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100 Years Ago: Events on Lindsey Hill dominated the news By "Jim" Mid-May 1910 found the Lindsey Wilson hill abuzz with end-of-term activities, beginning with the annual Field Day and culminating with the awarding of diplomas. Field Day was held on Thursday, May 13th, and the next edition of the News duly reported the events and winners thereof, some of which follow: Wm. Campbell won the 100 yard dash in the 17 & under age group; Burley Young took the running broad jump with a mighty leap of 12 feet, three inches, while B. Young & C. [Charlie] Diddle held off all contenders in the wheelbarrow race. Mr. Diddle also carried the day in the shot put, while Mr. Young went on to win the standing high jump and the 220 yard dash, and Messrs. Young and Diddle finished 1-2 in the hurdle race.The article also stated that "The gold medal offered by Rev. A.R. Kasey was won by Burley Young," but didn't mention specifically what young Mr. Young did to earn the medal. (The previous July, the News had reported that "In order to inspire greater efforts on the part of the pupils of the Lindsey-Wilson Training, in every department of school life, Rev. A.R. Kasey offered three gold medals, one in the Training School department, one in the Normal department, and one in Athletics.") The young ladies also participated in the activities, with Miss Della Duvall taking top honors in the egg race and Miss E. Barger claiming second place. Amelia Huddleston won the girls' wheelbarrow race, and the "Blue" team won the girls' relay race but the "Whites" exacted revenge by thumping the "Blues" 14-2 in basketball. And, as usual, Lindsey's first athletic superstar, Mr. Fred Rainwater The following afternoon, Friday, May 13th, Zella Pelly, one of Miss Edna David's elocution students, gave a dramatic reading of "Polly of the Circus." The News reported that the play was humorous; and that although the part was lengthy, Miss Pelly "gave it without a single mistake" and that "the large audience assembled at the Lindsey-Wilson felt fully repaid for going." Due homage was paid as well to Miss Eliza Gibbs' music students who participated by giving a program "which was splendid and also very enjoyable." An earlier issue of the News had announced "St. Mary's Baseball team will be here next Saturday [May14th] and will play the Lindsey-Wilson Club two games, forenoon and afternoon...and every body should be at the Lindsey-Wilson Park." However, the games failed to materialize, as "A message from [St. Mary's], received Friday afternoon, stated that several of the players were indisposed." The May 18th edition of the paper announced that a declamatory contest would be held the following evening, Thursday, May 19th, with three speakers from each of the Lindsey Wilson literary (debating) clubs: the C.D.S. (Columbian Debating Society) and the F.L.S. (Frogge Literary Society, named in honor of Prof. S.L. Frogge, who served as Principal of Lindsey Wilson in the 1904-1905 school year). The winner would be awarded a medal offered by Rev. A.P. Lyon of Elizabethtown, Ky. The young men (no women allowed in such rough-and-tumble affairs!) and their chosen topics were: For the C.D.S., Herbert Smith (The Black Horse and His Rider); I.W. Napier (The New South); and M.R. Gabbert (Lincoln's Second Inaugral Address.); and for the F.L.S., C.B. Diddle (The University, The Training Camp of the Future), D.H. Lyon (The Traitor's Deathbed), and Eugene Hauk (Taylor's Irish-American Address.)As an aside, it should be noted that the above-listed presentations were not compositions original to the contestants; rather, they were "famous" speeches or passages included in elocution textbooks of the day, such as "The New Century Speaker for School and College: A collection of extracts from speeches...selected and adapted for use in declamation, and in the study of American oratory...," 1898, edited by Henry Allyn Frink, Ph.D. Some two decades later, Leverett S. Lyon of the University of Chicago in 1919 referred to such as dramatic declamations as "emotional massage". The following week, the News informed readers that "the prize was won by D.H. Lyon, of Elizabethtown... All the young men acquitted themselves well. The Judges were Rev. B.M. Currie, Mr. J.W. Flowers, and Prof. Paul Moss." Of the judges, Rev. Currie pastored the Columbia Methodist Church and Paul Moss taught at Lindsey Wilson. The winner of the contest, Dandridge (D.H.) Lyon, was the son of Rev. Albert P. (A.P.) Lyon. His chosen delivery, "The Traitor's Death" is a highly romanticized, highly imaginative, highly unlikely account of the death of Benedict Arnold penned by George Lippard (1822-1854). Mr. Lyon had just turned 19 at the time of above-stated contest, and circumstantial evidence indicates he was attending Lindsey as a normal school student, as he had started teaching the year before. By 1921, D.H. Lyon was quite well-known in educational circles in Kentucky. Friday evening, May 20th, in the Lindsey Wilson Chapel, "pupils of Miss Gibbs, assisted by those of Miss David, gave an interesting program... Several solos and duets were rendered by the music pupils and were given in a faultless manner...and the Glee Club also gave a number that was especially enjoyed." Come Saturday, more entertainment was in store on the Hill, this time a presentation of Tennyson's "The Princess" by Miss David's class, and according to the News, it "was indeed a success from beginning to end... Miss Davis certainly is to be complimented on the success of the play, as measles interfered with many of the characters." (A minor outbreak of measles had occurred some three weeks before the term ended and a number of students had gone home.) The previous week's edition had mentioned that "On account of the expense in getting up the play, a small fee of fifteen cents will be charged at the entrance." On Sunday, May 22nd arrived, Dr. W.B. Ricks, of Bowling Green,"one of the leading ministers of the Louisville Conference," gave the Commencement address at the Methodist Church, said the building was "filled to its utmost capacity." Dr. Ricks' spoke on the topic of Christian character, "and it abounded in many wholesome admonitions to the students." Monday, May 23rd finally arrived and with it came the awarding of diplomas and the end of the school year. There weren't quite as many graduates at "the Lindsey Wilson" that late May day as there were a hundred years later; only two students had fulfilled the requirements: "Monday morning Mr. M.R. Gabbert and his sister, Gertrude, were awarded diplomas." They made their acknowledgments in an oration and an essay. Mr. Gabbert's speech was a fine production and Miss Gertrude's essay was well written and entertainingly read. The address to the graduating class was delivered by Rev. W.B. Ricks, D.D., of Bowling Green. Mr. and Miss Gabbert received many beautiful and useful gifts." In May 1910, Montie (M.R.) was just short of 20 and Gertrude was 23. In 1914, she married Montie M. Murrell, L.W.T.S. Class of '09.In summing up the 1909-10 school year at the Lindsey-Wilson Training School, the News wrote thus: "The graduating exercises Monday morning marked the closing of another successful year in this well-known institution of learning. Profs. Neilson & Moss, the Principals, should feel proud and justly so at the progress the school has made under their management. They have been ably assisted in all the departments, and [all] can say, 'We have used our utmost endeavors to give entire satisfaction...'And, in closing, J.E. Murrell thundered forth from the bully pulpit of the News in the May 25th edition:"The people of Adair county are justly proud of the Lindsey-Wilson and its management. It has done more than any other enterprise to build up Columbia, and as the years come and go the people will continue to bless the day it was established." This story was posted on 2010-05-24 06:00:07
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