Stetson Weekly Collegiate

Stetson tfnivwrslt&B STET38ir^HPirC2lU«BTE •$-K2 OFFICIAL STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY. Vol, xix. DeLand, Fla., Wednesday, April 10, 1907. No. 21 LAST CONTESTS CROWN STETSON by hearing the eloquence of our! friends ill their pleadings and accusations. Y.W.C. A. BENEFIT LITS DO HONOR Gainesville Tour Closes the Season. Last Thursday night the baseball team left on the midnight train for Gainesville, where two games of ball were played with the Oak ball team of that city. Both games resulted in victories ■for Stetson. In the first game, with Pelot in the box, Stetson allowed three runs in the first inning. After this the team settled down and only allowed Gainesville to score two more runs. Stetson scored several times in the early innings, ? and finally tied the score at 5-5) in the eighth inning. Stetson wras last at the bat and in the last half of the ninth inning she managed to score the winning<| run. The final score was, Sfcet-^ son 6, Gainesville 5. The feature of the game was the heavy hitting of the whole Stetson team and the three base hit by Kirby to the center field boards. The second game* in which Mickle was in the box, was an easy victory for Stetson, with the final score : Stetson 6, Gainesville 3. The team report a fine time, and that they were well treated by the Gainesville boys. Moot Court. The Senior Lawyers are to appear in moot court next week. By first arrangement the case was to be tried this week but has been postponed till next Tuesday. The case on trial is very serious, and all who attend will be well repaid OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o c g FROM FORMER STUDENTS, g o o o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Mr. E. N. Hell, an earnest ministerial student at Stetson, is proving a successful pastor in the big State of Texa*. He writss : ''I came to Ft. vVorth, Texas, January 1, 1905, as pastor of the North Ft. Worth Baptist church. This was a small, weak church at that time but now has & Sunday School of 215 scholars, a church membership of 875, and the best congregations in her history. This winter has been mild and ever) Sunday of the new year lias witnessed additions to the church, at our regular services. "In these two years I have married thirty-nine couples, but have not yet found a girl for myself." Mr. W. P. Kiles writes from near-by New Smyrna :— My line of work for the past five years has been with the ton- sorial artist, am still scraping the faces of people from every clime, in the quiet little town of New Smyrna. I like my work more and more, but my mind often carries me back to the many happy days at Stetson. Rest assured that 1 shall make an effort to enjoy at least a part of this commencement." Miss Elizabeth Longwell, with true scientific brevity, writes from the Empire State: "I am a teacher of Chemistry, Physics, Solid Geometry and Trigonometry in the Newark High School." Girls Give Program—Poet Is Studied. The fact that the young ladies vho compose the Young Women's Christian Association have much energy and progressiveness was demonstrated last Friday evening at the entertainment held undertheir auspices in the Auditorium. As the event had been but little advertised, the audience was rather small and contained mostly students. The numbers by Professors Morse, Hill and Suhrie need no comment to those who know their standards. fn'e quartet, composed of Messrs. Webb Hill, D. Carlton, Cotton and W. Mickle, did well, especially, con- si iering that they have not done quartet work together before. Miss Eiizibeth Oi-rsori, so justly popular among the student body, and recently elected President of the Y. W. 0. A., surprised and delighted her audience with her ability as a reader. The numbers were arranged in the following order: 1. Organ Sprin - Serenade Prof. Morse. ( 3. Vocal Solo May Morning ( Prof. Webb Hill. c 3 Heading Selected c Prof. Suhrie. ( 4. Quartet Fairy Moonlight c5. Reading Higher Culture in Dixie c Miss Carson. ( 6. Vocal Solo As the Dawn ? Prof. Webb Hill. f 7. Quartet Vive la Cookery Maid ) Last Saturday evening's program was, as announced in last week's number, a commemoration of Longfellow's centenary. No program of the year has equaled it. The spirit in which each member performed his part did respect to the occasion. This was different from any program we have ever had be-