The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-17
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The Recent Excursion of the Senior
Class Into Brown County.
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of the region. They were out three days,
load of geodes. One of the seniors will dis
cuss the formation of goodies as a commence
,..ent thesis. The sophomore class in botany
will walk to Spencer the coming week col
lecting botanical specimens In May the
senior section will visit Mammoth Cave, and
walk from there across country 100 miles to
Cumberland Gap and Morristown-the best
region to study geological formations in the
Alleghenies. AS in all these natural science
excursions the parties are composed
of both ladies and gentlemen, and
attended by the professor of science, who
gives lectures and information such as the
locality or subject requires, these Science
tramps" fill a place not taken by books or
rotations. Professor Coulter, of Wabash,
and Doctor Jordan, of the State University,
are making them prominent portions of col
lege work. They are optional with students,
give exercise and strength, cost little money,
and are popular with students, who by them
get discipline, knowledge and self-reliance
gained in no other way
The great trip of the season is to Norway,
Central and Southern Europe, leaving Bloom
ington on commencement day, and returning
about Sept. 90 three full months. The party
is limited to twenty, is under the direction OF
Professor Jordan, with Mr.. Spangler, the col
lege librarian, as business manager They
have first-cabin passage to Antwerp and re-
turn, walk through the Norway mountains
and the Swiss Alps, and visit the principal
cities of Europe The present party is solid
one. All are college graduates, several col
lege professors, two Mt Holyoke teachers.
Ten ladies and seven gentlemen have engaged
passage Total expenses are under $400
This is the third European walking party
managed by DR.. Jordan and Mr.. Spangler
The present company are mature men and
women, able to make use of what they see
-appreciative as well as enthusiastic. Foot
ing it in Europe three months is cheaper
than trip to California, and almost as cheap
as staying at home. This is not an advertise
ment; the party is made up and DIR. Jordan
says that it is probably the last that he shall
conduct in Europe.
DR.. Moss announced in chapel that
next Sabbath he should lecture on col
lege discipline. Not that the Univer-
sity needed 1T especially, for the order was
never better than at the present term. The
students go about as citizens, as gentlemen
and ladies, each law unto himself. There
is little compulsion. The chapel services and
Sunday afternoon lecture all must attend. The
latter is made the subject of discussion by
the senior class in ethics under Dr. Moss
the following morning Absence from
chapel or recitation subjects the stu
dent to discipline. The result is, no
time is lost or stolen. The attendance
must be from the first term day. College
Rotations close at l P. NJ, the Bloomington
dinner hour. The library and chemical and
natural history libraries are open afternoons.
The department of students on street and
campus is of the highest order. Hard work
is the secret of the good order Students
bo a n eyrada drnrDr1ad
and not allowed to elect other and easier
studies. The 9th OF the coming Nav will de-
eide who may graduate. These decisive
dates come every term and to the lazy are
source of terror.
THE oRAToRIcAL CONTEST.
The excitement has died out among the
citizens; the students showed little or none
The contestant, Mr.. Asher is denied the
buildings and grounds. There has been
more misstatement and misrepresentation in
this case, according to the time, than in the
Gougar-Mander trial The dismissal of
Asher from the university had no relation to
the plagiarized article, and occurred
after his success at Indianapolis. 1t
does not deprive him from going
to the interstate contest. He was not threat
ened suspension by the president if he APP
peared at the State contest. Mr.. Asher had
been suspended before; once on account of
boyish tricks-such as making a collection
OF the good Professor Wylie's spectacle-cases
from his table and rashly exhibiting them
to his classmen. The Rev. A. L. Philputt, in a
letter to the Bloomington Telephone over
his name, says the dispatch: Hold the fort
at all hazards. Appeal from the faculty to
the board of trustees. You will be sus-
tanned by the citizens of Bloomington" to
which his name was signed, was a forgery
so far as he was concerned. He says: 81
never saw nor heard of this dispatch until
saw it in the News, nor did l authorize my
name to be used" There were two reports
made by the judges selected by the Bloom
ington Oratorical Association. The first and
true one was as follows, and was written by
the Rev. Mr.. Philputt:
We, che undersigned, chosen as a committee
of arbitration to adjust difference arising be-
University aud W. r. Asher, their representa-
tive to the State contest, growing out of charge
OF plagiarism made against Mr.. Asher, report as
follows:
First, We find that the speech delivered at the
primary contest, on which Mr.. Asher won the
prize, contained some nine or ten passages in
which an unwarranted use of another writer's
language had been made.
Second, That the new speech submitted bv Mr.
Asher, in accordance with the article of agree
ment entered into between him and the associa-
ton, and which is substantially his first speech
with the passages IN question expurgated, is, in
our Judgment equal in merit TO the latter and
so far We know, may fairly be claimed to be
an original production.
Third, That we consider Mr.. Asher still the
legal representative of the local association to
the State contest.
A second and garbled report was made up
and published in the city papers, and has
put the case falsely before the public. Mr..
Asher was suspended for other and substan-
tal reasons than those alleged. The State
University has taken the palm six out of the
nine times they have contested. That there
Is little interest in it, or use to the school is
the general feeling. 1t is believed that the
result will be to advance the high standing
Of the college in all that pertains to honest
work and GOOD order, and especially if the
case goes to the board.
A PAIR OF BLOOMINGTON (IND.) SIRENS,
Not of the ten young ladies in the senior
class who tramnad fiftv ,nilns 1nst Mnrnh