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November 4, 1960 9 THE MERCER ( LUSTER ^ b
A Dedicated
Profession
B) WILLARD CLUTCHMYKK
Igiunny ami gloom mini'. (Hit of Ilia seniors Liking Senior
Comprehensive Exams I was the only failure. 1 know I wtt . making a
mistake in my freshman year when I let my faculty advisor, Symington
<\ Frump (often erroneously referred to as I’fsstron Liverkuwcsticn,
a great Irish hudiyateher) talk me into majoring in Chinese. What a
couiprehen.-ive! Several people turned in blank papers and got better
grades than 1 did.
Fear was mine when 1 opened the post office (mix and found a
note from Dean Itosco Cecil Shaft on his official black bordered
stationery requesting my immediate presence in his office.
I raced up to his office and ran to the desk of the kindly old
receptionist. Trying to appear casual, 1 leaned on her desk and gasped.
"Where is Dean Shaft?”
"W'l.o am 1, Inspector Keen . . . tracer of missing persons?” she
countered, smashing my fingers with a sawed off fungo bat which she
had cleverly concealed under her desk.
The bleeding had just about stopped when Dean Shaft opened
the door to his ehambers- and beckoned me in. Dean Shaft is an
impeccable dresser. Many think he was the first to tiring the Ivy-
League look to Mercer. This, however, is not quite true. He does
wear. Ivy League clothes but they are the same clothes he wore
as an undergraduate at Slippery Hock State Teachers College in
1921—the style is just coming back.
I tipped quietly into his lavish office the walls of which were
papered witli threatening letters he had received during his tenure
as Dean.
"Sit down lad,” he said.
“Thank you." I said, making a low curtsy and seating my
self on the spot indicated on the floor.
"Well it certainly is a lovely day."
“indeed,” 1 agreed, “12 inches of rain since lunch."
"Well enough of this pantheistic prattle." he screamed, slash
ing me across the face with his rubber hose.
"You know why you’re here, Ciutehmyer?”
“Yes, 1 lied, trying to appear noneholant as 1 attempted to force
my nose hack into position.
"You are the only person in the history of this noble body of
learning," he paused here to face Fcnfield and salaam thrice, "who
has ever flunked a senior comprehensive exam."
"You will never," he continued, "be able to hold a regular,
respectable position in the outside."
"Woe is me," 1 loudly lamented, attempting to -lash my wrists
on one of the many shafts which hung about his office.
"Here, here, child, 1 am vour friend, don't do anything rash that
would mess up your life . . . or. my office.”
"Yes,” he went on, "there is another way . . .”
"Pray tell, what is that?” 1 asked.
"YOL CAN HE A COLLEGE PKOFKSSOH! ! !" he screamed,
delighted at this prospect, "Think of it Willard . . . a month
to start with and a nickle a week raise every time Armistice Day
falls on Sunday.”
"Not really,” 1 exclaimed.
"Not only that," h<> added, “you can rent one of the faculty apart
ment- fo> $22.) a month. Of course you will have to. pay your own
utiliti upkeep, and furnish doors and window pane.-.”
"tiad," I mumbled, amazed at the good deal offered to the
scholarly profs who 1 thought heretofore lived in rented rooms and
old soldiers' homes. "I may consider it.”
“There arc of course certain rules that the University expects all
faculty members (o follow some of which are:
"Professors shall have no more than two suits. One must lie tweed,
baggy and at all tinus impressed. It also speaks well for the teachers
if this suit is spotted and stained. The other suit must he dark and
shiny. This suit may he worn to Faculty-Trustee frolics and public-
executions. Also professors will not, 1 say will not, attend any chapel
program.”
“I don't mind telling you Willard." said the congenial Dean
as he dusted his desktop with his peruke, "we catch a lot of pro
fessors violating the most fundamental rules. One person last year
taught a course for three quarters without changing text books!!!"
"Y ou don’t mean it,” 1 asked in obvious disbelief.
"Yes,” he said, "and not only that, one undedicated instructor had
tho gall to pass over half of his class! !”
"You can do it Willard, think about it, and in the meantime
practice mumbling. You .-peak much too distinctly for a college
professor."
My heart beat periodically as I raced out of Dean Shaft’s office
and down to the Salvation Army store to buy a toga suitable for
teaching purposes.
Spanish Students
Join Fraternity
Eta Sigmu lota, Mercer's hon
orary Spanish fraternity, held its
initiation of new members on
Thursday night, Oct. 27. New
members are: Connie Norwood,
Kicharii Pridger, Elliia Coe, Ward
Lowrance, Linda Jones, Maria Lo
pez, Rabun Roberts, Linda Lawson,
Sandra Hutto, C.racelyn Hawkes,
Hill Scarborough, Emily Carson,
Clara Whitesides and June Craig.
Claude Britt of the Spanish de
partment is the new advisor of the
group, taking the place of Dr.
Louise Sands,
Eta Sigma 'ota hopes to secure
the film “Out. Quixote” to show
sometime this quarter, and also
hopes to sponsor several films
thi- year to raise money for the
group.
A Christinas party, has been
planned for December which will
—Photo by Ward Low rani
After attending Rrenau and Georgia, Emily Carson came t <>
Mercer where she was elected pledge president of Phi Mu. >•-'
• insist of Spanish foot!, son^s anti
aincs.
Holmes On
Evangelism
A Mercer University official and
Baptist minister Thursday night in
Columbus scored “Madison Ave
” methods of salvation, saying
Student Comments On
Native Honduran Life
that salvation . . belongs to
God and to the people of God."
Legitimate concern for the
salvation of fellow man can be
come "lost in a maze of promo
tional schemes," Thomas J.
Holmes, director of university
development and alumni affairs,
told members of the Columbus
Baptist Association.
"The dynamic force in Christian
evangelism is the power of the
Holy Spirit in the Christian’s life,”
he reiterated in a discussion of the
evangelistic philosophy as taught
in the New Testament.
He decried "hit-and-run" evang
elism, concerned only with an ini
tial decision, as “inadequate” prep
aration of Christians for life in
modern society.
Strongly committed to Christian
education, Rev. Holmes teaches in
the Christianity department in ad
dition to his executive duties at
Mercer, which includes public re
lations, university development
and alumni affairs.
The meeting was at the Kendrick
Memorial Baptist Church in Colum-
After attending the University of Georgia for almost two year
Emily Carson from La Lima, Honduras, decided to transfer to Merco
Emily began her high school education in New Orleans and then coir
pleted her sophomore through senior years at Brenau Academy
Gainesville, Ga.
Her home town of La Lima is in
the northeastern part of Honduras
with a population of about 500. It’s
just a two hour drive from I
Lima to the roast and the tempera
ture there stays in the 80's. Hon
duras doesn’t have Georgia’s hu
midity and the heat there isn’t as
noticeable.
In La Lima Emily never wore
winter clothes but dressed just as
we do here in the summer. She
says the stereotype of the full
skirt and peasant blouse isn't typi
cal at all because La Lima is like
a small American town.
The American influence is large
ly because the United Fruit Com
pany has a branch there and many
Americans live in the town.
Emily’s father, an Englishman,
works for this company: her mo
ther is a native Honduran.
The entertainment in La Lima
is very much like ours, except they
dance a great deal more. Emily
said that the inhabitants are “very
carefree and gay and don't worry
about tomorrow.”
Most of the churches in La Lima
are Catholic but there is one Prot
estant church.
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Chas. Brownlee,
Freshman Prexy
Views Mercer
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Charles Brownlee, the presidi r
of the freshman class likes Mi
cer, its freedoms and its respon
bilities.
At Mercer, the newly elected i
ficer |ilans to study for the min
try. He has joined the Minister
Association, BSU, Mercer Indepi
dent Men’s Association, Christ!
Service Fellowship and is a met
her of the Tatnall Square Bapti
Church.
Brownlee, a graduate of Sout
west High, Atlanta said he v»
very happy with his slate of off|
errs. He also said until now t
freshman president has just he
a figurehead; he wants to chan
this with the help of his office
ami the members of the class.
He enjoyed going through rusl
hut his only complaint was th
the Mercer freshman girls cat
date during rush week.
When asked about the hon
system, he said, “1 respect t !
honor system because I think
person is more apt not to che
when put on his honor, than wh
he is being watched by someo
else.”
He thinks that at Mercer thi
is a place for everybody and the
is opportunity for service f
those who want to serve.
At fifteen he spent 6 week
touring England. France, Ge
many, Holland, and Switzerland,
This trip was finanred by hif 1 '’ sc
parttime job, as a newapape
carrier.
When asked about the trip, I ! **11
gave varied opinions. The scene! lS| hiIi
was beautiful and he enjoyed so
ing the way those people live
Charles said, but now he wishes i
had been a little older when he mac
the trip. Brownlee also said, “M ,,TS *t
outlook on foreign life was change lu ‘ r ly
by thia trip."
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