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THE MERCER CLUSTER
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools and colleges in
the Merest University System.
George M. 8perks, Managing Editor
The Mercer Stef:
Lucien W. Hardy... Editor-in-chief
James M. Teresi.. .Associate Editor
Bobt M. Gamble, Randolph L. Car
ter, Ernest C. Hulsey, Peter Zack
Greer.
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THE TEAM
If Mercer wins no other game this
" Mon in basketball she would still
ft!* a successful year. With the be-
gfaaing of the season the team show
ed ’great possibilities and they have
not disappointed the hopes of the
school. Only in one game Mve they
failed to play up to form and the
they were probably against the
team in the S. I. A. A. Having
their credit already as many victor
ies as Mercer teams ordinarily win
they are still going strong, with
big balance to their credit financial
A few days ago the faculty gave
permission to let the team play
the tournament in Atlanta. With the
present outlook Mercer should be
very near the top in the contest, if
indeed the team does not upset the
dope again and take the -champion
ship. Hie games which have been
won or lost during the season will
count nothing toward the champion
ship and the team winning there
will be the champions. Against ev
cry team which Mercer has faced
with the one exception, she has
shown superior ability in every
phase of the game and the one ex
ception came at a time when they
were not playing their best, with
their present stride they are going
to give all contestants in the Atlan
ta tournament a hard fight before
they are nosed put.
L. W. H.
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
On the subject of student govern-
■seat which is to come up at the
chapel, period next Friday, every
man should give very careful thought
of deUberstion and the
of confidence which is put
into the move will largely determine
its success. The talk las^ Monday at
ehapel pf Senator* Webb of Tenne
ssee did much to clarify the sub-'
jest. We believe, with the majority
cf stsisnls supporting it, that *tu-'
dent government is possible. Under
too present system there has been
tome friction and we believe that
this could be eliminated by the stu
dents taking tilings into their own
heads. However if the majority do
not btlieve in it and do not mean
' to abide by it then it ahoold be
voted ont. It finally eomes down to
thia, whither or not the students
want it If they begin with tlu feel
ing that something was slipped over
them it eaa never be a success. On
the other hand if were adopted with
confidence and given whole heart,
ed support, it would likely raise the
moral tone of the campus and also
eMssiaate some of the friction which
we have at present
L. W. H.
DR ALBERT T. SPALDING
Few men live so long or so fruit-
ful a life on earth as was the Rev.
Dr. Albert T. Spalding. At the age
of eighty-nine, almost a generation
morn than the Psalmist’s slloted Span
' he has finished his human task and
gone the way. of good workmen all.
It waa some seventy yean ago, the
War between the States then still a
decade to the future, tost he gradu
ated from Mercer University. It was
sixty years ago that he entered »the
Baptist ministry. It eras s half a cen
tury ago that he assumed his first
Atlanta pastorate. But more to be
admired, a thousandfold more, than
his length of days were their richness
and depth of meaning to the times ha
served sad the lives he enobled.
Timas of change and stress and
peril they were, of war that trans
formed his country and war that
shook the world; of revolution in
science and philosophy as well as in
matters social and political; times
that brought -sore perplexity to his
lovod Southland; times that inten-"
aaly challenged every man who
thought and felt Through men all
this good Georgian, this generous
thinker and soldier -of good-will,
stood true to his vision, staunch in
Ids battle. Whensoever his ministry
fell—whether in the placid life of
sute-beUnm Augusta and Aiken,
South Carolina, or in the dark latter
^ days of the ’Sixties at Mobile or in
his busy charge at Louisville, Ken-.
tucky, or his leadership of the Bap
tists of Texas, or in Ail-tntn, the
home uf hi* ripesi labors snd dearest
ties--he wrought fer the community's
good and left with all whom he touch
ed a light, « kindliness, a quickening
that were unforgetable.
Two lines of and old, oM poet’s
making, rare lines Irom rare old
Chaucer tell, the story of Dr. Spal
ding’s life and sing his shining re
quiem—
“Christ’s lore, and bis apostle
twelve. He taugiite, but first He fol
lowed it Himselve.”
—Editorial Atlanta Jornal
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WHAT DOBS IT MEAN7
By O. -T. Hlnealey „
When a fellow’s nights are sleepiest,
When his appetite is gone
When his mind is all be-clouded-
When th’e world seems deadly
wrong.
When his eyes are moisture-laden
When he goes alone to pine
hen his heart throbs are heavy
When the sun doth cease to shine
O! the question is easy answered
For hie mind is such a whirl
Though the eun and stars be hidden
It was just that little girl.
She has' failed to pay attention
And that smile became a frown
So his fondest hopes have faded
And his castles tumbled down.
Yesterday his dreams were sweeter
Than they hud ever been before
But today is life worth livingi
Can he travel any more!
All alone he sits and murmurs
Thinking of the days gone by
For to has there, come* s longing
That the world cannot supply.
My dear fellow will you listen f
This mesaage to you I bring
When the clouds seem the darkest
Instead of pining, smg.
This world. is s wide world
But wider still the ads
For there are fishea still uneosquered
And there remaineth one for thee.
MERCER’S OLD PAL
LEAVESfllS BOYS
OLD DOO BLOOM, CAMPUS INSTI
TUTION, TOPPLES OVER. 7
‘Righteousness ahull prevail’’ was
the guiding logic of Old Doc Bloom,
and at his funeral at the First Baptist
church, colored it was no wonder that
the chancellor of the biggest system
of colleges and schools in tho South
with the rest of Macon paid glowing
tribute to the name of a faithful ne
gro who had for half a century bur
dened himself with all the varying
troubles of college life.
Lving every day with that lasting
mis’ry” in his bone* be yet glowed
with the utmost satisfaction with
every achievement of Mercer Univer
sity and comforting word for every
encountered trouble, whether the re
verse waa on the athletic field pr the
more serious failure in academic life
for his preamble to every important
speech was “righteousness shall pre-
vaiL’’
All Mercer men were alike to him.
Those who’ had attained high office
were as much his personel friend as
were those lees fortunate of the coL
lege alumni. Several governors,
slnmni of Mercer, have entertained
Doc Bloom andjiardly a Mercer man
ever passed him without receiving
the most gracious salutation.
Personally “raised” to s doctor
of philosophy by Dr. Gambrell the
old negro ever tried to live up to
his acquired learning and pass the
word along. .'
Recently when one of the younger
members of the faculty carried .him
hot coffee for his early morning
breakfast be peered through the door
way of his little shack at the spires
of the main buildihg on the campus,
bowed his head for a moment aud
lifting it again in utmost reverence
cried out: “I dunno what the good
Lord keeps this nigger here for un
less it is to keep on loving every
man dst eber went to Mercer ”
EXCHANGE COLUMN.
IT'S CATCHING.
I stole a kiss from her last i.ight,
. She tried <to say me nav,’
Because she had a cold, and new:
1 wish she’s had her way.
—Dodger.
1 stole n kiss from her last night.
Her pa peeped in the door,
The place my pants are torn today.
Shows how I left the floor.
RATsAOTION ;
A chemist of skill, investigate!
Answer, this quiz of mine
I think 1 know what Carbonate,
But where^jid Iodine !
—The Peanut Parcher.
FOB GOODNESS BAKE.
Listen!
Fresh. Carr defines a kiss as “An
uudchnable thing, but a glorious feel
ing, a compact transaction, a superb
taste, an unforgettable event, a little
thing involving much.’’ We gueee Carr
known—we don’t.—Davfidsonian.
THE DOOGONB TRUTH
I’ve been a good fellow
Earned all I spent;
Paid all I borrowed;
Lost all I lent,
f.onoe loved a woman,
That cense to an end;
Get a good dog boys, •
He’-s always your friend.
—Bed and Black:
“Did you hear the fright that
had et the rentauraat yesterday f”
“No, but I saw her.”
—Georgia Cracker.
LIFE’S TRAGBD1BS.
She rent th’ air.
With piereing note.
She’d found a hair,
• Upon hie coat.
Her poor hoar bled
With grave concern,
Th ’ heir was red,
And wasn’t beam.
—Curtain
He—“So there’s another hew baby
at your home.”
She—‘' Yes, Pape anye the stork left
it on the' *ep.”
He—“Pape should watch his step.”
—Georgia CrtsrkLe
HORSES.
Mitchell, to a Georgia Pearh:
“Dearest, I’m sot trying to deceive
you. I’m not twafneed.”’
The Peach: “I know you are sot,
for if you were you’d .surely wear
the. other occasionally. ’ ’—Davhdboaiaa.
Dismal Damsel—“Oh, the tnonotomy
of this place! I fear that before the
day’* over it will drive me wild! ”
Daring DeviI^“Mey I came around
this evening!” —Punch Bowl.
When Adam first beheld hie wife,
And aoftly naught a kiss or two;
Profanely Eve made. thie reply: .
“I don’t care Adam if yon do.”
—Georgia Cracker.
Cain seeing.his wife in the land of Nod
He boldy kissed her without retreat;
She quiekly made thie reply:
‘ ‘ I’ll raise Cain if you don’t’ repeat ’ ’
THE PROMISED WAT.
Two negroes were working is a coal
bin in a Mississippi town, one down
ip the bin throwing the coal and the
other wielding n shovel. The one in
side picked np a large lump and heav
ing it carrlresly into the air, rirnek
the other a mounding blow on the
heed. ^
Ae soon as the vietim had recovered
from hie momentary daze he walked
over to the edge of the bia and, peer
ing down at hie mate, said:
• ‘.’Nigger, how come yon don’t watch
where you thrown dat eoalf You done
hit me smack os the haid.”
The other one looked surprised.
“Did I hat you, nigger!”
"You sho did,” came the nnwwer,
“And I joe’ wants to tell you, I’ee
been promising the debit s man i
long time, and you certainly doe# re
semble my promise. ”
. —N. Y. Evening Poet.
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BESSIE TIFT
Miss Jennie B. Wilson, Dean of
women at Sargent School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and director of -Sar
gent Camp at Pilietoid, N. H.-visited
Bessie Tift College last week. One
morning the girls had the privilege
uf hearing her tell of the work of
the Sargent Campl Wnife she was
delightfully entertained by some of
the members of the faculty and stu
dents. Miss Cabaniss, librarian, en
tertained in honor of M.iss Wilson.
Friday afternoon Mrs Holder and her
Harmony Clasa received her in Up
shaw parlors. Friday evening Mrs.
O. P. Ensign entertained her at din-
•ner.
Saturday evening the Kappa DeU
ta Society presented an unusually
clever play, “The Burglar.” It was
directed by Rosamond Radford. Those
taking part were, Eulalee Cheek,
Louise Wells, Marguerite. Moncrief;
Myrtle Bargeron and Cleo Lee.
Miss .Aileen Croswell had her
parents as her guest on Sunday.
Misses Nadine Callaway and Ruth
Willis spent the week-end in Macon.
CALL ACCEPTED BY STUDENT
Rev. H. D. Cober, for the past four
years a student of theology at Mercer,
has accepted a call to the Norwich
street Baptist church at Brunswick.
Mr. Cober will leave immediately to
take his new charge, but his family
will not leave until June. Mr.-and Mrs.
Gober have a son In high school.
Rev. Mr. Gober -has been- in the
school, of Christianity at Mercer for
the past four years and has been ac
tive in that department of the .Uni
versity. He has filled at intervals the
pastorates of various churches of Cen
tra.! Georgia. He is from Commerce.
LANIER HOME REMAINS
Mercer alumni-, who expressed
themselves as being in favor of the
proposal made by President Rufus W.
Weaver to provide space on the cam
pus for the home in _• which Sidney
Lanier was born, will regret to learn
that the home will not be moved to
Mercer.
Mrs. Sanders Walker who now
lives on Hight street in Macon in the
home in which Sidney Lanier was
born, has announced that she will
not consider the offer made to move
the hime from its present locaton.
It was understood that Mrs. Walker
wished to construct a new residence
on the lot and several suggestions
were offered, regarding the Lanier
home. President Weaver’s plan seem
ed the most feasible of all suggest
ed and met with the approval of
Macon citixens. It was planned to
make of the home a Lanier Memorial
Library and to locate it on Mercer
caiqpuii, where all people might have
a shrine at which to pay tribute to
Georgia’s best-loved poet. .
SPEAKERS TO STUDENTS
Hon. Warren Grice of Macon de
livered an address to the School of
Commerce Tuesday morniifg choosing
as his subject, The attractiveness of
the Law Profession:
The speaker delivered an interest
ing and comprehensive discourse up
on the question, bringing out the
fact that a man who enters the pro-
fesson should do so, not with the
one purpose of making money, but
having as his highest ambition the
determination to help bis fellowmen.
A number of Macon’s leading busi
ness and professional men are sched
uled to address the School of Com
merce during the year, among whom
will be representatives of every large
industrial corporation in the city.
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