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THE RED AND BLACK i’age Fir# University of Georgia students nre never pleased with cold weather as cohl a* it has been this past month, hut If it could he accompanied with such fun as skiing and tobogganing, there would be little criticism—the students would look forward to the snow anti ice. The Minnesota Daily describes how the athletic depart ment of the University of Minnesota is aiding the students in getting the advantages of winter sports: Students who have until now been denied the pleasures of tobogganing and skiing because of the expense in volved will be given a chance to en joy winter sports at practically no cost to them. The athletic depart ment expects to inaugurate this week a policy of renting toboggans and skiis at the clubhouse of the Univer sity golf course. Twelve toboggans will be available in six, seven, and eight foot lengths, and about 50 pair of skiis will be on hand. If any charge is made, it will be 25 cents for a toboggan for the entire afternoon or evening, and five or ten cents for skiis for the same length of time, according to Walter R. Smith, who has charge of the project. Edited by WYLLV FOLK Huge Reward Offered For Arrest of Men Saying Saint Would Celebrate ALPHA GAM'S LAUGH AND LAU6H AS FLOWERS BLOOM NEARBY (By Rene Stuart) "Say it with flowers,” said the advertisement. The Alpha Gamma Deltas believe in signs. They wanted to say it with flowers for the Tech week-end. And how? The treasury had long been de pleted. The money had left the pocketbook flat. In fact, it would not be going too far to say that the Alpha Gams were slightly broke. Well, maybe not quite broke, but certainly cracked. Yet the chapter house blossomed forth in millions of flowers. Where I did the blooming things come from? Though the girls were broke, their The University of Nebraska is plan-1 sl>irit wa8 not - The y had " ut their nlng an Intramural athletic carnival.! beads t0Ke,her ’ a»d from that con- The Daily Nebraskan tella of a novel Junction of bra,n ® and beaut y llad event which will take place: Each team in the Needle and Thread Relay will be composed of four girls, four track men and an “N” man, acting as sponsor. The track men will circle the track car rying a piece of thread. At the half way mark a girl member of the team will place a needle on the thread in the least possible time and the runner will continue to the starting point where he hands the thread to the next man who repeats the per formance. been conceived a veritable brain child, in the form of a form letter, to be sent to all the out-of-town boy friends of the sorority, individuallly and collectively. The subject matter was something to the effect that Lizzie or Jane or somebody was very ill and lonely and there was not even a flower in the room to cheer her up. Men are notoriously generous. The flowers began to bloom in the house almost as if spring had come. The Tech visitors admired the lavish display. And the Alpha Gams laughed and laughed Until the fellows began to com pare notes. Then a real epidemic broke out. The Alpha Gams haven’t recovered yet. This tale emanates from Jimmie I Burns. Believe it or not. JULIUS CAESAR, by Victor Thad- Old Trigonometry deus. Brentano’s. The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome de- glorifled and aggrandized to a mix ture of Hollywood for immorality, Chicago for brutality, and Washing ton for corruption. Fire Extinguisher Busts Wide Open For Lucy Cobbers ( By Guy Hamilton) Tell us that Lucy Cobb ain't so hot! Brethren, she or it is as hot as all get-out. A lecture was held at the chapel Wednesday morning. Such things will happen when no body is around. At a certain num ber of minutes before the bell Lucy Cobb swept through the arch in all the glory of its new spring clothing. The students were standing along the walk, three deep to make ap praisals and take stock and oppor tunities, when a commotion was heard in the rear. "Fire!” came a yell. With a simultaneous movement the students deserted the Cobbers, and darted for the inner court of the Academic building, where a crowd had col lected. On a windowsill of one of the commerce classrooms a fire ex tinguisher sat and spouted acid and soda from its little red nozzle. A perfect stream of the white stuff was spewing into the room, the air, and onto the people below. Within the room the scene was hor ribly disordered. Chairs overturned. Floor wet. Chemicals spewing. “Where’s the fire? Who pulled the extinguisher down? Any thing burned? Who did it?” And all the other questions that the average crowd asks. The purpose of the extinguisher was for use in case of fire, that is, extreme heat. When Lucy Cobb came up the front walk, the heat was fer ritic. What could any well-brought- up extinguished do but turn head over heels about it? And that's what happened. JIMMIE BURNS DECLARES HE IS ABSOLUTELY NUT GUILTY A VAGABOND IN FIJI, by Harry L. Foster. Dodd, Mead Co. The author, who was looking for undressed vamps and naked canni bals, reports that the only unmod ern thing about Fiji was modesty. OVER THE BOATSIDE. by Mathilda Hiker. Doublcday, Page. The making of a feminine cynic, in six easy lessons. Moral: Don’t. CONFLICT, by Olive Higgins Prouty. Houghton, Mifflin Co. A novel without a single moral in it—but not particularly enlivened by its Freudian ruffles. YOUR MONEY’S WORTH, by Stew- urt Chase and K. L Srlilink, Macmillan. An expose of the fakes of adver tising and the advertising of fakes. (Editor's note: Since tuning off for the season, and honest confession is good for the soul, let us expose ourself: The last book in the list this week is the only one reviewed this year that the reviewer has also read. Thank God for the hook advertise ments!) Given College by Mrs. Chas. Smith An interesting old textbook has been presented to the University by Mrs. Charles H. Smith of Atlanta, Ga., who recently visited Mrs. Cora Garwood at the Sophomore house. The volume, an old trigonometry, has passed the century mark in age, and contains the names of students who attended the University during its earliest history. On the flyleaf are the words ‘‘Isaac N. Moreland, Franklin college, Ath ens, Gaa., 1827” Moreland was in the class of 1829, which was composed of about 40 members. The second in scription on the flyleaf reads, “J. J. Griffin’s book. 1828.” Griffin was a classmate of Francis R. Goulding, who wrote "The Young Marooners" and invented the sewing machine. A long period of years elapsed be fore the next inscription occurred, It was “R. B. Trippe, Cartersville, Ga. September 1, 1871.” The owner of the book at this time graduated in the class of 1873. A second flyleaf i^ also in the book, on which More land's name occurs again. The last writing at the first of the book is that of the donor. It reads, “Presented to the University of Georgia January 25, 1928 by Mrs. Charles H. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.” MOM The Official Occ/an. At the dance after the Tech game a Georgia boy got his lines tangled by saying innocently and fervently to a co-ed in the senior class, whom he met and was dancing with for the first time: “B these co-eds, any how! Why don’t girls like yon come over oftener?” Draw your own conclusions. Love’s not the only thing that makes for blindness. “There’s dirty work on hand," remarked the impecunious young re porter, as he wrote his notes on his cuff with a bit of white chalk. (By Reno Htuart) Two hundred dollars reward has been offered, if is reported, by in dignant citizens of Athens and mem bers of the Georgia faculty for the detection and conviction of the per son, or persons who started the re port that a St. Matthew's day cele bration would be held on the campus today. In addition, two reporters, one copyreader, and the managing editor of the Athens Banner-Herald have announced their intention of finding the person who used their columns to defraud. In the meantime, James Burns, in his wire screened room at the Cherokee hotel vehemently denies that he has any connection with the matter and threatens legal procedure to clear up his good name. I. S. Market, who had been grilled us a suspect, also denied any knowl edge of the event. The disturbance was caused by the printing of a newspaper article in the Banner-iHerald purporting to have been written by James E. Hale, a student in the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. The Journal- ! ism faculty deny any knowledge of this, and state that the alleged stu dent, Hale, had long since left school. “The power of the press, and the vendetta of the fourth estate will be exercised in clearing up this mat ter," the Banner staff declare. “The story was sent In, written as all the journalism copy is written. We ac cepted it in perfectly good faith. Now (Continued on page 7) Ladies Clutter Up Stables and Play the Ponies (liy M. Rarcelonius) “Yes, we had a tine horse but we had no hay to feed ihe horse so ■” This statement is untrue as far as the cavalry horses are concerned. People are taking advantage of the mounted pass on Sunday afternoons and if you come to the stables after 2 p. m.. It’s almost certain that you won’t find “a horses” left. Some horses are reserved espe cially for women and children and there’s not a kick in a carload. Fair co-eds can be seen recklessly walking their horses along the bridle path while their military compan ions prance gaily around them shouting words of encouragement. Some gallants go so far as to stop and pick a few flowers for their out- of-door enthusiasts "Don’t get number 7. He’s got a mouth like a washboard.” This is a warning frequently heard among the DU>W5 The following is the first sensible letter received by the Straws tills year. The writer is well-known to the editor and will not profit by any change which might take place: Editor, The Red and Black: In your omniscient way you neg lected last week—-of all weeks— to call the attention of the student body to the general election which occur red last Tuesday at sometime or other during the day. Of course you didn’t know that the election was going to be held. Nobody ever does. Yet somehow you might have found out for the rest of the student body, because It’s news! This is something to think about. Don’t have anything done about it because there’s enough reform going on now anyway. ONE OF THE “OUTS.” No explanation needed for this communication: I’ve kept silent until now, but I can’t resist telling you what 1 think about you before you leave the paper. As a representative of 1500 students. I suy that the new editor will be wholeheartedly welcome. We don't know anything about him. We don’t care. Anybody must be better than a person who attacks the church. In the fy-st place the church has no coattail. I guess you thought you were funny. In the second place the Y. M. C. A. Is above the reproach of your kind. You do not appreciate its true ef forts and untiring labors in the Uni versity’s behalf. It is the organ ization which instills the finest prin ciples of manhood, and we don’t care to see it villifled. STAND FOR, It is rumored that Dr. Sanford is planning to have an office In the new Commerce-Journalism building, j lesH adroit members of the boot and as well as In the Academic building, saddle. so ,as to make it even more impossi-1 Nevertheless, everyone who comes ble for anyone to find him. We I early usually gets a steed that is would suggest an underground pas sage between the two, as well. (The organ sounds its fading strains—no pun!) capable of teaching the rider a few tricks and a pleasant afternoon passes, only to be remembered when the Paul Revere awakes the next morning. AN EXPLANATION And perhaps an apology to those who have appeared in this column and to those immortals who have not. To the latter we will say the excuse for this omission is one of three things: It was too good a club to poke fun nt (fancy!); it was too insignificant to give an undeserved prominence to; or else we Just could not find out anything about it. This column has been devoted each week to a particular organization of the University, telling laymen some thing about the purposes and in terior decorutions of the club. We have done our best to give honorary clubs, so-called, and va rious other fish dubs as good a roast ing as we knew how. Admittedly the write-ups have been unfair, biased, and exaggerated in several instances. Probuhly the reason for this is that suckers can’t keep from telling the truth sometimes. We do not, however, advocate the abolition of clubs here. Man’s gre- gartousnesR is more or less a settled fact. The object of the “Clubs" section has been to show that it is sometimes little that we get for twenty or twenty-five dollars. Honor clubs are fine, as long as everybody takes them seriously We do not, we repeat, wish to abolish any legitimate graft of the fishers of men. To paraphrase Miss Millay: "Of course we know what honors clubs may be. We ONLY wonder why men prize them so!”
