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THE MERCER CLUSTER
October 6, 1922
The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools and colleges In
the Mercer University System.'
Subscription Bates, one year, $1.50.
Advertising rates' on request.
GLAD WE’RE HERE
When students of Mercer arrived in
the city of Macon to matriculate for
the college, year they found all Ma-,
eon awaiting their coming with a
heurty welcome. New men were made
to feel at home 'arid eld men were
glad to be back again to take up resi-
. dance in the South’s most hospitable
city. The first few days of the col
lege year passed more smoothly..The
newspapers’ backed Mercer with in
teresting write-ups and practically
every one of their advertisers carried
a. welcoming advertisement to the
student .body. MereCr boys never
have, to walk to town, for Macon’s
citizens when passing the campus
always stop and give the boys a lift.
Macon, .we thank you for this sup
port and for this welcome. It is up
to the student body to show you our
appreciation. We have always felt
the need of , your support and co
operation and feel deeply grateful
that; we now have it. We need you,
ybu need us/ So let’s go altogether
for the!uplift of OUB institution!
DANG-YOU GOING
V
Dengue fever, from the world of
pestilence, has been spending an ex
tended visit at Mercer as the guest of
■the football squad. It has been hoped
that this visitor would have long since
learned that he was by no means
welcome and return whence he came,
but all kinds of insults and rebuffs
have hM of nu avail. He was' so
detarminefe in sticking close to the
Mercerians that he helped Georgia in
last week’s game by throwing most
of the team for a considerable loss.
However, it is hoped that he' is now
ready to depart since he has called
upon; nearty every map whose hospi
tality .would permit' such, a visit.
'• Prom Josh Cody’s and Everett
Strupper’s varsity ’ team he drew
,.Captain Carl Lancaster, Col. “Red”
Simmons, Ike Cowart, .“Uncle” Dave
Rice, “Rubber” Pope and Joe Mc
Clain, all of whom -are ready to tes
tify that his nickname of “Broken-
bone Pever”. is no misnomer. “Dock”
Miller, who was elected last spring as
Assistant Manager, Was another of
his victims, and A1 Jennings, who
has been working with Manager Jones
as handy man, js now confined to his
bed. ’ '' •
Coach 1 Mosely’s freshman' squad
also had its full quota of. “dang-you 1
. sickness. Five ' freshmen, Adams,
Shaw, Lancaster, Saunders and Par
ker, have been laid up, but fortu
nately they, did not have to miss the
Madison game.
With such work as dengue has been
doing, for Mercer's football men it
looked for a time.like an easy task
for all Mercer opponents. At last,
though, it looks like the dirty Work,
is done and this harmful guest has
• finished his unwelcome, visit.
By John I,. Hackney.
Freshman, NOW is the time to
take part in the various activities of
the cdljege.
The cull has been sent out to the
first-year me nto join the activities
of college life and the invitations of
these organizations should be con
sidered carefully before being dis-
arded from your minds.
The Y. M. C. A. calls each year
upon the new men to join its ranks
m order that it might function pro
gressively und for the good of all the
members. A few minutes spent each
■ay in song and worship will do no
one any harm.
The literary societies especially in-
iie you to visit their halls and urge
you to become one of them. 'These
societies have been the college homes
f many' great stale."men who have
gone before. Unless a man has the
ower to present to others his vieW-
points'and conyictidns there is rto ad-
antage tor him to gain from his
wisdom- , ■ . ■
there are other organizations that
lemarnl your attention and NOW is
he time to begin to take part. Why
wait'.' You will be the upperclass-
nen of tomorrow and unless you get
a foundation in the beginning, what
xecfltive powers will you have in fu-
-Tire years ’.' Make yourself at home,
rsk questions. The cry of these vital
organizations at Mercer is, “We need
ou, you meed us.” Don’t fail them.
To a man, rally around these ac-
ivities which are the very backbone
hat goes to make Mercer great.
SQUIRREL FOOD
By Milton K. Wallace
PASS THE MIT
' The athletic standard ,of Mercer
has been- greatly added' tb with the
.presence of ( oaches StruppCr and
• Moseley. .
Coach Strupper has charge of the
backfield of Mercer’s eleven, while
Coach Moteley is chaperoning the ac
. tivitics of the fast Freshman team
-Both men come to Mercer with good
records, Coach Strupper being one of
the greatest halfbacks ever turned
Out at Georgia Tec, while Coach
/ Moseley has supervised Gordon In'
•• stltute’s athletic teams for aeveral
years,- turning out champiopahip
teams. Coach Moseley it also a pro
fessor of history at Mercer.
All Mercer welcomes these new
coaches and their presence will no
doubt aid in building up winning
teams for Mercer.
Son Sammons: “Rear about the
«ght?”
Rad: “No, what was it?”
Son: “The cat licked his paw.’
STARTING IN
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V
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
OF FRESHMAN
CHEER UP
There’s no.use feeling down and out,
For Paris Green tastes bad;
And ’.32’s make such a mess
They’ve ceased to. be the fad.
So dry your tears and cease to mourn
E’en though the times be bum, .
hear up, and don’t forget .it; son,
The worst is yet to come.
* * *
And- think! They, too, some day,
shall be commenting upon the green
ness of the Freshman.
* * *
DISILLUSIONED
. Now wouldn't it,
•In the vulgar vernacular
Of the street,
Grip you,- gentle reader, ‘
To meet a fair damsel
At the Rialto,, and
■ Listen to her
Rave about her
MACHINE
For two solid hours, •
And then make a .
Date to take her
To the Mercer-Piedmont
Game, and have. her
Drive out an
Antideluvian
■, 4rd? • _ .... y ;
It’s all wrong, Gertrude,
It’s all wrong!
.. * >:* • .'
We neVer were much on this sob-
stuff pnyhow, but yesterday, we al
most broke down and wept while ob
serving a wood-pecker doing his
darndest to peck a hole in an iron
lamp-post—and the wood-pecker did Will. I ever be a Sophomore?
not have a thing on the poor birds
who are trying to bootlick Doc Foun
tain.
• .* ' ,•
After learning ■ that street cars
aren't run by gkloline and that Mud
Creek isn’t second in site to Nbw
York City, the Freshman thinks he
has an education, it takes him four
years to realise that he’s a fool.
• * * *'
Freshman Lott: “Did you get in
last night in time to play Cuckoo f”
Freshman Sims: “Yes, I got in for
the tail-end of it.”
* *
Freshman: "Watcha doin’, shavin ?”
Soph: “Naw, Foolish, washin’ my
feet.”
? * *
Well, keep your' socks pulled up.
ALL FOR ONE
/
Everyone working, toward a single
end should be the attitude of the
student body in regard to our weekly
paper, “The Cluster." ' If every stu
dent will do what he can in contrib
uting to the uplift of the paper, it
will be a bigger and better publica
tion and everyone will enjoy reading
it when it is issued on Friday morn
ings, . I
News is plentiful on and around
Mercer campus, but the members of
the staff cannot cover every happen^
ing that takes place. Just because** 1 '
you are not .on the qgiciat staff do
not hesitate to write. Commission
yourself one of the reporters-at-large
and write up or report to‘the staff
room all the news you know of, Any
thing you may be gifted at, whether
it be writing live poetry, original
jokes or feature articles, will be con
sidered for publication. We need
your help and co-operation in order
to put out a weekly that will do credit
to the institution which it.represents.
It is the purpose of the editors to
gradually build- up “The Cluster” each
year as the months puss from a four-
page paper to a. six-page paper and
probably eight. Progress Will be
made according to the speed of or
ganization and in harmony with the
financial status of the paper.
Let us all work together and pull
for MERCER! *
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First impression—Sophomores.
Second impression—Sophomores.
Third impression—SOPHOMORES.
* *. •
The accent in Sophomore is evi
dently on the last syllable.
* * *
A Sophomore seems to have but
one ambition in life—to" make life
miserable for Freshmen.
In this they succeed remarkably
well.
• * *
Why do they give such 1 long les
sons here? . r -.
■ • ' -.-***
Are we behind in o.ir work?
How many years until Christmas?
Is Prof. Georgy Sparks laughing at
me or my yellow cap'?
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What’s the hurry, about?
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