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Ipril 7, 1922
THE MERCER CLUSTER
PmThm
IONIAN SOCIETY
TO PRESENT PLAY
Annual Society Play to Be Given
Friday Night. 1
FACULTY MEMBERS edwationi FIRST
GIVEN ONCE OVER
Dr. c. B. Williams Learns. Latin
While Plowing.
(Special Dispatch to the Cluster)
FORSYTH, Ga., April 7.—Continu
ing the annual custom at Bessie Tift
College, the members of the Clionian
literary Society will give the play,
■Fmlymion,” in- the college chapel
fterc Friday night, April 7, it has
been announced by Miss Alice Morris,
■resident-of the Clioniun Society. Ac-
(oriling to the members of this, so-
riety. the play will be one of the
best ever staged at the Forsyth col-
lege and it is expected that a large
,(tendance of Forsyth residents and
Slerier students will attend. ■
■hast year the Kappa -Delta Society,
then led by Miss Nadine Callaway,
d.nt, of Macon, put 6n a play,,
custom being for the two socie-
to alternate in the annual en
tertainment.
love Story, Hays
Kmlymion is a love- story and the
tharaeters, it is expected,,will be ex-
(ellently- portrayed by 'the Clionians.
is said that the. scenery and cos
tumes for. the play will be beautiful
and attractive. The girls of the
Lavender and Green society have
rjirked- faithfully in the production
of .the play and it is believed that
■xcellent entertainmunt will be
presented. .
The east follows:. ’ _.
Kmlymion. .. Miss Florine Johnson
Kalliethene .. Miss Ruth Ranew
I'hyrnia Miss Majorie Blackburn
Eamentdes... Miss Rossie Champion
Art“niis Miss Winnie Mae Adams
Miss Mary Lee Ayers
I!...... Miss Alice Morris
Miss Lola Irwin
. Miss Johnnie Baldwin
Maidens: Misses Lucy Bell, Irma
Herr, Lavane Abercrombie,' Ann
Huffman.
truths: Misses Dorothy Weston
Kloise Hammock,-Mary Betty Co
ker, Berte Phillips.
Dryads;' Misses Martha Sanders
Liis Williams, Lola Richards,- Ruth
Griffith, Naomi ‘ Sykes, Kthel
Bush.
Bob Gamble,
' Mercer* Cluster Bureau
Oh Pshaw. Parlors,
Bessie Tift College.
BASEBALL SECOND
Stallings Says Finish College
Before Playing Baseball.
Herniet
Queen
King
HOLD ’EM RIGHT THERE!
Paul M. Sayer
Learning thirty pages of Latin
•aeh week at the ends of plow rows' compIetc8 hia education,” was the
By E. A. Woolwirte
Never encourage a college boy to
leave school to play baseball before
on hot summer days, anil then Walk
ng three miles to recite them is not
a very easy thing to do, but such Was
accomplished by one of Mercer’s dis
tinguished professors when only, a
ail 15 years old. This was done by
Drl Charles B. Williams, who now
holds the chair of New Testament
fheology and Greek at Mercer Uni-
Versity, according to a statement
made by him when he was asked as
to how he got him' education. -,
“My father sent me' to school until
I hud finished the Elizabeth City
Academy, v began Dr. Williams, “and
then be thought 1 hud enough educa
tion, so he put mt. to work on the
farm. .1 wus only 15 ycairs old and
continued. to study Latin at the
. nils of the plow-rows, learning .1)0.
pages each week and 1 walking three
miles to recite them. When 1 was
IK years ( of age 1 entered Wake
Forest t'olege* and after graduating
there' 1 took a post-gradunfe course
at the University'of Chicago.
“How did I earn my (irst d'ollur
was born and reared on a little
farm near Shiloh, N. C\, and earned
my first .dollar .'picking cotton. I
muile money enough to go through
college by teaching school. 1 began
to touch when 1 was sixteen years
old, arid' after finishing college I
ontinued to teach and preach.
"My nickname—I have, never had
but one nickname'. My’college chums
called nie “CD”, wheh I attended col
lege. . V
"My hobby? Well, 1 don't know
thut 1 have one." Here the iprofes'sor
begun to hesitate; and Mrs. Williams,
who happened to be. in the room, re
marked, "lie wus almost Wild about
playing tennis once,” and then Dr.
Williams.continued. “Yes,-1 was very'
fond of playing- tennis, but I do not
play now. I devote my spare time to
the writing -of books.’
Some of the books Dr. Williams
has already published are: “The Par
ticiple in the Book of Acts,” “The
Function of Teaching in Christian
ity 1 ." "A Citizen of Two Worlds," and
“New Testament History and Litera
ture.” .
hand in it. She was literally “on the
outside looking in.” •
A student of lightning, Dr. Charles
P‘ Stelnmetz, chief consulting engi
neer of the General Electric Com
pany, and hig laboratory co-workefs,
J. L. R. Hayden and N. A. Lougee,.
have recently completed two years .of efficient.
experiments by producing the artifi- - ——.—-
cial_ lightning just described.. In The University -of Chicago an-
their laboratory at Schenectady, nounces 600 courses for the summer.
N, Y., they, have constructed an ac
tual lightning generator, with which
they are testing lightning arresters
in a more satisfactory manner than
has ever before been possible. These
tests are already showing how light
ning arresters can be made more
statement of George Stallings, who.
owns the Rochester team that played
the Detroit Tigers at Central City
Park Monday afternoon.
Mr. Stallings, the miracle man of
baseball, i» from Haildox, Ga., near
Macon, where he owns 'a beautiful
country home with a baseball dia
mond on whuh Rochester' trained for
a week.-' When . Mr. Stallings . pur
chased the Rochester dub last season
he did . not have a single player, but
after buying a team finished Second
in the league. From the looks of this
■year’s team Rochester h..s a good
chance; for a pennant winning club 1 .
Mr. Stallings. .managed the Boston
Braves when they- won the pennant
in the National League and later tlv
woi Id’s series. -
•Mr. Stallings is a grail date of
V. M. L, where he caught for three
years on the baseball nine.
When asked about the college boy
breaking into the big league's, he re
plied, "Not all college, ball players
are suited for professionals ami ail
should get an • education first. A
great many College players get the
Wrong couching and have to be made
over, whep they start into profes
sional ball. They, do not think for'
themselves enough hut lopk for the
coach to give' a signal for every
play. More-college boys-are pluying
baseball. thun ever because of . the
salaries paid. A young player in the
big leagues'draws a salary equal to
that of a bank president of most
small: towns.
“I think it is all right for a boy,
after he has completed his education,
to play baseball. Then If he doesn’t
stay he can do something else,” eori#|
'eluded Mr, Stallings.
Manager Stallings has,several col
lege men on his team and.seems, well
pleased with the brand of ball they
are displaying: ,,
■By Bob Gamble -
It do seem' lak I has mo’ trouble
Here it was, I couldn’t go to In
dianapolis With the basketball team
because I up and got sick,the night
the team. left.
But I couldn’t help it.
Now, I go and get shot twice by a
burglar oyer at my hpusc Tuesday
night. I wonder what’s gonna .hap,
pen text? 1
A bold, bad man, W'tB his face pro
te te'il. by a dark, hideous mask
rushed into my Jjoudoir over' on For
»yth street between 2. and 3 o’clock
in the morning and with the aid of
« six-ihooter, coaxed me out. of my
*arm bed and out to the back porch
Greeting me to, stay there as I was
not-needed inside.
I stayed
Pretty soon my Dad heard the dis-.
turbanee and came to my assistance,
upping me a gun' in some sleight-
of-hand manner. Together we went
back into my erstwhile sleeping'
garters, and together we were
Maxell out by .the burglar, who ae-
Mmpnriiod us to the rear of the
bouse, « • ■
Upon reaching this quarter, the
Wvi-rnor” shot the bold bad man,
»ho in turn filled me- full of buek-
•hot and I reciprocated. Just then—
The “governor” waked. ’Twas' only
Pnpa’s dreamt
WANS” WIN FROM
“FATS,” IKEETAL
Despite the sensational ■ fileding of
Cowart, and the batting, and
etching of Mike Herndon, the “Fats”
*«* defeated Friday afternoon on
A'umni Feld by the “Leans” 10 to 7,
In the initial frame three • bits,
|*»pled with four errors, gave the
Uans" a six-run lead and they , were
J*** headed. After this inning the
Tuts” settled down and the “Leans”
were, unable to register, until the
seventh period when a tWo-base hit
followed-, by a single to left field
milled one tally.: The other three runs
came in the last stanza as the. re
sults' largely' of errors.
Ike Cowart and Mike Herndon dis
played mid-season form, the former
being the fielding star ef the contest,
gwing baek into* right field and cateh-
ng balls already labeled as , hits.
Herndon led the field jn hitting by
■securing three bingles and a double
out of five trips to'the plate..
Wear for the “Leans” hurled a
■good brartd of ball, but miserable
support by the infield at critical mo
ments of the game was • instrumental
in scoring the , seven runs for, the
“Fats:”
Score:
•‘Leans” . . .. 10
•’Fats” , ..' '.. '. 7
Batteries: “Leans”, Wear and Mor
ris;' “Flits/’ Herndon und Dasher-
GLAZIER VAMPED BY
A “SHE’S A MAN”
ADVICE
How to. Get Along With Your-
Roommate.
• ;■ j \•
1. Buy him all the tobacco and
cigarettes he can make; fill and light
his pipe for bim.
2. Introduce him to your sweet
heart; encourage- hini to go out .with
her often.
3. Let him haye as much money as
he wants. If he offers to pay it back,
tell him you. didn’t ~ intern! it, as a
loan. " ■ , ’
4. Never argue with him; always
admit that you are in the wrong-
5. Write all his English , themes,
and translate his . French and Span
ish: • "' ‘- ■ '' -s'- ,- t * . V "
6. Let him Wear your best shirts,
collars and neckties.
7. Next-year, try rooming alone
'. “Aggressive fighting for the right
is the noblest sport the world- af
fords.”—Theodore Roosevelt.
To ln> vamped by a false lady was |
the fate of Hoyt Glazier Saturdayj i
night as he entered the Sparks
circus.;
Hoyt was amiably strolling down
the aisle leisurely glancing over the
audience when ; the pseudo-female
calmly appropriated his left. . arm.
Sublimely unitwhre of whom he was
escorting, Glazier continued the
promenade until a sudden outburst of
laughter from the reserved seat .sec
tion-caused him to glance around and
it was then for the first time that he
saw with-whom he was walking. »
Glazier was embarrassed, .the |
crowd roared, he blushed .and in fai t ,[
he blushed several times and began. f
looking for some -hole into which to |
crawl when the, clown policeman I
came to his. rescue. j
Looking, as he said, he felt, like a |
fool, Glazier hbrried to his seat eag- ”
oily waiting to see hoW the next vie- “
tim would look.
LABORATORY TESTS
MAKE LIGHTNING
Nature looked idly on the other day
while man-made lightning worked
destruction. .
An indoor thunder storm was pro
duced and controlled by nian. Light- J
ning without thunder clouds, but
lightning nevertheless, flashed forth
for an inconceivable instant of. time,
caused damage,-and vanished.. |
.-, It' sptintered-a large block of wood,
scattering the pieces twenty-five feet
in hil directions. It struck tKe limb
of a tree and shattered it completely.
Some of the fragments were Hurled
half way across thp room.
This laboratory lightning did
everything that Nature’s lightning
does, behaved the samq way, had the
same characteristics—on a smaller
aCale,. of course. But Nature had no
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