Stetson Weekly Collegiate

Stetson Weekly Collegiate. Official Students' Publication of Stetson University. Volume XVI. DeLand, Florida, Saturday, April 9, J 904. Number 21 STETSON LITERARY SOCIETY. Impromptu Debate the Feature of the Evening's Program. According to invariable custom the discourse on the events of the week was the flrst number on the program. Mr. Botts had charge of this number and rapidly told us what he thought necessary. Mr. Leitner told us, in what we could see was a purely extemporaneous speech, the main facts in the attitude of Russia toward the United States. According to the critic of the society, Mr. Lofberg's rendition of "An Old Sweetheart," by J. W. Riley, was well rendered as to thought and expression. "The expression of the face was lacking"—alas! Experience with those things is important. Could it be that the critic had had such? Miss Jackman was congratulated on being so natural and realistic in her recitation of "What the Little Girl Said" to the missionary lady. The usual haphazard routine of Parliamentary Practice was conducted most admirably by Mr. Stevens. The debate on "Industrial vs. Liberal Arts Education" was decided in favor of the liberal art side. This lattei view of the question was taken by Messrs. Walker and Allen and opposed by Mr. Staley and Miss Remmers. During the business session impromptu yet exciting debates were held, which the reporter of the Collegiate was compelled to listen to through the key hole, so no authentic report can conscientiously be made. We did manage to find out that several futile attempts at adjournment were made, before Mr. Staley cut the Gordian knot and the members sallied forth. Tonight's program is as follows: Current Events—Miss Remmers. Recitation—Mr. Stevens. Extempore—Miss Hampton. Oration—Mr. Allen. Parliamentary Practice—Mr. Waterman. Discussion—"Heredity vs. Environment." Moffatt vs. Carlton. Baseball. The following men left Thursday night for Lake City and Tallahassee. where they will represent Stetson in baseball contests: Sears. \k Pounds, J. D,. c. Pelot, 1st base. Oates. 2nd base. Mickle, 3rd base. Cook, s. ,s. Bennett, Campbell, Duncan, Mickle, W. Y., fielders. This undoubtedly is the weakest team that has gone out in defense of the green and white for several years, but so long as there is life there is hope. Friday we meet the University of Florida in the first game of the season. They are a husky bunch and will probably put up a good fight. Saturday afternoon we play Tallahassee the second game of the series, the first game resulting in a victory for F. S. C. by a close call of 3 to 2. If Chappell does not appear in the box for our opponents, we will make mings interesting for them. Accounts of these games will appear in next week's paper. Y. W. C. A: Although it rained so hard Thursday afternoon, the Y. W. C. A. meeting was well attended. Miss Narcissa Coleman, the leader, had prepared an interesting program and a number of papers were read about the missions of today, in India, China and Japan, Africa, Brazil and Mexico. The world's production of corn is estimated at 2830 million bushels in 1903 against 3040 million bushels in 1902.—The Agricultural Student. How to Like Work. Ever since Mark Twain showed us Tom Sawyer selling for sundry prized considerations, the hitherto undesired privilege of whitewashing his aunt's fence, we have all had a suspicion that the difference between work and play was purely mental. If we liked work, we have admitted to ourselves it would not be work, but the difficulty has been how to like it. Here is the place for a new cult— let us, coining a word of the usual mixed pedigree, call it Psycho-manual Science. The brilliant woman who should make herself mistress and priestess of this art would surely do the world much good, and coin a mint of money as well. For who would not go to a teacher who would show one how to work and like it. The rudiments of the science are extremely simple, but its application is infinite, and would, of course, require a complete change of mental habit. Let us consider first what the present habit is. When you are wash ing dishes, for instance, what is in your mind? Don't you wish they would hurry up and get done, and stay done? And don't you consider that to wash dishes three times a day for three hundred and sixty-five days a year is too much for human endurance? what a distance you have fallen from the innocent days of infancy, when you stuffed a cork into a bottle a thousand times, and chuckled at the chance to do it again. Psycho-manual science would aim to destroy the false mental attitude of the adult mind and restore the innocent delight in activity so characteristic of the infant mind. What, now, is the truth in regard to the matter? It is that in reality you would not do anything else but wash dishes if you could. For what constrains you? No outer power—merely the fact that you prefer clean dishes to soiled ones; therefore, you prefer to wash dishes, or else you would not wash them. It is difficult to realize this at once, and therefore a course of treatments, and possible lessons, may be advisable. The next time you are doing something with a very unwilling mind, repeat this formula to yourself again and again until you believe it: "This that I am now doing is what, under all the circumstances, I prefer to do at this moment above all other things. Of course, then, I enjoy it." This treatment faithfully applied during dish-washing, bed-making, sweeping, dusting, sewing on buttons, darning stockings, even picking up and putting away the miscellaneous belongings of a large and careless family, may be relied on to get the work lone in less time and with less friction than ever before, to fill the world with sunshine and enlarge the soul of the worker. If it does not, it is because you do not understand the true inwardness of it, and a thorough course of study in Psycho-manual science may be necessary.—Ed., in Harper's Bazar. ♦ • » New York city consumes 2.000,000 barrels of potatoes a year.—Exchange. A Mosquito Plant. The following item is floating around without definite credit and do not know its origin. There is evidently a misprint in one name, Niagara may mean Nicaragua or some other foreign name. The story is important if it has has any foundation in fact. The "mosquito plant," a species of basil, is attracting a great deal of attention in England just now. An army officer who secured one of these plants in Niagara says it is well known as a mosquito defense there, and the natives use an infusion of its leaves to cure malarial fevers. As soon as a hedge of this shrub was planted about the Victoria gardens, Bombay, India, the workmen, who had previously been almost unable to work because of the swarms of mosquitoes, had no further trouble. Tennis Balls, Rackets, etc., at Fisher's.