Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
ORAIOR|CAL CONTEST.
Annual Contest OF the Iowa Col
legiate Oratorical Association
at Des Moines.
Eight Institutions will Be Rep.
resented at the Meeting
Friday Evening.
Winner OF First Place Will Be
Sent to the Interstate
Contest.

DeS MoineS, Feb. 24.-The annuai
contest of the Iowa Collegiate Orator.
zeal Association is to be held next Fri
day evening in the Drake University
auditorium. Elaborate plans, which
have been under consideration for many
weeks, have been brought to compile
ton. The student committees have
been diligen, in their efforts to have al.
in readiness for the entertainment of
the delegates.
1t is believed the contest this year
will be intensely interesting, and the
result exceptionally close. Many OIL
the schools are confident, others are
hopeful and none despair. Cornell.
smarting under the taunts she received
last year, when she failed to ma
place in the program, will put forth
tremendous effort to regain the laurels
she won so easily two years ago. rms
year her representative has submitted
an Grafton entitled The Constitution
and the Union a subject always pop
ular Western College has never before
participated in the affairs of the asso-
II. N'sA'
and was not denied, even tho the men-
bership was already large. She has Ia
ken an unusual interest In the work
and has submitted a highly cred1taple
production entitled Liberty; Its Abuse
and Its Safeguard" After an absence OF
two years Iowa State College will re-
appear on the program with an Grafton
on Americas First Envoy" The COM
position is smooth, the thought strong
and vigorous. The fact that Ames Will
send a large delegation to accompany
her speaker shows her confidencet in
his ability. Interest at Coe and Lenox
does not lag. 1t will be remembered
that a LenoX man, A. M. Claud, won
the interstate contest for Iowa In 1895.
Iowa Wesleyan will come to Des Moines
full of anticipation and assurance in
spired by last years victory, and Simp-
son will show her confidence in Edwin
Youtz by bringing delegation so large
that a special train will be required.
Perhaps no other school in the state
puts more enthusiasm into these con-
tests than does Simpson, and this is es-
pecially true when Drake University is
an opponent. She will come $50 strong.
with the laurels of the gridfron still
green upon her brow" The supporters
of the blue and white repose their con-
fidence In S. Grundy Fisher. Upon him
rests the honor of defending the enter
tanning institution, and If persistent
work avails anything he should not be
last.
The five judges on thought and COM
position handed in their decision to
the executive committee of the oratori-
cal association at meeting held at
the Kirllwood February /. Only the
eight best orations out of the fifteen
submitted are to be delivered, the
schools winning a place on the pro-
gram being named above. The judges
We're Rev. Francis Perry, pastor of
the Englewood, ILL.,. Baptist church;
Judge NJ. W. Macy, of Harlan. S. w.
Moorehead. editor of the Keokuk Gate
City; j. w. johnson, editor of the AL
bia Union; L. v. Hart. principal of the
Knoxville high school Those on deliv-
cry will be Hon. w. l.. Eaton, speak
er of the house of representatives.
Judge II. E. Deemer of the supreme
court; Sam E. Carroll, editor of the
Perry Advertiser: Hon. Claude Porter,
trict; Rev. j. NJ. Hoffman of Boone.
The program for Friday evening.
exclusive of the musical features, will
be as follows:
americas First Envoy" Albert E.
Prien, Iowa State College at Ames.
"The Constitution and the Union" A.
r. Kent, Cornell College.
Russia and the Slav," Edwin S.
YoutZ, Simpson college.
1.-The Blot on the Escutcheon," Glenn
A. Mitchell, Iowa Wesleyan univers-
ity.
William the Silent, and the Revolt
of the Netherlands" j. Albert Rippel,
Coe college.
'The Eastern Question" George N.
Greer Lenox college.
John Ruskin," S. Grundy Fisher,
Drake university.
Liberty; It's Abuse and It's Safe
guard" August Cornelius Larsen.
Western college
Decision of judges
The orators winning the three high
est places will be sent as Iowa's official
delegation to the interstate contest.
which will be held May 2. at st. Paul,
Mimi, under the auspices of Hamline
UNIVERSITY