1918-1919 Academic Catalog

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE LECT URES AND ENT ERTA IN MENTS A lecture course is maintained under the control of differ– ent 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 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 MemoriaI Gymnasium. LITERARY SOCIETIES The Philadelphian Society was organized in the fall of 1894, and the Philosophic during the fall of 1895. These societi·es occupy two large, well-furnished halls in the third story of College Hall. The Orange and Blue Club, or ganized in 1917, affords additional opportunities for intensive t raining t o those especially interested in liter ary work. BIBLE READING CONTEST The Rev. C. 1\'T. Ritchie, Ph. D ., D. D ., forme rly pastor of the Clifton, Ohio, United Presbyterian Church, founded a Bib le 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 r egular collegiate classes may compete. Any chapter of the Bible or any portion of such may be r ead. 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 I nter-collegiate Oratorical Association, which, in turn, is a division of the In- 10