Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — COLLEGEVILLE HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE HAPPENINGS.

A return game win be played with the Wrens on the Rensselaer ball field next Sunday afternoon. A literary entertainment was presented by the A. L. S., the junior literary society, on Thursday evening.

The graduates are busily engaged in their preparation for the final examinations which will be held the first week in June. On Thursday there were no classes, that day being a holy day, the commemoration of the ascension of our Savior, and is observed in the same way as a Sunday. The warm sunshine and the budding flowers and blades have tempted the botany classes into the green groves and pleasant fields to study nature in her own sweet and most secret haunts. Their class work now consists in these rambles and search after some new botanical species.

The prize essays for the Alumni medals were due May 20th and have been received by the president. He will forward them to the judges: Rev. J. F. Cogan, Fayetteville, Ohio; Rev. Thomas Travers, Portland, Ind.; Mr. Henry Froning, Minister, Ohio. The winners will be announced on On May 22 there will be another great ball game at the college. The Wabash College Juniors, of Crawfordsville, will be out to capture the Varsity’s flag. The game should be replete with the real article of base ball as the Juniors come well recommended. The game will be called at 3:40, for the visitors will arrive only on the 3:17 train. The long expected window and door-frames have at last arrived via Remington, and have since been set. The greatest activity is how again manifested by the workers at the new church. The two large transport frames have not yet been received, but report has it that they also are on the way. There is now reasonable assurance that there will not be another considerable delay. The Sophomore Greek class is at present reading St. Basil’s discourse on how to read and study pagan literature with benefit and profit. It is interesting and useful work as the discussion contains many valuable points that can well be applied to present day methods of studying and reading literature. It brings home the grand fact that the ancients were already far advanced in some of the useful branches of knowlege.

A first class game of base ball was played on the college diamond Thursday afternoon. The Varsity defeated the St. Xavier Hall team by the score of 3 to 2. Throughout it was a clever fielding game. There was plenty of hitting but the fielders were everywhere and hits only meant outs. The contest was only decided in the eleventh when the Varsity scored McGurren with a series of sacrifice hits. Both McGurren and Burkhart pitched good ball. The score by innings: Varsity 1000010000 i—3 St. Xavier 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 o—2