1927-09-16 The Plainsman

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WELCOME
OLD MEN
VOLUME LI AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927 NUMBER 2
LARGEST SUMMER SESSION
IN HISTORY OF AUBURN
Forty Five Graduate
Degrees Awarded
With the closing of the largest
summer school in the history of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute forty
five graduate and undergraduate de-
'grees were awarded at the fifteenth
summer session held in Langdon Hall,
the college chapel.
Dr. Eugene C. Branson, A. M.,
LLD., Kenan professor of rural so­cial
economics of the University of
North Carolina delivered the bac-caulaureate
address and President
Spright Dowell conferred the de
grees. A total of 45 degrees wer<
awarded including one doctor of vet­erinary
medicine, five master of sci
ence degrees, and 39 bachelor of sci
ence degrees.
The enrollment of 1022 students
surpasses that of any previous sum
mer session. According to Dean
Zebulon Judd, director of the sum
mer school, the student body this year
is more mature than ever before due
to the discontinuance of the state de­partment
of education of pre-normal
certificates by high schol graduates
As a result, the character of work
done has been of much higher order
than in past summers. In addition
added Dean Judd, there has never
been a more serious purposeful and
cooperative body of students at Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute.
Of the 87 normal school graduates
attending the summer session, there
were, 23 men and 64 women. There
were 160 college graduates enrolled
including 118 men and 42 women
The remainder of the enrollment con­sists
of regular A. P. I. undergrad­uates
together with those from other
Southern colleges, Clemson College,
S. C. leading.
Candidates for degrees were:
Bachelor of Science: James Poyton
(Continued on page 6)
NEW OFFICERS
PLACED HERE
FOR R. 0 . T. C.
Two West Point Graduates
Report for Duty
Two United States Army officers,
First Lieut. George B. Barth, and
First Lieut. Clarence P. Townsley,
Jr., have been assigned to the R. O. T
C, staff at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute by the War Department,
according to announcement made Sat
urday by Maj. John T. Kennedy, com
mandant.
Lieutenant Barth, a West Pointer,
who has already reported at Auburn,
will be assistant professor of mili­tary
science and tactics. He was
transferred here from Fort Sill, Okla­homa,
where he Has recently complet­ed
the Battery Officers' course and
since that time has been serving with
the Eighteenth Field Artillery. Lieu
tent Barth served with the American
forces in Germany from July 1919
until February 1923.
First Lieutenant Townsley, Jr., is
also a West Pointer, having served
as instructor in equitation at the U
S. Military Academy for four years
He was commissioned as a first Lieu­tenant
of the Field Artillery in 1919
and is a graduate of the Battery Of­ficers'
Course .Field Artillery School,
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, June 1927. From
1923 until 1927, Lieutenant Townsley
served at Scholfield Barracks, Ha­waii.
Lieutenant Townsley will be as­sistant
professor of military science
and tactics.
Officers who were here last year
and who will direct activities in the
R. O. T. C. during the coming season
are: Maj. John T. Kenedy, P. M. S.
and T„ Capt. J. M. Garrett, Jr. in
charge of Field Artillery unit, First.
Lieut. B. H. Bowley, in charge of the
Engineers unit, Capt. B. C. Anderson,
Instructor in F. A., First Lieut. Wm.
B. Leitch, Instructor in F. A., First.
Lieut. Crowell F. Pease, Instructor
and Supply Officer, and First Lieut.
Wilson B. Higgins, Instructor Engi­neers
unit and Adjutant.
LOVING CUPS TO
BE GIVEN TO
NEW STUDENTS
To be Awarded For Proficiency
In Work During Year
AUBURN RATED
DISTINGUISHED
COLLEGE AGAIN
Wins Coveted Honor for the
Eighth Consecutive Year
Two handsome loving cups are
added to the many possible awards
for men at Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
for the year 1927-28 by Wil­liam
LeGare of Auburn, acucording
announcement made by President
Spright Dowell Thursday.
One cup will go to the Sophomore
student in Engineering who makes
the highest scholarship average dur­ing
the 1927-28 session. Another cup
is offered the Auburn student who is
voted the most valuable football
player fuor the 1927 season, Senior
or last year man excepted.
According to Mr. LeGare these cups
wilul be placed on display at some
prominent point in Auburn early in
the year.
B'HAM BOY
GETS NEWS
SHOLARSHIP
Award Made After a Number
of Applicants Considered
Murff Hawkins of Birmingham
and a graduate of the Woodlawn
High School received the Birming
ham News scholarship to Auburn this
year. The award was made after a
considerate and sympathetic study of
the records of a number of appli
cants.
Young Hawkins is one of eight
children and his mother has been a
widow for over ten years. Through
the countless stings of fate he work­ed
his way through high school by
consistent application of his spare
time. For the past two years he has
been night messenger for the Western
Union. He chose Auburn as the logi­cal
place to Deceive his education but
could not hope to enter here without
the aid of a helping hand.
The conditions under which the
plucky lad struggled, his standing in
school, his scholastic record and his
personal character are such that have
won for him this honor. One may
gain a clear idea of his dauntless
spirit by reading his letter of applica­tion
a part of which is quoted below:
"If you were drowning, would you
not grasp at a straw? That is just
about my plight whenl think of get­ting
a college education, unless I re-receive
outside help—my mother is
65, a widow, and has recently suf­fered
a stroke of paralysis. She has
brought up eight children through
much toil and sacrifice. Only three
have been able to complete a high
school education and I am the young­est
one of the three and of all the
children. My brothers and sisters
are unable to help me to go to col­lege.
. . .1 worked during my vaca­tions
at various places and have
always pleased my employers who
have asked me to return my next va­cation
to my old place which would be
waiting. I worked as a messenger
at night and went to school in the
day time. I am now messenger at
night and go to Wheeler Business Col­lege
in the day time, so that I will
be able to start to work if unable to
attend college. . . .Without hope there
is no great accomplishment."
In spite of the limited time and
energy that this young man has had
for student activities he holds a num­ber
of responsible positions in the
high school and has received a num­ber
of high honors. He is a member
of the National Honor Society, Sec­retary
of the Lee Literary Society,
member of the Ushers Business Man­ager
of the Tattler, senor orator and
won second place in the Constitution­al
Oratorical Contest.
All who possibly can aee the after­noon
shows of Fob James' picture,
please do so.
The Alabama Polytechnic institute
has been selected for the eighth con­secutive
year as a Distinguished Col­lege
by the War Department. This
was the statement made public by
Spright Dowell, President and Brig.
Gen. Lutz Wahl, acting Adjutant
General.
The message reads as follows: "The
Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
been selected as a Distinguished Col­lege.
The Secty. of War extends con­gratulations.".
Thirty six colleges in the United
States at the most may receive this
coveted honor. During the past year
ten of this number were Southern
colleges.
So far as is known Auburn is the
only college that has won this dis­tinct
honor eight consecutive years.
The college received the highest rat­ing
by the War Dept. first in the 1919-
20 session under Maj. Issac Spauld-ing,
Commandant. Maj. Spaulding
was suceeded by Maj. John E. Hatch
who remained here four years. Dur­ing
the past session the cadet corps
have been under the direction of Maj.
John F. Kenedy.
The R. 0. T. C. unit consists of the
Field Artillery and the Engineers.
Until recently an Infantry unit was
maintained. R. O. T. C. instruction
was given 1044 during the past year.
Of this number 307 were in the ad­vanced
courses. ..
Di\ Dowell Welcomes Students
PURDUE WINS
OVER AUBURN
PISTOL TEAM
A. P. I. Loses By One Point in
National Meet
September 5, 1927.
TO RETURNING STUDENTS:-
It is an inspiration and a pleasure to extend to former stu­dents
an official and a personal welcome as they return for
the work of the new year. Auburn is never quite Auburn
when students are away and when buildings and grounds are
not in use to maximum capacity.
We are happy to have the stream of new men who enter each
year to fill the ranks of those who have left and to give new
zest to college life. Even so, we are more happy to have our
old men return because we have learned to appreciate their
faith and loyalty and because they give stability and character
to the college program.
In extending to you official and personal greetings let me
say that Auburn will be in better position to serve you this
year because of what our legislature has done. In turn may I
express the hope that the new year will be the best possible one
for you and for Auburn.
Sincerely yours,
SPRIGHT DOWELL,
President.
SIGMA RH0 GOES
NATIONAL; GETS
PI KAPPA SIGMA
Third National Sorority On
Campus Be Installed Soon
Sigma Rho, a local soroity, has been
granted a charter by Pi Kappa Sigma
and installation will soon be made by
the national officers. Pi Kappa Sigma
was founded Nov. 17, 1894 at Yipsi-lanti,
Michigan; and at present has
twenty-four active chapters. The
Alpha Alpha chapter which has been
granted Sigma Rho makes the third
national sorority on the campus.
Sigma Rho was founded at Au­burn
in 1923. The active membership
of the present chapter is comprised of
the following girls: Beth Seibold,
Sarah Ingram, Alice Whitcher, Irby
Barrett, Mabel Jolinson, Frances
Whaltey and Winnifred Phillips.
If the pistol team of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute could have
scored two additional points, it would
have won the pistol competition of
school having an R. O. T. C. unit of
Field Artillery for the fourth consecu­tive
year. As a result, the honor this
year went to Purdue University with
a score of 1529, while a total for the
Auburn team was 1628. Word to this
effect was received by Maj. John T.
Kennedy from Washington. During
the last five years, Auburn has won
three first places and two seconds.
News of the achievement followed
the rating of Auburn as a distinguish­ed
college for the eighth consecutive
year by the War Department several
days ago. Bronze medals. will be
awarded members of the team.
Competition in the contest was
keen, the leading universities and col­leges
being represented in the match.
The University of Missouri stood
third with a score of 1509; the Uni­versity
of Utah, fourth, with a score
of 1494; and the University of Okla­homa,
fifth, with a score of 1488.
Other colleges with high scores in
order showing their rank are Iowa
State College of A. & M. Arts, Colo­rado
Agricultural College, Princeton
University, which won the contest in
1925, and the Oregon Agricultural.
S. S. Tatum and F. J. Bryant, with
scores of 300, lacked one point of
equaling the individual high score
which was won by F. D. Sturkes of
Purdue with a total of 309. All mem­bers
of the Auburn team shot scores
well above 300.
The Auburn pistol team was again
coached by Lieut. W. B. Leitch, Field
Artillery, members of the R. O. T. C.
staff. The members of the Auburn
team with their home addresses are
S. S. Tatum, Longview; F. J. Bryant,
Gadsden; E. F. Pruitt, Pine Hills; E.
W. Root, Huntsville; and D. P. John­son,
Atlanta.
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FRESHMAN WEEK
IS HUGE SUCCESS
SAYS DOWELL
New Men Become Used to Au­burn
Before Upperclass-men
Arrive
Freshmen week, recently initiated at
Auburn, is declared to be a complete
success by Dr. Dowell, president of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. This
program calls for the freshmen to be
in Auburn, several days before the
old men return, • in order that they
may become familiar with the town,
college and the customs of the college.
Throughout the week they have at­tended
conferences and lectures ex­plaining
the complex phases in stu­dent
life in college. Entertainments
have also been featured by the Y. M.
C. A. and the Student Council. This
organization has been an all-import­ant
factor in showing the new men
around the campus.
Men of this organization have met
the trains and have endeavored in
every way possible to assist the fresh­men
in getting settled. The Y. M. C.
A. has an, index of all the vacant
rooms and the names of homes desir­ing
boarders. If there are any fresh­men
who are still without a place to
stay* they may find rooms by calling
by the Y. M. C. A. Room.
Doctor Dowell welcomed the fresh­men
that gathered in Langdon Hall.
Approximately 400 students were as­sembled
there, to attend the prelimi-ary
exercise before registration.
Educated Dog Gets
His Masters Dip
Sensing the feeling of uncer­tainty
that is apt to haunt any
candidate for a degree before
receiving the registrar's final
recommendation for graduation,
this little dog may have desired
to aid his master in securing a
diploma. Or, the pup may have
possessed some super-dog read­ing
ability, hitherto unknown
among those of his phylum.
Anyway this is what occurred.
During the rush just prior
to the summer school commence­ment
exercises on the 19th of
August, the freshly signed di­plomas
of the graduates were
spread out on tables to dry.
Prof. B. L. Shi was startled to
see a small dog placidly trotting
from the office bearing one of
the coveted sheepskins in his
mouth.
On recovering the diploma it
was found to bear the name of
Holt A. Pitts, the owner of the
dog. When Mr. Pitts came to
the registrar's office seeking in­formation
concerning his grad­uation
his deg had followed him.
DR. MCDONALD PREACHES
FRESHMAN SERMON SUNDAY
OPENING DANCE
PREPARATIONS
ARE UNDER WAY
Carolina Gamecocks Will Fur­nish
Music For Opening
Dances
NOTICE
We want to ask your co-operation
in getting up the 1928 Glomerate.
Help us get it out on time by being
prompt in meeting your picture as­signment,
and if you are doing any
drawings for the fraternities please
have them in on time to avoid any
possible delay in the book... If you
desire to use your last year's picture,
please call at the office at the time
assigned you and we will arrange
for this .
Upperclassmen, help see that
freshmen do not cut their hair until
after their picture is made, because
no one will be allowed in the book
with a shaved head.
ASSOCIATION OF
ARCHITECTURE
PUN PROGRAM
A highly educational and instruc­tive
program has been planned for the
Architectural Association during the
coming term declared Moreland G.
Smith, President. A number of in­teresting
changes in the program have
been worked out, which, we believe,
will be highly beneficial to the stu­dents
in Architecture and Architec­tural
Engineering, further stated Mr.
Smith. ,
During past years the Architecttf1
ral Association has been of untold
value to the students. With the in­creasing
number registered in the
architectural courses it was thought
necessary to broaden the jurisdiction
of the organization.
Interesting variations will be dis­tinguishing
features of the work out­lined.
Aside from the usual discus­sions
of art, in the various forms
there will be'talks and interviews by
practicing architects on subjects of
professional interest. Occasional so­cials
will be an enjoyable variation
from the routine.
New students who expect to regis­ter
in the architectural courses are
urged to apply for membership in
the Architectural Association.
RIDING HALLS
ARE FINISHED
The construction of two large rid­ing
halls has been completed at Au­burn
by the War Department. Ac­cording
to W. B. Lietch, Assistant
Professor of Military Sciences and
Tactics this equipment will greatly
increase the efficiency of riding in­struction
given by the Military De­partment
at the Alabama Polytechnic
(Continued on page 6)
Through the efforts of the Social
Committee .prospects for the opening
dances this year, September 29-30 and
October 1, have reached a high, level.
Early preparations have made pos­sible
the arrangement of an earlier
date this year to avoid conflict with
football games held locally. They will
be held informally in the morning,
afternoon and night under college
regulations.
After quite a bit of deliberation' the
social committee has determined upon
an entirely new orchestra this year,
the Carolina Gamecocks. This group
of eleven has traveled extensively,
having played in Deauville, France, at
the Casino and at Monte Carlo
Cannes. Their contribution will be
a very delightful feature of the pro­gram.
Immediate preparations are now
being made for an Arabian style of
decoration in the Alumni Gymnasium
that will change its appearance to a
greater extent than at any time pre­viously.
The orchestra platform will
be decorated with a silhouette effect
as background. The following fra­ternities
will entertain with house
parties: Kappa Sigma, S. A. E.,
Sigmpa Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi,
and Pi Kappa Alpha.
The dances are to be under the di­rect
management of the Social Com­mittee
aided by the faculty social
committee and Miss Zoe Dobbs, popu­lar
social director. Members of the
former are as follows: B. E. Meadows,
Chairman; H. C. Hopson, M. S. Kest-ler,
Merritt Burns, Bob Parker, E. A.
Conwell, T. N. Boone, Noble Crump,
and Dick Adams. Those of the
faculty committee are: Miss Zoe
Dobbs, Social Director, Prof. M. T
Fullan, Mr. J. V. Brown, Prof. C
L. Hare, Coach W. H. Hutsell, Cap­tain
B. C. Anderson, Dr. B. R. Sho-walter,
Coach R. C. Brown and Coach
J. E. Pitts.
Being given in the honor of the
Sophomore Class the officers of the
class will preside. They include: H.
H. Milligan, President; J. N. Crump,
Vice-President and J. D. Salter, Sec­retary
and Treasurer.
The official chaperones include:
President and Mrs. Dowell, Major
and Mrs. J. T. Kennedy, Captain and
Mrs. B. C. Anderson, Lieutenant and
Mrs. W. B. Lietch, Lieutenant and
Mrs. W. B. Higgins, Prof, and Mrs.
C. L. Hare, Prof, and Mrs. M. T. Ful­lan,
Dr. and Mrs. Showalter, Coach
and Mrs. Dave Morey, Coach and
Mrs. J. E. Pitts, Coach and Mrs. W.
H. Htusell, Coach and Mrs. R. C.
Brown, Coach and Mrs. Slick Moulton
and Miss Dobbs, Social Director.
Auburn First Year Men Told
To Observe Religious Life
at College
Speaking before the newly arrived
freshman class at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, gathered in Langdon
Hall to attend a special religious ser­vice
honoring the new students, Dr.
Frank McDonald, pastor of Woodlawn
Baptist Church, Birmingham, used the
subject, "Model Thyself." This serv­ice,
which was attended in a body by
approximately 400 freshmen, was a
high point in the activities of Fresh­man
Week, conduced at Auburn Sept.
8 to 13 for the purpose of assisting the
new men in making the proper adjust­ment
to college life.
Dr. McDonald illustrated his ser­mon,
carrying as its main theme the
fashioning of one's life after that of
Christ, by reference to the delicate
skill of the potter as he spins his
wheel while forming clay into a beau­tiful
vessel and by the conscious in­fluence
which Paul exerted on the
life of Timothy in shaping the latter's
life after that of the Master.
"One must keep the valuable and
worthwhile parts of his life intact,"
said Dr. McDonald." In this connec­tion
he pointed out that one's religi­ous
success is dependent upon the ex­tent
to which he recognizes and con­serves
his finer and more useful po­tentialities
for religious work.
Dr. McDonald stated that courage
must be the characteristic of the emi­nently
successful individual in his ef­fort
to model his life to the example
set by Christ.
The sermon, which was based on
the Scripture lesson in II Timothy 1,
read by Dr. J. R. Edwards, pastor of
Auburn Baptist Church, was a spark­ling
discourse interspersed with hu­mor.
PHI ALPHA CHI
GETS HOUSE
The members of the Gamma chap­ter,
Phi Alpha Chi sorority at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, have
secured a house for the next two
years, according to Miss Lillian Dunn,
president. Heretofore, the members
have resided in Smith Hall, the wo­men's
dormitory.
This is the first sorority at Auburn
to gain sufficient strength in point of
membership and initiative to be ac­corded
the privilege by the college au­thorities
of occupying a home of its
own.
The Auburn chapter of the Phi Al­pha
Chi, a national sorority, secured
its charter in May, 1927. At the
present tme there are three national
sororities and one local on the Au­burn
campus. The nationals with the
years of establishment are: Kappa
Delta, 1922; Chi Omega, 1923; and
Phi Alpha Chi, 1927. The Sigma
Rho is a local sorority.
COLLEGE NIGHT
PROGRAM WILL
REVIVE SPIRIT
First Mass Meeting Be Held
Saturday Night
New men and old men will have
their first -get to-gether of the year
at the Annual College night which
will be held at Langdon Hall. There
will be speeches by students and mem­bers
of the faculty. Songs and
cheers will resound to gladden the
hearts of all the old men and make
the freshmen thrill to the Auburn
Spririt. The famous Auburn Band
will be out in full glory.
Upper classmen are urged to pre­vail
upon all "rats" to be present,
and to give them the encouragemont
of their presence. Be at Langdon
Hall 7:30 P. M. Saturday night and
help start the ball rolling.
NEW PICTURE
SHOW WILL BE
CONSTRUCTED
During the summer months the
management of the Tiger Theatre
purchased the equipment and operat­ing
rights of the College Picture
Show. The operation of the latter
has been discontinued.
Owing to the limited capacity of
the Tiger Theatre, Foreman Rogers,
manager, announced that construction
of a new and larger playhouse will
go forward shortly. Such a theatre
will be of sufficient size and equip­ment
to meet the needs of a discrim­inating
public.
The Tiger Theatre Orchestra has
been reorganized and is now under
the direction of Mrs. Mary Askew.
Music is cued to the picturs thereby
making a more enjoyable program.
The bookings for the Autumn sea­son
contain the best selection of pho­toplays
heretofore presented in Au­burn.
The students may now see­the
leading film production^ at pop­ular
prices.
P«W« »
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STAFF
Rosser Alston Editor-in-chief
H. C. Hopson - - Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
C. D. Greentree, '28 Associate Editor
R. C. Cargile, '28 Associate Editor
J. B. McMillan, '29 - Managing Editor
C. R. DeArman, '29 News Editor
Ludwig A. Smith, '29 Associate News Editor
J. W. Powers, '29 - Proofreader
J. E. Taylor, '30 -— Proofreader
Coke Matthews, '29 Bulletin Board
Max Kahn, '28 - -- Sports Editor
Celeste Nesbitt, '28 Co-ed Editor
J. W. nRadle, '28 Exchange Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 '. Humor Editor
REPORTERS
P. F. Crenshaw, '29; J. W. Mills, '30; J. D.
Salter, '30; G. N. Sparrow, '30; Harry
Wise, '28; Rex Sikes, '30; S. S. Tatum,
'28; R. B. Kelso, '30; K. Kimbrough, '28;
Chas. Howard, '-30; V. Savage, Jr., '30;
B. B. C. Lile, '30; J. F. Mitchell, '30; J.
A. Baird.
BUSINESS STAFF
H. W. Glover ..... Ass't Business Mgr.
Geo. Williams Advertising Manager
L. P. Dumas Ass't Advertising Mgr.
W. M. Baxter Ass't. Advertising Mgr.
Geo. Hahn - Circulation Mgr.
A. C. Taylor ...... Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
Gradly Mosley Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
To successfully carry on a business en­terprise
involves expense. There are cer­tain
investments that are necessary to pro­vide
for the advancement of the organiza­tion
along its several lines of endeavor.
The changing population of Auburn is
one of exacting tastes. Those who invest
in a college town must make money during
the college year to tide them over the sum­mer
months. Such a state of affairs will
not foster the continued growth of the en­terprises
of our city. One of the promin­ent
merchants in Auburn states that the
net profits from sales during the summer
months were only twenty five dollars. This
amount was not enough to pay for keeping
the store open during that period,
Property in Auburn is high. This is the
case in all college towns. Returns must be
made in nine months to equal those made
in twelve. Trade fluctuates. During the
time when college is not in session there
is a decided slump in sales.
The merchants of Auburn are called
upon to support every activity carried on
in the town. They are continually asked to
subscribe to and advertise in our publica­tions.
We do not wish to arouse any sympathy
among the readers for any business men
in Auburn. They do not want it. There
should exist a mutual agreement between
merchant and student body. The business
men have supported our publications and
will continue to do so. Let us retaliate by
lending our support and trading with them.
There are a number of firms in nearby
cities who appreciate your patronage. No­tice
their advertisements in our paper.
TO THE FRESHMAN
Freshmen, now that you have enrolled
in one of the greatest educational institu­tions
in the world, and cast your lot with
that institution for the ensuing four years,
it would be a good idea for you to reflect
for a few moments, and try to see if you
N
can give any logical excuse for being here.
If, after trying to excuse your being here,
you should fail to arrive at a good reason
you are in a bad way.
Did you come to college just to please
Mother and Dad, or did you come because
you wanted to do so? Are you here with
no purpose in view, or are you here for a
definite purpose? This is the very time in
which you are rapidly taking your future
into your own hands more than you have
ever done before, and the habits, ambitions,
and ideals that you form within the next
four years are those which you will most
likely carry through life with you.
If you have no definite purpose, you be­long
in the world out side the halls of
learning, for only those who have an end
in view are likely to succeed in college.
Many of the freshmen who enter here, each
year, are forced to withdraw from college
before thefirst term is ended. Why is this
true? There are several reasons, but the
greatest reason is the fact that the freshies
didn't have any aim when they came here,
and as a result were negligent in their
studies and failed. Thus they are forced to
leave college and are no better for having
entered.
It is not the freshman who does the
most fresh stunts, cuts the most classes, or
acts the^reatest fool, that get the best re­sults
from his work in college. Though
these qualities may be mixed with good
scholarship, they are not found very fre­quently,
and should be avoided,. Don't try
to be the most noticed freshman on the
campus by indulging in the above men­tioned
evils of the freshmen. Remember
that you are here to make useful, success­ful
citizens of yourselves, and not to make
"jackasses" by any means. Many others
wish for the opportunity which you are now
enjoying, but never gets it. You have the
opportunity, so use it.
The man who gets the best, choicest po­sitions
after leaving college is the man who
does his college work rather than the man
who cuts the most classes, or has the most
grades of 60% on his college records.
True a grade of 60 is a pass, but it is the
one unfailing evidence that you don't know
anything, also.
Freshmen, the man is valuable to his in-stistution,
and whose memory is held dear
by the institution is the man who came to
that institution with a definite purpose in
view, worked to attain that end, and suc­ceeded
in life, rather than the man who
fell by the wayside before he finished col­lege
work, or who just managed to pass,
and then failed in life. If you love Au­burn
and have the right kind of Auburn
Spirit, get into your books with a determi­nation
to succeed, and keep on keeping on.
Auburn loves a fighter.
WELCOME OLD MEN
Auburn again "swarms" with an en­thusiastic
student body as registration
opens, after a pleasant vacation of several
months. Judging from the pleasant greet­ings
about the campus and on the streets
of Auburn there has grown from our asso­ciation
here a spirit of friendship that will
always exist among the men long after col­lege
days are over and we meet the world
together. « ,
• A very striking inspiration seems to
arise as the halls again echo and resound
with student voices and heavon seems to
smile on the institution offering another
prosperous year—prosperous mentally,
physically and socially.
There is no doubt that if the motive of
a student returning to college be analyzed
it would be found that strong enthusiasm
exists in the heart of every man at Au­burn
to reap the benefits that human ef­forts*
now afford us in making possible an
institution of this type, which provides for
the advanced study of the works of man.
With the idea in mind that we have re­turned
to Auburn not to continue a social
vacation but to face work whole hearted-ly
we can then weave around that strong
purpose our endeavors for pleasure.
The faculty and all Auburn welcomes
every man as he returns this year to re­sume
responsibilities and they wish him the
best success during the coming year.
ALL COLLEGE NIGHT
There are times, when it is best to fol­low
the crowd. At least this is true when
we refer to certain college activities.
Those who would like to continue their
college course without jeopardizing their
health and best interests are advised to call
at Langdon Hall at seven thirty Saturday
night. There will be a physician in at­tendance.
To the new men All College Night will
be the first serving of the Auburn Spirit.
To the old event will be a real revival.
The program has been well worked out
by the Y. M. C. A. Aside from the talks
by representatives of the student body the
coaching staff will discuss the prospects of
the coming season. The Famous Auburn
Band will probably be a popular attraction.
This meeting, the first get-together of
the year will be the first chance for the
new men to familiarize themselves with
the college yells and songs. Attention is
called to the section in the Rat Bible re­garding
cheering. The old men should
coach the frosh and so acquaint them with
the cheers that they may be given wth less
effort on the part of the cheerleader.
MASS EDUCATION OR?
According to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley,
noted educator and health authority there
are certain adavntages to be had only in
the small colleges. Those who have select­ed
the smaller institutions of higher learn­ing
have probably unknowingly made wise
decisions. It is more advantageous for the
student to attend a college near his home
on account of the expense and inconven­ience
involved.
The great universities with present-day
enrollments of 5,000 to 25,000 are tike
factories, turning out graduates supplied
with specific facts on certain subjects, but
they lack the intimate contacts between
teacher and students and the congenial
community life which deevlops character
and fosters culture.
One of the outgrowths of college life is
the development of one's individuality. In
the larger institutions there is little room
for self expression. All is lost in the big­ness
of the oranization. There is a lack of
interest among the student body. Espec­ially
is this true in the graduate schools
where the cosmopolitan group has no in­terest
in the college.
"The real benefit of the small college
lies in the fact that its students are indi­viduals.
They know their professors. They
are not simply a number in a huge herd,
without recognition or individuality.
"In a commencement in which from one
to two thousand graduates receive their
diplomas, as is the case in many of our
large universities, there is no individuality.
There may be a few who have graduated
with honors, but most of them rise and,
without even answering to their names,
are given the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
or whatever other degree they may re­ceive.
"The whole benefit of personal contact
with the professor, the advantage of his
personal and sympathetic attention and
his interest in each individual character as
it is unfolded before him during the years
of the association, are all lacking in this
mass instruction.
"The safety of the future, the purity of
learning and the efficieny of teaching are
all intimately bound up with the small ed­ucational
unit.
FRATERNITIES
Should a man be asked to join a
fraternity we would say that he has
no more important question to de­cide
while in college. It is a ques­tion
involving deep consideration and
investigation and should not be an­swered
without knowing some things
about the group.
One should consider whether he
would fit in with the fraternity
group. One should compare the type
of men in the chapter to himself. Do
they enjoy the same things that I do?
What is their standing on the cam­pus?
Would they prove to be the
kind of fellows I would like to be my
friends during my college course?
What advantages does one enjoy by
holding membership in a fraternity?
Will it pay? What are the expenses
involved?
It is well to remember that when
ont is pledged to or joins a fraternity
one is selecting an organized group of
friends with which he will be in con­tact
with while in college. This alone
may mean your success or failure in
your career. One should not consider
too carefully whether he would fit into
the group.
Another thing that should enter
into the selection is the standing of
the chapter on the campus. It is well
to think of these things because you
would be placed in that sphere should
you decide to join. In the national
fraternity one should not overlook the
character and standing *>f the na­tional
order.
There are a number of advantages
that come with membership in a fra­ternal
order. Some of these vary with
the fraternity. All give a certain so­cial
prestige which a non-frat man
does not enjoy. There are many good
men who are not to be found on the
fraternity, roster who have not joined
although given the opportunity to do
so several times. The greater number
of campus leaders to be found among
the Greeks. Residence in a frat
house if life among friends who en­joy
the things of youth. There is a
sense of pride—fraternal pride
among fraternity men that is to be
found no where else. It is organized
spirit. The influence of a fraternity
may follow a man through after life
and enable him to get along better in
the world.
The disadvantages should be con­sidered
at this time as one should
look at the subject from more than one
angle. The modern Greek letter
order may be detrimental to the indi­vidual
and in a way to the best in­terests
of the student body. A fra­ternity
man may get so enthusiastic
over his group that it may mean the
exclusion of all else. It causes a mob
spirit to exist that is antagonistic
toward the man who does not wear a
frat pin. In certain colleges there is
strife between the fraternities and
the non-frat men. This fortunately is
not the case at Auburn. In the matter
of class and college elections the
crooked politics by exchange of votes
between fraternity groups often
means the placing of men in respon­sible
positions who are wholly incom­petent.
We might continue to consider both
sides of the matter of fraternities but
we feel that it is needless to enter
into any lengthy discussion. You will
soon learn about them and we believe
that you will, after weighing the
facts, form a favorable opinion of the
fraternal system as it exists in our
American colleges.
OUR FRIENDS
Friendship exerts a powerful influence
on the individual. A thing of such vital
importance cannot be tampered with or
even passed by. It demands the attention
of a student to such an extent that failure
to recognize it may mean the ruin of not
only himself but of others.
As long as human nature lasts, as long as
men are men there will be a noticeable
presence of that regard for others. This
rule holds true no matter how exclusive,
selfish or thoughtless a group may be. It
is a natural law that "birds of a feather
flock together". It asserts itself in groups,
cliques, fraternities, and organizations.
Fortunately there is little friction between
these. This is easily seen when one stops
to realize that each is so wrapped up with
interest in his particular organization that
almost everything else is excluded.
It is not our desire to enter into a dis­cussion
of fraternities nor to condemn any
group but to point out the importance of
friendship.
A man who has many friends has none at
all. It is advisable to shun undue popu­larity
and associate with those who will
mean more to us in afterlife.
Letters to the Editor
He: Did you hear the audience weep
when I died in the last scene?
She: Sure. Can you blame them?
They knew you were only acting.
ALL WHO POSSIBLY CAN SEE THE
AFTERNOON SHOWS OF FOB JAMES'
PICTURE, PLEASE DO SO.
Dear Sir:
The time has come when Auburn again
throbs with new life as the students re­turn
and new men fill the vacancies left
by those who do not return. It remains for
the new men to carry on. They have many
things to reckon with in student life. None
will mean quite so much to the college man
as the strict adherence to the principles of
honor. There is no business enterprise or ac­tivity
of any kind- that is not founded di­rectly
or indirectly on the honesty of its
component parts or those it serves. When
I was in college I had the good pleasure to
serve on the staff of your paper. Every
week we would get several hundred pieces
of mail that represented the efforts of
firms or individuals who were trying to
get something for nothing. These always
found the waste basket They were dross
so to speak. The same is true of the stu­dent
in college who has opportunities to
be dishonest. There may appear rather al­luring
sidetracks but it will be found the
best policy to discard them.
A college,is rated by the product it turns
out. If a diploma is to be worth much
there must be honest work behind it. I
am a loyal Auburn man and admire those
who get what they go after. The best
thing that has happened in the last several
years in regard to personal honor was the
expulsion of the old system. When'a thing
will not work the best thing to do is to
dispose of it. %I truly believe that the action
of the student body was altogether appro­priate.
I do not mean to be preaching but I do
trust that this little bit of advice will mean
something to the reader.
Before coming to Auburn I attended a
military school where an honor system was
strongly enforced. Any one breaking its
•laws were dismissed after being given due
trial. When I came to college I was in a
way prepared. I was then under practic­ally
the same conditions that I had been
during the years of my preparatory train­ing.
There was small inclination to be dis­honest
on my part. My classmates who had
not been subjected to such implicit trust
previous to their entering college were
weak along these lines. They were under
a new regime. They took the crooked
course because they were unprepared—not
because they were essentially dishonest.
There is no such thing as an honor sys­tem
that will work one hundred percent in
any college. We can only approach the
ideal. When the student who enters col­lege
for the first time is brought to the
realization of the fact that honesty is not
only the best policy but the constant prac­tice
of it is the only way that his work
there will amount to anything then there
will be one step forward along the lines of
an honor system that will approach the
ideal. If the high schools would put as
much stress on personal honesty as they
do on other things their graduates would
add materially to the standards of honor
in college. As long as the higher institu­tions
are continually fed by the high schools
where there is no honor then, we cannot
hope for more than we have.
I was especially interested in an article
that appeared in a recent number of the
American Magazine about the President of
the Brooklyn Edison Company, an old Au­burn
man. He had a very responsible
chair to fill which paid a fabulous salary.
To fill it he must find an honest man. The
man who got the job was a fellow classmate
of the executive's while in college. He rem­embered
hiB attitude while in college was
straight. It pays to be honest and fore-square,
yes it pays.
An Auburn Man
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Students who come to Auburn have al­ways
found that it was a dificult proposi­tion
to find jobs. This is probably due to
« BOOK REVIEW %
O'NEILL'S MARCO MILLIONS
Boni and Liveright
Eugene O'Neill is regarded by many as
the best American dramatist and by some
the most talented living writer of plays in
English. Though he has not been popular
on Broadway, he has written many success­ful
plays and has attained the approval of
competent critics and readers.
O'Neill's view of life as a disastrous frus­tration
of the individual spirit, a wet blan­ket
smothering heart's desires, has made
wide popularity impossible. Unfortunately,
to be popular, one must not criticise "go-getters",
exhibit the ambitious as failing,
show love hopelessly thwarted, or doubt the
glorious success of our commerce or civil­ization.
ONeill has chosen to be a critic
of life as it is now being lved; he has' dared
to say that the best possibilities of life are
unattainable now, though he has not laid
the blame unmistakably on either indivi­dual
weakness or society, or life itself. '
In Marco Millions, he has chosen to give
us a satiric picture of Marco Polo, the mer­chant,
the money-maker. Apparently he
intends his Marco to be a typical captain
of commerce, the forward-looking "go-get-terf."
Substantially the play follows the
outline of Polo's own story, opening with
the journey to visit Kublai Khan, showing
the Polos' long residence in China, their ser­vice
as escort to Princess Kukachin to her
future home in Persia, and then the re­turn
to Venice, where Marco enjoys his mil­lions
and his fame.
There are anachronisms. Marco found
paper money in China and did not intro­duce
it. He organizes the order of the
Cock of Paradise and the Mystic Order of
Knights of Confucius and other vanities
like modern promoters. But such inconsis­tencies
give point to the dramatists bur­lesque
of the childish egotism of success,
the insanity #f parading and masquerading
orders and brotherhoods with pumped-up
enthusiasm for small aims.
O'Neill might have written an epic of
medieval business, showing how money-get­ting
throve in spite of kings and marauders.
He needed only to carry over to his play
the romance long since haloing Marco's ca-rer,
in order to make living business men
feel honored by their predecessor in shrewd
trading. There might have been a little
less satirical fun, some outwitting of kings,
a few absent-minded philosophers, and
enough danger and imprisonment for a
near-tear or two and—yes, a thrilling love
affair happily consummated. This told
with Mr. O'Neill's skill would have capti­vated
the knights of the suit-case, the colo­nels
of commerce, and we should have had
a Broadway success. He might have pat­ted
us on the back for living in an age sub­ject
to the paternalism of modern business,
but he didn't.
Instead Marco is without a soul, is in­capable
of reflecting, knows human nature
just well enough to sell goods, is a hustler
with an empty head. Our spiritual Tom
Thumb is ambitious to shape the destiny
of nations, but his whole thought is con­sumed
with the appetite for goods, luxury,
power and the ways of gratifying it. Three
capital scenes show him at his worst. The
first is that in which he is taken to task
by Kublai and Chu Yin for destroying na­tive
culture and the innocent pleasure in
Yang-Chau, a city which he governed for
awhile. Here he boasts of the huge in­come
from a democratic tax which reached
everybody but failed to touch excess pro­fits,
which of course in business seldom or
the small town in which the college is situ­ated.
There are a number of jobs offered
to worthy boys by the college. On the
other hand the business men of the town
have been obliging to needy students by at­tractive
offers of jobs. There is a great
deal of work done on the campus and col­lege
buildings that could be done by stu­dent
labor.
Some months ago a number of students
were turned off and negro janitors hired to
do the work. This step was tatien when
the students did not clean up during a col­lege
holiday. There was no excuse for such
action on the part of the Custodian. The
writer is not familiar with the way the
janitor work is being done in the seveial
college buildings but I do know that the e
are some jobs that any student may hand e
with the same satisfaction that they are
now being done with colored labor.
The Y. M. C. A. employment service is
filled with numerous applications for work
from students. Each year some boy per­haps
does not attend college because there
are no jobs. I know of two boys in my
home town who would have come to Auburn
had there been any work that they could
do.
During the past summer the Students
Club was closed which leaves a number of
football men without jobs. This was the
only work the college had to offer athletes.
The discontinuation of the picture show has
meant that they will be little work for the
musicians.
I would like for someone interested in the
welfare of the needy student to offer some
solution to the problem and express his
views in this column.
never occur. Thanks to his childish vanity
and his obtuseness, he never sees the fun
Kublai and his wise old adviser get in punc­turing
his proverbs of success. Then there
is the triumphant scene in Venice where
he banquets and dazzles the populace with
his wealth and his vanity, where he—
though not unsmirched in his loyalty to
true love—parades a passion which he can­not
feel and receives the plaudits of the
mob.
One of the most effective scenes of all,
however, is that in which Princess Kuka­chin,
who having loved him passionately
and having failed in a final effort to find
a soul beneath his crust of vanity and greed,
orders a banquet that he may gourge him­self
with a joy that he understands and
showers over his kneeling figure handfuls
of gold coins from her royal chests. He
could not really love and therefore he had
no daring in mental and spiritual discov­ery.
Unable to conceive a philosophic calm
that comes from seeing life from more than
one point of view and unaware of the tan­talizing
mystery of existence, he found
pleasure only in fussy activity, gain, and
theatrical display.
Is Mr. O'Neill scornful of the business
man's attitude toward art and literature?
Is he satirizing those who look upon drama
as the source of a good wholesome laugh,
a satisfying thrill to finish off the day
after a good dinner, to soothe minds bruis­ed
in the class of serious things during the
day?
Undoubtedly, but there's more. He is
not simply now as in some earlier plays
showing frustrations, but he is showing
one refuge from them, theua, the calm un­ruffled
philosophy of Chu Yin's watchful
waiting before existence. Anything is bet­ter
than the blind mouthing of trade, the
shallow vanity of riches. It is not so much
the obstancles of race and rank as Marco
Polo's complacent insensibility to finer is­sues
of spirit that makes a tragedy of Ku-kachin's
passionate, romantic love. There
is frustration, but it not without hope. The
calm oriental tolerance, the disillusioned in-differnce,
the thoroughly intelligent- but
unimpassioned gaze on the mystery of ex­istence
is, to Mr. O'Neill's new mood, ideal.
One may hardly wonder now whether
O'Neill's soul, painfully nonplussed in Be
yond the Horizon, the Hairy Ape, and other
plays, will find peace in a personal reli­gion,
a hard-won philosophy of life. He
now suggests a way to overcome the futili­ties
of human desire.
Marco Millions is a significant artistic
success. Its satire enlivened by burlesque
at times is controlled and sure of its target.
It has the large sweep of Elizabethan ro­mances
like Tamburlaine or Antony and
Cleopatra. Of course its lacks their faith,
their certainty of truth and order in the
world and it lacks their rushing clash of
incident, but our play is symbolic, finding
its relish in poetic suggestion, philosophic
reflection, rather than in action. That is
to say, it belongs to our time. The scenery
and situation are admirably harmonized
with the speeches of their characters to
give us the mood of the poet and dramatist.
It is not planned for those who wish a
thrill and a laugh to tone up a weary brain
and they will read the play with a feeling
of disgust or an uneasy sense of bewilder­ment.
Unfortunate they are, however, if they
find no joy in the expansive fanciful exotic
scenes, no thrill and no pity in the tragedy
of Princess Kukachin's romantic love, no
sense in the satiric arrows loosed upon our
commercial Vanity Fair, no sense of peace
in the inspired acquiescence of Chu-Yin.
A copy of Marco Millions may be found
in our library.
BLIND TIGER
He called her his main support because
she always stood him up.
A little girl left in charge of her tiny
brother called out: "Mother, won't you
please speak to baby? He's sittin on the
fly paper, and there are lots of flies wait­ing
to get on."
All is fair in love and fraternity houses.
"Say, girlie, didja wear those flowers I
sentcha?"
"Nothing else but, big fellow."
"Golly, that musta been a startling cos­tume."
Love—a combination on clouds and a
pain in the solar plexus.
Satanic Assistant: There's a saxophone
player at the gate.
Satan: Take his saxophone away from
him and let him in.
"Pop, I want to go to college."
"What do you want to go to college for?
The travelling salesmen know just as good
ones.
ALL WHO POSSIBLY CAN SEE THE
AFTERNOON SHOWS OF FOB JAMES'
PICTURE, PLEASE DO SO.
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Welcome Students!
We are happy to have'the students
of the college with us again. Every
department of our church organiza­tion
extends a most cordial welcome to
our student friends. A special word
of greeting is extended to the Fresh­men
who are with us for the first
time.
A number of letters have come to
to the pastor commending some of
these young people and urging our
workers to enlist them in our service.
The pastor, student pastor, church
leader, stewards, and all leaders in
our church will count it a joy indeed
to know these students personally and
to serve them in every possible way.
The Methodists desire the honor of
your presence on Sundays to the fol­lowing
functions:
Sunday School at 9:30.
Morning services of the church at
11:00 A. M.
Epworth Leagues at their several
meeting places at 6:30 P. M.
Evening servces of church at 7:30.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:00.
Our hearts are with the students.
METHODIST CHURCH, AUBURN
W. H. McNeal, Pastor
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Students who were absent from the
term examinations and those who
made grades from 50 to 59 should pre­pare
to stand during the week of
September 26-October 1, as scheduled
below. Conditioned subjects must be
repeated in class unless a re-examina­tion
is passed within six months after
the regular examination. Only one
re-examination will be given.
No conditioned grades of Seniors
made prior to the second semester of
the Senior -year may be cleared by
re-examination after the regularly
scheduled re-examination period in the
first semester of the re-examinations
or arrange to repeat in class.
Students must secure a card from
the Registrar and notify the instruc­tor
concerned. A fee of $2.00 for
each examination is charged but the
maximum cost is fixed at $5.00. A
student will be excused from his regu­lar
class work which conflicts with
this examination schedule.
All re-examination grades, whether
passing or faling, should be reported
promptly to the Registrar. A passing
re-examination grade will be record­ed
as 60.
SCHEDULE
I Monday, Sept. 26—A. M., Horticul­ture
and Economics; P. M., English
and Farm Management.
Tuesday, Sept. 27—A. M., History
and Pharmacy; P. M., Mathematics
and Animal Industry.
Wednesday, Sept. 28—A. M., Edu­cation,
Foreign Language, Highway
Engineering and Elec. Engineering;
P. M., Zoology, Entomology, Drawing,
and Machine Design-
Thursday, Sept. 29—Home Econo­mics,
Physics, Veterinary Medicine; P.
M., Chemistry.
Friday, Sept. 30—A. M., Agronomy,
Civil Engineering, Surveying, Physi
cal Training; P. M., Botany, Archi­tecture,
Agr. Engineering, Mech. En­gineering,
Heat Engines, Mechanics,
etc.
Saturday, Oct. 1—A. M., R. O. T. C.
B. L. SHI, Registrar.
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S. C. D0WDELL
PASSES AWAY
Silas Charles Dowdell, 69, a promi­nent
citizen and member of one of
the oldest Auburn families died here
suddenly at 7:30 A. M. Tuesday in
the home of his son-in-law, Homer
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illness of two days. The funeral was
held from the home of Homer Wright
Wednesday afternoon.
Graduating at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute in 1879, he lived in
Toras, Louisiana for thirty years
where he engaged in farming. On
returning to Auburn in 1909 he was
postmaster and later served as ex­press
agent up until the failure of
his health several years ago.
Mr. Dowdell was a Mason, a mem­ber
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra­ternity
while a student at Auburn and
for many years a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. On
November 17, 1894, he married Mrs.
William C. Nelson of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
Mr. Dowdell is survived by a step­son,
James D. Nelson, Harmon,
Louisiana; a son, David M. Dowdell,
Lorman, Mississippi; two daughters,
Mrs. Jos. Johnson, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; Mrs. Homer Wright, Au­burn;
four sisters, Mrs. L. B. Mer­rick,
New Orleans, Louisiana; Mrs.
H. D. Lipscomb, Auburn; Mrs. B. B.
Ross, Auburn; Mrs. C. H. Davis, Au­burn;
and a brother, A. L. Dowdell,
Lafayette.
The pall-bearers were: Prof. C. L.
Hare, Emil Wright, S. L. ToOmer, W.
D. Martin, Dr. C. S. Yarbrough and
W. V. Jones, all of Auburn.
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Varsity Eleven Begins to Take
Shape in Practice Second Week;
Brings Forth More Candidates
With only a few more days left to
determine just who is who in the line
of football material out at Drake
Field, the three score candidates for
the initial eleven are putting every
ounce of muscle, vim and vigor into
their practice. But the real diffi­culty
lies with Coach Morey! It
being his individual business to de­cide
the best man for each particular
position. And with so short a time
and so many aspirants, not mention­ing
the vacancies to be filled; 'tis no
wonder that he has to hustle. But all
in all, despite the loss of the star
quarter-back, the 1927 Auburn Tiger
Varsity is going to be one that will
make even the most fastidious hold
their head on high.
The front wall is to be made up of
varsity, scrub and Frosh material.
The center of the line will be occupied
by none other than Captain "Pop"
Patterson, playing his third year on
King Daves squad. Other candidates
for the pivot position are: "Dink"
Logan, Burt, and Carter, J. E. Flank­ing
the center will be avery stalwart
pair of guards, "Mut" Gregory,
"Dummy" Howard, "Pete" Spinks
and Turner showing the most stuff at
the post. As for tackles, four letter
men will fight it out, and it is to be
a real fight because they are all big
and bid fair to stop all opponents.
This quartet includes: "Red" Carter,
Riley Cunningham, "Bull" Andress
and Hopson Pearce. Merritt Burns
and "Goofy" Ingram will be back at
their old post at the terminal and
should prove a very baffling pair
considering the manner in which they
performed last season. To fill the
different jobs in the line is going to
be a difficult problem. The scrub and
Frosh material is numerous, heavy
and fast. Any man that does not
stick to his task and give his best will
find another in his place and the var­sity
is not to be made up of reputa­tions.
A varsity man last season is
not necessarily one this year and the
different candidates seem to realize
this.
The back field is the hardest part.
With "Tuxy' Tuxworth missing, King
David will have to literally make a
quarter back. Tux was counted on to
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THERE WILL BE CLOS­ED
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ALUMNI MAGAZINE
WILL BE PUBLISHED
An Alumni Bi-monthly Magazine
has been arranged for this year and
will be under the editorship of Mr. J.
V. Brown, who recently assumed his
position as Faculty Chairman of Ath­letics
and Executive Secretary of the
Alumni Association.
The first issue will appear before
the Home-Coming game, October 8.
It will be a thirty page publication of
news of interest to all Alumni. There
will be a Personal Section and an Ath­letic
Section. This latter section will
be written by the coaches on prospects
for the coming season.
run the team and has had two years
to prove his ability. At present there
are four very likely aspirants for the
helm. Adams, a Senior has scrubbed
for three years at this point and is
very promising, but the competition
he is receiving from, Lively, Ward
and Crawford is forming another
problem for each to toil at. All are
in-experienced as far as Southern
Conference foot-ball goes, but will im­prove
with the first few scrimmages
and games.
Probably, the best filled part of the
Eleven will be the half-backs. With
three of last years varsity again
running and three former Frosh can­didates
surviving, Morey has about
the fastest men in Dixie to select his
end skirters from. Snider, the fleet­est
of all, should show his back to
more than a few other Conference
foes and if he ever gets loose there
is no catching him. He is also a valu­able
man in that he has the ability to
overtake a man once he gets away.
"Mike" Fisher is likely the most de­pendable
as far as knowledge is con­cerned
and is splendid at backing up
the line. Mike does not lack much at
keeping pace with Snider. Then
"Buck" Ellis is another speed demon.
Buck is also adaptable to the punting
job. Assisting Ellis is another edu­cated
toe artist, Jim Crawford. Bol­ton
Shotts, who has been hurling his
180 pounds against Auburn's opposi­tion
for the past two years will be
back for the final touches and will
Captain the team when "Pop" is ab­sent.
Granger and Mosely will assist
Bolton at full.
The above mentioned men are the
probable favorites for the different
positions, but there are about three
times as many hustling young athletes
opposing them in the contest for the
longed for first string place. After
registration, practices are only held
once a day but before there were
were morning workouts as well as
evening task.
All in all, with the excellent morale
that now exist among the players and
the even more excellent spirit being
show by the students, the coming sea­son
should be one of the best in sev­eral
years even tho our pennant hopes
are not so bright as they might be.
But glory, does not necessarily come
in victory. A good loser is far bet­ter
than a good winner. And Auburn
is known for her fine manly spirit
Rat Prospects Uncertain; More
Than One Hundred Come Out
At this early date there is little to
be known of the prospects of the
Freshman football team of the com­ing
season. If the fighting spirit of
all time at Auburn means anything
to these new arrivals there is little
to worry about as the Rats swing
into action this fall. These .boys seem
to be already filled with the stuff
that has made Auburn teams write
pages of history in the football world.
They are out there on the freshman
football field passing and kicking the
oval and doing all the other things
necessary to turn out a team with the
vim and vigor of a bunch that expect
to do things right. They seem to
realize that they have a hard schedule
ahead of them and to be making prep­arations
accordingly.
Coach Brown, and his assistant,
Harry Fox, are confronted with a
very perplexing problem in turning
out a first class team. They are
greeted by all state men from more
than one state and many others who
have won laurels on their local grids.
There are at present about a hundred
and twenty-five out, and doubtless
many of them will stick to the end.
Picking a football team from so large
a number is no small job. When one
takes into consideration that these
men are strange to each other and
to the coaches the complexity of the
situation seems to increase. How­ever,
Coach Brown can be depended to
handle these men in a manner that
will make us all proud of them.
One of the main difficulties con­fronting
Coach Brown at present is
securing uniforms for all the men out.
He expects to have all the men out­fitted
in a few days though, and then
the whole bunch will get down to
work in earnest. Those who have
already secured uniforms have been
running a few simple signals, pass­ing,
punting, and doing grass drill
for the last week.
Nothing as to the showing anv of
the prospects can be expected to make
can be accurately judged yet. How­ever,
from early indications the line
is going to be very good. Several
promising looking linesmen have been
cavorting around on the field for the
last week. The backfield material
does not look so exceptionally at this
stage of the game, but of course
the outlook may change materially be­fore
the season gets under way. Sev­eral
rodents of reputation are out for
the squad this year. Among these
are Jacobs, a 260 pound tackle from
Bessemer; Sheehan, Taylor, Wingo,
Bell, Sullivan, Dreaden, Bearden, Har-kins,
Malone, Frazier, and about a
hundred more. Tliese boys have a
strenuous two weeks ahead of them,
the first game coming with the How­ard
Bull-pups October the first. This
game will be played either on the
campus or at Selma, the exact place
has not been definitely decided yet.
The week following, or October the
eighth, the rodents hop down to Jack­sonville,
Florida, to engage the Uni­versity
of Florida Freshmen. Then
comes two weeks before the next af­fray,
which is with the Tulane Fresh­men
at New Orleans. On October the
twenty-ninth the Rats have a tilt
scheduled with the University of
Georgia Bull-pups at Montgomery.
The final game of the Rat schedule
is with Georgia Tech on November
the eleventh. This game is to be
played here on the campus. These
five games comprise a hard schedule
for a Rat team, but keep your eye on
the Rats this fall. Come on Rats.
1927 RAT SCHEDULE
Oct. 1—Howard Rats at Auburn
or Selma
Oct. 8—University of Florida Fresh­men
at Jacksonville
Oct. 22—Tulane Freshmen
—- - at New Orleans'
Oct. 29—University of Georgia Rats
at Montgomery
Nov. 11—Georgia Tech Freshmen...
at Auburn
Auburn baseballers are scattered
far and wide over the Southland as
a result of trades and farming sys­tems.
_. '"Red" Griffin, who cap­tained
an Auburn nine two years in
his career, is now with the Pensa-cola
Fliers. "Red" sustained a
broken leg early in the season and is
just getting back in the game. Mon­day
was his first day. He played
second base, received six chances
without a bobble and accumulated
five bingles in as many times at the
bat. Seems as if he should go higher
next year.
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GREAT YEAR
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AUBURN HI
The 1927 and '28 session of the
Lee County High School started *st
Monday. This high school is one that
Auburnites may well be proud of. The
principal, Mr. J. A. Parrish predicts
that they are to have a fine year both
along the educational line and the
athletic. Auburn Hi as it is called
has long had a good football team and
many candidates for the college var­sity
are drawn from the promising
material offered by the local high
school. It is to be hoped that this
high school will contine to offer prom­ising
material and have successful
athletic seasons.
The faculty for this year will be:
Mr. J. A. Parrish, Principal; R. C.
Christopher, B. S. Auburn, Voc. Agr.
and Teacher Training; Jennie Mc­intosh,
B. S. U. of Fla., Voc. Home
Eco. and Teacher Training; Otis W.
Bynum, A. B., U. of Ala., Chemistry,
Physics and Athletics; Marie Sewell,
A. B. Womans College, English; Bes­sie
Fleming, A. B. Montevallo, Mathe­matics;
Mary Frances Conner, A. B.
Judson, History and General Science,
and Girls Athletics.
CUPID'S DARTS
HIT MARKS IN
MANY HEARTS
Each year the old men who return
to the lovliest "Village of the Plains"
are astounded by the decided changes
which have taken place during the
summer. There are improvements
made in the "ole main drag"; there
are new faces added to the faculty.
These are steps forward which are in­dicative
of Auburn's progress.
But the greatest change noticeable,
is to be pereceived in our friends who
have joined the ranks of the benedicts.
During the summer months, three out­standing
Auburn men have so thor­oughly
convinced themselves that two
can live as cheaply as one that they
have undertaken the responsibility of
matrimony. "Cush" Wood and the
"Mrs.", formerly Madge Kilgore of
Jasper, are now residing in Auburn.
Charley Snook and Miss Eula Mar­tin,
both from the Magic City, were
married quite recently and are also
making Auburn their home. Charlie
is Professor of Design in the School
of Architecture. Ralph Williams un
dertook a trip to Dothan, and .there
he was stricken with heart disease,
and as a result has married Miss Pat
Williams. This young couple are at
their beautiful home in Chipley, Flor­ida,
where Ralph is manager of a
store.
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Traveling all the way from Cen­tral
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Guatemala, arrived in Auburn yes­terday
to enroll for the fall semester
in the College of Engineering at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. Carlos
Waldheim, father of the young man
and a prominent merchant, made the
trip in company with his son.
Mr. Waldheim will take the four
year Electrical Engineering course,
entering as a freshman in September.
He prepared for college by graduat­ing
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The basic course students in R. O.
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issue O. D. blouse. The collars of
these blouses have been changed from
the old standing type to the new lapel
type, which change, it is believed will
add materially to the comfort and fit
of the blouse.
Heretofore the "basics" have not
been issued any blouse or coat what­soever,
and were forced to wear civi­lian
coats and varihued sweaters over
their uniforms during the cold weath­er.
The result was that the com­panies
and batteries gave an appe.i-ance
far from that of a military LI
ganization. It was the custom for
students to atten'd classes and drill on
cold days without any coat or sweater
over their O. D. shirts rather than
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Page 8. THE PLAINSMAN
LARGEST SUMMER SESSION
IN HISTORY OF AUBURN,
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(Continued from Page 1.)
Atherton, Montgomery; John Fran­cis
Busey, Jr., Jones Mill; Bob Gantt,
Andalusia; Leonora Hallet Rooper,
Oakman; John Curtis Lovelace, Dade-ville;
William H. Stoves, Pratt City.
Bachelor of Science in Home Eco­nomics:
Allye Hughes, Athens; Ploy
Lessie Moses, Auburn; Leo Reese,
Notasulga; Mary Shadow Shook, Win­chester,
Tenn.; Sabrie Taltie Wil­liams,
Andalusia.
Bachelor of Science in Agricul­tural
Education: Henry Alver Bess,
Midland City; Ernest Park Garrett,
Collinsville; William Dent Lucas, Ab­beville.
Bachelor of Science in Education:
Benjamin P. Curtis, Lower Peach
Tree; Carolina Drake Dubose, Au­burn;
Walter Harlin Green, LaPay-ette;
Walter Harlin Green, LaFay-ette;
William Terrell Marrison,
Shawmut; John A. Lunceford, Hatch-echubbee;
Thelma McGinty, Cusseta;
Joseph Palmer, Carson; Holt A. Pitts,
Pittsview; Gordon C. Powell, Chavies;
Eldon A. Pruett, Hurtsboro; New­ton
Oliver Smyth, Auburn; John Wil­liam
Thomas, Birmingham; Robert
L. Thomason, Jr., Abbeville.
Bachelor of Science in Chemical En­gineering:
William A. Stone, Bay
Minette.
Pharmaceutical Chemists: Robert
M. Hardy, Rochkford.
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engi­neering:
Bennie Elmore Higgins,
Camp Hill; Raymond Edwin Johnson,
Oxford.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering: Fletcher O'Neil, Cor­nelius,
Berry; Charles W. Haynes,
Bellamy; William K. Kaley, Morris;
Riley Wendell McPherson, Goshen;
Wales H. Phipps, Carrollton, Ga.; A.
Chapman Smith, Florence; Warren
Curtis Stacy, Birmingham; Clifford
M. Wesson, Auburn.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering: Dan Leroy Sharits,
Birmingham.
Bachelor of Science in Architec­ture:
Ned Houston Burns, Birming­ham.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Curtis B. Thames, Perdue Hill.
Master of Science: Charles H.
Bedingfield, Auburn; Alonso A,
Burke, Boaz; Edward Bodell James,
Auburn; Gerald D. Salter, Montgom­ery;
Alma Smith Stoves, Auburn.
The order of the exercises were:
Orchestral selections; prayer-by the
Methodist Church, Opelika; music by
the summer session chorus; address
by Dr. Hagene C. Branson; conferr­ing
of degrees by Dr. Spright Dowell,
president; music by summer session
chorus; orchestral selection.
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AUBURN STUDENTS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME
Ask About Our Free Transportation Plan
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA /
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"The Classiest College Department in the South"
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PHONE 72 OPELIKA, ALA. j
RIDING HALLS ARE FINISHED
Strip, sueeettor to
ink, mdka all pent
write better, and
the Lifetime pen
write beet.
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Identify the L/rtfcne
pen by this
white dot
You have money
You have money for luxuries only by buying
wisely such necessities as your fountain pen.
Buy a Lifetime". "Inferior pens can easily cost,
during college days, many times the price. Yet
its $8.75 alone will give flawless writing-guaranteed
to last, not merely for college days,
hut for your lifetime. No repair charges at
any time. It is the pen that spends the most
days in the writing hand and the least in repair
shops. It costs more because it is worth more.
"Lifetime" pen, $8.75 Lady "Lifetime", $7,50 Others lower
"Lifetime" Titan oversize pencil to match, $4.25
At better stores everywhere
P E N S - P E N C I L S • SKRIP
W. A SHEAFFER PEN COMPANY • FORT MADISON. IOWA
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Institute. Capt. B. C. Anderson will
be the professor in charge. Riding
instruction will be given two periods
each week to Sophomores, Juniors
and Seniors.
Each of the two halls 100 by 166
feet. The construction is of heavy
eight fot walls outward slanting. This
serves as a protection to the rider.
Riding instruction may be given
twenty or thirty cadets at a time
with an officer directing manuvers
from the center of the hall. At pres­ent
there are sixty government
mounts and according to Lieut. Lietch,
ten additional mounts will be added
immediately.
In preparation for the construction
of these halls 4000 cubic yards of dirt
were removed in order to prepare the
surface. These walls form a rec­tangular
enclosure of suitable riding
surface.
All who possibly can see the after­noon
shows of Fob James' picture,
please do so.
BOYS—Stop at
CITY DRUG STORE
When in Columbus
YOU ARE WELCOME
W. L. MEADOWS
ROBERTSON'S QUICK
LUNCH
Open Day and Night
The Best that can be bought-
Served as well as can be
served
15 Commerce St. Montgomery, Ala.
USE KRATZER'S ICE CREAM
Your Local Dealer Has It
For your parties and feeds ask your local
dealer to order from us. Our products are
pasteurized, using best ingredients, there­fore
necessarily PURE. •
KRATZER'S
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Montgomery, Alabama
Local Dealers
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HOMER WRIGHT
S. L T00MER
ORANGE & BLUE SODA CO.
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PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
'MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
The screen's bird of paradise
BILLIE DOVE in
THE STOLEN BRIDE with
LLOYD HUGHES, and LILLIAN
TASMAN
Pathe News & Paramount Two-reel
Comedy "SHORT SOCKS"
ADMISSION 10c & 25c.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
LEW CODY & AILEEN PRINGLE
in "ADAM & EVIL" with
GWEN LEE
Comedies "SMITH'S VACATION"
& "KOYKO PLAYS POOL."
ADMISSION 10c & 26c.
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WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 21 and 22.
F O R E S T JAMES in
"STARK LOVE"
PATHE NEWS & KRAZY KAT
ADMISSION 15c & 35c
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
THOMAS MEIGHAN in
"WE'RE ALL GAMBLERS"
with Marietta Millner. Gunboat
Smith and Cullan Landis.
A GOOD TWO-REEL COMEDY
ADMISSION 10c & 25c.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
MARCELINE DAY in
Geo. Randolph Chester's
"FOOLS OF FASHION"
PATHE COMEDY
"LOVE'S LANGUID LURE"
ADMISSION 10c & 25c.
Engineres!
Architects!
Buy your drawing supplies
from two students
MlMS & GlDDENS
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Eugene Dietzgen Company
The Best Instruments at the Lowest Prices
Located in Collier's Shoe Shop*
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