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Historic Administration Bid. Has Colorful Past
By Elaine Hudson
Is the Ad building haunted? This
question has been asked by many
Mercerians over the years since it
was erected in 1874
"Between quarters the old build
ing assumes a ghostly atmosphere,”
according to Miss Bobbie Bobo.
Strange noises are heard and to
those working in the administra
tion offices they seem to be the
eerie footsteps of past student gen
erations. It seems that the normal
creaking of the old stairways ia
more noticeable in the silence be
tween quarters.
The tallest structure on the
Mercer campus, the Ad building
has remained a model of “perma
nence. beauty and convenience”
which the heads of Mercer in 1872
wished it to be.
Plans for this building, which has
contained at various times an
apartment for the President of
Mercer, rooms for Greek-letter fra
ternities, halls for two literary so
cieties, a museum and library fa
cilities, and the present Haas
rooms and offices for faculty, were
begun when the university was still
located at rsaflslil Tjsnrgte Thair
hopes were delayed by —■r ,l y
wet weather, a financial depression,
a campus apidemic of meningitis,
and the greet Chicago fire which
consumed the only blueprints of
the building.
The administration persevered
however, and in 1874 the three
towers of the building stood firm
ly overlooking western Macon. In
1958 it was noticed that the great
steeple had begun to lean and it
was speculated by profeeeor Powell
Bush of the Physics department
that if the steeple leaned much fur
ther, it might pull over the entire
building! The steeples have been
the object of numerous pranks
throughout the years, the most re
cent occurring last February, when
someone suspended long red flan
nels from a line between two of the
towers.
The structure's style is that of
a "French chateau of the time of
Francis I," according to Art pro
fessor Marshall Daugherty. For
Mercerians it stands as a structural
memory of our traditions and hen
tage; a contrast to the ippdery
physics buiVling. the human!tin
building, thi, student confer, gw
the many chances wrought by Um
“new Mercer. 7 *
And while the students of Mer
cer University have come knd font
through its halls for many ymn
the Ad building still staixis, yn
daunted by time, new. students
new administrations, prankster
and ghosts.
NEWSCOPE
News Samplings
From Colleges
Over The Nation
Columbia College, N. Y., N. Y.—
Starting this fall, Columbia College
will expect applicants for admis
sion to have completed three years
of high school work in at least one
foreign language, or to possess an
equivalent competence in the lan
guage.
University of New Hampshire,
Durham, N. H.—The next few
years should witness more stress on
a liberal education for all Univer
sity students. A committee pro
posed University wide require
ments as the solution. Under this
program are listed three subdivi
sions. First on the list is the in
clusion of a writing course and a
reading course as an English re
quirement. An independent read
ing program is advocated because
of the belief that it is characteris
tic of an educated man that he
reads widely and critically through
out his lifetime.
One of the major renovations in
the University policy as a whole is
consideration of a three quarter
system in which the number of
courses carried would be limited
to four, with an equivalent of 12
semester credits per quarter.
University of New Mexico, Al
buquerque, N. M.—Administrators
would like to move away from in
loco parentis’ as rapidly as they
In answer to the question. Why
would administrators like to move
toward greater student autonomy.
Dr. Smith said: “Because of aban
donment of the parental position ia
theoretic ally sound on grounde that
students must be treated as raepon-
sible adults if they are to become
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dom adopt consciously. They more
often find it thrust upon them.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Penna.—Lehigh University will
gradually increase its undergrad
uate enrollment to approximately
3,000 over the next six years. The
present enrollment among the uni
versity's three undergraduate col
leges has been deliberately main
tained at approximately 2,660 for
the last ten years.
The proposed expansion of the
undergraduate population will be
accomplished through the admis
sion of an additional twenty-five
freshmen annually. By the aca
demic year of 1966-66, the univer
sity will be admitting 800 young
men, an increase of 100.
Auburn University, Auburn.
Ala.—A request that no quixxas be
given the last three days of a quar
ter has received the endorsement
of the Council of Deans. Action on
Dead Week’ came as a result of a
Student Senate law providing for
the elimination of all extra-cur
ricular activities by senate charter-
ad organisations for a period of SP-
proximately one week prior to
finals. Violators of the law are sub
ject to action by the president of
the student body.
According to the project’s spon
sor, the need for 'Dead Week’ has
stemmed from a two-fold source.
On the one hand, there ate too
many meetings, dates, teas, etc. On
the other hand, there has been an
increasing problem of having too
many quixaea the last few days of
each quarter.
Winthrop College, Rock Hill,
8. C.—A Latin American major
and minor will be offered for the
first time at Winthrop
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the first major curriculum innova
tion of a planned series which will
eventually include other geograph
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