THE HESPERIAN.
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DIRECT POINTERS.
The report that H any Clark followed off the Comedy of
Errors company seems untrue. He was badly smitten on a
member of the ballet, but is still with us.
Best shoes for only $3.00 at O. V. Webster and Bro's.
Send us the news.
Cochran Bros, keep "Students Delight" peanuts always on
hand. Special rates to students on all restaurant goods.
Go to Ewings for sealskin caps.
Go to O. V. Webster & Bro. 1043 O St. for the best $3.00
shoes.
Attend the Lincoln Business College.
Mawe's 1221 O St., full line of fruits aud confectionery.
Go to Kelly's for fine work in photography.
Cadet suits, gloves and caps at T. Ewing & Co's.
Full line of silk mufflers and nobby silk handkerchiefs at
Ewings.
Our best $3.00 shoos at O. W. Webster 5- Bro. 1043 O St.
O. W. Webster & Bro. keep the best stock of boots and
shoes.
For fruits, confectionery, cigars and tobacco call on J. T.
Cochran & Bros., 207 S. nth St. They always deal squarely.
The best maple sugar taffy at Mawes. Try it.
Choice fruits, confectionery and lunch all the year round
at Bedson's, 1 119 OSt.
Kelly always does well by the students. Give him a call.
Best Stetson and Dunlap hats at Dennis.
You will always find Kelly on hand to do good work.
Manlcy keeps a full line of confectionary goods, give him a
all.
Students will receive best of attention at Manley's.
Bargains at T. Ewing's in Winter goods, don't fail to look
at them.
Dennis, the hatter, keeps a full line of gents furnishing
goods also of neckwear &c.
Manlcy has the cream of the candy trade.
Special prices to students at T. Ewing &Co's.
W. R. Dennis should be your hatter and furnisher.
An effort is being made to arrange for a State college Y.
M. C. A. convention in this city some time in the near future.
If arrangements can be perfected Mr. Studd, of England
and L. D. Wishard, general college secretary, will be pres
ent. The proposition originated with the Y. M. C. A. which
was organized last September at Hastings College.
H. W. Brown keeps a full assortment of students books.
You will always find a large stock of hats at W. R. Dennis'
Go to F. Hurlbut to get soiled suits cleaned and colored.
Fine clothing at T. Ewing &Co's.
Sam Wcsterfield is at his old siand and will make special
rates to students.
Go to the Howard House for day board. Best dollar a day
house in the city. You will receive prompt attention and
also warm meals here.
A number of boys have been accused of systematically
taking their girls home Friday nights and then returning to a
restaurant where oysters would be enjoyed with a double rel
ish, from the fact of their not costing but half as much as they
might, had not a little diplomacy been used. We hope the
boys will realize before it is too late the danger of such a
shortsighted policy.
The proprietorcf the Globe clothing house has just returned
from a" trip toiNewYork , at'which place-he has purchased a
large stock of clothing.
The supes were immense.
The number of students who gazed at the two Dromios last
Tuesday night was large.
For good clean meals try the Parlor Dining Hall. yj N.
12th St.
The Globe One Price Clothing House is now receiving its
New Spring purchases of Fine stylish Suits. Call and see
them.
The Globe One Price Clothing House, First Nat. Bank
Building, makes children's clothing a special feature of their
business. The New Spring Stock now includes the hand
somest styles ever brought to Lincoln. Be sure to see them.
THE GROWLER.
Mr. Editor. A question of interest to studints, once
started, undergoes a thorough discussior by them before it is
dropped. It generally goes the rounds of the college papers
and is fairly worn out with long continued rasping. There
arc some questions, however, which seem to be perpetually
new; among these is that of athletics and college spirit. In
our own University the subject is one that the desperate efforts
of some of the upper classmen is elevating into prominence
and we doubt not that the beginning of a long and tedious
discussion is upon us. The writer, therefore, wishes to enter
his protest against the tone which the discussion has assumed.
It may be wounded pride that anyone should say that we arc
destitute of college spirit that rankles in his heart, but he
think it is not; he can conscientiously say that he has no such
feelings.
Let us see. None deny that our primary object in coming
to college is to train, not the physical, but the mental man.
Some seem to expect to receive this training without extreme
hard work and complain of the length and volume of the course.
It may be true, as one of your honorable editors says, that the
students of the Nebraska State University do more work than
in some eastern colleges, but the implication that our course
reaches-higher cannot be made from the foregoing statement.
More efficient preparation enables eastern institutions to reach
a higher point than we reach with less labor than we have;
but with the rapidly increasing efficiency of our preparatory
schools, this pressure may be reasonably expected to cease in
no long time. Therefore, as the University must bring
up these lower schools, it seems to the writer that we should
possess our souls in patience and, with a determination to sus
tain our already high standard of scholarship, wait for the be
ginning of our course to come up, rather than tear down iU
later years. But this bears only indirectly on the point at
issue college spirit and athletics. It, however, disposes of
one of the main arguments of the agitators. Whether we
have any college spirit or not depends on what college spirit
is. We do not believe that students of Nebraska University
are deficient in love for their University, though it may not
be of so extravagant and unreasoning kind as that which par
tizan colleges inspire. Nor can state institutions ever inspire
so extreme a degree of partizan feeling as private institution.
We think on this account that we should not try to force feel
ing by introducing athletics, because they will bring them-.
selves in time and because they would consume time
which is, at present, sorely needed for other things. Athlet
ics are, after all, only a secondary matter, and should be pur-
suea merely as a relaxation irom siuuy, not as a business; it a
student needs exercise and does not take it he is himself the
loser and on him the responsibility rests- B.
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