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Vol. 3
PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF MERCER UNIVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1923
No.«9P
STANDARDIZATION
FOR BESSIE TIFT
Merging With Mercer Faculty
Beneficial.
“We ara going to make Bessie Tift
n first class woman’s college,” said
1 resident Chamlec as we rose to leave
Ms office, last Tuesday night, at 11
'dock. This' sentence was by way of
jmmary in an interview lasting for
lour hours, in which, he gave full as
surance of his purpose to qualify with
( very requirement of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Second
ary' Schools and other agencies of
andafdization of modern col leg:'
work.
You understand,” began Dr. Cham-
Ipe, "that we have^thc difficulty of
trying to qualify as a Standard col
lege without sufficient funds to m.eet
these conditions. In studying this
\ery perplexing and serious problem,
we have come to the conclusion that
since Bessie Tift ai^d Mercer are so
losely related in the Mercer Univer
sity Systems Of Schools and Colleges
that a working basis of inter-change
of professors m|g|tt be effected
whereby the faculty of Bessie' Tift
would be-greatly strengthened with
out a prohibitive outlay of money at
this time.” .
And here' he began to unfold the
plan. I had heard something of this
plan, as have my readers, but I did
not know how -carefully it had been,
worked out and with what precision
every point has been guarded. The
plan provides that Professors Goode,
Flippen, Holder and Walker of Mer
cer University shall be the heads of
the Departments of English, “History,
Mathematics and Modern Languages,
respectively, and that these men shall
each give six hours of actual teach
ing each week -at Bessie Tift College
and have, active -direction of the de
partments of which they are the
lieads at Bessie Tift, just as they do
of their departments at Mercer. The
xceptional train schedules from Ma
con to Forsyth .and the splendid high
way combine to greatly simplify the
.question of transportation. It is only
a ride of forty-five minutes.each way..
*What do you mean by ’ having
these men ’ as. heads of these depart
ments?” Tasked.
“I mean that Professor Holder is
to have complete responsibility for
tlie work in the Department of Math-
matics and if a standardizing repre
sentative comes to me • to inquire
about the work in mathematics I will
refer him to Professor Holder, who
knows what a standard college course
... mathematics requires and who is
r 'sponsible to. the trustees Vf Bessie
Tift - for. providing such a course,”
answered President Chamlete,
that sounds like business to- a lay
man in the matter of college educa
tion. If this plan goes through, and
I see nothing to prevent it, Bessie
Tift College will be‘enabled to qual
ify in the matter of faculty and cur
riculum within the year. The only
barrier remaining to keep the college
out of the association will be endow
ment and at this point President
Chamlee has a proposition which will
bo presented at a later time.
To .be concere, Bessie Tift’s faculty
for next year will be:
English—Clement J. Goode, PhD:,
bead of the department with Miss
Junia Oftterhout, A.M., from Colum
bia University, associate professor.
History—P. 8. Flippen, PhD., from
Johns’Hopkins University, head of
fie d partment with Jfiss Elsie Re :
fan, A.M., from Columbia University
ax associate professor.
Mathen atics—F. J- Holder, Ph.D.,
from Yale University, head of depart
ment, with L. M. Polhill, Th.M., from
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary as assistant professor.
b odeni Languages—J: Clay Wal
ker, PhD- form Heidelberg Univer
sity, head of the department with
Mias Mary P. Vineyard, AJf.. from
the ;UnhrerSity of Paris and Peabody
College, as associate professor. ’
Chemistry—H. F. Hurts, PhD,
(Comtimssd am page ten)
Great Glee Club
Says State Press
Receive Praise From South
Georgia to Tennessee
Mercer Urtiveraity Glee and Mandolin Club closes big reason
Green-Eyed Jinn
Upsets Victories
fige Stone Defeats and Loses
to Bulldogs
By Hugh Awtrey
The weather man,- a green-eyed
Jinx, and the Georgia Bulldogs' horse
shoe all combined last week into a
triumvirate that caused the Mercer
Baptists to drop two out of three dia-
nond tilts actually completed.
With the score 2 to 0 in favor of
the Cody men, the. first of a scheduled
,our-game series was rained out. in
the third inning at Athens last Tues
day. “Tige” Stone took his place on
he mound again the next day, how
ever, and handed the Athenians a 3 to
1 licking in great style.
Mercer came near tying another
knot in the Bulldog’s tail at the City
(’ark Friday- afternoon when the lo
cals jumped on Sales,- opposing twirler
for six tallies in the seventh frame,
molting the count and v throwing a
terrible scare into Bill While's pro
teges., ’ The Classicists did some ho
kum over their horseshoe, though, and
soon managed to ease across another
counter^ and the homelings not dupli
cating, the struggle ended Georgia 7,
Mercer 6.
Aiid when Captain . “Tige” Stone
pitched his last gome for his Alma
Mater last Saturday, he ended his col
lege career in a blaze of glory even
though. he held the small end of a
3 to 2 card after a twelve-inning
pitching duel. It was a pitched battle
and so far as “Tige" was- concerned
a well pitched one.
And'so-ends, the season. It is sad
.but true that Georgia went baek to
Athens with two games added to her
won list, but they were not as easy
in the' taking as the proverbial in
fant’s chnfectioneiry. And in less than
ELECTION RETURNS
FOR ’23-’24
Cluster Staff—
Hugh Awtrey, Clayton, editor.
August Burghard; Macon, associate
editor. ' '
-O. M. Coalson, Macon, business
manager.
Senior Officers—
Hoy Davis,- Kenwood, president.
W. A. Bootle, Reidsviile, vice-pres.
M. E. Herndon, Hartwell, secretary
O. K. Webb, Homer, historian.
M. S. Leach, .Newnah, poet. /
Max C. Lasseter, Rochelle, prophet;
Jimmie Garner, Sparta, class fool.
Cauldron Staff—
Henley Fugate, Macon, editor.
Parker Highsmith, Baxley, business
manager.
Andrew Carraker, Savannah; H. V-
Smith, Fairburn; G; L. Keith, Cler
mont; R;. L. Cousins, Luthersville,
„ associate editors.
Junior Officers— .- • ,
Claud Joiner, Tennille, president;
N. Poole; Sale City, vice-president;
B. M. Herring, Vidalia, sec.-treas.
Sophomore Officers—
Sele Lancaster,.. Flowery Branch,
president; Bobby Pinkston, Parrott,
vice-president; Clarence Green,
Sylvester, treasurer; Lewis Reece,
Augusta, secretary.
Y. M. C. A. Staff—
Roy. Davis, Kenwood, - president;
Milledge Leach, .Newnan, vice-pres
ident; J. L. Clegg, Good Hope, sec
retary; Guy Welch, Chickamauga,
- treasurer.
Student Members of Athletic
Board ,of Control— -
Mike Herndon, Hartwell; W. A.
Bootle, Reidsviile;. Charlie Berry
man, Royston.
a year will come another, crack at
them. •' , .
Are we downhearted?
Tell ’em, Jimmie,' we don’t want to
lose subscribers.
Big Speakers For
Closing Exercises
U. S. Senator Walter George and
Judge Terrell on Program.
Mercer’s ninety-first commence-
’ment program has been completed
and will begin Sunday morning, June
3, at the First! Baptist Ghurcij. when
■ Rev. 0. C. S.-Wallace, of Baltimore,
-Maryland, delivers the baccalaureate
sermon. Senator Walter George and
Judge Terrell ure the other speakers
to follow. -
Hundreds of visitors from all parts
of the state and South are expected to
attend' the exercises which will ex
tend over four days, lasting through
Wednesday wl]cn the awardin^of de
crees will .be in order. The wustees
hold their annual meeting .on Mon
day and ip' the afternoon the Senior
class Will have' their exercises, on
Magnolia Terrace. Tuesday is given
oyer to- the alumni who meet at 5
o’clock in the afternoon and again
Tuesday night at 8 o’clbck for the
annual alumni. , Judge Render Ter
rell, of Greenville, Ga., member-.of the
class of '88, will deiver the alumni
address. On-' Wednesday morning,
forty ; onc men will receive.the Bache
lor of Arts degree, seven will be
given, the L1,B. degree, und fourteen
will be awarded the Master of Arts
degree. •
Many Graduate
Those who will receive the M.A. de
gree are: Joel Stokes Brown, arts,
Monroe, Ga.; Alex Carswell, theology,
Hephzibah, Ga.; William Kilpatrick
Carswell, Dublin, Ga.; Arthur Thom
as Cline, theology, Unadilla, -Ga.; Ar
thur John Dunlap, commerce, Boston,
Mass.; Reuben Pratt Ford, theology,
Bowman, Ga.; Jesse Eugene Hall,
theology, Wadley, Ga.; Henry Jackson
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outstanding institutions. Its faculty is now Barged with the facility
“Greater Mercer's Greatest Glee
Club” and according to the Macon
Telegraph the “South’s greatest glee
ciub of all times,” will play their last
engagement for the college year Mon
day evening, May 28, at . the Grand
Theater. ,
The engagement will be the second
showing beforr a Macon audience this
scasop and is the first time in the
listbry of Mercer’s dub that a clam
oring populace demanded a return
oncert. - All advance evidence points
;-o the fact . that ' another ■ crowded
.ouse will greet the Baptist songsters ,
when the curtain goes up.
The most successful road tour ever
made by a Mercer musical organiza
tion was recently completed. The tour
was. through North Georgia and into
Tennessee as far as Chattanooga. The
places Where'concerts were given are:
riffin, Atlanta, Carteraville, Cal
houn, Chattanooga, LaFayette, Sum
merville, CedartoWn^ Shorter College,
dome, Bowden, and Carrollton. Be
fore taking the trip the club had
played at Montezuma, Dawson, Am-
oricus, Bessie Tift, and Wesleyan.
Since the road trip, Cordele and Vl-
nna have been visited.
Press reports are more than grati-'
,'ying, concerning the nature of the .
program and the conduct of the mem
bers. The Macon Telegraph says.
F rom the moment of the prelude be
fore the curtain- arose, when the cho
rus sang softly, Mercer;'* Colors, their
voices blending perfectly in the song,
aritil the same group closed the excel-'
lent program by singing Mercer’s
Alma Mater, the entertainment was
superfine. . , -
Not one questionable lien was
spoken by the comedians—nothing
was said at which a. man Would have
taken offense if hi* moth.er had shared
with' him the pleasure of the evening.
To one who had seen the club im
prove steadily each year, last night's
event- was a revelation, for, as com
pared with some ciubs in recent years
the 1923 organization accomplished
the impossible, earning the sobriquet,
The South’s Greatest Glee Ciub.”
The Atlanta journal, says, “As
blackface comedians the two end-men
evoked rouids of- laughter. Theit;
farce of capturing the 'sacred. snake
for the sake . of science' was the
brightest spot in the show. It gave'
both comedians opportunities to dis
play unusual histrionic ability. Mr.
Chandler played a domineering lead
with Mr. Lord ably portraying the
trehibjing und incredulous follower
through the thrilling capture of the
snake. Ralph Tabor, pianist, and
Harry; Sloan, violinist, were the lead- ■
ing figures of the Jazz clowns.' Tabor
is one of the ..best pianists of southern
college organizations. His rendition
f ‘The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers’"
was a good feature.” -
The Montezuma Georgian com-'
ments: “The club not only delighted
our citizens with their entertainment, .
hilt were such a jolly lot of young
men that they Will be remem,bered
long and pleasantly by the people in
whose homes they were entertained - .”
The Cartersyille Tribune-News says
“Decidedly the entertainment treat of
the season was the glee club program .
rendered in Carteraville Monday even
ing by the Mercer Glee Club. They
gave everybody ‘their money’s worth’ .
in the.program presented.”
The Cedartown Standard remarks,/
The Glee Chib gave a superb enter
tainment. eeyry minute of which wAS,
thoroughly.enjoyed by the large au
dience. -There was splendid music and
plenty of fun, and the minstrel fea
ture would have done credit to pro
fessionals. The' boys put themselves
heartily into their program, and the
big audience give them repeated en
cores on every feature.
“The visitors were entertained in a
number of homes, where their coni’- •
ing also was much enjoyed. They are
a fine, dean set of young men—not a
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