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THE HESPERIAN , The post at the south entrance will be missing some day to the great joy, no doubt, ol all ladies who visit the Uni versity. The Nebraska hall is nearing completion. The contract ors are confident that they can have it completed by the 1st o January. We don't blame Dales for posting a notice on his door requesting the howling mob which usually congregates thcr, to stay out. We have a joke on Fletcher, which wc will mail to any address fret upon receipt of a two cent stamp to pay postage and packing. The chemistry students about all wish that some philan thropist would come along and smash all the glass in the book-case doors. H. T. Conley, an old student who is practiceing law up in the extreme north western corner of the state, was in Lin coln, November 22. Well, at last we have got a sidewalk from the lab. to the east door. 1 he mills of the gods grind slowly, but they get there just the same. The non-commissioned officers this year are required to wear stripes. A new lot of swords has been procured by the military department. Professor B , in the second prep. Latin recitation, "Does anyone know the age of Mr. F. H. Woods?" Miss Fletcher "H is seventeen." The museum in the Nebraska hall is well worth seeing. It promises to be all that could be expected in a museum. Cases and cabinets will soon be put in. Professor Hicks visited the Aurora high school a short time since with the purpose of placing it, if possible, on the accredited list. His mission was successful. The blessings of poverty are well exemplified in the case of the non commissioned who has but one pair of trowsers and can hence wear his nice, new stripes all the time. We clip the following from the Occident of Berkeley Cal.: "One more new student has been added to '92's already long list, L. E. Benton of Nebraska, special agricultural." The executive committee of regents had a session to con sider ways and means. Not being among the initiated we are unable to give any information concerning the meeting. Now let all the students weep and wail, tear their hair and gnash their teeth, as they consign to consecrated soil let us hope our Thanksgiving holiday. Requiescnt in face. Tom Hall "May I have the pleasure of your company, Miss D ?" Miss D "0, give us a rest." The boys all concur in thinking that an apology is due Tom from said lady. A curious little plant of the order cucurbi tacete has been sent down from Buffalo county. It is a species of wild in digenous watermelon or pumpkin, and, as it has never before been found in Nebraska, it is of considerable interest. A new exchange meets our ee. It is the De JPauw Adz, Vol. I, No. 3. We notice the name of G. M.Spurlock as Secretary of the publishing association and assistant editor. Some of the upper classmen will remember him as an old U. ofN. student. Ernest Newton, a former student who is well known to the University force, especially to John Green, and who is now editing a paper, The New Eden, in eastern Colorado, visited the University, November 24. John Green threw a monkey wrench at him. S. D. Killcn, of the class of '87, who has for the past two years been studying law at An Arbor, Michigan, has returned to Lincoln and was admitted to the bar November 21. Suc cess to you Sam. He reports all right in Michigan and that Luke Cheney is flourishing. The meeting o! the Hayden art club in chapel Tuesd ay evening, November 13, was attended by a few of the students. The audience was quite large and the entertainment of great interest. A poem was read by Mr. Cox of the Evening Call and a paper on pottery and porcelain by Prof. Lloyd. The Union muticale drew a jammed house. The pro gram was a success. The back part of the hall was filled with a mob of boorish "hoodlums" and irrepressible country dudes whose room was evidently more desired than their company. To say that the performers were vnnoyed is put ting it mild. Capillaccous has of late been developing an astonishing ability for historical research and critical insight. This was exhibited in a lecture to the chemistry class wherein he at tempted at length to decide whether Paracels, the chemist, died from the effects of a cracked skull, of a broken neck, or of the jim-jams. Students who have a good imaginstion and are well ac quainted with Jarcd Smith will be pleased to know that Jared had the exquisite pleasure of taking a couple of prep girls home from a botanizing tour the other afternoon with the big bay farm team and the old spring wagon. The girls enjoyed the ride, but did Jarcd? Clark "Well, I will declare! Smithers, how you have picked up lately." Smithers "Yes, yes; things were bad enough with me a little while back, but I happened to run across the advertisement of B. F. Johnson & Co., of Rich mond, Virginia, and they put me in aposition tomake money right along. If you know of anybody else needing employ ment, here is their name and address." The Freshman program of the Union society was in its way a success. It seemed a physical impossibility however lor a freshie to express his thoughts in the language of Addi son, Tope, and Dryden. Perhaps they consider these writers old and musty, and think the English of the saloon and prize ring preferable. The frcshics were nicely checkmated by the sophs however. If there is anything in this world from which we hourly pray all the gods of Olympos to deliver us it is the profes sional punster. In any conversation whatever, in any place and on any topic he continually pops up his old weazeji, grinning face like a jack in the box and perpetrates some joke as miserable as himself. The power ol making puns is not to be coveted for the punster is seldom a favorite. The person who most vociferously cries "chestnuts" forgets that there is a dozen of heavy chestnuts afloat and in everyday speech and habits. Of these "chestnut" is itself the worst. Next after that come slang expressions as "It makes me tired," etc. All actions such as groaning at a joke and firing brick bats at the perpetrator thereof are chest nuts which for age are superior to the mummies of Egypt. If John Green our own John could see himself as oth ers sec him, he would occasionally hunt a hole to give him self time to reflect whether or not he was always justified in thinking that the earth was his. While we have the greatest respect for John, we have sometimes doubted whether he owned more than nine-tenths of the Univyrsity; at least we have tried in our imagination to think of the state as own ing one-tenth.