The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-17
STUDENTS TO HOLD
NATIONAL Meeting
I. r. 4. Gathers In Convention At
q Eexingto KY. Soon; Oratorical
Contest VIII BE Feature.

Lexington, KY. Dec. 1.-THE stu
dents of Kentucky colleges. IN COM
mon with the student bodies OF other
universities and colleges throughout
the country. are following with keen
interest the advance announcements
regarding the approaching national
0ratorical contest to be held In Lex
sington, December 2S, In connection
with the national student convention
of the intercollegiate Prohibition As
ISOLATION. for Kentucky Is to have the
honor not only of entertaining this
national gathering of representative
student leaders, but the extraordinary
honor of furnishing two of eight inter-
state winners eligible to compete In
this eliminating intercollegiate event
OF the most extensive student ora
%torical series in the United States.
The two State representatives In
the Lexington event will also repre-
bent the colleges OF the entire South.
each having won a Southern inter-
state contest within the past two
years The two orators are Earl w.
Foster. '18. of Georgetown College,
holder OF the Southern title for 1915.
and Leonard V. Buschman. '16, of
the Southern Pacific Presbyterian
Seminary at Louisville, winner of the
1915 sectional competition.
Both Foster and Buschman have
won a State and an Interstate con-
test, and the rivalry for the 1916 ma
.tional prize will be the most intense
ever seen In forensic struggle In this
State. In their effort to land the ma
fionai honors for their respective col
lcges and for Kentucky. both orators
will be backed by enthusiastic student
At
willie and most OF the other colleges
of the State.
The two men on whom Kentucky
viii depend to carry off the bacon in
the national meet are trained student
orators both of whom have establish
ed records for themselves, not only
In public speaking. but in other COL
lege activities as well.
Deal With Liquor Issue.
In the Lexington contest the two
Kentucky entrants will meet the pick
Or 1900 student orators in over EGO
American colleges and universities,
from whom the eight national con-
tsstants have been selected through
local, State and interstate compet-
tons. All the orauons delivered in
the l. r. A. series deal with some
phase OF the liquor question Besides
Foster and Busehman. the other six
ma oaai orators. with their colleges
eor he interstate section they rep
resent, Will be:
fastcrn-B Bernard c. Clausen. Col
diversity. New York, and De-
I.lot1 Z. Wood. Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
vr~sitv
ccrtral-Joshua y. Ice, University
Of oklahoma, and Harold r. Hustled,
Sieux Fails College. South Dakota.
Western-~tsene l.. Blaiock. Uni
'rrsity of Southern California, and
stnuta c. Sm.thson. McMinnville Col
loge. Oregon.
The national oratorical contest.
however. will be only one of the big
a.ures of the unique student con-
vrn+ion. which beyond all doubt will
he INC greatest student gathering OF
a civic character ever held in Ameri
The intense. cumulative interest
20 'ho college prohibition movement,
ressed in the earnest and effective
r!'y Of ., 500 college students who
80 taken part in the nation wide
20 against the liquor traffic since
Topeka convention of 1914. es-
ALLY. in the stirring State cam
ms preceding the recent election.
prospect Of further victorious
s., a.ens just ahead. and the ex-
= irnslly attractive convention pro-
: aee announced. guarantee a record
k'r- attendance at the Lexington
hol.dav Sathering. Plans win here
he Laid for lining up the great student
hedy OF the nation for trained. az
gregE5vc leadership in the rapidly ad
vaacing movement for national and
world wide prohibition.