The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

®1}£ §>M00tt M^klg (En Pl*of. 0. Cor: o;: The Only Students' Publication of John B. Stetson University VOL. xxv DeLAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912 NO. 3 RECEPTION GIVEN BY THE LAWYERS Last Thursday evening tlie business and professional men of DeLand and the Junior Law Class were entertained by our President, the law faculty and the Seniors. About seventy-five, or more, guests were present. One new Professor stated that the purpose of the meeting was to accustom students to associating with business men—future clients. This purpose was good even if it did savor of selfishness. But it was not as broad as was the essence of the meeting of guests, faculty and students. Sincere mutual appreciation played over the gathering and bound all close together. The interest was chiefly in one another. However the guests remarked favorably concerning the decoration, the rugs and other arrangements. These were in evidence as tokens of our interest in our visitors. Prof. Rascoe slaked our thirst with punch. He is always ready to say: "Let its drink to those God-Inspired Characters whose lives prove that they make the happiness of others the basis upon which they build their own happiness." His students are ever ready to drink to such a toast, however often he may propose it. Brisk hand clasps and hearty good fellowship maintained for a season. The business men cast off the tenseness of the work-day-world. They exchanged jokes with one another and with students so delightfully that one could plainly perceive that memories of college days possessed them. They appreciated, also, the splendid appearance of our large and rapidly growing library. The punch bowl soon drew the entire assemblage to the spacious practise court room. In this room all were seated. Dr. Hulley was, by common consent, made master of ceremonies. Various gentlemen were called upon to speak. Judge Stewart, Mr. Wright, Dr. McDiarmid, Mr. Wilson, Dr. Stevens, Mr. Douglass and Judge Bly responded to the calls. Mr. Dreka could not be present. But the letter, expressing his regrets was read and appreciated. By request, Dr. Hulley gave several readings from Riley. These readings were greatly enjoyed by all. So were all the talks given by the other business and professional men. The gathering seemed reluctant to part when the finale was announced. There is no doubt but that this meeting brought the students, the law department, the faculty, the business and professional men even closer together than before. There can be great good from association. There is nobleness in turning the mind from self to others. _ —^._.. VARDEMAN AT THE UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM. Ex-Governor Vardeman of Mississippi addressed a small but representative audience at the University Auditorium last Friday evening. Dr. Hulley introduced the ex-governor as a strong southern leader, Strong in intellect and personality, and a leader in politics and social questions. Mr. Vardeman began his address by saying that he had not come to DeLand for the purpose of entertaining his hearers, or for the purpose of securing their flattering agreement, but rather to discuss in a fair and impartial way, the questions and problems that confront us as a nation, with a view to instruction. He kept his purpose before himself and the audience from the beginning to the end of his speech. He had less of the cheap fun that ordinarily characterizes popular lecturers, than some other speakers who have been heard in the Auditorium. And yet he was not wholly without wit and humor. His wit was of a high order, appealing for the most part to the intellect of his hearers, and his humor was of such a nature as to lend interest and seen re the attention of the audience. During the entire discourse, the old school type of southern oratory was in evidence. The speaker was fertile in imagination, powerful in declamation and poetical in expression. He would state his premise, argue the point and draw the conclusion in a conversational tone, and then with impassionate and poi flights of oratory, he would try to fan the smoking flax of argumentation into a flame of living truth. The ex-governor was not flattered in the sense thai all who heard him, agreed with him, but nevertheless all who heard him agreed that he spoke out of a heart of intense earnestness, and out of a mind of mature information. In discussing the possibility of the perpetuity of the nation, tl i er again and again said that the perpetuity of the nation dej ends upon the individual. Good, honest, upright individuals will make a good, Lcncst, upright nation. The individual man with an untainted, individual ballot in his hand, is the solution of all the problems thai confront the Republic. Mr. Vardeman e>; himself in no uncertain terms Of) two qi He exalted the importance and place for woman in our national and social life, and pledged himself in behalf of tempi r- ance. He said that the unregulated and indiscriminate liquor traffic was the primary cause of crime, poverty and and that on the floor of th< of the United States or in the commonwealth of Mississippi, he would lend his head, heart and hand, to stamp it out. At the close of the address the ex-g< ernor received many hearty 1 and shakes and words of greetii This was the first number of i urn Course held for the benefit of the Ath' ciation. Let us incr< ance upon these numbers, and thus in- the benefit.