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Stetson Weekly Collegiate
OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Yol. XVIII
DeLand, Florida, Wednesday, January 10,1906.
No. 10
THE NEW TERM
BEGINS FINELY
Dormitories All Packed to
the Limit
BUILDINGS & ORGAN RENOVATED
Professors are Building and the General Prospect is Very Bright
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This term smashes all records.
ere never has been in the
istory of the University so large
an enrollment in the College of
Liberal Arts, in the College of
Law, in the Schools of Technology or in the Music School.
They go beyond all precedent.
Also there has never been so large
a number of students from the
University of Chicago.
East Hall is absolutely packed.
Conrad Hall will not hold another
student. The new rooms opened
in Chaudoin Hall have all been
occupied. Every room in the
College wing of the ladies' dormitory is taken, and all but four in
the Academy wing. Stetson Hall
will admit of but few more.
Some have applied for admission,
and have been obliged to find
rooms down town.
The improvements to the University continue. The Dean's office looks like a bank, and has
been made so by the gift of a lot
of fixtures by a Florida bank. The
big organ has been given a thorough overhauling by the firm of
Cole and Woodberry of Boston.
The Athletic Field has been put
in excellent condition and two
new tennis courts have been provided for. The scenery for the
College Plays has been begun
and over a thousand dollars worth
of new furniture has been added.
The Professors, too, are building. This is very gratifying*
as indicative of their love of!
the University and the town,
Professor Baldwin finished his
house in the spring. Professor j
Morse's house was built in the
summer and Professor Frost has!
laid the foundation of his this
fall. Professors Farriss, Smith and
Carson have owned theirs for
several years, and others are look-;
ing for lots.
Mr. Webb Hill has arrived to1
assist the music faculty, and Miss
Marvick also will assist. This;
makes a faculty of six who give
all their service to the music department, and all have full schedules. Two great musical events i
are looming up and will stir all
hearts this winter.
THE VACATION
IN CHAUDOIN
Was Not So Dull as One
Might Think
CHRISTMAS DULY CELEBRATED
A Fine Dinner and Tree Were tl:e
Crowning Events
Mr. Blake Entertains.
The party given last Tuesday night
by Mr. Stephen Blake was a pleasant
ending to the holidays. A party of
fourteen left DeLand early in the
evening and drove to Mr. Blake's home
in Lake Helen, where games and music made the time pass most pleasantly. Refreshments were served about
the middle of the evening, and at a
late hour the part}' returned to De-
Land.
Those present were the Misses
Payne, Hamlin, Ethel Hamlin, McKinney. Schwerdfeger, Fuller, Jackson and Messrs. Botts, Hamlin, Walker, Sparkman, Stewart, "Woodward
and Blake.
Vespers.
1 he increasing interest of both
students and townspeople in the vesper services was shown to a marked
degree by the attendance at the last
vesper Lour of the fall term. One
of the largest audiences ever seen at
the afternoon,meetings was present.
The worship, excepting the prayer
and Scripture reading, was entirely
musical, and consisted of two organ
(solos, hymns and several selections by
Lhe choir.
Everything indicates a renewal of
interest in vespers for the winter
term.
The lovers of entertainment in DeLand will have the best treat of years
when they hear Capt. Hobson. At the
Auditoriura Friday evening.
When the last train - load of
students had left DeLand bound
for home and Christmas fun, we
who were left in Chaudoin shook
hands on one resolution : that we
were the survival of the fittest
and were going to prove that
Christmas is Christmas whether
the yard is full of snow or oranges, and whether the family consists of our own dear home people,
or an impromptu company of good
fellows.
This last we certainly had, and
although the few days that preceded Christmas were busy ones
for all of us, we found time to
learn the real selves that were
hidden under the conventional
shells that had passed in review
during the schooldays, so that by
Christmas eve when we went up
stairs early in the eveming so
that Santa Claus might have the
parlors to himself, we knew pretty
well what jolly good will this
world is made of.
At half past five Christmas
morning "not a creature was stirring, not even a monse," but a
minute later I followed the nursery rhyme still further and
"heard such a clatler that I
sprang from the bed to know
what was the matter.'' It proved
to be the waking committe, and
amid the banging of tin pans and
shouting of "Merry Christmas,"
we air went down to the north
