The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

GO TO STEED'S FOR SHOES ®lj? itoteim W^klg Otallegtafe Published by the Students of John B. Stetson University. HAVE YOUR SUITS MADE TO ORDER Cleaned and Pressed AT STEED'S VOL. XXVII. DELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914. NUMBER 1. CLASS OF 1914. LITERARY SOCIETIES MEET. Some Returned for Post-Graduate i Work; others Launched into World of Business; a Few to Northern Institutions. Frank Wideman, A. B. 1913, LL. B- 1914, and his brother Jerome Wide- man, are located in St. Augustine where they have a opened a law office and are meeting with splendid success for so young a firm. The Wide- man boys were at Stetson for a number of years, and their absence is a grief not only to the Signa Nu fraternity of which they were both influential members, but to the school at large. Alden K. Boor of Boston, Mass., is located in Jacksonville, Florida, teaching mathematics in the city Y- M. C. A. Basil F. Brass has returned to Stetson to take a law course, and also to govern the "rats" in Stetson Hall. George B. Everson is with Mr. Walton, a prominent lawyer of Pa- latka. George was in town several days last week visiting frat- brothers and other friends. C- V. Farris has returned to Stetson to carry some work under Professor Tingley in the Chemistry Department. Wm. Gardiner, LL. B., has returned to complete his course in the College of Liberal Arts- Franklin M. Goodchild is in New York attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Frank Hammond has returned to get his Bachelors in Law, having one year to his credit already. Katherine Harkness is attending Smith College in Massachusetts, working for Masters degree. H. Davis Moon has opened a law office in Dunellon. We have not heard from Davis, but know he is making good. J. P. Simmons is in the real estate business right here in DeLand. Eddie Smith, editor of last year's Collegiate, is expecting to go to a medical school. We saw Eddie on Main Street in Jax, and he is the same jovial little chemist. Louis F. Snedigar, better known as ''Red," the best athlete who ever struck Stetson University, has hung out a shingle in Miami. Marie Russell Stephens has returned to Stetson to take a Master's degree, as has also Helen Taylor. Both are popular and eminent members of the Tri Delta fraternity. Claude G- Varn even before getting his LL. B. was called to an excellent position with the best law firm in the State, Landis, Fish and Hull. John M. Wier, of Indianapolis, has returned to Stetson in the capacity of Professor of Law. Mr. Wier is also taking his Masters this year. Marie Willard, LL. B-, has entered upon her career as a barrister by being admitted to practice in Federal courts. Addie Grace Waterman is teaching Latin in the Eustis High School. Ella May Davis is spending the win ter at home in St. Augustine with he r parents. Lillian Eldredge who spent the summer in Europe, has accepted the prin- cipalship of the Ocoee High School. Delbert Gilpatrick is teaching Latin at Tusculum College in Tennessee. Nell Keovvn is pursuing graduate work in the Department of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Marguerite Pflug is a teacher of Modern Languages at Intermorit College in Virginia. A Splendid Interest Evidenced In All of The Five Literary Organizations At Stetson. Meetings to be on Friday Night- For some unknown reason, the administration of the university has sent out ultimatums to the various literary societies to the effect that from hence- SOME ANNALS OF STETSON HISTORY Being the Research-work of an Earnest Student in Ancient History. CHAPTER I forth and forever more they shall HOW DELAND RECEIVED ITS meet on Friday instead of Saturday I NAME evening. Therefore, in compliance I with this decree, the ancient and time I have lately been de'ving into the honored gathering together of stu- early history of Stetson University, dents for debate and oratory on the and I have discovered many interest- last night of the school week is a ing things. For instance I have found relic of the past, and is ruthlessly that the University is an out-growth relegated to the limbo of things for- of Dean Smith's chapel-frown and gotten and of the past. Dean Carson's usher-smile. The Varsity Club had a good crowd It was in 1685 (so my data says) of college men at the first meeting of that the two gentlemen mentioned the year- • We have lost several good above wandered southward with all men, including Frank Milam, Paul their earthly possessions in their Wheeler, and A. M. R. Laurence, "too" spacious foreheads and their not But there are surely new ones to step too-capacious haversacks- They were into their shoes, and to carry on the then verdant youths, and Florida was excellent work of the club. a verdant wilderness; which when The Kent Club bids fair to be the three met, formed | happy cora- the best society in the school. A bination. rousing meeting was held in the so-'. One night these two young intel- ciety room in Science Hall, some lectual adventurers, having crossed thirty lawyers being present. If the the border-line of the State a few Kent Club will decide to take itself days before, came to a wooded knoll seriously, there is no reason why this about sundown. They decided to should not be the best season in its camp there for the night, so they history. | dropped their haversacks and got out The Eusophians, in their sorrow- their war-implements of supper, ful segregation,, are an object "You fry the lbacon'| says Dean of longing to all stern elements ^ Smith, "and I'll cook the coffee." of masculinity on the Campus. Just *v "'K1~ — —'" -'■*■*--J what the young ladies do over there in the library is a source of great curiosity for us all- Utter silence shrouds the activity on the second floor of the Carnegie Library. The Stetson Lits, secure in their hoary antiquity, and saturated with the spirit of heroic Spencers, Gar- NOTES FROM THE GRIDIRON "No, you won't, either." says Dean Carson. "That last coffee you cooked was a mess. I couldn't drink it. You fry the bacon, and I'll cook the coffee-" How it was settled—this making of the supper—I do not know; the record does not mention. Sufficient it is to say *-hat they had supp< 1, and were Football Heroes are Hard at Work. Captain Liddell has Husky Bunck of Warriors Chasing the Pig'skin. In spite of dubious prospects at the opening of school, the football spirit of Stetson is strongly in evidence- Every day from three until five, Coaches Campbell and Colton are instructing the raw recruits in the science of interference, passing, tackling, and similar arts pertaining to the duties of the humble wearer of the moldskins. As the days go by, we can see the development of a good little team. It will not be a heavy bunch, nor perhaps a marvellously rapid eleven, but we believe that they will have the fighting spirit. Captain Liddell, Hodgden, Merrit, and Beatty look good in the back field, with Lourcey and Haskins pressing them closely- Phillips and Walker should hold down the tackle OPENING DAY. Many New Faces Among the Old. Rats Numerous but very Subdued in Behavior. The campus is once more enlivened by the throng of Stetson students, both new and old- There are many new faces, while some old ones are missing. Our brethren from Pennsyl vania, Messrs. Dunkle, Fisher, and Jordan are up in the Keystone State. The elongated and wholesome personage of Frank Wideman is no longer to be seen stalking about the halls. Gustav Wilder has evacuated Stetson Hall, and its bridal chamber. Quaint Hugo Braunlich, jovial Frank Cullen, funny George Everson, popular Delbert Gilpatrick, secretive Franklin,M. Goodchild, whole-hearted H. Davis Moon, all are absent. We miss too, the pleasant countenances of "Butt" Phillips, Harold Selden, and J. P. positions, while the return of Tubby, Simmons- We actually are lonesome Carson and the appearance of Doc when we visit the athletic field and Maines in togs bids fair to plug the 1 realize that Red Snedigar has left holes on either side of center, us, and that Ben Willard has played Dodge, Hulley, Sherman* and Gill , his last football game for Stetson. are out for line positions. Tribble, Beaulieu, and Fenno are among several working on the ends. This is certainly a light little team; its only salvation will be to adopt a style of play which is full of forward passes end runs, and fake formations. Line bucking is out of the question, Upon a casual visit to Chaudoin, we are made sad by the absence of Esther Angle, Lillian Eldredge, Ella May Davis, Irene Randall, and others of our Stetson girls. However, there is cause for rejoicing in the fact that some of our old standbys. such as Ray Griffin, Frank except when used for strategic pur-j Hammond, Winfred Liddell, Fairfax poses. Haskins, Ruskin Roseborough, Louis Stetson will play this year a bona Tribble, Rudolph Peterson, Parson fide team in the strictest and very Walker, Rader Merritt, and other eel- fullest sense of the word. There ' ebrities are safely returned to the will not be a man on the eleven who fold. in any possible way, can be rendered | Incidentally, we should not forget ineligible by the most exacting rules | that the indomitable W. G. Walker, of the S. I. A. A. or any other^ the amative Willyum Rivers and "double A." J.Sears Roebuck & r<->. nrp nernmhulat- ored and spoken in the classic hall in the third floor of Science Hall, are banded together under the leadership of Paul Hon to do or die. With the opening of the new year, the young men of the Phi Kappa Delta Fraternity have once again gathered in their commodious house, the interior of which has been considerably improved during the summer vacation. With the exception of F. W- Cullen, whq is practising law in Orlando, and D- H. Gilpatrick, now teaching in Tusculum College, at Greenville, Tenn., ell the members present last year are here again- C. V. Farriss, is taking his Masters degree in Chemistry. B. F. Brass and D. F. Hammond, graduates of last years Liberal Arts class art now working for LL. B. J. P. Dodre, A. H. Smith, and L- H. Tribble are among the Senior Law men. H B. Hodgden is in the Junior Law class. The Class of '15 of Liberal. \rts has S. B. Jennings and F. A. Tirnquist. S. T. Wallbank and C N. Walker are Juniors. Garland Hale anc S. J.. Adams are numbered among the Sophomores. Pledges John Beitty and Ben M. Hulley are in the Ireshman college class. ♦ ;;.,7 v,.iL-ipt^.rig^MteTfl-?^;-Yo? 7£s? 1 SIUflY:^UL--- 111c nuns x)i- Litis when—"Wow," shouts Dean Smith, and he jumps about ten feet up in the air. "What's the matter?" anxiously inquired the phenomenon in historical research. "Enuf's the matter," says the mathematical prodigy, "I was trying to sleep on a sandspur." "And the sandspur protested, eh?" asks the august young historian. "Huh!" grunts Dean Smith, and he rolls over with his back towards the campfire and starts snoring. "Even a thorn may disturb the rest of a king," meditates young Carson with classic suavity, as his eyes gaze thoughtfully at the blaze of the camp- fire'. (Remember, he had not got those "specs" yet, that have the white labels sticking on them.) However, the two young professors soon slept. About midnight they were awakened from their peaceful and noisy slumbers by much barking of dogs, and they found several flea-bitten curs sniffing at their recumbent bodies. ""Hey's, what's this," fsays Dean Smith (Carson was slower to wake up, being a heavy sleeper). Looking around in the glimmer of the dying campfire, he saw a ragged negro NEW MEMBERS OF FACULTY. ing about as of yore. Among the ladies who gladden our hearts by an early return, are Mabel Eldredge, Bessie Gum, Marie Russell The fanbus Class of '17 which made > youth. CHAUDOIN CHOW-CHOW The engagement of iMiss Teddy Bear Drew to Mr. "Stet," the well known football hero of Stetson University—has just been announced Mr. "Stet" has long been a well-known figure as mascot at all the games and hence this news will interest his many friends. Miss Teddy Bear Drew is a most popular new arrival at Chaudoin. things so'ively on the campus last year has a go>dly number of its members back at heir work. Last year they made a vry creditable record in their scholastic work, and already they are bucking down to this years tasks. "What are you doing here," says the mathematical prof., and he bent on the negro that penetrating frown that later quailed every freshman entering this University. "Eh, massa? Yes, sah, massa, I'se Yet this does not take all of their' jest agwine possum-huntin'. Dat's all, Two of the departments of the University are believed to have been materially strengthened this year. I StePhens> Tillie Chapman, Betty Lew- This fact is due iin a large measure' 1S' Emma Williams, and Lillian Ar- to the addition to the faculty of sev eral new teachers. In the school of Music the Head is Prof. Guerchenian. He received his musical education in Europe and America- For some years nold. Well, with these as a nucleus, we shall be able to worry along all right An appreciable percentage of our student body at this date is new. he has taught in" New York" City/ His ' Ma7 fellows who last spring were voice which is a very sweet lyric tenor Hl^h Sch°o1 Seniors nOW find them" * „• i selves again at the bottom of a lad- is very pleasing. s I der. I hey are in strange surroundings and amid an entirely new envi- Miss Helen Bates of Chicago, is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music in that city. Hers is a rich contralto voice. Both these instructors will do solo work in the Vesper services. Miss Majorie Boor comes to us ronment- It is interesting to observe how the different ones deport themselves. Some come here from a little Florida village, and walk about in utter silence and embarrassment. time. Ths year, as last, some of their number ae strenuously at work in the athletic lite. In every way the class is going b make itself felt in the interests o) the University. Nor are the Soph forgetful of their old massa." (Aside: "But I neber'spected to tree sech critters as dese.") "Say," breaks in Dean Carson for the first time; "What place is this, anyway?" The coon rolled his eyes unsteadily I enemies Alio are now Juniors. And I for a moment at the fierce question as for thi little green spots floating ; ing, then stammers, around otithe campus, just watch how "Why, dis is de land whr " they mine their p's and q's. There's "Oh, it is, is it," interrupted the his- a reason. Hurrah for the Sophomore torical shark. "Just wait a moment Class of 1917! j before you proceed any further," and the fellow hastily drew his note book from his pocket—the notebook that had become famous in many a college classroom. "DeLand, eh, is it! That is a fact of historical and geographical importance worth taking note of." And he copied it down in the ever-ready note- On Fiday morning September twenty-fifti at 8-45 the formal opening exercies of the new school year, ['were cormcted in the chapel of I ElizabethHall- The large number of ! students iho had been registering for C j ntinued on Page 4 from the New England Conservatory Ttl.,r f„ « i„„QC.^^,„ „„ A *. t 1 ° f iney teel lonesome and out of place, of Music in Boston- She will teach rj,, , , , ., these are the boys to greet heartily, violin, to speak kindly to and assist. Then Mr. Fluhart of Daytona now has again) there are fellows matriculating charge of the School of Fine Arts. at Stetson from the larger cities, who He is an artist of some note. Many feel that after all> DeLand is a slow of his pictures are on exhibition in t0wIT; Stetson a mediocre institution, the University Museum of Fine Arts. and the students a collection of nin- These instructors have all made 'COmpoops. They strut about the an excellent impression at the be- campus, puffing a pipe or with a cig- ginning of their respective courses up- : arette stuck in the middle of their on those enrolled. The other mem- face; and are convinced that their im- bers of the faculty and the entire portance cannot be overestimated, student-body cordially welcome these These are the chaps who merit a bit new instructors. j of drastic "ratting," but the adminis- ■ : ■ tration has refused this privilege to book. He clapped the covers (to- any blatant freshman- There is an- gether with a snap,then uprose to his other species which generally hails •magnificent height. "You are dis- from the North. He walks into town, missed-now; I have my information." proceeds to ridicule the place, belit- And with a bland smile and a ges- les Southern ability, affects an air of ture of his arm (reader, put special hauteur and Yankee superiority, and stress on this last), he waved the completely succeeds in making a sad bewildered darkey into the shadows fool of himself. Our advice to this of the woods. i kind of an unfortunate is to take the The historical dean turned round first train back for Chicago or Pump- and said to Smith, "A-ha! That was kin Center, wherever he belongs, splendidly done, was it not? I have j Stetson University is no place for gained a valuable bit of information condescension, supreme importance or tonight. This hill is called DeLand." any other misapprehension of great And he laid himself down for sleep personal valuation. If you will cut again. Just before he dozed off he out the impressive stuff, calm down softly said, "Smith dear, put some a bit, and act like a common every- more wood on the fire- If you don't, day ordinary college man, you will I'll see that you get 'shipped' in the get along a whole lot better, morning." Then he drifted off into If there is any one individual who- happy dreamland, as his musical nasal succeeds in making a flat failure, it is activities announced. the chap who blows into Stetson with Nothing more happened till morn- a highly exaggerated impression of ing. Continued on Pajre 4