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PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF MERCER UNIYERSIT Y AND BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY* DECEMBER 7, 1928
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ANNUAL
OF PAN HELLENIC
SET FOR SATURDAY
’Sight Fraternities Combine la
Gala Event.
4ANY GUESTS EXPECTED
The Pan-Hellenic reception, which
will be held' in the Fraternity Halls
on December 8, at 8:80 o’clock, will
be one of tlie most beautiful and
elaborate ever held according to of
ficers of the Pan-Hellenic.
Instead of the individual fraterni
ties serving refreshments as they
have done before, this year they will
be served as a whole from one of the
halls.
Each fraternity will . decorate its
own hall in the fraternity colors. The
sponsors will be in their fraternity’s
hall to receive their guests.
Committees have been appointed to
Complete arrangements. The. invita
tion committee is composed of Manly
McWilliams, Henry Schell, and Gene
Massey ; decoration committee, Daniel
Merritt, H. J. O’Barr, and Gene Mas
sey; refreshment committee, Pat Gil
len, Harvey Clark, and Rabun Brant
ley; music committee, Joe McClain,
T. G. Janes, and Manly McWilliams,
The Pan-Hellenic is composed of
two representatives from each fra
ternity. The members are: Harvey
Clark and Henry Shed, S. A. E.; Ra
bun Brantley and Manly McWilliams,
K. A.; Fred'Caylor and Dan Merritt,
Phi Delta Theta; H. J. O’Barr and
Frank Stone, Kappa Sigma; Pat Gil
len and Neiivelle Poore, Sigma Nu;
Gidden Wilkes and Gene Wilkes,
A. T. O.; jOe McClain and Baxter
Goke, Pi Kappa Phi; Jared Simmons
and T. F. Janes, Alpha Lambda Tau.
- Among those invited are all fra,
teraity men on the campus, the foot
ball team, the Mercer faculty, and
about two hundred Wesleyan and
town girls.
-Mercer’s only connection with Ma
con proper was once a wagon road
and a horse car line which came as
far oat as the present tenni; court
on the campus adjoining University
Place.
VARSITY GUARD
THERE’S ONE IN EVERY CLASSROOM
By Goodwyne
BAPTIST CONVENTION
OF MERCER INTEREST
Many Topics Relating to College
To Be Discussed.
Matters of vital interest to Mercer
University will be discussed at the
102nd annual session of tho Georgia
Baptist Convention, to be held in
Macon, December 11-13. Students
have been asked to attend the vari
ous meetings to be held during the
three days of the convention.
Discussion of the status of sec
ondary schools of the “Mercer Uni
versity system,” reports of the Hold
ing Commission, a committee entrust
ed with the titles to all properties
of the convention, the distribution of
funds with regard to all interests of
the denomination in the state, and
other, matters of importance will be
featured in the business sessions to
be held during the coming week.
Election of all' officers of the con
vention for the new year wjll also be
effected. Dr. B. D.. Ragsdale,' treas
urer of Mercer, and for- twenty-seven
years general secretary of the con
vention, will be re-elected to that of
fice,, it is thought. Dr. John D. Mell,
for twelve years president of the or
ganization, is also a likely candidate
for re-election.
■ Various committeescomposed of
Macon Baptists are to work out local
plans. An entertainment committee
hus been name! to superisc the as
signment of quarters for the dele
gates and to investigate hoM rates,
Five hundred deleyatas are expected
by local officials.
BASKETBALL RECORD-FOR
1917
The Cluster will publish each week
from this .time on, the season’s rec
ord of some Mercer athletic team of
years past. . Only six basketball
games .ware played in 1917, due to
‘war time conditions, and athletics
were in a state of disorganization all
over the South.
Of the games played the Baptists
split even for the season. The record
follows:
Mercer 46, Oglethorpe 3.
Mercer 64, Columbia College 13.
Mercer 40, Grant Park 9.
Mercer 19, Georgia 61.
Mercer 14, Georgia 66.
Mercer *6, Augusta “T” 80,
Co-Ed: What a pity it is that
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CAGE SCHEDULE ’23-’24
(To be completed)
Dec. 14—Albany Y in Albany.
Dec. 21.—Albany Y in Macon.
Dec. 20.—Baylor in Macon.
Dec. 31—Greenville Country
Club in GreenVille, S. C. 1
Jan. 1—Spartanburg Y in Spar
tanburg, S. C. ‘ r
Jan. 2—Charlotte Y in Char
lotte, N. C.
Jan. 3—Statesville A. - C. in
Statesville, N. C. • •
Jan. 4—Richmond Blues in Rich
mond, Va.
Jan. 5—N. C. State in, Raleigh,
N. C. • • ’•
Jan. 7—Trinity in Durham, N.
C.
Jai\. 8—North Carolina in Chap
el Hill, N. C.
Jan. 12—Chattanooga in Macon.
Jan. 18—Tech in Atlanta.
Jan. 19—Tech in Macon.
Jan. 24-—Vanderbilt in Nash
ville, Tenn.
Jan. 26—-Chnttanooga in Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Jan. 26—Tennessee in Knoxville,
Tenn.
Feb. 2—N. C. State in Macon.
Feb. 4—Mississippi Aggies in
Macon.
•Feb. 11—.Florida in Macon.
Feb. 13r— Sewanee in Macon.
Feb. 16—Georgia in Macon.
Feb. 16—Georgia in Macon.
ANNOUNCE RULES AND
SCHEDULE FOR EXAMS
Xmas Holidays Begin Dec. 21;
New Term Starts Jan. 2.
MACON IS SELECTED
FOR CAGE TOURNEY
EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
9 to 12 (mornings)
Monday, Dec. 17
All 6 and 3 hour courses meet
ing at 8:30.
Tuesday, Dec. 18
All 5 and 3 hour courses meeting
at 9:26.
Wednesday, Dec. 19
All 6 and 3 hour courses meeting
at 10:60.
Thursday, Dec. 20
All 6 and 3 hour courses meeting
at 11:46.
Friday, Dec. 21
' All 6 and 3 hour courses meeting
at 12:40.
BASKETEERS NOW
HOLD CENTER OF
SPORTING PAGE
But Few Letter Men Missing
From Varsity Lineup.
FROSH HAVE GREAT QUINT
By C. D. Tounsley
2 to 6 (afternoons)
Friday, Dec. 14
All sections of English I.
Monday, Dec. 17
All 2 hour courses meeting at,8:30
Tuesday, Dec. 18
AH 2 hour courses meeting at 8:26
Wednesday, Dec. 19
All 2 hour courses meeting at 10:60
Thursday, Dec. 20'
All 2 hour courses meeting at 11:46
Friday, Dec. 21
All 2 hour courses meeting at 12:40
Football season is past and basket
ball is slowly appearing on the hori
zon. For several years Mercer has
been able to boast one of the strong
est basketball teams in the South and
this season is to be no exception to
the rule.
Monday was the first official cage
drill day and over thirty candidates
reported to Coach Gillam. They were
quickly put to work by the Mercer
mentor who believes strongly in the
efficacy of hard work. Short passing
and shooting at the goal occupied
most of the time and some of the
men are already handling the ball in
mid-season form.
The schedule has been completed
and a look will convince anyone that
the Mercer basketeers will have to
put in some hard work between now
and the beginning of the seaaon if
they are to emerge at the close of the.
year with a good record. However,
there are enough letter men back in.
school to insure the team which rep
resents Mercer this year will not be
below tho standard.
Letter Men Return
First there is Captain “Crook”
Smith, forward for the past two
years. Last year Smith was unani
mously chosen by sport Writers for
forward on the mythical AU-Southern
team. “Crook” is now playing his
third year at Mercer and has been
chosen captain for the. coming season.
Another player whose career at
Mercer has been bright is George
Hannon, diminutive guard. George
was All-Southern year before last and
only an injured hand kept him from
being picked for the'team last year.-
Atlanta sport writers have called him
a wonder man, and certain it is that
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FROSH STAR
Mercer’s basketball- team-will be
able to contend for championship
honors of the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic Association in its own back
yard next February, for the annual
tournament, is to be held in Macon,
Thursday, February 21, to laft thro’
Saturday, February 23, according to
a statement issued after a meeting
of college representatives in Atlanta
this week. (
' Teams of the Southern Intercolle
giate Conference will not participate
in the S. I. A. A. tournament this
year as heretofore, the annual tour
ney for that body being scheduled to
be held in Atlanta beginning Friday,
February 29, aa deoatinutng through
the following fuse jay.
It is not yat kaowu bow many nol
le gee of the ELLA, will ml
teams tocompata la the annual tour
ney, but of tho sixteen sMukm af
that body,a largo reprsssutsrioawll
probably com to Mam
The: first official examinations of
the fall term will begin on. Monday
-iqorning, December 17, continuing
throughout the. week until- the fhl
lowing Friday when, the schedule la
completed, according to recent an
nouncements by Prof. J. L. Bailey,
< hairman of the schedule committee.
The regular Christmas holidays will
begin December 21, though students
who have already finished their ex
aminations before that date will be
at liberty to leave the campus before
the scheduled time at dosing.
Registration and matriculation tor
the winter term will begin on. Janu
ary 2. 8tudeBte>ara exported by the
college authorities to be on the «
pus by that date for this work, which,
according to mmnbam of the daesHl-
catkm committee, will teqaire ah sat
two days.
Prof. Bailey baa aanouaced the tol-
to ba sbeervsd by aB
Skinner, last yuar
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