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LINCOLN, NEBR., SATURDAY." APRIL 27, 1901.
THE COURIER,
students from other states. The. uni- name of Smith before. To the author,
versity regents and professors are con- John Smith Is an emotional, some
stantly complaining of over crowded what gauche stranger who does not
recitation rooms, gymnasium, library know his place, or obey the rules of
and laboratories. If tuition were conventionality governing intercourse
charged 400 foreign students a nuiu- between new acquaintances. Accord- that they are capable of acting upon
ber might withdraw, which would ing to natural philosophy there Is the the initiative. They are not awed at
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home to the worries at the club. But
club work has been developing women.
It has helped them to assume various
civic duties; it has taught them that
they need not distrust themselves
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wmen complaint is so
made. Or if they paid it. the revenue
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tuition, for two years. At the Ann
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John Smith. But actually the author and to hold legal responsibility is not,
is within touching reach of John and after all, they have decided, quite so
he is only within speaking distance of serious a thing as having maternal re
the author. The author knows noth- sponsibilities. So they have lifted up
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heart that accompanies a herowor-
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worshiper when confronted by his
choicest author. Tbe famous man's
hauteur is a great disappointment to
the lion hunters who want to tangle
their hands in his mane, who want
him to roar at others while they stand
close by. and unailrighted. But lions
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OBSERVATIONS
9 OBSBRVAT
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Foreign Students.
There are 238 students in the uni
versity, registered from other states
than Nebraska. There are, at least, a
third as many more, whose parents re
side in other states who register from
Lincoln when they enter the Ne
braska university, although Iowa,
Illinois, or some other state collects
the taxes from their parents Accord
ing to the catalog M.S. now ready for
the printer, there are in attendance
at the university 84 students from
Iowa, from South Dakota 19, from
Missouri 15, from Illinois 13, from
Colorado 10, from Idaho 6, from Mon
tana 8. The other states represented
by fewer students are Oklahoma, New
York, Georgia, Indiana, Wyoming,
Arkansas, Washington and Washing
ton D.C. Ohio, Kentucky, Rhode
. Island, Michigan, California Massa
chusetts Louisiana, New York, Penn
sylvania, Maine, Wisconsin, Minne
sota, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Connecticut New Mexico, Texas, and
Arizona. There is also a student from
Japan and one from Turkey.
There is no reason either in prece
dent or logic why the Nebraska tax
payers should provide teachers, ap
paratus, recitation rooms, library
privileges, etc for more than two
By adhering to the rules the heroic
distance is thus preserved and his
worshipers are not lessened by a val
et's glimpse of their idol.
dents pay thirty-five dollars a year for shiper's introduction to his hero. The
three years; the foreign students pay gasping, the sweating, the gushing
forty-five dollars a year for three that makes him an object of aversion
years.
Taxation for higher education is
stretching the arbitrary, parental
power of the state to the limit. The
injusticeof using the monies collected
from the farmers and merchants of
Nebraska to educate the youth of Iowa,
Illinois, Texas and other states is ap
parent without argument.
Hero-Worship.
Authors have a queer way of writ
ing things on paper for all the world
to read that they would not confide
to their most intimate friends. What
a confidential, frank, friendly style
Hawthorne has. It is ditlicult to be
lieve when reading his books that he
writer was a shy, reserved, silent man,
unwilling to talk very much to any
one and to whom strangers were posi
tively obnoxious. As a writer he is
everything to the world that as a
man he was not. Loquacious, anxious
to please and to tell the things he
thinks, has seen or devined, doubtless
in his lifetime he was many a time a
disappointment to pilgrims who
sought him out to be warmed by the
sympathy and human-kindness that
shines in all his books. The relations
of a reader with his favorite author,
are all on one side. For the reader,
who has read an author's books for
fifteen or twenty years, who knows
the crises of the author's life, who
knows what he thinks on all the inti
mate and vital subjects of life, there
is invariably a rude shock in meeting
his favorite author. To the latter,
John Smith, the reader is but John
Smith, of unknown parentage, of
questionable taste in seeking out a
stranger, of unprepossessing appear- where a lingering atmosphere of
ance and finally, another man like sanctity dampened the ardor of de
hundreds of others who have talked to bate, or they moved about timidly
him with a more intimate manner among the mysterious and ugly nara-
their heads, calculated their income,
resorted to some economies, and are
talking about building funds.
The needs of a woman's club de
pend, of course, upon the character of
to the hero are but signs of the hero- the club, but within the range of a few
variations, they are similar. An at
tractive, friendly looking audience
chamber, with good accoustics, easy
seats, plenty of light and well pro
tected from the noises of the street,
is the first requirement. Reception
rooms, which can be partitioned with
have found out that the only way to swinging or sliding doors so that they
avoid Intimate conversations with may be used for class rooms are a good
strangers is to stick to the subjects of device whereby the separate construc
the weather or a discussion of the tion of small class rooms and large
physico-geographical characteristics reception apartments may be avoided,
of the country they are exhibiting in, Tea or lunch rooms are necessary and
and above all, permit no familiarities, a well equipped kitchen. A board of
Yesterday and Today.
11V ELIA W. PEATTIE.
(For The Courier.)
A wave of material ambition ap
pears to be sweeping over the clubs
of this country; or it may be that the
wave is that already famous one of
prosperity which is said to be sub
merging all human anxieties since
the republican party got into power.
Srf.irn! tlie nltihs are rvmrernerl. if.
shows itself in a desire to construct atmsPlie,;e t0 h clut. W placed
nnrf nwn h-t!1fltnf .innrnnrt.to tn in the parlor rather than in the little
club use. For a long time the clubs
concerned themselves chiefly with
literary and social matters; and spent
their surplus funds in some benevo
lent or artistic fashion hired a Trav
eler's Aid agent or bought a picture
for the public schools. The clubs
were, meanwhile, lodged in churches,
directors' room is a matter of course;
and a library large enough to contain
the reference books used by the club
and to furnish a retired place for the
revision of papers or the-wrlting of
letters, is essential. A fire-proof safe
should be an adjunct to the building.
The cloak room should be commodi
ous.and it Is made more convenient by
having an entrance and an exit. The
toilet rooms should be elegant and
well lighted, with two or three dress
ing tables, furnished with the same
equipment to which ladies are accus
tomed in their own dressing rooms.
The large reading tables, which,
more than anything else, except the
tea room, serve to give a home-like
library, and- these should have the
best current literature. It goes with
out saying that in their decoration
and arrangement, the club room
should be a silent sermon in harmony
of color, in simplicity and propriety
of decoration and furnishing.
I left Chicago a few days ago for
a visit to the quietest of little towns
in the Blue Ridge Mountains; ant
when I quitted town, the Chicago
Woman's Club had set itself determin-
hundred and thirtv-eieht sons and thau the author sside of the acquaint, ntaernalia of the masonic halls: or met. edly about the getting together of a
daughters of non-residents. ance warrants. The author is to the in men's clubs, and turned their eyes .d fort" erection of a club build-
Yet the "foreign" students (chil- reader an old friend. John Smith away as they passed the smoking ,ng' . en Kotldown here in tbe
dren of residents of other states) at- knows his author's vocabulary, his room and the billiard hall. mountains I congratulated myself
tendinir the state university nav the heart secrets, the trouble with his This was nnnomfortahle and rU- "GiDS n a Singularly lazy frame of
same matriirnlat.inn. anrl rlinlnma fees wife and the wnrlrs that were hewn n rrmrertino hnt thevhnrewithir.ru- m'n" and being
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as Nebraska resident?. A more ex- or finished under the shadow of pain cause they disliked taking upon them-
haustive examination of the students
in attendance at the university whose
parents reside and pay taxes in an
other state but who have registered
from Lincoln would doubtless show
that the Nebraska farmers are edu
cating at least four hundred lusty
or in the rays of a great joy. When
tbe author speaks in the familiar
composition that has cheered, calmed
or stimulated John Smith, no wonder
he grasps his hand and speaks with
affectionate eagerness into the ears of
a bored man who never heard the
selves the financial burdens entailed
by tbe purchasing of property and
tbe building of a club house. Many
of them had. mortgages of their own
sufficient to relieve the tedium of un
relenting prosperity, and they were
averse to going from the worries at
disinclined for ener
getic measures that I would hear no
more of club buildings. But behold,
the little Lanier club of the village
where I am stopping, was doing all
manner of things for the purpose of
creating a building fund The presi
dent of the club had given one-half
the value of the lot. One of the mem-