BILLY SUNDAY

From the undergraduate point of view Billy Sunday was a distinct success, and the Christian Association should certainly be congratulated for bringing this' great evangelist to Hanover. There were many that critized him in advance, but few except the stubborn reproved after they had heard. It must be admitted that most of the undergraduates went out of curiosity. They did not know what to expect. But Billy Sunday proved to be different from the ordinary evangelist, and it was this difference that gained him popularity. The main secret of his success was simple. He sized up his audience and appealed to its point of view. This is what most evangelists fail to do, and beca.use of this, especially with college audiences, they have only mediocre success. One of the most important ele- ments of this certain point of view was the sensational and dynamic machine which hurled sentence after sentence of sound argument into the audience. But furthermore, there were interesting stories and graphic descriptions to keep up interest. And above all was the trait that Billy Sunday has of talking as man to man and not as preacher to student.

And the admiration was not all on one side. Mr. Sunday liked Hanover. He said, when conducted on a sightseeing tour of the buildings, the campus, Alumni Gymnasium, the president's home and then the Vale of Tempe with its ski-jump and toboggan slide, "This is the most beautiful spot I have ever seen." That he also liked Dartmouth was shown when he told several men, who gathered around him at the close of the evening service, that Billy Jr., was considering Princeton, but that Billy Sr. was going to recommend Dartmouth.