VOL. V.
WESTERVILLE,
OHIO,
PONTIUS SPEAKS TO YOUNG MEN
FEBRUARY
9, 1914.
No. 18.
FINE RECITAL .
Notice. ! Professor Bendinger is anxiou, STATE SECRETARY GIVES YOUNG MEN SOME VERY for more students to join the A N T H O N Y F. B LAN K S PLEASES AUDIENCE Choral Society. The society is VALUABLE INFORMATION. starting work along a new !in~ Large Crowd Turns Out to Hea r Speech· and Enjoy Social Func- and all who can, should take ad- Mr. Paul B. Parks Sings Cyclc:! of Shakespearean Songsvantage of this opportunity to tion. Hear One of the Best Speeches Given Lambert Hall Crowded. at the Meetings This Year. ]0111.
A large and appreciative audiThe Young Men of the Chri·,-1 e,·ery person hould ask him ·elf. THE BBB'S BUZZ ence listened to Professor Antian As ociation listened with I \\'hat is the thina,:, which is most thony F. Blanks last Tuesday much profit to Mr. Pontius as he serious in my life? \Vl1at is this gave ome of the thing he had going to mean to me in three Preparations For Great Junior evening, when he gave his origi Farce Moving Steadily of Shakespear's nal adaptation observed while working in the years, five years or at the end of .Along. ·'Merchant of Venice," in Lamgreat laboratory of humanity. life? The e should be squarely bert Hall. He aid that in his five and one faced. Under the efficient coaching of onThe auditorium of the half years from lea,·ing the uniOn entering a large edifice the Profe or J3iank the junior farer; servatory of Music was filled with versity he had learned to know natural !hing to do is to look i well on its way to completion. men. Some have achieved uc- about to see exit light- and ar- It is certainly going to be worth an audience. expecting to receive cess and ome ha ,·e e.-perience;l rows leading to afety in case of y i.:r while to see it fer ther".! a treat in the program of the failure. :tv1any are pess1m1st1c apparent danger. o the know- i a "laugh e,·ery minute.'' The e,·ening, long before it wa time and think that everythi1w i:; ledge and fact of the evil in a junior "local color" artists are for the program to begin. Needa-rowing wor e. Hence thev man' life is not ufficient in it- hard at work and you will be sur- le s to say, they were not clisapThe prog-ram wa:; become faint hearted for the self; but it is only the first exit prised at some of the cle,·er ones poin'.d. ,· I' cause of humanity. );'ot a ie,,· light leading out to success. If the· ··11 ull song by Mr. Paul R. ~ tlTe Hee by tlte number a man i afraid to ta e an in enpecial scenery i being orderhi \Nesleyan. Univerr the ize 0£ their tory f him. eJ by an hone t in- ed and. the play will be brimful of ity, who wa ac mpaniecl by But ucce 1s tro pection he i a whipped man. the tme Otterbein bank account. pirit. Their n t that. ucce cene which will cer- Profe or Glen G. rabill on the 1 the faith The_ next thing of importance i. i a compu whereby a man reache down aud that he look long enough to be- tainly get what's leit of your goat piano. Thi wa not fr. Parl<.s lift the world. It i · all a mat- come thoroughly di ati fied with by that time. 1 he play will la t fir t appearance before the people himself. \!\Then in that condition two hour and the management of \i e terville, with wh m he is ter of character. Many ha e experienced char- he is on the verge of great thing . has declared it intention of dis- very popular. acter failure. The three main But all this, however aoocl it ma,· counting the price of admi io11 Profe or Blank then took th.: rea on are:· in incerity, lazine :3 be i not ufficient. It i neces- for a ingle dull moment duri.nu platform and held hi audience and ro immortality. There i. sary to break with the pa t, to those two J,our of rollicking fun. from tart to fini h. He opened If you're a flunker or going to with a hort di cus ion of the constant danger of the colle-a~ turn from it and fight not a clay, ma11 be::omi.ng in iocere. There not for a week, but f r life. be; if you are love ick; if you play, explaining hi interpretaThe play j p ril that he will veneer the noted profe or from John Hop- are brain weary; if you have a tion of the characters. wa brought to a clo e at the minor defect with culture; but kin ni er ity recently aid "case"; if. you need a little recreend of act four. hylock wa th~ little foxe poil the vine·. "Tell the young men that they ation; if you are mentally or brought before your very eye . Roose elt ay , "Modern cul- ar~ fiahting the ame battles that physically depre ed; come to th He wa changed from the deceitture tend to lo e to men their we old men have to fight." Rob- Junior Play. It i guaranteed to 11 believe in in on Jone ays that we have be a panacea for college ill . ful avoriciou jew to a develi h fi htino- edge." the holy name of woman and yet lo t the ma tery in many ca es The date i February 2 . The blood thir ty fiend, by the artful how many will tand by and through our cowardice. name i 'Brains, Breakfa t Food, reader. Every character wa very well · hear her name trailed in the n th r e ential to ucce 1. and Ba ketball." p rtrayed, but in the portrayal du t. In iocerity i a canke:· power. Thi may be obtained Come out, everyone. 1f you of hylock Mr. Blank eemed to which will ooner or later cau e fr m the ource of power, which i3 haven't o-ot a 'date' yet, aet live the part, for the time beino-. ruin and failure. 11. t~er cau-~ f und in hri t. vital connec- bu y and buzz around. Madame The entertainment of the evenf r failure i lazine . Every tion , ·ith the reat dynamo of the arey per on.ally informed u · ed more firmly upon achievement that i worth while univer e i the greate t ecret of that the be t and prettie t airl · of the Ii teners that aaine_d th.rou h hard re i t- thi real power. The final re- ·have aot elate . There are a few tterbein ha a rong Public ance. The lazy man_ will degen- qui ite for ucce i the identi- left however, and it up to peaking department. erate morally. He who eek joy ficatio.n f one' elf with some you. You will never regret the a an encl in itself, will eek o-reat, high, and worthy cause. tep o get bu y and lean again t Exendine Goes to Georgetowp. in vain, ince joy i a byproduct.. There i no cau e. o-reater than the Cochran Hall doorbell a A. A. Exendine, former footof duty well done. Gros immor- the cau e of humanity. It i_, oon a po ible. ball coach at Ott-erbein, ha acality is another factor in the. not enough to live clean. That -------cepted the po ition of football Come Out. force of de truction. Thi , e - i the least that i to be expectcoach at Georgetown Univer ity. pecially to college men, needs no ed of a man. ctivity is essenCome out to the game with Mr. Exenedine coached the Otcomment. . tial. When the harlot came to 1Heidelberg and help defeat our terbein eleven for three years. There are two questions that (Continued on page eight.) old enemies. J