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THE HESPERIAN . EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRAC. Nebraska numbers one more among its institutions of learning. Bartley is the place and Mallalieu University the proposed name. Success attend it. Nebraska Central College at Central City is to have a $10, ooo addition soon. Nebraska's appreciation of her educa tional institutions is rapidly developing. A college has recently bqen put to a unique use. The Methodists of Orleans, Harlan Co., succeeded in ridding themselves of saloons by threatening to remove their college if licenses were granted. A general wail goes up from college, papers, headed by the Pharos and Sibyl, because of the unwillingness of students to use their valuable time in writing contributions. This is per haps due to the unusual amount of work necessary to be done by the average student during the spring term. Our advice is, Make your paper more a paper by the editors, cvrn if it takes a larger board. The Hillsdale Advance and Notre Dame Scholastic should consider what will be our feelings before they perpetrate such a scheme upon us again. We have schooled ourselves to en dure the scanning of a single copy, but we are afraid we could not stand a double dose. So, in all earnestness, if you con sider the balance of our mind of any consequence, mail us but. one copy of the same number hereafter. The Northxoestem contains a very interesting account of the commeqecment occurrences of the Garret Biblical Insti' tute. A reader of the description is impressed with the prog -ress of that institution as well as the reporting abilities of the writer. This is well; a student, tnrning back to commence ment numbers, finds rare pleasure in such a description, re calling as it does many of .the happiest events in a college . life. What a relief to pass from the dry, pithless articles of most of our exchanges to the refreshing and elevating article upon "The Aim of Life" in the last number of the Occident. The skillful manner in which the true aim is presented and the ne cessity for the adoption of the right spirit, attracts and rivets the attention. This production has a double merit, as it comes, presumably, from a member of the board of editors. While that fact does not effecfthe intrinsic worth of the arti cle, yet it shows the spirit of the editors and accords well with our idea of a college paper. The number of those papers which, in order to give their subscribers a true idea of their standing among college papers, print all the favorable comments made upon them by other papers and forget to print all which are unfavorable has late ly been increased by the adoption of that plan by the Nor mal News. This, however much the subscribers may wish to know the true standing of their college paper, is not, in our eyes, the true aim of a college paper. Egotism crops out however plausible the excuses may seem. Look about you, Normal,- and see the class of papers whose ranks you are join -ing in this respect, and we think you will soon strive to be classed in a little higher grade of college journals. The idea of state rights, at first Ipredominant, graduill ort its adherents until, after a desperate struggle of miny years, it found, as other dying institutions have found, so.ne stout hearted and obstinate men to uphold its worn out prin ciples and make a last grand struggle for its re-establishment. Many of us, though not of an age to fully appreciate the sit nation, have since, through the vivid descriptions -of older -ones, realized and appreciated the position; what giant efforts were made by the zealous supporters of a dying principle; how, with the last throes of a despairing people, their all but exhausted energy was united for one grand trial of strength which, while exposing their weakness, disclosed with aston ishing vividness the depths of despair to which they had fall en. Few could gaze on that fearful struggle without being inspired with both pity and contempt; pity for their blind ob stinacy and contempt for their motives. Such spectacles, though on a smaller scale, arc, even at this later day, brought continually before us. Beginning under a management which was comparatively able, the Aurora has rapidly lest its form er position, and now when all but dead intellectually it gath eis together its exhausted energies for a grand final effort. And what an effort! Despair and idiocy are written on its very face. Despairing of ever equalling our "sole literary ar ticle," it attempts to render its own literary capacity less con spicuous by making the rash assertion that our "literary arti cle" was the work of a professor. O! beneficent Creator, have mercy upon Jhe dauntless(?) exchange editor of the Au roral Grant that he may be rescued from his great affliction, so that, should he ever again write an article, he will not, then, merit the contempt of his fellow students. Call on Edddd. Cerf &Cood. I. B. Masjcy is making special low prices on Men's Low Cut Shors. 122 N. nth St. Richards block. Dennis, the hatter, keeps a full line of gents furnishing goods also of neckwear &c. Manley 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. 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 Westcrfield is at his old stand 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. At Cochran Bros., 207 S. nth Street you will find fresh candies. Clothing for every body at Ed. Cerf &Co's. Call on I. B. Masscy for men's shoes. Good goods and at moderate prices. 122 N. nth St. The best maple sugar taffy at Mawcs. Try it. Straw hats at Ed. Cerf &Co's. Best shoes for only $3.00 at O. W. Webster and Bro's. 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. W. Webster & Bro. 1043 O St. for the best $3.00 shoes. Attend the Lincoln Business College. J. and D. Newman, 1027 O Street. Oldest Dry Goods House in the city. 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 I Ewings. ALL GOODS WARRANTER AS REPRESENTED AT MAYER BROS. 10th ST. CLOTHIERS.
