Stetson Weekly Collegiate

I ,^: ' 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 his 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