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January 28, 1224
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Para Three
I KRANK KOLLUM
I BjHughAwtry ,
This department, claiming to have
not more than the maximum of vanity
conceded those unfortunates who can
claim not more than the minimum of
pulchritude, must perforce sadly
: chronicle its humiliation and chagrin
that, though Leap Year is nearly a
month gone, nothing had leaped its
way—nor has a single sweet-nothing,
even remotely resembling a proposal
from the one-time weaker sex, been
wafted to this sanctum <Jh the oncer
tain currents of the year divisible by
four. Ye Krank is sorely troubled.
For three years we have waited in
joyous expectancy for the coming; of
1024, when, like mere man we be
llev.ed, at leaat one dare would be
1 forthcoming' from some member 61
that most mystifying classification of
the speciea supported by high heels
| and man.
It may be Leap Year for soma peo
ple, but for us ’tis only another turr.
of the wheel with a new souvenii
calendar on the wall. ’Taken by anu
large, and without-prejudice of posi
tion, this department is disappointed
in itself and love. The cruel injustice
of this vale of tears is easily exem
plified, when following Upon our own
woeful narrative it is learned that
Ben McWhorter and Joe McClain have
already turned down and spurned with
utmost nonchalance a score of offers
| -from as many sweet charmers—some
personally and.others received special
delivery.. This is drinking the rock'
bottom dregs. Woe are we, yea
verily, twice Whoa!
So intending to .end it all and de
part this mortal coil, we have resolved
to join the Junior class grid eleven
(if that many) and institute one line
plunge against the Senior forwards.
We have always preferred lilies of the
valley and morning glories.
. • * M.
Ham Steps Out
Say/a local paper: “Mr. B. Hand
some Grant of Mercer is-: spending the
week-end . with friends in Quitman.”
Boy! A large size bucket of that
beauty mud
A music chart' hanging on the wall
of a room - in Sherwood is headed
“Saxophone -Made Easy.” But how
about the neighbors Seems like a
Maxim silencer ought to do the work
* * •
Evolution of a Stude
(A la dining hall)
September: May I have the pota
toes, please? Thanks.
January : Pass the potatoes. ’Blige.
June: Say, Jack, the spuds. ’Smat-
ter with yuh, paralysis?
FAMOUS POSTS
office.
......:.bellum.
.man.
— haste.
Left at the .
Telephone ........
Saturday Evening
Guy Bates........
script.
Toasties
Diluvial
...tun
Goal.
—Clank.
MY PLEASURES
These are the things that I hold most
dear:
A cold clear night in the fall of the
year
When the moon rides forth like a
charioteer, -.
Driving her steed through a star-lit,
land,
Where, Queen of the Skies, she holds
command;
A cold clear night when the wind is
free,
Singing his song with a lightsome
glee, \ ■
Making a lyre of - every' tree,
Rushing the blood in a flood to the
face, .
Tossing the hair with a fairy
love a clear night in the fall of the
year.
And these are' the things that glorify:
The great expanse of a cloudless sky
Lit,, with stars that flicker on high;
And the coo), deep woods of oak and
pine, - (
Trellised and woven with fragrant
vine, V'
Where dark shadows show ’gainst .a
moon-flecked floor :
Of the fallen leaves from Autumn’s
store;
Through the forest aisles I love to
roam, '
Breathing keen odors from the wind-
kissed loam—
Exultant! I call the woods my home.
And these arc the things my hopes
inspire: 1
The crackling blaze of an open Are,
Sending showers of sparks higher and
higher,
Higher to greet the rays of the moon,
Brighter to be the wayfarer’s boon;
Each spark to me seems a living soul
Rising on high to -greet its goal,
And some fall short, are lost by the
way, .
But many, far off the winds convey—-
Bear me up, 0 winds, bear me up,
I pray!
COUP,
ARKEI
>A*nr
Whk Osr Excfauges
By C. D. Touasley
Among the new exchanges which
have been received since a list was
last published, are: The Chowanian,
from Chowan college; the Esprit de
Corps, - from Blackstone Military
Academy; the Blue and Gray, from
Lincoln Memorial University.
• • *
The Wesleyan Watchtower joyfully
announces that exams are over once
more, with no casualties reported.
Letters home will carry a message,
the substance of which will be the
same as that famous one which said,
‘We have met the enemy and they
are ours.'
The Technique, on the other hand,
sorrowfully announces the approach
of those dread enemies of all college
studes: Anal exams.
. • •
The football team of Rollins Col
lege is conducting a higgly successful
tour of Cuba. The basketball team,
which is accompanying them has not
been 1 so fortunate, some rebuffs hav
ing been encountered
* -*
1st Soph: “A girl is known by the
clothes she wears.”
- 2d Ditto: “Nobody knows my girl.”
*. * *
A gplf team is being organised at
the University of Florida which will
stage meets with teams from other
colleges. Golf teams an rather new
in Southern collegiate circles, but
there seems to be no reason why they
should not be as successful as other
athletic teams. Imagine, if you will
a group of undergraduates chanting
in unison “Sink that putt, sink, that
putt.” 1
of college publications are dependent
upon advertisers for their existence.
It is . only just that the man who is
willing to support'your school should
in turn receive your support.
The January 23 issue of the Bir
mingham-Southern Gold and Black
will be a “green” edition, being edited
entirely by members of the freshman
class.
• - * • *
The Red and Black has this to say
concerning the basketball tilts sched
uled with Mercer:
“The games with Mercer in the
Central City on February 22 and 23
will, in all probability, prove the most
colorful on the schedule and should
draw fine crowds, including a num
ber of Georgia students."
Mah Jong Appears
On Mercer Campus
Somehow, we had hoped to avert it,
and ,we had looked upon its growing
popularity with alarm. In fear and
trembling lest it .should seize Merger
campus in its talon-like grasp, we had
fought it with the vengeance and
Can This Be. True?
A kiss, a sigh,
A long good bye,
And she. is. gone.
A glance, a curl,
Another girl,
And life goes on.
—Ex.
But what are the woods and skies
divine,
And what is the Ore, or the moon-
bathed pine,
Without a love entirely mine?
A love Whose heart with mine would
beat • '
As the sparks uprise on pinions fleet;
A love whose ruddy face, would. glow
As the fife-thrilled blood .through her
veins did floor;
A love who loved each vine and tree, The latest issue of the Technique
Who loved clear nights when the wind carries a strong editorial urging upon
is free, I students the duty of patronizing its
Who, loving all these, most loved me. advertisers. This same advice is ap
—Emceebee. I plicable elsewhere, for the majority
Ark Newton, member of the mythi
cal 1923 All-Southern football team,
has been selected to lead the Florida
’Gators next year. Newton was an
outstanding player at Florida the past
season and his election to the cap
taincy was unanimous.
NOTICE
MERCER BOYS
Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Shoes
and Furnishings
Reduced
Each department carries the very best make of merchan
dise. We will appreciate your calling on us.
Agents for
A. G. SPALDING A BRO. SPORTING GOQDS
S. D. JOWERS, Campus Representative ,
Herbert Smart
PHONE 951
Walter Pearce
Walter Clark, Shoe Dept.
BenBoatwaU
559 CHERRY ST.
The Martinique
80DA—CIGARS—CAFETERIA
FRED MARTIN, Proprietor
The Place to Meet the Wesleyan Girls
Nutting Floral Company
Sny-It With Flewees—and Say It WKIi
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MACON’S LEADING FLORISTS
bitterness of one fighting for honor
and justice.
But it was no use. It has come.
The end is near. The dread thing
has struck Mercer campus like. a
whirlwind, bringing destruction and
insipid dissolution to all who have,
felt its influence. Mercer studes,' ob
livious of their peril, have allowed this
pernicious thing to seep into their
lives and fascinate and charm them
to the exclusion of all else. Like babes
in the woods, little realizing their
danger, they have wandered innocent
ly into the jaws of the fiery dragon.
Four Mercer students had entered
the Freshman’s room where the
ghastly deed was being done.
“Well; we gotta stay in till the
whistle bLows tonight,” one Whispered
hoarsely.
“Yep,” another replied; “we must
put up a terrific fight if we win this
game!”
“It’s terribly fascinating, isn’t it?”
“Well, it oughta be. Mah Jong has
been the national game in China for
twenty centuries.”
“Cut out the talk, and play. We’ve
got a hard struggle tonight.”
Mah Jong! Mah Jong! The worus
I ring in our ears.
' Jenkins, the gas, please. t
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. - also •
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in bottles.
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