Stetson Weekly Collegiate

Or xO ^n^^«<^*^^ , STETSON WEEKLY COLLEGIATE VOL. XVII. OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY. DE LAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH i , 1905. NO. 18. IDEALS OF THE UNIVERSITY Address of Dr. Lincoln Hulley, at the Presentation Day Exercises. Ladies and Gentlemen: Allow me to tender to you the heartiest welcome to these exercises. This is an occasion of great significance in the history of this institution. Presentation Day is the greatest day in our calendar. It becomes deeply significant to us at this time because of the action of the Board of Trustees yesterday. On this occasion in this noble presence, inviting your most serious consideration, I propose to put before you the ideals of the John B. Stetson University. These ideals involve the religious principles underlying all our work; the organization of the University in its various schools and colleges; the curricula of studies; the buildings and apparatus; the character of the teachers; the traditions and social forms, and the informing spirit of the whole. THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES. First, the religious principles. This University was founded in the prayers and sacrifices of noble men and women who consecrated themselves to the cause of Christ. On their knees they asked God to bless the efforts they were making to blaze a path of light in the darkness. The motto engraved on the seal of the University, spelled out in our stained glass windows, and written on the tablets of their hearts and ours, is "Pro Deo et Veritate." This splendid foundation is for Cod and the truth. This auditorium was erected for the glory of God and in memory of a little child whose simplicity our Saviour commended. This institution was not created to please the vanity of man, nor to minister to splendid idleness, nor to gratify foolish pride or sinful lust, but to bring glory to God and to help His Church. If these walls could speak, how eloquently they would resound with the prayers, the songs and the speeches of hundreds of men and women seeking the glory of God and the welfare of His church. Other men have labored and ye have entered into their labors. Ministers who received salaries so small that they could not buy food and clothes sufficient for their needs went down into their pockets in the early days to give a few dollars, and practiced self- denial in books and bread so as to help the school. Laymen, thinking of that kingdom of God which is in the heart, a thing not material, but spiritual, striving to make a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens, gave freely and bountifully. In most instances their gifts were small, but like the widow's mite, it was blessed of God, because it cost so much. And with their gifts these noble souls gave themselves. This made their gift a priceless one. Who gives himself with his gift raises the value of his deed to a high plane. Others gave their love, their labour and their prayers and this was often all they could give, but God, who looks not on the outward appearance, but rather on the heart, honored and accepted their gifts. In the early days, many lips carried the name or this University to the throne of God. Many hearts yearned for its success. Many meetings were held for its interests and even now daily many people pray that this University may redound to the glory of God, to the praise of His name, to the good of His Kingdom, to the salvation of souls and to the upbuilding of young men and women in righteousness. THE CHARTER. ±he Charter granted by the legislature to this University was entitled "An act to incorporate an Institution of learning." Its object "shall be to promote the general interests of education and to qualify its students to engage in the learned professions or other employments of society and to discharge honorably and usefully the various duties of life." It provides for the appointment of a faculty, the erection of buildings, the establishment of Colleges and Schools, the purchase of libraries and apparatus, the opening of laboratories and museums, the institution of a system of manua. labor, gymnastic or other exercises, the elaboration of courses of study leading to degrees. These are enlightened conceptions of education. To realize them, the trustees were endowed with large powers. Here in DeLand it was located and here to DeLand it has attracted people of the finest texture and culture. It is a great blessing. its power and influence cannot be estimated. It is a city set on a hill. It is a light that cannot be hid. All honor to the men and women who founded it, to the men and women who organized it and developed it, to the men and women who have constituted its faculties, to the men and women who have given of their means, large amounts and small, and all honor to the men who yesterday agreed that this light should not be put out, that the labor of yesterday should not perish today, that the toil of those wiio have gone before should not be in vain. Citizens, yesterday the Trustees of this institution generously rose to a great occasion, and for the future, let us hope that the foundations of this institution may be broadened and strengthened by their efforts. Years ago, when the brave people of Leyden resisted to the point of death a foreign foe, and the government rewarded them with a choice between perpetual exemption from the payment of taxes or the foundation of a university, they chose a university. They did well, and so arose the University of Leyden. It has had a great and glorious history. Its noble work reaches to the ends of the earth. So may it be with regard to this University. May it long endure, a monument to the wisdom and generosity of its founders. THE ORGANIZATION. We have within the organization of the University, four Colleges and five schools. The College of Liberal Arts is affiliated with the University of Chicago and there is not a higher standard in the South. Pro rata credit is given in either institution for work done in the other. This ought to be a matter of great pride to you. The children of Florida have at their doors the highest educational standards. The College of Law is modelled after that of the University of Michigan. Its Professors are Law graduates of distinguished ability, high standing and experience. Their graduates are admitted to practice law in the courts of Florida without examination. There is no single influence in the State of Florida, probably, that is doing so much to exalt the legal profession as the Stetson College of Law. The College of Technology is being modelled after that of Columbia University, New York City, on its theoretical side and after that of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, on its practical side. The new dean of this College has already proved himself a valuable addition to the Faculty. The awakened industrial life of the State of Florida will feel the quickening influence of this College. It is already giving courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and in Manual Training. The Business College, through its membership in the Eastern League, is pledged to the highest and strictest standards of business education. Its work is very efficient. It gives courses in bookkeeping, stenography, telegraphy, typewriting, commercial law, business arithmetic, the common English branches and all related subjects. The Academy, the Normal School, the Practice School, the Art School and the Music School are all fully equipped and are organized for the highest kind of work. Every one who has broad views of education, must be in fullest sympathy with the pedagogical ideals that have been brought together here. For the information of the public, I may say that the Professors doing the work of these departments this year, hold degrees from Utrecht, Holland, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Wesleyan (Conn.), Columbia (N. Y.), Wake Forest, the University of Pennsylvania, Bucknell, Bryn Mawr, the University of Michigan, Dennison University, Albert College, Ontario, and other colleges and universities of great fame. THE CURRICULUM. The central essential thing about the university is the curriculum. That scheme of study is what we are here for. It has taken over a thousand years to elaborate it. It has not been an easy thing to devise a course of study. The work has taken centuries. The ablest thinkers of our race have toiled over its details. By means of it, we hope to realize the purposes for which the University was founded. It is firmly embedded in the Continued on Second Page. The Holy City. The University Choral Society presented Gaul's oratorio "The Holy City" at the Auditorium Friday evening. The chorus consisted of more than fifty voices, accompanied by piano and pipe organ. It was assisted by a number of soloists. Prof. Morse, the director deserves many compliments for his skill in unifying such a volume of sound. Perhaps the chorus "They That Sow in Tears" was most pleasing of the j choruses. Of the soloists, Mr. Cairns and Mr. Wilmshurst should be mentioned especially ,while as students we j feel deep appreciation of tlie work of Miss Lutz and Miss Spaulding, •since we have a personal interest in the singers. Other numbers which were perhaps more beautiful than either the full chorus or the solo numbers, were the trio by Misses Spaulding and Lagergren, and Mrs. Coen "It shall come to Pass," and the ladies' quartette with bass solo and obligato by Mr. Cairns. Prof. Morse and the chorus have worked hard and their success was deserved. The audience was large and showed marked appreciation of the program. *~»~* Kent Club Debaters. Unusual interest was manifested in the meeting of the club last Saturday evening. The contest for places on the challenged debating team was the most interesting number of the program. Messrs. Fish, Ely and Dr. Farris acted as judges, while the Interstate Commerce question was debated by Messrs. Fee, Leitner and Geiger versus Messrs. Blanton, Botts and Scofield. The old debating spirit of the club seemed to take hold and control each speaker as he took the floor. All were very earnest and forceful in presenting their arguments and not a poor speech was made. From the six contestants the following were chosen: Messrs. Blanton, Fee and E. Geiger. The club feels that it lias a strong team and is confident that when these men meet the Lits in tlie inter-department debate, the Kent Club's record will remain unbroken. Literary Society. Tlie Literary Department held its preliminary debate for the coming Inter-Department contest, last Saturday night in the Lit room. There were five young aspirants who ably handled the question for debate. The three best speakers were to be chosen to represent the Literary Department of the University. The judges were Professors Frost, Carson and Smith. While they were preparing their decisions. Miss Jackman was called upon for a speech and the subject "Dining Out" was suggested. As the young lady in ques'i-> had just returnd from a dinner at the College Arms, she was prepared on the subject, and assured us that she be- gan with the soup and ate everything right down to the tooth-picks. Let us hope she will survive and not have to be "boxed home." The decision of the judges was in favor of Messrs. Mcllvaine. Walker and Reamy. A Discussion of Amber, Prof.—Have you ever heard of the fly in the amber? • Student—No. but I've heard of the fly in the ointment. Kent Club Resolutions. At a recent meeting of the Kent Club, the subject offered for debate, was: "Resolved, that the whipping post be re-established for wife-beating." Mr. Roy Geiger, with some reminiscences made the debate very interesting for the young men and ladies present and carried the debate for the negative. Put in mind by the subject of a then recent event, the motion was made that the married men of the club be made a committee to draw up appropriate resolutions. It was asked by one of them that Mr. S. B. W. Jr., be added to supply the vote of congratulation to the resolutions. As a result, the following were adopted and ordered to be furnished the Collegiate: Whereas, A. E. Voyle, our beloved fellow member, has seen fit to cross the bar into harbor of matrimony, from whose bourne no man returneth with out an act of God or a decree of a court, and Whereas he must have had this in mind when be became a disciple of that jealous mistress, Law; ■ Resolved, therefore, that Mr. Voyle be presented with a leather medal and his fault be graven upon the tablets of memory of every unmarried member of the Kent Club; be it further Resolved, that Mrs. Voyle be extended our heartfelt and sincere sympathy; be it further Resolved, that it is the wish of the members of the Kent Club that the newly-wedded couple travel a path of perpetual bliss, and may all their troubles be little ones. «» • » Vesper Service. The Vesper services Sunday afternoon was in every respect one of the most enjoyable of this year and was well attended. The music was all pleasing but especially the trio rendered by Miss Pearl Spaulding, iMss Lagergren and Mrs. Coen. Prof. Sears in beginning his address quoted "For every thing there is a time and a season " and said There is a time for all our every-day duties and pleasures and responsibilities, tho' all times are not equally important. There come great crises, vital turning points, life questions which we alone can decide and we are accountable for our decisions in proportion to our maturity and opportunity for preparation. To know right and not to do is sin. So the hours, the days, the years give tis opportunity to build firmly, to gain wisdom, to develop a strong character, as it were to put savings into a bank so that when the crisis comes and the vital decision must be made we may have a fund to draw upon and be able to choose atis-1-+ This choice must be based upon- the gospel of Christ and have truth for its foundation for only thus can it stand the test of time. + » » Errata. Mr. E. Geiger after reference to his joke book wishes his audience of Saturday night to note that the mule he represented as having a weak system. a broken constitution and a "busted" ambition, was not really so bad, but that he "was ambitious, had a weak system and a "busted" constitution. 4~++ The Lits are to give a Variety concert the last of March. Keep your quarters saved for the occasion.