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Inter-College Contest.According to previous arrangements, the prize contest for oratory, between the four colleges — Knox, Lombard, Abingdon and Monmouth—took place at the Opera House in Galesburg on the evening of the 11th inst.The weather was favorable, and a large and appreciative audience convened at an early hour to do honor to the enterprise. The four colleges were well represented in the audience, thus showing their approval of the contest, and giving strength and courage to their respective representatives on the stand. The contestants all came to time and acquitted themselves with great credit to the severalinstitutions represented: they were for the most part quite young in years, but none the less aged in experience.The performances were well timed,critical in composition, apt in execution, and, with one or two exceptions, had at complete command in delivery.The first performance of the evening was by Marion Ingels, of Abingdon, who discoursed at length upon “The Philosophy of the Mind.” Mr. Ingcls treated his subject metaphysically to a fault, yet in a sound and logical manner; showed the reality and importance of Phrenology in its true light. Style, a little tame and halting.
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Monmouth College Courier
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1873
Page 4
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