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THE HESPERIAN. i, U T UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA. Vol. XV LINCOLN, NEB., MARCH 15, 1887. No. XI b THEHESPERIAN (HESPERIAN STUDENT.) Issued semi-monthly by the IIksI'KKIAn Publishing Assuci ation, of the University of Nebraska. A. H. BIGELOW, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ASSOCIATES: LAURA M. R0I1ERTS,'87 J. R. McCANCE, 'So CORAE. WHITE, '88 W. H. WAGNER, '88. Business Manager - -Subscription Agent - - - - C. W. Bl r.I.OW. - - F. V. Ai.mv. TERMS OK SUItSCKII'TION: dished up to us the same old mixture consisting of orations, essays, recitations and debates. We had ear nestly hoped that some society would he original enough to vary the programme by something new, but have been disappointed. We earnestly hope that when '88 takes the helm it will be inspired with some new thought, some new idea that will relieve the stiffness of the June programmes. One copy, per college year, One copy, one college term Single copy, S1.0 3 ,1 ADVERTISING KATES ON APPLICATION. Address all communications to The Hesperian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is to be hoped that the students will come back from their vacation with 'a determination to add some thing to the regular University routine in the way of athletics. We ought to lose no time in reviving our athletic association, and pushing it forward for all it is worth. We have acquired a great deal of new and apparently good material from an athletic point of view and they should begin their practicing early in the term if they expect to accomplish anything. Contrary to our expectations the June class question has not formed a very prominent question in student politics this year, but the matter seems to have been taken as settled last year, judging from the alacrity with which each society has selected its class." This is good, and we hope that it is not only settled for this year but for years, for we believe that no bet ter system could be introduced. There is a fault, however, in all of the classes selected, or rather in th ivirfc nccirrnerl tn the mmnhpre nf thr different classes, and that is in the fact that we are to have I We are happy to note the fact that this year the University is being recognized by our legislature as an institution worthy of the state's heartiest support. The apparent alacrity with which our appropriation bills have been passed seem to suggest that this legis lature is ashamed of the parsimonious economy prac tised by the last legislature and is striving to make amends for it. A very pleasing feature connected with the appropriation of $165,000 for running ex penses for the next two years is the practical acknow legdement of the principle that the University's inon ey should be placed in the hands of the University. With $50,000 for a new building and 165,000 for current expenses.the next twd years look bright, from a financial standpoint. We have urged before in the columns of The Hes ferian, the student to have .more interest in the state associations which meet in our University. We would like to urge it more warmly now, as there is soon to meet in our midst an association which, from its nature, ought to demand more attention from the students than perhaps any other. An association con sisting of the teachers of the pupils who are to take our places in the future, should command more than ordinary attention, and as many students as can pos sibly arrange to spend one or two days at their meet ing, which takes place just before the beginning of our spring term, will be amply repaid for their trouble. The acquaintance of the leading educators of the state should be made and they be given an idea of what the University is doing and can do, and we can see no better way for them to judge of that than by basing their judgment on the students as they see them. We are too prone to forget, when engrossed in the routine work of our regular classes, that there is some thing else that we ought to cultivate. In this later n I lil f i l .1 CJ U Uli 1 M: i n nil 1! I I, rrrTWP-r--