1916-1917 Academic Catalog

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE. LEOTtrRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS. A lecture course is maintained under the control of different Cedarville organizations. The best talent of our country and of foreign lands is secured. The students, therefore, have op. portunity to bear the best public speakers and entertainers of the day. In addition, chapel lectures are given from time to time by members of the Faculty and others. ATKLETICS. Athletic exercises are encouraged by the Faculty and the Board of Trustees. They are under the personal supervision of the President. On the College campus there are tennis courts, baseball and football grounds. Several basketball teams of each sex are organized from year to year. Their games are played in the Alford Memorial Gymnasium. LITERARY SOCIETIES. The Philadelphian Society was organized in the Fall of 1894, and the Philosophic during the Fall of 1895. These societies occupy two large, well furnished halls in the third story of College Hall. BIBLE BEADilfG CONTEST. The Rev. C. M. Ritchie, Ph. D., pastor of the Clifton, Ohio, United Presbyterian Church, annually offers prizes of seven, five, and three dollars for a Bible Reading Contest. Any member of any of the four regular collegiate classes may compete. Any chapter of the Bible or any portion of such may be read. 'rhe judges are to be a minister, a Christian layman, and a teacher -0f elocution. ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION. Cedarville College is a member of the Ohio Inter-collegiate Oratorical Association, which, in turn, is a division of the Inter– state Association, including ten of the leading States of the Middle West. A preliminary oratorical contest is held during the first semester of each year, the winner representing the College in the State contest. The winner of the latter represents the State of Ohio in the Interstate contest. This association with -lS-