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HERCER WON.
Walter F. (ieorffe Wins the (iraves
Oratorical Medal.
For the fourth time Mercer
won the oratorical contest.
On Friday night at the Grand
in Atlanta, before an audience
that packed it from top to bot
tom, the Inter-Collegiata Ora
torical Association held its an
nual contest. The contest was
the most successful ever held,
and showed the amount of in
terest that is being taken in col
lege orator) - and demonstrated
to us how very important it is
that the University af Georgia
he the next victor, and to this
end let us begin work iintnedi-
diately.
'Phe
Walter
seated
Mr
lay in beginning the exercises
of the evening, and it was it :20
before Mr. Fred W. MeClesky,
the President of the Associa
tion, was able to begin his, the
the first address of the evening.
He briefly reviewed the work of
the Association, and introduced
to the audience the Chairman
i of the meeting, the Hon. John
Temple graves, to whoso en
deavors the organization of the
Association is due.
Mr. Graves introduced the
first speaker of the evening, Mr.
W. M. Smith, of the North
Georgia Agricultural and Mili
tary College,who spoke on “The
Triumph of Individualism.’’
Mr. Smith, who is a member of
our Law class, had a well-pre
pared speech which he delivered
in splendid style.
Mr. C. II. Kicklighter, of the
Georgia School of Technology
was the next speaker, and his
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conrestants were
F. George who re pre-
Mercer; Mr. W. M.
Smith of the North Georgia Ag
ricultural college; Mr. C. H. , ,, ,,
* t])p subject was "The South.” He
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10. Clemson Game—Ath
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North Carolina Game
—Raleigh.
10. A. and M. College—
Raleigh.
20. Auburn Game—At- 1
lanta.
Kicklighter representing
Technological school; Mr. E,
C. Sassnett of Emory; and Mr.
Glen W. L-gwin for the Univer
sity of Georgia. “The scenes
before and during the contest
were such as could only be en
acted by lusty-luuged collegians,
bubbling over with Ipyalty for
their alma maters. Long be
fore the hour set for the open
ing of the oratorical fray the
corridors were packed and
jammed with a seething mass of
college boys and college girls.”
Large delegations attended
frvtn the various colleges. Mer
cer sent up 205, Emory 211,
Dahlonega was well represent
ed, the whole of the Technolog
ical School seemed to be there,
but the delegation from our
University was not as large or
enthusiastic as it should have
been. Then the different girl
schools in and around Atlanta
attended in bodies, and wore
the colors af their favorite in
stitution. In this we also
seemed to be liehind, though
there was a notable exception in
the Prather Home School, the
young ladies of that institution
being very loyal to the red and
black of their State University.
The judges who passed on the
thought of the orations were
Dr. Kittridge of Harvard; Dr.
Manley of the University of Chi
cago, and Governor-elect Ham-
ford of Alabama. Those to de
cide on the delivery of the
speeches were the Hon. Living
ston Mims, Atlanta’s next May
or, and Bishop C. K. Nelson,
of the Episcopal church.
On account of the noise and
enthusiasm displayed at the
time for the opening of the con
test, there was considerable de-
received more applause than
did any of the other speakers.
The next speaker was Mr. Wal
ter F. George, of Mercer, win
spoke on the "Bases of Peace,
and taking as his text that
“ Universal Peace is the thought
of God, written at the heart of
creation,” lie delivered in an al
most perfect manner, an elo
quent oration full of deep
thought,anil he seemed to sweep
everything before him.
Emory’s representative, Mr.
E. C. Sassnett came next and
taking for his subject “The
March of Science,” delivered a
splendid address. The last
speaker of the evening was Mr.
GlenN. Legwin, the represen
tative of the University of Geor
gia, and his subject was “Wane
of Statesmanship.” Mr. Le
gwin acquitted himself in a very
1 creditable manner, and consid
ering the short time he has had
for preparation made a remark
ably good showing.
About our Football Season.
There has been some idle talk
about college during the past
week to the ell’ect that our sea
son has not been a success so
far, and that it would therefore
be useless to continue it
It is difficult to
how we can be so
considerations of honor and loy
alty as to think for a moment of
endorsing suck a weak, coward-
*,7 1 y, and ruinous policy as that.
What are the facts in regard
to the season? We began with
but two or three veterans, and
had practically to develop an
entirely now team. The man
rial which offered itself was
most all drawn from the Soph
omore and Freshman classes, a
fact which augurs well for our
team during several years to
come, but one which made the
task of putting out a winning
iteam a most difficult one this
season. To add to this diffi
culty canto our carnival week—
a time of unrestraint in every
thing,—which made practice
extremely bad, especially in
view of the fact that our field
was occupied by the parapher
nalia of Pains fireworks.
Well might we have l>con ap
prehensive of the result of our
meeting with the veteran eleven
Immediately upon the conclu- of t |,e Technological School, It
sion of the speeches, the judges
retired to a private room to make
up their decision, and their de
cision was announced by Bishop
Nelson,and in a few well-chosen
words Chancellor Hill delivered
the first prize,the (Iraves medal,
to Mr. Walter F. George, and
the second prize, a complete set
of “The World’s Best Orations”
to Mr. E. C. Sassnett, of Emo
ry. The decision of the judges
met with the favor of the au
dience, and there seems to be
no doubt but that their conclu
sion was a correct one.
The speakers who have won
the first place in the former con
tests were all present to cheer
their representative on to anoth-
turned out to be an easy victory
for us, however, for which the
er victory for Mercer. They
were Mr. John Roach Straton,
Rev. A. J. Moncrief, and Mr.
Mark Bolding, and among the
most interested listeners were
President Pollock, of Mercer,
Chancellor Hill, of the
sity, Dr. Dowtnan, of
President Stewart, of
ega, and Dr. Lyman
the Tech.
The attendance and
in the contest show of
team deserves great credit.
: Next canto the game with South
I Carolina’s undoubtedly strong
team. In view of the splendid
defense of our goal line at the
end of the first half, and the ir
resistible playing of the team in
lilts second half which would
doubtless have netted another
touchdown had the opposing
team not left the field. We may
further compliment our team on
another creditable victory.
A week later we met the team
of the University of tin" South,
a veteran aggregation which not
unreasonably claimed thecham-
understand ] pionsltip of the South last year,
blind to all With McCutcheon, Terry and
Hewlotto all out of the contest,
with Dorsey, Dickinson and
Ridley out of condition,so much
so that the first two had to retire
from the field, we yet played a
game variously estimated at
from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, better than did our team
last year. Costly fumbling ac-
„|. counted for Sewauee’s two touch
downs in the first half, yet in
spite of that there was for awhile
a splendid chance for a victory
after Dorsey’s run. With six
’Varsity players out of the game,
however, this was not to bo,and
we finished with defeat, but
with a victorious defeat from
several important points of view.
Our new and young team had
played two long, hard halves
with a seasoned team of much
experience, and in spite of the
score, had made things extreme
ly lively for them.
Til K HCII KIU'I.K.
So far, so good. It had been
deemed l>est that after the Ko-
wanee game w« should have a
space of two weeks left in which
j to rest from the Hewunee game,
shake up the team, and prepare
for the home-stretch.
So no game was scheduled for
Saturday, Nov. 3rd. It is true
that most of the team took more
rest last week than had been an
ticipated, but let that go. It
merely means harder work from
now on. Has our season been
a success so far? Most assured
ly. The team has played well;
not so well as it could have
played perhaps, but all new
teams are liable to this fault.
Univer-
Ernory,
Dahlon-
11 all, of
interest,
what im-1
portance it is considered by the Now for the future, rhosched-
people of Georgia and make it
imperative that the University
of Georgia lie the next winner.
ule has been well arranged
Clemson at Athens, Nov. 10th
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