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When he staggered up to Cub Lee's urnace Creek ranch, more dead than live, his tongue was swollen to such size that his mouth could no longer ontain it. His lips and eyelids were racked open; his clothing was in tat- ers, and his shoes were coated with heavy incrustation of borax and ther alkalines, which had eaten reat holes in the leather.
At first he could not drink, and the juch of water was as fire to his irched lips and tongue. Kind-hearted inchmen and miners forced the pre- ous fluid into his mouth with a straw, ith a spoon-any way to get him re- ved. And eventually he spoke, tell- g the strange story of his crossing le dread pit; of how he had wan- ered therein for many days with no ompanions ^^v" the Hards and the
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AMONG OTHER COLLEGES
TheUniversity Missourian, Co um- bia, has purchased a new eight-page duplex press, costing $7.000.
George Washington University, Washington, D. C., was recently de- feated in a debate with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; the bebate was held at Los Angeles.
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The names of those who refuse to pay class dues, in settling, at Syra- cuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., are posted on a bulletin board.
The local oratorical contest at Mon- mouth Col: ege, Monmouth, Illinois is held in May, and the state contest of Illinois is held in November, each year, thus allowing the state winner from November until the following May to prepare for the inter- state- contest. Most of the Illinois colleges hold their loca' contests in the spring.
The official board of Grace M. E. Church, the "College" church, at Win- field, Kansas, recently resolved that the ladies wear their hats to services. The students of Southwestern College have protested against the ruling and a committee from the students has de- manded the immediate revocation of the resolutions. Pearl Hogrefe, the Southwestern orator at the Wichita contest, is on the protesting commit- tee.
The following bulletin is published by the Stetson Collegiate, Stetson University, DeLand, Fla .: "The re- maining seven issues of the Colleg- iate will be Normal issues, Baseball Issue, Faculty Issue, Love Issue, Dry Issue, Wet Issue, Editor's Issue. Ex- citement and plenty of extra Board meetings guaranteed for the rest of the year.
The College of Emporia, Emporia, Kansas, baseball team is being coached by O. M. Wilhite, the widely known hotel man.
"Fighting Bob" Stewart will coach athletics at Washburn College, To- peke, Kansas., next year.
The Oklahoma Baptist College Ar- gus, Blackwell, Oklahoma, a little pamphlet which looks like Hood's al- manac, and which specializes on col-
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The Peabody fund of one million dollars, for the establishment of the George Peabody College for teachers, at Nashvile, Tenn., has recently been made available by the securing of an additional $750, 000 from the citizens of Nashville. The new school wi l suc- ceed the Peabody Normal school of Nashville.
The engineering students of the University of Minesota, Minneapolis, are constructing an elevated railroad, three miles long.
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The University of Pennsylvania has won the championship of the triang- ular debating league composed of Cor- nel', Columbia and Pensylvania Uni- vers ties. The question for this year was the commission form of Govern- ment.
Rev. A. J. Motter, of Kansas City, formerly Methodist pastor at Baldwin, has given $30,000 to Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas. The gift will be known as the Motter foundation for the President's chair.
Arrangements have been made for the debat enext year between Cornell CCollege, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and Bak- er University, Baldwin, Kansas. The question will concern the income tax. The debaters will be chosen in the spring.
President A. Ross Hi'l, of the Uni- versity of Missouri, Columbia, has been confined to his house for several days with the mumps.
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THIS PILGRIM KNEW THE SEX
Somewhat Roughly Disturbed Trou badour's Dream, but His Remarks Were Charged with Wisdom.
"I am searching for the woman who will love me long and true," sang the troubadour, who strummed upon his harp. "She must have a face that's pretty and an eye of azure hue and her tongue must not be whetted 'til it's sharp; all her words must come as music to my quickly beating heart and she must be simple in her tastes and ways; she must love me long and ( ten and must never yearn to part if upon some other maid I chance to gaze." Just as he was singing fur- ther, came a pilgrim old and bent, with a yard or two of beard and staff of oak. "What, I hear you loudly ask- ing," said the pilgrim to the troub .; 'sounds to me just like an overwhelm- ing joke. You're not looking for a woman, from the way you speak your heart, you are looking for that which you don't surmise; go and jump into the river, get your system out of whack and when you have joined the angels in the skies, look for her whose tongue is silent, she whose tastes are extra plain, who into a jealous fit will never burst; then just wed her, but remember if you'd capture such a dame you will have to look for her In heaven first."
Plant Breaking Up an Island.
Strength is not a thing usually con- nected with maidenhair fern, yet if Its roots have not sufficient room they break the pot in which the plant grows. Blades of grass will force the curbstones between which they spring up out of their place, and in a single night a crop of small mush- rooms have lifted a large stone. In- deed, plants have been known to break the hardest rocks.
The island of Aldabra, to the north- west Madagascar, is becoming smaller and smaller through the ac- tion of the mangroves that grow along the foot of the cliffs. They eat their way into the rock in all directions, and into the gaps thus formed the waves force their way. In time they will probably reduce the island to pieces.
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Shields & M The Ottawa Campus
1883
OLDEST STUDENT PUBLICATION IN KANSAS
1909-10
OTTAWA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, APRIL J. '910 NO. 31
UN VERSITY BASEBALL TEAM HAD AN "OFF" WEEK
LOST TO WASHBURN AND MAN- HATTAN BY CLOSE SCORES- WON FROM SALINA AGAIN
Ottawa Team Demonstrated Grit By Tackling Some of Fastest Ama- teur Teams in Kansas.
In the out-of-town games, the Uni- versity baseball team lost to Wash- burn, 2 to 0; Lost to St. Marys 11 to 1 ost to Manhattan, 4 to 1; won from Salina, 4 to 2. Reports from the Undsborg and Emporia games were not received before the Campus went o press.
Manhattan, April 27 .- (By News Exchange.)-Manhattan won from Ot- awa University in baseball 4 to 1. The box score:
OTTAWA AB RH PO A E 3
Price, 3b.
0 0 1 2 0 Crosby, 2b 4
2 George, If. .3
Martin, 1b 3
Coe,
.3
0
1 4
7
Rice, ss 3
0
0
2
1
2 1
Erwin, rf. .3
0
0
0 4
Brannon, p. 2
0
0
0 4 1
Totals 27
1 2 24 16 1
IcMahon, rf. 3 1
0 1 1 0
K. S. A. C. AB R PO A E
Price,
2
0
1
6
2
Parks,
.3
0
1
3
0
0 Crosby, 2b 0 .5
0
3
0
0
0 George, 44 0
1
0
0
0
0 | Martin, 1b. .4
0
0 6 0
0
1 Coe, 3
0 Rice, ss. 3
1
1 2
2
0
Forsberg,
3
1
1
8
3
0 McCandless, 3b
.. 4 0
0
3
2
0
Baird, p
3
0
0
0
2
Totals. . 26
). U. .0 0 0001000-1 K. S. A. C .. ... 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 x-4 Summary-Home run, Forsberg. Bases on balls, off Baird 5, off Bran- on 1. Struck out, by Baird 8, by Brannon 7. Left on bases, Ottawa 7. Iit by pitcher. Price and Coe by
Baird. Stolen bases, Speer, Coe. Sac- rifice hits, Rice and Leo Price. Time of game, 1:30. Umpire, Hauck. Scorer Weaver.
St. Marys, April 26 .- (Special Cor- respondence to the Campus.)-Al- though the score indicates a one-sid- ed game, it was a fine exhibition of ball in which St. Marys won over Ottawa, 11 to 1. The St. Marys team started the fireworks in the first in- ning by scoring four runs. The St. Mary players were good hitters and punched out the bingles when hits meant runs.
Ottawa's only score came in the ninth when Rice led off with a clean single to right center, took second when Kister let Coe's third strike get away from him. Erwin, batting for Nichols, hit a grounder to third and Rice took third'on the out and scored | ton. on Earl Brannon's hit to right center.
The St. Mary's team wil certainly have to be reckoned with when the honors for "state champs" are doped out. The score:
ST. MARY'S AB RH PO A E
Bennett, cf. 5 1
0 1
0
W. Collins, 2b 4
0
2
1
3
0
0 Eckert, 1b .4 2
0 Manley, 3b .3 2
0
1
1
0
Kelley, ss 4 1
1 2
0
0
T. Collins, p. 4 1
1
0 0 4
Totals
33 11 13 20 9
1
OTTAWA AB RH PO A E
0 Price, c .. .0 0
0 5 2
1
Young, 1b
.3
0
0
8
1
2
0
1
Speer, If. 3 .
1
1
1
0
0 Nichol s, cf .2 0
0
0 -
2
4 6 27 12 1 Brannon, rf 3 0 0 1 1 0
Totals .. 28 1 3 24 13 2 Score by innings:
St. Mary's.
42101201*
Ottawa .. .000000001
Struck out by Collins 9, by Coe7; two-base hits, George, Kistner, Routh, ( Continued Ied on nage 4 ..
KANSAS PROHIBITIONISTS PUT OUT A STATE TICKET
RAY HERITAGE, OF THE UNIVER- SITY, "DRY" CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
E. W. Chafin,Candidate for President, Raps Gov. Stubbs and Gov. Hoch in Banquet Speech.
The prohibitionists of Kansas Thursday in session in Ottawa placed a complete state and district ticket in the field, as follows:
Governor-W. C. Cady, Kansas City. Lieutenant governor-Ray Heritage, Gridley.
Secretary of state, M. C. Platz, Hol-
Treasurer-O. A. Herbert, Peabody. Auditor-T. W. Bertenshaw, Kansas City.
Attorney general-A. G. Drake, Che- topa.
Superintendent of instruction-S. W. Bond, Miltonvale.
Superintendent of insurance-W. H. Sturdivant, Richmond.
State printer-C. B. Jones, Emporia. Railroad commissioners-M. R. Becktell, Mackville; J. K. Mayberry,
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IcCandless, cf. .3
0
0
3
1
1
1
2
0
0
0 0 11 0
0
0 Hallacy, rf. .3 2
0 1 2 0
2 9 0
2 9 0
1
0 Topeka; B. F. Hester, Northbranch. Congress-First district, T. J. Pom- eroy, Topeka; Second district, C. H. Smith, Kansas City; Third district, W. P. Talbot, Parsons; Fourth district. Earl R. Delay, Sharon, Fifth district L. A. Benson, Clay Center; Sixth dis- trict, James Kerr, Placo; Seventh dis- trict, H. R. Ross, Sterling; Eighth
district, A. Hughes, Wichita.
The platform adopted Thursday reaffirms and incorporates the last na- tional platform, and in addition de- clares that the liquor traffic is not business but license sold to commit crime; call for national law against interstate traffic in intoxicating li- quors; demanding universal peace, and to this end the establishment of an an international supreme court of ar- bitration; declaring for the initiative and referendum, recall, civil service for city, state and and nation, and the (Continued on nage 8.)
0 2 7
0
Iyers, 3b 1 .3
.3
0
1
1
0
Strohm, SS
.
0
0
0 Kistner, c. 4 2 11 0 2
0
1 Routh, If. 2
0
VOL. XXVI
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WHO'LL WIN IN ORATORY? --- HERE'S A GUESS
OPINION EXPRESSED THAT MR. SHIELDS' ORATION IS ONE. OF FOUR BEST.
Prof. Nichols Puts the Earlham, Otta- Wa, Michigan and Minnesota Ora- tors at Top of the List.
Prof. E. R. Nichols has taken con- siderable time to review the ten ora- tions in the Inter State odatorical con- test and offers a review which will undoubtedly be of much interest to Ottawa students who want to see Kansas' man, John A. Shields, of Otta- wa University, win out in the contest at Omaha on May 20th. Prof. Nichols says :
"To venture an 'opinion upon a set of orations before a contest is to run the risk of having your judgment dis- credited by the net result of that dif- ference of opinion always manifest in judges. However, since Ottawa students and Ottawa people are inter- ested in this year's Inter-State Contest (and this article is written primari y for them) and since I have had an opportunity to read all the orations I have the temerity to express my ideas about them. hoping to agree at least in part with the judges.
"There are ten orations in the con test-seven of them will be delivered at Omaha. The selection of the sev- en is the task before the five prelimi- nary judges. Were I a judge I should eliminate the following three ora- tions: 'The Moulding Power,' by Karl W. Becker, Wittenburg College, Ohio; "Poland's Offering to the American," by Lew R. Saretsky, Beloit College, Wisconsin; and 'The Spirit of Our Government,' by Walter David, Wil- liam. Jewell College, Missouri.
"My reasons for determining against these orations I sha'l state briefly before discussing the merits of the seven orations which I should admit to the contest. The first one, the Wittenburg oration, is rather an essay upon education than an oration with possibilities or merit from the speaking point of view. It is too ab- stract, savors too much of the aca demic, and fails, where failure is dis- astrous in holding the reader's atten- tion.
"The Wisconsin oration to my mind falls below the Beloit standard- (this school having won several inter-
state contests -in that it is too nar- row in scope, tries to make a prob- lem where none exists, and failing re- solves itse f into a eulogy of Poland and some of its great men-a thing which Americans are not interested in. Also it lacks the universal note which might attract our favor. It is well written, but notwithstanding that must have won the state contest on Beloit's reputation.
"The William Jewell, or Missouri oration too nearly resembles a politi- ca science 'talk' or a treatise on gov- ernment, with a rehash of Judge Lind- say's articles in Everybody's thrown in for good measure, to command res- pect as an oration of true inter-state caliber.
"Of the orations which I have placed in the seven, one, 'The Bard of the American Spirit,' from Knox College, Illinois, last place. As in Wis- consin Illinois must have had a weak contest or given way before Knox reputation. It is the only oration in the ten of the literary type-the bard of the American spirit being Wa't Whitman. It is a good, intelligent piece of criticism, and with judges fond of the poet might gain consid- erable favor. The literary oration is not popular at present, but the de- parture from the great cause, great problem, or great man oration on the part of two such schools as Beloit and Knox may be significant. Compared with former orations of a literary type-Senator Robt. Lafollette's 'Iago' for instance-the Knox oration falls short of the true inter-state standard. In fact I may say before going farther that I look upon this inter-state con- test. as a rather weak one compared to some which have been he'd in the last decade-to say nothing of previous ones.
"'On the Sands of Time,' the Creighton University, Nebraska, ora- tion is a good piece of work. If its writer had been content to take the scaffolding down after completing the fresco one would have been better pleased. He forces an obvious out- 'ine upon us, and this distracts from the literary merits of the production. The qualities of true greatness in the lives of heroic men is the subject of discussion in this oration. Devotion to duty is exemplified by St. Paul, per- severance by Columbus, and unselfish ness by Lincoln, although the
'speaking' possibilities of this oration are good, it does not seem 'big enough' to command a high place. In fact I should not be surprised if it fails
to make the seven although I, per- sonally, like it well enough to give it a place.
" "The Philosophy of the Race Prob- lem,'-viewed from the negro's stand- point-the Iowa oration from Cornell College, I should give a low place, rec- ognizing the fact that from the point of view of delivery it is a fine speech -as good perhaps as any speech in the contest. In argument it is alter- nately strong and weak. I am in sympathy with the author's resent- ment toward Smith, Dixon, Tillman, Vardaman and others, but I do not ike his method of manifesting it. There is enough distasteful egotism in one paragraph to ruin the whole oration. White or black, yellow or red-the following paragraph would command my condemnation and lose my vote:
Po
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" 'Mr. Dixon seems to believe that physical characteristics are more po- tent factors in determining racial pos- sibi ilies than are mental and moral traits.' Still speaking of the negro, says: 'The more you educate, the more impossible you render his posi- tion in a democracy. Can you change the color of his skin, the kink of his hair, the bulge of his lips or the spread of his nose with a spelling book?' 'I thank an all-kind Creator for this tremendous possibility, that my skin, though black, may cover a heart as pure as any that beats with- in a Saxon's breast. I thank him that my hair, though kinked, may cover a brain which can think as clear'y, and reason as profoundly as that of the fairest white. I thank Him that the bulge of my lips and the spread of my nose need not forever be the inevitable tokens of my disgrace,- that they may become my badge of honor if, after fifty years of educa- tion, I can show the rudiments, at least, of that mental and moral de-
The velopment, to acquire which, the Anglo-Saxon has taken a half-score of centuries.'
"A college oration above all de mands modesty and a lack of the 'lyric element.' I wonder if the perso- nal reference is in good taste here? Could not Mr. Dixon be answered with better judgment in a different man- ner?
"The four orations left-'The Evolu- tion of a World Peace,' Earlham Col- lege, Indiana; "The New Idea1,' Albion College, Michigan; 'The Civic Mes- sage of the Pilgrims,' Carleton Col- lege, Minnesota; and 'Lincoln, the Master· Politician,' Ottawa, Kansas,
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are all excellent pieces of work and it is hard to to decide their order in the first division.
"The Indiana oration is good until you reach the ha fway point. It is the Earlham type of stuff that is far in- ferior, however, to the Earlham days of Kinney and Fuger. Its enthusiasm wanes at the very point where it should begin and we get the worn out, regularly offered proposition of the United States setting the nations an example of disarmnment. There is nothing original about this-Glenn Porter Wishard did it all in a much better manner four or five years ago winning in
Northern Oratorical League and the Peace Contest. This peace subject is over worked and de- serves a sabbatical year. There is very little that is oratorical about it anyway.
" "The New Ideal' is a trifle too much in the quiet essay order-still its thought is so good that I have been moved to place it high. There are one or two references in it which are in bad taste, but these are not ser- ious flaws. " The general workmanship is good. If delivered well it has an excellent chance of winning. The same might be said of the Indiana oration.
" 'The Civic Message of the Pil- grims' made a strong appeal to me. It's picturing is superior to that of the Indiana oration ;- its thought is on a par with that of the 'New Ideal,' -- the Michigan oration; and more than that, it tells a story-it possesses patrotic interest. I fear its pleasing effect-as our orator is here met on h's own ground-patriotism, admira- tion of high characters and story tell- ing interest. This Minnesota oration, however seems to be a little abrupt in its departure from the Pilgrim and his story to present conditions and the need of the puritan spirit.
"Mr. Shields' oration on Lincoln seems to me to surpass the Minne- sota oration in keping up the story interest. I believe it is better con- sructed for delivery, and that it has a more effective conclusion. The Lin- coln oration is open to the charge of a 'ack of originality. Certainly, the material is common property as all history must be. It is upon the con- struction of the oration, upon the Ju- dicious comment in it, and upon its magnificent tendency to show up bet- ter when delivered than when read that I base hopes for its standing high in the contest. Once past the reading test, Mr. Shields should have an ex-
cellent chance. I believe he will be successful in getting into the seven, and I am inclined to concur with the judgment of critics in some of our neighboring institutions who say that he has one of the three best orations and real y ought to win.
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