Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1880, Page 3

A‘ THE DAILY BEE: DECEMBER 25, 1880. FAIR:IELD'S FOLD. The Work of the Past Year Reviewed for the Regents. Every Department in a Highly Satisfactory Condition. Larger Appropriations Neces- sary to Increase Its Usefulness. The Methodist Beg for Repre- sentation in the Faculty. Correspondence of Tus Exe. Lavcowy, December 21. —The board of regents held their semi-annual meeting at the chancellor’s at 2 p. m., President Chas. A. Holmes in the chair. The following regents were present: Adam of Dakota, Fifield of Kearney, Holmes of Tecumseh, Per- singer of Central City. and Carson of Brownville. Regent Gannett, of Omaha, was underatood to bLe in Colorado. Being preeent at the meeting by in- vitation, I am able to give you some items, not only of interest, but im- portant to the publicto understand. The university belonging to the peo ple of Nebrasks, 1t becomes them to know the efficiency or deficiency of the institution. The chancellor’s report was an able, clear-headed end exhaustive state- ment of the affairs of the institution, from which it appeared that while its success and development were most encoursging, for that reason there were corresponding draw-backs; that is, the university has grown so rap idly that that her want outstripped her facilities, and necessitates new demands in order to improve her effi- c.enoy. I will take upa few pointsof the report and the needs of the university will suggest themselves. THE STUDENTS. The number on the new catalogue is two handred and sixty-nine against one hundred and ninety eight last year, which also was an advance over the previous year. Thus, while the appropriations were made by the leg- islature two years ago on the then basis, the students have increased fally fifty per cent; and such has been the demand for increased facilities at every point that the funds are inade- quste, and the university, which ought | to be susteined well if sustained at all is suffering and will suffer still more at vital pointe unless the growth of the institution is met by appropriate help. THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT, indispensible in this age of tre world, was 1u charge of the lamented Prof Collier, a choice man who letely died. Hie placa has not been tilled, and the chancellor made a sad report of the inadequacy and unsafe condition of the laboratory rooms owing to their want of proper ventilation, and ke recommends their present disuse, as they were detrimenal to the health of the students, futimeting that Prof Collier's death may have been hest- ened by the use of chemicals in a con fined place. It seems that the chem- ical appsratus belongs to Prof. Col- li-r’s family, and the chancellor rec ommended that they be purchased by the state and the whole thing bs pu upon a basis worthy the institution. LEAKS It seems that the Charch contract for roofing the university at the time of the acare of insecurity three years ago was poorly filled, th roof leaks a every point; the conductors do mot carry off heavy rains which conse- quently flood the cellars and under- mine the walls, neither are the cis terns supplied, and it turns out that there is no water in case of a fire, neither is there any insurance on the building or countents. The regents opened their eyes. One of themjtold me since that he supposed it devolved upon the governor to insure the public buildings. THE FACILITY has changed during the year by the retiring of Principal Palmer, of the Latin department, and the death of Prof. Collier. Prof. Wooburry, who took & position on The Nation during the '79 term, bas resumed his place as professor of rhotoric and Eoglish composition, and Geo. N. Littls was appointed as totor in chemistry and mathewati THE MISICAL DEPARTMENT has been pu: at least on an incipient basis by the appointment of & direct or of the musical conservatory. This i filled by S. B. Hohman. The office bas no salary, but the time seems to have come when it is indispenrable thata competant depariment of music be |- established. THE LADIES' HALL A handsome turee story building was put up by a private company to accommodste the many lady students who come here, bat while that num ber is increasing rapidly, the hall does not yet fill the bill, bacause it cannot be properly conducted until a respon- sible and competent matron is appoint- ed to have charge of the department | of the young ladies. At present thers is au unavoidable locsenessfor want of | some proper overseeing avthority. It is now proposed to tura this hall over to the srate, ata fair price, that it may be put upon a proper basia—'‘a con- samantion devoutly to be wished,” for it seems absolutely ind usable to have ample sdditioval accom- modstion for the ladies who are flack ing to the university iu large numt THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, under Lieutenant J. T. t efficiency aud The cadets have, u 's lead, got up a firs { their drills a'ways of spectators On the whole the chancelior’s re- port was very encouraging as to the | condition and prospacts of the univer- sity. While it was evident to a look- | give them noble mothers, and er-on that the institotion is crippled | for the waat of a libersl policy on the | part of the legislature in the appro- money, try to love her ” | often uso the least jadgm priation of funds. It isa case where a cheap policy is a dear one. I be- lieve the people themselves who pay the taxes for the benefit of thia echool of learning will second a very llberal policy. The report of the chancellor de- volves alarge amount of work cn the varivus committees of the regents, and the session will have to hold over most of the week. Tue Methodist denomination of the stete present to the regents & memo- rial signed by eix hundred prominent men praying for the sppointment of Prof. George §W. Peck, of Heading college, Ill., to fill the chair vacated by Prof. Collier. It seems there is no represeatative of the M. B body in the facalty, although there are two ameng the regents. Prof. Peck is a fine locking young man, and full of the western sp: J. W, A STERLING ADVICE- ROBERT COLLYEY TO YOUNG MEN. If you want to do well, keep well, if you poseibly can. Do not let even your educatiou rob you of your health. [t is about the worst thing you can do under the whip and spur of a no- ble purpose, and it is what large num- bera do to their life-long regret. When a fine painter tovk the butcher to see one of his pictures, he =aid, ‘‘Aye, Maister Magdon, it's a grand picture, but I doubt whether you could have done it if you had not eaten my beef.” And I think there was a grain of trath in the remark. They say base-ball is getting into the hands of the gamblers, and that young men are shy of it of agood breeding. I'd be very sorry to think so. It is the handsomest game that was ever playad and one of the healthiest. Play base ball,and pull a boat, and get your chauce in vacation at long tramps aud hard beds and rough, wholesome fare; eat well and sleep well; be as clean all throagh and all over as you are in a drawing- room, and then you will not cnly be able to do your day's work in this world like & man, but when the years bring their inevitable burden you will be able to say with Adam in the play: “Though I look old, yet Iam strong and usty, For in my youth I nerer did apply Hot and rebellious liquors to m, blood;e Nor did I with unbashfal forehead w00 The means of weakne:g and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.” Remember this, too, that with health and strength to back you, life meaas hard work, aud hard work on long lines with native ability and good conduct means success. 1 will ven- ture to say, that this, as a rule, we can trust, 18 always the story of the young man who begias life with ap po- sition or patronage, and makes his way toa good place. He gives his heart to what he has to do, not half the time, but all the time, not grudgingly but willingly, and not merely for the sake of the salary, but because he loves to be at it, and makes the work in great measure its own reward. I: shall come to paes, if you take hold | man car, and when b like this, that men will say you have a | genius for what you take in hand. But you will know that one of the fine qualities in a genius for any:hing is an absorbing love for it, aud the power of intense application by which every | other power is set to its finest edze and directed to the one great purpose | the man holds in bis heart and brain, You may set this truth in wharever | light you will, ot busiuess, of work on | the common levels, or work in the loftiest heights, Lo give your hearts to it is one of the grandest secrets of cuccess. It might seem to you that a great many men go from the bottom to the top of the ladder at one jump. itis not irue. It is never true All the men I know who have mads a real success of their life are hard climbers. The other way is like the moukey toy of the childeen. You go up swiitly over the top and come down head tiret to begin again. From the day I left thoold cottage to the day I came to New York, my hife divides itself into two sections of steady striking on long lines, Twen- | ty ove years at the anvil and twenty- oue at the west, and in these there is no bresk except that I made to get from the old world to the new. And now Isee that these forty-iwo years all belong together, and in every year something was done for those thar were still waiting. In some of latter years in the shop, I could not but feel that I was the equal as a preacher of a simple, wholesome fashion, go right to work and do it. Shall I close with th's little poem?} Speak thou the truth, let others fenc2 And trim their words tor pay; In jleasant sunshine ot yretence, Let others task their - ay. Gu rd thou the fact, thro’ clonds of night Down ou thy wat h-tower sta Though thou should seet y h B rue from thee by their swoop. Face thou the wind. Though safer seem In shelter to abice, We were not made to sit and dream, The safe wust fir-t be tried. Sbow thou the light. If conscience gleam, Set not the | ushel down, The smallest spark way send a beam O'er hamlet, tower a.d town. Woe unto him. on s.fety bent, Wh creeps from ave to youth, Fa ling 10 grasp his 1ife'« inteut Because be fears the truth, Be true to every inmost thought, aud as thy thoughts, thy speech, What thou hast nut by striving bought Presume not thou to teach. ‘:deli-b‘. Then each wild gust the mist shall clear We n darkly throngh, And justified at Ja-t appear The true, in Him that's true. PEPPERMINT bROPS. The man who makes unseemly jokcs at her breakfast table Mrs. Pretzel calls a boarder raffian, A Nevada critic spezking of a barpist said, “We never bef re knew (herq wes 80 much music ina gird- iron.” “Why," said the deacon, “do yoa put eo0 few oysters in the stew?”’ “The milk is sour, and it might spoil the eysters.” Many a man after the Christmas holidays will wish he was a western newspsper, and could afford himself & patent inside, The Philadelphia Times lesrns that aNew York boarding house fire wont out, soon asit reached the pantry, for want of fuel. “An Exploded Gss-Beg,” is the title of an editorial in & Buffalo paper. Tuoe bereaved family of the decearsd journalist have sympathy, The quickest way to find out whether & gua is loaded or fs ¢ blow down the mu. ¢ not loaded you will live to @ zal The worst aboat kissing a Pittsburg girl is that you can carry the marks of coal dust about your nose and other features till you reach the near- est pump. Not everybody will be able to see the Nautch girls, but everybody can get a pretty good idea of their dance by ‘putting two hornets down the housemaid’s back. When worried about what to buy for Christmas presents for your Lttle family just think of the poor Mormons who have to pleass the tastesof fifteen or twenty wives and or three hundred children, more or less, Arkansss men are loud sleepers. Oue of them went to sleop ina Pull- b gan to get his work in piopla turned oat under the impression that a sl was in progress He was a fine-looking rian, and he D strutted down the sidewalks with the air of prop-ietor-hip movement. “Beg pardon,” id a stranger as he stepp.d up *) him, hat iu hand, in atm have your pert towa over night: A now clerk in » drog store was dis- charged the, otl ay helause he did not know how ook wise, roll his eyes, aud say ‘. veniy-five cents’ without tur ivg r | iu the face as he handed out a little powder that had cost the concarn twe cents and a frac- tion. Emotion ar ! business don't jingle. Girls, if thers is one thing more than any oter thit hoids young men of our day back frowm matrimonial ventures, it is the disbeartening spec- tacle so often presented them of your own dear papa and mamma walking into church glorified respectively by a $12 ulster and a $30 bonnet. That is what scares the boys. Tom Marshall was uzing quite abu- sive language, and the judge, after one or two reprimands, fined him §10 for contempt. Mr. Murshall looked at the judge with & sils and asked where he was going to ge: the money, as he had ot a “red.” “Borrow it of a friend,” said the courr. ““Well, good many men who done u g else, and would wonder whether I should die as my father did at the an- vil. But then we'd a houseful of ehild- : ren, and my hammer was a cap: weapon tc keep the wolf from the door aud keeps things fair and tr 80 not one step woald I go until that light shone clear and I knew I was on a sure adventure. There is one worl. When you get | through with the college, aud take | hold of your ife’s work, do not think sir,” wnswered Mr. Marshall, ‘‘you are the best friend I have; will you lend me the mouey?” ““Mr. Clerk,” a2id the judge, “you may remit the fine. The state is as able to lose it as Lam.” EDUCATIONAL. The University ¢f Virginia has re- duced its bordad dsbt to $80,000. of makinz a fortune as the cne grand m of yourhfe, but of cerving out a | home, flnding a good true woman for | vyour wife, and raising, please God, a | good family. Tdo notery down money. | I thigk it 18 a good servant and agood | friend, but it is about as crusla mas. | ter as ever used a whip. A shrewd | tarmer eaid to me once, ‘‘Never marry | for money, my lad, marry for love; but if thou fiuds a good girl that has I would not say that to you, bat this: If you find | the nice girl, some sach match as my | mother was for my father, and if you | love her, marcy her, if she will have | you, though ehe has n't a dollar to ber name. This is a sore evil under | our American sun, that there should | be such mishap and disaster in the | wedded life. It lies in this, in the | mos: momentonsthing we can do,we 5o Hear Story's description of the Girl of the Period smpanion to ell marry a mw box. We who have had tu the young Wen of your bi ing fo raise a generation better type, boys and gicls st arm and sure of foot, deap suany-hearted, full of facu'ts whelesome to the innermost and to do this you muat do two ¢ ¢ linger shiveringly on the brink i} fear tolauvnch away,” but whono von know you can take care ¢ « hou - i lor 2.30 per cent., had received The Chioago board of education has authorized the nelection of sites for three new schocl 1111 dings. Of the 34.913 rocrait amined for the Prassian eemy, school education. The new co in Atlanta, Ga., for colored students—Clark Univer- aity (Methodis()—bids fair to rival Atlanta University. 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