The Gavelyte, March 1909

:i l THJ1J GAVELYT~~. perhaps for ALL, ALL lo meet again. I cannot think of you missing it. Ynu mut-1t plan to rome, arid COME. Come and see again the d~ar, old, little red brick building with its familiar recitation rooms and the society hall so dear to your recollection. Come and see not the old campus you knew, (for it ha:5 grown into a new one,) and perhaps sou1e of those little twigs have now become tall ,,nd wide enough to shelter and shade you under their friendly boughs, while hard by ihe new athletic ground will furnish sport for the pleasure seeker and be~µeak the hard-foug.ht battl!:'s and well won victories of physical tart and strength. Come and see the Alford Memorial, the gift of our beloved friend, (may his tribe inrrE>ase!) Come and see the Carnegie Library, the finest building in the town ~nd the pride of prexy's heart and the joy of all readers . Come to the familiar and good old paths in and about our beautiful classic \'illage. Finally, come home, back to friends and loved onea. Come. as I know you will, with hearts full of good cheer and fa<.;es beaming with gladness and shouts an,J songs in. your tongue for the college we all love so well. Only two and one half months more and Home-Coming Week! I almost see you now as the trains are stopping in Cedarville, hurrying c,ut uf the swift ear::, meeting- and greeting one another, back again with cares of life and labor laid a~ide for one week to be dt>dicated in sweet memory and lovt:> lo Cedarville College. In the name of the fac:ulty, I f::'Xtend to you, graduate and sLudPnts, a cordial.pressing invit.ltion and a thrice welcome. Our hearts artJ already gladdened with the fact that so many have said tlwy are coming. Will you not sen,! to the next number of the Gavelyte thest:' words, ''I am coming" and your name and-addrt>ss added. We are lonking for YOU and we expect to SEE YOU and if you will just say "I. am coming" in the next number of the Gavt>lyte it will influence others to come. Come one. Come all. State C o ntest . The> jnunwy lo Akron to attend the annual intPrc-ollt>giate oratorical c·ontest which took µlace on February 12th was an uneventful one. The country from Columl,us to Akron being very hilly afforded us a pleaa:rnt change from the on~ continuous stretch of farm land as found south west of Columbus. At Akron the newly erec'ted Garfield Hotel accommodated