Drury University - Souwester Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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floor of No. 5 on A Rhetorical days, with a Warmth, a finish, a completeness, that Parliaments, Congresses, Conventions and Synods never equal and seldom approach. Likewise, the Literary societies were smaller, affording more opportunity for each member. There was a time, soon after the great rebellion of '77-in which the Nestorians revolted from the old D. K. A.-When every member of the Nestorian Society came on for a part every week, and at no time in its history were those parts so excellent. Rhetoricals in those days occupied about the same relative place in the af- fections of the students and teachers that Athletics hold now. True, they played baseball then, but it was a sort of pastime. It was not a serious business as it is now, and doubtless a game played as they played then would now appear a very crude and uninteresting aiair. 7 5 to 56 or thereabouts Was not an unusual score for a game between Drury and Marshfield or Ozark. 15

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