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The demonstration at the university
last week by a noisy minority of Prof.
Wolfe's confidents is receiving the cen
sure such conduct deserves from the
press, the public, tht faculty and the
large and respectable part of the student
body. Among the students who hissed
a reference to the action of the regents
there are those who insist that the
tenure of the chancellor and professors
'depends upon the approval of the
'students rather than upon the coa
scientions performance of their duties
by the faculty. As to that, the uni
versity has never had an executive fully
approved of by the students. And it
probably never will have. The present
administration is wise, at times, bril
liant. Chancellor MacLean without
crippling the university has.reduced the
expenses so as to leave a few thousand
dollars to provide for the increase of
1898 and 1899. In the years of Btress the
the chancellor has distributed the in
come of the university with especial at
tention to a temporary embarassment of
the state. The people, whom the re
gents represent show their apprecia
tion of his administration by their con
fidence in him and their approval of the
budget which he prepared.
Professor Wolf's department has
grown from jnsignifigance at his arrival
to one of great popularity with the
students. Hpw much of his own and
bis department's, popularity is due to
the interesting nature of phychology
and philoepophy cannot be stated with
exactness. The most commonplace
actor's readiDg of Shakepere's lines
thrills an unreflecting and youthful,
audience with admiration for the actor.
Wlien Buskins teas Hamlet
And Hamlet teas Shakspere
My yean tcerefew.
My reverence profound, for Buskins,
Had he not turned the key
Wliich opened splendid new 'jcorldst
But Buskins got drunk.
Every since have I been old.
There are a few students in the uni
veisity who represent what the ea6t
calls "The Rowdy West." Their fathers
were the town bullies in the border days
and their sonB mount a horse and ride
at the intimidated who do not under
stand that the bully is always and
everywhere a coward. Chancellor Mac
Lean is a gentleman in speech, aspect
and spirit. He has been most kind and
conciliatory, to the element whose rule
in the university ended last week,
when with bis customary smile and
without any heightened color, he jerked
a bully off his horse. There were
groans and jeers and hisses from his
boon companions, but the man who was
only the instrument of outraged pro
priety went about his work as though
he had not Eignalized the final establish
ment of the rule of law and order in the
university of Nebrastca. It is said that
there are a few, a very few professors
who contemplate resigning because of
the deadly insult ofieied to their class
mate. Fortunately for the unive sity
there is no profession eo crowded with
applications for the stipend of two
thousanddollars a year as the pedagogi
cal. And if the loyal friends "of whose
grief and surprise you can judge by the
expression of their eyes" really feel that
the university no longer deserves their
servicoe, well there are others.
It has been frequently remarked . by
the citizens and humble drudges of one
kind and another who occasionally are
honored by the attention and conver
sation of one of the class sf students
already referred to, that it takes a
plough bor a very short time after his
first entrance into the university to
grow a confidence which is capable of
instructing, even of threatening, the
chancellor and the board of regents. As
for themselves, they fancy they have ac
quired the power to think, and they
want it understood that they can make
and unmake chancellors and professors
by a petition or a yell whenever their
judgment directs. For this very epi
demic which attacks moet eeverly those
students, who, with a certain intellec
tual quickness, are without family tra
ditions, without the training of which
it is said to require three generations, to
make a gentleman, for this disease, I
.say, the military department at the
university is good medicine. One of
Grant's letters to his- friend E. B.
Washburn, gives his clear cut idea of
duty as instilled into him at West Point
and exemplified in all his after life. So
long as he held a commission in the
army he had no views of his own to carry
out that were at variance with the
orders of his superiors. "No man can be
efficient as a commander," he says, "who
sets his own notions above law and those
whom he is sworn to obey. When con
gress enacts anything too odious for me
to execute," be adds, "I will resign."
I know that boldness and confidence
are characteristic of youth but when
these qualities are not trained by the
discipline which it is the duty of the au
thorities to enforce.it enfeebles muscles
which self denial and exercise would
harden and in consequence life has them
at a disadvantage and ignominiously
knocks them out finally. No man of
the century had himself in such per
fect control as Ulysses S. Grant, no man
aBl'ed so little, no man is honored and
loved so much. His example is worthy
the attention of everybody, and especial
ly of those students in the university
who have decided that they are not he:e
to learn but to instruct, threaten, orate
and write portentous editorials.
Among the writers who have con
tributed to the pages of The Courier in
tne past, several have been in Pro
ies3or Wolfe's classes. They have been
young men and women in good health,
more or lees prosperous and of unusual
ability. In spite of these possessions
their humor is Bkturnine, they are
without hope of happiness in this life
and sure of annihilation after it is over.
They are convinced that everything that
is, is evil. They are critical and unhappy
little men and wom:n who36 capacity to
disseminate gloom makes a personal
devil leap and skip with glee..
'The optimism and activity of a man
like the present chancellor, seems stupid
and futile to Professor Wolfe's band of
cave-dwellers who wonder at our
blinded bigotry in preferring light to
their nice, poisonous darkness, in which
they are developing germs of cynicism,
selfishness, conceit, and misanthropy.
They will come out of the cave and
leave off throwing stones when the
struggle of life has brought them into
more conciliatory relations with the
world, but the dampness and suspicion
bred of darkness will keep them from
ever taking full advantage of th? light.
The last number of the Woman's
Weekly is made unusually attractive by
the pictures of the directors of the
woman's board of managers of the
Transmississippi exposition. The bio
graphical notices are supplied by Mrs.
Ford of Omiba. Of our Townswomen,
Mrs. Sawyer the president of the board
and of Mrs. Field, a director, Mrs. Ford
says:
''Nebraska has had reason to be proud
of. many of her women. Vot least
among them is Mrs. Winona S. Sawyer
of Lincoln, a woman noted as widely for
her graciousness and capabilities as a
hostess as she is for her eloquence and
brilliance on the platform. Mrs. Sawyer
is the wife of one of the prominent citi
zens of our state, a woman who stands.
for the best, and will do honor to the
state in which she lives, as President of
the Board of Women Managers of tha
greatest educational and uplifting en
terprise the west has ever known. The
women displayed good judgement and
wiBdom in the selection of this natural
leader for President of the Board. The
position is one which will require in
finite tact and patience as well as ex
ceptional intelligence, and Mrs. Sawyer
will be alway ready and equal to any
emergency.
Mrs. Allen W. Field of Lincoln has a
claim on Nebraska if any woman has.
She is the daughter of A. B. Fairfield
one of the first Chancellors of the state
Univei sity, and the wife of one of the
leading judges. Mrs. Field has ths
distinction of being- considered the
finest woman parliamentarian in the
state. She is the most unassuming,
lady-like, womanly woman one would
meet in a life time. Her bright face
and pleasant smile make her popular
when in the chair as much as her un
wavering fairness. Mrs. Field belongs
to the famous Gridiron club in Lincoln
and to Eome other study organizations.
She servad the State Federation of
woman's clubs as its president for a
term, and i9 deservedly very popular
amoLg her friends. She expressed her
self as being particularly pleased at the
selection of Mrs. Sawyer for the Presi
dent of the Board, as she thought there
was not a more competent woman in
the state. She was glad, too. to have
a woman from her home city so honored
in that s'gnal manner.
The ecore or more half tones which'the
Weekly presents represent just that
number of the brightest and most un
selfish women in the state. A compound
picture of these directors would give a
picture of the New woman that even the
Phunniest paper could not caricature.
A straightforward, uneelfconscious
gaze, broad brow and the chin and
mouth expression which are especially
characteristic of Mrs. Harford, Mrs.
Ford, Mrs. Towl and Mrs. Feil;
that something determined, which
denotes executive ability, and yet is
of exceeding gentleness. This picture
would have, dim aa the cherubic
clouds of Raphael, two infant heads, for
Mrs. Keysor had her picture taken with
her children. Mrs. Keysor is one of a
committee of eight from the Western
Art association, which will have the art
exhibit in charge, the other seven mem
bers of which are men. Her selection
for this particular committee is especial
ly happy as she has made pictures her
especial study, the love of them her
mission.
If