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OFFICIAL STUDENTS’ PUBUCATtON OF STETSON UNIVERSITY.DE LAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY i3, iqqs-A History of the “ Collegiate.IfAlmost all truly great institutions have small beginnings and bard strug-glea before getting firmly on ihear feet, and the Collegiate has been nn exception to, but rather, a strong demon stration of, this rule.In 1 he winter of i88b were issued the first numbers of the SrDeLaud Collegiate, til the form qf a monthly students' journal The first editor-in-chief was Miss E. C. Webb, now Mrs. S. A. McCoy, of Topeka, Kansst* Her assistant wm Miss Josephine Lin illy, and Henry Hildreth was business manager, The officers were appointed by Dr. Forbes, Mr. Bntsford and Miss Helen B. Webster, instructors in the University, who also superintended at1 writing for the paper. During this first year of the Collegiate^ life, four numbers were issued, the subscrip-tiOns and advertisements helping to defray the tjjcpjenaes. Mr, ft. A. De-Land. the founder and ever generous friend of the University, made up the deficitDuring [he next school year— r886 87—the same editors still held sway Du ring this year the paper was issued regularly every month— m:thing eight issues, The printing was done by Noble Bros., of DcLami This firm, and its sutCsar, the present E. O. Fainter Co., has always printed the Collegiate from its first appearance down to the present time.Although encountering great difficulties. in the sit ape of lack oi funds and material for publication, these first editors and managers laid for the paper a foundation which subsequent years have amply proven waiindeed well built -After Miss Webb laid down the editor's pen at the end of the spring terra nf ‘87, for some reason of Other the paper was dropped for three and ahalf years. At the end of this time it reappeared in the winter term of 'qf, It was now called the 41Stetson Colle giaic, the name oi the school having hern changed in the meantime from DeLand to Stetson University,. The editor-in-chief was Richard F. Adams, with Miss Nellie M. Day as assistant editor and John H Williams as business manager. The January number was delayed until itebfuttry 9th, so that only four numbers were i^s-ued that year, but each time something like JScr copies were sold.Financially, the issue of 'yr wa,s a great success, due to ihe support of the students and business#men of the town, as well as to 1VIr, Stetson's liberal patronage, so that twenty or thirty dollars was turned over to the Library Fund at the end of the year.All these early edit Long nf the Collegiate were hound with silk cord and covers of various designs., The contents- were principally literary, though local and alumni nates received consider a hie attentionA5though the paper got such a good start in ’91, Li wsfcs not taken up again the followihr school year, chiefly bcr-ttattse the old editors did not return 1o school and there was no provision for filling their places. Tin111 in ihe winter term of ‘gji Dr. Forbes called a meeting of picked students to reawaken 1 lie Stetson Collegiate, Profiting by former experience,, they organized a board which should tf per manc-nt and have power to fill all vacancies occurring in its ranks. Tim J. Law was made edit omjihz hie 1, Georgia V. Robinson assoc tab editor, and George H. Wilder business manager, ind they proved them Helves very-efficicnt officers during the ftour months in which thev controlled thefTo be continued.)
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Stetson Collegiate
Deland, Florida, US
Wed, Jan 18, 1905
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