The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-02-18
Special to the journal,

the University and coach the baseball
team. Mr.. Pile, the physical director
and football coach of the University,
thought it best to obtain some man
better versed in the science OF base
ball than himself. Mr.. Lee is undoubt-
edly the man for the place and it is
expected that he will develop one of
the strongest mines" that Florida has
ever seen out of the bunch which is
trying for the team. Coach Pile has
already had the men out for several
practices.
The schedule as so far arranged will
be as follows:
March 3 and 4, Kentucky Military
Institutes, Gainesville.
March Is and 16, Rollins College,
Gainesville.
March IS and 10, Stetson, Gaines
vile.
March 20 and 2s, Rollins College,
Winter Park.
April l and 2. Switzerland College.
Gainesville.
April IA and Is, Switzerland College,
Switzerland.
The calendar is still pretty open,
although some games are being nego'
tiated with some of the Georgia
schools.
An inter-class field meet is to be
held on the campus on Feb. p. There
is to be running, jumping, pole vault
ing, hammer throwing, shot putting,
tug-of-wars. and basketball games.
The gymnasium classes for the
lower classmen are doing good work
under Coach Pile and are thinking Sc
riously of the exposition to be given
by them some time in the spring.
The second semester began Friday
morning, Feb. 4, with talk in chapel
from President Murphree. He spoke
in praise of those men who had sue
cessfully passed all of their semester
examinations and gave words of en-
enlargement to those who had fallen
behind
The seniors, class 10, have decided
to undertake, with the support of the
student body, the publication of an an
nual. The name. a very appropriate
one, is The Seminole" The various
classes, clubs, and associations are
having their pictures taken and are
having their write-ups prepared. Sew
eral large views of the battalion were
taken Wednesday afternoon. Some Of
these views are to go into the Semi
mole and some are to go into the Flor
ida supplement of the advanced
Biographies which are used in the pub
lie schools Of the state now being pre-
pared by DR.. Yocum, formerly of the
University faculty.
At the last meeting of the Athe-
naeum Club very interesting paper
was read by Dr. FAIR, the title being
"The Destiny of Man from an Optim-
istic Standpoint
The Y. NJ. C. A. has elected new
officers for the semester as is Gus
tomary. Those elected were: w. B.
Hilton, president; G. J. Grace, vice
president; Hilton, chairman of Bible
study groups; F. ]. Fret, secretary;
T. D. FELTON,, treasurer. Prof. A. w.
Blair gave very helpful talk, which
might be characterized as heart to
heart" on the subject of Sowing and
Reaping."
Talk to Press Club.
The Press Club was treated to a
talk at the last meeting by DR.. Thack-
ston on his Experience in the North
west" New officers were also elected.
G. J. Grace, president; G. H. Overman,
vice-president: S. Macintosh, secre-
tary-treasurer; DR.. Crow, chief re-
porter.
P. S. May, J. Stands and E. Taylor
have been elected respectively presi-
dent, vice-president and treasurer of
the junior ball which is given by the
juniors every commencement for the
seniors. These men have already
started work and expect to make the
ball the finest Florida has ever seen.
The following talk was given to the
special course students from Escambia
county at their last class under Prof.
A. W. Blair:
The farmer should strive to be an
influential man in his community; not
necessarily man with political in
fluence, but one whose influence tends
toward civic righteousness, the build.
ing up and betterment of the COM
| munity, the county, the state. To this
end he should take an active part in
matters of public interest. If he is
thus imbued with the spirit of inn
provement, he will want to see in his
community and in his county, better
churches, better schools, better roads
and finally better homes with more
pleasant surroundings and better and
more productive farms. So much of
| the life and prosperity of the com
uuutLy are pound up III It's CHURCHES
and Sunday schools that the farmer
cannot afford to neglect these, but
| should give them his hearty support
and cooperation. The farmer citizen
| will realize that a community with
| poor schools is a dead community and
he will heartily lend his influence to
| the betterment of the school system.
! He will want to see good commO-
| dious house surrounded by attractive
grounds and equipped with the neces-
| sary furniture and apparatus. Along
with the other Improvements the far
mer will see the necessity for good
| roads; he will see that it is a waste of
| time and energy to go to town with a
| load of II hundred or Is hundred
| pounds, when with a good hard road
| he could Just as easily haul 25 hundred
or three thousand pounds; he will see
! likewise that if with a good road he
/ can make the trip to town in half a
| day Instead of the day as formerly, he
has in reality shortened the distance
to market by one-half. When we come
| to the farmers own home and farm il
should be place that he may well be
| proud of. 1t need not necessarily be