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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1915
Page
4
Franklin College student publication notes advertising terms and staff. It leads with praise for the basketball team now winning games at home and invites student body to boost the February 3 1915 home game versus Butler College with spirited cheering and college songs.
On January 26 the tie mysteriously disappears and then reappears during a college social week. The College Observer notes the event alongside chapel services led by Dr W de Wright of Franklin Christian Church and Dr Hall on consecutive days with Messrs. Small and Barr of the basketball team as guests at the Phi Alpha house Friday night.
A spectator enters the gym without knocking and exits again during a game against Butler. The incident prompts crowd reactions as fans cheer and applaud at appropriate moments, supporting the home team’s effort.
Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond president of Union College Schenectady N Y told the Midwest alumni banquet in Chicago that football at great American universities amounts to a disgrace. He warned fathers and mothers allow sons to be exploited for profit like circus or vaudeville acts and said academies push athletic material and coaches drive students to focus on sports at the expense of study.
Mrs Sutton was a chapel visitor Friday. Huth Pritchard traveled to Indianapolis Saturday. Leela Denny spent the weekend at home in Madison. Marie Grifth visited dormitory sisters Ethel Turman of Louisville Monday. Harriett Hoeger stayed at home in Seymour. Margaret Remy spent the weekend with Martinek. Ray Hunter hosted in Columbus. Helen Knox of Lafayette was weekend guest of Pauline Hitz. Florence Sayer at Indianapolis. Julian Garter and Claude Yeoman visited Indianapolis Saturday. Leo Noland filled Prof Belknap pulpit at First Mt. Pleasant last Sunday. Irene Huntington of Cumberland visited Prof Spencer at Mrs Smith's weekend. Paul Huntington of Cumberland guest of Donald Smith and Phi Alpha Pi men weekend. Iva Anderson ex 15 of Edwardsport visited Low Edith Wimborough at the dormitory Saturday.
A Mooresville teacher urged athletic effort in class and recounted a German college athlete who swam the Elbe river three times each morning. A boy laughed, noting the swimmer did not swim four times to reach his clothes on the far bank.
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