The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-09-26
PENN COLLEGE

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On account of the revival meetings
which are to be held in Penn Audi
torium, Penn Day." which Is held
each year to celebrate the birthday
Of William Penn, will be postponed
from October 18th to November LIST.
There will be speech by some one
| from out of the city, In the morning,
but it has not yet been decided who
they will get. The pageant portray
ing scenes in the life of William
Penn which was given by the college
last year with such great success, will
! be reproduced this year and will be
better than ever. The feature of the
afternoon will be the football game
between Simpson college and Penn
This is the first time in several years
that Penn has played Simpson on this
field and everyone who remembers
the stiff fights between these two
teams that used to be staged on Penn
Field will be out TO see the game
The day will conclude with the an
nual reception of the students by the
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The chapel exercises Friday morn.
ing will be in the form of musicale
under the direction of the department
of music. a',- p. d. ,.sa, ~ .-5s.
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The Penn College Orchestra under
the direction of j. Worth Allen met
last week for the first time this year
The orchestra has about twenty
pieces to start with aud is doing ex-
Cellent work. Mr.. Allen has already
one out-of-town date booked for the
orchestra. ... a'.,' rl+'E mi -.
The faculty organized their volley
ball team last week and are putting
in some strenuous practice. pee n.,.
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The work on the forms for the foot
ings for the Friends church is nearly
completed and it will not be many
days before they are ready for the
concrete work
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Two special meetings of the Y. NJ.
C. A. have been held since the begin
ming OF school One of these was led
by Dr. Edwards and the other by DR..
!McClelland Bible Study classes have
been organized in both the college
and academy departments and are do
ing good work. The religious spirit
is very good at the school this year.
Prof. Morris led the Y. NJ. c. A. this
"wednesday morning. .. -...a.r.
! The rushing season for the literary
cry student who is going to join a
society has either joined one or the
other of the two. The annual open
meetings Of both societies have just
been held, that OF Argonaut being
held last Friday night and Euphemian
Monday night. Both societies were
we'll attended and very interesting
programs were given. The Argonaut
program was as follows:
Piano Soo--Helen Snyder. t'..
Sidney Lanier--Edith Hammond.
Southern uperstitions--Sarah KEEL
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The Rabbits Left Hind Foot, from
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
Mabel Wright and Linneus Nc
Cracker. .- .'.r
Observation-Disclosures Johnson, Lyle
Venable, Harold Lane and Hadley
Kelsey.
Development of the South-Ray
Glenny. ~. "''-
Darkic Stories-Ernest Clark. -,s
Scene from "Old.Fashioned Gentle
man"-Malcolm White, Grover Lich-
'tenheld, Walter Martin, Helen Sny.
der, Spencer Mortimer, Harold Lane
and Hadley Kelsey. .-@. 's.. q.
Social Hour.
The program given by the Euprem-
ian Society was as follows:
Piano SUlo-Mayme Hockett.
Readng-Reed Stewart.
Presidential Candidates-Gren Pier.
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BOoks--Grace Williams.
Vocal SOlo-Letha Peckham.
Short Story-Theron Harris. -.
Poem-Mamie Marshall
Stunt-Elmer Tatum, Reed Stewart
and Helen Abrams.
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Rev. J. Holmes, of California, was
a visitor at the college for two days
last week, and gave very interesting
talk in chapel on Thursday. Rev.
Holmes is a graduate of the Hartford
Theological Seminary and is return
ing there to take years post gradu-
ate work prior to going to Japan as h
missionary where he has agreed to go
under the direction of the American
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