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THE MERCER CLUSTER
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools and colleges in
the Mercer University System.
George M. Sparks, Managing Editor
The Cluster Staff:
C. J. Broome, Editor-in-Chief; Robert
M. Gamble, A. B. Cochran,-W. K.
Wynne, John . P. Rabun, Edwin S.
Davis, E. C. Hulsey, John C. Vincent,
Associate Editors; Romeo B. Morris,
Circulation.
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HOLD FAST
Don’t quit trying for the team!
There is manifested each year a
tendency among the fellows trying
Out for the various athletic teams to
quit the game because, they fail to
make the varsity at once. This is a
foiling that, can hurt Mercer more
than some of the fellows seem to
realize.
Many men in the past would have
made their college teams had they
stuck to the job and kept plugging
nway at the game day after duy with
out getting discouraged or grouchy.-
The man who. sticks, whether or not
he makes the team with a rush, will
'.eventually be heard from. . ,
There have been players on Mer
cer’s teams during the last few years
who made good in the game and with
their fellow students just because
they showed that they had the grit
in their gizzards and the love of Mer
cer in their hearts to keep trying
whem it seemed they could not possi
bly attain, the varsity.
To build up. good teams in footbull,
basketball, baseball and other athlet
ics at Mercer we must have a great
host .of fellows trying-out every year
and year after year. The man who
fails to make even the scrubs this
year may be the star of the varsity
next year.
In any game, in athletics, hi the
game of life, it is the fellow with the
stickability who wins out . in the Jong
run. And when a man wins for him
self, makes the team of his ambitions,
he wins for his college. Mercer calls
to all her men, especially to those
who can in any. way contribute to the
making of winning athletic teams, to
stick to the job of trying to make the
teams.
Mercer men, candidates for the
football eleven and other teams, don’t
hand in youor uniform and quit the
game! Go back to the squad. Get in
ugain with greater grit and determi
nation than ever to make the varsity,
if not now, then later. Columbus had
a growling crew'who wanted to flunk
because they could not Bight their
goal Soon enough, but that gritty guy
Christopher said “Sail on!”—and now
look where we .are “at,” as a conse
quence. ••
Don’t quit the team, Mercer man,
candidate for the team! Don’t quit
cold on the coach, don’t quit on your
self, don’t quit on Mercer! Give us a.
little more of the old “sand.” \B9ckle
to the task, we say, if you never make
the team—but you can’t keep a
spunky man down. i •
Anyway, we had rather fail for
Mercer than to succeed for many
things we have seen.
tHE LIBRARY
The people of the. United States
are, above all others, a nation of
readers, and no thoughtful person
need bje told how potent in the "for
mation 6f character and in the shap
ing of the national life is the influence
of books. The rapid increase of oUr
schools in numbers and efficiency,-tho
multiplication of public librarian, and
the ever growing volume of new pub
lications, indicate beyond doubt that
practical people though we are, we
find in books the chief source of our
intelligence and national strength.
Books embody the accumulated wis
dom of ages. In them we have the
garnered wqMrifnce of centuries lopg
past. In. them we find, so to speak,
fomnlas for our guidance, precedents
in the conduct of our fathers, which
time has stamped with the validity
of rules. Human nature is, in affect,
unchanged since the earliest dagg, of
the world; and the record of its
thought and manifestations, which
constitutes the history of civilisation!
is the most precious inheritance that
could have come down to us.
College man, spend your spare
moments in the college library, for
in doing so you are associating with
the best of companions, books. The
course you take in school fan give you
only a limited atnouyt of learning, so
why not increase this twofold by
forming the habit of frequenting the
library, where there might be ac
quired that which every college
strives to give one—Knowledge
' R.L.B.
BE AN ORATOlf
in the lives of very few boys or
men has there never been that am
bition to speak before an audience, to
rise to his feet us. the appointed ora
tor of an occasion and with eloquent
words , lay before his hearers proba
bly a picture of past history, cleverly
blended with the present, or-to sway
men to bis views politically, or to
present the teachings of the Bible to
men in such a clear, forceful way
that they will grow to be attentive
listeners. This is indeed a worthy
ambition, but one too seldom realized
among men/
One’s failure to become an orator
might be due to several reasons; lack
of opportunity, timidity, or Stage
fright, as it is commonly called, or it
is likely to be lack of. interest mani
fested by the factors that go to make
great speakers.
. The literary, societies at Mercer
were founded for the purpose of help
ing the ambitious ones along the ora
torical line and to encourage the ones
not possessed by future hopes con
cerning oratory. These societies have
not fallen down in the past and surely
Mercer men do not propose to let
these Societies go unpatronized now.
In order to have progressive liter
ary societies there must be individual
competition as well as inter-society
rivalry. But above all, there must be
co-operation from the entire student
body.
Come out and he welcomed into one
of the literary societies NOW.
R. L. B.
OLD
MADE TQ FUNCTION
Mercer Missionary Society Ex
isted in Early Days.
The oldest religious organization in
the territory of the Southern Baptist
Convention for young people's work
was the “Mercer University Mission
ary Society,” which existed in the
early days of the university. On the
roll of the society (preserved in the
president’s office) will be found the
names of . many famous Baptist
preachers and laymen.
In the early days of the iMtttution
(ration
for
this was the only organizatil
promotng religious work on the cam-
ups. .It was represented each year at
the Georgia Baptist Convention.
By action of religious organisations
now existing on the campus the
“Mercer University . Missionary So
ciety” has been reorganized. It will
now have, general charge and respon
sibility for the campus religious life.
The society will functon through a
general council made up of the two
ranking officers of the Ministerial
Association, Y. M. C. A., Student'oVI*
unteer aBnd, the presdent of the uni
versity, the dean of the School of
Christianity, end members of th stu
dent body appointed seek year. The
■tudeqt members of the association
are John K. Williams,' Ralph Moon,
G. N. Atkinson, Ernest Hulsey, P. E.
Murray, Joslah Crudup and T. K.
Smith.
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D JNNA ye ever wear tweed—fresh as th’
daisies—bor.r.y as th’ heather? Mon I but
they’rd smart.
Made of the choicest woolens; some of them on
old hand looms. There’s a breath of the hie-
lands in them; a pedigree of centuries behind
them. Cotton and shoddy 100% absent
There's nothing quite so sprightly as a rough
looking, hard wearing, “Hoot Mon" Tweed for
both business and sports wear. Today the
young man's most fashionable suit; always worn
by the smart dressers of our metropolitan cities.
“Hoot Mon” Tweeds are tailored in a wide
variety of models, all typical of Stratford Style
leadership.
It pays to' buy the best
The new Fall and Winter Styles are now on display
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Telephone 766. 110 Cotton Ave.
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Cor. Third and Poplar Streets
Phone 4491 /
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MERCER PRESSING CLUB
In New Laundry Building " '
We have contract with best dry cleaner in city for $1.00. All kinds of V
Altering and Repairing. Agents for Royal Tailors. aMtch your old
coat for extra pants.
J. W. JONES, Student Manager, will appreciate your trade
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We place your funds on in
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We give your Rent Accounts
our personal attention.
Our service is the result of
twenty years’ experience.
CITY REALTY COMPANY
566 Mulberry St Phone 4213
Macon, Georgia
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May Cut Expmmsms
By Buying Their Groceries From
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THESE STORES NEAR MERCER ' 1-
•M Colieg^St. 30$ Duncan Ave. UT Montpelier Ave.
Adams Bros.
Grocery Co.
Wholffule Distributor!
for Middi* and South
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