Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1886)
8 THE HESPERIAN. I EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRAC. The first college paper pub lished in the U. S. was the Dartmouth Ga zette. Harvard has a brass band of 1S0 pieces. More than one fourth of the students in Gcrmcn Universities are Americans. No papers arc issued by students in England. Every Senior at Trinity is obliged to write a Latin poem loo lines long. Miss trccman, Prcs. of Wcllcsly, is only twenty-cightyearsold I here re 190 college papers in the United Spates. Student (trans atmg) : "And cr-Wcr-the-cr-wcnt-cr-" Professor: Don't laugh, gentlemen, to err is human." Harvard is thinking of shortening her course to three years. Bayard laylor still holds his professorship at Cornell. Sixty Har vard Freshmen have dropped Latin, 80 Greek, and too their Mathematics.- Vanderbilt will soon found a uni versity at Nashville, Tennessee. The Wcllesly fac ulty will not let the girls publish a paper. Iowa City calls itself the "Athens of Iowa." They arc getting sick of oratorical contests at Kansas University. Further interesting developments in the Courier affair at Lawrence, Kansas. We do not receive two. Couriers from Lawrence, Kansas, any more. One still flourishes under the name of Weekly Courier. The Northwestern comes to the end of the year with $37.81 in its pocket, figuratively speaking, after paying all expenses and its business manager. Well! we didn't do quite so well as that, but we-hm -hm- well, wc don't remember exactly how much the Hesperian did make. The faculty of Iowa State University have resolved not to 11.... ..J . . a uuowbiuucnis 10 register liereattcr for more than three stu dies apiece at one time. Whether the measure be wise or not, we venture to say that a similar one would greatly rejoice many students of Nebraska University. The Hatchet deserves its name. It is small and sharp but not heavy. We enjoy reading the Hatchet but the "spice" is too pronounced. Spice is good as spice but not for food, and in our opinion some spice could have been omitted from our last specimen of the Hatchet with excellent effect. The December number of The Sibyl is uncommonly rich Much attention is paid to the literary side of the paper and the girls make a good showing though wc should lay a little more stress on the social and local department. The relation of circumstances connected with the opening of ElmiraCol lege is especially mteresting. The Sibyl Ins a great advan tage over most college papers when it can procure subscribers mostly by exhibiting its editorial staff. The Washburn Argo is one of our newest exchanges. The amount of brains expended is not unusually large; indeed supposing that Washburn had an average amount of the before mentioned commodity, we congratulate it on the amount it must have remaining. The Argo proclaims itself an indepen dent organ and declares its purposes as follows: "It (the Ar go) will criticise and praise that which should be praised without in the former descending to that level which disgraces somany of our college journals or in the latter ascsnding to that inspired adulation which renders abortive the desired effect." It would be more modest not to count the chickens till they are hatched. But really we have no quarrel with the Argo and wish that it may go on and on till it becomes a good college paper. The last number of the Central Ray is not all that might be expected in a college paper. For instance it seems somewhat cut of place to put in as part of the body of the paper, such an advertisement as the article entitled "College Work." If it had been called an advertisement or paid local or had it been put in the torm ot an advertisement there Mould be nothing to criticise, but our ideal is a college paper for the students and by the students, and the Ray certainly answers ncithcrof these. Typographically also it might be made better. As a holiday repast The University Revian dishes up thir teen pages of poetry , It's not bran new wc may inform any one who may be incredulous, but is eathcred from 9nn' numbers of the Revitro. Some of it is rich the way the fresh man, the sophomore, the junibr and the senior, respectively approach the question of love. Wc quote: FRESHMAN. White and cold lay the world outside, So white and cold and still; And the white cold moon' threw a cold white light On the cheerless world, and through the night Chill shadows slept by the hill. SOPHOMORE. . Behind that white, pellucid car In ccstacy I pant, Oh, wild, undreamed of happiness One tender kiss to plant. JUNIOR. : Well, well! poor fool! what can I do, But kneel and supplicate her To be my own? a waltz strikes up "Ta ta! I'll see you later." She's gone to waltz with young Fitz Smith; I m safe. Do not berate her. When next she sees me kneel and beg 'Twill be some centuries later. SENIOR. What matters it! The moon and stars will rise o'er head. But what is light, and what is night, And beauty, what? if love lies dead What matters it! These are merely specimen verses. Wc shall label the thing "poison" and keep it on sale in small doses at the Hes perian office. The University Tress and Badger interesting, unusually so. Its literary department contains articles on The Decline of Good Manners in America" nnd tt;..i ..:-, both of which contain some good thoughts. The thing of prime interest, however is the editorial department which contains an account of the late trouble between the Regents and the Junior class, on account of the Annual. On the strengthofthrcc rules, made by the Regents, "concerted action from any appointed duty by a class or any number of students together, will be regarded as a great violation of order;" the presentation of petitions or the holding of meetings, by the students for the purpose of criticizing the government of the University, and the publication by the students of any thing not approved by the President, are regarded as viola turns of order. The Junior class, to which the publication of the Annual was intrusted, were unwilling to comply with de mand of the Regents that the Annual was submitted to their inspection, and after some dsscussion the publication of the Annual was indefinitely postponed. The students draw con solation from the fact that the Regents ought to feel the losa of the Annual as much as the students do. At the same school, the military commandant continues to sit on refrac tory ones. Takingevery thing into consideration, the average isconsin student Must consider himself a much abused crea--ture. Vv-