The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-22
THE COLLEGE BOYS DAY
TWO BANQUETs AND MEETING OF
TWO ASSOCIATIONS.
Annual OratOrica1 Contest VIII Not
BE EnIarged-Changes I'm Athletics
The Annual Field Day.

Tt was college day in the city yesterday.
The boys from seven Of the leading col
leges of the State arrived in force, and,
as usual. made their presence conspicuously
manifest to the steady-going people of the
city. There is nothing that SO thoroughly
breaks the monotony Of metropolitan hum
drum as the coming of several trainloads
of good-lunged students. They have such
a way of travelling in cliques and of giving
vent to their college cries in unison, and
they are so bedizened with ribbons and so
full of exuberance that they bestir even the
most phlegmatic.
1t is estimated that there was an attend
ance yesterday of three or four hundred
students from colleges over the State The
colleges represented were Wabash, Indiana
University, De Paw, Earlham, University
of indianapolis, Hanover and Franklin. A
few representatives from Notre Dame, Pur-
due, Rose Polytechnic, the State Normal
and MoOreS Hill were also present. The
seven colleges most largely represented had
each representative in the oratorical con-
test IN the evening, and the afternoon was
largely devoted by the rival delegations to
giving the several contentants ample evil
dence of good moral backing. College poll
tics, also, came in for large share of the
attention of the students. The various fra
ternities are always centers of much polit-
zeal wire-pulling for the various offices Of
generally result in favor of the Phi Delta
Thetas in. this State. Yesterday proved an
exception to this rule.
The most important meetings of the
afternoon were those of the State Ora
torical Association and of the Athletic
Association. In the early evening several
pleasing banquets were also held one of
which was in honor of Miss Mabel Yenne,
who was adjudged the most popular young
lady at De Paw in contest recently con-
Quoted by the Palladium, the college paper,
and the other was given by the Indiana
division of the Beta Delta Pi fraternity.
TWO COLLEGES TURNED DOWN.
The State Oratorical Association held a
well-attended meeting that lasted. for sew
eral hours The attention of the associa-
ton was largely monopolized by an effort
on the part of Notre Dame University and
Moores Hill College to obtain admission to
the association. Charles NJ. Meier present
ed the claims of Notre Dame, while Moore's
Hill was represented by W. F. Smith and
L. nj. Edwards. The association, however
did not take kindly to the idea of enlarging
the association and refused to admit the
two colleges. The programme of the state
oratorical contests is already too lengthy
and 1T was thought impossible to find room
upon 1t for two more speakers. After dis
posing of this matter the association decided
to fix the date of the oratorical next year
on the fourth Friday of January, and all
manuscript must be in the hands of the
president of the association by Jan. /. The
officers elected for the ensuing year were:
President, Jesse l.. Holman, Franklin Col
lege; vice president w. A. Oldfather Han
over College; recording secretary, Will Fl.
Hays, Wabash Colleges interstate delegate
Carl McGaughy, Butler College; treasurer,
Foster Smith, De Paw University: CORE
spending secretary, Howard Orrison, Earl
ham College; executive committeeman,
Glenn Clifford, Indiana University. All of
these officers belong to the Phi Delta Theta.