VOL.
. WESTERVILLE,
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President Clippinger Will Attend College Association. At the second annual meeting of t'he Association of American ColOtterbein Students Quickly Extin- leges to be held in Chicago on Thurs- Otterbein Five Loses First Game of day, Friday and Saturday, Otterbein guish Blaze Before Much Damage Season in Heated Contest on will be represented by President is Done to Official Residenc;e. Home Floor. Clippinger. This as ociation includes all colleges and universities in Amer- SICKNESS WEAKENS FLAYERS INSURANCE COVERS LOSS ica which have attained certain fixed educational standards. State instituFire Started When Frozen Water Columbus Team Uses Close Defentions are excluded from membership, Pipe is Thawed-Poorly Constructsive Style of Play on Tan and however, for they have a similar ored Building Adds to Danger. Cardinal Scoring Machine. ganization of their kind. President Clippinger pent Sunday In a well contested game, replete Fire broke out in President Clipat Connel ville, Ohio where he spoke with pinger's residence on last Thursday basketball thrills, Otterbein ~fternoon which threatened to do at the United Brethren Church Anni- went down to, defeat here last SatucTonight he will deliver the con id.erable damage. The flames versary. day at the hands of the fast Capiwere quickly discovered and imme- address at the mid-year high scl10Jl tal University five, by the score nt diately the large number of students commencement at Lorain, Oh.io. 39 to 24. It was the fir t appearam:c and profes ors a embled in their of the varsity this season and a:l one o clock cla es rushed to the COUNTY NORMALS CLOSED basketball lovers were well plea t:d cene, Had it not been for tlte at the excellent showing of the team. united and intelligent efforts of these College Summer School Attendance Fighting with the old time pirit to men much more eriou damage Will Increase-Professor Trump th.e final gun-shot, and never giving would have been suffered. Will Head Normal Work. up in the face of bitter defeat, the Ladders and fire extingui hers team di played the real grit which With the discontinuance of the were brought from the college buildniakes a winning corpbination. With ings. Ol)enings were made in the county normal schools througµ10ut wonderful bur ts of peed and enthe state the colleges are expecting roof and iding on both the south durance, the players acquitted themand north sides where the flames a great increa e in the attendance at e!ve splendidly before the record-their summer chools. The special seemed to be mo t active. The breaking crowd of rooter . The chemical extinguisher was shot be- demands made of all teachers by th:: Capital basketer are tb .b t that nd the !tam were pre W-t tate laws make much pe- have performed -•,...----...,,cen ttJ.e watl in the gymnasium cial training necessary for these nwthered out before the WesterThe county normals have for years and played a game worthy vi!le fire company had arrived on the teachers. Ih basket received great patronage in the past of much commendatiun. l'--.:rne and had their inadequate equipfrom the teachers in all chool,. hooting as well a guarding thry ment ready for use. However they Now it will be nece sary for these were faultless and the hard iought did succeed 111 soaking the large teachers to get their advanced ~vork "ictory- wa well earned. crowd with the murky waters in a elsewhere. For four minute after the whi·tl~ vain attempt to inundate the whole The college summer chools are blew, both team sl:ruggled hard for place. particularly fitted for this. The)· tlie fir t ba ket. apital ,. succeeded The fire was tarted, when Donhave the very be t qualified teachers in counting fir_ t, when {ickerd made ald lippinger wi hing to build a in all departments and because of good from the foul. A minute later kating rink in a low place in the their large attendance are ablE! to Sechrist brought the ro ter to their yard. ·thawed out the water pipr secure many special teacher an.cl fe t with. a neat g al putting Ottei·leading to the faucet on the outh lecturers along particular_ phase of bein in the lead. As both teams ide of the house. He had rolled up school work and admini tration. were fighting their best, the outcome a piece of paper and was applying Otterbein among other chools in seemed like a tos -up, when neither the flames when some sawdust packthe state . wiL! reap great benefits team could core. Capital again ing around the pipe took fire. The from this work. It is expected th;it took the lead, wben Baumgardner house being of very poor constructhe attendance next year will be a!- dropped a pretty one for a count. tion offered splendid food for the mo t twice that of the pa t year. But Captain Schnake 0011 made a hungry flames. The siding of the Accordingly special course are being foul good, making the count even, house i fully an inch from the offered a announced in these col- while Sechrist added two l))0re with ( Continued on page five.) umns last week. a ba ket from the center of the Profe or W. l'. Trump, of the floor. The cheering was fine at this Paul R. Blinn Named to Act as cla of '01, will have charge of the time as it was until the final whi tie. Westerville's Village Manager. normal department. Mr. Trump has \,Vith a udden burst of team worl;:, lived up to the·:r Paul R. Blinn, a former student in directed this work for three years the Capital player excellent reputation and made the Otterbein ha been elected to man- previou to last year when he took age the village of vVesterville for the a lea\·e of absence. He is an efficient count 10 to 6. By a pretty field goal, Schnake scored his fir t ensuing year at a salary of $1500. chool superintendent and a splendid Captain (Continued on page !ive.) Mr. Blinn comes to We terville from teacher. His return a the head ot
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Mt. Vernon where he has been serving as city engineer. vVesterville ha the di tinction of being the only village in. the state t have a municipal manager. 1t i; al O the only village of Ohio having the commis ion fori:n of gover,1ment. Mr. Blinn a ume his Westerville imm diately.
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this important work i being received on every hand with great enthusia m. Mr . Nellie L. oble will bl" in charge of the c-our e in domestk science and household management. Some pecial cour es are being formed in public school art and music. Those who enroll in thi m -work will have both the advantages of cla and individual instruction.
Dedication Date is April 9. Dedication ceremonies of the New United Brethren Church will be held April 9. Such was the plan ma9e by the board of trustees of the church at a meeting last Tue day evenint;. Reverend E. E. Burtner and Proi~sor N. E. Cornetet were named a a committee to complete arrangement .
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No. 16.
17, 1916.
Otterbein, Muskingum an!! Mt. Union Will Debate March 2.. Thur day evening, March 2, has been fixed for the men' debates between the teams representing Otterbein, Mu kingum and Mt. Union. -:;:'he Otterbein negative team goes to New Goncord ·where they will meet the Mu kingum affirmative. The Mt. Union negative combination comes to We terville to contend against Professor Fritz's affirmative bunch. Mu kingum's negative and Mt. Union'- affirma6ve are the opponents at . lliance. It i reported that the work is progre sing very nicely. The men on the quad are reading a great deal cone ming the subject and are rapidly getting togeth~r much good material. SECHRIST
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Football Men Will Clash With Strong Teams Next SeasonHiram Replaces Wesleyan. Manager George A._ Sechrist has just completed his football schedule for the sea on of 1916. The men.i provided for the next year' gridiron warrior is- a plendid one. Although the li t contains bu.t. three regula conference games all the schools represented are in the fir t class when it comes to putting strong football teams 011 the field. Hiram college is a new team to cla h ~ith Otterbein. This eleven will come to \Vesterville on October 21. For many y ars B iram has been playing \Ve tern l,te erve, Oberlin and Mt. nion. l.n each conflict she ha always made a w rthy opponent for the e large chool ·. Denison is ba k on th chedule again. ntil fa t year Otterbein alway had football relation with Deni on. The return of the Big_ Red team i welcomed by all Otterbein enthusia ts: There will be tJiree home games again next year as ha . been customary for many years. Lt is expecte that a large body of students will accompany the team to Gambier when Otterbeip meets Kenyon o-i October 7. Be ides Hiram, Mu kingum and Antioch will be the home attraction . This is the fir t time in years th:1,t OJ1io Wesleyan has not had a prom,inent place on the Otterbein footIn the la t four games ball schedule. with the Delaware team, Otterbein ha put up a wonderful fight, completely outclas ing the We leyanites in three of the contest although winning but two. This has caused great fear to enter into the Red and Black camp. Variou excuses were made to Mr. ech.r.i t by the Wesleyan manao-er when he was arrangin 6 his chedule in order to evade a game · (Continued on page five.)