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Stetson Weekly Collegiate
E OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Yol. XVIII
DeLand, Florida, Wednesday, October 16,1905.
No. 2
DR. HULLEY'S
SUMMER WORK
Obtains Gifts for Stetson
University
INTERVIEW WITH DR. HARPER
Thousands of Southern people
have been to this great center of
summer school work. The State
of New York annually appropriates money to support the pedagogical side of the Chautauqua
for the benefit of New York
school teachers. Specialists from
all over the country were there
and the school was very large.
Miss Erhart and Miss Merryrnan
of the Stetson Faculty were there
pursuing special lines of study
bearing on their work.
(4.) In Ohio in early August
I had an opportunity to present
In reply to your request for the work of stetson before the
news of my work this summer, Baptisfc folk of ohio Thousands
of them meet in an assembly
I had a long conference eyery summer at Hiawatha Lake,
Mt. Vernon. Stetson has many
THE LYCEUM
FOR 1905-1906
Course
Consists of
Numbers
Five
BEST THAT MONEY CAN OBTAIN
Lectures To Enthusiastic Audiences
In Various Parts of the
Country.
Season Tickets Are Offered at an Exceptionally Low Price-r^ome
of the Attractions.
Editor of The Collegiate:
allow me to say :
(1.)
with Mr. John B. Stetson as soon
as school closed in May, and on
my request in accord with the
committee, he authorized me to
have all the buildings painted
and the third floor of Chaudoin
finished. He has paid for the
painting and given a large sum
for finishing Chaudoin.
(2.) From there I went to
Knoxville to lecture to the Summer School of the South. There
were 1500 teachers from all the
Southern States, particularly the
Gulf States. Among them was
friends in Ohio. Editor Lesher
of Cincinnati and President Hunt
of Dennison University are
among the best.
(5.) In August President Harper gave me a long interview.
He was deeply interested in the
work at Stetson and in our progress and future develpment. He
spoke in the kindest way of the
affiliation. Prof. Small was
equally kind with regard to the
Two theories prevail regarding
the nature of public entertainments given under the auspices
of a college community, and on
the platform of a university.
The older, more conservative idea
is, that all such exhibitions
should afford opportunity to the
students taking work in oratory
and elocution, to demonstrate
their abilities in those lines, and
to the college, to show its power
for such training. For this purpose, the entertainments of a
public nature, of college sanction, all tend to this end, the development and exhibition of dra-
relation between the two Uni- matic, oratorical, forensic skill,
versities. Mr. Staley and Mr. The other j^ the idea that is
Lofberg, of last spring's class,
were both there, and both have
gaining alongside the earlier the-
Miss Law, of our Model School, their bachelor degrees now from 01T5 is> that a university, stand-
who is studying Kindergarten Chicago. ing as it does for the best in all
Methods Miss Law had a good (°-) At St. Louis and Pertle lines, should call to her halls of
chance to see the best work, for Springs, Missouri, the most cor- learning, and bring to her plat-
dial greetings were received and h men d en who
Miss Hofer, head of the leading large audierjCes heard of our fine
school in the country for the
training of kindergartners, was
in charge. The Summer School
at Knoxville shows what rapid
progress education is making in
University in the land of perpet- have won national or internation-
ual summer. al fame in oratory, debate and
At various other Assemblies, impersonation, in order that stu-
and Chautauquas and Summer dents and patrons alike may en-
Schools, in making education- • the benefit8 Gf the higher ed-
entswere intelligent and eager. New York, Ashland, Kentucky, For this reason Yale University,
The standards at Knoxville were Stubenville, Ohio, etc. for example, annually invites to
high and it means, through these Everywhere people are coming her platform some speaker of
teachers, the dissemination all to hear ofour work and the large wor]d wide reputation, to deliver
a course of lectures on popular
Lincoln I subjects, in what is known as the
over the South of advanced ideas, number of winter students from
(3.) Chautauqua, New York, the North is expected to grow,
was on my program for July.
