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TIIE BED AND BLACK
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Kmorjr University takes another
step to war. I obtaining Intercollegiate
athletics, areortliitg to the Emory
Wheel.
While the fall breezes were whip
ping about the campus with increas-
iiiK rapidity and sharpness, the exe
cutive committee of the athletic'
association has completed arrange
ments with Dr. Harvey W. Cox, presi
dent of the university, whereby
Emory will be permitted to put a
swimming team into the water next
spring.
Under the ruling which Dr. Cox
has just made, swimming as a sport
will be put in the same classification
as tennis and golf and will be al
lowed as a part of the track meets
which the university enters each
year.
Cavalry STUDENTS entered in the
coining horse show might take ex
ception to this note from the
Quaker Campus, Whittier College,
< alifornia:
The University of Georgia holds
an annual horse show, staged by the
military department. It will be held
in December this year and some
very choice horses will be entered.
Co-educational *• book-licking ”
seems to exist in many of America’s
leading universities according to the
Minnesota Daily:
“At the University of Minnesota,
girl students linger after lectures to
talk to the instructor,” according to
a recent issue of Time, weekly pub
lication.
“During class they sit near the
professor’s desk, giggle merrily at
his pedagogical jests, smile under-
standingly at his well-known eccen
tricities, make their pretty eyes look
deep and sympathetic when he comes
to the point of his discourse. Thus
do the wily co-eds, whose actual
intelligence measure but 25 on a
scale of 100, compensate for a ten
point deficiency in intelligence,” the
magazine declares.
Pens’ Popularity
Given Acid Test
In Recent Voting
(lly K. E. Hamilton)
What is the most popular make
of fountain pen at the University of
Georgia? What is the average cost?
The average age? We admit that
these are foolish questions, but, for
the sake of argument, we ask an
other: what kind of pens will the
students buy next (if any)?
Laugh—and we laugh with you.
But according to the silent, solemn
evidence obtained by asking ,18 aver
age (no offense meant) students, 23
men and 12 women, four questions,
the answers are:
Most popular pen: (1) Parker.
( 2) Sheaffer, (1) Waterman, (4 )
Conklin. Four other makes received
one vote each. One disciple of the
truth admitted that he used a bor
rowed pen, price $8.00.
The average price of the pens used
by this group of students was ex
actly $5.30. Eight admitted that
they did not know the price of their
pens—no, no, they were gifts—and
another guessed at the cost. The
lowest amount listed was 75 cents:
the highest $8.75.
What kind of pens will replace the
ones now in use when they are worn
out writing checks? Well, if the
women, who are supposed to have
the right to change their minds, and
the men, whom women sometimes
claim are inconstant, do not change
their minds, Sheaffer and Parker
pens will battle to a tie for popular
ity, with Waterman and Conklin fol
lowing in the order named. “Life
time” Sheaffer claims a moral vic
tory, for one student in the group
intends to purchase either a Sheaffer
or a Wahl; but old man “Indestruc
tible” Parker quotes the answer of
another: “If I buy another it will be
a Parker, but according to the ad
vertising I will not have to get an
other.” So, you can take your pick.
The average age of fountain pens,
bought, borrowed, or gifts, used by
this average group is approximately
“Go Home” Whistle
Wanders From the
Freshman House!!!
ROM The, Official (Wan.
This was a joke, till the editor
took the point out of it to make one
of his cute little editorial para
graphs.
A sax in the band’s worth two in
the room next door.
(lly John 11. Hill)
It is gone. It has gone, disap
pearing as easily as the largest soap
bubble in the smallest puff of wind.
The Freshman house is in a turmoil:
girls are going around with hand
kerchiefs up to their eyes; boys are
treated as if they were in a zoo; and
the campus is as excited as if ham
I sandwiches were being given away.
Such a history! Napoleon hlm-
Georgia s contribution to clvillxa-1 self would he proud of such a rec-
Kvidcntly a freshman writes the
following brainy and logical reason
for extra holidays:
We should have the two extra hol
idays Thanksgiving because we need
a rest from the grind.
Day after day, class after class—-
no rest for the weary—let’s have
them!
tion: A winning football team
model.
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Today's Fairy Tale: Many Univer
sity students will spent the Thanks
giving week-end at home.
Good-humoredly let us comment:
The Cracker (unconsciously, we
we nre sure) compliments us highly.
In The Cracker review of the entire
Red and Black, the feature page IS
The Red and Black. A small but
natural oversight.
Cracker had better
paper
Perhaps
re-view
The
tile
one year.
With the Hardyest congratula
tions. we remark to ourself that at
last we are famous. The wise-Crack-
er puns on our name.
Ruth and Grange
Clap Signatures
To New Petition
The names of President Coolidge.
John Ruskin, Governor Hardman,
Will Rogers, Babe Ruth, Jimmy Mel
ton, Red Grange, Big Bill Thomp
son, and H. L. Mencken, which ap
pear prominently on the petitions
ought to carry some weight with the
authorities, who should thereby be
influenced to grant the holidays de
sired to keep the classes from being
a bore on the Friday and Saturday
following Thanksgiving also giving
the students something to be thank-
ful for.
ord. This mysterious article has
been at the Freshman house for the
past four years and until recently,
had not been separated from its mis
tress. It has ported sweethearts and
lovers; it has caused the girls to
turn from gay, inconsequent play to
morose study; it has even caused the
lights to go out at nights.
The disappearance happened on a
recent Sunday night. All the girls
and hoys had been together sitting
In such little spaces as they might
find, on the porch, and out on the
woodpile, getting fed up with the
romantic moon's green cheese. The
time for the mighty Don Juans of
Georgia to go home had arrived; the
time for them to leave their frigid-
aires had approached.
Then came the announcement that
they could not find "IT.” The boys
were lined up and searched, even to
the fillings of their teeth, but there
could not be found any trace of the
vanished token; so a fifty-cent alarm
clock was set off in the middle of
the floor to play "Good-night Ladles.”
All this trouble caused by “IT.”
"IT” is about three Inches long, a
goldish, brassy color with the coun
tersign of the Boy Scouts written
upon it “Be Prepared,” but it’s
owner was not prepared for the
shock that “IT'S" disappearance cre
ated.
The authorities have offered a
seven day date ticket, useable as de
sired, to any one who will return
this indispensable treasure, the
"take-leave whistle" of the Fresh
man house, to Mrs. Jarrell no ques
tions asked.
And a sophomore undoubtedly is
guilty of the folloxving real wit and
humor as evidenced by the delicate
constraint of style:
T*'»XGS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
If we will have three days for
Thanksgiving or not.
If the postman is any busier
handling Christmas cards than he 14
carrying requests for tickets to the
Georgia-Tech game.
If we will heat Tech 30 or Just 29>
points.
If all chemistry lab. instructors
are conceited.
If'the Commerce-Journalism build
ing will ever be completed.
If the sophomores at L. S. U. who
cut 300 freshmens’ hair in one night
ought not to he congratulated.
If the Tide football team won’t
appear to be really tied when they
they play Georgia.
If the editor needs copy bad
enough to print this.
A pertinent letter pertaining to
the new absence rules appears be
low :
Nobody seems to know about the
absence rules.
I believe the fractions as listed in
the regulations, one-third, one-fifth,
and one-tenth, need a common de
nominator.
It would be a real service con
tributed by The Red and Black if
these rules were explained.
A sophomore takes a kick at coin-
pulsoi) chapel:
A progressive and popular step
would tie the abolition of compulsory
chapel. The present system does no
good; half the Students are asleep
and the other half Is never there.
Other colleges have tried voluntary
chapel exercises; why not give it a
trial here?
GEORGIA’S SEDATE CAMPUS SHOWS LITTLE
RESEMBLANCE TO MILITARY SCENE OF ’181 w
STAND FOR.
AMERICA, by Hendrik Van Loon.
Boni & Liveriglit.
A fountain of youth, that takes
the reader back to the teething ring
stage. Well-suited to the average
American reader’s comprehension of
history.
THAT MAN HEINE, by Lewis
llrowne. The Macmillan Co.
The sardonic smile, widened into
a broad grin.
THE GOLDEN COMPLEX, by Leo
Wilson Dodd. John Day Co.
Ask the man who owns one.
EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS, by
G. K. Chesterton. Dodd Mend.
He ought to know.
EDEN FOR ONE, by John Gunther.
Harper and Brothers.
A sunken garden for a fallen wo
man.
THE INN OF THE HAWK AND RA
VEN, by George Barr McCutoh-
eon. Dodd Mead.
By George Barr McCutcheon.
Few students on the campus know
that the University once had a naval
unit, that telegraphy was taught in
sentries with fixed bayonets patroll
ed the entrances, and that fortifica
tions were erected behind Old Col
lege. All of these strange things
occurred, however, during the fall
of 1918, when the student body was
organized into a military unit and
the campus lost Its staid dignity to
become a training camp.
At the beginning of October of
this year a Students Army Train
ing corps was organized, and Georgia
men over 18 were required to be
long. The corps was drilled by army
officers, and the recruits underwent
the same life as if they were in any
other training camp. From time to
time men were sent away in batches
to the front.
There was no lying in bed late on
these mornings, for everyone had to
get up for reveille. Early parade
was held, and the men spent the first
hours In studying mathematics, mili
tary science, and military French.
Afternoons were spent in Intensive
drill maneuvers. An Intimate glimpse
of trench warfare was afforded by
means of the ditches behind Old Col
lege, where bayonet practice and oth
er tactics were indulged in.
The student-soldiers were quarter
ed in the dormitories and in bar
racks which were located near the
present site of Milledge hall. At
one time sickness broke out on the
campus, and all recruits were forced
to stay inside the arch. Armed
sentries were on hand to see that
they did it. Permits had to be ob
tained before anyone could even
go to a picture show.
At this time a "naval unit” was
established In some barracks situa
ted near the rear of the campus. The
basement of Peabody hall was used
as sleeping quarters for the would-
be tars, and they were forced to
drill under the eyes of veteran pet
ty officers of the fleet.
Food was provided for both army
and navy at the beanery, and It was
necessary to stand In line with tin
cup and pannikin in order to get fed.
Night| study classes were held In
the Academic building after the day’s
work A signal corps unit was main
tained In the present Latin class
room, an dl>r Hooper taught tele
graphy to the amateur signalmen.
Military French was taught by Prof.
Scott Holland.
A board of intelligence officers was
also maintained, and Professor
Brockman was assigned to this work
in the capacity of a lieutenant.
Rookies who were from the outside
received training on the campus al
so.
The improvised military base exist
ed from October till about the first
of the year, when the hard-worked
soldiers were at last allowed to doff
their uniforms. The naval unit, how
ever, continued in existence until
the following spring. In the mean
time many of the sea neoiphytes had
been assigned to battleships and
were somewhere in the war lanes of
the Atlantic.
It was the following September
before the University at last resumed
its old-time habits.
Students could sleep till nine-fif
teen. and go to the picture showw
and Costa's when they desired.
THE FRESHMAN CLUB
For several weeks clubs of an am
phibian nature have been discussed
in these illustrious columns, but the
fishiest of the fish clubs, the most
famous of the sucker seducers, has
gone unmentioned so far.
The Freshman club! What vivid
pictures it recalls to the mind of the
old members! The rat, while he is
still at that state in which he doesn’t
know what it’s all about, is invited
to Join its illustrious ranks. Aha!
A chance to write the folks that he
has made a club already. So. after
paying his $5.00, he is pronounced a
member of the elite, is given a pin
for his lapel, If he Is the lucky one
in ten, and begins to attend meetings.
The gatherings, which are held
at various frat houses, are Informal
bull sessions where the frosh stand
around and do nothing except eat
the eskimo pies and smoke the cigar
ettes which are provided in more or
less ample quantities. The leaders
of the herd gather together In se
cret conclave, and finally announce
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