The Gavelyte, January 1911

• Cl!JVAU VlLLE CULLEG!i:. 5 Inter-Society Contest. I throughout the ages. The delivery on j the whole was excellent, perhaps ' marred a little by a too close attention The event so long anticipated has to her paper and a tone not quite forci– come and gone, and every contestant hie enough for the size of the hall. Miss whethe~ a winner or loser feels relieved I Ila Ramsey, r~prese~ting the Philo, and satisfied. They could not all win had for her subJect, The Waning of but they all did their best and their best I th.e British A ~istocra.cy ." She dealt was enough. While the excitement with the chang mg of ide als of life in and contentions of former years were Britain and the decline of a system not so prevalent, yet every contestant that measured greatness by the number had the earnest support of his own so- of servants. She forcibly showed that ciety and the contest had no Jack of a change is coming when there will be spirit. The fact that the contestants , equality and honor in labor and that the seemed very evenly matched and in most 1· ~hange is taking place now. Her de– events the winner could not be picked hvery for the first few minutes was made the awaiting of the judges' de- J marked by a clearness and forcibleness cision a nerve-racking ordeal. The I that was commendable. A subsequent judges of l~terary productions were as I lapse into m?re of a monotone was follows: Miss Hallie Q. Brown, of Wil- . so.mewhat noticeable but she finished berf~rc~ Unive~sity; Dr. Jesse Johnson, 'j with t~e sa~e clearness and distinct Xema .1 heolog1cal Seminary; Prof. E. 1 tone ":1th which she began. A. Kolb, Colum?u~ South ~igh School. I Wh~le the urshers waited on the ~udg– Two of the music Judges failing to be es, Miss Mary E. Lownes pleasmgly p~esent, Dr. Johnson and Miss Brown I sang "0 Ho': Lovely." Then followed kmdly acted in this capacity and with I the declamation contest, Miss Florence Prof. Simpson, of Wilberforce, formed !Williamson (Philo) reading "When the a most competent trio. In no event 1 , Moon Arose," a producti9n full of thrill was the decision of the judges unsatis- and action. Mr. Earl McClellan (Phil– factory , and the societies can feel grat- osophic) followed, reading "The Lost ified at having secured judges so fair \! Word.'' His reading was marked · by in their awards. good enunciation and excellent gesture I b , - Prof. Allen presided and the first I ut a momentary lapse of memory was event was the essay contest. The first unfortunate. contestant, Miss Bertha Stormont, rep- I Mr. Hugh ~urnbul~ and John Stew– resenting the Green and White, had for I art, re~resentmg Philosophic and Philo her subject the "Gallery of the Uni- respectively, were contestants for the verse." It was a production of merit ' solo for male voices. Mr. Turnbull a message of truth. She set forth th; I sang ''Over the Ocean Blue,' ' and Mr. facts that every act of man is potent , Stewart "T~e Arm.orers Song." Both either for good or evil, that every deed ; gentlemen dtd credit to good training is recorded for eternity that every ahd dcareful preparation, and both d d th h h ' s owe a remarkable quality of voice wor an oug t as its influence I in the lower tones. Both possess voic-