The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-07
CONTEST IN ORATORY
INTERCOLLEGIATE ASSOCIATIONS
ANNUAL TONIGHT.
The Town VIII he Filled with Enthu-
siastic students of Indi-
ana Colleges.
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OUT
USUAL HEARTY COMPETITION FOR
THE PLACE OF HONOR.
Annual Meeting of the association
This AfternOon-SpeciaI Trains
for Students.

The annual contest Of the Indiana State
intercollegiate Oratorical Association will
be held tonight, and Tomlinson Hall will
ring with the wild yells of collegians there
to root" for their respective representa-.
tives. The oratorical contest is perhaps the
chief annual event Of interest TO the state
colleges. and each institution of learning
sends annually several hundred students
boiling with enthusiasm. Tonight as usual
they will arrange themselves in the sec
tions of the hall devoted to each college.
College colors and ribbons will be every
where, in flags carried by the men, In
gowns and badges worn by the not less
enthusiastic girls and in tanners decorating
the big hall.
That indehnable impulse known as col
lege spirit" which sways crowds alike at
football games or at Intellectual contests,
has been so intense at oratorical meetings
in former years that several almost san
culinary encounters have taken place.
Plymouth Church, now torn down, used TO
be the annual meeting place of the asso-
citation, and those who have attended con-
tests of recent years may remember fierce
rushes up to the very altar of the church
made by delegations from one college
against c~ontingents OF men from a rival
school. The influence of faculties has
tended to tone down materially this sort of
thing, and the contest tonight will prob
ably be confined to a struggle purely intel
~lectual.
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
The official programme of the contest, in
Guiding the names of the college orators
and the subjects of their addresses, was
announced yesterday. 1t is as follows:
Invocation ............Rev Mr.. Macintosh
Lead. Kindly Light Buck
Wabash Male quartet.
THE Message off Patriot"
Samuel ]. Offutt
Butler College.
THE True American. ........J T. Giboney
Hanover College.
Forget Me Victor Baier
Earlham Mixed Quartet.
"SOciety'S Criminal ............J. Nj. DeYerS
De Paw University;
IAN Unsolved Problem C.. Everingham
Franklin College.
swa6ian folk song, leone; N, DoT0 6Isrtet
"L'Ouverture the Emancipator' 49,.
Joseph Kenney
Earlham College.
The Mission and Opportunity OF the
Scholar" K. Alexander
Wabash College.
Music, selected. Wabash Male Quartet
With the exception of one, the judges
have been selected. Prof. a. n. Scott, of the
University of Michigan, Prof. r. c. Ring
walt, of Columbia University, and Prof.
w. Phelps, of Yale, will consider the rela-
tive merits of the manuscripts. Judge Hack
ney and Judge Wiley will be two of the Of
fcials on delivery. Another judge on deliv-
cry viii be selected, probably to-day.
A preliminary meeting Of the members Of
the association was held in the Denison
Hotel yesterday evening, at which the de-
tails of to-night's contest were settled.
Earlham and De PAW sent word that they
will send TO indianapolis to-day the largest
delegations in their history, and the dele
cations from the other colleges OF the stare
will be fully up TO that of former years,
il is believed.
ANNUAL MEETING TO-DAY.
This afternoon at 2 o'clock the annual
meeting of the association will be held, at
which officers for the ensuing year will be
elected and other important business trans
acted. Notre Dame University at South
Bend has applied for admission to the as
ISOLATION, and il is stated that the request
will be granted.
A number of the college fraternities will
also hold State conventions and banquets
in the city to-day and this evening. PHI
Delta Theta will meet at 2 o'clock this
afternoon in the Denison. and this even
ing the fraternity brothers will banquet at
the same hotel. A number OF members OF
the grand council of the order will be pres
ent. Beta Theta Pi will have their ban
quet at Hotel English, and Phi Gamma
Delta at the Denison.
The college delegations will begin to ar
rive in force this morning. Three hundred
rooters from De Pauw will arrive on a
special train to support the college repre-
sentative, j. NJ. Devers. The Franklin and
Earlham delegations will also get in early.
Two OF the orators, j. +. Giboney, the
representative of Hanover, and Raymond
+. Alexander, of Wabash, came I'm last
night. Greenfield will send a large crowd
of townspeople to root for Samuel j.. Of
futt. Buffers orator, who lives in that
town.
Through Mr.. Offutt Butler College and
the entire University of Indianapolis is
confident OF winning the first prize. In
various contests the talent OF Mr.. Onutt
as a speaker of more than ordinary ability
has been demonstrated. De PauW, which
for years has been successfulul at State
oratorical contests, comes with the usual
enthusiasm and confidence, and its rep
resentatives are offering odds that ii will
again carry off the honors.