Stetson Weekly Collegiate

STETSON WEEKLY COLLEGIATE Students' Publication of Stetson University VOL. XXI. DeLAND, FLA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909. NO. \2. FLA. EDUCATIONAL ASS. MEETING Will Meet in DeLand During Next Holiday Season. The president and members of the faculty of Stetson University are pleased with the prospect of entertaining the Florida Education Association on the occasion of their next annual meeting, which will be held at De- Land, December 28-31, 1909. This will doubtless be a notable gathering in the educational history of Florida. President Hulley, Professor Suhrie and other members of the Stetson faculty have at various times during the past four years extended a very cordial invitation to the Association to meet in DeLand. Superintendent Botts, of the Volusia county public schools, took a large delegation of his teachers to the Association at Gainesville this year and all combined their efforts in securing the Association for DeLand for the next meeting. It is estimated that a thousand teachers; educators and school 'officers may be in attendance at this next meeting. The College Arms Hotel has cut its minimum rate in two for the benefit of the teachers of Florida. The Putnam Inn has been equally generous and has granted an exceptionally low rate. The other hotels and boarding houses of DeLand will all co-operate in making it possible to entertain comfortably and at the most reasonable rates all who may come. The Association held a good meeting at Gainesville this year, but there is every reason to believe that, with the full and hearty co-operation of the people of DeLand, the attendance next year will be much larger. Professor Theodore D. Culp, princi pal of the DeLand public school, is a member of the Executive Committee. He has a large acquaintance all over the State and will do some acth e work among his friends to bring out a large attendance. Superintendent A. O. Botts is well and favorably known among the school superintendents and will be very active and energetic in working up the interests of the Association. Professor A. L. L Suhrie, who is doubtless personally known to more individual teachers than any other man in Florida, and who has on several occasions addressed the Association, will spare no pains in making the local educational attractions of the Normal School helpful to all the teachers who may come. President Lincoln Hulley will deliver the address of welcome 'on behalf of the university, and we have no doubt he will make all of the visitors feel glad they have come and all of the towns people feel proud to have a part in their entertainment. BIBLE STUDY AT STETSON Time For Uu To Get Into It. Intercollegiate Notes. Chicago students have originated a mock-senate with ninety-two members, elected among themselves. The President's message will be prepared by members of the faculty. The election of Harvard's new president, chosen on the resignation of President Eliot, Prof. Abbot Lawn noe Lowell, has been commended universally among educators. Northwestern defeated the Chicago debating team in Model Hall, last Saturday. One third of the students at Wabash College are voters. Three of the faculty are too young to exercise this privilege. The University of Illinois has 350 men in Bible study. Rollins College has thirteen games scheduled for baseball. Three have been arranged with Havana, the rest are with Georgia teams. Only. Only a mule, long, lean and thin, Only a mule that drank some gin, Only a mule, tied up by a halter, Only take care of the mule's hind quarter, Only a lad coming from tech, Only a dime small as a speck, Only behind the feet of the mule, Only this lad just out of school, Ony tried >to get that dime, Only he saw the opportune time. Only he tried, shy as a mouse, J Ony a funeral next day at his house. To those acquainted with the affairs of other colleges and especially to the eleven men who were at Winter Park last week. The great importance of Bible study at Stetson is becoming evident. Even to one not given to the consideration of such things the matter can not but arouse interest when acquainted with a few facts. When he learns that two thirds of the men at West Point are voluntarily studying this Book, when that number includes their football captain, baseball captain, all the football men and some baseball men, as well as members of the crew and track team, he begins to realize that there must be something in this study. West Point is not alone in this movement; it is sweeping over all colleges north and south and has gripped Yale and Harvard, Vanderbilt, Clennson, the University of Mississippi, all of the big colleges. Last year there were about 25,000 men in Bible study. This year the aim is for 50,000 college men devoting a half hour a day to this work. In our report at the recent conference as to the intentions of our Stetson Y. M. C. A. the delegates agreed to put 100 men in Bible study gfoups. Last year we started with ten classes and averaged nearly that number. Let all men interested in this and seeing the advisability attend the meeting Thursday evening in the Association Hall and lend his aid to the movement. Awards in Economic Contest. Awards interesting to students of Stetson College have been made by a committee of economists for the best essays submitted by college graduates and students. Four prizes in all, aggregating nearly $2,000, have been given. The first prize was taken by Oscar Douglas Skelt'on, formerly of the University of Chicago and now Professor