THE HESPERIAN
Smith, (at the club): "How long since Brown was mar
ried anyway, Jones?" Jones: "I don't believe he is mar
ried." Smith: "He must be, I saw him turn pale just now
when the clock struck eleven."
Some of the democrats did not like to sec society com
mence so late on the night of the rally, but they couldn't
Jjelp it. Republican tallies take precedence of everything at
this particular season of the year.
The Piloty painting, "The Wise and Foolish Virgins,"
on exhibition in the U. S. court room at the postotficc should
be seen by all students, whether of art or not. Special rates
of admission have been extended to students.
Graham now bears the spheretopped staff with which the
band is beaten into subjection. Just at present he wears an
ornament new to the office. He says he got it "down town"
but that leaves a good deal to be imagined.
The knights of the plug hats hadasocialatjared Smith's,
corner Seventeenth and B, last week. It was the anniver
sary of the memorable evening when the calf kicked the
fnce, and no doubt they enjoyed the thought.
The Phi Delta Thetas celebrated the election til Harrison
with, if anything, a little more than their share of racket.
Fireworks, horns, tin pans and Stephen's voice constituted
the main part of the programme. We infei that Stephen's
voice was used in the affair for he didn't have any the next
Jay
Base ball, horse racing and pie form the great triumvirate
which rule the American people. They are all great but the
greatest thereof is pie. The "pie-rush" was a good contest
anil such contests should be more frequent. Some method
should be invented for curbing the irrepressible enthusiasm
.of the crowd and kids and Ireshies. A rope would be a
good thing.
During the recent muddy spell the campus presented the
appearance of a wild barren waste from which the tops of
the trees projected like rocks from the sea. It is a wonder,
and a wonder at which the faculty may well be astonished,
that but few absences were recorded. It is no exaggeration
to say that it required pluck and nerve for the students,
especially the young ladies, to venture out. It seems to us
that we have had enough of this unearthly, nasty looking
campus. Can't we have a change?
The fact of most encouragement to us in our hopes of one
day having a University is the steady and slow growth of the
library. The limitation of library funds has one good effect,
it guarantees the best of books. Those who purchase the
additions do their duty well, for our library, though small,
is, for its size, almost unrivalled in excellence. However, it
must be remembered that there are in the state many loyal
Ncbraskans who show their interest in the University, not
only by tax paying but also by work, vhoare not Americans.
The department of modern languages is well supplied with
German and French books, but the Danish and Swedish
literature is, as yet, only poorly represented. We would
exhort the faculty to remember that the Scandinavians are
well represented in both the state andthe University., and a
representation of their literature in the library is only just
Some of the upper class men have already begun agitat
ing for a college of law, and their efforts will undoubtedly
be appreciated. The University of Nebraska has now
reached that state when it can and must be more than a
college. There is no reason for anything to the contrary,
andwheu Ncbraskans see their law students studying at
Ann. Arbor and other eastern collegess this fact.wjlljje forced
home. Nebraska is undoubtedly a great state, and yet when
we see the grand and beautiful legislative halls and public
buildings, and the full, rounded, adequate provisions
made for criminals and insane in handsome -and costly
tcformatory institutions and asylums, and then find that
institution, the University, which more than any other tends
to fill the first and empty the latter neglected, the incongru
ity of actions strikes us rather forcibly.
EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRAC.
The Kentucky University Tablet is a new exchange. Our
acquaintance with it is not sufficiently close to justify criti
cism. Apparently it is a valuable addition to our list; at any
rate we should be glad to exchange with it if it had no other
recommendation than that it came from the South. The
lack of an exchange department is so conspicuous that we
shall venture to hope that a slight change will be made in
the future.
Wc have received the first number of the Aftami Student,
which we suppose is a sort of resuscitation of the old Journal
from the same college. If our recollection serves us aright,
the students of Miami, nothwithstanding the fact that their
institution is, first, the birthplace of most of the western
fraternities, and, has secondly, graduated more of the most
prominent men in the United States, have found it impossi
ble to keep a college paper alive, and the Student represents
about the seventh undertaking in that line. Consequently, '
while we have considerable hope that the Student may live,
we also have a preponderating amount of fear that it won't.
Compared with the celebration in some other places,
Hallowe'en was decorously observed by our own students.
At Dickinson college a number of students got out and
attempted to enjoy themselves by setting fire to the fence
around their campus. Somebody turned in an alarm ol fire.
When the fire department arrived on the ground the students
refused to allow them to throw water. Both sides resorted
to violence and a riot ensued in which several lives were lost
and a number of persons seriously injured. Comment upon
this disgraceful affair is perhaps unnecessary, Let us con
gratulate ourselves that University of Nebraska students'
have so far maintained a respect for themselves and the law.
So long as this continues the name of student will not be a
by word or a synonym of danger and terror in the mouth of
the citizens of Lincoln.
DIRECT POINTERS.
Call on Edddd. Cerf & Cooo.
Bargains at Chicago shoe store.
Go to Ewing's for fall overcoats.
Hats and caps at Ed. Cerf & Co's.
Cadet suits, gloves and caps at Ewing's.
Manley has the cream of the candy trade.
Go to .Ed. Cerl & Co. for furnishing goods.
Clothing for every body at Ed. Cerf & Co's.
The latest styles in hats at F.d. Cerf & Co's.
Special prices to students at T. Ewing & Co's.
Webster & Briscoe, boots and shoes, 1023 O St.
Students will receive best of attention at Manley's.
Get your shirts made at Capital City Shirt Factory.
Carder's European Hotel for fyie lunches or meals.
Goto Mrs. W. E. Gosper's, 1114 Q St., foyMilliuciy.
Manley keeps a full line. of confectionery.goods,,giyelhim
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