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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 Henry T1 )on )ton, ATLANTA. OA. sptmri.YG coons, i;emulation outfits And Colors of all Colleges kept in Stock. Wholesale and Retail. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Nov 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 Nov. 1 Nov Nov 10. Clemson Game—Ath ens. 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 [Concluded on 2nd page ]