the base ball players get to work at once, and by
next season we will have a nine to do us credit.
MR. EDITOR : -
The kindly offer of our president, Dr. Ather
ton, to furnish a prize for a debating contest be
tween our two literary societies would furnish a
means of rekindling the lagging interest in the
work of those societies if it were accepted by
them. No better means of awakening a little
needed and healthy rivalry between the societies
could be found than by a debate. Greater effort
would be put forth by the individual members to
ward improving their rhetorical and reason
ing powers ; greater attention would be
given by the societies themselves toward making
their debating more interesting than it has been
for some years past, since the individual members
would give the subject more preparation. On the
whole it would undoubtedly be a source of great
benefit to hold such a contest and the matter
should be taken in hand at once, instead of being
allowed to drag as it has been. The societies
should take active measures toward preparing for
it and toward having it in the near future.
MR. EDITOR
You called attention in your last issue of the
FREE LANCE, to the fact that but a few of the stu
dents attended the last Senior assembly. I think
that the criticism was a most timely one as there
has been a remarkable deficiency on the part of
the college men in regard to heartily patronizing
college affairs of this sort. During the present
term several entertainments as the Four Hundred
ball, the Concert and Winter Athletic contest
will be given which it is imperatively necessary
that every man in college attend, if they would
have them a success. The students should realize
more that it is to their credit that these things are
well attended and supported and they should go
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in a body and work with a vim toward making
them a successs in every way
STUDENT. 4
Mr. EDrroß
I would like to call attention to the small
time that the gymnasium is open to the students.
Before this year we were allowed from four to five
o'clock in the afternoon when we had no drill,
beside.) from six to seven in the evening. That
hour from four to five was undoubtedly the only
time we could, to any advantage, exercise, since
the other time allotted to us followed too close to
the supper hour. It is a well-known law of hy
gene that we should not exercise too much after
eating ; it is injurious to the health. That is just
what we are compelled to do since the hour from
four to five, which formerly 'used to be open to us,
is now given to the ladies. Is this just ? Form
erly from five to six was considered suitable to all
to allow co-eds. the gymnasium, but this year,
though, the conditions are unchanged, about one
hundred college men are compelled to take their
exercise at a most unreasonable time and to give
up the only three hours each week which they
could profitably spend in the gymnasium to better
suit the convenience of about twenty ladies. is
this fair? I think that all will undoubtedly an
swer no. Something should be done to rectify
the matter so as to give the great body of the col
lege men the privilege of the armory. '92.
j. F. Chambers, '94, and E. P. Butts, '93, dur
ing the recent vacation, represented the local
chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at the
National Convention, which was held in Phila
delphia.
Ex-'93. C. A. Cummings, who was formerly
in Gramdin, Mo., has moved to Springfield, Mo.
Ex-'92. George D. Chamberlain has been en
gaged by the Max Meadows Iron company, of
Virginia.
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