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THE MERCER CLUSTER LUTHER WILLIAMS BANKING COMPANY 4 1-2% on Savings Open All Day from 9 to 6 More convenient for Mercer Boys Y OU can now buy a very good suit or overcoat for $35—all wool; "tailored to your measure by Bom.” . And we offer a pleas* ing selection of fabrics at other prices, too; some higher and some lower; you are sure to find one that will strike you as just right. At any price you de cide to pay,* Bom Tail oring offers the most generous value to be found inclothesformen —value made possible only through the econo my of nation wide sales. CROWN TAILORING CO. 005 BROADWAY FULL LINE OF GENTS FURNISHINGS—“THE BEST FOR LESS” Call to See Us and Be Convinced 1BTH. AMENDMENT? Milk, Cold Drinks, lee Cream, Candies, Cigars anti Tobacco Sanitary Milk Depot 200 Forsyth Street AN ALUMNUS ERCER PRESSING CLUB Iii New Laundry Building have contract with best dry cleaner in city for $1-00- . All Kinds of Altering and Repairing Agents for Royal Tailors ■ ? Match your old coat for extra pants J. W. JONES, Student Manager Will Appreciate Your Trade Ask “Tige" Stone about our service tJEMPSY BARBER SHOP TONSORIAL WORK AND MANICURING j'. The classiest shop in the biggest hotel J Corner Cherry .and Third lND bhowe* baths .PRESSING while .you wait A MERCER SUPPORTER SANITARY BARBER SHOP • GUY EJ'AHSPOKEB. ProprtHor TEN CHAIRS :: MANICURING > 312 Second Street, Macon, Ga. '■ '* ' ■ -•» Phone 3981'• PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST FOR FRESH Knees Tremble and Shoulders Shimmy to\Prof-’s Voice. THEY LEAVE EXHAUSTED Mercer First Southern Univer sity to Adopt Test By Robert M. Gamble Mercer freshmen, two hundred strong, spent what probably was the most serious day of their college careers to date when they took the psychological test Saturday. With knees trembling, shoulders shaking, ami a feeling of homesickness sud denly come on, the verdant first-year men filed into the examination room to write all they knew and to wind up with a lust will and testament, for the haughty sophomores had led them to believe that they wudlri be put through the third degree. ’ • What is the formula for hash ? Who invented atmosphere? At which end of the cannon would you stand when it was fired ? When did Colum bus discover Valdosta ? How many great grandchildren did your great grandfather have on your mother's side? Which is the butt end of a goat? Was . Sir Walter Raleigh's Velvet coat, union-made? Where, did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday nig)jt? Many Tremble These were some of the questions which the sophomores declared.'to the freshmtn that they would have to an swer. Do you wonder that the initi ates trembled with fear and left all hope behind as they entered .the ex amination room? “Are you ready ? One, two, three, go!” shouted Prof. Peyton Jacob, dean of the School qf Education, and the freshmen scratched their heads as the stop-watch ticked away. A search was madu. Each freshman combed his memory and called up all the in formation stored away in other days somewhere in the brain cells often supposed to be surrounded by an ivory cranium. The room was as quiet as a nur sery when the chubby, blue-pyed baby takes a morning nap. Above the de spairing breathing of those taking ' the test might have been heard the Your Printing | will receive prompt atten tion when your orders are placed with us * . Good Printing Conservative Prices American Printing Company Reliable Printers 666 Cherry St. Macon, Ga Georgia Maid Syrup is used by Mer cer University and other leading edu cational institutions throughout the South. This is a high tribute for the quality of our syrup. Every Drop ?ilte!fcd— > Made by Bum* Syrup Co. Macon Geov v ia NEW DEAN OF WOMEN IS NOTED EDUCATOR FORSYTH.—Mrs. John O. Rust, announcement of whose appointment to the position of dean of women at Bessie Tift College, was made at commencement in May, comes to Bessie Tift from . Arcadia College, Arcadia, Canada, where she has been dean of women for several years. Following the death of her hus band, Dr. John O. Rust, a noted figure in the Baptist ministry, who served prominent churches in Ken tucky and Tennessee and as pastor of White Temple, Portland, Ore., Mrs. Rust became president of IJgscobel College and served there until she went to.Arcudia. problems connected with.the work of women’s colleges; it is said, and is well equipped for the position to which she has been elected.. . 125 ARE SINGERS Dr. Walker Is to Soon Select Glee Club Members. 'Candidates fqr the Mercer Glee Club have been demonstrating their wares before Dr. J. Clay Walker, director of the club, for Several (lays. With the influx of new material It is said that the Glee Club, this .year will least 125 students have come to him surpass all other attempts of Mercer luhs in years gone by. br. Walker said recently that at to congratulate him, announcing that they would all be on the' club this year. As there are only about twenty- five places to be awarded, it is ex pected that keen competition will be the result of the . ambitious musical performers, most of the aspirants coming from the freshman class. ticking of Prof. Jacob's ‘stop-watch, if one possessed ears so acutely, trained. Why the stop-watch? The fresh men knew; at least they thought they did. They had been told that Prof. Jacob would line,them up abreast and say, “Raise your right foot,” apd that he would time the movement.. Then, “Raise your left foot," and "record the number of seconds. required. Then. “Raise both feet,” and 'that if they did this last they would be adjudged fit subjects for the bughouse and sent to Milledgeville forever Prof. Jacob disapointed them, however, and now some of the freshmen are bewailing their' lot for they had planned a frame-up with the hope that they would be sent to. Milledgeville, be lieving that they, would lie allowed to visit often with the” G. N.. Si L C. girls. Now, they will go to Bessie Tift along with the other students wlio can afford transportation now and then. , ' \. • Memory Test Speaking seriously, the psychologi cal test given to all first-year men at Mercer is,, different from the ques tions enqmerated above. Prof. Jacob stressed the fact that it is not merely a 'memory test of, things -learned by rote method; nor is it a . speed test. On the other hand, the questions ip elude all subjects about which the student may have learned anything, and questions about personal expert, •ence knowledge. The tqst -pfesup-, poses a four-year high school, course and in this it differs from the army, test* in that the*,latter includes only questions of general knowledge. Thy i Stop-watch is' not used -to cause the i students taking, the examination to £Ush through with their work but the element of time required to complete I the test is considered in giving the ' grade. ‘ j , Mercer was the first Southern uni versity to adopt the Thorndyke test und to require it as a part of the en trance requirement demanded -of all freshmen. The test was first used at MePcer two .years ago. It was an nounced recently by Prof. Jacob that the pcychological test affords a much keener insight into the capabilities of the.new. students- than-that which can be gained from the high school cer tificate for admission. Statistics at Mercer show that the faculty, has been able to determine.in, advance frotn the psychological test the kind'of work that ninety per cent of students who took the test would do in their class work,- Prqf. Jacob admitted that possibly pne student in ten would belie the. psychological test but stressed the fact that; the results of the test have proven exceedingly 'beneficial' in enabling professors to properly classify students and advise theni subjects for which they are best fitted.. . MERCER’S BRASS BAND ORGANIZING Bandmaster Dan Davis Prom ises Plenty of, Music, READY FOR FIRST GAME More Than 'Thirty Windjam mers Report First Practice. Mercer'sorganization of windjam mers held its first meeting Tuesday night for the purpose of organizing . the university band. About forty men reported to Bandmaster Dan Davis, formerly leader of the band at Lo cust Grove- Institute. Bandmaster Davis promises that''the. musical or- . 'gunization will be in perfect trim and will lead ,the’ student body to- Alumni field for the first football game of the season against’ Birmingham South ern on October 21. The' windjammers may be, heard at all hours day and night, running scales und running students to other .quprtciV A Macon physician, hear ing of the organization of another band for the city, recalled an incident <if a family, in Macon a few years ago, all of whom were, hornblowers. They also operated a cabinet factory aid often had fingers mashed in the machinery. The neighbors had com plained of the musical disturbance by the music ians, in'the wge hours, and a campaign was begun. It is reported thut whenever the -musicians from the cabinet works went to'£he nearby hospital, with mashed fingers, the head surgeon, whose family had been disturbed by -the hornblowers, would amputate the hurt finger with the hope of finally amputating all the fingers! of the hornblowers and there by cause a cessation of the disturb ance. At last reports all of the finggeri had not been removed and some of the musicians are still play ing. But back to Mercer again. Band-, master Davis is to have regular practice hours for the members of his organization and it is expected that students on the campus will not be disturbed throughout the day. The following are -candidates for the band, which Bandmaster Davis- says will number thirty pieces: Cornet, Fred Caylor, Many McWil liams, I.buie' Buchanan, H. -A. Wells, H. A, Birch, M. C. Lasseter, F. M. H. ulnic, Paul Perry, Hap Sloan; sax ophones, Sam Pair, E. L. Field, R. H. Fetner, Jim Harbin; baritone, Sam Pair; trombone, Dan Davis, ’(band master i'. W B. Martin. J. A. Rubbiii; alto, E., G. Alford, C. D. Harrold, N. T. Weaver, K. M. Bmadweli. R. Mc Curdy; flute, Joe. Crudtip; bass,' French Shelling, A. N Swain, Lon nie Fleming; drums, J. H.. Drewery, E, S. 'Gammer, Cosby (’a:lisle; cym- • bais, M. Pharr. L.,'C. Cobb. The. 'orchi str-a probably will in clude the following: Dan Davis, di- retbr, trombone'; Hap Sloan, violin; John" Lauren,cc, second violin; ,R. ..H. I'etner and, F S. Gammage, saxo phones; Paul Perry, cornet, and M. I. ’.liarr,' pianist... '. - - STUDENT BARBER SHOP OPENS G. IL,(,'arter, Senior,.t<> Run Tonsorial ■ » Room. Next! Walk right in, gentlemen. G. B. t arter is now a student, clerk and barber shop man. He owns, con trols, directs and otherwise manipu lates’ the shop, shines, shaves, sham poos and all appurtenances thereto,- to.be found in the Y: M. C. A. build- ing. Parts of the .proceeds of the shop will • be given to the athletic board, according to an announcement given out by “G. B.” himself. There - are many ways, to get through college, and running a barber shop is one 'of theni. '“G. B.’’ says he is determined to get through Mercer if it takes or ganizing seventeen ’ home industries. He. fuhther states that if anyone gets him away.from college before he re ceives a degree, they will have to call out the militia,.to takq him off.-.. It is predicted that the fellows on th«j campus will get their hair cut short-often enough at the shop on the campus to, give the oUrner thereof enough “ca-e-sh"' to stay in Mercer, besides furnishing some 10 per cent of its earnings to the benefit of the athletic fund.