Stetson Collegiate Weekly

STETSON COLLEGIATE WEEKLY For and by thejtudents of Stetson. VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 J. B. STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FliJRIDA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922 $2.00 PER YEAR, 5c PER COPY THE OPENING CHAPEL SERVICE VERY IMPRESSIVE DR. HULLEY'S MESSAGE TO STUDENTS AN ABLE ONE AND WELL RECEIVED. APPLICA- I TIONS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT WERE VERY EFFECTIVE. The opening chapel service on Friday morning was, as usual, very impressive. After the students had gathered, in the seats assigned and the visitors had been directed to their seats the expensive organ began a beautifud march and the entire faculty marched in to the music of that exquisite instrument. The faculty were clad in their caps and gowns. The impressive ceremony began with a song in which the entire student body took part. Dr. Hulley read as the scripture lesson the 28th chapter of Job. He said that the recent • disaster in the West, when 47 men were buried alive in a mine by caving walls, had suggested the subject of mining to him in its application to knowledge. He stressed especially the 12th verse: "But where shall wisdom be found?. And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living." Then in reply he read verses 20 and 28: "Whence then cometh Wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? And unto man he said 'Behold, the fear of the Lord ,that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.' " Then he referred to the concluding statements made in Eccles- man affairs," and his faith in the final rectitude of popular impulse whole and entire, he will grow with the years, and gain increasing pleasure in the service of men. "This is the kind of a man we want to produce, and we shall press on in the firm faith that we shall not wholly fail." Dr. Hulley said that he regarded the reply received from the President of the University of Nebraska one of the most valuable received. He suggested that the definition of culture contained in it be memorized by those present. Nebraska said: "The college bred man should possess, above all things, culture. Culture is the appreciation, not mainly contemplative, but active and effici- j ent, of the noneconomic values. It is not identical with morality, but involves that. It covers enlightenment, breadth, open mindedness, chivalry, honor, generosity, magnanimity, justice, gentleness, devotion to principle, the courage of one's convictions, and the power to sustain." Dr. W. H. P.. Faunce, President of' Brown, when questioned, replied: "The college, as distinct from the university or technical school, should aim to produce men of cultivated mind and altruistic spirit. All specific attainments rest upon and presuppose such cultivation and sucli spirit. "A cultivated mind is one that has, by long and constant exercise under wise teachers, become so elastic, receptive, appreciatice and Stanford, said in part: "It is tl business of the college to give youi men the secret of power. It shoi train him to be efficient, self reliant and capable of team work; to make the most of his actual abilities ii the conduct of life. We have faitl trious, he will be worthy of his 'alma mater.' No college can do more than this; no college should be satisfied with less." The reply that President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale, made was very noteworthy, the speaker said. Dr. that with efficiency and self respect^! Hadley's reply follows: "Our colleges most of the manly virtues will bej should produce men who will use included, and we have little belief: their brains for the benefit of the in the value of any kind of culturej public. This is the object which or of erudition which does not have distinguishes collegiate training from efficiency as its final aim." ■ technical or professional training. President Hulley emphasized very*In a professional school a man is forcbly the three qualities suggest- taught to make a living—to use his ed by the President of Northwesternj|Hbrains primarily for his own benefit. A. W. Harris, which are physical.. Our social arrangements are sucn force, intellectual power, and morai devotion. Dr. Harris said: "The that in so doing he will, to a con siderable extent, serve and benefit present generation is devoting itself] others also. *But experience shows to the task of bringing the forces that something more than this is of a complex politicaland industrial necessary for the welfare of a na- life into harmony with an ideal of* tion, and particularly for a self- social service. Such an ideal makes; governing nation. We must have three fundamental demands upon the; public spirit—readiness to work for individual citizen; first, physical force national ends instead of individual to withstand the constant strain of agones. There is no great danger that complex civilization; second, intellec- he American people will fail to pro- tual power, to steer a straight > duce and distribute the material course amid a maze of bewildering ithings that are wanted; but there is details; and, finally, a moral devo-'la great danger that in so doing they tion to the welfare of mankind. Suchfwill work apart instead of working is the interpretation which the twem Itogether, and they will sacrifice tieth century places upon physical, jiigher and more permanent ideals for intellectual, and moral completeness;.flower and more immediate ones. such is the equipment with which the lilt is the business of our colleges to college should aim to provide each jiace this danger, and to train men and everyone of its graduates Dr. Harry Prat Judson, President of the University of Chicago, said^-ew York, had this to say: "There iastes, when the wise man made this t statement after he had declared all j strong that it at the same time ab- else was "Vanity"-: "Fear God and sorbs the best in nature, literature, Jkeep His commaendments; for this science and art, and can be concen- is the whole duty of man." trated effectively on any problem to After the scripture lesson, the be solved, or task to be performed, congregation rose and joined the stu- I The cultivated man is, by contact dents, in singing "Stetson Alma j with greet minds, past and present, Mater," and remained standing -while 1 set free from pettiness, prejudice, President Hulley led the assembly in and passion; is sustained and corn- prayer. Dr. Hulley's message, which forted by the vision of eternal truth; followed, was in part as follows: Ms admitted to the fellowship of the He said that there had re- sages, poets, and teachers of the cently been held a Smyposium, in | world, and is gifted with insight into which a number of the prominent I the things that are worth while. educators expressed their idea of what constituted an "Ideal College Graduate." President Charles W. Elliot of Harvard University, replied: "Harvard University aims to send forth men who will seek the truth passionately and further it bravely; who love freedom in thought and action, and promote it steadfastly; who are trained for efficiency in their callings; and who aspire through that efficiency to serve well their fellow men." The speaker said that the four qualities that Mr. Elliot had selected were worthy of the aspirations of any student. When President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia, was questioned, he replied: "You ask me to tell you the kind of a man the University of Virginia is trying to make. The ideal of what a man ought to be has differed with the ages, conforming itself to the ideal of what each age fancied it most needed; and yet all ages have endowed true manhood with at least four qualities—truthfulness, courage, sympathy and purpose. Though a man have all the learning of the schools and all the social graces, if he have not these qualities Aie is something less than a man. And, if he has these, qualities, though he walk unlettered in the valleys of life, he bears upon him the stamp of a man and a gentleman. First of all, therefore, the University of Virginia is trying to produce a truthful, courageous, purposeful, and sympathetic man. Upon these qualities as upon the fruitful basis of all proper growth the university is seeking to evoke open mindedness, efficiency, and social responsibility. The sort of man, then, that informs our dreaming and nourishes our hopes is the truthful, courageous, purposeful, sympathetic, open minded, efficient man who does not fear to bear burdens. You shall not be able to deceive or frighten him, because his brain holds knowledge and his hands liave cunning.- You shall not be able to cajole or bribe him, because he holds honor dearer than life and loyalty finer than gold. He will be satisfied with the whole truth, and not the half truth, or the sectarian truth, or the sectional truth. He will not permit himself to shrivel and shrink and harden; but, with his anind open to all the winds of hu- "Even more important is it that education should release a man from his native selfishness and make him a co-operating member of the social body.' The ideal scholar is no longer the bookworm, or the anchorite, or Brownings 'Grammarian.' He is a man who lays his learning on the al- ! tar of the commonweal. A man cannot live selfishly through four college years, and then begin to live for humanity. The college itself must be shot through with altruistic impulse, and the students must live lives of social service. This is the benefit of 'teamwork' in athletics, and is the meaning of genuine 'college spirit.' Such 'spirit' is not clannishness or snobbishness; it is the determination to live for the college as a rehearsal of a later living for the world." At the time this Symposium was created, Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton. Many very famous quotations fell from his lips while he was an active educator, and, because of the vast amount of material stored in his brain and his ability to impart this information to others, he was as eminent as an educator as he was prominent as a statesman. His ability to convey such great ideas in simple language is greatly admired. Mr. Wilson said: "It seems to me that a college should produce, not men whose gifts and vision are narrowed to a particular task or calling, but men whose eyes have become accustomed to being lifted to a general view of the world, and a general comprehension of their duty in it. For this purpose, the studies of the college should cover those subjects which reveal, not only bodies of knowledge, but also the sources of motive, and accustom men to perceiving the relations not only of bodies of knowledge, but also of men themselves in the complicated field of history and individual action. This is the real argument for a 'liberal education." At this point, the speaker brought out the significance of a "liberal" education. The word "liberal" is from the latin "liber", and a "liberal" education, the speaker said, is one that should free its possessor from narrowness, prejudice, and ignorance. President David Starr Jordan, of The kind of a man a college should produce depends of course partly upon what the college can do in the way of affecting the individual, and partly upon the material with which the college has to work. The latter of course is not altogether at the discretion of the college authorities. Some kinds of people may be exclud-j ed from entering college coui'ses. There remains, however, a considerable variety of natural endowment with -which the college has to do. "That the college man shpuid have broad intelligence, goes without saying; that his mind should be quick and subject entirely to the control of his will, certainly is vital; that he should learn tolerance of different kinds of life and different modes of thought, is important; and that he should be democratic in the widest sense of that term—that is, that he should be above all clannishness and all false class ideas—is as clear; that he should have high respect for honest work in whatever form may be necessary, is equally essential. Above all, he should scorn any form of pretense. If, then, he is honest, intelligent, clear headed, and indus- jvvho will meet it/l^^^^^^^^^^^ ■&.'-,Pr. John H. Finley, of the City of }s a fable of a showman and a chame- S-aon. The showman spread a blue Cloth, and the chameleon turned hie; then a green cloth, and it turn- fed green; but a bystander put down Scotch plaid, and the chameleon Jied attempting to match its motley 4f colors. This fable has its moral its exposition of the folly of that training which is seeking always to adapt to the near, the economic, environment, instead of developing %iat fibre and character in a man «,;''h will, msiki.- hiii! i i>c'-c--ismr>:ly ii|idependent of his immediate environment, and give him the environment o't the race. The timidly practical or the timidly susceptible chamelon is; n ot the kind of a college man that tine country needs. Of course, the oroduct must depend upon the raw material, the freshman. Educational men as Professor Palmer, of Harvard has recently defined as ideal teachers, men of vicariousness, of accumulated wealth of knowledge, of power to vitalize facts, and of readiness to be forgotten. The college is under obligations to make men who will, so far as their abilities allow, ANSWER THE CALL OF YOUR ALMA MATER Continued on Page 2 GREETING TO THE STUDENTS In this first issue of the college paper I wish to express my pleasure in the student body and to praise j them for renewing their interest in college journalism. ' We must all get behind this enterprize, the men at the head are honored members of the student body. Give them your support and contribute to the columns of the paper whatever you think will, be of interest to the readers. I hope the students this year will be loyal to all the undertakings of the under-graduate in athletics fraternities, literary societies and all the organized parts of the work. Very sincerely, LINCOLN HULLEY, Per M. M. MEN OF SPIRIT, MEN WHO GO AFTER THINGS, NOT THOSE WHO SIT AND WAIT, WANTED. Football, heretofore, has held no greater place in College Athletics than the other major sports, basketball and baseball. Recently a change came over the athletic directors of the many universities and colleges which have more -*or less extensive athletic departments. Football has become the college game, over all other games which are played by college men. The science of playing the game is more self educating than the sciences of other sports. The ability to tackle, to cut, to dive a low line or a high one, the capability to hurdle a down man to use the straight or stiff arm are all learned by experience. No man can learn the real rudiments of football save by getting out-'on the field and working them out for himself. A' coach, however good, cannot teach a man how to lax or tighten his muscles, he can not teach a man how to tackle correctly, he can show1 how it is done, he may try the man and work with him for any length of time and apparently have taught him, but the man does not learn the* exact moment to dive, for no two moments are alike. A coach teaches the man the various types of attack. The many different plays which are good, he can show him where the play works out well or whether it fails, he can teach the proper position to hold on the, line or how to play backfield. He can shoW him his error in tackling and there teach him how to tackle properly. The science of football has brought it into the prominent position it now holds along with the real sportsmanship that must be shown by a player of the game. No long and correctly who has a yellow streak. It is a real man's game and takes a real man to play it. To any man who has played the game for any length of time,* and played it well without showing any streaks, I give my trust. Coach Allen, who has stood by the Stetson teams for the past few years, will again whip the football boys into shape. Proffessor Colton, Athletic Director, will work with Coach Allen in the furtherance of athletic efforts. On the campus there are a number of men who have the build and weight for excellent football men. Of last year's team there are a number back. These are expected to work out and show more spirit than in the past. Stetson can and must put a winning team into the field. She must play teams in her own class. This year tends to show good coaching and much better material than last. Let there be no man who has had any training of any sort fail to come out to practice. The scrub team will have games as well as the first team. Stand with the Green and White. If there is any man who fails to come out who has had, either here or elsewhere, training, he should be ostracized, he should not be allowed to stay in this school. We want men of spirit, men who go after things, not those* who sit and wait. Get out, don't be a slacker. What v happened to those who failed to answer the call of the nation in seventeen, should happen to those who fail to answer the call of their Alma Mater. There are those who sit and sneer at those who are on the field, they are the ones who say, "I told you so." We don't need that kind here. If you are unable to play for any reason, come and watch practice. Come to the games which your school play and support the men who represent your colors. Nothing comes to him who waits save disaster and failure. Don't let George do it. Get out or be branded as one without backbone. Tennis this year will be one of the championships which this University will again cop. The team of last year has returned and with the exception of Hayes, who will be unable to play, the team will be complete. Hayes was one of the stellar lights who shone with the remainder of the tennis champs through the dark dusk which hovered over Hatter athletical activities. Hayes wilil be sadly missed and it is only hoped that a man as well trained in the net ports will appear to uphold tho standards set up by Hayes. Arnsperger is with us again and seems ready to meet anyone or anything, but the millenial. He has worked some on his delivery and net work during the summer and the incomparable is now better. Arnsperger was state champion in 1919 and 1921-22. He has never been defeated in this state and from the form which is shown he never will. Penn Edgar, a gentleman of high standing in this state in tennis circles, is also with us again, and we j are glad to welcome him back: He stood next the top last year and can gain access to the summit only by defeating Arnsperger. He was undefeated last year in Collegiate circles and is not to be beaten this year. White, manager this year, was one of the four last year. He will without doubt carry off the same championship ideas that were first brought here by Freddy Arnsperger in relation to tennis. White has the stuff which makes things go and will beyond doubt make them go this year, even better than last. We all saw White make some fine shots over the net last year. White has arranged several nice games this year. For the fall months before Christmas, games have been arranged with Florida, why were defeated last year by a wide margin both here and there. Rollins will drop in for a drubbing and Stetson will visit them in Winter Park. Southern for their first time in a number of years, will play the Stetson four and have a return game. Games are being arranged with Jacksonville for the 1 state Championship meet in Decem- I ber. Miami is on the list and Cuba 1 is being negotiated with. With the I men we hfive here there should be / some o~£ the best material fn the state for another championship team. One man is lacking, in the absence of j Hayes. Come out all you men, all you old men and let a new team be made arid a schedule be arranged for it. We want all the men out so the vacancy left by Hayes can be filled. TRACK From the reports there are a number of men on the campus who are pretty fast on the cinder path. Stetson needs a track team and will have one if the student body will stand with these men v/ho do come out for the track. Track is a minor sport, but that does not lessen the value of it. Track is one of the oldest sports known and one of the cleanest and best. We want the men out for track. Let them elect a captain of their team, a manager and k then let them get out on the cinder path and show what they have or make way for the one faster. No dead ones allowed. All men who have had experience come out Wednesday. ACADEMY FOOTBALL All men in the acedemy who wish to see a football team organized in the academy come out Wednesday at five o'clock and a team will be organized if there is sufficient material. From reports there is some fine material and it is hoped that this is true. Come out. NASTY DIGS The men missing at the football practice Saturday represent some of the best material on the campus this year. Do not, men. Do not fail to be on hand Monday at three-forty. Don't be a slacker to the cause, the Green and White forever. Some of the men who signed that pledge to refrain from the most important things detrimental to an athlete have already broken their word of honor which goes with their signature. After this issue of the Collegiate great pleasure will be taken by it's editors to do as Professor Colton has said he would do. That speech of Professor Colton by the way, was right to the point. Professor Colton will do what is right for every man and there won't be any back talk. He knows football better than any man in this state and has the ability to show how it is done. But Pug Allen, our Coach, will take care of that part of the Continued on Page- Z