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December 18, 1984
THE MERC1R CLUSTER
Yuletide Disastrous
To Affairs D’Amour,
Ye Scribe Relates
Stndeata Prepare far “Great
Exodoa” Homeward for
Christmas Holidays.
Piercingly bright thru the dark
cloud* of Anal examination* shine*
the silver lining—home, holidays, and
Christmas. In less than a week the
campus will be as deserted as a flf
teen minutes late professor’s class
class room.
Preparations for the “Great Exodus”
have been under way for sometime.
One thrifty (or selAsh) minded stu
dent’s idea of getting ready for Christ
mas is breaking up with his girl,
Saves Christmas present expense.
Others are wonderng from whence
money for presents is coming. The
remainder, the great majority, are to
happy to worry about anything.
Men are going from room to room
in the dormitories paying social call*
and, incidentally, collectnig their
loaned shirts, socks, ties, and other
wearing apparel. The last room
mate to leave will arrive home with a
sadly shrunken wardrobe.
All trains that pass Macon for the
next seven days will be crowded with
homeward bound college students. The
famous “Beauty Special” from Mil
ledgeville will bring its thousand or
us girls thru Thursday. Wesleyan
goes home Friday. The “Bear Cat
apiller,” so-called because trains are
all too slow to suit the big hurry to
get home,' will begin moving Thursday
Many and varied are the plans of
the homecoming Mercer men; “Take
to the tall timber and do some hunt
ing and Ashing,” “Give the girls
rush and catch up with all the fun I’ve
missed in the last three months,”
“Taking in a little house party," and
“Just eat and sleep myself (o^death
’till time to go back,” and so bn and
so on. .
Loudest and heartiest among the
many “Goodbyes” and “Luck to you’*”
when the boys start leaving Thursday
will be the Cluster’s “A MERRY
CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW
YEAR, TO YOU.”
REVELATIONS OF A
HUSBAND
A Founders Day banquet, celebrat
ing the Aftieth anniversary . of the
national organisation, was' given by
the members of the Mercer chapter of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity last Wed
nesday evening. A number of local
alumni were present at the dinner.
L. H. O’Barr, president of the local
unit of Kappa Sigma, was toastmaster
for the occasion. George H. Craven,
alumnus, gave an address on the his
tory of the fraternity since its found
ing at the University of Virginia, in
1869, and F. B. Stow spoke oh The
Relation of Alumni to Fraternity. W.
D. Hamilton gave a talk on the history
of the Alpha Beta chapter and Quill-
ian L. Bryant spoke on the beneAta
derived from Kappa Sigma. The re
sponse in behalf of the pledges was
made by B. O. Pittman.
•v ■ .« , *
Miss Martha Newton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C., E. Newton, was re
cently eleeted sponsor of the Pi Kappa
Alpha Fraternity, succeeding Miss
Clara Kinney, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Kinney, who is this year a
popidar student at Brenau College.
Miss Newton is one of the most
popular of ^Macon’s debutantes and is
a member of several local clubs.
Infantry Quintet
Coached by Smith
“Crook” Signed to Teach Rudi
ments of Game to Medical
Reserves •
Members of the Pi Kappa Phi Fra
ternity' at Mercer celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of the founding
of the fraternity with a Founders Day
banquet in the Gold room of the Demp
sey Hotel last Wednesday evening at
8 o’clock. All of the active members
of the Mercer chapter and pledges
were present at this' occasion, in ad
dition to a number of alumni living
in Macon and surrounding towns, who
were guests of the chapter.
An interesting program was given
including a number of musical num
bers by Clay Oldon, Ralph Tabor,^ and
Alton Hogan;
Lewis Cobb, of Temple, Ga., was
toastmaster at the dinner, and sev-
ral interesting talks were made by
the various members present. Ralph
Lee, of Seale, Ala., gave a brief his
tory of the fraternity, while Louie
Buchanan of Dalton, spoke on the
purpose of the banquet. Clayton
Buchanan addressed the pledges, and
the response was made by William
Jordan, of Macon. >
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
MAKE NEW PLAN
FOR PRACTICE
A method of teaching public speak
ing from the practical standpoint
which has recently been adopted by
Dl. A. P. Montague, head of that de
partment, is said, by him, to be the ( “Consuello” Smith, whose broken
best means of instruction that he has nbi have had him lately under the
discovered in his forty-five years of cat e of some ninety or more debonair
training young orators. -nurses of the Georgia Baptist Hospital
This method; which is, to be used and who has this week returned to;
from this time on in the public speak- the campus, is notv a full-fledged
ing class, plans to. give one period coach.
every* two weeks to the delivery of “Crook” is to pilot the 121st In-
prepared speeches from the members fantry Medical Detachment basket-
of the class. About six or eight speak- ball team through this season, and
era will be heard on every Wednesday, as coach has already held several
Each speaker is to be given two weeks workouts, despite his physical condi-
notice and six to eight minutes are to tion.
be given the delivery of his speech. While it is not expected that the
The subject assigned will be along-the star himself will be in position to play
line of his plans for life work. basketball until after Christmas, he
The two speeches voted the best at plans to meet his basketeers at the
each meeting are to be broadcast and V. M. C. A. several times a week and
printed in the Mercer Cluster. ^ach them the rudiments of the game.
The members of the class are ml- Numbered among his candidates are
lowed to vote. ‘ several students. of lesser importance
The first of these meeting was held •" the baaketba11 kin K dom - Roy Mc-
Wednesday morning when six speech-- K*hley, Stanley Martin, Hoke Dunn
es were delivered. The following and othera are amon K thoae competing
speeches were delivered: The Inter- Tor place, on the Infantry five
collegiate Debater, M. C. Townsend; Games are being arranged with
The New Orleans Trip of the Football ^rt Valley, Marshallville,-Barnesville
Team, “Red” Simmons; The Travel, A. C., Jackson club and a number of
of the Glee Club, Elmer Alford; The f““ th . l Ge ? r,f,a » Proposed
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
I cannot float a single note,
My check the bankers sneer—
But this I send to you, dear friend,
The coin of Christmas cheer.
No gold have I with which to buy
A sock of purple hue—
Howe’er I send this time, dear friend,
A Christmas cheer to you.
I have no credit at the bank,
Nor own a single dime;
But 1 have cash, our friendship’s coin,-
Accept that gife this Time.
I cannot buy a pea-green tie,’
Or send a sock to you—
This Christmas Time I send a rhyme
To prove my friendship true.
Emceebee.
■ It is reported by the Cincinnati
Bearcat that-the largest faculty in an
American college is found at the
University of Minnesota, The faculty
there numbers 1,250.
A man “butted in” at the waiting
line before the ticket window the
other day", and the men who were in
a hurry growled at him.
“I want a ticket to Nashville,” said
the man, and put 50 cent, under the
wicket. ,
“You can’t go to Nashville for 60
cents,” said the agent.
“Well, where can I go for 60 cents?”
ui uic uicc v.uu „„ And each of the fourteen men there
Student Government from the Point that the U ‘ am Uke B Christmas trip.[ told him . -Bethel Collegian,
of View of the Student Tribunal,- W, ^^
O. Borough; The outstanding Points
of the Text book Thus Far, H. D.
Taylor; Great Bandmasters of our
Country, Dan H, Davis.
When the vote of the class was
taken, the speeches made by H. D.
Taylor and M. C. Townsend were de
clared the best. These speeches will
be broadcast probably next week by
the Mercer’ Broadcasting Station,
WMAZ.
Tp Make Payments
For Cauldrons Soon
Or, Holding a Wife, by Ordeal
Garretts
(Discontinued from last week)
To hold a wife properly, y.ou must
first catch her. One of the best methods
of catching a wife is as follows:
Pnt a large dill pickle in the laundry
basket, prop up .the lid and tie a string
to the prop. Hide behind the floor lamp
with the end of the string in your
hand and wait patiently:
Soon she will smell the pickle and
come creeping into the. room. After,
cautiously lookink around, she will
climb Iqto the basket and start de
vouring the pickle. Now you must
snatch the lid down and rush to the
basket, reaching ‘carefully into-' the
basket you grasp her by the ears and
lift her out.
One must be very careful to have
. thick gloves on the hands to prevent
biting. v
Now she is caught. The rest
easy. ' 1 . / . ''-- ■
Method No. 1: Nail a large mirror
to the inside of each door. She will
have to get in front of one. of these
mirrors to open the door, and needless
to say,- the attraction of the mirror
wjll prove too strong, she will forget
about leaving.
Method No. 2: Glue the picture of
* rough looking shiek to the ceiling.
She will climb up on a step ladder to
tain a good view of the hairy camel
herder. Now is your chance; - pull the
step ladder out from wider her, and
the attraction of the shiek will hold
her suspended in the. air for an in-
deflinite period.
Method No. liny up the files of
some newspaper for the last hundrer
fears or so, and turn her aloose on
the “Revelations of a Wife." This
method is guaranteed never to fail
(To be continued spasmodically)
(Siberian and Vidgarion rights
TRUSTEES HELD
INITIAL MEETING
SITTING ON LOG
Conference of 1832 Recalled
Around Oak Table in
Columbus
Mother: “Did that young man pnt
his ana around pen Uat night?”
Daughter: “Yea, mother. Three
“Heavens! What a long
Sages say that history repeats it
self, but the present and future Execu
tive Committees of Mercer University
sincerely hope that said siges don’t
know what they are talking about,
If they did the Committee would, one
these fine days, hold a meeting
out in a forest where they would use
an .oak log for a chair.
As the present Executive Committee
of the University sat aruond a large
oaken table and on. upholstered oaken
chairs in.the annex of the First Bap
tist Church of Columbus recently
they recalled the first meeting of the
Committee which was held’ in 1982.
The campus of that time was in
almost virgin foi-eat state and was ac
cording to Adiel Sherwood, very beau
tiful. The committee sat. on an oak
log out in front of the log cabins, the
first buildings of the University,
which were in course of construction.
When the business under considera
tion was finished, B. M Saunders, en
tered the minutes in the record book
and the members, Jesse Mereer, James
Armstrong, John Lumpkin, and Jon
athan Dnvia, departed through the
surrounding forest for their homes.
Prof, (to freshman class in Eng
lish): “Will someone quote us a fa
mous passage, from some noted -an
thpr?" ‘
Frosh: “Four score and twenty
years ago, under a spreading walnut
tree, I stood on a bridge at midnight,
with a jug of wine, a loaf of bread,
and thou. This was the forest prim
eval, where into the mouth of hot!
rode the 600.. Gimme liberty or gim
mie death. A hone, a hone, a king
dom foe my horse."
Prof.: "Who are you quoting?”
Freeh: “I think it .was Woodrow
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
that are practical
Eversharp Pencils
Fountain Pens
( All Standard Makes)
* . . '• ' • «> .... - i ‘
Onoto Ink Pencils
Eastman Kodaks
and Greeting Cards
MACON OPTICAL CO.
468 CHERRY STREET
With six hundred and twenty-three
individual pictures the present Caul
dron promises to be one of the most
representative books ever printed by
the Senior Class of Mercer University.
Many new features make the book
especially attractive.
The Summer School Section, con
sisting of fifteen pages,' contains
nearly a hundred pictures, many of
whom are co-ed students. An increase
in pages and a better cover design
will be additional features. Three !|||||||MI|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllimillllllllllllllinilll1lllllllllllllll
hundred extra copies have been con- s
traded for my the Mercer Alumni 5
Association for distribution over the Is
State in High Schools. S
The number of copies for sale this £
year will be only five hundred. Al-! 5
though this is an increase of one bun-j E
dred copies over last year, the de- j £
mand is nearly twice as large. When s
pictures were being made each stu- j §
dent was requested to fill out reserva
tion blanks. .< .
At registration for the Winter
Term the books will be sold fqr $4.50.
Representatives will endeavor to i
sist the students by being on hand to
take up the reservation blanks. The
limited number of books as compared
to the number of students makes it
necessary for each student to secure
book immediately after Christmas.
SCREVEN CLUB FORMED
For the .first time that they have
thus banded themselves together un
der such a name, the Screven county
men who are at Mercer have organised
under the name of the. Screven County
Club: J. P. Evans, of Sylvania, was
elected-president of the club, while L.
S. Boykin was chosen to serve as sec
retary.
This organisation is ' composed of
fourteen men, so far as could be
learned at the first matting. A "song
these were: J. P. Evans, King I. Ev
ans, L. S. Baykin, J. H. lteddick, Goo.
C. Evans, Dennis Pierce, R. L. Gun
nels, Jack Reddick, David Laifitte,
Leslie Williams, Exley Cail, Wendell
Burke, Albert Jenkins and George
Robert Brinson.
Fresh: “Do yon sing in the glee
qlub?” . ' ■
Rrosh: “Yea.”
Fresh: “Whet do yon sing "
Frosh: “Whatever the root sing.
■ —Davidsonian.
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