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/ THE RED AND BLACK Page Pira t. It is beginning to be a regular event in the sporting world that the “under dog“ gives the lion a spank ing. The Boston University News is certainly justified for praising its quintet for defeating Brown and Harvard: Springing a surprise on the sport ing world seems to be a habit with Terrier athletes. Although close fol lowers of the team expected the boys to "come through” against Brown and Harvard in the basketball last week, it is safe to say that the aver age student thought that the “old story” of being beaten by more prominent teams would be repeated. The Emory University Glee club will again invade Europe and charm people of other lands with music from “the South's sweetest singers.'* The Emory Wheel gives tentative plans for the trip: A second conquest of England by the Emory Glee club was assured on last Friday morning when the early details of a European tour for next summer were completed at a meet ing of the club officials. According to tentative plans for the tour as arranged at this meeting the club will sail from New York for England on June 9, on board the Cttnard liner “Caronia.” A pre- European concert will be given thL spring at Savannah as in 1926. An other concert will probably be given in New York just before the troupe sails. The club will spend eight weeks in England, appearing in a number of the leading English playhouses. At the close of their season, the sing ers will go to the continent for a two weeks vacation, and wi!' finally sail from Havre, France, for New York September 1, on board the Cunard liner “Caramania.” Students ami faculty members at the Georgia State Teachers College supported the Red and Black war riors despite the defeat, according to The Reflex: When the University of Georgia met Georgia Tech in the annual grid iron clash at Grant field, December 3, 1927, the Georgia State Teachers College was well represented by sev eral faculty members and students. THE WINGED HORSE: THE STORY OF THE POETS AND THEIR POETRY, by Joseph Auslander and Frank Ernest Hill. Double- day, Paage & Co. An equine quadruped of an en tirely different color—with no reins on the imagination. THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL RELA TIONS, by Hornell Hart. Henry Holt Co. Sociology students cry for it. They ought to! LOVELY LADIES, by Ferrin S. Fra zer. J. H. Sears & Co. The old, white-whiskered idea of the modern younger generation-—as ancient a model as the 1923 Ford. BATS IN THE BELFRY, by L. de Giberne Sieveking. Brentano’s. Clever verses “bounded on the north by Lewis Carroll, on the south by W. S. Gilbert, and on the east and west by wide margins.” Edited by WYLLY FOLK Stuart Declares New Building is Spacious if True (By Rene Stuart) It is a fine thing to be a feature, writer. One never knows what one will be required to do. in fnct one doesn't do everything one Is re quired to do. The editor sent me on a mission. \ tine and simple mission. “Get a story,” the editor said, "on the new commerce and journalism building. Make it funny ... if YOU can. And hurry.” Editors are funny animals. Espe cially Red and Black editors. They want something about something . . . Now it Is near to the press time for The Red and Black. But that’s neither here nor there. I am supposed to be writing a funny feature story on the brand new com merce and Journalism building which in all probability will be opened up about . . . dammit. I forget the exact date, but you can look In last year’s Red and Black and find out all about the date. Date? Did I say date? They are queer, aren’t they? You look for ward to a date, and then it’s gone all of a sudden. No, I mean real calen dar dates. Figure December 3, for instance. We just can’t figure how long ago that's been. Defense mechanism. Who played? Played? O yes, Tech. Georgia's going to play Tech again tomorrow. Right here in her own back yard. In Woodruff hall. Where is it? Just below the new commerce- journalism building. That's right. And yes, I’ve got to write a feature story about the new building. There will be a lot of rooms in the new building. A whole lot of them. Yes, a whole lot of them. Rooms. The editor told me to fill up some room on the feature page with a story about the new commerce and Journalism building. “Get a story,” the editor said, "about the new commerce and Jour nalism building . . . and make it funny." I didn’t have to do that. Score one for tin* Feature Page! ■In exultcrnnt note of arekimation and enthusiasm from one of our many admirers: Feature Editor, The Red and Black. There are around 1.662 people in the University of Georgia that are clamoring to know the identity of the person "Pat Pending” that sub mitted her "putterings” in the last Issue of The Red and Black. Why does she hide her identity when her work is so pleasing? Is she afraid of criticism? Or is it modesty? It added life to your page that the best of your aides haven’t been able to contribute. Honestly, we like it! We are hoping that the attention she is bound to stir up will induce her to tear away her veil (please pardon this! i and bask in the sun light (or should we say lime light?) Even If you won’t publish her name, try and make some arrange ments about having her "putter" some more for your sheet. Perhaps we are stretching our imaginations but Pat. (the old rascal,) seems to have at least heard of the two gen tlemen Omar Khayyam and Rupert Brooke and (pardon this uncouth repetition), we like her putterings! Awaiting the next issue of The Red and Black for your answer, we beg to remain, HELEN DAMNATION, and her playmates. If the fair fan had disclosed her identity, we might have publishes! the poetry of Iter own that she en closed. EDITORS NOTE It was astonishing how the "Put terings" were received. Although the publication of such Is properly out of the realm of The Red and Black, it seems that It was no fool ish venture we took into The Crack er’s field. But alas, the contribu tion box has this week been the re cipient of the brain children of the more ominous nature, namely, a bal lad on General Lee. a deep religious thing, propably the outcome of a venture into the chapel, an I more bits of material which will bear neither description or classification. We throw up our hands. We didn’t mean to start a children's page, or a Marie Rose advice to the love-lorn, or anything else. PUTTERIffGS OF PAT 5TANDF0R. Cleopatra Puts Greta Garbo Into Shade at 1 ryout — (By Guy ('. Hamilton) The days when Nero played the fiddle, when Cleopatra kept a red j hot road house and when Mark Antony was the model for any marauding tom-cat are not so far away that they cannot be vividly presented by the glee club aspirants. In the Georgia chapel, sacred with hallowed memories and time-worn cobwebs, the stage was cluttered the other night with queer contraptions, the scenery looked partly Egyptian but mostly indefinite. But the scenery was offset by the actors. Percy Johnson, plump and petite, personified Cleopatra in her hey day (or night): Doc Mitchell, he of the sex appeal eyes, was the stern but passionate Julius Caesar. Harris Crook, portrayed the role of Marcua Antonins, and it was a vivid rendi tion. His somber eyes and swarthy face gave the spectators an idea of what Mark must have been like when he cleared for action. But the plot! In the first act Cleo finds she is forsaken by her lover because of an incurable disease—- halitosis. He advised her to use Listerine, but she determined to commit suicide. The old boy goes to her boudoir to dissuade her, and after a long conference they return. Mr. Johnson, attired in a becoming negligee, has a snake in his hand and a flash in his eye. But just when Cleo was about to let the snake bite her at the climax, the faculty rose up in disgust. Oh yes, the facul ty was there to give dramatic criti cism, and also to decide whether the act would be acceptable. "Use the hooks,” said the faculty. “It’s disgusting—scurrilous—libelous inexcusable. It’s not worth present ing anywhere in Athens." They departed, and thus vanished the chance for the public to see good Egyptian drama. Cleopatra’s tearful pleas, Caesar Mitchell’s indignant protests, and Harris Antony’s violent reactions were of no avail.” The play is padlocked. But we wish the public could see the snake bite Cleo at the climax. | THE VIRGINIAN SEZ THE VIRGINIAN SEZ Howdy, everybody! Today marks our debut in The Red and Black. The length of our stay depends of course entirely on tin editor. Wish us luck—we’ll probably need it. • * * Didja ever stop to think that fifty percent of the married people in this country are women? • • * You can always tell a Tech man but he won’t always go there. * • • A college does a man good but a co-ed will do him better. After all college is nothing more than a four- year loaf made with Father’s dough. Most men go into college looking for A.B.’s and LL.B.’s and come out in their B.V.D.’s with a couple of I.O.U.’s. It has been said that col lege will either make or break man, but more often it makes the man and breaks his Dad. • * * College is a great place if you don’t weaken; however, It’s even a ROM Tiie Official Occ/an. Joke on an Ag. professor: The other day one fellow shouted across the campus to another, "Hey, there] ain’t gonna be no class in butchering j today. Professor Blank’s wife has I appendicitis and he has to be with j her.” It is rumored that one of the basketball stars is to lose his place on the team for breaking training. The story is that on his birthday he took a large number of sweet kisses his girl gave him. Campus politician's idea of a joke: The rival party in the polit ical campaign talking to a man he talked to the night before. An observant professor observes that the main purpose of the prayer in church seems to be to allow the co-eds a chance to replenish their complexions unohserved. Let us add and the men a chance to look at the co-eds, unobserved. Two co-eds on a historical research expedition to the cemetery the other day came upon this apt though au thentic inscription for a lazy man: "Charles Loafer born—died—etc. May his soul repose forever.” Research Shows One Organization Per 22 Students That the student body at the Uni versity of Georgia is well organized is indicated in a recent tabulation issued from the office of the Dean of Men, S. G. Backman, which shows that in a student body number slight ly over 1,600 students there Is a student organization of some sort for every twenty-two persons In college. Student clubs totalling twenty-one lead the list of organizations, while social fraternities come second with a total of seventeen; honorary fra ternities took third place with four teen organizations. The report further Indicates that there were four national sororities, j five professional fraternities, five literary societies, two dramatic clubs, and two glee clubs. Dean Backman states that this compilation showing the number and status of clubs, fraternities, and other students organizations was made In connection with a study of student | life and activities at the University. ! better place if you weaken Just a little bit. I would suggest that Edi son add this question to his famous set of brain twisters: "What is your moral code, or are you a college man?” • • • So I took the fifty thousand dol lars and invited a girl up for the Tech week-end. Which reminds me that I haven’t yet made a date for the dances. Yes, I’m in the mar ket for one. Uh huh, co-eds are eli gible. Don’t rush, girls, line forms on the right. • • • If your Ford won’t start, be non chalant—light a match under It. TITLES FOR SALE Stone-Cold Stepping Stones Rolling Stones Gladstones Rhinestones Grind Stones Mill Stones Gall Stones TO YOU OF THE STONY HEART "... Stones that you gave me When I asked for bread. . . I shall go to Mecca, dear, and I shall go to Rome I shall kiss the Stone and Ring and bring them safely home. I shall go to Erin, dear, and Eng land, I believe Blarney and Rosetta stones I’ll slip right up my sleeve. I shall go to Tiffany’s, and I shall go to jail .... My stones shall build an altar . . .O, come and pay the bail. No, I shall go to Java And drink my coffee straight. —PAT. PENDING. THE HELL-RAZORS The Best is saved for the last. This is the model fish club. All others are modeled after it. The one real and only. Early in a student’s career if he a likely fish, he receives a printed invitation to Join "a real excltiirive secret society." Some do. . . . The Initiation occurs . . . The neophytes buy ... a razor . . . among other things. . . . Then it’s all over until the next year. “Among other things” includes a rich feed for the old members. There is no other purpose for the club. It avows no other. That is what makes It an ideal fish club Nobody hears much of this organi zation because . . . suckers don't talk . . . much. The members of the club are too greedy to give the Pandora any of its unearned increment. 'll members pull together each year to perpetuate the pun. is
