The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-14
"kIPSAW," OLD De PAUW.
l.. r. DfNMITT CAPTURES THE
ORATORICAL HoNoRs,
And OncN, More the Banner of Victory
Is Cara ed AIoft by DePauw Uni
versity-a he 0rntions-EIection OF
officers.

College yelAi and variegated ribbons
/ held triumphant sway throughout the
city Friday and reverberated and
waved from m )rning until midnight
! when their echots and tints were lost
! i'm the rumbling and smoke of the out
I going special train; that bore the thou
sands of visitors D their homes.
There was the yelSw Of victorious De
| PAW. $50 strong the old gold and black
/ of Purdue $50 strong. the blue and yell
| low of Franklin waviAg from go coats
/ and corsa ges; the red a. nd white of the
state university supported by nearly 200
bowling mortaIs; the red O. Wabash with
ninety men; the yellow and white OF
Earlham with sixty wolshipers; the
blue and red OF Hanover with fifty rep
resentatives; the blue and white of But
| Ter out in force. and liberal sprinkling
| of the colors of the other coll s'giate and
educational Institutions in this and other
| states
When the college men Of Indialta come
| to the state capital as visitors. whether
as individuals or in bodies. the list Is
| none too good for them and yesterday
| was no exception TO the rule. As s0'on
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them forth the streets were alive va
| the color bearers Of the Indiana COLI
| levcs-a jolly, howiing and turbulent
mass of humanity. but ladies and gen
| tlemen under all circumstances.
1t was the occasion Of the annual con-
test Of the intercollegiate oratoricaI as
sociation OF Indiana and the Grand opera
house. wherein the contest was held.
/
when the shades of evening had fallen.
| the evening meal had been disposed Of
and a day OF fun and frolic in the city
enjoyed.
The main floor and balcony were
| crowded TO the limit of their capacity At
| o'clock The glee club Of the state uni
| verisity had decorated the proScenium
| boxes and reserved them for its own
| use. They were Tesplendant i'm the bril-
| liant red and white Of the college. De
| Paw masSed its forces along the entire
| rear row of the dress circle and on the
| right of the balcony while her rival. the
| state university, was assembled in num-
| bers on the left of the balcony. Butler
| was Immediately back of them. Frank
| ling was congregated in a huge bunch
| of waving color in the dress circle up
| against the stage, among the students
! sitting Prof Brown and Mrs. Zeppenfeld
| Of the faculty. Wabash was supported
| by Prof. McClain and Prof. Chapman of
| the faculty, and was massed in the dress
/ circle. The other colleges were punched
| throughout the main floor and the
| balcony. With the first appearance of
the students in the opera house the wild
| bowls and whOops that are To be trans
| lated into the representative yells of
| several colleges began TO echo through
| the house First came forth the deaf
| ening ''rip-saw'' of old DePauw. quick
! ly followed by the "Frangipani-In-
| diana" Of the State university, and then
/ the others took up the CRY. II was from
| that time forth desperate contest Of
| lung power in the way of strength and
/ endurance and it was impossible 10
| judge as 10 who was the victor. The
| yells blended into a discOrdant roar and
J cOmmingled in a deafening pandemon-
| ium. This continued 10 the great enjoy
/ ment if not edification of the audience
and did not cease until the program be-
| gan.
The music of the evening was furn-
! ished by the orchestra, the Earlham
! ladies' quartet and the state university
/ glee club The college musical organiZa-
| tionS were received warmly and their
| selections We're appreciated. Upon the
] stage were seated the seven contestants,
| Ebert Russell of Eearlham, president of
| the state association. and the Rev. w.
| r. TAYLOR. who invoked the divine bless
| ing at the beginning of the program. The
| ladies' quartet sang as an encore the
| Cuckoo" song and when the first ora
! ton upon THE United States Senate"
| followed Immediately afterward. there
was a slight ripple of amusement at the
| close assimilation of the two.
Robert Is. Mccain.
Robert b. Mccain of Hanover college
| was the first orator of the evening. He
had selected for his subject THE United
! States Senate He outlined the birth
| of the constitution and the mission OF
| the senate as a balancing power between
| what might degenerate into rabid
| democratic house of representatives and
| a monarchicaI executive He described
| the senate as a body Of men or the high
est qualifications and attachments and OF
| dignity only inferior to the supreme
| court itself. He had a very high
| opinion of it and deprecated the great
| wave of popular sentiment that has
! arisen adverse TO that body. Govern
| ment action should be slow and delib-
! eratiye as its Importance deserved and
| the senate should not be besieged by the
crys of the masses.
l.. F. DimmItt.
I. +. Dimmitt of DePauw brought out
an original idea in THE Humane Spirit
| in Modern Civilization. 1t was replete
with careful thought, and the decision
of the Judges in awarding the Grafton the
1 first prize met with general favor The
| humane spirit, which was the subject. is
| an invisible, democratic. ethical force
| which has been for centuries and is now
| shaping modern civilization. In religion
II has brought deeper thought and a
| general brotherhood of creeds: in p0liti-
| cal life it has taught that governments
must not be based upon the selfish inter
ests Of the few. but be directed toward
| the improvement and elevation of the
/ great mass of the people; it has taught
| that man has inalienable rights; il is the
1 keen perception of right and wrong i'm
| the bosom of mankind and moves it to
1 respect that distinction
| sylvan W. Kahn.
1.-THE Problem of the Children was
| the subject of the Grafton of Sylvan w.
| Kahn Of the State university. He based
! his views upon the present depression
| and so made his Grafton a timely one.
| The problem Of poverty has been made
| the subject of general study as never
before and in this way the depression
| had not been without its good effects.
| His argument was that the root of all
| the evils of the world is in the manner
| of raising the children of the slums, and
| these helpless little ones should be
moved from the evil associations and
| conditions in which they are born. that
J they may be made good and useful citi-
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