Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-14
The oEArORICAL PkIzE CONTEST.
HeIsler of '83 takes the Gold Modal.


The beauty and fashion Of Lancaster
were we'll repl esented in tho large and in
telligcnt audience that filed the college
chapel last evening to witness the first
contest for the junior oratorical prize. The
scene was one we'll calculated to leave a
lasting impression on the mind of the
beholder. Ladies arrayed in purple and
fine linen; gentlemen in evening dress re-
sp.endent with buttonhole bouquets,
while the mellow radiance of the lamps
over all aroused in the spectator sensa'
tions that can be better felt than described.
The committee on reception who had
charge of tho seating arrangements were
Messrs. A. Noll, C. B. Snader and Masa
taxa Yamanaka. Rev. DR.. T. G. Apple
opened the exercises with prayer, after
which the college orchestra of 12 pieces,
under the leadership of Mr.. J. Herold,
played in fine style the Review March from
:" Faust" Then followed the first speaker
OF the evening.
Oration-J. @. Adams Opportunities
of Life" Science has determined the mean
to man. The chariot wheels dripping with
civilization, but this result is due not SO
opportunities that were seized upon by
tho master minds Of the world. What
would be the present condition of France
worked his way from obscurity to emi-
nence? Opportunity was the guiding
power in the discovery of our own country
revealed to mankind the exhaustless rc-
ofo n Tho oc
our republic were not mere time servers
and the opportunities of increasing it's sta
bility that fell in their way were never ne
late as 1920 Sir Sydney Smith is &C
"Who reads an American book ?"' Now
our poets and historians rank equally with
their kinsmen beyond the sea. Our two
martyred presidents show in their lives
remarkable examples of opportunities that
their work is manifest in the country to-
day. Our lives are before us and it is for US
to decide whether they shall be 4 blessing
or curse to humanity. The fountains Of
knowledge are free and VIC may accept or
reject them. So let us act then that We
may in the future look back upon some
ucoU VI UCucuCCuCc poIlOAucu, sbulc great
act done, lest We be classed with that army
of idlers who dwell forever in the realms
of might have BEEN
Oration-Nevin c. Heisler "The Sphere
of the Imagination" OF all the faculties
with which God has endowed man, none
so permeates his whole being as that of the
imagination. As child, as man in the
vigor of life, and as veteran tottering on
the verge of the tomb; it is everywhere
felt, repeopling the past and making the
present more desirable. Without il mans
intellect would be like a dark spot in the
forest, unable to know the mighty prob
lens man has been created 20 solve.
History is the soul of humanity breathed
on the Tyre of ages. A correct knowledge
of what has been is necessary that We
may know the present, and imagination
is necessary in the historian that he may
truly conceive that which he portrays. He
who pictures scenes with words occupies a
higher station than he who paints with
material colors. And not alone in the
sphere of history has the province Of the
imagination come into play, but also in
the realms of thought. The ancients of
sunny Greece and Italy peopled every
grove with nymph, every stream with a