THE OTTERBEIN REVI Vol. I
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OtterbeinSixty-Two Years
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OldToday. April 26, 1 4 7, is a date long to be remembered for. at that time occurred the founding of Otterbein University. Just 62 Years ago t o d ay, Ott er. c.,me 111 . t o t-x1s · t ence. F or be1n several years there had been .
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ag1tat1on for a United Brethren college to compete with colleges of other denominations but it was 011 tltis date, April 26, 184 7, that the trustees of Scioto and Sandusk;r conferences met for the first time and founded the institution with the name "The Otterbein University of Ohio," its name being taken from Philip William Otterbein, the fout1der of the church. · It is not our purpose to relate the earl)' struogles of our Uni_ versitY, but to call attent1·on to the significance of the fact that on the sixty-second anniversary of the founding of the iostitutiou appears the first issue of the Otterbein Review. After years of toil, struggle and desp;i.ir at times, Otterbein has grown to a position of eminence that places her among the foremost universities of 'the state. As to the Otterbein Review-we shall not soliloquize.
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i\l usic "By Gone Days" ...................... Orchestra "Salve•· .................................... R. M. Fo1: ..As You Like It•· ....... ~tiss Dai~y·Clifton Music. '·Be ~ly Huckleberry Do" ........ Orcbestra "A ~lid-Summer Nigbt·s Dream', I . R . L.b ................................... 1 ecap "Ten Night in Otterbein" ..................... 1-liss Helen Weinland "The Ronnd-Up" .................. I. o. Warner Music "Plantation Echoes" ............... 0,-chestra
greetings
in the dormitory parlors they decended to the dining hall to participate 10 the banquet royal. A fictitious menu bad been arranged which kept all guessing
Last Sah.lrday the Otterbein baseball team, fresh from its pronounced victory over Ohio State • Saturday, Journeyed • t h e prev10us to New Concord where the Muskingum boys were laying in wait for them. Tl1e game was started promptly
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Two•base b lt,-Stu mp. Stolen bases--O. U. :\lusklogmn a. Uouble plays--K&lster to Joh a; Youn,r to Keister. Bases on ball~--Ott
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Ketner---Beery. at 2:45 when Lloyd, leading off for 0. U. with the stick, was hit Captain F. G. Ketner and Miss Mr. Fox extended to the Sen- by a pitched ball, Ketner struck Maud Beery married! Rather iors a hearty welcome. Con- out and Lloyd stole second and trary to his usual custom, how- third. Wagner waited on four hard to believe, but they are mar. a dd ress was c h aracter- wide ones and stole second, Wine- ried sure enough. ever, h 1s The natives were indeed startled ized by brevity. land struck out but Sanders plantTuesday to learn that "Ket," y L.k ed a pretty single between second . c1·f · "A M iss 1 ton 10 s ou 1 e Junior and Captain of the baseball b h S h and short, thereby scoring Lloyd " I t, ore tot e op omores the team, had married Miss Maud f and Wagn-er. Otterbein annexed . comp 11ments o the Seniors and . another in the fifth when Young Beery at I,.ancaster Monday. highly entertained the cla~ses was hit by a pitched ball, stole Miss Betcy;~:S not b~en in school with a modern chapel talk. Y*d . . an t h e separation was second and we.nt home on Wag- t h 1s'te1111 In ''A l\Iid-Summer N1ght's ner's single and an error by Pax- more, k}tnan .our worthy captain Dream," Mr. I. R. Libecap ad· t0'1. H owever t he b oys were , ot could bear. After thr. victory 10 gettlng .,. satisfied with three counts and in over Ohio State Saturday, he was maably succeeaea joke on each Sophomore. the seventh annexed three more. naturally feeling exuberant and so This attack was mef au d re- John was hit by a pitched ball, he slipped down to Lancaster ;,.nd pulsed, first by Miss Helen stole second and third and counted celebrated by taking unto himself Weinland in "Ten Nights in on an error by House. Three a wife unbeknown to his friends. Otterbein," which was profuse bases on balls, four stolen bases Somehow the secret l'eaked out, wi th original poetry; second by and two errors brought in the and now congratulations· are extended on every hand. Mr. and Mr. I. D. Warnet tn the ''The other two. Round-Up" which consisted of Otterbein's infield work was Mrs. Ketner, kindly permit THE letters pretended to have been spectacular. Young and Keister OTTERBEINREVIEW to extend to received by himself telling of were there with the goods, the you best wishes for a long happy the occupations and whereabouts former accepting six chances with- lite. It is rumored that other of each jolly Senior.
On the evening, of April 20, the Sophomore class gave a banin honor of the Seniors at Cochran Hall. The dining room was artistically decorated, class and Otterbein pennants being much in evidence. After tbe classes
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A. Ditmer's drum solo was a fitting close for the occasion •and as the hands of the clock were slowly creeping toward the midnight hour the guests departed declaring that the Sophamores were hosts ne plus ultra. F 'd . h h . n ay n,g t, t e c 1angmg of bells and shouts of .the High S h 1 d c oo stu ents gave evidence that Westerville had won first honors in the County Oratorical Contest held at Columbus. Miss Esther VanBuskirk easily won first place with her oration,
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as to what w~s coming next. "Abraham Lincoln." Being first ;yfiss Leila Bates nobly acquit- is a habit of our High School con ted herself as toastw i tre s. testants.
out a slip and the latter ten. members of the team are contem• Captain Ketner had only one plating doing the same stunt,chance at second which he handled but this is only rumor. cleanly. John at first gave a good account of himself and is proving CollegeBulletin. the best man Otterbein has had for years on the initial bag. Tuesday, April 27, 6 p. m.Ott'erbeln. • AB. R . .H. PO. A, .E Y. W. C. A. Leader, Miss Lloyd, m.· .................... a 2 o 1 o o Ketner, 2b .................... 5 o o i o o Lily Henry. Topic, "DaughWa!fner, 1......................... 3 z I o o uo· ters of the King." Wineland, c ........... a o o H 1 sancter~. p ....................... ~ o 1 o o 1 Keister, Sb ..................... • u o 2 s o Thursday, April 29, 6 p. m.-Y, 0 Klloe, r ............................. 3 0 0 0 0 M C A L d C A b.'001<, r ............................ 1 o o o o o • · · ea Pr, • . 1 3 1 1 YoMg:, ss ................... ~ ~ Welch. Topic, "Looking Joun, lb ..................... a I o ll Forward." Total, .................... 30 Ii 3 2r Jt I Saturday, May I, 1:30 p. m.-
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