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THE MfiftCBR CLUSTER
January 19, IS
The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the student* of
the fourteen schools end colleges th
the Mercer University System.
MORGAN BLAKE'S TRIBUTE
APPRECIATION
FROM EDITOR'
George M. Sparks .Managing Editor,
Rabun L. Brantley Editor-in-Chief
, - Associate Editors:
John L. Hackney Milton K; Wallace
Frank R. Nalls Julian P. Leggett
Giddens Wilkes
Circulation
Julian P. Leggett ...Manager
Benton Evans Hugh Awtry
Advertising .....T, E. Sheppard
NINETY YEARS OF GLORY
Ninety years have passed. Ninety
years of glory and gradual triumph
have .ejapsed since the beginning of
Mercer University at Penfield, Geor
gia. Years that have been filled with
trials and disappointments. Years
that have also viewed the turning
wheels of progress toward the great
institution that now stands as a mon
ument reaching gloriously toward the
sky, in commemoration of the dark
days of yesterday.
Billington M. Sanders,.Mercer Uni
versity’s first president, said as he
retired from office: “This institution
has been established upon the. faith
of that divine principle of truth, ‘that
except the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain that build it'.’’ AH who
know the past activities of Mercer
believe that she has lived up to a
principle of truth, and with a co
operative, earnest and generous spirit
of support from the Baptists of the
State and South the institution has
steadily gone forward.
The next ten years will mark the
close of the first century of Mercer
University’s existence. These will be
the ten years of Mercer’s career that
will witness the institution’s most
rapid growth. Growth in financial
standing and growth in the size of
the student body. Millions of dollars
will be expended for new equipment
and buildings. It is for individual
lovers of Mercer to help carry on the
work that previous generations have
begun; and raise the institution’s
scope of usefulness to still greater
heights.-
In speaking before the large num
ber of people in attendance at the
banquet held in celebration of the
nineth anniversary of the founding of
Mercer University, Morgan Blake,
sporting editor of the Atlanta Jour
nal, paid a high tribute to the great
basketball team that represents Mer
cer and to the fine caliber of ath
letes that represent Mercer in all her
athletics.
“Men like Bob Gamble, Carl Lan
caster, “Red" aBrron, and Oscar Da
vis are the type of athletes that will
elevate college athletics in the eyes of
the public,” declared Mr. Blake.
Blake’s tribute came at a fitting
place and time. All the lovers of
Mercer were proud to hear, on the
ninetieth anniversary of their college,
such: a sincere tribute to the manhood
and sportsmanship of the men com
posing her athletic teams:
It will take athletes like Blake de
scribed to keep forever on high the
standards, that real college athletics
should measure up to. ' It will take
the praise of fair-minded, Christian
men like Morgan Blake to keep these
men encouraged to always play the
game fair and square.
THE DIFFERENCE?
If you were told by someone that a
horrible Crime had occurred and that
the criminal had escaped, you would
at once become indignant and even
help in the search for the miscreant.
If you were to witness a murder
where one man shoots down another
in. cold blood, you would no doubt be
come, horrified at the barbarity and
boldness of the act'. It is against the
law to commit murder.
If you chaijice .to see a man so full
of some fiery drink that he knows no
direction and . staggers about the
streets among - sober-minded and
harmless people, a curse to the world
and a disgrace to a’civilized country;
often this lawbreaker passes the
height of your criticising'powers with
a probable “Afi let him go; he’s just
taking a little Christmas.” The very
looseness of y.our criticism makes of
you also a bad citizen.
The man who drinks his whiskey is
a criminal same as the man who mur
ders one of his fellows. The laws of
our land have decreed against both
these acts and one is to be abided by
as closely as another. Why obey one
law and break another? Whp have
si law and not abide by it? Why send
back to office a gang of legislators
who make laws and fail to keep them
themselves ? “We must have prohi
bition,*’ they say, but who knows but
what some of these law-makers were
drunk when they voted on the Vol
stead act? Let these aaea start to
obey their own decrees, then it will
be easier to control a liqttor-sstumted
populace.
Public opinion, after all, is to be
the salvation of. the world from the
death-dealing affects of whiskey. Pub
lic opinion Will never progress against
whiskey until law-atakers, newspa
pers, and every power that is in the
limelight, offer their semises to the
Mr. George M. Sparks,
Mercer University,
Macon, Georgia. •
My dear George: I want to con
gratulate you and your associates in
the fine work that you are doing
with the Mercer Cluster. I have
greatly enjoyed this week’s issue,
which I regard as one of the best I
have ever seen. Keep this good work
up, for you are greatly serving the
college.
Cordially,
WELCOME ADDRESS
By Miss Eloise Hammock,
of Bessie Tift. '
Mercer and Bessie . Tift Student
Body, Faculty and Others Visitors
We have, come together to-day for the
purpose of - celebrating Founders'
Day and for the purpose of intensi
fying the . co-operative and friendly
spirit existing between the two .col
leges. I like to believe, however, that
higher motive prompted this joint
celebration: that the ties of a com
mon aim and of an inseparable desti
ny are drawing oru two colleges to
gether. If cordial friendship, if
warm affection can- ever exist be
tween two institutions, it should exist
between Mercer and Sessie Tift. Both
are under the same head, moved by
the same purpose. Both are alike in
the circumstances of their origin;
both were founded by men eager to
lift .the torch of education and let its
beam penetrate the obscurest corners
of Georgia and other States.
A backward glimpse at the histo-
its of the two colleges will prove
iiotn interesting and instructive. In
1833 Mercer was founded. This
marked the beginning of higher edu-
ation in Georgia under the guidance
of the Baptist denomination. There
is probably no more important date in
the history of Southern education.
In 1843 there w;ta graduated from
Mercer a most remarkable educator,
named W. C, Wilkes. It was this
most extraordinary character who
later became president of Monroe
College and laid the foundation for
the present institution which now
welcomes you into its halls. He was
succeeded by Dr. S. G. Hillyer, a Mer
cer professor some years before he
came to Forsyth.
In 1898 the Georgia Baptist Con
vention assumed the control of Bessie
Tift, and in 1999 Dr. C. H. S. Jack-
another Mercer graduate, be
came president and remained in of
fice until 191,4.
Our own present beloved leader
Dr. Aquila Chamlee, claims Mercer
as his old alma mater.
In addition to these, many other
Mercer graduates have served as pro
fessors on the Bessie Tift faculty.
Thus we see that Mercer has played
no small part , in the development of
Bessie Tift. ^
Statesboro, aG.—J. A. Brannen,
who died here Saturday, was a Mer
cer man of the class of 1878. He was
probably the biggest man in this sec
tion. He was first mayor of States
boro, senator from this district, leg
islator, and. the oldest lawyer in the
county, mepiber of State Democratic
executive committee.
Brannen was also the man that
they had some six or seven hundred
ballots on as to who was to be Con
gressman from the First district in
1908. Brannen and Cheppard, judge
of the Atlantic circuit, tied up in
county unit votes with Brannen hav
ing the majority in popular votes.
In addition to this he was one of the
most charitable in the county.
Despite the fact that Mercer has
never sought a Bessie Tift' graduate
for its faculty; it has sometimes gone
further and done worse.
If there be one single lesson we
have learned from this wonderful and
varie&fchistory, it is that Mercer and
Bessie 1 Tift are and should be indis
pensable to each other.
A new era stretches out before us.
The dawn of a greater flessie Tift-
Mercer spirit is now at hand. Bp not
only on account of what Mercer has
already done for Bessie Tift, hot also
because of what H will continue to do
for Bessie Tift, I now wish to extend
a most cordial welcome to Re
student body, faculty and other visi-
to tar eeBsge
Louie Newton,
EJditor Christian Index.
January 18th, 1923. *
MERCER MAN DIES
KAPPA DELTA DEBATE
The Kappa Delta Society held its
regular Saturday night meeting in
Bessie Tift chapel January 13.
Mary Harrison, dressed in the fash
ion of fifty years ago with the old-
fashioned curl over her shoulder, rep
resented the old-fashioned girl, and
gave a reading, “The Old-Fashioned
Girl.” Louise Wells, dressed in
modern fashion, read “The Girl of
’23.”
A debate followed, “Resolved, That
the girl of fifty years ago is superior
to the girl of today.” The affrmative
was sponsored by Charlye Watson
and- Bettie Gunn, and the negative by
Lucy Rushin and Ellen Ballard. The
decision of the judges resulted in
favor of the affirmative.
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