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V FOURTEEN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Vol.2 MERCER UNIVERSITY, M^CON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921. No. 3 GOV. THOS. W. HARDWICK TO BE PROMINENT SPEAKER AT LAYING OF CORNERSTONE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25th MERCER ALUMNUS COMING BACK TO SEE OLD CAMPUS DR. NEWMAN GIVES B’HAM-SOU. PLAYS PHI DELTAS HOLD Marks Beginning of Extensive Building Program. Contrasts the College Then and Now. BIG MASONIC (JEREMONY Mercer Masonic Club Members , . Are to Assist. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, an alumnus of Mercer, will take part in the exercises at the university Octo ber 26, when the cornerstone will b laid in the new dining hall (Men’s Commons), the first building of the Greater Mercer expansion program In addition to the chief executive, the Grand Lodge of Masons of Georgia will participate in the program: The Mercer Masonic Club will assist their older fraternal brothers at the exer cises. - When the governor comes bark to the old campus after an absence of many years, he will Bee in the con struction work material evidence to substantiate a statement which he made in Atlanta the past summer at a banquet of Mercer alumni in the State legislature. Speaking to the legislators, of whom there are more than three times as many Mercer alumni as of all colleges combined, the chief ecutive said: “Mercer men are successful in life because they conceive an idea and live true to. it, letting no obstacle stand ip the way of achievement and progress toward the desired goal.” The governor said that this is true of all 'Mercer alumni and of everyone connected with the university. In the new construction work may be seen ample justification of this statement Mercer’s present expansion and pro ■ gram for the future being the reali ration of the dreams of President Rufus W. Weaver and his associates who are “letting no obstacle stand in the way of progress toward the, de sired goal,” which, ",in this . instance, is the Greater Mercer. It ,is expected that in addition to the entire student body and Macon people,' there will be hundreds of Mercer alumni from all parts of the State in attendance at the exercises on October .25. MERCER PREACHERS MERCER ’71 STORY WHEN FIELD OPENS! SNAPPY MEETING DEFEAT FT. VALLEY Everything But “Game Won” in Freshman Play Steller Roll A*s Readiness. .’ . •. • ’ Society Moves On. “Boys, I come back to you after an absence of fifty years, an old man but the best tl(at 1 have left now yours." These ; were/the words which Dr. Newman, professor of Church History at .Mercer, addressed .to the students in chapel last week. Dr. Newman was a member of the class of 1871 at Mercer. He came to Mercer last spring to attend the com mencement exercises, which were the commemoration of tpe semi-centen nial of the graduation of his class. It was during his visit that Dr. Weaver was able to secure his services as a member of the Mercer faculty. In contrasting the Mercer of fifty years ago with the Mercer of today Dr. Newman said, “Fifty years have brought about quite a change in Mer cer. When 1 was here in ’71 the only structural evidence of a college was the building on the corner of Mul berry street and Second street, across from the county epurt house. Wj held classes on the second floor of this building. The students roomed out in town." The K. of C. now oo-1 cupy the floor of the .building to which Dr. Newman referred. Mercer was moved from Penfield, Georgia, in 1871, to Macon. The loation men tioned above was temporary, pending the completion of buildjngs on Tatt nall Square. Dr. Newman named oven some of the members of his class, among Returning from.rt.he Florida battle- j Old Phi Delta hall was again field defeated, yet not vanquished, thp aflame with the oratory- of two Mercer, football squad arrived at the Freshmen on Monday evening at the terminal station about 6:20 o’clock.; regular meeting. It so happened that Sunday afternoon. The Baptists, al- j one of these first j year men was help- though possessing .the small end of a 1 ing uphold the affirmative side of 7-0 score, were expressing their I the question, while the othdr was eagerness to get th£ scalp of the in- lending his argument to.the negative .trading Birminghanu Southern squad view. The subject, “Resoived, that Friday. With only a few scratches i the legislature of the State of Geor and no serious - injuries the squad gia should appropriate more funds for educational purposes," was well handled bv the representatives of both sides, and many jests and "peppy" remarks were indulged in, only to add interest to the discus sion. Freshman Paul Lawrence, speak- should meet the Birmingham boys with open arms'and bared fangs. Forgetting the game as .everybody knows how the battle was waged, let’s take a look out over Alumni Field, Friday afternoon, the Orange and Black ribbons, pennants and banners will for the first time signal ] ing extemporaneously, gave telling the fact that Mercer University is to aid to E. Daniels in expounding the nieet upon her own field.- • -cause of the negative, hut Freshman The large- grand stand will seat Pharr overbalanced all- this’ with practically 3,000 fans and-in all probl* some effective argument and with ability will be crowded to overflow- ] the argumentator, E. C. Hulsey, aid ing. The Macon - fans are. football ing him on the-affirmative, won the wild. They want a winning team' and | decision of the judges- An impromptu big boy “Josh” has that very same• reading by J. A. Ruffian was wtll team to present to them when the j encored. | fans find themselves.' in the big en- A communication from G. W. Gar- closure Friday afternoon. nor was read to the society,- he again Smith, Simmons, Lancaster, ;Cecil, offering a medal to the best debater Poore, Felder, the boy who made in the society for the year 1921-22. such a great run against the Florida j This offer from. Mr. Garner alwqys team, and all the other pushers will - occasions keen rivalry among the be out there in football regalia with members of. the society, but this year their heart set on winning, when the with so many new men with debating referee's’, whistle starts the. first ability, there will no doubt be some home game. lively competition for this honor. . The yell leaders, Cheney, Hogan,’ A total of fifty-five new men have whom were Dr. Kurboyce Tupper, Harvey, and Caylor, are all working I enlisted in the ranks of Phi Delta nnd who preached the commencement ser-,|j|. e Trojans so as to have the best together with the men brought over mon at Mercer last yeor; William T. y g ^ em yells possible to start the from last year tne future of the so- Brantley, lawyer and author; Judge setison r jjrht. Spirit meetings have ciety was never greater Not only Calvin George, and Dr. W. W. Lan- the menu -for the entire week 1 are the men thinking of the big de- drUm. The boyfc will not strain their voices , bates .that are to come off from time . "Senator Tom. Watson was a fellow - qntil Friday. to time, but attention is also being student of mine at Thomson, Georgia, j “The grandstand i.s so constructed directed to the quintet that is to rep- w he re we received our preparatory ! as to afford ample space for different sent the society in the series of jhtet- education,” Dr. Newman said. “Dr.' groups. The Wesleyan girls will have society basketball games,'which are E.-A. Steed, father of your Dr. Clem a place especially -designated for an annual’classic. Steed; who died, was my instructor at them. The Mercer students will-sit The following officers have Welch, Newsome and Callaway Star in Volleyball Game. Thomson,” he added. As an author of church histories Dr. Newman is famous. His books are studied in all the leading theologi-, Winnings from the strong Fort' Valley volleyball team by four out of five games, the Mercer preachers took the first contest of the season played by their team this fall. The Work of , Welch at center net, and Newsome, who served,'was the feature of the game, Calloway for the preachers also starred. The preachers journeyed down to Fort Valley knowing they' were to meet one of the strongest volleyball team's in this section, the peach town team having won a great majority of their , games played. But the Fort Valley volleyballers Were clearly out classed by the ministerial bunch from Mercer. Working with machine-like precision, the * preachers marched through the contest of five games, dropping only one game, the second of the five. . Newsome, serving for the Mercer preachers, played a phenomenal game, delivering ohly ’ three bad serves, during the five games. Once his serving was served against the npt in the first four games, and twice out of bounds in the fifth frame. Calloway handled many difficult serves in jam-up style, saving the preachers the loss of. several points: Guy Welch playing center at the net put up a stellar game. For Fort Val ley Harris was the outstanding star at ce/iter net. The first game of the series was hotly contested and in doubt, till the last point was won by the Morcerites. This frame wound up with the preachers on the long end of a 15 to 1’3 score. ’1 tie o'jc'ond game went to the Fort Valley outfit ty tne score of 15 to 8-. After this the ministers set tled down and won the remaining three games in hamjy fashion. The lineup .for- the preachers was , R. R. Moore, O. B. Newsome, W. W. Everett, W. R. Call- way, W. M. Mar shall, C. J. Broome, and- -Guy Atkin- been -'s„n, who captained the team. in the southeastern corner. The" yell elected to steer the" good ship "Phi J ’ The. contest' was played on an out- leaders will have little stands'where. Delta” through the fall.term,; J. C, j door .court lighted by numerous elec they can display their .various “mod- Pdlhill,' resident; W. O. Forpugh, [ trie lights,, and was witnessed by hun cal schools in the country. Several of , will be oij hand to enliven the occa- his works have been translated into sion. key motions.” The new Mercer band vice-president; O. K. Webb, sec re-| Jreds of people from Fort Valley and tary; L. L. Lovett, janitor, and R. L. l-the surrounding section. Several au- - Brantley, reporter. STUDENTS HOME IS VISITED BY STORK J. W. Jones Now Walks Hall at Midnight. J. W. Jones, promient member of the Overseas Club, one of the hap piest men on the campus, has another reason to allow his mouth to expand even to a greater limit than hereto fore. This happy six-footer Jones has had ai peculiar gleam in his eye since the opening of school and up until yesterday not a member of The Cluster staff was able to detect the real origin of that peculiar gleam. The secret is out, a little blue-eyed girl weighing 9 pounds at birth was found to be the cause of that gleam and the stride, of course, had the same origin. Jonas says that the baby can talk, out even say jja-da- That is indeed interesting, nevertheless Jones .ought to have let ua in on this information aooner as we could have dipped him in the fountain for good measure. Jones married the sponsor of the last year’s Overseas Club, one of the prominent members of the society section of Wesleyan College. ... No man ia Teally big who has a •mall heart. ' the Chinese and Japanese languages/ Ample space will be provided for Miss Virginia Garner, teacher of those who reserve seats. Of .course journalism at Mercer, translated his I the reserved- seats will naturally be church history ihto the Japanese lan- j the best situated, if .'the grand- guage for use in her classes. Besides stand overflows, as . is - expected, his books', Dr. Newman has articles in ; the field will furnish excellent space two of the most prominent theological for the ones -who are so unfortunate encyclopedic in Germany. He is the as to be -crowded, out.' author of ap article in the German ! Watch Mercer win! Theological Encyclopedia -entitled —•— —— - “Baptist Biographies of the Nineteeth i .The preacher's wife.was sewing on a button when the deacon’s wife Came over. “That button lopks lik,. one off my husband’s coat," said the deacons wife. “Perhaps it is—it was put ; ,n the •Collection plate last Sunday," re plied the parson’s better half.. tomobiles of spectators 'came up frpm Perry to -see the games. The two teams will'probably meet 'again , :i. the ■ l"rcer court on Thursf day night of 'n,\t' week,.’ . . The score.-b.' games: 1'repehvrs . . 15' 'rt 15 '15 15- I Fort Valley’- ‘ , .13. !.V -8 . H> 'll Century.” A treatise of his “Protest antism in North America to the End cf the Nineteenth Century” will be found in a German edition entitled' “Protestantism at the End of the Nineteenth Century.” Some of Dr. Newman’s best works are: “Baptist Church in the United States,” “Histor; of Anti-Pedobapt- ism to A. D. 1609,” "Manual of Church History,” “A Century of Bap tist Achievements,” “Anti-Manichean Works of Augustine,” “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,” department’ ed itor for church history of the new Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia of Religi ous Knowledge Since 1905; translator and editor of Immer’s Hermeneutics of the, New Testament Dr. Newman has been, connected with s6me of the foremost universi ties'in the country. v He has held chairs in Rochester Theological Semi nary, in McNaster University, in the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in. Vanderbilt University, snd in Baylor University. 1 He came to Mercer from Baylor. . At’ Baylor Dr. Newman Was an ad- A LARGE EDITION “May I print a kiss upon your lips?” I asked; She nodded her sweet permission; So we went to press, and 1 rather guess .. .• We printed, a large edition. Hoke Shirley writing to his best girl told her that he would wade through’ blood to see her, he would die for her,- etc., and concluded by saying,. “I will be . over to see you Sunday night if it don’t rairi.” WHO MISSES OR WHO WINS Who misses .or Who wins the prize, lose or conque.r, as you can; Go But, if you fall, or if .you- rise, Be each, pray Go-1, a gentleman. '* ■ --Thackeray. She looked with favor on his- suit, For.why should she evade it? She was the tailor’s daughter, And knew her pa had made it. • • 1 ' " —Pathfinder. Your sour look or acid speech- may I relieve your mind today; but they j may be measured back to you tomor row in overflowing poison, and bitter- ! ness of gall. Which can you lie likened to in your organization, a drop of oil that helps to make things run smoothly,' . ; . • or a .grain of sand that tends to hurt He looked with faVor on her suitr— gears’? ■ - It fitted very snug, .• i' —— L_ —i— • M’lady’s; ears- of coral pihk. Will soon again be seen. What next .will be uncovered Arouses interest keen. . —San Francisco Chronicle. But needed better pressing—so, . He helped her. with a hug! • jj' A defeat may knock the win'd out, of you,- but perhaps you ,arg too in'- flaterf anyway. . . > retired . from, actual teaching of poor health. He comes to Mer As often as you lose your temper, the faculty with .a reason i which we will give in his own words, “I came back here because I love I my Alma Mater and because I want to be a member of the faculty in the insti- visory member of the faculty, having tution where I was once a student.” cer, however, as an, active member of y° u lose your sense. “To be effective, temper must be controlled, even in a fight. More girls win their beaux by flat tery than the beaux themselves will admit. . / ' i- - •’ M'lady's calves of. shapely curve ■Have glimmered all about; 1 hey stay “in” .when they are. thin, But most of them Sre “out.” W HO THEN, IS FREE? Who, then, is free? The wise man Who can govern himself.—Horace. As Janies J. ’ Hill used to. 1L be no pockets in “There Shroud. say: your If .you play the game straight, business becomes an inspiririg sport. Be a sportsman.