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THE RED AND BLACK
Red and Black
One Dollar Per Annum
Published by the Athletic Association of
the University of Georgia
Entered at the Cull Office at Athens, Georgia
a* aecond* ta«« mail matter
J. f. IIUKKK, Eiutiiji in-Ciiikk
C. A. IKl/.IKK, Bus. Managkr
J. K. Mai DONAI.H, JK., Associate Editor
\V. !i. ItKAN I I.EV, JK., . Athletic Editor
Kill.UN BROUGHTON l-ocal Editor
\V. K. it'll AKA Kuchangr Editor
t It. CAHANISS, . . Am’t Hus. Mnnngrt
Some of ns, vt-lit we The City Government Club of The ll'he club Imptfc to secure from
University of Georgia. time to time as speakers, men of
All communication* in relctcnce to »uli
•cription* and ad»arli»fiu«nts should lie
addrrtsrd to the llii»i»c»» Manager.
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Sae I'A I KON I/I- OllR ADVERTISERS
|)itl you ever set tit your desk
in by gone davs and long; and
filn- ■ ■ . ,
Mint seemed ever
/■* »••oil NooTIit > • •
so long in coming? I»nl you ever
wislt for the time when June
would no longer mean your free
dom? Long for the time when
that long itntl tidious ordeal of
preparation should be finished,
anil the then tiresome tusks
would he no more?
Such were our fond and phan
tom hopes when we romped on
the pluy grounds at our home
schools and such were the dreams
that haunted us when we were
Freshmen ami grew more luring
and inviting when we were
Sophs.
Each ami every member of the
class of nineteen hundred uml
six passed through these success
ive stages, ami now we find our
selves face to face with the last
June, and oh how different from
the picture painted in our child
hood dreams. Then the picture
was far away in the distance,
now close at hand. Then it was
bright and alluring, and now it is
colored with a touch of sadness.
Only five more weeks and we
join the hand of swimmers who
have already plunged out into
life’s turbulent sea. Some of us
have made well of our pre
paration, and the four years
sjiciit in college have trained us
and given us a bold and steady
stroke with which we shall
cleave.the restless waters and at
last reach fame across life's
stormy sea.
preparation lias been less
thorough, will drift aimlessly
about and keep our heads above
surface, at last to lie caught in
the current am) carried away
with countless thousands never
to he heard of again. There are
others who ure utterly unfitted
for the task, and as their strokes
grow weaker and the sea grows
rougher, they will at last suc
cumb to the adverse waves and
sink down in life's briny deep,
and with a lust stroke of despair
will leave only a while cap to
mark the grave of a failure.
Then there are hundreds who
have used well their time of
preparation, hut ’ere life’s jour
ney lias begun, will strike unfor-
seen rocks, even before they push
off from the college shore.
Soon each of us must face the
question. “Which lot is mine?
Am 1 to lie the strong and un
wavering swimmer, the aimless
drifting one, or the failure?”
Let each one of us consider his
career of preparation and answer
the question for himself. It is
now ton late to change our course
of preparation for the stormy
battle of life, for the fight is on,
and the past four years have
gone, never to come again. If
some of our preparations might
have been better, waste no use
less energy Hi inking of thrifts
that might have been, let no
tinge of remorse or a sense of un
fitness and a knowledge of things
undone cause your eye to waver,
hut make a firm resolution to
buttle with life in a different
way, for a strong will and a
steadfast purpose may yet give
strength and power to your
strokes and place you with those
who reach the goal of fame.
You members of the lower
classes who have a few more
months or a year or two more of
preparation left, look this ques
tion struiglit in the face before
it is too late, and make the
remainder of your college life
count for more than the past,
and when you come to face life’s
storm swept sea, have no wasted
hours and ill spent days to re
gret.
“There is a period of ten or
fifteen years during which all
college gruduules, poor as well
as rich, have time enough, and
energy enough, and ought to
have iutorust enough to attempt
to make the politicsof the neigh
borhood in which they live bet
ter.” These ure the words of
lion. William RL Taft, and they [
express succinctly the reason for
the existence of t he City Govern
ment Club.of the University of
Georgia.
About two years ago there was
founded in Yale University the
first College City Government
Club in the country. Its objects
were to promote interest in Mu
nicipal Politics among the stu
dents of the University, by se
curing men of practical experi
ence in City Government to ad-,
dress the student body, and then
by informal smokers, to bring
the members of the club into
closer relationship with the
speaker.
Men of national importance,
such us Mr. Jerome of New York,
Mr. Huencpurte of Baltimore,
and Mr. Kent of Chicago were
secured as speakers, and their
lecture halls were packed with
students and the people of New
Vale’s^Huli^vas so*'pre-emi
nently successful that her exam
ple was followed the next year
by all of the larger Eastern col
leges, Harvard, Princeton, Co
lumbia, Cornell, und even as far
West as Chicago and Michigan
The movement was brought tQ
the attention of President Roose
velt, and he promptly sent an
invitationjto-every college organ
isation of the kind in the coun
try, to appoint delegates' who
should meet hint in the White
House on March 14th, to discuss
the subjects of Municipal Gov
ernment in general. The invita
tion w as, of course, accepted, and
the President talked earnestly to
these young men for two hours,
with tlie result that there is now
being formed a federation of all
City Government Clubs existing
in the colleges of the North and
practical knowledge ‘of affairs of
—■ - ■ West.
What has become of the organ ' Believing that practically
that once made music for us at 1 every college undergraduate in
chapel. Without the liymsj thi> cou,,tr y > 8 wofully ignorant
, , 1 II I I'.r . upon all subjects connected With
chapel seems smlull and different |...
from w hat it used to lie. Singing
I lie government even of the city
government,_iu .general und city
government in particular. These
lectures will lie delivered under
the auspices of the dull, proba
bly in the ,Udiversity oliupyl,
and w ill lie free, unless expenses
connected with the lecturer him
self make it necessary to charge
some very small sum for udmis-
I sion.
The cluli w ishes to'htuke these
lectures free Immuuscms parti
cularly desirous that the student
body should attend in-large num
bers. The object of the club is
to promote interest in municipal
reform among the student hotly,
so that when the tneii have
gradurted to interest thus stimu
lated may hear fruitand lie a
power winking for the good of
the communities in wTiich they
they live.
The club also wishes to make
it perfectly clear that all citi-
zens of Athens whether eon-
inected in any way with the Uni
versity or not are most welcome 1
at the lectures. The club wants
io get the citizens hack of them
in pushing forward what they
believe to lie a good movement.
It will probably not lie possi
ble to have more than one speaker
this year on account of the ahcift
ft before 'the closing 'ttf
cdllege, hut the Huh is trying to
get Mr. T. P. Shout's, chairman
of the 'Panama'Uanal 'Commis
sion, to deliver that lecture.
The first regtilur nteetihg of
the Huh was held SiV tlie faculty’
room on Thursday, May 10th,
when nothing hut regdlhir busi
ness was transacted.
Membership in the club Ik lim
ited to eighteen, but for this year
only the number has bebh in
creased, and the roll is now a*
follows:
1. The Senior 'Round Table;
and
2. Fro'm Senior Academic—
I->ee, Willieit, Winchester, 'J. 'LL
Jones.
!J. From Senior Law—Sulli
van, Whitman, Lawton.
4. From Junior Aeadpinic
\\ eltnur, Uillou, iRaoul, ,ii*voi,
Carmiehael, Brantley.
Adviwwy ‘Committee—Profes
sors Park, Stiellings and'Mofher-
son.
Professor Barrow was .present
in which he lives; and believing at the meeting, ami spoke a .few
a song in common, where the it to he every college man’s duty words to tha club. He was also
whole student body is gathered at least to know something of the kind enough to show his ayinpa-
together, seems to throw a dif- working* of such government, thy with the movement hv fur-
ferent feeling over us and seems , the Senior Round Table has nulling the funds necessary .to
to bring us nearer together while formed itself into a nucleus make the duh a charter member
at chapel. We feel sure that around which it has built the of the Federation mentioned
the resumption of the songs at j City Government Club of the above—the onlv member from
chapel exercises would he a good University of Georgia. the South.