The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

\Jl> Q^U^A SAFETY FIRST ORDER YOUR COLLEGIATE NOW (% ^Ittmw. Ww-klu (Enlkgiafe WE BOOS,T THE UNIVERSITY YOU BOOST THE COLLEGIATE PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY 'vol. xxviil DELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1915. NUMBER 5 BETA PSI BOYS HAVE OPEN HOUSE LOCAL FRATERNITY ENTERTAINS THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. Faculty and Student Body Present at Open House Reception. The Phi Beta Psi Fraternity entertained its many friends last Saturday afternoon from four to six at an open house reception. The faculty and entire student body of the University were invited, and every one turned out to make it a gala time. Fully one hundred and seventy-five persons paid their respects to Phi Beta Psi on this occasion. From four until six the fraternity house was crowded, to its full capacity and rang with good fellowship and jollity. The guests were met and welcomed at the porch steps by the fraternity boys and then conducted into their commodious reception room, where all became acquainted. On the side porch a booth had been erected from which punch was served by several of the ladies. Needless to say they were kept constantly busy. The decorations were beautiful. The porches were trimmed with bamboo and ferns while the interior was one mass of black and gold Upon this background 'were pictures of skeletons, witches, cats and pumpkins, all of which seemed to have the desired effect of permeating all present with the gay and happy spirit of Hallowe'en. EUSOPHIAN LIT. The program for the last meeting was as follows: Foreign Current Events—Edna' Hefner. Domestic Current Events—Hilda Budd. Reading—Lois Donaldson. Extemporaneous—My Favorite Fruits—Ruth Stewart. Society Paper—Louise Hulley. Extemporaneous—My Favorite Joke—Mary Reed. Story—The Birth of a Nation- Ruth Jackson. Everybody is cordially invited to come this Friday. Ford jokes will be in order. o THE GERMAN CLUB. HALLOWE'EN PARTY IN CHAUDOIN HALL VESPERS. MANY NEW AND NOVEL COSTUMES IN EVIDENCE. The German Club met last week and elected the following officers: Praesident—Herr Tissot. Vize Praesident — Frauelein Klicker. Schatzmcister—Frauelein Frary. Programmfuehrer—Herr Peterson. o GREEN ROOM CLUB TRYOUTS SIGMA NU FRATERNITY GIVES HALLOWE'EN DANCE The first real fraternity dance in school history was given by the local chapter of Sigma Nu on Thursday evening of last week. Outside of the active members of the chapter only pledges and stray Greeks were invited. Including these and their fair partners there were sixty persons present. The frat house was gaily decorated in black, gold and white, the colors of the fraternities, while the porches were daintily illuminated by Japanese lanterns. The official receiver of the evening fras a grinning skull placed in a darkened corner and from whose sunken sockets shot a baleful gleam. The program consisted of twenty {knees, but many extras were bulged in. One of the extras Wn as the "lucky dance" feared the evening. Partners were numbered and as their correspond- ^g number was drawn that pair popped out. Miss Woodall and F- Russell Curran succeeded in ^ing the box of candy offered 38 a prize. punch was served throughout The annual tryouts for positions in the casts of the plays produced by the Stetson students was held last Monday evening in the chapel. About twenty applicants were present and everything from comedy to tragedy was presented during the course of the evenin0 The wado-win0 was the program presented:— Miss Julia Church—Recitation, "Romance of a Rose." Frank M. Young—"Address to the Jury." Miss Lois Donaldson—Monolog; "Her First Call on the Butcher." Hewitt Walker, Recitation— "Skeleton in Armor.". Miss Sarah Smith—Cutting from "The King's Pardon." W. Sales and Paul Hon—"Humorous Dialogue." Miss Helen Ake, Recitation— "The Little Cripple." Emerson and Dean—Cutting from Dramatic Sketch, "Too Many Husbands." Miss Hazel Fiske—Humorous Sketch, "Who's Afraid?" Russell Rasco, Recitation—"The Psalm of Life." Miss Mary Walters, Recitation— "Edith's Secret." Ben Hulley, Recitation—"The Recessional." Willimena Bates—Cutting from "Omar's Penance." R. Donald Conn, Recitation— "The Village Blacksmith." Wyletta Elliott, Recitation— "A Dost o' Blues." o Miss Miller has one thing in common with the average club man trying to navigate the front steps. She has the street lights of Eustis numbered from the outskirts right up to her home. Probably the Best Gathering of Its Kind in Recent Years. Certainly Second to None. the the evening and during one of intermissions a course of chicken salad, crackers and coffee was served. The dance started about 7:30 ^ lasted until shortly after mid- ^ht. Mr. and Mrs yvaiters ably ^ed by Mrs. Dohm kindly . ed as chaperons for the frater- % boys. If the commonwealth needs another gang of 'aborers to add to her many gangs now working the roads we would respectfully submit the names of Jones, Gumm, Jordan, Young, Witty, Fuller, Worcester, Conn and Tomlin. Mrs. Conrad, Miss Conrad. Miss Margaret Gillilland. Mr. Austin Conrad and Mr. Hamden Baskin spent Saturday in Daytona. In accordance to the time honored and ancient custom of Stetson University, the students all assembled at Chaudoin to do honor to Hallowe'en by process of a masquerade ba 1. Many and varied have been the functions of this nature that have graced the beautiful parlors of the girls' domicile, but certainly none ever excelled in variety of costumes the celebration held this year on last Satu day evening. There were to be sure the inevitable clowns and the usual devils and the quondam negroes a la blacked cork. But in addition to these hackneyed appearances we were charmed with something new in the form of a troupe of gay brownies or elves or the like in the persons of Misses Bessie Gumm, Jessie Lewis and others, a couple of paper men in the persons of "Dutch" Hollander and "Little" Dickey, and a highly amusing fat baby pushed about by one "Parson" Walked and numerous other disg^^s too intricate to mention in this short paragraph. After the grand march in which those masked displayed their charms of face and figure to the assembled multitude, everybody was seated on the floor and refreshments in the form of ice cream cones and sandwiches were served. At this point, just as the stunts of the evening were to.be performed, out went the lights. This was an old stunt in itself and we all waited for some servant to pull the switch back and illuminate the scene once more. However, it would seem that the job was done up in fine style this time for those lights never did come on again. Miss Martien and her faithful cohorts soon arrived with the ready candles and oil lamps and all was soon aglow. However, Dr. Hulley decided that it would be best to continue the program over in the gym where the lighting system was more complete, and therefore everybody adjourned to the Cummings structure. The most amusing feature of the entertainment here was a scramble on the floor for a sack of apples. Needless to remark the more youthful and active among those present succeeded in securing the major portion of these pommes de terre. Meaning Sales and others of his calibre. Another stunt was a representation of Charlie Chaplin in the person of Skinner, assisted ably by Jennings and Pattishall. It is worthy of mention that one Ben Hulley was some Chaplin in himself. In conclusion we might state that the prizes for the occasion were tendered to Little Dickey and Misses Jackson and Donaldson. o Mr. F. M. Young spent the week end in Orlando visiting his parents. Dr. Hulley gave an interesting talk on what might be summed up as "Minister rather than be ministered unto." It was greatly appreciated by all present. The musical program was splendid. "Love Divine All Love Excelling" was beautifully rendered by Mrs. Garrison and Mrs. Bow, as was "The Lord Is My Light" by Miss Watts and Mr. Honeycutt, accompanied by Mrs. Honeycutt. Miss Baker played "Largo" from the New World Symphony by Dhorak. The choir sang "Whoso Dwelleth Under the Defence of the Most High," by Martin, with tenor solo by Prof. Guevchenian accompanied by Miss Baker at the organ and Miss Ford at the piano. o KENT CLUB. BASKETBALL GAME FIRST OF SERIES CONRAD HALL AND ELIZABETH HALL BATTLE TO FINISH. Large Crowd Out to See Game and Root for the Team of Their Choice. The Kent Club Friday evening held a very interesting program. The debate of the evening was Resolved, That the Parliamentary form of government is more democratic than the cabinet government. The affirmative was supported by Mr. Jennings and Mr. Baker. The negative was upheld by Mr. Carver and Mr. Hollander. The judges rendered their decision for the negative. Mr. Beaulieu gave a good sketch of the life of Chancellor Kent, followed bv Parliamentarv Practice by Mr. Koester. After hearing the critic's report the meeting adjourned. o The official opening of the basketball league took place on Tuesday night, when the representatives of Conrad Hall and Elizabeth Hall respectively met before a fairly good sized gathering, in a very rough game. This roughness was really the only redeeming feature of the game. The passing was far below that displayed by the men in their daily work-outs, and the shooting was simply ridiculous. This game did much to characterize the various faults of the men, and it is hoped that they will benefit by whatever reprimands they may have received. The teams took the floor with much enthusiasm, both very anxious to win. This in itself may have accounted for the eccentric work of the entire outfit. The scoring in the first half wras far and wide between, due to the fact that both sides failed to take advantage of the many opportunities to shoot baskets. The passing at times was noteworthy, but the ro!i°rh work so ovcrrh.adoy.~cd ■ VARSITY CLUB. The members of the Club met in the Elementary Law room as usual last Friday evening. Ray Amidan, a new' member, gave War Events in an interesting manner. Emerson read two poems from Riley, "When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin" and "My Philosophy." A debate upon the topic of loaning money for war purposes I to the Allies was given. The affirm- j ative side was upheld by Tissot 1 while Fischer argued for the negative. The judges gave their decision in favor of the negative. The program for Friday, Nov. 5, is as follow's:— War Events—Sales. Recitation—Allen Harris. Extempore Debate Paper on Water Power Projects—Fischer. o STETSON LIT. The Stetson Lit met in Science Hall Friday night wdth a goodly number present. The following program was rendered: Stetson Star—Earl Shuflin. Reading—Katherine Witty. Current Events—Dewey Johnston. Reading—Glenoisen Rasco. Debate: Resolved, That intercollegiate football is for the best interests of colleges. Affirmative—Earoll Roebuck, Carlisle Prather. Negative—Arvid Peterson, Daniel Liesher. Extempore—Boyette. Blaynton. Extemporaneous Parliamentary Practice—Mary Hulley. The judges decided in favor of the negative. the good that was manifested in the game, that it appeared like a football game. The score at the close of the first half was 4 to 2 in favor of Elizabeth Hall. Conrad took the floor with much determination to overcome their rivals, and by some good work they managed to overcome the lead of the "Lizzies" and before the dust cleared away the score stood 17 to 13 in their favor. Walker and Minter did yeoman work for their side; the defensive play of these two men did much to keep the score as low as it really was. Jennings' floor work overshadowed the work of his team mates, altho the playing of Hodgden and Curran on the defense was much in evidence. Crim shot .a quartet of field goals after his colleagues had worked the ball up to the basket where Crim was stationed. This game is not to be taken as a criterion on the ability7 of the "Varsity," for the best men, who will undoubtedly- be representing Stetson, are so mixed up as not to be able to display their best ability-. Just keep y7our eyes on the Varsity! Line up is as follows: Conrad. Forwards—Hon, Crim. Center—Jennings. Guards—Curran, Hodgden. Elizabeth. Forwards — Harkness, Hulley (Worchester). Center—Peterson. Guards—Minter, Walker. Field goals—Honl, Crim 4, Hog- ey 2, Curran 1, Harkness 1, Peterson 2, Minter 2. Free Tosses—Hulley 2, Minter 1, Hon 1. Referee—Hollander. Timer—Fenno. Scorer—Rutherford. Time of Halves—15 and 20 minutes.