The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

GO TO STEED'S FOR SHOES 8% §>trt0nn M^klg (Efllbgiaf? 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, JANUARY 15, 1915. NUMBER 11. BASEBALL MEETING IN ROOM FIVE TENNIS MEETING. SPIRITED DISCUSSION OF COLLEGE SPORTS FOR COMING SEASON. Same Old Trouble—Lack of Financial Support. A meeting of the Stetson Base Ball Association was The young men of the university who are interested in tennis gathered in Room Five to arrange for the coming tournaments. Mr. Harry Klingler acted as chairman. John Beatty, who represented Stetson on last year's double team was elected Manager for 1915, to succeed Edwin Phillips who filled that position very capably last year. The entry on TRI DELTA FESTIVITIES called last [,singles were then opened and about ,. ^Jjtwo dozen fellows entered. The Saturday, and a merry discus- , oaiu j' J nrst match was played off last sion resulted. Finance, or truth-1 JT ., rT , . .-. 1 i f r, ! Saturday afternoon. The doubles fully speaking, the lack of finance f / 4. 1 ~, *« +u« f™~ „„/i tournament will be held after the immediately came to the fore, and . singles have been all run off the monetary pow-wow was on. i ° . ■ ^ ,, „ /• £ • a J-he winner of the singles will be The question of procuring and • :.,...-.;... * • .. , ^ , j • j declared the champion tennis player paying for a coach was discussed *\ p f ^;, „ . ., , r; ot the school and will represent the at length. As the members of . . . *\ . & . ^. , ,. j ... university m any inter-collegiate the association believed that no ™_ -n i \ ., .. ,, ,, , , I matches, the same will be true financial aid other than that by . . , or the winners m the doubles. the students, would be available, it was decided to go thru the season under the direction of one of the local boys. Mr. Lourcey's]^ proposition to coach the team for the equivalent of his University bill for this term, was then considered. After some discussion this offer was accepted. A motion was then carried to request Dr. Hully to have Lourcey's bill receipted by the university, many feeling that the unviersity would help support its own team. Mr. Dineen reports that Dr. Hulley could not see his way clear to grant this request, as the present policy of the university is non- iv.tc.'e^cTicc in Izsic^bsll ~r""' "^.oo^- ball. Mr. Scholtz made a strong argument for the formation of a Stetson Athletic Association, composed of alumni, students, and faculty, to supervise all athletics in an energetic and business like manner. This plan met with hearty favor, tho some of the older heads predicted its immediate decapitation via the veto route. That such an organization is needed, that it would pay in better sports, in an increase of students, and a better name for Stetson, that it would benefit not only athletes but the whole school there can be little doubt. We need system. System and an athletic head. Every institution that aspires to the rank of a university has a coach, and the University of Florida has two. Every college with a competent coach has creditable athletics. Stetson has no coach. When we make excuses for our disastrous football season of 1914 we are throwing dust in our own eyes. When we look forward to a successful baseball season, with a student coach and backed only by a bunch of impecunious students, our heads are in the sand. When we see a high school basketball team Pife up a score of 25 to 10 against °ur untrained university players, and we can cheer, we are more J?yal than sensible. When we imagine that the present brand of cheap athletics is not discrediting j year the name of Stetson we are thinking with our spinal columns. We have splendid, manly fellows in this university; why do we have hook-worm athletics? We believe that a coach, a real and able coach, could easily develop our nursery athletes into players of university caliber. We know we nave the best college and the strongest corps of instructors in the State. We also know that There is considerable good material in college this year and the tournaments should prove very interesting. Among the better players are Beatty, Hodgden, Turnquist, Bly, Hulley, Northrup, Harkness, and Klingler. <o NUMEROUS SOCIAL FUNCTIONS SURROUNDED THE APPROACHING NUPTIALS OF A TRI DELTA. DEAN RASCO HONORED. Marriage of Miss Helen Taylor A Prominent Event of School Interest. * GLEE CLUB. Miss Helen Taylor, an alumna of the Class of 1914, is to be married Thursday night, January 14th in the Presbyterian church to Mr. Frank Brown, a prominent young business man of the city of Jacksonville. Miss 'Taylor has been for several years', prominent in the University and DeLand, and will be greatly 'missed by her many friends. Saturday afternoon, Miss Inez Barron antertained at her home on Colonial Court with a shower in honor of Miss Taylor. The house was beautifully decorated with bamboo, palms j and ferns, while a color scheme of pink was carried out in the ligHting of the rooms. The bride-to-lie was the recipient of numberless (gifts, which were formally and charmingly presented by Mr. Dick Stover, who Just at the close of the Fall term the Senior Law Class assembled in the Law Library, and hung a life size painting of Dean Rasco on the wall, in his honor. Some weeks ago this was decided on as a surprise to the Dean, and every one knowing of the plot was very quiet about it, and when the Dean was ushered into the Library after the picture was arranged he little knew what the fellows were up to. Once there the place assumed a strange quietness and all waited, whereupon Mr. Steed, the President of the Class, said, "Dean Rasco, in appreciation of your efforts with us, we bestow upon you the honor"—so saying he motioned to the picture. This was the first BASKETBALL DOUBLE HEADER TWO GAMES IN CUMMINGS GYMNASIUM DRAW BIG CROWD TO SEE STETSON PLAY. Girls Game Splendid Performance —Boys Not So Much So. It seems that basketball is thriving at Stetson, for never before has the schedule been crowded enough that it compelled a double- header. A very large crowd, to be exact, three hundred and nine persons were present last Saturday night, the gymnasium being crowd ed to its utmost capacity time'that Dean Rasco had seen|^The^ Gir}s, Team J&W* the it and the exclamation of surprise and acceptance was all that the class wished. The picture is a hand painting done in sepia and is 21 inches by 25 inches, made from an actual photograph of the Dean and is the work of R. E. Neck, of Palatka. o ANNUAL FOR 1915. Tuesday night a number of young men met in the auditorium to organize the Stetson Glee Club j was the mascot of Miss Taylor's for 1915. This club in years past class, and who enjoyed(') the honor has had a. very enviable reputation and it is up to the fellows this year to repeat. The material of being the only gentleman present. The Pi Beta Phi , Fraternity is _good and__a_c|ub _should re- entertained, Miss Tavlnr and the suit. Last year, owing to a lack of reliable first tenors there was no Glee Club, but the year before that a strong organization existed which gave a splendid program in the chapel and during the Christmas vacation went upon an extended tour of the State, giving concerts in Hastings, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, Gainesville, and Ocala. Other appearances were at New Smyrna, Orange City, Sanford, and Lake Helen. Prior to 1913, Stetson had a very fine club ot twelve members Delta Delta Delta Fraternity with a tea at the home of Miss Mildred Watts on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Stewart, a patroness of the fraternity, served and was assisted by Miss Marion Wright and Miss Heberta Hathcock. o . KAPPA SIGMA. Stetson has four representatives of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity here this term: Mr. V. V. Hunter and Mr. W. A. Smyth of the University of Chicago and Mr. J. M. Weir and Mr. P. C. Goar including some of the faculty— | of the University of Indiana. Professors Mickle, Rockwood, and! <£> Garwood. This was perhaps the! CAMPUS ENTERTAINMENT. best club that has ever represented the college. We look forward with ( Beaulieu and Davis in their much interest to the club which | rambles about the down town Cathedral School of Orlando and the boys contested with the Duval High School team. And both these exhibitions were viewed for the trifling sum of thirty-five cents. If the price of admission were based on the merits of the two games—we paid twenty-five cents for the girls and the remaining ten to see the boys game. As we didn't go on a pass with The College Annual for thislthe sole Purpose of writing up year promises to be the best that the games> thls account wlU not has ever been put out by any be very detailed. Even the names class. The precedent was estab- of the referees and ^^^ Players lished last year of having the are unknown to us. However, we Junior Class handle this work. ™11 do our feeble best- Stetson's This is correct and doubtless will llne"uP for the $rst Same was: be followed from now on. The Forwards—Hulley and Smith. business managers Walker and Wall- ; Guards—J5 bank are busy soliciting advertise- Woodall. ments and the editors are driving the pen in preparation of some excellent material along the literary line. The price of the OSHIHIYI this year will be $2.00. o KENT CLUB Officers for the winter term were installed as follows:— President—A. R. Roebuck. Vice.-Pres.—Bryan Jennings. Secy.-Treas.—Fairfax Haskins. Attorney—W. P. A. Dineen. Critic—Dean Rasco. Vice Critic—Wm. Dineen. Centers—Turnquist, Haynes and Kruse. They make a mighty good Stetson team and every one knows what that means, for we had the best team in the State for several years. The game was fast and furious, featured by accurate passing and the excellent playing of Hulley, Smith and Elliott. The score at the end of the first half was 14 to 3. The Cathedral girls gained a few points in the second half, mostly by fouls, but we got more so at the end the score was 21 to 8. Indeed it was a rather one- Prof. Guevchenian will turn out. o DR. HARKNESS.. Dr. Harkness, pastor of the Methodist Church here in DeLand and well known among the student body at large, has decided to retire for a year of needed rest. He delivered a farewell sermon at the church last Sunday which drew many of the students. The Doctor has always been much interested in university affairs and has been a good friend to very i pive matches in the men's singles many of the college men and I have been played off to date. section last Monday evening discovered a nondescript of the dusky persuasion who proved to be so very efficient on the guitar that they succeeded in inducing him to proceed to the campus where a goodly number of students assembled to listen to his musical attempts. A collection was taken up to encourage the negro to return again. o TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Reporter—I. S. Maines. Sergt-at-Arms—John G. Leon- j sided game, most of the time being ardy. j taken up in putting the ball in After the installation the fol-, play again after our forwards had lowing program was rendered: thrown a basket. Inaugural Address—President We almost forgot to mention Roebuck. June Elliott, who starred as offi- Debate—Resolved, That the Bringing of 10,000 Belgian Farmers to Florida, at the State's Expense Would Be Sound Public Policy. Mr. Dodge and Mr. Peacock cial custodian of the rule-book. She was much in demand. The first game was alright—it's on the second that there hangs the sad, sad tale, viz, we got women. We are all sorry to have him away from us even for a -o The Shelley brothers have scorned the rations at Chaudoin and are keeping bachelors hall down town this term. spoke for the affirmative, while. beat. In the first place basket the negative was supported by | ball at Stetson, especially among Mr. Kanner and Mr. Haskins. i the men, is rather futile. True Judges—Messrs. Lourcey, Don- I it does provide exercise to a few ovan and Taylor rendered a decision | and gives them a chance to air for the negative. i their football or wrestling instincts —but no college games can be STETSON PHILOSOPHER. Ben Hulley defeated Paul North rup, Hammond defeated Lanky Everlasting vigilance is the price Miller, H. Carr beat George Bick-! of retaining a good umbrella. ford, Harkness beat Emerson and Thomas won from McBride. o FRAT SMOKER. Mr. Price from Miami is a new student in the Business College. our athletics are not in keeping with our other high standards; not by any means. The boys of the Phi Beta Psi The world may not love the lovers, but it sure has to put up with an awful lot of them. When you hear a fellow make Fraternity entertained a number I the boast that he has never ,made of their university friends at a j a mistake you may be sure that he smoker last Friday evening at. is either a bachelor or a liar. the house. Song and story, smokes i and eats were the order of the day— ! Miller threw our only two bask- j trace of team work last Saturday scheduled, all being with high schools and accompanied by the danger of getting licked by one. It looks bad to see in print that some little down-country school has licked Stetson University at basket ball. There is plenty of excellent material here. If the fellows only get out and practice, and cut out the smoking, we could have a winning team. The basket shooting and passing were woefully weak and there was only a slight or evening, to be exact. ets. night. The score was 25 to 10.