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MERCER CLUSTER
OCT. SI, Im
“Oplmdui In the gram.” Pert and pretty Lynn KkkHfthtar
takas'■ braak from mid-terms. Lynn, from Sarasota, Florida,
is an ADFi plsdjs and a msmber of the Cauldron Staff.
Harris Speaks..
v (Ouarthmod from Pags 1)
awarded by Item to the Juris
Doctor <J. D.) daftiae bs rtfsirod
to ths Education Oommittos of
trastoss tor noodudcuW! aptfaa
Raeavationa and alterations wars
a»ih to 25 buildings ths post year
at a cost of 0299,817. The now Hash
M. WiQst Science Center was com*
plated at a cost of $1.75 million.
Dr. Harris reported that ahnnal
giving to the university increaeed
during the post year, and that 17
percent of ths alumni contributed
through ths Annual Alumni Fund.
Tha Infirmary Building Fuad,
a sssjnr preject this year sf the
Dopartassnt sf Divelepmmt, to
nearing Mo goal with MUM
pledged by Mercer medical shaunL
Plano am for uunatmotlan to atari
early in 1969.
Cluster - Dulcimer Elections
Monday - Qualifications 10-2 p.m.
Publications Board, 3 p.m.
$1 Fee & Written Application
Thursday - Election In CSC Lobby
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CAMPUS
FASHIONS
By CHIP TOLBERT
ESQUIRE'S FASHION EDITOR
FL0CCIPAUCINIHILIP1LIFICATI0N —try that on your Punk A
Wagnalls! Actually, it haa nothing whatsoever to do with this col-
MM...I just wanted g classy opener. Now then, about fashion.
I can hardly remember a Fall when there’s been such a wide seleo*
Hen of good looking men's wear. New styles, new colors and fabrics
...there’s something for everyone, with plenty of room for Indi
viduality. First off, Ut’s consider color. Currant and choice for FaR
are the new...
HARVEST COLORS —warm browns, sunlit groans, livelier bitten
and golden wheat These are not single, specific colors; rathar, a
group of warm autumnal tones—each made more vibrant by aa
underlying “sunlit” cast Greens are dearer, bearing no rolstkto*
ship to the olive range; blues are seen in brighter, lntormodhfin
tanas; browns range from rich bronze to russet; and golden wheat
throne up tha beige/tan shades. Look for theee Harvest Colors hi
al types of tailored apparel, including...
THE COUNTRY SUIT, Whiekeomm to.
with n POWI Bold, colorful plaids a* aver-
plaidg gmphnalno the casual gipent of thoct nsw
suits, while the smoother finish of ths worateA
cheviot er saxony fabrics aUrwi for mom float*
hllity in whan they can bo warn. AvaflttMtt to
either two or «urao-b«ttoa modah, tide gall
makes unmistsksbla impact parttmflMfri
worn with i
THE POWER OF PUUi tattoo amain Aon-
tarn of nathantie du Utto— to niitM—r.
Stocks, shirts, ti so, jackets—alwifl bo bearing
too stamp at MacDonald. Monro, loyal Stow*
art Try tho elarki with n aoMd wlrr Mimr Or
• rod tartan jMtot...jnl the thfigff tar ymr
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Four Honorary Degrees
Awarded At Science Dedication
Doctor of Lawe dogmas were
conferred upon Dr. Chattel Hard
Townee, professor at ths University
of California, and Dr. Felix Comp
ton Robb, .director of ths Southern
Association of Colleges and
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oCPOOlM.
Doctor of Divinity degrees were
contorted upon Dr. Allen Bern
Cornish, pastor of Waldrop Memor
ial Baptist Church. Columbus, and
Dr. Henry Lewis Batts, Binsritur
Curry Professor of Religious Edu
cation at Mercer.
Dr. Townes, who was awarded
ths Nobel Prise for physics in 1964,
mad# tha convocation addiem
at tha dedication of Mm center and
Dr. Batts gave the dedication
prayer. Dr. Robb was the speak
er for tho luncheon which fol
lowed the convocation and Dr.
Oomtoh gave the invocation at tha
Dr. Allan B. Comtofa
Dr. Henry L. Batin
luncheon.
Dr. Townes to an internationally
known scientist who received ths
Nobel Prise for his role in the in
vention of the maser and laser. As
a membsr of tbs tochntoal staff of
Ball Telephone Laboratories from
1999 to 1947, ha worked extensively
during World War H designing ra
dar bombing systems and holds a
number of patents in related tech
nology.
After his appointment to ths fa
culty of Columbia University in
1948, Dr. Townes continued re
search begun at Beil in microwave
physics. In 1961 be conceived the
idee of the maser and seven years
later, working with professor A. L
Schawlow now of Stanford Univer
sity, showed that maarn could be
mads to operate in tha infrared re
gion. This work resulted in their
joint patent on lasers (light ampli
fication by stimulated emission of
radiation).
Dr. Townes has served as direc
tor of the Institute for Defense An
alyses in Washington Ho to a form
er chairman of the Strategic Weap
ons Panel of tho Department of
Defence and is chairman of tha Sci
ence and Technology Advisory
Committee for Manned Specs
Flight, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration. He to vice-
chairman of ths Prsaid ant's Science
Advisory Committee
Dr. Robb, an author and speaker,
long has bean involved in educa
tional, civic and raligios activities
In 1966 ha initiated for ths govern
ment a program of educational and
technical aadstanca in tin Republic
of Korea which contributed signifi
cantly to ths strengthening of that
nation aa a vital fores for freedom
in the Far East His interest in in
ternational understandings has tak
en him to Europe, Asia, and the
Orient on mi—iron
He to chairman of the Southeast
Regional Manpower Advisory Com
mittee and to a member of Phi Bet
te Kappa, ODK, the American
Council on Education’s Joint Com
mittee on Bneinms and Education
and the U. & Department of Lah
ore’ Committe on Specialised Per
sonnel.
Dr. Robb to an exponent of the
New South and an outspokan ad
vocate of education's responsibility
to maintain and expand freedom.
Hie career began as a public school
teacher in his native state of Ala
bama. Later ha was a collage in
structor. Subsequently, he held a
variety of academic administrative
posts before being named president
of Peabody Collage in I960.
The Reverend Dr. Oomtoh is a
second-generation minister — hie
father was a pioneer Louisiana
Baptist preacher — who hss active
ly served The Baptist Faith. He
presently to chairman of the Exe
cutive Committee of the Georgia
Baptist Convention and serves aa
a member of the Southern Baptist
Convention’s Sunday School Board.
He has served as chairman of the
Education Commission of ths
Georgia Baptist Convention.
Articles by Dr. Cornish have ap
peared in several denominational
publications. He has authored
tracts and promotional Sunday
School materials.
Ths Reverend Dr. Batts, former
Dr. Felix C. Robb
chairman of the Department
Christianity at Mercer, to rw
nixed for hie many years of aer
to Christian education.
From 1919 to 1994 he was 1
cutive secretary of the Bap
Young People’s Union of Geoi
He was appointed instructor "1
ligious education and English
Mercer in 1994. Later ha was
rector of education in a Rochet
N. Y. Church, and was directa
an inter-church student prof
at Kelemesoo, Mich.
Dr. Batts returned to Merest
1946 as professor of religious I
cation. By the time of hie ret
mint in 1969 he had served as d
of the chapel for four yean end
chairman of the Department
Christianity from 1968.
RENEWING THE SURTAX
by Gton Ifttf dOf
Chief KewiMiito
Nat. Am. of Ifa—flactram
The 10 par cant earcharge on
corporate and individual income
taxes, imposed on us by a law
passed last June, k scheduled to
terminate June 90, 1669. Tha aast
Congrem will, of comae, be free
to pass additional lagtolatton ex
tending its life beyond that petal
More aad more, the aiMmfttiae to
will probably de so.
Thto prospect stfaa
tiona. The surcharge Is properly
viewed as an act of fiscal rotpeu-
atoffity. No one wank to bo aa
■in nali of toed hafttaWlh
and that to what might he involved
in an
interest of fiscal responsibility. Yon
can argue that its affect to to re-
ffaff, by flu fiiwii^ mlUcttad, tbt
—p—ifttnotd in nb*
Wa suspect, how
ever, that in the long run it simply
gives diet much more leeway for
inersmm to federal apsttdtog, with
the r multieg deficits no smaller
than they would have bean without
tha setaaifon of ths tax.
Ths haaeedtote aoaattan for dr
ttoaa. First, the
What hind of general fiscal stem*
as msssarad by the fodaaal deficit
or ampins, sriQ ha appropriate to
■oak the economic conditions of
that ported? Second, the
• staMBty. It m ssaanfial to
H weadhtt ot llflr il
mfEH federal deficit eabstee-
W—1 at bM b
ly. The toghtatom* ariton was
low enough, we Can 1st the sa
nasd to oat the Artaftt fame
dte as aahadolad and *■>«»<
Mfltoa to fiscal 1966 to ahaot
(Cootfcmod on Pttfa 3
96 billion in fiscal 1969.
Bet andtac. an inflation a
alow and painful prop me Tb.*
no likelihood that, at any
during tha next year, anyone i
bo able to say “ths inflation hi
under control and we can thiol
tetma of a vary different Cecal
tore for the country.” The I
optimistic are unwilling to pit
that the present 4 par cant a j
inflation will, to 1969, ha sis
dawn to mm T Aim t bettor tha
2H par cat or 9 par amt i
which to still a tot of inflation
Thu sound
wffl requite that tho Ohjoctiw
soars time should hu to koap I
era! deficits down to the nafckl
hood of tha 98 bate
thto fbaol year. In
cnucrive of anyi
would malm H dsrimhto to
to the 698 Mlkai deficit of
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