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OF MERCER UNIVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, li£8
No. 12
;rcer team defeats
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
jmbert Smith PhQrs Big Role
in Outclassing the Bib Five
Men of Indiana. Play
Ga. Tech Saturday.
Having lost the first game to Wa-
•sh, national collegiate champions
these United SUtes, the Mercer
•akctball team last week, the next
Lifjht, won from the Indianians by
he wore of 26 to 23. The game was
ne (if the scrappiest ever witnessed
hy the Macon public and the only
•me lost by the national champions
college aggregation.
Lambert Smith, playing forward
|pr Mercer, Was the battering ram
the season on offense and “fought
the war >all over again” on the defen
sive. Running him a close second for
onors for the night was “Bubber”
(‘ope and George Harmon, both men
overing the floor in the fastest sort
}f style.
Following the game Dr. Weaver
tntertained the team with a banquet
St the Hotel Dempsey.
Christmas night at Mercer Univer
lity team defeated the Baylor Uni
versity five in a close game. Baylor
•ving been founded by a Mercer
rsduate, the game assumed the as
ct of a father and son conflict, the
xperienced Mercerians winning by
to 39.
Mercer plays Georgia Tech SatUr-
sy at the Macon City Auditorium
JUDGE FISH HERE
DEAN FARRAR BACK
WITH GOOD REPORT
Secures Requirements for Co
ordination With Bessie Tift.
90TH ANNIVERSARY!
■CELEBRATION DAY
Barbecue, Basketball, Reception
and Banquet on Program.
Requirements necessary - to complete
the proposed co-ordination between
Mercer University and Bessie’ Tift
College were learned by Dr. W. E.
Farrar, from the officials of the, As
sociation of Colleges' and Secondary
Schools of the Southern States which
was held, in New Orleans before
Christmas. • ■
Mercer now has one of the best Law
Schools in the Souh, Dr. Farrar re
ports. Be says that this was form
erly Mercer’s weak point but Mercer
has done a great deal more than just
meet the requirements to make it
standard. There are eleven men in
the faculty of the Law School, Four
are giving all their ime to this w.ork
while seven ore giving part of their
time.
Dr. Farrar reports that he had
fine trip and was delightfully enter
tained. There were about two hun
dred in attendance from the leading
colleges and secondary schools of the
South. Luncheon was served at New
comb College and the sight seeing
trips about the city were enjoyed,
Friday the representatives were com
plemented with a steamer trip around
the harbor front of> New - Orleans
Next year the Association will be held
in Richmond, Va.
J. S.
Judge William Hansell Fish, for
venty-six years Chief Justice of the
upreme Court of Georgia, took up
new duties as dean of the MerCer
University Law School at the open-
ng of Mercer for the winter term
Wednesday.
Dean Fish will devote his entire
lime to his new duties and with his
Lresence the Law School of Mercer
jjniversity Will rank the highest in
Southeast. Dean Fish’s coming
creaees the law faculty to eleven
embers with four full time profes-
irs.
By special permission Dean Fish is
be allowed to bring the chair with
iim that he has used for the entire
eriod of hia twenty : six years’ serv-
on the. Supreme bench. He will
cupy the same chair in his office on
university campus, r
WINTER TERM OPEN
FOR REGISTRATION
Fifty Years Ago College Rad
150. Students and 6 Profs.
WEAVER AND CRAMLEE
TO REACH 900 MARK SOON
BELLS! BELLS! BELLS!
The “Bells” of Edgar Alleh Joe was
no circumstance to the' bells at Bessie
Tift. Had he been here, the pleasing
sound of the many bells be described
would have been sadly missing. When
you are snoozing, there goes the bell;
When you don’t know your history,
or Strupjier’s math, there. goes he
bell, and most of all there seems to
be a significance to the rhime of bell
and “parallel.”
There are always bells at Bessie
Tift-—there are church bells, which
remind you, train bells which sadden
you, and after an exhausting hour at
last the dinner bey. You fain would
hbve it for the Iqst, but sad to relate
they ring until you sleep, and in your
dream there is the echo of bells. This
echo, though, is of the bells that,, by
chance, are absent at Bessie Tift—
Wedding Bells.
On Monday, January 16th, Mercer
University and Bessie Tift College cel
ebrated- the 90th anniversary of the
founding of Mercer. The colleges
are celebrating in unison for the
first time in the history of the cele
brution. ", - . s ..
In the morning the Mercer student
body leaves for Forsyth on a special
train to be the guests of Bessie Tift.
The girls have, a varied program for
the entertainment of the boys, the
climax being an old-fashioned barbe
cue that is to be spread on the cam
pus. . ■ .,■■■'•■
In the afternoon the "special,” with
4 few added coaches, returns to Ma
con, bringing both Student bodies. A
speciaj basketball game has been ar
ranged to be played in the Mercer
University gymnasium in ’ the. after
noon. In the evening the stulent
bodies assemble in the newly equip
ped dining hall for a ; real feast' in the
form of a banquet, with turkey
cranberries, ct al., on the menu.
Following the banquet, the’students
will be addressed by Dr. A. H. New
man, who is one of the oldest living
graduates of Mercer University, hav
ing received his degree when the Uni
versity was located at Penfield, Ga
Several other speakers are on the in
complete program, including the pres
idents of the schools, br. Rufus W
Weaver and Dr. Aquilla Chamlee.
The Mercer Community is. planning
to give their'-“sisters” a royal wei
come when they visit the campus
The fraternities will throw open their
halls to the guests and several other
features are to be arranged later.
MERCER UNIVERSITY
STARTED IN 1833
lanual Labor Was Once a Part
\ of College Course.
ALMA MATER SONG
of Mercer University
O Mercer deer, with rapt delight;
Thy aons, e thousand strong,
From Rabun Gap to Tybee Light
Thy fame acclaim in song.
The glory of our Mother’s face,
Effulgent oxerinore,
Reveals the beauty and the grace
That Mercer men adore.
Thy mission- is to Mercerise
The youth who come to thee,
With alkali that beautifies
Their metal crudity,
A greater atrangth the fibers show
A silken lustre glearas;
The human product, they who know
Fulfillment of their dreams. .
O Mother dear, thy sons an here,
Beneath thy towers'tall;
Thy dame we love, with holy fsar,
We pledge to thee our all.
To thee with Joy we gixd this , day
The strength of mind and heart,
Thy gracious law we will obey ;'
SIX STATES TO BE
COVERED BY TEAM
Basketball Five ^ to New York
and Pennsylvania.
Mercer University threw open her
doors for registration Tuesday, morn
ing, and long before the classification
Committee was ready for business, a
long 'line of old and new students
awaited their turn to register.
Every, train entering Macon brings
students to Mercer and it is thought
by college officials that the enrollment
may reach the ■ 900th mark for the
year. At noon Wednesday the Reg
istrar’s books showed nearly.500 had
registered, and it now expected that
registration will' cease before Satur
day, though class work began Wed-'
nesday.
Fifty years ago Mercer-had 130 stu
dents enrolled and 'six teachers, com
posed-the faculty. The biggest growth
has come within the last four years,
the enrollment for 1922 more ’ than
doubling that of four years, ago. The
faculty now totals over seventy.
EASY TO EARN $50
IN PUZZLE CONTEST
Have Lots of Fun While Making
Money.
' •. By C. V. Maddox
Merger University had its begin
ning at Penfiejd, Georgia in the year
1832 as an institution for the educat
ing of young ministers. ■’ It -was then
called Mercer Institute iii honor of
Eider Jesse Mercer on account of his
able counsel and liberal contributions
in bringing it into operation.
The. property purchased by. the
Georgia Baptist , Convention in 1832
for the site- of this 'institution was
situated in Greene county, contained
about fqur hundred and fifty acres,
and was purchased at a cost of $1,-
■460. , v _ .-
Mercer was founded upon a system
by which manual, labor was combined
with study. The students were allowed
to work on the farm owned by the
institution to pay their expenses. Mer
cer used this system for eleven
years, longer perhaps than any other
Southern institution.
Versatile President.
The first president, BiUington M.
Sanders, acted as landlord, farmer,
teacher, preacher, and financial agent.
A man who stood out, in the found
ing of Mercer Institute as Josiah
Penfield.- He left $2,600 to'the Con
vention to use for theologival educa
tion upon the- condition that a like
sum should be raised hy that body for
the same purpose. When this was
brought , before the Convention iq
1829, the amount whs secured wi&in
fifteen minutes after it had been men
tioned. The subscriptions to this
cause were paid in full and before the
opening of Mercer institute the sum
had been increased to $75,000.00.
In the following .’ year . Dr. Adiel
Sherwood preached the convention
sermon on “The need of Ministerial
Education” at the annual masting in
1830 and a year later he presented
“You know I found nearly a hun
dred M-words in that picture puzzle
that the Mercer Cluster has gotten
out," gleefully chirped a wee col
lege girl to one of her mates on the
train while returning to her studies
after a joyful Christmas spent search
ing through her father’s huge diction
aries. ■ '
'‘And you know I- believe I’ll win the
fifty dollars, in gold if ; I can just get a
few more words,” she confidently con
tinued “And, Mable, if I win even the
second prize, I'm not going to let you
pay for another show or anything, 1
she generously concluded.
This little girl had learned, enough
in college t,o know that she had had
an opportunity presented her to earn
some of the easiest spending money
she had ever received while in college.
She was earnest, sincere and confident.
Did you know that it takes just a
litfle bit of self-confidence for you to
win one’ of the numerous prizes that
are to be given away? Now is the
time to start. Don’t let the girls win
all this easy money. Get you,rself
dictionary and begin to look up words
to-night. Don’t wait. To-morrow will
be too late and your opportunity will
be. lost.
That January trip.
These are the words formed Upon
the lips of every student of Mercer
University, upon the lips of those con
nected even in the slightest way with
the doings of this old educational in
stitution. The basketball players are
naturally discussing it. They wonder
who shall, be the lucky men, who
shall be the ones to uphold the noble
standards of Mercer in their invasion
of the North.
From a far distant corner another
bunch of students are heard but in a
far different type discussing the same
question, the ,relative value of this
trip to the institution as a publicity
medium. One 1 and all, .everyone, is
with the team that shall take its first
long basketball invasion of the states
above the Mason and Dixon line. .Nev
er before has a. Southern team in this
branch of sports ever undertaken such
an adventure.
In makiqng this trip, Mercer has'
not selected its opponents from the
lowest, but instead has chosen only
those teams that rank at or near the
top. It .is to be noticed on the sched
ule which shall be given later that the
Baptist five shall have a chance for
revenge, such as it is, when it meets
the Uunversity of North'Carolina in
Chapel Hill, N. C. Everyone remem
bers' that five, the one that upset
Mercers hopes for a Southern cham
pionship.
The members of the team are work
ing in earnest in an effort to be in the
best possible - condition, for this trip,
but not only for the trip but for all
of the games remaining on the 1923
schedule. They realise they must
fight and must 'fight hard if they are
to make a good showing in the game,
with Georgia Tech’s greatest basket-
bail five here Saturday night.
The schedule which only takes the
players away from their class work
for about a week follows:
Friday, January 19—A. A. C., in
Atlanta, Ga.
Saturday, January 20.—Georgia
Tech,, in Atlanta, Ga. -
Monday, January 22,—Clemspn, in
Clemson, S. C.
Tuesday, January 23.—North Caro
lina, in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Wednesday .January 24.—Takola A.
C., of Richmond, Va.
Thursday, January 26.—Crescent A.
€., of Brooklyn, N. Y. '
Friday; January 26.—Pennsylvania
(University), in Philadelphia, Penn.
the resolution that led to the creation
of Mercer Institute.
In 1836 the Baptists of Georgia ,un
dertook to establish the Southern
Baptist College. .A year later it was
reported that a subscription of $100,-
000 had been secured. Division arose
among the Baptists as to the location
of this. college. The places of most
importance were: Whitehall, now
part of Atlanta, Ga., and Washington,
Ga. Some urged that Mercer Insti
tute should be advanced to a college
First Degree-
In 1838 Mercer Institute, by an ract
of the Legislature was advanced to
the grade of a college and authorized
to confer degrees. 'This charter was
approved December 22, 1837, George
R.'Gilmer being governor. Vie first
board of trustees met the following
Vear and elected Thomas Stocks as
President. '
The endowment of JMercer Univer
sity at the end of 1839 'probably ex
ceeded $129,600. This was perhaps
the largest endowment of any Baptist
educational institution at that time,
aid or young.
The firat graduating class received
diplomas in August, 1841, tt was com
posed of four men who went forth
from Mercer and distingusihed them
selves in the scientific, literary, and
religious fields..
PROF. PEYTON JACOB
GIVEN LONGER LEAVE
Recently Awarded Fellowship at
Peabody College.
Prof, Peyton Jacobs, of the Mercer
School of Education, who successfully
put oyer the psychological test for- the
first time in Georgia, and who has
been for'the past year studying special
subjects at Peabody College,'has been,
granted an additional leave of absence
by President Weaver, in order that he
may obtain his Ph. D. .degree.
He was recently awarded a Fellow
ship-at Peabody College, being one of
the ten in the United States to re
ceive this honor. As soon as he re
ceives his degree in June he will re
sume his work as dean of the school
of education at Mercer.
The school of education is one of."
the best schools in the University in ■
preparing teachers for'all modern
methods of education. During his ab-
sence thle duties will probably be di
vided between Prof. Harriaon, Dean
Bradley and Prof. Rnight.
Since Prof. Jacobs successfully in
troduced Urn psychologies^ test te
Georgia,, many other colleges hero
taking it up.
Look for Moreor’o
ketball
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