University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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HISTORICAL How could it be otherwise when they had so much constantly for an environment, and endosrnosis and exosmosis are still on the statute books in the Department of Physics. First we sought Shaw, the Carpenter. - You done the right thing, yes sir, the right thing this time, he at once asserted, when youfcome to me iirst. If therels anybody' that knows aboutfit, it's me, for I've seen i all happen. I've lent my assistance to many Chancellors. I've seen them come and I've seen them go, but I stavs right here all the time. I've out-lasted lots of the professors. Seems they're a sort of shifty lot, lackin' in steadiness, balance, and the power of observation. I take some pride in the high success attained in the management of my department. It's most mighty important to have Someone to look after the me- chanical de-tails. It gives tone to an institution to have all the doors shut without sag- ging and to see that there's no glass out of the windows. Wheii I first come here things was just kind of gettin' started. There was one building, kind of a cross between a village church and a country school-house, that stood LIBRARY BUILDING nigh in the middle of the campus. There was a hedge fence all around the outside, and insides it was all growed up to sunflowers and plum bushes. By and by I got some buildinls started. I put up most of them myself, sometimes hirin' a man from down town to do the hard liftin'. 'Long about that time I got my first dog, name was 'Bob'g he was just a pup then. I-Ie was a little brown setter, fine one, I tell you. Then I laid the walks and put up the fences. I set out some trees and planted some sweet flag and asparagus. Then I got some more dogs. D'you see them tisties th it I traded to Uhl? You ort to go over to his house to see them. I've got two more of them at home. They're four dollars apiece. Then I put up some of the buildin's out at the farm. Didn't take me so long to do this, for by that time I had got it down to a system. I made out the plans, then hired some men, and just stood around to do the bossin'. You see that buggy out there ? -11-

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HISTORICAL HE history of the University has ofttimes been written, but never to our knowledge has it been done with due regard to the true value of its sources. Out from the mouths of the earliest witnesses cometh truth, and they who monger words and pander verbious pabulum to a credulous public do much wrong. A ig for those would-be expo- nents of our greatness, who annually, when the august alumni do congregate to eat lobster salad witl1 dill pickles at a dollar a plate, do vent forth long ringing periods born from overwrought imaginations and fraught with error. Such is not history. Let us seek the sources. The history of aland, of apeople, or of a community, and therefore of a university, is best to be sought from -the lips of its Oldest Inhabitants. They are the ones who have lived and seen. Age has laid its chastening burden upon their heads. You may seek 1 . 5 Q-Y 45 Wwwfgdmg ,ft H 4, :lime jaw gg? 5 X453 A- 'ff Qfaiglxfv? ii? fi' .e i .,,., , if 1 V H-. 4 ffpsii-.AZ' Z?il.4 . E' ' iii X -rl H . H. ' , i : y' 1 -- , A 3-1.-42:4 'aa 5- xr.-:Ll-, 'f-2 5:,- M: ' aww-. ' Ha ,, We - .3 A 1 -- 'fi f 'ww ' . H 1 'ff-f.-we-?--ws:,+mg! ,V - , ef Qi- . if -'itfzdfv 5 rl-fr' 7: ' .5 , f -' ' -1. :f2N :.f .- :ix at mfg gfftgw kgs 1 rf . , - ' -g'.f.:'-F-Ag ,C.ff:1:-an- ' -' ' W-'f'?'fiS:4?:-Hrifles. ,get ' 5, wap. 7 + X f 'Z ' f- .fp5,1--.nifa frszn-1:::w,f1a:1-1.:fsA- ,zpfis-.Q.... -,f 3 1 gf' . . W, -54.52132 '. .3 -V I IX nf ER' A' hz A4 A' 'i 'K' W, +1 1g- WV A y ,f X wK M ww f wif 1 Wea-va v 1-U iw 7 vi? 5 we rx 1 s MW gf W ' ' e'ss:f..1 -. . 1-' 'W' . . ' 2.-wif ' -,ev ,Az .a g'c:'f--,-G..-.f-fa, T. f s or -- I INIAIN BUILDING' them in the retirement of their daily circumjacence and gather in the story from their own words. Here you may find truth. Wliy should one be satisfied with fiction and fancy when the truth is to be had from such reliable sources? SO now we will write the true history of our institution. This is to be a history in fact, not a mere pipe-dream or fancy. When you have read this you will know for a surety that at last you have the straight of it. You may then cease your search. This having been successfully accomplished, there will be no need for further effort. Not, at least, until the University shall make some more history. There are those with us who have been here well-nigh always. They are quiet and unassuming, they do not attend alumni banquets, though some of them are strong on Friday evenings at the two chapels or at exercises at the Oliver. They seldom make speeches or write for the college papers. They are reticent and modest, but they have been here since the beginning, and kind of by absorption they have taken in much wisdom. ...lo-

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HISTORICAL That's the one I traded for to Prof. Kimball. I put in two newspokes yesterday and painted the felleys. Guess I'll hitch up the gray colt after supper and take a drive out to the Pen. I know a girl on the road from there over to the Asylum, and if she's at home I'll take her out for a drive. I'd think of gettiifl What, you'll have to be goin'? Well, come in again when your class is over and I'll tell you the rest. Come over some night and have a look at them pups. John Green, when approached, said as follows: Yes, the University has grown. I ought to know for I have been' here longer than anybody, and, being situated in an important position, I am able to see how things are go- ing. When I irst began there was only one small frame building. There were two big sheet-iron stoves and the University had a team of mules to haul wood with from the creek down by where the Penitentiary now is. I chopped it all myself except .once in a while when one of the professors would come out and give me a turn by dragging at the other end of the saw. After a while the lmain building was put up. Then I had to be M Ag MMA sa IW fre- r sw gwg, 'mraazsw ,WNFR 1-uns. 9 f.. I , :maart -' 1 M 5, '.--sue.. - ,.,, s,g'g,ig32'1.f--.':1...:Lf.1vH4':9?in rf' 'wif ' -'tmp .: I gil -' 'lf A .. .- , -c1g:: j',-P .Mil . '- .g:g..'.1,:. ,.,- -.Q yi- 4, -:I-M -' ' 54 V' 'v w 1 221 : ':: .-it f-. E-.sr ze, I-:f V5-3 74 .- :age arid. x V53 GZ! Z- 5-fagsf s e' li. f . ' Q ug if - fe . ff m ETF Q V ri 5 ,- . r -1 :Gfqwzfra'-:zv:.:.'....f 'a1L1:i:,.r2-1-':r ., :Sam 'f ufiff ' ' 'wil gas,-iq: wzzrssqgi:az-:ss.1-s:sri Qf4P ' 1 - 1 -'---- . '--' , ,. I I ,..-. -fr: . fa v::faa1.:.a 4.5.-z a,-. -' ..iz:.4x.f-ra-:V-L: wr- f.:--11: :-1:-t-Yaeafw: .afar-ss.-.1 'Qnmw If all QAM fs,-we uusiw afgpgrhr was has I'a,,fw,, 'M ww 4 1 GRANT MEIVIORIAL HALL hustle coal, two big buckets at a time, to feed the cannon stove up where Professor Sherman held forth on Truth and Beauty and Hamlet on the third floor. But it's dif- ferent now.' Counting it up the other day, I found that there are one hundred and eighty-four and twelve-seventeenths miles of steam and water pipes under my constant surveillance and supervision. It is all a marvel of complexity, and the burden of respon- sibility to anyone else would be truly appalling. But I have so far perfected the entire system that I am now able to enjoy almost uninterrupted immunity from labor. Of course I still keep up my studies. Other men are now provided who do all the work. I have lived to see the day when I have my own underground passageway from building to building. This is just as it should be. I might say in passing that this year marks an epoch. The successful establishment of ihe new auxiliary smoke stack which took place during the current year is a triumph well worthy the beginning of a new century. Yes, I look for great things in the near future. With proper administration and good -I2- .