The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

(Sty %>X?Xmn Wwkly (frtAkujitito. PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. Vol. XXVI. No. 16. DeLand, Florida, Friday, February 6, 1914. $1.00 per Year TRACK MEET. TO BE HELD ON PRESENTATION DAY. Local Athletes Will Have Chance Feb. 20 to Show Talent. Coach Jordan is planning a big student track meet for Presentation Day, Friday, February 20th. This meet will be staged before the big Rollins-Stetson game, at about 2 P. M. This is a new departure in this school and should bring some dark horse runners and jumpers. It means constant training between now and the twentieth, and if strict training rules are lived up to some very creditable records can be made as a starter for the future Stetson athletes to break. In most schools these records are kept in a large frame, and year by year as these records are broken, the names are changed, and thus an accurate record of past performances and performers are kept and the exact year when the record was made and broken. It serves as a stimulus to go out and try to break a school record, because by so doing you are making history for yourself and for your school. The following events will take place during the field meet: 100 yard dash. 220 yard dash. 440 yard dash. 880 yard dash. 1 mile run. 2 mile run. Running broad jump. Running high jump. Shot put and discus. All candidates for this meet should report to Coach Jordan every afternoon at three o'clock, and he will put said candidate thru a severe course of sprouts which will get them in fine shape for the school meet on the 20th. It is hoped that all who think they can run will come out and try out, so that some good races can be pulled off. o "McLaughlin" Haskins and "Abe" Rivers, one time bosom friends, have declared an eternal enmity, as it were. We have been unable to discover the cause of this most unfortunate rupture of fraternal communion. PHYSICAL RECORDS. WELSH CHOIR. OF STETSON MEN WILL BE SINGS TO CROWDED HOUSE STARTED SHORTLY WEDNESDAY. Physical Instructor of University to Compile Statistics. The University proposes to give more time to physical culture for men than it has previously, and it would not be at all surprising if within the next few years it becomes a required subject for all University students. It is well known that the mental man cannot be at his best unless the physical man is well developed, and that is the very reason why physical culture should be regularly taught here in the University. It is the purpose of Mr. Jordan, who has general charge of all athletics here in Stetson, to formally begin the physical culture work this year. To this end measurements of all men will be taken for those who desire it. After the measurements are taken and it is found that some muscles of the body need exercise he will prescribe such work as will develop those parts of the body which fall below normal. When these measurements are taken cards will be given the individual, and records will be kept by the University. As the student is measured year by year it can thus be ascertained how he has developed physically during the time between the measurements. Mr. Jordan will be in the gymnasium between the hours of 3:00 P. M. and 3:45 to take measurements of those who desire to have them taken. Every male student in the University is urged to take advantage of this offer and enroll his measurements. The statistics that will be compiled from these records will prove to be very valuable in the years to come. o Ladies From Wales Make Big Hit With DeLand People. Coadjutors Tribble and Jennings have entered the professional field of tonsorial artists. Jennings had a little training along this line last year, when he rounded up eighteen athletes, and led them in a desperate charge upon one lone Freshman last year, in a vain attempt to remove some of said classman's hirsute adronment. Had there been crowned heads in the audience Wednesday night the Royal Welsh Ladies Choir could not have given a better entertainment. For every opinion expressed, was, without exception, that the concert was magnificent. The best musical tastes in the University were enthusiastic in the expression of their delight at the performance. Over six hundred music lovers were seated in the auditorium of Elizabeth Hall when the rising of the curtain revealed sixteen members of the choir, arrayed in the gaudy garb of the Welsh folk. Madame Hughes Thomas, who was herself accompanist, has certainly gathered together a wonderful group of young ladies, and has given them such a splendid training that the excellent selections renderedwere superb. Space would fail to give each number the appreciation it merited. With one or two slight alterations this is the program so heartily enjoyed: Part Songs—(a) Ar D'wysog gwald Y Bryniau-Brindley Richards. God Bless the Prince of Wales, (b) Battle Song of Captain Morgan, the Choir. 2. Song—Fairy Moon (From the Passing Show); Herbert Oliver; Miss Esther Wilkins. 3. Duett—April Morn, Batten. Misses Jennie Morgan and Edith Williams; 4. • Part Song—Can Cwsg (A Lullaby), America; the Choir. 5. Violin Solo—Cambria, Jef- fery Poole; Miss Dorothic Smith. 6. Song—Land of Mine, Lane Wilson; Miss Annie Jones. 7. Part Song—The Spanish Gipsy Girl, Lassen; The Choir. Part 2. Operatic Scene "Ernani," Verdi Miss Ida Owen and Choir; 2. Duett — "Rest," — Handel's Largo, Misses Ethel Webb and Esther Wilkins. 3. "The Enchantress," Hatton; Miss May Jones. INTER-CLUB DEBATE. VARSITY CLUB MEETS KENT CLUB FEB. 28. Good Debate Looked for on Above Date When Two teams Mix. Continued on Pagc.8 On Feb. 28, the Varsity Club and Kent Club will meet in debate on the question: "Resolved, That Labor Organization Has Been Beneficial to the Best Interests of the Nation." The Varsity Club members are selecting their team by a careful method of "try-out" debates. The Kent Club, wc understand, has already chosen their representatives by the election of Simmons, Wideman and Wilder. For the arrangement of intercollegiate debates there must be some organization which will represent Stetson University. To finance such an organization, funds arc necessary. The fund must be provided by the members of the organization. Wc have the Stetson Oratorical Association as the Central figure thru which inter-collegiate contests are arranged. The membership is composed of the total membership of the four litcra y societies in the University. It is unfair to the Association to ask that the members pay its expenses. The S. O. A. is not an organization which collects large sums of money to use as it need', them It asks only that when immediate expenses must be defrayed, tljat the four societies di fray I h expenditures. The S. O. A not controlled by irresponsible persons. Bills incurred by the A ciation are just and unavoidable. They are sanctioned by the E cutive Board which ha:. Head of the Department of Public Speaking, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and the Dean of the College of Law. There is no graft in this proposition, it is an appeal to the members of the various societies which make up its membership, to be loyal and filled with college spirit enough to back the 'ion in its attempt to arrange con1 with other colleges and to carry Continued on Pag« 8