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

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g H15 TORICA L heating the institution can not fail to prosper. But you will pardon me, it is now time for me to begin preparation for my next lecture on ' The Climatic Conditions Now EX- isting in the Libraryf I have already given you far more information than it is my usual Wont and custom to furnish free gratis for nothing. I am forced to ask you, with all due courtesy and deference,,if you will not kindly take your departure. We took it at once. When we emerged from the west door of the boiler house we observed a number of half-naked youths disporting themselves about the athletic Held. Following them at a short distance with horse bucket and a scrubbing brush was our old friend Jack Best. Knowing for a certainty that he, too, was an Old Inhabitant, and feeling equal to just about one more before supper, we lifted him a call. Ye re right, mahn! Ye're right. There's no mistakin' about it. We're a-comin' an a bit stronger every year. I've been 'ere a long time, I 'ave, and it's me that knows. Them was reat times then when I first come. I 'adn't been 'ere long from I-Iinffland 7 C 29 ,.,. , .... .4 ., gy., 1 . if , - .. if-fi' .f'f'Stf.'?f 9 :ME-f .If'f,f,f5j,g , i Air' ii 4 , 1 U lnw pp - . ?, ?::jx4,,J,va ., ,. nf? I A .V ,H-I ' i a it 1 u'.flQ JI :f'17 ,LA A ' ,Q . , ' , ,f 'A ir -5 r4':f i4 ' if P' -, - 5451 jj- 1- I , ti - f, V r gf, :fig 1. .QL rji -, ., 'egg I 'fa 1, i ' w ,J 2 ..-'.r. f4fi51 , CI-IEIKIICAL LABORATORY then, but I knowed the ways. I knowed the ways of trainini But it was a small b1t there was adoinl then. LYou couldn't start nothin' for there wasn't nothin' to be started. Somebody 'ad an old croquet set and four mallets. Pretty 'ard to do good trainin' on croquet. Miss Smith and some of the young lads on the faculty used to play a bit of tennis on Saturday if the wind didn't blow. But that's all gone by. Things are comin' on better now. The boys are doin' right well. I'm proud of them, I am. But you'll 'ave to excuse me now. There's a fellow over to the gymnasium that got 'it in the back with a sixteen-pound shot the other afternoon. I'll 'ave to go over and rub some lini- ment on 'im before I goes to my supper. So long. And he was gone. Abrupt as was J'ack's departure, yet on the whole we felt well pleased. It was gratifying to get so much that would make good copy, and Iack's haste was certainly excusable. Any one with the least particle of tl1e milk of human kindness could not Rnd fault with him for going on such an errand of mercy. A man whose floating ribs have

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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- .

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HISTORICAL lost their moorings from the impact of a cold, unfeeling cannon ball certainly needs lini- ment and other attentions, and this even to the neglect of history. Anybody would agree to that except Professor Fling and Guernsey. I I That night we lay awake for quite a space enjoying that placid, restful, soothing complaisance that comes to you when you have a good piece of work well begun. 4' It is so easyf' we mused, and crossed our hands comfortably on our breast. We will see the professors to-morrow, and it all will be done. We felliinto a deep, dreamless slumber, and in the morn.ng awoke much refreshed. After breakfast we started in We saw them all. We interviewed the great, the small, the young, the old, the gray, the bald, the sociological, the agricultural, the poly- conomical, and all the rest. We took notes. We began that way, and we kept it up. It impressed the professor. Being a junior, and having three examinations yet to pull through with, we felt somehow that it would pay. But it was a dreary round. The monotony became well-nigh unbearable. Retiring, at last, to a bench under a shade tree P i I- - ,: .,,, . '.23g:r'.,,gf, s-7 if vp ,Q f P'Yf'fw,, ,,..fi1-1:14 -saw s ,..--.+::+gug,,,,,f,, '4-gal:-,.g'-1,,Q-L..,qn . ., ' ' 1 i R , . , -'?:f'1'tf't : , f ..? if - 1'2 .,J. - :- - via ,, , . a- gm, . W. .. g 1. .- as -1gg4g,3f:5e.m ss,,s f M5 ' H 1 - 542 4-rw....rig-Wg----1 , - -w4..:.a.. 5:1-ma.:w5,srf..sf.5s.a ,s w ,,.. ..... 1 ' :-f,.-14'-- 3, , M w w... -was -sy. , :. r aw ad ., Y - I . V We-F-,ya-if-ft-qg,1,,. ., ff, I... ......, ,Q -mf r .,i.,. . 2 2. . ti. i N 41. V ,Hs V . , . IW' . f -r NEBRASKA HALL we read our notes through. They were all just alike. They read much like this: ' 'Um-ah-yes. The University, why has it prospered, how has it prospered, and what will it have come to be ten years hence? I hardly know where to begin. Ah-a-hum, ah -yes. I might say-um-ah-yes. This department has done a great work. Its scope has become broader. It has strengthened the University, Ah-ahum-we have all the best students. Some indifferent ones who are hunting snaps go to other departments. The best ones come here. The future? Um, well, it is hard to say. I think that it is quite safe. Yes, ah-yes, I should say that it was entirely safe. The regents seem to feel very friendly toward me, and I feel certain by the time that you mentioned the remainder of the University will, in a large degree, have been abolished, and then of course the rapid evolution of the University towards prosperity will no longer be in question. My suggestions? Um--um-ah, I think-on the whole-that in that last statement of mine is contained the only suggestion I would rnake. I think that it contains all that would be neededf, We had exhausted the sources.