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OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Vol, xix.
DeLand, Fla., Wednesday, March 13, 1907.
No. 19
COLLEGE PLAY
MAKES ITS BOW
Large Audience at Annual
Event. Ladies Tamed.
When Prof. Frost wants to
praise a certain kind of author
very highly indeed, he says that
he impels "the willing suspense
of disbelief." If we may be al
lowed to transfer this phrase over
into the dramatic world we would
say that this is just what the cast
in our College Play did for their
audience last night. One of the
greatest dangers in an amateur
play of this kind lies in the fact
that the audience is largely composed of the personal friends of
those presenting the play, who
may easily fail to entirely dera-
tionalize their audience and make
them for the time being live only
in the scenes presented.
It is then high praise, but we
believe not undeserved, when we
say that last night we forgot that
those were our own American
friends there on the boards, and
for the time being seemed to be
there on the hillsides near Syracuse, one of the multitude watching the wonderful friendship of
Damon and Pythias work out to
its dramatic close.
You of our alumni who can only
read of this, we wish you could
have been with us on last night
and have seen your old acquaintance Mr. Black, no longer a parson, if you please, but a Grecian
general already developing into
the tyrant Dionysius. Damon,
the brave young philosopher—and
surely it was Damon and not Prof.
Suhrie—aided and strengthened
in his purpose by his friend Pyth
ias, sends away his wife and child
to safety and then alone braves
the tyrant in the Senate house.
It is the same old story ever wonderfully fresh by reason of its'
beauty: how the doom fills on<
Damon inexorably, and Pythias, i
recognizing the utter cruelty of the'
tyrant never the less, in spite of'
the prayers of Calantha, gives
himself as hostage for his friend's
return and sends Damon to take<
a last farewell of wife and child,
how Damon, in spite of all that
he can do, is delayed until almost
too late, but finally, just as the
last minute is drawing to a close !
and the faithful Pythias is about!
to lose his life, he arrives all
breathless and spent with the wild
effort he has made to keep his!
faith, how even the iron hearted
Dionysius is moved, and, amid
the approving shouts of the populace, pardons Damon, and perfect!
friendship and perfect faith triumph.
What need is there to name
over the characters and comment
on them separately; they were
everyone, for the time being, the
person they presented, and we
want to thank them every one.
As to the scenery a few words;
of explanation may not be amiss.
Owing to the fact that the play
this year demands more separate
sets of scenery than in previous
years it was found necessary to*
use some which were painted for!
former plays. However by careful arrangement and some modifications these were made to fit i
their purpose surprisingly well.
The senate scene was perhaps!
the best, being done especially
for this play. To those who do
not realize the effort required to!
stage such a play as Damon and
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STETSON'S NINE
DEFEATS U. of F.
Varsity Takes Both Gaines
From Visitors.
The first baseball games of the
series with the University of
Florida were played last Friday
and Saturday. The games were
rather uninteresting, due to the''
fact that the visiting team was
completely outclassed.
In the first game Pelot was in
the box for Stetson, with Campbell
receiving. For U. of F. Earman
was on the slab, while Graham
was behind the bat.
The game opened with Stetson
at the bat. In this inning two
lifts, a sacrifice and an error
netted Stetson three runs. U. of
F., however, tied the score in
their half of the first on a base on
balls, tvo errors, a sacrifice and a
hit.
At the end of this inning it
looked like a large score and a
poor game on both sides. Stetson, however, settled down and
gave Pelot the support to which
his great pitching entitled him.
From the second inning till the
end of the game Florida was unable to score, though thev several
times had men on bases and W6~e
only prevented from scoring by
the steady work of Pelot in the
box and the fast fielding of the
whole team.
Stetson succeeded in scoring
one in the fourth, two in the fifth
and one in the sixth, making the
final score—Stetson, seven; U. of
F., three.
The most sensational play of
the game was when, with three
men on bases, Pounds pulled
