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fol. 3 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 Tv* 'OL