The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-03


attributed to the fact that our boys &C
forth not merely to drag through a
university course, but inspired by q
desire to achieve, and they pursue
their studies with a singleness of pur-
pose, a persistence and patience that
usually brings success.
One Utah boy, who has just achieved
a great victory is Otto A. Hauerbach.
of Salt Lake city, who recently won
the interstate prize in oratory. Otto
was student at the Collegiate insti-
tute here and his success is due wholly
TO his own efforts and hard work
The Review of Reviews, just at
hand, in a long and interesting article
entitled college Oratory in the West -
gives this representative of Utah high
praise, and presents his portrait. Al
ter giving the history of these con-
tests, the Review says:
Western Passion for Orntory.
This western passion for oratory,
although it has been stimulated and
sustained by the Intercollegiate con-
tests, was widespread and fervenA be-
fore the interstate organization had
its beginning. The credit of propos-
ing the existing organization is due
to students of Knox college, at Gales
burg, III. The first interstate contest
was actually held on February q,
1874, the competing speakers repre-
senting only the states of Iowa, Iii
nols and Wisconsin. The movement
rapidly grew until ten states were adj
united into the association. The con-
Stitution requires that the orations
shall not be over two thousand words
IN length, and the instructions to the
judges are exceedingly minute No
body has ever yet invented a satisfac-
tory system of marking, and much
criticism sometimes results from the
decisions arrived at, particularly in
the home" and state contests. For
the interstate Occa sion six judges are
chosen, none of whom can have any
relation whatever with the colleges
represented in the contest, and no two
of whom can come from the same
state. Three of the judges are Sc
lected for a previous marking of the
written orationS upon their merits as
pieces of literary composition and for
the intellectual ability they reveal
The other three judges pass upon the
oratorical manner and delivery of the
speakers as evinced in the actual con-.
test. Each judge makes his marks
without consultation with the others,
and by somewhat complex system of
averages the final result is attained.
In the recent contest two states were
represented by young ladies. These
were Miss Ethel NJ. Brown, of Oska-
loosa college, who appeared as Iowa's
champion, and Miss Nellie E. Wood,
of Earlham college, who represented
Indiana. The full list of topics and
speakers was as follows:
american Literary Genius" E. B.
Sherman. University of Nebraska.
THE Better Personality" c. w. Wood,
Beloit college, Wisconsin.
1.-The Statecraft of Napoleon 7. L. An
derscn, Central College, Mo.
The Province of Law" Forrest Wood
side. Kansas State Normal.
The Hero of Compromise" O. A.
Hauerbach, Knox College, Ill.
our Nations Perpetuity.'' Miss Nellie
Wood, Earlham College, Ind.
Reserve Power" A. c. Baldwin, Den
nison University, Ohio.
afeg"ard e E. NJ S Philips, Hamiin n Tni-
"a Plea for shylock,' Miss Ethel
Brown, Oskaloosa College. Iowa.
Social Progress" W. n. Schafer, Uni
versity of Colorado.
Rauerbach the Winner.
Mr.. Hauerbach, of Knox college,
Ills, carried off the first honorS, and
the second place was awarded to Mr..
C. W. Wood, of Beloit college, Wis
consin. The judges who had passed
upon the manuscripts in advance were
United States Senator c. K. Davis. of
Professor John r. Com
mons, of the Indiana State University,
and the Rev. DR.. Willard Scott, of
Chicago. The judges who were pres
ent in order to decide upon the deliv
cry of the speakers were themselves
in the practice of public
speaking, two of them having nation
Il fame as orators. They were EX-
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas; the Hon.
W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Gov
srnor Jackson, of Iowa.
Western college oratory has a fash
on of its own. Generally speaking it
s somewhat high-keyed and artificial.
t strives after epigram, revels in an
ithesis, and after twenty years of the
wo-thousand-word limit, it has tend
ID to become terse and intense. It's
fault, perhaps, is its undue
devotion to phrase-making. Mr.
iauerbach's speech in defense of COM
promise, which has carried off this
rear's interstate honors, does not show
he characteristics of the college
speech in their EXTREMIST forms. New
Il InClCSS, II ID VI lA4C
method The following paragraphs |
constitute the last half of Mr.. Hauer-
,ach's Grafton:
A Portion of His Grafton.
We say that the blood of the Civil
Var redeemed the nation. But was
he union saved when the war ceased? !
Did the contest for civil rights end |
here? Secession was dead. But that
nalign spirit which had lowered in the |
ear of the battle was not dead. Ex-
Iltingly it came to the front. THE /
light of conquest and spoliationr' was
IS only message 20 the PROSTATE |
outh. Those dark days of reconstruc-
ion followed. Envy, hate and passion /
threatened to plunge the wounded ma
ion into deeper gloom. Now. alas, |
vas the union rent in twainl After |
IL, had Lincoln lived and died in vain? |
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