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UKiraUTT fODRin SCHOOLS AND COLLIOHS Vol.2 MERCER UNIVERSITY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922 No. 14 ditor l. d. newton spends THIRTY MINUTES ON CAMPUS Z. MERCER SPECIAL RIDES TO ATLANTA LOYAL SUPPORTERS PRAISE UNIVERSITY By L. D. Newton At the close of the meeting of the committee, held in Macon last Thurs day, to arrange details for the Cen tennial Convention, we found that we had an hour before the late after noon trains would leave: At once aonieone suggested that it would be tine thing if we could spend that hour out at Mercer looking at the re cent improvements. President Weaver telephoned Mr. Alfred Willingham and Dr. W. G. Lee, two of the local trustees, who gladly give shy hour, and many hours, any day of the year to Mercer, and In a few minutes they were at the hotel in their ears to drive the visitors out to the college. We had thirty minutes on the campus, and we pause here to say that we saw more in that thirty min utes that we had never seen before than we did the first time we went to New York City. Things are mov ing on Mercer campus. The writer turned;to Dr. Mell to exclaim that there were at least four buildings that .had gone up since we were at Mercer last June for the evangelistic conference and the annual commence ment and Dr. Mell had to be con vinced by President Weaver that it was a fact that these buildings had gone up in that short time. Mercer men and all friends who have.ever seen the campus will re member the old Seymour property which occupied a block at the north end of the campus. That whole block hss been purchased and in the place of the dilapidated residence that once stood there may now be seen a beau tiful brick apartment house, with six apartments for professors and the elegant new home for. the president. And there is room left for elfective landscape plans already ' under way. It will be a beautiful plot when fin ished. That one section of the cam pus was enough to justify going across the state to see, but they called to us to hurry on to see other improvements.. . The Atheltic Field Really, Mercer has an athletic field. Right now. Not a promise, but a Add. They walked Us up to the top of that hill back of the dormitory and there in that natural bowl is a beautiful athletic Held with a grand stand seating 2,600 people. A sub stantial wall is built around the field, and work is going forward at the present time sodding . the Held for baseball work this spring. ^Without any effort to get up enthusiasm, one may say at once that Mercer has one of tlje most attractive athletic fields of any college in this part- of the courtry. Of. course, it is not as well equipped as Tech’s- Held, but it is beaded in that direction. It is to be called Alumni Field and wfc must stop right here td remind Mercer men and Merfcer friends of the great work of Dr. W. G. Lee and George' M. Spnrks in carrying for ward this work. They deserve our heartiest support and appreciation, The Common ~ The wind was whistling over that bill at a rapid clip, but- time was passing more rapidly and they said we would have to hurry. (It is awful for an old Mercer man to be hurried when he is back on the cantpus for a visit.) . They marched us back to Edge- Wood avenue and there on the slant that hill is another beautiful dor mitory, called' “Gambrell Hall.” The dormitory back up there on. the Seymour property is called “Holli d»y Hall.” And. by the way, the Armitory that most of u* dwelt in, Arrive Early, Washup' and Wel come Team. . L. D. NEWTON fedit’or of Christian - Index,, Mercer graduate, professor, former secretary and treasurer of Mercer Alumni As sociation. .■ The Mercer “Special” composed of flatcars, tankcars, coalcars and side- door .Pullmans, was the means . of transportation for. some twenty-five or thirty embryo “hoboes” Thursday night on the way to Atlanta and the Tech-Mercer basketball game. In spite of the .rain . and. cold weather, the trip was enjoyed by the “bravest of the brave” who finally' reached the Capital City early Friday morning. The team came, in at 4 o’clock and the eptire crowd of “hoboes” turned out to give them a “fitting” welcome. And the rest of the tramps came into Atlanta in automobiles and on foot in time to see the muchly talked-of game. . V But who, said- that Mercer boys did not possess college spirit . And the crowd wishes to thank the Emory and Tech fellows for so kindly ten dering Us a bunk for the night. PLAN FOR CHAPEL EXERCISES GIVEN Interesting Programs Prepared for Next Two Weeks. ourselves in an open space out there where a cluster of negro houses used to stand. . All that line of negro- houses is gone. Thanks. And stand ing .down there on the southwest cor ner of that block of the campus is a beautiful new building, a picture of which is used for a calendar—if you have not- received one, ask Dr. Weaver to send you one. It is the new dining hall. They are going to call it “The Commons.” It is after the English designing in architec ture. We were trying to 'stop long enough to look at it, but they yanked us on the inside to see what was go ing on. (They didn’t have anything to eat, then.) In that building they are installing the last word in kitchen equipment. Of course, they . could not have proved by that committee whether it • was the best kitchen equipment, bqt Dr. Lee said so, and we all gave our assent, .Anyway, it looks like more kitchen equipment than we ever expected to see. The dining room will seat 600. now and when the two wings are built, which it is hoped may be done in a year, the building will seat 1;000. And it. is beautiful on the- inside as well .as on the outside. They laid the corner stone of that building a little while ago. Governor Hardwick made the speech. - And here is what you will see chiseled on that marble slab: “To the Glory of Him Who is the Bread of Life.” Satisfying, isn’t it? The Library -They issued the third and last call on us, if we expected to catch our trains, and we served notice on Dr. Lee to go get his Buick and stop at the back of the Library Building; which is to say that we had to see Miss Sallie before. we left. As we dashed up across the campus, Dr. Weaver halted us at the Y. M. C. A. building where they showed us a modern book store, a barber shop, a social room and the regular assem bly auditorium upstairs for the twi light prayer meetings. Out there on the' campus Dr. Weaver pointed' out Where the .tower is to stand at the entrance to the campus and of the wings that are to connect the pres ent buildings with new . buildings, forming a quadrangle. As we were going to the library we passed the old “gym” and. had the twist o* de sire to dpu)h in there and see the championship basket-ball team ring a basket or two, but that last three minutes was nearly gone. By the way, Mercer h*» got a basketball team. If anybody wishes further in formation refer them to the five-men composing the basketball team of the Georgia School of Technology. In that same spot in that reading .room we found the same Miss Sallie. She ha* a new desk, but it was not “8herwood Hall.” Let It be said in E***ing that this is a fine thing that Weaver Is doing. He is linking tradition* of the institution with *8* present And- right along side of “Gembrell Hall” is another dormi ‘"7 called “Trion HnlL” . They called for n left-hand torn JNwhw along thine and we found HOBO NOTES ." Only complaint to make about the accpmmodations on the Mercer “Spe cial” is that the box carq do not ride very.'comfortably. In the future the request is made of the railroad com panies to please provide all cars on the 11:46 freight with springs. ' * * * A champion sleeper was discovered on the grand.and glorious trip to At lanta Thursday night. One of Mer cer's second year men. was found sleeping in the middle, of a box car using a tomato can for a pillow. * • • Everybody enjoyed the .trip to the Capital City last -week-end, but we know of at least one who: will never choose hoboing as his life’s work. -And some fe wwould no lfiger re semble the white race if they had to ride much farther in a coal car. ' . • * . Playing tag with the. flagman around the tafik cars and over the tops of the . box cars 'should be placed in Class A in th» realm of ' sports which furnish a thrill. Just ask some Freshman who hqd the novel experi ence. •_ * ’• * East Point is a pleasant' place to swing olf a freight train, provided it isn't running thirty miles an hour Then it is a good place to land on your neck if you happen to. step off the (rain backward. ¥ ' The rain which began about ,2 o'clock- Friday morning was ensured but not enjoyed, especially by those “hoboes” that happened to be ridipg in coal cars. The road although six inches deep in mud, was a wonder ful (?) place for walking Saturday afternoon. The man who picked us up certainly has oUr everlasting gratitude. . . J. P. Leggett. By F. R. Nalls, Jr. Dr. A. P.'Montague, chairman of the Mercer chapel committee, Mon day afternoon announced some of the plans for chapel exercises to take place during the next two Weeks." The literary societies are to have charge of the program on one day. There will 'be a regular program as it is held in the society, several of the members making short, snappy speeches. Athletics are to take up one exer cised some of the propdsed speaker* being A. S. Johnson, captain of this year’s football team, Robt. M. Gam ble, star basketball player, Josh Cody, Mercer coach, and some repre sentative of the baseball team, pos sibly J. L. Clegg. The Y. M. C.-A. and the Glee Club are to be given a day each also. The Y." is one of the most constructive forces on the campus this year, and will undoubtedly give the students very attractive program. It is un necessary to say that every student ill be delighted to have the Glee Club go through their repertoire of music, jazz and fun. Besides these events it is the inten tion of the chapel committee to. have number of good speakers, as has been their custom throughout the last term. Under the leadership of Dr.. Montague they have brought to Mer cer for chapel exercises some of the best speakers Mercer has ever seen. the one built about 1908, is called) the furniture that we Were concerned in—-it was the spirit of the. house. Miss Sallie Boone is a great woman. That is a very -unsatisfactory, ex pression of Miss Boone’s meaning to those who know her. Dr. Lansing Burrow* once remarked, as she was taking him to town from a trustee meeting out at the-campus: “I want us to confer tbs degree of D.. G. C. EMMETT STEPHENS DELIVERS ADDRESS Former Missionary Impresses Mercer Ministers. ON THE BIG ROAD NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24.— Only the margin of a single foul goal held the Mercer five off a victory over Vanderbilt in the Y gym here tonight, the game ending 18 to 17 for the Commodores. Either Mercer or Vandy may be given the honor of the game, according to the allegiance of the reader. The first half ended with the score 11 to 9 in favor of the Commodores and the Mercerites were able to close that gap only a single point during the latter period.. Harmop’s miss of a Y6ul shot that would have counted one point for the Cpdy clan was the turning point in those closing minutes of a battle that raged fiercely without the bal ance of power moving to either side . during the entire struggle. In those, late periods of play Ryan hacked Smith on a goal shot which cleared the basket for two points and also gave Harmon a chance for two foul shots— ! he missed one of them and Bell threw his three chances for Vandy. The most spectacular shot of the game was credited to Gamble when, he tossed a line shot from his position at center, the ball touching neither backboard or hoop on its Way, to a two-point home that set the Cody team one point in the lead. It was Gamble in that first period also who gambolled off with two of the three field goals registered. Gamble’s all-around floor work was the out standing feature of the brilliant play of the Macon team. Vanderbilt (18) Mercer (17) Thomas F. ..V.....Wilkes Bell . . ... ... F. a..:... Smith Embry C. Gamble Brown... ■ G. Harmon Ryan G Harper Summary: Field goals, Thomas 1; Bell 2; Brown 3; Ryan 1; Smith 1; Gamble 3; Harmon 1. Fouls, Hart mon 7; Bell 4. Missed fouls, Har mon 2; Bell 1. Referee, Cunning ham. Umpire, Blair, on Miss Sallie—Doctor of Good .( heer.” It was fine to see the read ing room of the library filled with young men. There were hooka every where and- men using them, • The Spirit is There They are building. fast and they are building permanently at Mercer. Every brick they put down now is to stay in its place in a master plan. And . it is most encouraging to say that one is deeply impressed that the greatest thing at Mercer today is the spirit-which pervades the , campus. After all that is the greatest thing about a college. ’ : If you ever hiave an -hour to spare while you are in Macon, do like that committee did (he other day and you will- go away like we did—‘grateful for the' day that brings our people to see such marked progress at Mercer University. - Let iis thank God for the president and the faculty and the trustees and . the students and the parents of the students and all the friends everywhere who are helping to forward the Work of the ihstitu- tton. Rev. Emmett Stephens, for seven teen years -a missionary' in China and now a Mercer student, spoke to the Mercer Ministerial Association Tues day night. His text was Timothy 2:7, 8, “The Lord shall give thee,un derstanding in all things. Remember Jesus Christ.” The speaker showed that amid the perplexities and problems of life God would give understanding to those wht» remember Him. He stated three prime requisites for the Christian. These, he said, were* first, remember Jesus; second, cleave to His word, the Bible; third, pray. ' Rev. Mr. Stephens deplored the, fact that women in many instances dress so immodestly, stating that the Chinese women cover themselves from the neck to the shoe-tops. He mentioned incidentally that- he is writing a series of artcles for the Chri.stan Index. The first, which will appear in *n early issue, is entitled “Jazzy Baptists.” The second- article will be on the subject, “Short Cuts' to Shame.”. ■ PROFESSOR LINN LEAVES MERCER Mercer (18) Chattanooga (21) Wilkes RF Winger (2) Smith (6) LF Barnes (14) Gamble (2) C Redd (5) Harmon (10) RG Guthrie Harper LG .Cate Summary: Substitutions for Mer cer, Wear for Smith,' Simmons for Gamble, > McWilliams for Harper, Gamble for Simmons; Smith for Wear, , Score end of first half: Chatta nooga 11, Mercer 10. Fouls: Harmon 6 out of 13; Redd 1 out of 3; Winger 2 out of 8, and Barnes 2 out of 5. • ‘ ; Personal fouls: Mercer 12; Chatta nooga 9. • Officials: McGauhy, -referee, and Schrock, umpire; Jones, timer; Smart (Chattanooga) and Baker (Mercer), scorers. Time of halves, 20 minute's. Will Go to Mt. Pleasant, N. C., as Pastor of Church. Charles Adolphus Linn, assistant professor of English at Mercer Uni versity, tendered his resignation td the trustees of th« university, which has been accepted. Professor - Linn is also pastor of the , Lutheran church of the city, which he leaves to take charge of a well organized, church of the same belief at Mt. Pleasant,. N. C.- This has been a college town for the past fifty or sixty years with two junior colleges, one for .men and on* for women. He has been offered work, in connection with the departments of English of both, and if his pastoral duties are not too heavy .he witlprob- ably consider this work. He plans to leave thia city about the first of Feb- wy- ’• a Mercer (28) Wear. Pope(11) Simmons(6) Harper(2) McWilliams Summary: Bryson (11) Roberts ( 6) Nelson- Tinkler(5) ■... . ..Boyce Ar Faulkner RF LF . C RG LG Merc’er substitutions, Gamble (4) fo,r Simmons, Smith (5) for Wear; Simmons,- for Gamble for Smith. Bryson none. Score end of first half, Mercer 8,. Bryson 4 Field goals, Mercer ll, Bryson 4. Field goals by players: ' Pope 4, Simmons 3, Gamble .2, Smith 1, Har per 1, Roberts 3, Tinkler 1. Fouls:' Pope 3 out of 7, Smith 3 out. of 5, Tink)er 3 out of ,.12, Rpberts 0 out of 1. Officials: Bagley, referee; Allen, timer; Baker, scorer. Time.of halves 20 minutes. Mercer (32) Wilkes(2) ..... Smith(lO)..”., Gamble(4). Harmon(lO) Harper (C).. Summary Clemson(9,) Schillete- .Day (fti ..Thornton (4), Dprr -.Bryan substitutions, .. RF .. LF ..' ... C. .... ;. rg'.. LG Mercer Simmons , (4) for Gamble,, Wear (2) for Smith, Pope for Wilkes, McWil-- liams for Hannon, Gamble for - Sim mons, Smith for Wear, Simmons for Gamble, Wear for Smith. Score .end of first half: Mercer 11, Clemson '6. Field goals: Mercer , 12, Clepisdn 2. Foul goals: Harmon 8 out of 10; Day (Continued on page four)