Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

All but a few of the students have departed for their various homes for the holidays, and the noisy gymnasium and the shouting campus are calm as a desert. The Fathers also have dispersed to different localities to assist at the Christmas services. They have all received invitations to deliver the sermons to the congregations where they will attend. J. Douglass, of Remington, drove over to take his son home for the holiday via the land route. z The carpenters, almost strangers, are again on the job, and apparently the dining rooms will be ready for use after the holidays. The C. L. S. held their last meeting last Sunday. No business of importance was transacted; it was rather an assemblage of good will and happy cheer than business motions. Mr. Honan attended, and then spent a delightful afternoon with faculty members. ( Several of the statues designed by European artists and carved or chiselled by foreign artistic skill, have arrived. They are, very beautiful. In the fast game with the Indianapolis Manual Training School, the Reps wiped out an old. grudge of last year by a score of 23 to 35. The visitors were not the same bunch of husky floor-rompers that served on last season’s quintett, but they knew how to pass the ball and shoot baskets. It was the quick work of the college guards that kept the score down. Goodland, last Tuesday evening, failed to repeat the stunt that they pulled off in their own cramped hall the previous week. It must have been the size and the dimensions of our gymnasium that took the vicious sting out of their efforts. There was no low ceiling to guide their swift shoots, and no angled pillars around which to passes, and the result absence of these by the score of 23 to 45, in favor of the home quintet That 23 will soon be a hoodoo. H. Kampp had gathered in a half dozen baskets for the Reps, and Shahan several fouls before the Goodland boys were able to'find their iron ring. At no time was the game in danger, but it was fast throughout and the team work of the locals shqwed great improvement. Games with several first class teams have beep secured for after the Christmas recesA