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F18151 THE C Pus 119081 VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 23. ALLEGHENY COLLEGE. MEADVILLE, PA., APRIL 18, 1908. COLLIGE GENERATION DIAMOND ARTIST i OLYMPIAN SQUAD TENNIS ASSOCIATION HONORS FOUNDER TRAINING HARD POUNDING TURF ORGANIZED EARLY — — STEWART, '09, IS ELECTED PRES- MORTAL REMAINS OF DR. TIM- CAPTAIN BRAYMER'S NINE FAST TRACK TEAM "BIGGER, BETTER IDENT. OTHY ALDEN AND WIFE RE- EVOLUTING. AND MORE BELLIGERENT." --- INTERRED IN GREENDALE Strong Schedule Arranged—Whole To Be Close Competition This Year— CEMETERY WITH IM- Daily Practices—Men Reviewed. Team Working Into Splendid Trim. State Meet to be Held in Mead- PRESSIVE RITES. Judging from the dash and life with ville. which the base ball practice started Cross country runs are keeping the Whole Community Pays Tribute to not long ago Old Allegheny will de- men of the cinder path interested. Al. a meeting of the tennis associa- Illustrious Dead. velop a team that will show up any Captain Croasman and Coach Sheetz tion Thursday noon, preliminary steps college nine in Pennsylvania. are determined to have the team toward this •pring's work were taken. While a hush of solemn quiet brood- whipped into shape by the 9th of May. ed over Old Allegheny, and the bell The infield looks good, and before The retiring president, A. C. Perry, Each day the length of the cross coun- on Bentley echoed its tolling sum- the middle of the season Meadville was in the chair. The officers of this mons over the vailey, signaling a followers of baseball will have to look try trot is increased and by the time season were elected: "Benny" Stew- pause in the activity of the busy city in vain into the history of the college the weather will permit work on the art, '09, president, and J. R. Keister, below, a slow , funeral train moved for a better. Captain Braynrer Vallonia track the men will be ready '09, secretary-treasurer. across the campus drive on Wednes- talks to his men and keeps the ball to run rings around the track The tennis ecunipetition this spring day, April 8, bearing between reverent rolling. Baker covers third with snap There are about twenty five Olym- will be more exciting than formerly, lines of students, standing with bared and ginger. Nelson at second is "dig- pians trying for places,but just now not only on account of the (presence of heads, the mortal remains of Dr. Tim- ging 'em out of the mud" and passing consistent practice and good training extra good local talent, but because othy Alden, first president, founder over to Callan at first better than can only tell how the men will line the annual Western Pennsylvania Ten- and guardian genius of the early for- ever. The wings are not in shape up. nis Tournament will be held here in tunes of Allegheny college, and his yet but the way .Gahan picks the The entire squad is anxiously look- May. This event which met with wife. aphere out of the atmosphere is hair ing forward to the Harrisburg meet. such success at Westminster last year Following the long train of the rising. "Tangle-foot" Miner at short The university of Rochester may be includes• nearly all colleges in this carriages, of the clergy, the faculty, reminds you of "Honus" Wagner. Be here May the 9th for a dual meet. part of the state: Grove City, W. & Mayor John J. Reitze, of Meadville, scoops the sphere up and tows it over Among the college track men of the J., Westminster, W. U. P. and others. representatives of the Masonic fra- to first. Dmpire state this team stands high ternity, the city councilmen, and rela- The out-field berths are to be filled and the event will be strong. tives of the illustrious dead, the young from the long list of candidates. It The chances for Allegheny in the Professor Cobern men of the student body formed a is impossible just now to estimate Western Pennsylvania Intercollegiate guard of honor and marched to Green- what the line-up will be. There are appear about as they did at this time Lectures Abroad ECONOMY--- dale cemetery where the interment about twenty-five men trying out for last year. With the addition of Car- the true economy, is paying all you took place. the positions. Among the new ones negie Tech the meet at Conneaut Dr. C. M. Cobern, our learned pro- can afford for the best you can get. For many years the body of Dr. who look good are Weidler and Fire- Lake in June should be more than in- fessor of English Bible, delivered a If you would try on one of our Alden had be-en buried in a small stone. teresting. Grove City and Westmin- series of six instructive and eloquent Presbyterian cemetery near Sharps- All of the last year men are hating ster from all reports are in better addresses at Toledo during the recent STEIN-BLOCK SMART vale, Pa., far away from the scenes of better this spring. The men have shape than ever before. vacation. The general head of this SPRING OVERCOATS his great work, unhonored by the the idea of buMping the ball in the series was "The Bible and Recent Dis- world, almost forgotten. The first in- nose and driving it on line. By the coveries" and the separate lectures or sack business suits, you'd see one terest in the day's event was created time May 2nd comes along Allegheny Annual Art were respectively entitled: "The Days way your money's gone. by Prof. Francis La Bounty, now will have another scoring machine of the Patriarchs," "The Times of teacher of English in the Preparatory constructed. e xhibit Opened Moses," "The Earliest Hebrew Pro- school, who one year ago in his com- phets," "The Prophets of the Baby- F. O. Prenatt, mencement oration, made an effective The second annual exhibition of lonian Period," "The Exiles and Af- plea that the great founder should Literary Mon(hly paintings of the Meadville Art Asso- terwards," and last "The Times of 220 Chestnut Street, receive the honor due him and be re- ciation was opened last Thursday af- Jesus." The crowds 'which attended MEADVILLE, PA. interred in the college lot in Green- Editors Chosen ternoon, at the gallery of the, public these lectures grew . from night to 1111111111111■111111.1111.111111■111111 dale cemetery. The interest in the library on Park avenue. It has been night as the interest increased. The press of Toledo was especially enthu- project grew until it culminated in the The new Literary Monthly board arranged to have the 'canvasses on ex- beautifully impressive ceremony of it assume its duties with the com- hibition for 'two weeks, from April siastic in 'comments and no doubt the last Wednesday. pilation of the next issue. Dr. Lock- ninth to the twenty-fourth, and the advertisement which Allegheny re- President Crawford and Dr. Ling ar- wood, Mr. Houser, editor of The Lit- gallery is to be open from ten in the ceived for this work of the good doc- rived in Meadville. with the bodies of erary Monthly, and Mr. Dennis, edi- morning to nine in the evening. The tor will help to the recognition the Timothy Alden and his wife at I tor of The Campus, met last Friday first glimpse of "the beautiful" was school so well deserves. 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The and elected the new board. In the allowed only 'to members of the asso- past the personnel of the staff has funeral procession was formed at the ciation, on Thursday, when a recep- Bessemer depot and followed Water consisted of an Editor, an associate editor, and several departments, the tion was given in the rooms. Johns Hopkins A different and Chestnut streets and Park avenue associate editor having entire respon- The collection this season is larger yet a most to the college grounds. • While the sibility for the editorials and the edi- than that of last season, and the Lecture Series Conserva- train was upon its way up the long tor-in-chief selecting and revising the works are of even higher class. Some tive style hill the students assembled and ar- material and 'the proofs. The com- thirty-five pictures, running up to four 'Seldom has an Allegheny professor been received with greater enthusiasm ranged lines on both sides of the mittee discussed this situation and thousand dollar works 'by John W. Al- 15e.-2 for 2.5e. than that which characterized the re- driveway leading through the campus decided that these departments should exander, constitute the gallery. Cireti. P,:nborly & past Bentley hall. The Seniors were be abandoned and that the next board cent reception of our Dr. E. M. Smith Company, 31 a I:or3 located in front of Hulings hall, next should have an editor-in-chief, for at Johns Hopkins university. The lec- •SIL7.71 , ....... -....- _. Dr. Smith to Park avenue, and dressed in caps which position Mr. Lewis was select- ture course presented by and gowns added a decided impres- ed, and three editors, Miss Margaret Phi Kappa Psi was widely popular 'In university eir- 'cies, and will be issued in book form siveness to the occasion. Then fol- Beebe, Mr. W. J. Aiken and J. R. Keister. The members of this board Fraternity Homeless as one of the university series of Dip- lowed the other classes in order, the lomatic Studies. Professor Smith will Preparatory students occupying the will represent the literary spirit of the college and in addition to being also read a paper embracing general side of the driveway next to North Because they were not enabled to well qualified for the responsibility, phases of his subject before the Amer- Main street.
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