The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07
NOTRE DAME WINS.
Edward F. O'Flynn Is Declared the
Victor in the Annual State Col
lege Contest.

A masterful story of Savonarola,
the Florentine monk, told Ia beautiful
language and delivered in an easy
and graceful manner, won for Notre
Dame the first place in the twenty
second annual contest of the Indiana
State Oratorical Association at Tom
linson Hall Friday night Edward
O'Flynn, the Catholic champion, dis
played many of the traits of finish
ed orator, having perfect control of
his subject and possessing an easy
stage presence.
Second place was awarded to Wa
bash, the scarlet champion, Leo c.
Kelly, delivering an Grafton on Ed
mund Burke, Apostle of Righteous
ness" Two of the three judges of
the manuscripts assigned first place
to Kelley.
DePauw, which has won sixteen of
the twenty-five contests, had to be
content with third place Friday night.
She was represented by her colored
orator. Samuel Taylor. who spoke on
the subject of Heritage and Emanci-
patton While Taylor's manner OF
delivery was somewhat inferior to
that of O'Flynn and Kelly not ore
of the contestants spoke with the
passion and evident seriousness that
characterized his Grafton. Butler was
awarded fourth place although John
w. Hoffman, one of the judges of
delivery, in his decision, awarded
Carl Barnett, Buffers representative,
first place. Barrett spoke on "Civic
Righteousness" and in his Grafton
alluded to Governor Hanly as "our
great reform Governor" and predict
ed, in speaking of city affairs, that
Indianapolis will yet be blessed with
clean administration"
Fifth place was accorded to Walter
R. Miles of Earlham, who spoke on
"Fraternalism in American Civiliza-
tion:" sixth to E. R. Nichols of
Franklin, who discussed The Indi-
vidual in Politics." and seventh to
Miss Adah Frazer Throop of Han
over, whose chief mistake seemed to
lie in the fact that she had chosen
subject too masculine, had treated it
in too masculine way and delivered
it in too masculine manner. Her
subject was The Problems of TODAY
in Our Country"
The contest was an interesting one
from beginning to end and at the con-
clusion a good deal of doubt existed
in the minds of the assembly of more
than 1000 persons as to who would
be awarded first place O'Flynn, ,Kel-
ly and Taylor each had his partisans,
even among the disinterested listen
ers. Their names, together with those
of all the other participants in the
contest, could be heard in the thunder
of college yelIs and songs that filled
Tomlinson Hall.
The demonstrations were among
the most enthusiastic hat have ever
been witnessed in Indianapolis. Each
of the colleges represented in the
contest had sent to the capital city
strong band of "rooters," and these
bands had been assigned separate sec
tons in the hall Yell answered yell,
each delegation trying to drown out
the noises made by all the Others
and each bidding fair to succeed as
the custodian of the hall put it. Canes
banners and streamers waved franti
cally were everywhere apparent, CO.
eds" supporting their favorites with
their colors and their voices as hear
tily as their brother students.
When the decision of the judges
was announced, the Notre Dame del
egation fairly went iwld." 1t was thc
first time the Catholics have ever won
first place in the contests, although
they have come dangerously near
it" number of times before. O'Flynn
was the hero of the delegation, and
his name was fitted into their yells
wherever it would conveniently fit.
O'Flynn is extremely popular with
the Notre Dame boys. He is a native
of Montana and is in his senior year
He has worked his way through col
lege, making enough outside to pay
for his schooling He is good stu
dent and has won a good deal of
praise as an orator.