The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-27

The nominating committee TO consist of
the same committee as above The commit
tee on finance will consist of Mrs. {. W.
Wells. Mrs. $. +. Mount and Miss Il. y.
Jennie a recess was then taken until 2
L. Trueblood. Of Earlham College, read a
paper on Comparative Value of Ancient
and Modern Oratory." He said:
The history of the struggle for liberty
throughout the world is parallel with the
history of the growth of oratory. When
Emerson said that 'eloquence is eminently
the art that only hourishes in free coun-
tries he evidently did not mean TO imply
that II did not exist in countries struggling
been wrested from them Greece attained
her greatest power in oratory during her
struggle for existence. yet 1t is equally true
peace OF the nation. when Greece was at
the height Of her glory.
THE glory of Roman oratory reached
It's summit when the great city was torn
by factions, when conspiracies were formed
against her best men. when the crimes of
II necessary that they should protect them
selves and the eternal city from ruin.
Garfield would have been totally unable to
quell the New York mob by the written
statement: Cod reigns and the government
at Washington still lives 1t was the spoken
language, accompanied by appropriate
ton and by the spirit Of the man going out
TO the fury of the multitude. Notice the
vast difference between the public man in
ancient Greece and Of our own time. To
the Greek the orator the leader: he
formed opinions, led the way and the COM
mon people followed. In America the public
speaker addresses audiences of about equal
intelligence with himself. They are people
who do their thinking.
In our history We have now come to a
time Of profound peace. We are in that
period of education and training that pre-
pares great orators for the heat of the con-
test The orations we listen TO to-day are
deliberative. The subjects that men must
speak upon are of business nature. 1t is
neither necessary nor appropriate for a man
to display. great oratorical powers upon
al GIlf is or
day passes IN which the orator OF ability
may M St not find oRP6rtpnty for p the exer bI
broader field for the orator than now, in
the courts in halls of legislation, in poll
tics, in the lecture hall. and, above all, in
the pulpit. Here Tin America),' says Emer-
son, is room for every degree of it, on ev-
cry one of it's ascending stages-that of the
useful speech in our commercial, manufac-
turing, railroad and educational conven-
tons; that of political advice and persua-
sion on the grandest theater, reaching, as
all good men trust, into a vast future, and
so compelling the best thought and noblest
administrative ability that the citizen can
Offer 4"
Mr. Trueblood's paper elected five min
rick Of Wesffield Academy. y. n. Priest
and Mrs E. Farabee. Miss Bessie B. Jen-
R f In dddrePs on Tte an
The pth of the whole was summed up in
the following:
movements / like the German system par
ucuarly After q long mental strain a
good. quick. brisk movement is very re-
' wakerup work. P"P For har@onious Is mu E3Tp
lar development. for firmness, for the de.
excellent. For grace of movement and ex-
pressive physical training the aesthetic
posing IS Fry fine fine Before ,nd the Of body Is
must have a sustaining force, a power OF
endurance and conscious control of all
edge of the adaptability of the different
muscles to express different sentiments.
Knee Woud haTe mo an art neg Se
Apollo with the airy pOise of the Mercury
would be dr be a. mT0nstr 0S The Fapp with
threaten and command would again be an
incongruity- All parts must work harmoni-
ioot foD oI1r na af flust
perfection. however, not among the mill
tary Germans, nor the sturdy Swedes nor
types of savage beauty found in our own
wildernesses and among the sculptured re-
Look about you for a free-limbed Diana,
and you find the society lady with the ell
bows pinned to the waist line. because it
is style for sleeves to be made so that Ii
would be as impossible for them to get
their arms over their heads it would be
for Diana to put her own unsandaled foot
into the dainty shoe OF the aforesaid. Look
for a suggestion of the perfect Venus and
be greeted with the wasp-like form of the
society belle, whose life at best is but
SPAN Look for an Hercules and find the
specialized youth. with wan face and nerv-
Gus, gait And the beautiful Apollo is the
hollow-chested, hollow-eyed. lean lank
consumptive Individual that haunts sum
mer resorts in the hope that he may find
h ms hea1th hanging hnfl1 about on hammock
haste. The examining process is only de-
fusion and a snare. 1t not only stints the
body, but it impedes the progress and de-
velopment OF the mind.
I'm the German school children are sys-
tematically trained to gymnastics. and the
result is national taste for athletic SnOrtG
English schools are noted for football and
cricket. and Englishmen are famous for
some truth in the remark made by for
etgner that the only popular recreation of
the Americans is business. We find a re-
FORM IN progress in this line. Educators
are realizing the errors of the old ways
and in almost every public and private in
stitution between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans there is not that Go1s not make
some pretensions in the line of physical
education Our universities ere sending ont
their baseball and football teams in friend
ly contention, with nothing but the glory of
victory to reward them. They are encour-
They, in turn, are followed by the colleges
and high schools
Athletic sports are most excellent for
vital development, and out-of-door sports
should be encouraged for girls as well as
boys The quick. elastic, bouyant step. the
rouge, cannot always be attained by indoor
exercises. Plenty of fresh air makes ton
J les unnecessary.
I'm conclusion, 1 would add that the body
should be so perfectly tuned that ii will
respond to the slightest whispers of the
soul-its two uses being to keep souls sep
arate and to manifest sympathies and mask
| its antipathies'
Miss Jennie's paper was discussed by
MeSsrS. Priest, Sherrick, TrueblO0d and
MacAvoy and Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Farabea
and Miss Jennie. the gentlemen generally
advocating football as a valuable means OF
| physical culture, while the ladies argued
that the game as now played is rather too
violent, and does harm rather than good.
Mrs. Sewers, an English lady present,
thought that Delsartism and physical cul-
ture had gone mad" in this country and
that actors, actresses, orators and elocu-
| tionists generally overdid the thing when IL
came to gestures and body movements.
| in the Public Schools" the title OF az
| address by Miss Ola Dell Cameron, Of
KnIghtstown Ind. She related an amusing
incident in her career as a teacher of elo-
cution. She was invited to go to Elwood,
| Ind, and teach class of young pupils
DelSartean methods. Her friends secured
I the school house for her. When she began
ship sent word to her that they under
stood she sent there to teach prohibi-
ZION, and that the edifice could not be used
| for political purposes" They knew nothing
| of elocution and told that it meant
prohibition. Hence the objection to using
| the school house.
| Program To-day.
| 1:3O p. m-Discussion by Mr.. J. H. Viii
| kerson, of DePauw University. Paper by
| Mr. T. ]. McAvoy. of Indianapolis. "To
| Understand Author, we must unity His
| Thought" Discussion b. Mr. Lewis IL
| Jones, superintendent Indianapolis schools.