The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-02-27
oRAToRIcAL CONTEST.
Some Excellent Orations Given at tho
Eugene University.

EUGENE, Or, Feb. 24.-[Special Cor
respondence. = Oregon's second inter-
collegiate oratorical contest took place
here last night. Every train of Thurs
day and Friday brought students and
delegates from some of the colleges and
universities. They were met at the de-
pot by the state university students,
who in every case gave them hearty
welcome, the climax of hospitality being
reached yesterday when the south
bound local arrived. The street cars
having been chartered and decorated
with the college colors-lemon yellow
the large delegations from the north,
besides having free ride, were escorted
by the University of Oregon students,
with almost military precision, to the
university, where, after looking through
the buildings, the reception committee
assigned them places throughout the
city.
At 8 O'Clock fully 100 people, it is es-
timated, were assembled in Willard hall.
There were eight contestants, and al
though the program was somewhat long,
it was intensely interesting. The ora
tions were of a high order, equal in
many respects to commencement efforts.
The following are the names of the
speakers, their subjects, and the schools
they represented: T. H. Adams, Pa
cifc University, Forest Grove, 'tMount
Moriah and the Acropolis;" Charles J..
Atwood, Willamette University, Salem,
Conditional Citizenship" Perry F.
Chandler, Portland University, "Sun-
rise or Sunset;" G. w. Jones, Univer-
sity of Oregon, Eternal Vigilance is
the Price of Liberty;' Gertrude Lamb,
Pacific. College, Newberg, "A Nine
teenth Century Possibility - L. E. La
tourette, McMinnville College, Popular
Education, the Palladium of Democ-
racy;" Angeline E. Watson, Oregon
State Normal School, Monmouth, "Our
Republic;'' A. Melvin Williams, Al
bany College, 'What Readest Thou in
Nature?n
1t was noticeable coincident that
SIX of these speakers, though having
widely different subjects, either touched
upon or materially dealt with existing
political conditions in the United States,
thus showing how strongly the welfare
of our nation is in the hearts of the ris-
ing generation. The decision of the
judges was we'll received by the public,
Mr.. G. J. Atwood of Salem being winner.
Altogether the results of this conven-
ton of students are highly beneficial.
It is somewhat startling to some Ore
gonians to hear college yell, and to
some it is even barbarous; but such
things have gradually crept westward
from Harvard to find good living in the
moss of Oregon, so that never before
has the college spirit been more preva-
lent; never has there been more fra
ternal feeling among the colleges of Ore
gon, or a more determined purpose
among its students to work for the best
than today after this oratorical contest.
Next year it will be at Forest Grove.
QUIDAM.
The experience of Geo. A. Apgar, OF
German Valley, N. J., is well worth re-
membering. He was troubled with
chronic diarrhea and doctored for five
months and was treated by four differ
ent doctors without benefit. He then
began using Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhea Remedy, qfIwhich one
bottle effected complete cfire. It is
| for sale by Blakeley & Houghton, drug
gists.