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LOCAL.
Local.
Below we give the programs, which were presented for the edification of the University audiences:
OREAD AND OROPHILIAN PROGRAM, FRIDAY EVENING.
INVOCATION.
Music ... (Grand March—C. Mays) ..Buch's Orchestra ESSAYS:
Orophilian..(Shades and Shadows) Hattie C, Hulick Oread...(Reality and Sham ... Nettie Brown Music ... (Irish Medley-Lamotte)...Orchestra Debate-Question: Watchman, What of the Night? Oread, H. B. Martin: Orophilian, R. K. Bruce
Oread, H. B. Martin; Orophilian, B. K. Bruce,
Music...(Waltz Lillian—E. N. Catlan)...Orchestra
DECLAMATIONS:
Oread ...(Left Ashore)...Fannie E. Pratt
Orophilian...(Murillo's Slave)...Pearl A. Young
Music, (Selection Plantation—E. Boettger) Orchestra
ORATIONS:
Orophilian...(The Victory of Faith)...S. M. Cook
Oread...(A Dangerous Idea)...Cyrus Crane
Music...(Gallop)...Orchestra
This was the first entertainment given by the two societies during Commencement, and it has demonstrated the fact that a united entertainment is far better and more interesting than for each to give one. The contestants all did very well.
NORMAL PROGRAM, SATURDAY EVENING.
Overture...(Lyre of Gold—Herman)...Orchestra
Invocation...Dr. P, J. Williams
Essay...Gussie Pierson
(What is the Best Field for Woman's Influence.)
(What is the Best Field for Woman's Influence.)
Music...(Plantation Medley—Boetgen)... Orchestea Declamation..(The Painter of Seville) Phebe Ashley Essay...(Ruins of Ambition)...Eva Halsted Music...(Wedding Banquet—Rexner)...Orchestra Debate—Resolved. That the Events of 1066 Exerted a
Greater Influence upon the World's Progress than those of 1777. Affirmative, M.L.Field; Negative, E.L.Cowdrick.
Music ... (Farewell—Mendelssohn) ...Quartette
ation...(Francis Bacon)...Chas. S. Metcalfe
The Normals had a rainy night to contend with, but they drew a good house and gave a good program.
PRIZE RHETORICALS, MONDAY, JUNE 2D. PROGRAM OF FACULTY CONTEST.
INVOCATION.
Piano Solo...Nellie Melville
“Roundo Capriccioso”—Mendelssohn,
Toussaint L, Overture...Will S. Jenks
Pencil Stubs...Nettie Brown
Wendell Phillips...Fannie E, Pratt
The Vision of Mirza ...Laura Lyons
Piano Solo...Mattie Erb
“Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2”-Liszt.
Extract from Brown...Richard S. Horton
The Republic...Jennie S. Sutliff
The Poet's Ministry...Clara H, Poehler
Nations and Humanity...Cyrus Crane
PROGRAM OF FIELD & CO., CONTEST.
Vocal Duet...N. O. Stevens and Mrs. C. Grant "The Fisherman."
The Anti-Slavery Struggle...W. H. Brown
Socrates...Sarah M. Emery
The American Civilizer...S. T. Gilmore
Piano Solo...George Metcalf "German Triumph March"—Kunkel.
Byron, Poet...Victor Lindley
Wendell Phillips ...Frank A. Marshall
Music...Amphion Quartette
W. S. Jenks, the first on the program, is an easy, graceful speaker. He had a good piece and kept the attention of the audience from beginning to end.
Miss Nettie Brown, the second on the program, is a good speaker, and on this occasion did remarkably well. Her piece was adapted to her manner of speaking.
Miss Fannie Pratt was the next on the program. Miss Pratt has a very graceful and pleasant delivery. On this occasion she had chosen a piece that gave her a good opportunity to display her power in the use of the pathetic. She was a favorite with the audience.
Laura Lyons is also a very graceful speaker. Her selection was more in the line of a narrative, and she acquitted herself with great credit.
Richard Horton came next. He had a piece with more of the dramatic than most of the others. He spoke very well.
Jennie Sutliff had chosen a selection that would hardly be expected to be delivered by a young lady, but she succeeded remarkably well. She entered thoroughly into the spirit of the rhetorical part, and threw into the rendition the necessary vim and energy to make it interesting,and to claim the attention of the audience.
Clara Poehler had a very pretty selection, mostly in the narrative style, but the occasional dramatic periods she rendered well.
Cyrus Crane, the last one in the faculty contest, was one of the best on the program. We have already, in the report of the Oread-Orophilian entertainment, spoken of Mr. Crane's speaking. He did, if anything, better on this occasion than before. Mr. Crane needs but to study the modulating of his voice to make an exceptionally good speaker.
Mr. W. H. Brown was the first speaker on the Field & Co. contest, being one of five who were selected out of a large number to contest on the rostrum for the prize. His subject as seen by the program, is a large one, and in