Stetson Weekly Collegiate

Stetson Weekly Collegiate OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY. Yol. XVIII DeLand, Florida, Wednesday, May 2,1906. No. U RE VIEW OF THE SCHOOL YEAR PRESIDENT LINCOLN HULLEY Another year is drawing to a close^ and as one looks back over it, there are many bright memories connected with it. The workers have all been in evidence. A spirit of co-operation and a joy in the work have seemed to inspire everyone. The ^faculty and student body have worked together as friends. Nowhere is more politeness, courtesy and proper obedience shown to authority than right here in Stetson University. The teachers are w< rthy of it. They perform their work faithfully and administer their authority in a Christian spirit, and always with a view to furthering the best interest of the student. The student kmrws that. The hardest person in this world to fool is a bright minded young man or woman. THE CLASS WORK. The class work is the thing about which all the subjects in a University centre. On the theory that the student is first and foremost the class work has been carried <?n as a steady daily drill in building up the mind and the character of the student. I cannot commend too strongly the fidelity, skill and hard work of the faculty of John B. Stetson University. The student knows when he is receiving good instruction, whether the professor is interested or lazy, whether he allows him to shirk or keeps him up to the work. The quality of work done in the Stetson classroom is of the finest grade. It is that of the great universities. It stands for exactness and precision, two of the prime essentials of the highest scholarship. THE DEAN'S OFFICE. The Dean's office suggests grades, credits, records, examina tions, consultations. It keeps tab on the student's many relations < to his work. It has been administered with regularity and effectiveness. One of the best lessons I in life for the student to learn is! to do his work. He should learn to do it promptly, regularly, punctually, without shirking, without evading, without skimming over the surface, without playing off sick and inventing excuses to hide behind. These things enter into one's character ; they have moral quality in them; they are the foundations on which to build one's life. Carried into a business career they mean success. These are lessons not learned from books. They are learned by daily striving to establish good habits. THE ATTENDANCE. The attendance has shown a marked increase over last year, just as last year made a big advance over the year before. This year each one of the nine schools showed a large percentage of increase. The classes are larger, the dormitories are fuller, the bursar's receipts are greater than ever before. The spring teachers' class is four times as big this year as it was last year. The different schools co-operate in the friendliest way. Enthusiasm for the University pervades the whole student body. Tbe faculty rejoices in this large attendance. It is pleasant to teach a largtf class of interested pupils. This attendance is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that the expenses were increased this year ten per cent. This was done in order to give the students a finer grade of teaching. ATHLETICS. To every Stetson student the word "athletics" suggests vic tory, cups, trophy rooms, flags, yells, songs, calendars of games, celebrations, indoor athletic meets, field athletics,track events, basket ball, foot ball, base ball. Stetson believes in developing the body as well as the mind, and along with the mind. Often the way to reach the mind is through the body. A good mind is handicapped if it be lodged in a poor body. The prowess of the Stetson athletes is well attested on many victorious occasions. They go in to win. They stand for fair treatment of all visitors, according courtesy and kindness in their hospitality and justice and fairness on the field of play. Stetson does not stand for corrupt athletics. It pays nobody, not even the trainer. Long will the students remember the bonfire celebration when the foot ball team returned from Jacksonville victorious. They will long remember the exciting finish with the Kentucky Military boys, and the 10 inning game with the Ormond professionals before either side made a score, and the bril- liant work of the basket ball team. Forever will they prize the base ball and foot ball championships of two seasons and Mr. Wilson's trophy cup, won after three hard years of battle. There is much value in athletics as conducted at Stetson University, where self-restraint, temperance in habit, cleanliness, determination, skill, alertness, patience, endurance, fair dealing, co-operation, obedience and courage are daily drilled into the student's very soul. MUSIC Nowhere in Florida is there a school with such music, Reci-