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other seven after him. Mr. Hooper's Heroic resistance, one MAN against seventeen so paralyzed the nineteen desperadoes that nothing more is to be feared from Them.
In 1892 Willa Cather became a literary editor of The Hesperian, and a few years later editor-in-chief; and it was under her vigorous leadership that the paper reached its maximum of excellence. The following passage is excerpted from the quarter-centennial number and suggests by its virile dash or composition Miss Cather's authorship:
Along in '84 and '85 THE HESPERIAN had a literary column in which it felt in duty bound to review current literature. In reading this column we learned among other new and startling things that The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, that it is very immoral and should be carefully kept from the young. Furthermore, we learned that War and Peace was a novel by Count Tolstoi, and that it was very good, though somewhat voluminous. Of Sordello the literary editor merely says that it is a poem by Robert Browning. It is a case in which silence speaks, apparently. In the local column we find a casual mention that Bismarck has been ill for a few days, and that Tennyson dined at Windsor Castle last week, and that the Queen of Spain has a new dress. In the editorial columns we find inspiring quotations from Faust, Hamlet, and Lucile. In the files we scanned we found thirteen essays on the inevitable Thomas Carlyle. It is a great temptation to reprint some of the literary productions of the olden times, for some of them are very good stuff indeed, but after all these years it would be cruel to treat our amiable librarian to her essay on the Founders of the Modern English Race, or to thrust upon the managing editor of The State Journal his own essay on Mahomet, and it would be little short of inhuman cruelty to expose Mr. Saunders by republishing the awful poetry he used to write under the graceful nom de plume of "Ivy."
From time to time there were rival publications. A class paper, The Sophomorian, containing literary and journalistic matter, was conducted in 1889-90 by the enterprise of one student. In the two succeeding years, the same student, associated with a few classmates, published successfully The Lasso, "for the promotion of college spirit." There was a design of a cowboy on the front, and for some reason all of its early numbers were in black covers.
The Nebraskan, founded about 1894, was a rival of The Hesperian. This paper was nicknamed "Riley's Rag" after
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