1917-1918 Academic Catalog

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS -LIFE LECTURES ANO ENTERTAINMENTS A lecture course is maintained under the control of dif– ferent Cedarville organizations. The best talent of our ,country and of foreign lands is secured. The students, therefore, have opportunity to hear 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. ATHLETICS Athletic exercises are encouraged by the Faculty and the Board of Trustees. On the College campus there are ten– nis courts, baseball and football grounds. Several basket– ball 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 READING CONTEST The Rev. C. M. Ritchie, Ph.D., D.D., formerly pastor of the Clifton, Ohio, United Presbyterian Church, founded a Bible Reading Contest, annually offering prizes of seven, five, and three dollars. These prizes have been continued by Miss Margaret Rife, '16. 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. The judges are to be a minister, a Christian layman, and a teacher of elocution. ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION Cedarville College is a member of the Ohio Inter-col– legiate Oratorical Association, which, in turn, is a division of the Interstate Association, including ten of the leading States of the Middle West. A preliminary orat.orical con– test is held during the first semester of each year, the win- - 11 -