Stetson Weekly Collegiate

3TET221W d" *."^s C21UCLWE STUDENTS' PUBLICATION OF STETSON UNIVERSITY. VOL. XXIII DE LAND, FLA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1910. No. 2 STETSON STUDENTS RESPOND TO THE CALL OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. Last Friday afternoon at three o'clock, in response to the call for a student mass meeting, about one hundred loyal Stetsonites, both ladies and gentlemen, met in the chapel auditorium. The number present was much smaller than it should have been but some of the old time spirit was manifested anyway. Of course, it can hardly be expected for new students to show the spirit that old ones do but in this meeting the new ones came right to the front both in numbers and spirit. Prof. Baldwin, as director of athletics, took charge of the meeting. In a short talk he reviewed the financial conditions regarding athletics last year and the outlook at the present. He emphasized the fact that the question of whether the school should have athletics or not this year depended entirely on the students. They must support this branch of school life in two ways—by keeping loyal to and enthusiastic for athletics and also by contributing the necessary funds for the support of the various teams. Prof. Botts then made a strong appeal for more college spirit backed up by a loyal interest in the team. At the close of his remarks subscriptions for carrying on football, basketball, and baseball were called for. The students, present together with Dr. Hulley, Profs. Baldwin and Botts raised about one hundred and fifty dollars. It was shown that three hundred dollars were needed and Prof. Botts made the proposition that he would be one of ten to give the first hundred dollars and the one to give the last ten of the three hundred. Four others joined him with ten-dollar subscriptions. He holds this offer open for a week and every student who can meet this proposition ought not to neglect the opportunity to help the financial side of our athletics. At this time of the year, before any games have been played it seems hard to arouse the proper spirit for athletics in the school. Every student should try to get some virility in his system and develop a strong, loyal feeling now at the beginning when support for the team means so much. All the old students remember the great game of last year and the splendid jubilee that followed. It was worth a great deal to see and feel it. It is that same sort of spirit that has kept Stetson to the front in athletics in Florida. She has always won by that sprit and, Stetson students, it is just that sort of thing that is going to make you win in life. Have you got it? Cultivate it here and when you get out in the real battle of life, you will say that that old spirit of loyalty and support you got back there in Stetson was one of the best influences of your life. Remember also that the best way to cultivate it is to help support our team this year. Be sure and make some contribution towards athletics. Mr. Whitehurst, as treasurer for the association, will be gald to receive your contribution. Young lady—"Prof. Tingley do you know the difference between an orange and a monkey?" Prof. Tingley—(after some guessing) "No, I don't." Young lady—" Well, I surely wouldn't send you to the store to buy oranges for me!" -4- WITH THE EUSOPHIANS. +- ++++-+++++■ ♦♦♦♦.♦♦»•♦' With several new members looking on the members of the Eusophian Literary Society united to show how much they new of the Germans and their language. Mr. Coleman, along with -Miss Wilma Davis and Miss Ammonette Gordon showed depth of study and research in their papers dealing with German literature. Miss Har- iette Hulley quite surprised us with a perfectly unintelligible (to us) rendition of a German poem. She told us in German verse that old story of the lady and the glove. These readings of a foreign* language seem to draw the strange tongue nearer to us. And last but far from least came Kyle Kinkead with his German anecdotes and stories. These stories added a spice of gayety to the meeting and sent us all home with a smile on our lips. The Eusophian is a society that does not believe in all work and no play. You will find a program of the Society a delightful blend of learning, research, humor and wit; you can do better work in a society that is a secret organization. Everybody can't know the busineess we carry on. Only our programs are made public. It's a great big, clean, wholesoled organization working for the good of every one of its members. The society is just now working on a plan. What it is we are not at liberty to state. But you can bank on this; whatever it is it will be the best of its kind if vigor, enthusiasm and true-hearted co-operation has anything to do with it. The American public wants a man that can talk,; it doesn't matter whether he is selling patented potato slicers or prescribing for their diseases. If you can't talk you are simply out of the running. This is no place for slang, and good old American slang is the only dialect that can express the condition of the man who can't talk