The herald., 1894-02-28
SOPHS HAVE A TIME.
A PLEASANT AFFAIR AT THE
UNIVERSITY.
The Freshmen Decorate the Room
CaswelPs Ideas on College
Life and Its Various
Dangers.

The sophomore class OF the university
OF Southern California gave their annual
entertainment in the college chapel last
Monday evening.
The freshman class did the decorating
of the auditorium, and did it we'll. On
the wall behind the platform was 6
semicircle made of palm leaves, under
meath which were placed, "'96," and
still lower, IN. NJ. S. NJ" the class
motto, made of evergreens. Trios of
palm leaves were placed on the walls
here and there around the room. An
American flag was hung in conspicu-
GUS place on the wall, at the audiences
right. 1t was destined to play humor-
ous part during the evening.
The sophomores had planned to get q
joke on the freshmen by having APP
pended to the programmes, 1.-THE audi
ence will please make allowance for all
blunders of the ushers; they are fresh
men," A. P. Thomson. H. F. Ward
and @. E. Mort, who did the ushering,
heard of it and came prepared. The
programmes arrived late-a part of the
sophies' plan-but before the freshmen
distributed them the little mote" was
clipped off, causing many in the audi
ence to wonder at their inelegant APP
pearance.
The programme was mosety musical,
only one sophomore out of the class of
seven, speaking. The press OF work
was the cause.
The entertainment began with the in
vocation led by Rev. Caswell. Profess
sor Clark, who occupied the chair dur
ing the evening, owing to the deans alb
sence, announced the next number,
which was piano solo, Schmetlenleid
(Edv. Greig) rendered in fine manner
by Miss Maud Whitlock.
Prof F. A. Bacon and Miss Lulu Pie
per followed with pretty vocal duet,
Go. Pretty Rose (Marzails) to which
they did full justice.
Before the next number on the pro-
gramme was given, the freshmen, pull
ing down the flag on the wall laid bare
the following notice:
"The greatest event of the college year,
L. d. CaswelI will now appear.
Please excuse the Grafton, because the Soph's
don't know any better"
After the laugh at this joke was over,
the speaker, Lincoln Ii. Caswell deliv-
cred an Grafton on Dangers Peculiar to
College Life.
This subject ia not selected because OF
a.pessimistlc spirit. but to correct the
evils; all good good things may be per-
verified. First-The body ia in peril. A
great amount of athletic exercise is in
dependable. A weak body cannot pro-
duce strong mind, and if health is
broken, all hope of success is shattered.
just note in the colleges of today the
baseball artillerlst and the football
pugilist. Some students epend more
time in athletics than in study, and de-
feat the legitimate object of the sport.
Boys go into the sport to win, and in
football from first to last it is g fight,
and battered heads and broken limbs
are the result OF the enthusiasm. Tet
wherever wounds are received by the
student and cause his DEATH it is al
ways announced that he died OF over
study.
second-The mind is imperied. The
social part of student lie often ruins
many young man when be INDUCES
Unfortunately. The objects of fraterni-
ties, if followed, encourage good
scholarship, bat, if they are perverted,
are abominable.
education is false that does not lead the
thoughts up to the future unknown.
Religion is the only thing that will eup-
port young man in life.
knowledge alone will not do
this. The speaker scored the
professors who select productions con-
tanning indicate expressions, either in
English or for translation. Unchaste
expressions should not be allowed in
the text books studied. The Bible
should be substituted for Homer or
Shakespeare. 1t would lay a moral
foundation for the young lives. Parents
are asking what college will surround
their children with the most safeguards
and mold the noblest character. All
the evil elements have not been elim-
mated from college life, but with the ad-
vent of the twentieth century it ia
hoped they will disappear.
Miss Addie L. Murphy recited The
Christmas Dinner in so good an Irish
dialect that the encores did not stop at
her second appearance, but she was
compelled to recite again, this time, She
Looted Him Rale Weel, dialect poem.
Prof. Bacon rendered vocal solo, The
Last Chord (Sullivsn), and his reap
pearance and another song were de-
manded.
Mrs. Mcknight, whose music is 30
popular among the music loving people
OF this suburb, sang Forbidden Music
rs. Gastaldon) az vocal solo. Her
voice was so strong and clear that it
made the house ring. She was not al
lowed to depart until an encore had
satisfied her hearers. This closed the
evening programme.
The freshman class is composed of
Mordecai s. Magee, Harry L. Martin,
John A. Gray, Frank A. Compton, A.
Irwin Oliver, Albert B. Embree, Lin.
coin III. Csswell.
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