Arizona republican., 1909-06-09
SOCIETY
 CONTEST Mondays Entertainment al
 the Normal THE PH|L0METH|ANS WON Though in All Three Events the Margin Was Small What's Doing the Rest of This Week.
THE PH|LOMETH|ANs WON

The flrst out door entertainment of
 commencement week at the normal
 the inter-society contests Monday
 evening, drew a large attendance As
 most people know, the inter society contest each June is a contest in de- clamation, essay writing and oratory
 between representatives of the two 1 normal societies, the Philomathian
 and the Olympia. These contestants are selected by means of preliminary | contests and consequently represent | the best talent of the school in their
 respective lines. The contest is for ! three medals, one in each division of the contest and the awards are made and the contest given by the Athe-
 nian Debating club of the normal.
 In Monday evenings contest the i Philomathian society came out best,
 winning two of the three events The medal winners were Miss Lulu Keat- 1 ing and Carroll Belknap of the Philo-
 mathian and Leonard Dykes of the 1 Olympian.
 The evening was a most suspicious
 one for an out door gathering and there was an abundant anount of enthusiasm displayed by the adher- ents of the two societies. The young people were given an hour Tn which | to give vent to this before President Matthews stepped to the front of the
 stage and in a few words announced the7 conditions of the contests and | introduced Miss Keating as the first speaker in declaration. Her selec- ! tion was "The Doon7 of Clandius and | { | isaf FsII ! lIai,le Holmesly in When the Moon Rose Between these two numbers d;ri .ne essays, Miss Agusta Treat i rendered crcditatie selection at the | piano.
 Miss Ruth Robbins, representing | the Olympia society read the first | essay, Arizona Fairyland" She was | followed by the Philomathian con- testants, Carrol Belknap in Leader | ship"
 | In the oratorical contest .Frank | Thomas, PhilO, gave Robert Emmet's
 Defense" and Leonard Dykes, Olym-
 pia, gave, "Toussaint LOuverture. the Hero of Hayti"
 The judges took some little time to bring in their verdict and in the in terim, the ''roOters" enjoyed another outbreak of enthusiasm. All was si- | fence in moment though when ]. Fred Cleaveland took the stage and announced the awards He explained l that in all three events the standing of the two contestants was close, but in the essay writing it was especially so. The two essays were sent to three different parties to be read and judged on thought and expression and graded on basis of 95 per cent This result gave MT. Belknap an advantage of IF per cent On delivery which was judged by the five judges, Miss Robbins was judged one-half per cent the best. thus giv- | ing the winner but one per cent mar gin.
 The judges were J. F. Cleaveland Sims Ely, Rev. Bernard Cocks of Phoenix, Prof. J. b Loper of Mesa and Miss Corsell of Tempe. Particular attention is due the la dies chorus which appeared in sey eral selections between the divisions of the contest. The chorus was com posed entirely of the young ladies of the school and their singing was most excellent
 Tonight is the one off night of the week at the normal There will be no public exercises this evening Tomorrow night will be graduation night, the program of which will be published in the morning. Friday evening will be given over to the Alumni association banquet and re- ception.