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Frosh Impressions
Of Old Penfield
By Betty Hancken
And Susan Gridly
Are you ready for the trip? This
question seemed to echo through
the halls Saturday morning as the
Freshman class prepared to go on
the Penfield Pilgrimage. Many of
us expected to travel only a few
miles, but we soon found out dif
ferently.
After a two hour drive we ar
rived at Penfield where we circled
the Old Mercer Chapel and con
tinued to our first stop - • the
Penfield Cemetery. Mr. Tom
Holmes, Director of Development
and Alumni Relations, pointed out
the grave of Jesse Mercer and
other important officials of the
University.
We went back to the Old Chapel
for the major part of the program.
At first glance the Chapel appear
ed small, but once inside we real-
red that it was not
Nathan Deal, Freshman Advisor,
Have a short introductory speech in
which he stated that from our past
knowledge we gain our future. This
x plained the trip to Penfield.
Then he introduced Mike Waller,
Vice-President of the Baptist Stu-
lent Union, who gave the invoca-
|| tion.
After a hymn we were welcomed
hv Rev. E. A. Kilgore, Pastor of
live Penfield Baptist Church. Hugh
Lawson, President of the Student
Ciovernment Association, repre
senting the Freshman class, gave
ii response to this welcome. A spe-
lal song. “Rise Up, O Men of
find”, was sung by Miss Lynelle
Moulton, Miss Beth Powell, Mr.
I.loyd Brewer, and Mr. Bruce
Powers.
The address was given by Dr
Harold L. McManus, Roberts Pro
fessor of Church History. In this
address he gave us a short history
of our new Alma Mater. “Nearly
eryone likes to look back at his
origin and brag about his age,"
said Dr. Manus, “Mercer is no dif-
jferent."
We learned that Mercer began
two log cabins. The overflow of
tudents who could not stay in the
’resident's home was kept in one
f these cabins, while the other
as used for classrooms. The
hool was nsmesl for Jesse Mer-
r, its founder. Penfield, which
rew around it. was named after
«iah Penfield. whose donation
ade the school possible. Because
f the lack of preparation on the
liege level available to students,
lercer began as an institute. Stu-
ents had to work on a farm for
cessary money, their wages being
five cents an hour. ,
The closing reminded us to keep
live the high ideals and dreams of
.ir founder. He made Mercer pos-
hle for us through his work.
Volume XLIII
September 28, 1962
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Good Spelling Is Difacult
But Can Be Important
Probably not one person in a hundred can spell these five words
correctly: sacr-l-gious; rar-fied; synon-mous; restaura teur; and ba
ton.
Are you the one in a hundred? The correct spellings are sacrileg
ious; rarefied; synonymous; restaurateur (no n); and liaison.
Now that you may be feeling a little depressed, you're probably
wondering: "Well, how important is good spelling, anyway?"
Conspicuously poor spelling
serious . . . because it suggests
that the writer is unfamiliar with
printed material, or unable to
learn what most educated people
learn without difficulty, or both
. . . To many people, spelling is an
index of the writer's education and
intelligence.
You yourself can remember how
miffed you were the last time
someone spelled your name wrong.
Imagine the embarrassment of the
Reader's Digest recently when, on
the cover of the magazine, it spell
ed Charles Lindbergh's name as
Lindberg! Socony Mobil Oil Com
pany has even begun an advertis
ing campaign to acquaint the pub
be with the fact that "Socony-Mo-
bil,” with a hyphen, is incorrect, as
are “Soconey Mobil” and "Soco
ny Mobile.” Any newspaper or
magazine that misspells the com
pany name may receive a polite
note pointing out the error.
Now, it’s all well and good to
praise the benefits of proper spell
ing. The hitch is that spelling is a
complicated and tricky business.
Over in England, honor is spell
ed honour, anemia is spelled anae
mia, fiber is fibre, plow is plough,
connection is connexion, judgment,
is judgement, jail is gaol, and so
on.
And right here in America, dic
tionaries disagree. Some people
have written Mafia, largesse, and
dog-eared all their lives, and
would be surprised to learn that
the Merriam-Webster dictionaries
prefer Maffia. largess, and-of all
things- dog’s-eared. The word pre
eminent is spelled in three differ
ent ways by three American dic
tionaries: pre-eminent; preeminent
(without the hyphen); and preemi
nent (with a diaeresis over the
second e).
But don't get discouraged: You
can still improve your spelling.
Here are some rules to follow:
1. Make a list of the words you
continually misspell—words like
dictionary, inoculate, accommo
date, accumulate, bizarre, innocu
ous, independence. Practice writ
ing and rewriting them until you
get them down pat.
2. Do the same thing with a list
of difficult words that someone
else has compiled—to be furnished
in this article.
3. If you continually misspell
certain words, check your pronun-
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ciation. A person who says bbery
for library, idear for idea, athalet-
ic for athletic, and barbituate for
barbiturate is likely to write them
as he says them.
4. Get acquainted with some of
the rules of spelling. He only
trouble here is that for many rules
there are many exceptions. Take
the verse “I before e Except after
c. Or when sounded as a. As in
neighbor and weigh.” You proba
bly learned that in grammar school.
Well, there is no Santa Claus. Ex
ceptions to the rule include weird,
weir, leisure, seize, either, surfeit,
neither, sheik, plebeian, reign, sov
ereign, height, deity, and even
financier, specie, species, and
science.
Here's a rule that’s invariable.
Only three words in the English
language end in -ceed: exceed, pro
ceed, and succeed. Only one ends
in -sede: supersede. All the rest
end in ‘cede, like accede, recede,
concede, etc.
One final rule: When in doubt
about which vowel to use, look for
a related word in which the vowel
is accented. Say you don't know
whether the correct spelling is ec-
stesy or ecstasy. You find a re
lated word—ecstatic—and because
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ecstatic has an a, ecstasy must
have an a. Or take the word gram
mar. Or is it grammer? The re
lated word grammatical shows
that an a is required.
But before you start out inde
pendently to improve your spell
ing, let’s see how well you spell
now. Here are 20 difficult words;
if you get 15 right, you’re pretty
good already A dash may mean
that no letters are required, that
one letter is required, or that more
than one letter is required:
1. Travel er 9. Attend-neo
2. Permiss-ble 10. Chang-ble
3. Benefit ed 11. Paral-el-ed
4. Veng-ce 12. Question-aire
5. Sup-ression 13. Str-t-laced
6. Irresist-ble 14. Phar-h
7. Pen-uin 15. Te-totaler
8. Nlisrhie ous 16. As-as inate
17. K-v, premier of Russia
19. Guer-i-la
20 Vocal-c-ords
Answers: traveler preferred),
permissible, benefited, vengeance,
suppression, irresistible, penguin,
mischievous, attendance, change
able, paralleled. questionnaire,
strait laced. Pharaoh, teetotaler,
assassinate, Khrushchev, guerrilla
(preferred), vocal cords.
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dome
Things
“gA/ice
toHave
O/bvundi
Unify
A good prac tical pen
for everyone.
Everybody likes
the LINDY.
It writes nice.
Lots of students buy two
or three at a time.
Maylxr lxecause it’s only 39c.
Maybe because there are twelve
brilliant ink colors.
Or maybe they just like to have
two oi three or twelve around.
Also nice to have around: