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THE HESPERrA Ar. y F. W. Russell is enjoying a visit to New York. A brother of Miss Fannie Baker is visiting with her and has many acquaintances. Is it not remarkable how many games of football there has been since the recent purchase? C. T. Jenkins now hangs out his shingle at Bennett and in vciglcs honest farmers into lightening their pocket books. They say that we arc to have a hydrant placed somewhere upon' the campus to take the place of the old pump. A good idea. Our efficient janitor, Mr. Harry, has left us. We arc sor ry to lose him. It will be almost impossible to have society meetings now. The band is disgusted with their trade of rooms made dur ing the winter and take advantage of the absence ol the Mcds to trade back. Wc are pained to record the death of one of the old Uni versity students, Miss Etta Henderson, which occurred at York, April 3rd . Miis Ida Bonncll, formerly of '90, is back at school again, her parents having decided that Lincoln is the lccl place to live in after all. Miss Myra Clark is delayed in coming back by a severe at tack of scarlet fever. She is,howcvcr, convalescent and will lie here in a few days. Our amateur novelists of last issue fame have retired to live upon thcintcrcstof their income, while our poets still make us suffer, with no prospect of their ever retiring. I.ou Tillson and G. A. Bccchcr will not be with us this term, but Bccchcr's smile will lc seen around here next fall, while Lou has turned miller and bids us a final adieu. Miss Nellie M. Scott will not be with us again until next fall. This will be a great suqmse to her many friends, who said goodbye expecting to sec her at the beginning of this term. As. the number of students of several ol our sectarian col leges seems to grow small, several members of the different faculties have taken advantage of our facilities and matricu lated. On last Sunday evening two of our 'varsity boys preached at Grace M. E. church StufT and Mar&l.. The discourses they gave would be a credit to older and more experienced divines. Hugh Conley our Hugh dropped into our sanctum to shake hands and then say good-bye, iast week, He is back again, rumor has it for a. purpose. Ask him for the treats be forehand. The State Teachers' Association has met and gone. They saw our school, met our students and concluded to meet at Fremont next year. Many students availed themselves of the addressc j, which were of unusual interest. From what we hear.we judge Arbor Day will be celebrated with considerable pomp and show this year. It is even ru mored that the Fresh ies are to have a poem and a spread ea gle oration, while the Seniors will fish at Crabbc's Mill. We are very sorry to learn that C. S. Polk is confined to his room with scarlet fever. Later. The half hourly bulletins indicate just as we go to press, an alarming change for the better, even intimating that the gentleman will be with us again in a day or two. EXCHANGE. All papers in the pile before us arc as welcome as the No Ire Dame Scholastic. Its articles ate always refreshing. It should be read by every student. The De Pamo Monthly, red hot fraternity paper, holds out comfort to ye editors andflunkcrs in general bysaying that Hen ry Ward Bccchcr's average standing at Amherst college was only 57 on the seals of 100. Who would not be a Bccchcr? Hurrah for the Signal f This neat journal comes to the front this month with a 12 page supplement containing the address delivered by Mr. Edwird T. Grim before the Normal and Model school on Washington's birthday. Call in and sec it. The Association Notes has just found its way to our tabic. It abounds with interesting and valuable information concern ing the Y. M. C. A, of New York city and the institution un der its management. It should be read by every student in terested in Christian work. The Niagara Index is one of the best papers that come to our table. The excellence and instructiveness of its articles should commend it to all. In a friendly manner wc would suggest a neat new cover. A little harshness in its exchange department also detracts from its merits. Far from the west comes the news that one of our bright est exchanges is dead. The faculty in the University of the Pacific has risen in its dignity and declared that its students should not express their opinion! The Pkaros as a result docs not help to swell our pile this week. The exchange editor of the IfolcaJ retires from that depart ment. He sends his good bye with a few words of advice to his contemporaries. Wc arc sorry to lose him but hope it is only the march of progress that has made hc change and wish him a better at least a more appreciative field of la bor. The Varsity, a weekly paper, comes to us with its usual va riety of reading matter. Monotony is one of the- crying evils of college papers and when such a luscious morsel as the above comes to us wc feel like asking for more just like it-Thc literary department is the main feature of the paper, but where, O where is the exchange? The Weekly lniv. Courier is again before us. As usual it indulges in its customary mud throwing. The slam on the students and editorial staff ol our University is certainly un called for. Worthy Courier, it is not the desire of the Hks terian to continue such a contemptible squabble. Wc are not running a fighting cock establishment. The Crank, a new exchange, comes to our table this week. Wc are very willing to grasp the crank and give it a turn of welcome. The style of binding might be improved. The reading matter is quite instructive, but the style of composi tion, is affected, we think. Turn on then, infant crank, into the great field of journalism. Wc bid yoa welcome. Among the editorials of the Coup d'Etat we notice an ex cellent article on debate. When it said "It is the prevailing custom among debaters to jealously keep their arguments se cret until the night of the debate and then seek to win by sur prising the opponent with new and far-drawn constructions rather than by fair means," it struck the secret of failure in society debates. A complete understanding of each other's argument would add much to the value and interest of the debate. It would, we think, do away with the desire on the part of so many to leave as soon as debate is announced.
