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PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF MERCER UNIVERSITY AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
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Vol. 4
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928
No. 2
VICTORY OVER HORNETS
PROVES METTLE Of TEAM
Mercer Baptists Fortify Position
in Football World by 6-3 De
feat Given Furman — Oppo
nents Have Scored Only Ten
Points in Present Season.
LEONTINE DE ALMA
WITH BESSIE TIFT
Famous Concert Artist Heads
Department of Voice. ,
By Hugh Awtrey
The long sought niche Mercer’s
Battling Baptists earned in the foot
ball world at Athens two weeks ago
was made secure Saturday afternoon
at Alumni Field when Furman’s Uni
versity’s Purple Hurricane, proud
conquerors of, Virginia’s Old Domjn
ion, was sent hurrying back to Green
ville with the ragged end of a 6 to 3
score.
Any attempt of an unskilled writer
to describe the hectic battle last week
witfurcnoiigh adroitness to portray
effectively its eolorful details would
be a blind groping for wprds when
compared with the struggle itself,
According to the testimony of a mul
titude of spectators, last Saturday’s
contest contained more anxiety, more
despair, more hope, and less certainty
than any grid tilt'ever witnessed in
this city. And certain it is that the
football fan who failed to get four
quarters of 100 per cent thrill is ab
solutely minus any nervous system
It was the biggest jubilee since the
Armistice, and while the Centennial
may have been more widely attended,
no single hour of it was more replete
with red blooded action thun was the
clash of Baptist from Carolina
against Baptist from Georgia
Lack of space prohibits a record in
full measure of the personal triumphs
of each player, but . let it be said now,
as it has been said repeatedly since
Saturday, that every blinking Baptist
of them did his part and did it well.
Tarsan Arsenic
Bowling, known over the campus as
“Tarsan,” stepped' right up under the
arc light at the expense of the Hor
nets. And incidentally he is now
about as popular with them as Mike
McTigue at a meeting of the Colum
bus Board of Trade. Though he made
his. first attempt on the gridiron last
season, Bowling has eveiry earmark
of a real fullback as shown by his
performance last week when he
plunged the Hornet line time after
- time for sisable gains. Dave Bice,
breaking up passes to the fflmplete
extinction of Furman’s muchly touted
aerial tactics, was the same old wheel
horse.
The “Padre,” Captain Kid Cecil
made life miserable to the Hurricane
when he snatched a Furman pass out
of a clear sky and loped down the
Held a matter of 66 yards before he
was headed. Norman Felder and
Shorty Poore soon made themselves
known to the visitors when the Caro
linians repeatedly saw a little streak
of something go past them for a
first down and each time found one
of these worthies hugging the ball
when the pile-was cleared away.
The Celeael Stmts
To Colonel Jared Simmons, red
topped giant from Tennessee, goes
unique distinction. He is the first
man to score a Mercer point during
the grid season of 1998. With dne of
the neatest triple passes ever seen in
these parts, Cecil to Lancaster
Simmons, the colonel trotted around
the Purple cohorts with the season’s
first tally, and with enough, incident
ally, to take the wind out of the Hur
ricane.
To give aU the players the credit
due those would be to write exhaus
tively shout each. Smith, Ellison,
Lynch, Herndon,' MacDonald, Carson,,
all share alike in the praise given
Mercer's great team. The first three
mentioned, playing at the flanks, tore
up end runs as though it was their
life work, and the others, little Car
son included, formed an almost im
penetrable wall to
from Furman.
Miss Leontine de Ahna, head of the
Department of Voice last year, has
resumed the same position tyith Bes
sie Tift College.
D l. ... r Rabun Brantley, former editor ofi-,, . .
Born in Berlm, Germany, M.ss j Mercep c , ullter> c . hampion <k , bater and . r ab amss. for e.ght years the Bessie
Ahna wa» surrounded by a musical one of Merrer . 8 8elwtiAns frtr the 1 T ‘ ft llbr “ r ‘ an < >« a <? a >" in charge of
atmosphere during her youth. Her, Rhodeg honor . Mr B rant. n , e ' vly e4U,pped and modern co1 -
fatehr was Heinrich de Ahna, one of , y W((s prepared for Mercer at Geor . j l>brary.
Germany’s foremost violinists and M|I| £ College. I
member of the Joachim Quartet., She
is a cousin of Pauline de Ahna, wife
of Richard Strauss.
Miss de Ahna ha snumbers of auto
graphed pictures in her studio of
famous musicians praising her for
her- talent. They are such artists as
Johannes Brahms, Anton Rubenstein
and Joachim, who often visited her
home. -
When eighteen Miss de Ahna be
gan the study Of voice with Etelka
Gerster, one'of Europe’s most famous
teachers, with whom she studied six
years'.
Miss de Ahna ha stoured Europe,
appearing in important-cities as con
cert soloist and in . oratorio. Her
home is now in the United States, of
which she is a naturalized citizen. For-
MODERN LIBRARY
FOR BESSIE TIFT
MERCER MAY GET
RHODES SCHOLAR
Library Equipment Meets Stan
dardization Requirements.
Three Men Are Selected for At
lanta Examination.
The Bessie Tift library is one of
the many new improvements made at
the college for this year. There has
been another room udded twice as
large as the former library and the
addition of several thousand volumes.
Requirements along the line of Ii T
brary standardization are now met
with the Southern Association of
Schools and Colleges. Miss Mae
PHI DELTA DEBATE
FEATURES MEETING
Secret Orders Are Discussed
From All Angles.
By G. F.. Snellgrove
After a heated discussion of the
Knights of Columbus, the Masons, the
Ku Klux Klan, the Roman Catholics,
the Protestants, the Jews, and the
negro, Parker Highsmitn and Rabun
Brantley, representing the negative
•side of the-question, “Resolved, That
the.Ku Klux Klan is anti-American,”
won the decision of the judges over
G. L. Keith and Eugene Cook, who
by
were the pilots of the affirmative side
twelve years she was a member of', ~ oriiZT the second meetin K of ‘he Phi
»l p fopnlt v rtf the Institute of Mnai ' Glddons Wilkes, Master Mercerian Delta liternrv soriet v * Mon
the faculty df the Institute of Musi- fof 1923 baseball a n<| basketball star
eal Art in New York City, also direct-' nd . ag80ciate *,j tor of MerC er Clos
ing a large, class of pr.yate pupils.L- js opn q{ MfercerV Sections for
Before coming to Bessie Tift College geodes Scholarship.
she was contralto soloist of Commu
nity Church of New York City. I
Following ius a letter signed by'
Frank Damraach, director of Insti-'
lute of Musical Art, with whom Miss
de Ahna taught:
I take pleasure in stating that
Miss de Ahna is a singing teacher of
great experience, having studied with
one of Europe’s greatest teachers, 1
Mme. .Etelka Gerster. She has dem
onstrated her ability as voice trainer
and teacher of artistic repertoire dur
ing twelve years of teaching in this
institute. !
“Miss de Ahna is also a fine singer
and I am able to recommend her most
highly-as a singing teacher as head
of the singing department in any
conservatory of music or music de
partment of a college.”
A NEW FEATURE
Through an agreement with the
editor of the Watchtower, Wes
leyan’s new weekly publication,
that paper and The Cluster will
carry -exchanged letters each
week, enabling the students of
each college to keep informed of
the activities on both campuses
through the columns of their re
spective journals. It is thought
that with the endorsement of the
student bodies, these" letters will
be permanent features of' both
papers. •. ;
Delta literary society Monday even
ing.
More interest in the society is ex
hibited by the freshmen of this year
than ever before in the history of the
university. ' Many Went to the society
hull on the opening Monday evening
with no intention of becoming alfili
uted, but after hearing old members
of the society speak they became in
tcrested and before the doors of the
hall had closed for the evening sixty
five of the first year r. en had applied
for membership.
MORGAN BLAKE SPEAKS
Bessie Tift girls were never more
thrilled than last Sunday when Mor
gan Blake, sports editor of the At
lanta Journal, and the Flying Squad
ron of the. Atlanta Baptist Tabernacle
church addressed the student body
They gave an interesting program in
the college chapel and later in the
Forsyth church.-
Smith. Poore and Felder, three human cog* in Mercer’s offensive football
. machine.
good things, had you ever thought of
the fact that though the Orange and
Blade has met two of the South's
greatest football elevens, the Georgia
Bulldogs and the Furman Hurricane,
the opponents score as yet totals
only ton points? The headline that
TIFT-UPSHAW DOGS
Rat* (animals) have gone into hi
bernation since little Tift and Upshaw
sire oh the warpath. To Bessie Tift
girls they need no introduction, but
spoke racuatly of Mercer's
pot have been far‘to all others they ace introduced as
Andwhile considering the season's J wrong, after all.
if
j
'j Dr. Chamlee’s two little rat dogs.
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FORSYTH CENTENNIAL
Forsyth is to celebrate her centen
nial in October. This is to be a gala
event for the little city when.the dif
ferent clubs, school* and organiza
tions are to he represented by floats.
Bessie Tift College is to have a float.
I. G. Wilkes, Rabun B. Brantley and
.. A. Bootle have been selected to
present Mercer in the Rhodes
Siholarship examinations which, are
be held in Atlanta sometime before
hristmas.
These men were selected through a
process of elimination by. the Mercer
ommittee. I)r. Percy' Scott FHppcn is
airman of this committee and Dean
Montague and Dr. C. T. Goode are the.
other two members. Dr. Flippen was
appointed chairman of this committee
by Dean R. P. Brooks of the Univer
sity of Georgia,‘ the secretary of the
slate committee, and the first Rhodes
scholar fr'om Georgia.
The three qualities which were eon-
idered in selecting these men , are:
1) Qualities pf manhood, force of
haracter, and leadership. (2) Liter
ary and scholastic attainments and
ability.' (3) Physical vigor, as shown
interest in outdoor sports and
ther wuys. .. .
A brief survey of a few of the at-,
inments achieved by the men shows
that they richly deserve the honor bo-
towed on them in the selection. .
Wilkes is a post graduate working
it his master’s degree. He was elec't-
Master Mercerian by the students
ast year. He was • student player-
anager on the championship basket
ball team of Mercer last winter. Me
made very high grades in all his stu
dies, and is now assisting in teaching
history. -
Brantley is also a member of the
graduate school and assisting in
teaching journalism. He was editor-
in-chief of the Cluster last year, and
winner of the Garner medal for ora-
ry. He is a member of the inter-
llegiate debating team. ,
Bootle Is.a senior. He. has a fine
holastic record. He-lias been recog
nized since his freshman year as one
f the best and most forceful debaters
iuid ’public' speakers in the. student
>ndy. : It has been said that he has
he smoothest delivery- when sppak.-
ng of any man on the campus: He
mil Brantley, are also singers of note.
Bootle was’president of the Greater
Mercer Glee Club last year.'
The Mercer representatives, to
gether with men selected ‘from the
ther colleges'of the state,, must go
before, the state committee on Rhodes
Scholarships ii>, Atlanta. This com
mittee is .composed of all the Rhodes
Mars in .Georgia. They will select
fo- men -froth, the twenty or twenty*
c .itK-n' a-ss.-nih.lcii who wdl represent
‘ sta't of Georgia at the I’niversiiy
Rhode
-h.ip
t IKfotd' t n tiie
fund. ‘ - -
,\1 erect s chances for having a man-
lected are excellent. ;
HOLJ) FIRST MEETING
The Saturday Morning Club lie Id
ts first meeting of thy new college
,ear in the chapel building last Sat
urday: ’ ' , :• - .
J. L. Drake, was elected president
1 t he dub for the . 'coming year.
Other, officers'.elected • were-:.. J.'. A. .
Nolan,“ Vice-president Charles . Clark,
secretary; and W. L. -New, reporter.
The following-new ’men'were ad
mitted . to .membership; William
Woody,-: Newton Jordan, James Mo-
ler,-G. L. Brooks, C. W. Howard, N.
F. Lang, J. A. Nolan, W. E. Brown,
,F. W. Hendricks, Samuel Elkins,
Reid Lunsford, -John Womble,. B. F.
Rooks, Logan Thomas, Alton Morris'
and Dennis ■ Pierce. • . . ‘
CLASS RALLY
The Baraca class of the First Bap
tist church will have automobiles 1st
front pf Sherwood Hall Sunday morn
ing at 9:30 to ride the Mercer men
to the Baraca class to hear Dr. Wil
liam Russell Omen.