The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-07
His Grafton Delivered in In
dianapoIis Last Night Inter
ested Hearers Above All
Others Given.
BIG CELEBRATION WHEN
NEWS ARRIVED HERE.
Students Went Wild With De-
light and Co. -eds Broke COL
Iege Rule by Yelling Them
selves HoarSe for Winner.

Walter X. Miles of Earlham colIeSe
won the state oratorical contest at
Caleb Mills hall last night. Chester
Jewett, representing De Pauw, WAS
second. and Joseph L. BOYLE of Notre
Dame, third. The Earlham yell gang
took possessio of the stage as soon as
the winner was announced with a
streamer stretching from one side OF
the platform 10 the other. No one knew
for some time that it bore simply the
name 'Earlham,'' as in climbing on TO
the platform the excited band OF
triumphants tangled il with the presid-
ing officer, G.. Hoelscher: the gang
meanwhile went ahead splitting the
air with yells as merrily as IL the
streamer really sire AIMED.
Hanover college. represented by
John Stuart Burns; Wabash college,
represented by Walter II. Linn. and
Butler by Miss Jennie Lee. We're tied
for fourth place. with Miss Georgia
Lewis of Franklin college pressing
them close. The hall was crowded
with college people. who encouraged
their representatives with yells both
before and after the delivery OF their
orations Three numbers. with one or
two encores. were given by the Orion
Male quartet, made up of Homer Van
Vie, Andrew Smith, Fred NJ. Loomis,
and Oliver lsensee.
Walter II. Miles, the winner. spoke
on the subject, Cooperation and Mod
ern Life" He gave a dignyied and
easy delivery to a subject that was
treated with some bearing on present
day affairs, avoiding any pyrotechnics
and taking the audience into mis- conf
dence in a reasoning and enthusiastic
sort of way He succeeded better thai
any of his fellows in making his hear
ers take an interest in his subjec.
rather than his delivery.
De Pauw Man Hoarse.
Chester Jewett of De Pauw was suf-
fering with heavy cold, which marred
his delivery somewhat on account of
selfpossession, and he handled his
subject without hesitation or a lapse
of memory such as marred the per-
formance OF some OF the others. His
subject was The New Crusade for
Democracy" Joseph p. Boyle had n
semi-religious subject, christianity
and the Worlds Peace" John Stuart
Burns, representing Hanover college.
spoke on THE Orient and the Occi-
dent" Walter II. Linn OF Wabash, On
The Individual and the Party" aud
Miss Jennie Lee of Butler. on The
Present Problem" Miss Georgia Lewis,
/ in RTtE
sia Liberia"
The womanly orators made good i'm
pressions by their simple unaffected
! style of dress. Miss Lewis wore n
white shirtwaist with a black bow tie
and a black skirt: makeup severely
plain. Miss Lee was dressed in the
same taste. entirely in black, with
white cuffs and white-tipped collar.
| The judges on thought and compost
tion were Prof. L. Sears OF Brown uni
versity, Prof. Fl. r. Peck of Columbia
college and Prof. G.. b. Churchill OF
Amherst college. The judges on de-
| livery were Prof. ". E. Stone. presi-
dent of Purdue university; J. w. Kern
OF indianapolis, and ". H. Stout OF the
Central Lyceum bureau. Indianapolis.
Big Celebration.
4 big celebration over Miles victory
in the oratorical will be held at Earl
ham tonight. but what its nature will
be could not be escertained. The col
! lege went wild when the people from
! Indianapolis arrived home last even
/ Ing. Bonfires were lit. speeches made.
| the old college bell was rung and boys
/ and girls alike gave yell after yen for
victor. Two victories in one day was
d little more than IS usually handed
out 10 Earlham. and it is safe to stats
that no studying will be done BY the
students for a week