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STUDENTS' PUBLICATION
OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Vol. xx.
DeLand, Fla., Thursday, February 20, 1908.
No. 14-
ATHLETICS
WHAT WE NEED.
Athletics this week have been
confined chiefly to preparation for
the games to be played in the near
future.
The baseball team is practicing
hard for the two games to be played
with the U. of F. next Friday and
Saturday. Florida has a stronger
team this year than ever before.
It will mean hard work to defeat
them. Stetson has been so uniformly successful in the last few
years that the students take victories rather as a matter of course.
This year both Florida and Rollins
are very strong. Rollins especially
has a very strong team. This
team has been coached by Mast><\
of the Cincinnati Club, and for this
reason has a great advantage over
Stetson.
The basketball team is getting
into good shape for their trip to
Tallahassee. The team will leave
next Thursday and play on Friday,
the twenty eighth. It is possible
that a return game will be arranged
though this is not certain. Rol- ,
lins will not play this year and un-
k less we can get a return game the
\v trip to Tallahassee will end the
^^eason.
Anyone who witnessed the K.
M. I. games must have been struck
by the apparent lack of interest
on the part of the students. There
was no enthusiasm. Not once at
either game was a college yell given
or any other sign of interest shown.
Now this is not caused by a lack of
college spirit. This spirit is shown
in many ways. A student body
that every year gives something
like four hundred dollars toward
athletics does not lack college
spirit. The trouple is lack of organ
ization and leadership.
We have many college games
coming on at which we should see
good enthusiastic cheering. In order to have this it is suggested that
some one organize a rooters' club,
such as is found in many schools.
Let the club get together, practice.
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yells and songs, go to the games in
a body and give us some good cheering. This is an actual need at
Stetson. Who will start the movement ?
Ball
Friday
AND
Saturday
Athletic Field
2:30 p. m.
Florida
vs.
Stetson
CHAUTAUQUA.
[SOMETHING DOING.
HAYDN'S ORATORIO OF
"THE CREATION."
Seldom do the people of DeLand
have such a musical treat as was
theirs Friday evening when the
large audience that filled the Auditorium listened most enthusiastically to the presentation of Haydn's
Oratorio, "The Creation." The
chorus of sixty voices were well
trained, thanks to the ability of
their director, Mr. Morse, and the
soloists of the evening were delightful. Mr. Wilmshurst and Mr. Phillips, the tenor soloists, we had enjoyed before, and Mr. Gray's work
was, as alwa/ijS, smooth and excellent. Miss Gifford's voice is wonderful and she was listened to in
absolute stillness and with a genuine appreciation of her interpretation of the glorious music of the
oratorio.
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DR. KING'S LECTURE.
Last Saturday evening the auditorium was well filled with people
who came to hear Dr. Byron W.
King deliver his lecture "All the
World's a Stage." The speaker
likened the many phases of human
life to the different characters of
Shakespeare's dramas, and. held
the close attention of the audience
by his philosophy, his humor, and
his eloquence. Not a single instance of life—not even the lovesick lad who hangs over the front
gate and gazes at the stars, and
thinking still farther away-—es- 1
caped his sharp analysis. When
he told of sad stories, the audience
would weep far into the following
humorous ones, and he would hurl
his merry hearers headlong back
into sadness and sympathy. His
recitations of James Whitcomb
Riley's poems, "When the corn is l
in the shock," and "Nothing to
say;" and of Eugene Field's "Little
Boy Blue," showed the gift of
genius in their reproduction,
