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The Ohio Wesleyan Transcript
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Athletic
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aul Swank. '1, ( Local
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Delaware, 0., Thursday, Feb. 26,1914
THE SU1PHUB SPRING.
The somewhat tender manner in
which the speakers Saturday alluded
to the sulphur spring made us wonder
If the present generations of students
enjoy the healthful waters of the cam
pus spring as much as their predeces
eors seem to have done.
True, a real liking for the odorifer
ous drink must usually be cultivated,
but; just how many people who have
been liere at least ayear have acquir
ed the sulphur water appetite?
It seems that the largest part of the
patronage at the spring is enforced.
In the fall the flowing bowl is a handy
receptacle for the gullible Freshmen
Later in the year fraternity pledges
are frequently compelled to quench
their thirst with Odevene or Spring
Water for a period of many days.
half-barbaro- us Some of these Greeks
look upon the sulphur spring as the
lesser of two evils, and fill their jugs
wholly with sulphur water, or partially
dilute the stronger Odevene with
the same solution.
So, it appears, that voluntary drinking
at the old spring is fast becoming
unpopular. This is rather a sad state
of affairs.
The sulphur spring is perhaps the
one thing which is symbolical of the
broadest meaning of college life at
Ohio Wesleyan. No matter what a
man may do around the University, ht
can always look back at The Spring in
remembrance of it all.
The sulphur water is good, pure and
healthful. If you have not learned to
like It, shove your imagination to the
rear, go down to the lower campus,
hold your nose and imbibe the wondrous
draughts of Ohio Wesleyan's
sparkling drink. You will soon get
the Sulphur Srlng habit.
MONNETT ATHLETICS.
In the Student Council meeting with
the Faculty Committee Tuesday evening
the question of the Budget System
came up for discussion, and with but
one dissenting vote from the faculty
side, the system was recommended for
adoption. However for a time the
question of just what finnaclal aid
the athletics at Monnett is to receive
threatened to crowd out consideration
of the real issue.
As was the case last year, certain
parties maintain stoutly that expenses
of the women's athletics should be paid
by the Athletic Association. They
bolster up their arguments by saying
that feminine facilities for all athletic
sports are sadly neglected, and for
some unaccountable reason these par
ties place the blame for this state of
affairs upon the muchly indebted Ath
letlo Association. In order to prepare
the Student Body for the discussions
which are bound to come upon this
phase of the question, we have several
things to say.
First, and perhaps above all, it is all
too true that in the past no very great
attention has been given to out and in
door sports for the college women,
They have been put off continually,
and have been left to shift as best
they could for themselves.
Their tennis courts and their base
ball diamond has been allowed to fall
into disrepair, practically no consist
ent care being taken of either. For
this evil there is no excuse. The
blame should be placed upon the proper
parties. But the proper party is
NOT the Athletic Association.
'Varsity athletic money should no
more be used to fit up Monnett tennis
courts than it should be utilized for
cleaning up some . fraternity's back
yard. Monnettltes pay board . and
room at the Hall, and It is up to the
persons in charge there to keep every
thing about the grounds in proper or
der. If. Monnett tennis courts need
new back-stop- s, let those in charge of
the Hall attend to the matter. Don't
expect the Athletic Association to re
pair the girls' dormitory or fix up
anything which has to do only with
the maintalnance of the "Sem." This
expense is a legitimate item for Mon
nett upkeep.
The claim that the Girl's Basket Ball
teams have rather hard financial sled
ding is true and not at all to be con.
doned. But it must be remembered
that these girls' teams are purely class
teams. If there were to be a girls'
Varsity team, which would play with
womens teams irom oiner scnouia
then such a team could rightfully
claim financial assistance from the
Athletic Association. But at present
the women are not permitted to in
dulge in any extramural sports.
With the exact status of the girls'
teams in mind, it can be plainly seen
that they have no more right to expect
money from the Athletic Association
than has any one of the class
teams composed wholly of male members
of the class. The athletic money
does not go directly to aid any of the
men's class teams. How, then, can
the women or their supporters lay
claim to any part of this money?
But some provision Bhould be made
for bearing the financial burdens of
these teams composed of the fairer sex.
Who ought more rightfully to back
them financially than their respective
classes? A large part of the class
funds go to buy sweaters and numer
als for teams upon which men play.
Why, then, cannot the classes pay trib
ute equally to the prowess of their
Amazonian warrioresses? Surely if
any complaint of neglect Is to be
made it should be directed, not at the
Athletic Association, but at the re
spective class organizations.
Here, then, is where the mistake is
being made and where some
well-meanin- g
parties are laboring under a delu
sion. No denial can be made or tne
assertion that the physical well being
of the co-educatio-
nal element
of the
Student Body is suffering from neglect.
The only misapprehension lies
in the fact that a few are seeking the
wrong solution for the evil.
Of the two greatest grievances, the
one should be taken up with Monnett
authorities and the other is for the
various classes to correct individually.
Neither comes under the Jurisdiction
of the Athletic Association.
TIIE OHIO WESLEYAN TRANSCRIPT.
FEMININE EXECUTIVES.
The constitution and by-law-
s for
Student Government at Monnett may
afford, in their intricacies and com
plexities, a puzzling proposition for the
masculine mind. But whether we may
or may not thoroughly understand the
recently adopted system, there are
few who will say that a Btep has not
been taken in the right direction.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
as compared with the disciplinary
and administrative means in other
schools, the system of Monnett Government
has grown archaic.
For a long time we have been of the
opinion, but have hesitated to say that
Ohio Wesleyan girls were being dealt
with, not as practically matured wo
men, but as though they were mere
children.
We bellevo that a woman in college
can take care of herself in college, it
she is ever to shoulder any responsibility.
Whether this belief Is well grounded
or not will be shown by the way in
which the new student officials handle
themselves in administering the affairs
at the Hall.
AN ACCESSIBLE PEINE.
At last a sanitary drinking fountain
has been placed on the mam gym- -
slum floor. No more do we have to
stand on our head to get a couple of
"drags' at the old fashioned faucet.
Gamma Phi, the organization which
Is responsible for the luxury, Is to be
congratulated on their generosity and
progressive qualities.. But for them it
would no doubt have been several
years more before a handy place could
have been provided for thirsty gym
nasts.
THE CARNIVAL. ,
The evening wind-u- p to the festivi
ties of Saturday showed a marked Im
provement over the athletic show a
year ago. This year's fete maintained
the quality of previous years, but
wisely reduced the quantity. The program
of last week was excellent, the
monster crowd was intensely interested
up until the very end, and the wear
iness which more lengthy program
would have entailed was delightfully
absent.
We fear lest before the year ends,
the Juniors will actually have persuad
ed themselves that they are the only
class In school. But then, of course,
some one has to call attention to their
little doings, and it might as well
be one of their own members.
It is a wonder and a surprise to us
when our room is as cold as a refrigera
tor, and we cannot coax even a re
sponsive flicker from our diminutive
gas stove, how, when we finally arrive
at the chapel to find every room too
warm to warrant the dismissal of
classes.
For a time it appeared that the cold
weather and the gas shortage which it
entailed, would prevent the usual edition
of The Transcript this week. This
fact explains the lateness of the paper
getting in the mail.
Among various bills Introduced in
the general assembly concerning the
interests of Ohio State University, is
one by Senator Lloyd, of Franklin
county, asking that the institution be
called the University of Ohio. Bitter
opposition has been registered by au
thorities of Ohio University who feel
that such a change would encroach
upon the nominal rights of down-stat- the e
institution. i
ALUMNI
Warren B. Slsson, vice president of
the Sowers-Leac- h Lumber Co., Is the
head of a new corporation to be known
as the Western Lumber Company, with
a capital of $40,000. The new compa'
ny is opening offices on the seventh
floor of the Wyandotte building, in
Columbus, and will have its yards at
London and Mechanlcsburg. B. E.
Tanner, of London, is vice president
of the company; S. E. Robinson, of Mechanlcsburg,
secretary; and R. H. Rob
inson, of London, Treasurer. All of
these men are former students of Ohio
Wesleyan University.
Miss Edith Miller, who graduated
from Ohio Wosleyan in 1907, and who
during her college days was a member
of the successful debate teams, was the
guest of Professor and-Mr- s.i L. G.
Westgate and other Delaware friends
Friday and Saturday. She has been
associated with the national bureau
of commerce and labor for the past
few years and is now on a leave of ab
sence from Washington in order to
take up work with the Ohio Industrial
Commission.
Misses Sara Long and Mildred
Slough, both of whom attended Wes
leyan last year, left last week for Eus
tls, Fla., where they expect to visit
for some time with Frank Maxwell, of
Delaware.
Palmer Cordray, Lloyd Herrett, Ar-th-ur
Herrett, Ivan Pierce, Clayton
Pfeifer, and Jos. Hamilton were
out-of-to- wn
guests at the Sigma Chi house
this week. All came to attend the annual
initiation.
Dr. E. G. Conklin, Weslyan '85, and
one of the most prominent of Wesleyan's
alumni, who holds the chair of biology
at Princeton University, was iu
Dolaware Thursday calling on friends
on his way back to Princeton from
Northwestern University, where he has
been delivering a course of lectures.
Miss Margaret Brown has returned
after a several weeks' visit in Florida
and other southern points.
B. F. Young, H. V. Olds, A. S. Town-sen- d,
E. D. Cleary, A C. Hoyt, A. B.
Denison, A. R. Cramer and A. F. Price
were visitors at the Alpha Sigma Phi
house over the Twenty-second- .
TErXcfyaite.
Corduroy skirts for the women and
trousers of similar material for the
men are worn sb a distinctive dreBs
by the Senior class members at Indiana.
High school fraternities were strongly
considered at the annual meeting of
the Congress
Inter-Fraterni- ty
recently
convened at New York City.
The Clef Club, a new musical organization
at Denison, is planning to present
the operetta entitled "The Egyptian
Princess."
Plans are being made at Oberlin by
which the professors will hand in before
Commencement each year, written
opinions of members of the Senior
class. They will be kept on file for
information.
To co-educati- on,
further the interests of
Otterbein students have purchased
five pairs of gray squirrels for
their college campus.
The Sock and Buckskin Society, of,
Lafayette, is planning to present the
musical comedy, "Getting Aaway With
President S. D. Fees, of Antloch College,
has presented In Congress a bill
providing for the establishment - in
Washington of an institution of higher
learning, to be known as the University
of the United States. '
There are seven organizations at
Harvard that present plays either annually
or periodically. The seven bod
ies fall into four groups: first, clubs
giving annual musical shows: second,
bodies which present plays in foreign
languages; third, a club unique in its
revivals of the Elizabethan drama;
and fourth, clubs which produce annual
plays. .
OVERHEARD
BETWEEN BELLS
How many miles do you walk per
day? If you bad a pedometer you
could answer exactly; but here are
some genera,! averages:
As nearly as can be estimated the
average student walks five-eight- hs of
a
mile to college each morning. He probably
covers this distance four times
daily twice going and twice returning.
There's two and one-ha- lf miles.
He walks around the campus, corridors
and class-room- s probably one
and a half miles dally. Add a mile
and a half for extras--includln- g trips
down town, out to the Sem, or an additional
trip to the campus and you
have five and one-hal-f miles per student
per day.
Multiply this five and a half by 1116,
the number of students In school last
semester, and you get 6438 the distance
walked dally by the whole stu
dent body. Multiply it again by 114,
the number of faculty members and
employes, and you get 627..
Add this to the original 6438, and
you have 7,605 miles, the combined
distance walked dally by all the people
connected with the college.
A new craze has lately struck the
college and broken out here and there
like a rash. Neckties!!- - Not that
neckties are anything new; but simply
that this kind are. They are
worse than the Vugarlan ones of last
spring, because there is less excuse
for them. Most of them are striped,
but some of 'em are worked with cute
little designs fleurs-de-li- s, butter
flies, and even storks. And such colors!
They make you think of rainbows,
Joseph s coat, and other notoriously
flashy things.
Nobody insinuates anything, but the
fellows really wouldn't need to wear
shirts with these new-fangle- d overall
ties and the high vests. Sometimes
one is tempted to peep and see If a
man's cuffs are not merely pinned to
his coat-sleeve- s. But at any rate, the
new ties do save laundry-bills- , and
verily Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed in one of these!
There are two alternatives involved
when you have your pictures taken.
One is the case of the modest young
man or woman who, In passing
through the streets, sees an admiring
crowd In front of the studio window,
and, on drawing nearer, is confronted
with a life-siz- e picture of himself or
herself, filling three feet Square of
space, and showing up the family features
to good advantage.
On the contrary, great is the disappointment
of the young man or woman,
with peacock propensities, who
boldly approaches the window and
finds that his face is among the missing.
It is with great difficulty that
he is restrained from openly Insulting
the photographer.