The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-08
Levi 7. Pennington Earns the
Right to Represent Earlham
At State College Contest
Next Year.
RICHMOND STUDENTS
MAKE FINE SHOWING
First and Third Places in the
Event Won by Local Men,
Jones Is Second, Jenkins
Finished Third.

Levi 7. Pennington won The Darlham
college oratorical contest last evening
with his Grafton, Tho Evolution OF
World Peace" Tom Jones w.s
awarded second place and Hugh Jen-
kins third. by their orations on John
Sobieski' and THE Citisen OF the
World respectively. Mr.. Penuins.
ton will represent Earlham i'm the COL
lege state intercollegiate oratorical
contest, which will be held at Indian
apolis. February 4.
The contest last evening was one OF
triumph for the day studenta Two
years ago. the first two places were
awarded to Richmond students. Walter
r. Miles. first. and Gustave Hoelscher,
second. Mr.. Pennington II the pastor
Of the South Eighth Street Friends
church. Mr.. Jones lives with Mr.. Sut.
ton In West Richmond and Mr.. Jen-
kins, although his home 10 in Oklaho-
ma. lives in this city while attending
Earlham.
Jones Was eurpesee.
The surprise Of the evening was the
oration by Mr.. Jones. John Sobies-
ki." the Russian-Polish hero. had .
forceful exponent in Mr.. Jones. His
Grafton was very Interesting and his
delivery the best that has been given
at the Quaker college BY . sophomore
In several years. The obscure hero q
Poland was painted in q very impress
sive manner and Mr.. Jones's delivery
was very forceful and earnest
The Evolution OF World Peace" by
MIR. Pennington is practically the same
Grafton with which he won the state
and interstate Oratorical peace con-
tests last spring. Both in Indiana and
Chicago he WAS given first place for his
efforts. The Grafton is q very strong
one and an energetic plea for peace.
Mr.. Pennington had the delivery down
20 fine point. After . successful ca
reer In the pulpit his delivery is unlike
the average college orator and more
impressive. In the grafton the author
contends that peace il no longer tho
dream Of the poet. but the realisation
of the men of this generation.
Jenkins Did Well.
Mr.. Jenkins. the winner of the third
place. is a sophomore 1t Earlham, but
made his first appearance on the ora
torical platform last evening. His
strongest point was the earnestness Of
his delivery and the logic Of the
thought. but his gestures were auto
matte.
1t is doubtful whether the class spir-
1t was ever 50 high at the college as Il
was last evening. Since all oratorical
| contests are In q measure monot0n0us
the several class members gathered
in the chapel and announced their
presence by giving class and college
yells. Most of the noise OF the even
ing was made by the Junior class MEM
bers who won first place In yelling.
even though their representative In the
contest was awarded no place. The
seniors had . small crowd OF three
men. who would now and then break
the silence by letting loose . yell
Perley J. Denman. q senior. acted n
the presiding officer and the following
men acted as judges: President Robert
l. Kelly. Professors Allen d. Hole. w.
O. Mendenhall and Ebert Russell, and
Gath Freeman. Of tins city.
The program for the contest follows:
Piano Solo ...........M Mis- Wilson
The Citizen Of the World ......
| -. -. ;. -. -. Hugh Jenkins
The Evolution OF Warld Peace.
| Levi r. Pennington
The Ilhterate Immigrant.
| -. .-.-.. ........D. A. Haworth
Violin Solo ..... 49,. 80. Afs0 Ward