not Romo to build 'ere we historical lore Deep imbibe in Nebraska University, And thus learn how a city, a great state. To found.' The remaining members of the classes competing have sent in articles, but in each case the request was made that the poems be returned to the writer if they were rejected. Noth ing so far has been received that will fill the bill, and we now open the competition to the entire University. Another spec . ial prize of one year's subscription to the Hesperian is of fered for a specimen worse than the ones given above. None but Freshmen will be allowed to compete. Write on but one side of the paper and address (with stamp,) Musical De partment of Hesperian, University. Miss Cora White, who was elected last spring to the posi tion of assistant principal of the high school, tendered her rcsignition last week on account of ill health. Miss White proved herself a pains taking and intelligent teacher and will be greatly missed by a large circle, of friends. Ashland Gazette. CAMPUS CANARDS. The walks are muddy. Our office is now adorned with a cat. There is an "Ernest" mash in school. "White how about your sixty-five cent haul?" Miss Lantz spent Christmas with friends in Plattsmouth. G. W. Gcrwig took in the sights of Omaha during vacation. The campus trees arc now labeled with the Botanical names. W. S Pcrrin went to Roca to spend vacation. He traveled incognito. The societies will not be obliged to pay for the gas con sumed by them. J. R. Force and Miss Sarah Daley spent the' holidays at Palmyra, Missouri. Miss Emma Lasch, a formcrstudent of ihc University, spent the holidays at the home of Miss Nora Gage. Roy Codding went out to western Kansas to hold down his homestead, instead of visiting under the parental roof. Announcement of the marks of the Soph. French class and Freshman German, came very near creating a sensation, H. T. Conley, a one time eighty-sixer, Christmased in Lin coln. He is now principal of the Beaver Crossing schools. W. F. Wiggcns, once a member of '87, shed the light of his countenance around the building and campus during the vacation. The crowd at the M. E. Sabbath school last Sunday was un usually large owing to the fact that Fulmcr and Knight were not in the orchestra. The specimens of art exhibited at the close of the musi calc, were such as anyone might have reason to be proud of. Such a display certainly reflects credit upon Miss Moore as a teacher of art. We arc anxious to wager half our income (38 cents) that nineteen twentieths of the work that has been planned by stud ents, to be done this vacation, will at the expiration of this period still be untouched. Dave Forsythc went to Kearney to hang up his stocking and digut a a railroad debate. David is one of the hardest workers in college and whenever the Palladianshave a debate that requires grinding he is invariably selected. We arc sorry to state th.it Miss Ilattic Babcock has return ed to her home in Denver. Miss Babcock made many friends during her brief stay with us, and it is to be hoped that she will return to Lincoln sometime in the near future. H. P. Barrett is sinking in the social scale slowly but surely. He was seen coming out of Moses Oppenheimer's saloon a few days before Christmas. Hiscxplanation is that he was collect ing, and that it was much better to be seen coming out of the saloon than going in. Too thin. Cheney's silver medal, the joy of his heart and the pride of his vest front, was taken away from him at the Christmas rifle shoot by a man who wears dirty overalls and doesn't know the difference between a verb and a horse block. Education sheds salt tears and the University hides its head at the sight. The librarian was recently shocked so badly that his hair is still on end. An absent-minded coed member of the Sopho. more class drew a book and signed her name on the ticket as "Edith Fulmer." The young lady was sent home in a hack while the librarian went down and attempted to jump into the furnace. . . -
