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THE MERCER CLUSTER
January 16,1925
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GHASTLY VOICES
ANNOUNCE DOOM
OF‘RAP PLEDGES
Greek Letter Fraternities Stagf
Initiation For New
Men
NEW FRATERNITY
HOLDSINMATION
Alpha Omega Plans to Establish
Chapters in Other Colleges
Soon
- ‘‘Impressions” have been made on
Freshmen .fraternities" ‘ pledges at
Mercer in more than one way during
the pa,st week.
With the passing of the fall work,
"Hat” pledges are now- being urged
to take a step highfer in the Greek
letter fraternities on the campus, and
initiations in the various halls have
been almost a nightly occurrence for
an entire week.
Weird noises, calculated to throw
terror into the souls of trembling
pledges who await their doom, have
resounded from the halls in the wee
hours of the night, and the night owls
on the campus have only echoed the
sounds of woe that have issued from
throaty voices wailing at the unsym
pathetic moon—when , there was i
moon. . '
And that is not all—ask any,.terror-
stricken pledge,' and he will confirm
that statement. For it is rumored
that the dining hall chairs have been
vacant, that the proverbial mantle-
piece has been laden with food, and
that seats in the class room are not
desired. , . - ; '
Among the Greek letter frats who
have been having a busy time and
the pledges are;
Phi Kappa Alpha—Edwin Granade,
Statesboro; T. D. Wells, Richmond;
L. R., Smith, Milledgeville; Drane Mil
ler, Cynthiana, Ky.; J. D. Easterday,
Quitman; George Hatcher, Macon,
and Frank Garrett, Quitman.
.Sigma Alpha Epsilon—David La-
fiite, Sylvania; Julius Johnson, Hart
well; James Smith, Joe Houston, Sam
Tipton, Sylvester;. Enice Wakefield,
Columbia, Tenn.; Erne Walker, War-
trace. Tenn.; B. F. Cliatt, Lincolnton;
Stewart Plowden, Shellman; Elton
Adams, Henry Lowe, Jr.; B. F. Gut-
tenberger, Jr., and Ei K. Cargile, of
Macon.
Alpha Tau Omega—Hugh English,
Sandersville; George Robert' Bryson,
Sylvania; Ernest Wilkes, Adel; Tur
ner Flournoy, Farrar Smith, Fayette
ville, Tenn.; Pierce Bradley, Waynes
boro; Frank Smith, Cartersville; Lo
vett, WrightsVille; Twitty, Camilla;
B. F. Merritt, William Davenport,
Philip O’Connell and Walter Burke,
Macon.
Kappa Alpha—Riley McCoy, Rome;
Jasper Highamith, Baxley; Jack Stra-
ton. New York City; Richard Snell-
ihg, Richland; Chauncy Jordon, New-
nan; Tom Cobb, Tifton; Robert Biv
ins, Forsyth; Thomas Jordon, Al
bany. - . .
Phi Delta Theta—Andrew McAlis
ter, Robert Kingman, Jr., Melvin
Yates, George Ellis, Americus; Frank
Jordon,’ Talbotton; Hansel . Stem-
bridge, Waynesboro; James Dudley,
Americus: Jack Wynne,’ Washington;
Atlee Carmichael, Jackson; Aubrey
-Myers, Albany; Milton Hardy, Gaines
ville; L. E. -Hatcher, Waynesboro;
■ Robert Gunnels, Sylvania; V. V. Har
ris, Monroe.
■. Sigma Nu—William Carswell,. Am-
e'ricus; Charles Applegate, Columbus;
William Woodall, Milner; Bob Caw-
thorn, Wilmington, N. C„; W. B. Da
vis, Valdosta; H. H. Irvin, Cornelia.
Kappa Sigma-—Lewis Mobley, Vi
enna’; Brooks Pittman, Commerce; J.
L. Tracy, Sylvester; I, L. ChatAeld,
Jr., Culloden; Norman Murray,
Plains; Oswald Wboten, Unadilla;
Roderick McRay, Macon; T. B. Lamb,
Swainsboro; Guy Smalley, Lincolh-
ton.
Alpha- Lambda Tau—Orren Burke,
Millen; Theo Couch, Lakeland, Fla. 1
. Calvin Cowert, Lakeland, Fla.; Otin’
J. Harrell, Lumpkin, Ga:j Sam Lott,
Americus; Henry Clements, Adel.
Pi Kappa Phi—John Herndon,
Hartwell; Wiley Jordon, William Jor
don, Macon; June Ellisi, Edwin Jack-
son. Camilla; Wallace Butts, Hubert
Halay, Courtland Moseley.
Alpha Omega, divinity fraternity
recently established at Mercer, held its
first initiation in the Kappa Alpha
Fraternity hall Monday night. The
first degree was given to J. H. P.
Thomas and'L. L. Day. Initiation of
the Freshman pledges will be held to
night, Adiel J. Moncrief, president,
announced. ' .
The new fraternity, said to be only
one of its kind in the' South, was'
founded at ..Mercer last October by
Adiel J. Moncrief, Jr. The funda
mentals of- the order are the some as
those iri other professional frater
nity. The Mercer chapter is seeking
to establish ’ a national organization
with chapters in all, of the leading
schools and seminaries.
At a conference of the members
of Alpha Omega in Atlanta during
Christmas plans were drawn up for
perfecting the order and u date set
for the initiation of. pledges. A coat
of arms was adopted, a badge design
ed which has. been ordered.
The members of the fraternity here
plan to establish similar chapters at
Emory, Howard and Birmingham-
Southern in the near future, it is said.
The members and officers, of the lo
cal chapter are Adiel J. Moncrief, Jr.,
bishop; Hillyer Straton, scribe; Ron
ald C. Young, Edinburgh, Scotland;
Raymond Walker; A. E.’ Moncrief.
Pledges: J. Harry Pi Thomas, Lon. L.
Day, Hansel Stembridge, Thomas Cobb,
and E. Y. Sheffield.
Nevin Will Speak
To Young Scribes
James B. Nevin, editor of the At-
li nta Georgian, will lecture to the
students in the School of Journalism
here January 20, as 'the second of a
Scries of lectures by prominent editors
to be given at Mercer from time to
time. Many other prominent news
paper editors from all parts of the
country have promised to give talks
to the Mercer students, Prof. Edgar
E. Folk announces. ■ .
The lectures are being sponsored by
Thomas J. Hamilton, editor of the
Augusta - Chronicle and will be con
tinued throughout the ^year fbr the
benefit of students in thd School of
Journalism at Mercer and Wesleyan.
Fraternity Cage
Over Mercer Station
. Inter-fraternity basketball, to be
started immediately after the class
football games are finished, is to be
played between the nine fraternities
composing the Pan-Hellenic -Council
and members of. the winning team
are to be known as the inter-fraterni
ty champions.
It is planned that these games vyill
be played In the Wesleyan gymna
sium, and a committee has been , ap
pointed to secure a. trophy for’ the
winning team; According to present
plans, this trophy will become the
permanent possession of the team
winning it three years.
“Shirty” 'Poore ha? been selected
as head of the committee in charge
of this series of. games, and a com
plete schedule will be made public as
soon as it is completed.
‘Is this a first-class restaurant V*
‘Yes, but we’ll serve you just the
same.”—Brown Jug.
Vesper Thoughts
Y.M.C.A.
Edited by Alfred Pullen ,
. Tuesday
Thought: “If you are idle, you arc
on Che road to ruin; and there are few
stopping places upon it. It is rather
precipice than a road.”;—H. W.
Beecher. , ,
The. Tuesday night’ speaker was
Rev. A. C. Baker, pastor of the Tab
ernacle Baptist church of Macon. Mr.
Baker voiced the difficulty one has in
reversing himself when once he allows
himself to get started in a downward
trend of life. He urged that we al- more
ways travel the road that leads up
ward to higher things.
Wedmeeday
Thought: -. "Happiness is not per
fected until it is shared."—Jane Por
ter..; ■ '
The “Y” was greatly pleased Wed-
nesday night to have Prof. E. Powell *
Lee, director of Mercer’s Glee Club in 2
1D2H-24, give a most enjoyable pro-j2
gram of vocal music., Mr. Lee was S
accompanied by, ; Joe Tarpley, “Y” —
pianist.
Thursday _
Thought: “He who thinks his place g
below him will certainly be below his S
place."—Sir H. Saville. | g
Rev. Frank L. Snyder, Mercer min- E
isterial student, was the speaker for 2
Thursday night. Is
Lee’s Poultry Yard
Swaps Chanticleer;
For Yellow Pullet
Battle’s Kingly Cock Forswears
Chicken Utopia for Un
known Fowldom.
B.v Jimmie Jonea
Chanticleer, that creHted heraldCr
of dawn; chanticleer, that arrogant
autocrat of the roostpole for ages
upon ages;' that, aristocratic, phleg
matic, idiosyncratic lord of the barn
yard, is gone.
Chanticleer, the philanderer, the
slanderer, the debonair, courtly diplo
matist, whose blandishments turned
poor Pertelotc chicken-hearted; chan
ticleer. the magnificent, the. omnis
cient, the garrulous, has absconded.'
In other words, the bird of litera
ture, the bird .made famous by-
Chaucer,, mentioned by Milton, popu
larized by Peter; that wily, watchful
strategist, who almost outwitted even
the sly Sir Reynard in ‘The Nun’s
Priest's Tales,” the doughty hero of
‘Roman de Renart”; the bloody gladi-
ntor of the'cock-pit has “flown the
eoop,” “fugitted,’* and in fact has
done almost everything else but re
main peacefully in Lee Battle's poul
try yard at the rear of Nancy Mills
Hall—whether by fair means or fowl
means, hawk means' or owl means,
did means or didn’t means, Lord
Chanticleer, the pride of ,1-iee’s poul
try. is gone. ; /
Gone, Lee knows not where. What's
he cannot think of any reason
why his kingly epek should have de
sired to forswear teh' chicken’ Utopia' breakfast.
over which he had hitherto been the
sole and supreme ruler. ’
Right here this mystery comes lit,
the “funny part” of all: a big, portly,
ungainly yellow hen was in the poul
try yard which hitherto had held
strictly, the Barred Rock breed of
chickens, the only kind that 1 Lee pos
sesses, on the morning following the
departure of Chanticleer.
The only accountable reason , for
this strange coincidence la that some
one who desired a rooster and had
an excess of hens , simply made a noc
turnal trade with Lee, leaving the
yellow hen to appease his conscience.
Lee does not think that his errant
fowl was forced to abdicate in favor .
of some more youthful and aggres
sive cock, for the simple reason that
his Chanticleer had no rivals that he -
knew of. . . ' ,
- It is not pfobable that he was
stolen, for three perfectly good rea
sons: -. - '
1. In the first place, whoever heard
of a member of the clah Afrit-anus
losing a chicken in this manner. ' 2. It
is certain that he was not stolen by
any of the young ministers who live
with their families in the cottages
about the campus, for whoever heard
of a. Baptist preacher, keeping enough
chickens op hand to trade with any
one ? 3. • Hawk nor owl was thd
thief, if either were, how can the yel
low hen be accounted for?
Lee has overcome his grief over his
loss, but he is still puzzled. However
he has Anally decided to content him
self with the yellow hen as .his Hhare
of the. bargain.
In the meantime, a pretender reigns
in Chanticleer’s stead. And the
Nancy Mill boys are always late for
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