Birmingham, Aha, Friday, March 4, 1921
Howard Wine and Loses -
Triangular Debiting Classic
Wednesday. March 2— Bap¬
tist Day of Prayer. Dr Pairing*
ton
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Tuesday, March 8— Spring
quarter registration.
Last Tuesday at the chapel hour
Dr. Farrington made a speech to the
students emphasizing the Day of
Prayer, set aside by the Conserva¬
tion Committee of the Seventy-five
Million Campaign. Dr. Williams
briefly explained the day, which he
said was being observed in the one
hundred and thirty Baptist colleges
of the South. The male quartet was
heard and then Dr. Farrington made
his inspiring talk. Among other
things he said: “Money is often
mentioned as the greatest problem of
the church. Some think of educa¬
tion and discipline as its great .prob¬
lems, but 1 think that it is a spirit¬
ual one, the problem of the Christian
soul. When we come to God's house
our spiritual soul is hungry. In the
time of crisis we are able to pray,
and to want everybody to pray. It is.
The annual triangular debate be¬
tween Howard College, Mississippi
College and Mercer -UetWsity re¬
sulted In a victory for the negative
and deft at for the affirmative team
of each of the three Baptist col
lease, held simultaneously in Clinton,
Macon and Birmingham on the night
of Thun day, February 24th. In the
Howard auditorium on this memor¬
able evtning Mr. J. W. Oillon, Jr.,
and Mr. J. C. Davis, representing
Mississippi College, triumphed by s
two to me decision of the Judges
over the Howard team, consisting of
Mr. J*u>m J. Bell and Mr. L. ▼.
Wilder. At the same time Mr. G. C.
O'Kelly nd Mr. Bade Powell were
triumphs itly presenting the negative
argument
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before an audience at
Mercer, isenltUg b a two to one de-
cieion in favor of these sons of How¬
ard. Lfiewise, the contest between
of yesterday and today. This quar¬
tet was called back on the stage by
the audience for the fifth song.
Of the debate at Macon between
Howard and Mercer, less Is knowft.
Mr. O’Kelly and Mr. Powell of How-
Tuesday evening, March i —
Philomathic debate on “Open
Shop" question.”
port a most cordial reception by the
Mercer students. In fact, both de¬
baters are very enthusiastic over the
courteous treatment they received
there. Two of the judges were mem¬
bers of the legal profession, the third
a minister.
This is the first of a series of an¬
nual debates between these three
foremost Baptist colleges in Missis¬
sippi, Alabama and Georgia. The
Howard team was coached by Miss
A. Bess Clark, to whose tireless ef¬
forts the present popular Interest in
debating at Howard College is due.
It is to her credit that from s stud¬
ent body half the size of the oppos-
bad evidently lost all interest in de¬
bating. she has picked and trained
two teams which are the equals of
any which Mercer and Mississippi
have been able to pick.
♦ Thursday evening, March 10.
♦ —History Clase debate in
♦ auditorium. Public invited.
RHUHAMA SUNDAY 8CHOOL
TRAINING SCHOOL.
During the week, beginning Febru¬
ary 28 and ending March 4, the Rhu-
hama Baptist church has been hold¬
ing a splendid training school for
those interested in Sunday School
work. Some of the best religion»
awful thing not to know how"to
of crisis here In the South, our prob¬
lem of primal importance is tbq
spiritual one. Do you know how to
pray until you have an answer to
prayer? So often God’s work just
needs the touch of a warm heart
to set it going. It makes no differ¬
ence what you do, devote yourself to
a life of prayer. Prayer is God’s
mean to an end."
this work and many members of the
Howard faculty are on the program.
Many of the Howard students are
availing themselves of this opportun¬
ity. Dr. Dillard of the Southetde
Baptist church and Rev. J. A. Cook
of the West End church are on the
program was lecturers.
Prof. J. A. Hendricks and Prof J.
H, Chapman, both of the Howard fac¬
ulty, are on the faculty of the train¬
ing school. On the daily program w.?
find a devotional period led by Prof.
Burns and “Old Testament Studies”
hy Prof. Hendricks, and "The Mak¬
ing of a Teacher,” by Prof. Chap¬
man. Daily at 7; 00 p- m. Is a social
hour with Prof. S. A. Ives in charge.
Prof. Chapman is also dean of the
school. The program as planned baa
some very interesting features and
promises to be of great advantage to
those attending, especially the How¬
ard students.
Practically, all of the students and
numerous friends from Bast Lake
and the tty witnessed the local de¬
bate between the -Alabama and Mis¬
sissippi teams. The stage had been
beautiful!; * prepared for the occasion
and was typical of the care taken
in all the prapartions for the debate.
Prof. P. P. Burns presided and Miss
A. Bess (Hark was on the forum in
the capacity of time-keeper. Judges
were Rev. J. C. Hobbs, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Birmingham;
Judge Hu ;h M. Lock, prominent in
legal circl is here, and Mr. C. L.
Наг-
rold, mantger Civic Association. This
debating t lasslo was opened with a
twenty mliute speech for the affirm¬
ative by fir. Bell. This was one of
the most orceful and persuasive as-
guments heard at Howard In years.
His reasons for his stand and the
statistics tooted were incontsovevt-
able, his diction superb, his speech
timed to tlie minute. He was follow¬
ed by Mr. Davis of the negative,' in
what was, perhaps, the best and
most focef il speech of the evening.
He presen ed arguments equally as
strong as Bell’s and his ability of
The inter¬
collegiate debate leaves Howard on
two time honored
a par with
rivals.
Neither Mississippi, Howard nor
Mercer .is champion of the “Triple
Debating League.” The negative
team of each won, the affirmative
Professor Ives gave a delightfully
interesting talk to the Phi Kappa
Nu fraternity Monday evening, Feb¬
ruary 23rd on the poetry of our lan¬
guage. He began by reminding his
audience that he had not been a
scientist an bis life and he, knew
other things besides spyrogyra cells
and other biological subjects. In bis
talk Professor Ives gave a history
of the first poems and came down
through the ages, to Chaucer, the
Elizabethans, the Roman cist and
finally to American then Southern
poets, giving all along a verse or two
from many of the famous poems.
So delightful was this resume of
poetical works that bis hearers al¬
most wished Professor Ives had
specialized in literature rather than
biology.
After having come down from the
dizzy heights of poetic feeling where
“the Binging masons build ed roofs
of gold” and the wonderful love
poem St. Agnes Eve by Keats. Hot
chocolate and wafers were served
as an additional pleasure of the
much enjoyed evening.
Howard students are bitterly die-
apointed In their failure to secure a
decision over Mississippi here and
find some camfort in the fact that
of the three judges, the judicial mind
marked them the victors.
The Howard College Bummer
school will begin on Monday. June 6,
and close on Friday, July
1Б.
Almost
all arrangements have bein com¬
pleted by Dr. Williams and Prof.
Bohannon in regard to the faculty
and curriculum. Bulletins win soon
be ready for mailing. The adminis¬
tration is planning an unusually good
school this summer, and eleven (11)
professors win take part In It. Dr.
Williams announces that two men of
especial merit have been secured.
These are Mr. N. R. Baker, county
superintendent of education, who
wJB teach a course in education, and
Mr. Mosley, principal -of the Besse¬
mer High School, who is to teach
had sumnurlzed his statements; Mr.
Wilder returned the argument for
the affirm* Uue. After his address.
Mr. Giilon, of Mississippi College, in
a twenty minute speech, completed
the negatlv j debate. Mr. Bell again
took the fltos and with a masterful
five minute rejoiutal ended this inter¬
collegiate c as sic. *
While1, tht judges were preparing
their decide ns the audience was en¬
tertained by a male quartet from the
Howard • Glm Club, consisting of
Messrs. Head, Cowart, Hurst and
Sims, asslsed in their Interpreta¬
tive songs bjr Miss Hendricks and
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Lord God of Hosts, Be With Us Yet, Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget
is considered one of the best min¬
isters of the South, and his talk
was very Interesting. The speaker’s
calm, persuasive manner added much
to the effectiveness of his words.
He said in part: “The aim. seem-,
ingly of life is to produce individ¬
uals. Any tendency, either in the
home or school, tending to make
machine men is murder. This mortal
must put on individuality, we are not
born to be bound by custom. It
does not require much imagination to
see in a man, while dressed in his
best clothes, and swinging his cane,
the ape in the ahroginal forests car¬
rying a dab. If you are not going
to be yourself, better be an -Irish
potato. Our individuality is a trust
from God. The achievement of in¬
dividuality has one great danger,
that of introspection, always want¬
ing to discuss myself. This is an
evil to be strictly avoided.” *
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