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VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 15, 1928 NUMBER 16
BOHLER ORGANIZES
TEMPORARY TENNIS
TEAM SIX MEMBERS
Dr. Kimbrough Is Selected as
- Coach with Don May
Student Manager
TO PRACTICE REGULARLY
Intercollegiate Matches To Be
Arranged for Spring
• An unusual amount of tennis Is
being played for this time of the
year, and fifteen freshmen are en­joying
tennis in place of the required
"P.T." Every afternoon both 6f the
"Y" court's are filled, and many are
waiting to play. Two new courts
have been begun and will be complet­ed
in the near future.
Coach Bohler has shown much in­terest
in tennis and has established
it as a minor sport. He hopes to
make tennis a major sport in a few
years, saying that it is one of the
cleanest sports and one that may be
played after college days are over.
Coach Bohler has Dr. Kimbrough as
the tennis coach and Don May as
manager. A playoff has been held,
from which six men were selected and
rated as the temporary tennis team.
The team will practice from now on,
and all new men are asked to come
out now so as to be in good shape
in the spring, when several intercol­legiate
matches will be held. Coach
Bohler expects to have five or six such
tennis matches this spring.
The team is run by the "Round
Robin" system, in which a low rating
player may challenge the next highest
rating player for his place on the
team. The matches take place bi­weekly.
In this manner, a new man
may challenge the lowest rating play­er
and work himself up.
The team will be out two or three
afternoons a week from now on, and
all new men in tennis are invited to
come out. There will be many tour­naments
this year such as military,
fraternity, freshmen, and school
Coach Bohler plans to give a large
silver cup to the champion of the
school in the spring, the tournament
being open to all students.
Hero Braves Muddy
Stream for Fair Lady
Auburn students will be hap­py
to know that they have a full-fledged
hero in their midst—
yes, a man that rightfully de­serves
a gold medal for extraor­dinary
bravery. The party
referred to paused in the rush in
the French city last Saturday
night and had the phenomenal
courage to leap into a cold mud­dy
stream and rescue a fair
lady. The rescuer, though cer­tainly
entitled to fame, is so
very modest that he has withheld
his name from the public. Au­burn
pauses for a moment to
express its admiration for the
"anonymous hero".
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WILL BE DEDICATED
AT SERVICES TODAY
Auburn-Montgomery-
Birmingham Station to
Begin Christmas Day
Deal was closed with the Southern
Bell Telephone Company yesterday at
a conference in the office of Gov. Bibb
Graves at Montgomery for establish­ment
and maintenance of a special
transmission line for the Auburn-Bir­mingham-
Montgomery radio hookup
with the powerful new broadcasting
station now nearing completion on
Red Mountain, near Birmingham.
Broadcasting will begin on Christmas
Day, 1928.
Under the terms of the contract
which does not run for a definite pe­riod
but may be terminated by either
party to the agreement, the Southern
Bell is to receive $1,000 a month for
the use of the line. This is to be paid
by Auburn, the State Department of
Agriculture and the Birmingham in­put
station.
The telephone company has a line
already installed that it can use be­tween
Montgomery and Birmingham
but will have to build a new line from
Auburn to Montgomery to carry out
its part of the agreement and com­plete
the hookup. Charge made by the
company for the line is based, it is
stated, on a rate for service of this
character approved recently by fed­eral
authority.
The conference was attended by
Gov. Graves, Dr. Bradford Knapp,
president of Auburn, P. O. Davis of
the Auburn extension service, S. M.
Dunwoody, state commissioner of ag­riculture
and industries and D. M.
Therrell of Atlanta, representing the
Southern Bell Telephone Company.
Estimates are to be obtained at
once by the State Board of Adminis­tration
from General Electric Com­pany
on the cost and installation of
the radio input station in Montgom­ery,
which will probably be located
in the Department of Agriculture and
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Fall Convention of
"Y" State Council
Closes Here Sunday
Meetings Brought to Close By
Address From Dr.
Knapp
The semi-annual State Student Y.
M. C. A. Council meeting was
brought to a close here Sunday morn­ing
when Dr. Bradford Knapp ad­dressed
the assembly on the "Impor­tance
of Character to Success in
Life." "Without a respect for law
and a desire for right conduct, no
one can succeed in the true sense
of the word," said Dr. Knapp.
President Knapp stressed the im­portance
of Y. M. C. A. work at
colleges today. The Y. M. C. A.
movement fosters principles which
create the best student influence on
the campus, he said.
Dr. O. C. Carmichael, president of
Alabama College, delivered one of
the outstanding addresses of the con­ference
Saturday morning on "Moral
Forces on the Campus."
Roy Sellers, student secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. at Auburn, was
appointed State Blue Ridge Secre­tary.
•
Approximately 24 student repre-sentaties
from the following colleges
were present: Jacksonville Normal,
Birmingham-Southern, Howard, Uni­versity
of Alabama, and Auburn.
Child Study Work in
Lee County Is Making
Satisfactory Progress
Satisfactory progress in child study
work in Lee County is reported by
Mrs. Helen Dumond Herren, home
economics research worker of the
experiment station of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. A study is
being made of children up to three
years of age.
Parents and physicians of the
county are very helpful, Mrs. Herren
explained. Parents are very eager
to obtain information connected with
the survey, and physicians are alert,
progressive, and most cordial in their
relations.
Mrs. Herren explained that most
of the young mothers are keeping
the "Baby Book" accurately, care­fully,
and completely. With these
books they will be able to give au­thoritative
and valuable information
for use throughout the state.
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the
Children's Bureau at Washington,
who is an authority on children's
health, will help with the interpreta­tion
of the X-ray pictures.
Auburn Kiwanis Club Is
Represented at Meeting
The Auburn Kiwanis Club was rep­resented
at the State meeting in Bir­mingham,
Nov. 8-10, by Captain B. C.
Anderson, president, P. 0. Davis,
trustee, and W. A. Young, member of
the club who has been transferred to
Birmingham, in connection with Ra­dio
Station WAPI.
Most of the 32 clubs of Alabama
had representatives present at the
convention, which was said to be the
best in the history of the organiza­tion.
The Auburn club was commend­ed
for the splendid work done during
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L a r g e Gathering Expected As
Bishop W. G. McDowell
Presides
MODERN IN ALL DETAILS
Built After Gothic Style with
Modern Conception
To-day marks the dedication, by
Bishop W. G. McDowell, of Auburn's
new house of worship, the Episcopal
church. The building alone repre­sents
an investment of more than
$50,000. Dr. Knapp has announced
that all Episcopal students wishing
to attend the services, which will be
held at 11:00 A.M. today, will be
excused from classes at that hour.
The church occupies the site former­ly
occupied by an edifice where mem­bers
of the Episcopal .denomination
gathered for two score years to wor­ship.
It is built after the Gothic
style, but rather a modernized con­ception
of the Gothic. The architect
is Frank Lockwood of Montgomery;
the contractor, Algernon Blair.
Just outside the main entrance, the
cornerstone from the old church is
embedded in the walls. Inside the
vestibule, the door on the right leads
into the Sunday School room, that
with the Guild room, the kitchen, a
lava'tory, the sacristy, and robing
room, covers the lower floor of the
Parish House. On the upper floor is
the large room where the St. Paul's
Club meets. Here there is a much
used library, late magazines, a pool
table, showers, and an open fire. The
Parish House is modern in every way
and extremely well adapted to it's
needs.
The interior of the church is very
lovely with its high arched ceiling,
lofty windows and carved oak fittings.
On the end of each of the comfortable
pews are carved oak leaves symbolic of
strength and power. Up three steps
and to the front the choir is entered.
There are long benches on either side
for members of the choir. The beauti­ful
new organ is on the left, as is the
lectern, and here later will be the
prayer desk. At the right is the pul­pit,
and up four more steps is the
chancel and altar.
The new church awaits, in beauty
of line and form, and ecclesiastical
setting, the worshippers who shall fill
its pews and receive' the messages
from the Greatest Teacher and Build­er
of all times.
BAND TAKES PART
IN LARGE PARADE
Makes Hit With Citizens of New
Orleans Saturday
The Auburn band took part in a
gigantic parade in New Orleans, spon­sored
by the New Orleans Community
Chest Committee. The Auburn band
was-one of eighteen that furnished
music for the procession, which was
about three miles long. The Police
Band led and was followed by the
other bands, many floats, and num­erous
people in cars and afoot. Au­burn
boys who saw the parade said
they were surprised at its size and
the beauty of the floats. They also
proudly proclaimed that they recog­nized
the music of the Auburn Band
long before they saw the band.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
RUSHES TO BLAZE
Trash Burning in Comer Hall Quickly
Extinguished
Last evening, at six o'clock, an
accumulation of trash in the base­ment
of Comer Hall caught fire.
The excitement created over the cam­pus
by the incident was short lived,
for the fire department very ably
coped with the blaze, it being only
a matter of a few minutes before
it was extinguished. When such an
unfortunate accident as this occurs
it adds much to the relief of those
interested in the college to recall that
Comer Hall, together with the other
newer buildings on the campus, is
a fire-resisting structure.
DR. O.C. CARMICHAEL
SPEAKER ARMISTICE
DAY PROGRAM HERE
Holiday Quietly Observed As
Homage Is Paid War
Veterans
Auburn paused Monday to pay
homage to the veterans of the World
War, which came to a close exactly
ten years ago. The exercises start­ed
at 10 AiM., when the R. O. T. C.
unit gassed in review before the
reviewing line, composed of the fol­lowing:
Dr. Carmichael, president of
Bradford Knapp, Dr. Lee, command­er
of the local post of the American
Legion; Mr. Hay, chaplain of the
local post of the Legion; Major Ken­nedy
and his staff; members of the
American Legion.
The exercises after the review were
held at the east end of the drill field,
and were opened with the invoca­tion,
offered by Mr. Hay. Dr. Knapp
r.hen introduced the speaker of the
morning. Dr. Carmichael made his
address in the form of a plea that
the people of the United States would
help perpetuate democracy and world
peace. As Dr. Carmichael had seen
active service in France, he was able
to bring before the people of Au­burn
vivid pictures of the conflict
of shells screeching through the air
of blankets of deadly poison gas, and
hardships that the soldiers had to
endure. He touched on the cost of
the war in lives and in dollars, say
ing, "Enough money was spent every
five hours of the war to endow a
college the size of Columbia."
At the conclusion of his speech,
the national sallute of twenty-one
guns was fired, a tribute to those who
fought to make the world safe for
democracy. When the first gun was
fired, the flag, which had been at
half mast all morning in honor of the
dead, was raised to the top of the
mast. At the conclusion of the sa­lute
the band played "Star Spangled
Banner."
The whole town cooperated to
make the day's program a success.
During the hours from 10 A. M. to
1 P. M. the business houses of the
city were closed, to pause in the
hurry af everyday life while the
wreath was placed on the grave of
the unknown soldier, in Arlington
Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
NOTICE
Lost: A gold Hamilton watch and
chain. Finder please notify J. C. Mc-
Caskill, Jr., at the S. A. E. house and
receive liberal reward.
STUDENTS ENJOY
OPOSSUM HUNT
Several members of the stu­dent
body went opossum hunting
last Friday night, in the woods
about nineteen miles out of Au­burn.
The party of nine were
out till a late hour, but that this
time was not spent vainly was
proven by the fact that they re­turned
with three large opos­sums.
Quite a big time was had by
all, and no accidents were re­ported,
aside from the fact that
Bobby Kelso and Owen Arm-sh-
ong were lost and fell in a
stream: However, returning tri­umphant,
even the wet hunters
were happy.
LOVING CUP OFFERED
TO JUNIOR ENGINEER
WHO IS OUTSTANDING
Token For Excellence Offered
By W. W. White, Alumnus
of Birmingham
TO BE AWARDED YEARLY
To Junior Student Eligible To
Tau Beta Pi Membership
Damnitski" Appears
In Informal Attire
Mr. W. L. White, an enthusiastic
Birmingham alumnus, has recently
expressed the desire to offer a cup
each year to the most outstanding
engineering student in the Junior
class. Mr. White graduated in Me­chanical
Engineering in 1916, and
a year later completed the work of
the electrical course, and received
the bachelor's degree in that also.
Mr. White is a prominent young busi­ness
man of Birmingham, and has
been active in political, civic,* and
club circles of that city' for some
years.
Plans for the award of the cup
have been worked out by Dean Wil-more
and approved by Mr. White,
and are as follows:
1. The award will be known as
the William L. White Cup for Ex­cellence
in Engineering.
2. The selection of the student to
receive the cup will be made by the
Tau Beta Pi Honor Society in co­operation
with a committee of the
Engineering Faculty.
3. The award may be made to any
Junior class student eligible for mem­bership
in Tau Beta Pi. In making
the award, consideration will be
given to scholarship, general charac­ter,
personality, participation in col­lege
activities and such other quali­ties
as the committee may desire to
consider.
4. The award will be made at the
Commencement exercises, along with
that of other prizes and medals.
BRADLEY ATTENDS
TAU BETA PI MEET
Charles Bradley, popular member
of the Theta Kappa Nu fraternity,
was the representative of the local
chapter of Tau Beta Pi at the Nation­al
convention, held at Washington
University in St. Louis, from Oct. 30
to Nov. 4.
The main functions of the conven­tion
was the installation of four new
chapters at Clemson College, Miss.
A. & M., University of N. C, and
Rose Polytechnic Institute.
Bradley reports that splendid hos­pitality
was accorded the fifty-three
delegates present.
Many Persons Enjoy
Armistice Barbecue
At 12:15 Moday, November 12,
one hundred people enjoyed a barbe­cue
in Ag Bottom. The affair, under
the joint auspices of the local chap­ters
of the Lions Club, the Kiwanis
Club, and the Rotary Club, and the
Auburn post of the American Legion,
was a feature of the Armistice Day
celebration. The service clubs of
Opelika were invited, and about
twenty members of these were pres­ent.
The barbecue was under the
able supervision of Sergeant Mox-ham,
assisted by a number of the
ladies of Auburn. It is planned to
make this barbecue an annual Armis­tice
Day affair.
Roger Knapp Slightly
Injured In Accident
Roger Knapp, who is attending
Emory University and is the son of
Dr. Bradford Knapp, received slight
injuries as a result of an automobile
accident last Saturday evening in At­lanta.
He received several bruises
which are only temporary, but re­ceived
no severe injuries. He is still
in Atlanta and will resume school
work again shortly.
On Thursday of - last week,
the Sigma Pi fraternity's dog,
"Damnitski", as he is becoming
popularly known, appeared on
the streets in a rather informal
dress. "Damnitski", having been
recently acquired by the Sigma
Pi boys, was forced to undergo
an initiation before being finally
accepted to the household. The
canine's dress for the occasion
consisted of a pair of white ducks
and a checkered linen coat.
"Damnitski's" dignity seemed at
this time to be greatly offended,
but nevertheless he bore himself
as a fraternity man should.
MOVEMENT TO HAVE
LTTTLE THEATRE NOW
UNDER WAY IN CITY
First Meeting Called for Friday
to Perfect Temporary
Organization
TO DRIVE FOR MEMBERS
Military Fraternity
Initiates Seventeen
Members Saturday
Best Known Men on Campus
Taken By Scabbard
and Blade
Scabbard and Blade, national hon­orary
military fraternity, held its
initiation of new members last Sat­urday
night, Nov. 10. Seventeen
pledges were initiated.
This fraternity has on its roll the
names of some of the most outstand­ing
men on the campus. Since the
installation here, on May 5, 1924,
this chapter has grown rapidly, both
in numbers and reputation, and is
now well-known throughout this dis­trict.
Mercer Helms, president of the
organization, is confident that this
year will prove even more successful
and beneficial than those previous.
The following pledges were ini­tiated:
Peter Lee, Joe Ford, Reynolds
Vincent, Pete Hassler, Jimmy Cone,
C. C. McMillan, A. T. Williams, E.
W. Peake, Howard Smith, W. P.
Smith, R. F. Tinsley, Howard Mul-line,
F. R. Jones, A. H. McRae, M.
D. Hoffman, R. W. Hatcher, R. M.
Riddle.
Drs. Weaver and Gosser Offer
Service as Directors
Phi Delta Gamma To
Sponsor Declamation
Contest November 20
One of the events of the college
calendar is the annual declamation
contest. Phi Delta Gamma, in spon­soring
this contest, holds a handsome
silver loving cup for the winner. Be­cause
there is no regular convocation,
the contest will be held Tuesday
night, November 20th, at seven
o'clock, in Langdon Hall. This will
be a joint meeting of the Literary
Societies but everybody is urged to
come.
There will be a departure from
past custom in selecting the winner.
In the past there have been judges
selected from the faculty. This con­test
will have a "limited audience
decision". Phi Delta Gamma will
distribute a given number of ballots
to selected individuals. After the con­test
these will be collected and count­ed.
A plurality will give the decision.
Charter Is Received by
Omega Circle of ODK
Following the example qf many
other of the larger cities of the United
States, the citizens of Auburn and
the members of the faculty of A. P. I.
will launch a Little Theatre movement
for Auburn and the surrounding coun­try
at a meeting which has been called
for seven P. M. Friday night in the
"Y" hut. At this time work will be
done to organize a Little Theatre
Guild here.
The purpose of the Little Theatre
Guild here will be to enlist the towns­people
of Auburn, and the students
and faculty of A. P. I. into an organ­ization
by means of which some of
the best plays and drama of the times
can be presented to the public by the
local talent around Auburn. Dr.
Weaver and Dr. Gosser have offered
their time and services as directors.
A membership in this guild, which
is open to all, affords opportunity to
see those plays presented by the Au­burn
Players. The Auburn Players,
while an entirely separate organiza­tion,
will cooperate with the guild and
will be a part of the little theatre
movement.
A survey of the local talent avail­able
here has been made by the spon­sors
of the plan, and they have been
greatly gratified to find a number of
persons who are not only interested
in such a scheme, but have much nat­ural
dramatic ability. Many promi­nent
citizens and members of the fac­ulty
have become highly enthusiastic
over the idea, and it seems that the
success of the plan is assured.
The Little Theatre had its begin­ning
in Dublin, Ireland, where a group
of people, headed by Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yates fostered an Irish
Theatre movement to present to the
public true Irish drama, picturing the
ancient folk-lore and tales of old Ire­land.
Consequently, similar organiza­tions
sprang up over the country,
and the idea spread to the various
nations of Europe. Although it' came
over to America only six or seven
years ago, today nearly every city of
100,000 or more has its Little Theatre.
It is said on good authority that Au­burn
will be the smallest town in the
South, if not in the entire country,
to foster this sort of an organization.
At the meeting here Friday night
a temporary organization is to be
formed, officers are to be elected, and
a membership drive started. After
this, a program for the season, which
will be the duration of the college
year, is to be worked out, and prepara­tions
for the first play will be started.
FRESHMAN TENNIS
TOURNEY BE HELD
Honor Schedule Will Be Published
at Early Date
NOTICE
Lost: A book of trigonometry and
logarithms of numbers, by Bremiker.
Finder please return to Y. A. Elizon-do,
Room 204, Ramsay Hall.
The Omega Circle of the Omicron
Delta Kappa honor fraternity has
recently received the charter granted
to the local chapter of Scarabs by
the national council of O D K. Pres­ident
McGhee and Coach Wilbur Hut-sell
issued a joint statement today
regarding the receipt of the charter.
The charter contains the names of
eleven members, only two of which
are actively connected with the pres­ent
chapter. The names that appear
on the document are: James C. Akin,
Notasulga; Rosser Alston, Stevenson;
Charles A. Baughman, Auburn; Ju­lius
Beard, Scottsboro; William M.
Burns, Dothan; Clifton H. Feagin,
Jr., Union Springs; Howell C. Hop-son,
Leesburg, Fla.; Richard O. Lile,
Hartsell; Frank M. Malone, Florence;
Ben A. Rives, Jr., Roanoke; and Ben
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A tennis tournament soon will be
held for the freshmen. There will be
no entrance fee, and the winner will
not get a prize, but the practice will
be valuable to all. Many freshmen
in school this year are good tennis
players, but have never played in
a tournament. It is hoped that the
tourney will be both interesting and
helpful to the rats, as a freshman
tournament will be held later and
the winner given a prize. All fresh­men
that want to enter their names,
see Don May at the Lambda Chi
Alpha house right away.
Nursery School Will
Use Celoglass Panes
The nursery school of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute will soon have
celoglass ins&Iled in the east and
south windows of the playroom, ac­cording
to Miss Lulu Palmer who
is in charge. This glass is being
installed because it allowfe untra-violet
rays of light to enter. There­fore
it will enable little children to
get the benefit of sunlight on days
when it is too cold to play outside.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
Raymond DeArman, '29 _.Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 __ Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
K. R. Giddens, '30__Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Campbell Blake, '30 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 __ Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
J. E. McLeskey, '31 Sports Editor
Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor
Howards Sparks, '31--Ass't. Humor Editor
REPORTERS
Marcus Alspaugh, '32; Robert Baxter, '32;
T. S. Coleman, '32; Kenneth Cooper, '32;
Clarence Dykes, '32; Thomas Dykes, 31;
Edmund England, '32; J. D. Foy, '31;
George Harrison, '32; Murff Hawkins,
'31; Clinton Jones, '32; John Lewis, ' 3 1 ;
Richard Lightfoot, '32; White Matthews,
'31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Frank Parker,
'32; Will T. Sheehan, '32; Alex Smith,
Jr., ' 3 1 ; K. G. Taylor, '32; W. M. Taylor,
'32; Gerald Thompson, '32; J. E. Jen­kins,
'32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor
White, '32; Thorne Winter, '30; D.
Reynolds, '32; F. Y. Peteet, '32; Virgil
Nunn, ' 3 1 ; Gabie Drey, ' 3 1 ; Charles Mat­thews,
'32.
BUSINESS STAFF
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Walter Smith, '31 Circulation Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Benjamin Kinkaid, '32; Jack Bauneister,
'32; Roy Gamer, '32; Donald Simmons,
'32; Warren H. Gard, '31; C. F. Strip-lin,
'31.
Carelessness In
Student Demeanor
We live and learn—supposedly! Our
object here in college is chiefly to acquire
a practical, workable education—one that
may be applied in the everyday walks of
life, along whatever line we choose to di­rect
our endeavors.
But what does an education constitute?
What is an education? We like to regard
it as a process of favorably adjusting one­self
to surrounding conditions, with special
reference to the welfare of others.
Generally speaking, the average college
student is looking to the bigger, more
prominent things; and unfortunately he
quite often disregards the lesser events—
even those that sometimes prove the very
basis for these loftier goals.
It is obvious that even the minutest
units, taken collectively, go to make-up
the larger, grander things. This we might
profitably keep in mind while dealing with
our neighbors, or while acting in any capa­city
that will touch those about us.
There are certain little things practiced
about the campus here that are unbecom­ing
to a student body of Auburn's rating.
And even though they may appear as a
mere trifle, they are to be regarded as
acts leading to more noticeable events,
sooner or later. You might pronounce
these matters as childish, and unnoticeable;
but they are not.
It is indeed distasteful that the point
arrives when there is need for a reminder
on these points. You, being qualified as
a capable college student, can easily dis­cern
the annoying matters in question;
for that reason we will not attempt to en­umerate
them all.
As an example, take the drinking fount
on the first floor of the main building.
Usually when one approaches the fount,
tired and thirsty, desirous of a cool, in­vigorating
drink, what greets him? Noth­ing
more nor less than a basin filled with
refuse cuds of gums, grape hulls, burnt
match stubs, and numerous other articles
not at all appetizing. A veritable garbage
bucket, so to speak!
With what degree of refreshing ease and
comfortable pleasure can one partake of
drink over such environment? It becomes
almost necessary for the participant to
close his eyes in order to succeed in get­ting
the water to the desired position. And
this is only a sample of the prevailing little
obnoxities on our campus.
We contribute all this to carelessness,
chiefly. It is indeed a reflection upon the
college and this student body that such
conditions do exist here. We need to turn
back a few paces in our mad rush for the
top of the ladder, and direct our footsteps
over firm soil.
It is necessary that a watch be kept on the
underlying principles of successful educa­tion
; these little matters are in the side-walk
on which we tread to effective learning.
To Those Who Play
Football As A Sport
One of our greatest faults is to hand
out praise unreservedly; in fact, we be­stow
it on the great before the lesser great
have come along. There are occasions
when the latter is greater than the former;
sometimes they are more deserving, for
anyone can be a good winner but it takes
a real man to receive all the hard knocks
and then come back for more—especially
when he is fairly certain of never being
publicly proclaimed.
Such a man is the scrub. Never does
he become discouraged. We find; him
winding his way toward the football field
every day. He is on his way to fight and
scrimmage the Varsity; he is on his way to
get them into shape to put over a winning
exhibition. He may never get into the
game, but he is always prepared, just
hoping that he can show his ability in some
way or other. Occasionally he may get
into a game but not often. He may never
make the team, but he helps other to make
it.
To him it is all in a lifetime. He is
training himself to be prepared for the
chance that may come. This is on the
football field, but when he leaves that old
place, he suddenly finds that he is able to
receive the knocks that come in a much
greater battle with a smile. He is able to
ward them off, waiting for the big op­portunity
to come around.
He never receives any praise because
the public sees only the winner; they alone
are clad in the robes of glory. The public
never realizes that a team is no stronger
than its scrubs; it never realizes that every­one
cannot be on the team. When praise
is passed out, the scrub should not be left
out, for he is a fighter—a fighter to the
core.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Saturday night while in town I over­heard
a group of students discussing our
last football game. Two loud mouth "up
town" coaches were proceeding to tell the
boys, beyond a shadow of a duobt, how
and why we lost the game with Tulane.
The gist of the "how and why" was that a
few of our players lacked the necessary in­testinal
fortitude to play the game in such
a manner as to win. As I am a firm be­liever
that every man has literally has his
proper length of intestines and that the
application of said intestines by our men
on the football field is an exemplication
of fortitude. I, as a loyal student of Au­burn,
bitterly resent any such remark. Our
team, and in spite of recent defeats I am
proud to say "our team", is certainly not
going to be helped by any such unjustified
criticisms. When these fellows that know
all the football there is to know make
statements of that nature they mean to
imply that they have the necessary intes­tinal
fortitude; but why they don't take
up their belt another notch, swallow the
fear that actually exist within them, and
get on our football field in a "uniform"
is a puzzle to me.
How the student body can expect a
Southern conference championship team
from a team that did not realize a single
victory last season and from a rat team
that experienced the same predicament is
beyond my power to conceive. This season
our men have had a depressed mental at­titude
as well as some very aggressive op­ponents
to overcome; also, a new coach
with a new system and new ideas. Realiz­ing
these concrete obstacles in the path to
victory it seems to me that the student
body should exert every effort to boost,
encourage, and inspire our team instead
of casting a wet blanket over their spirits
and endeavor by unjust criticisms. If a
student feels that the team has not con­ducted
itself in such a manner as to justify
a word of praise and commendation the
least he' can do is to indulge himself in a
bit of silence, which will be appreciated—
the other is not.
Another group of students are anxiously
sitting by hoping that Coach Bohler will
not succeed here so they can get out and
shout to the campus, "I told you so." This
strikes me as being extremely little and un­worthy
of an Auburn man. We have a
good coach and our past games have been
a marked indication of his coaching ability,
but he is human and only human accom­plishments
can be expected of him. From
other indications he is a fine man and
worthy of every student's support, encour­agement,
and help.
In the future I sincerely hope that the
student body may be united, loyal, and
faithful. United in that each student will
conduct himself as an individual unit of a
greater whole. Loyal in that he will con­duct
himself in such a manner as to cast
no ill reflection on the team, coach, or in­stitution.
Faithful in that he will consider
it a privilege to stay by this team of ours
through the realms of defeat or victory.
With every good wish for a complete
success with The Plainsman and a "Greater
Auburn", I am,
Sincerely yours,
Herr Diogenes Teufelsdrockh.
To the Editor,
Your issue of October 11 carries a con­tribution
of mine, headed "Ag Club Fa­vors
Doing Away With Hazing Freshmen."
This is a misrepresentation; anyone read­ing
the entire article will find it so. The
view of a single member was given, and
not that of the entire Club.
However, there are a large number who
scan headlines quite thoroughly, but never
cover completely the articles off the front
page. No doubt a number of students
treated the article in question just this way.
With no retained feeling of enmity or
hatred toward your headline writer (for
Heaven knows he has my utmost sympathy;
I have tried his job!) I wish to correct this
error before the readers of The Plainsman.
Please accept this as a casual correction,
and not a madly flung criticism. I wish to
offer congratulations on your excellent
publication; undoubtedly it is the best col­lege
paper in the country. The bi-weekly
advance is a distinct development, and
should serve as a mark of pride for every
single Auburn student, as well as those of
the staff.
AG CLUB REPORTER.
Auburn, Ala.
Nov. 5, 1928.
Editor The Plainsman,
The future of any institution rests upon
its past. Ask any Auburn alumnus which
was the most enjoyable of the years he
spent in college, and the answer will in­variably
be, "My Freshman Year." Ask
him why, and he will most likely relate
a .series of humorous incidents, most of
which refer to the penalties imposed for
violating the rat rules. If others have gone
through periods which, according to re­ports,
had a stricter set of rules and much
heavier penalties for violations than those
of today and yet still refer to their first
year with pride, then why should we rats
balk at the few simple rules recently pass­ed
by the Senior class? Are we any more
effeminate than our predecessors? Does
our old "Uncle Sam" ask the men in his
army to please not run from the enemy;
or his citizens to please not violate the
laws of the country? Then where, I ask,
would be the force in, "Mr. Freshman, will
you please refrain from wearing your cap
while you are in this building?"
We are expected to acquire a true Au­burn
spirit, and it is from the examples
set by the upperclassmen that we must
formulate our ideas as to what constitutes
this spirit. When an article, presenting the
views of one insignificant individual as
being omniscient and seeking to destroy
the very effect which the efforts of a whole
group has produced, is published in our
school paper, then how can we be expected
to determine just what is meant by Au­burn
Spirit?
A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF '32.
If a woman doesn't get a man on his knees
before she marries him she usually manages
to get him down shortly afterward.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Come on! Let us go and win a confer­ence
game. Mississippi A. & M. College
is a great team. We must respect their
strength. But let us start from this mo­ment
a great campaign to win that game.
Arouse the interest. Put confidence in
the team itself* If we can show the de­fensive
power of the Tulane game or the
Georgia game; if we can show the offen­sive
power of the third quarter of the Tu­lane
game and the big drive that almost
scored against Georgia, we can win that
game. We need to show the alumni and
our critical friends at Birmingham that
we mean business and that this team has
made a wonderful showing. Get behind
the team. Back the coach. Let's go to
Birmingham Saturday to win.
* * * * *
The task of bringing children into the
world, of caring for them, training them,
and then educating and fitting them for
their lives is, after all, rather the most im­portant
task most of us have. In mass
education I sometimes fear we may and do
overlook the individual. We grind away
on a routine piece of work which is really
never routine. Teachers forget personali­ties
and individuals. Courses of study be­come
stereotyped and set. Even methods
become a matter of science and rules. How
would you expect students themselves to
do any better in their own planning than
the planning they see about them. Take
paddling of freshmen, they look at it as an
ancient tradition. As a matter of fact it
is an outgrowth of but recent years and
not a very good outgrowth either, at least
as to all individuals. I wish we could
know of the boys who have received sad
injuries to character, to nervous system and
to physical being by this so-called college
tradition. "What is one man's meat is
anothers poison" is an old saying and a
true one. You can whip or paddle some
fellows into college form and you can ruin
others by the same treatment. The human
crowd, like mass-education, never stops to
consider the individual.
H AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
FIGURE IT OUT
A fellow was visiting a lunatic asylum one day and while walking around he
saw a patient to whom he said: "Well my good man why are you here?"
"You see sir" said the lunatic, "I married a widow with a grown up daughter
and my father married that same step-daughter of mine. That made my wife
the mother-in-law of her father-in-law and my father became my step-son. Then
my step-mother, the daughter of my wife had a son, and that boy of course was
my brother, because he was my father's son, but he was also the son of my wife's
step-daughter, and therefore her grandson. That makes me grandfather of my
step-brother. My wife having had a son, my mother-in-law, the step-sister, is also
his grandmother, because he is her step-son's child. My father is the brother of
my child because his step-sister is my wife. I am the brother of my son, who is
also the son of my step-mother. I am my wife's brother-in-law. My wife is her
own child's aunt. My son is my father's nephew, and I am my own grandfather.
* * * * * * * *
SOB STUFF
Folks this sure is a cruel world. Cats have nine lives but the poor frogs croak
every night.
* * * * * * * *
Bob Smith gave a perfect reproduction of Colleen Moore's part in Flaming
Youth at the Georgia-Auburn game. Some one wanted to know why that rat
hadn't cut his hair. Burn 'em up Bob.
* * * * * * * *
AND HOW???
Co-ed: Ain't nature grand?
He: It sure made a mess out of you.
* * * * * * * *
George: Would you care to have me teach you to swim?
Mary: I don't believe I'd ever learn.
George: Fine, when shall we start?
* * * * * * * *
STie: Why the dry grin on your face?
He: I haven't had a drink in a long time.
BECOMING MORE MASCULINE
In this age of petting it's hard to find a girl of the mothering kind—they all
seem to be the pawing kind.
:i: * * * * * * *
THIS
He: "Do you neck"?
She: "Sure."
He: "Do you believe in hereafter?"
She: "Yes".
He: "Well good. That's what I am here after."
AND THAT
She: "Do you believe in hereafter?"
He: "Sure I do."
She: "Well then, hereafter please don't bother me."
BOOK REVIEW
MR. BLETTSWORTHY ON RAMPOLE
ISLAND
By H. G. Wells
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. $2.50
John R. Chamberlain has a very inter­esting
review of H. G. Well's new book,
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island in the
New York Times Book Review sanction for
November 11. Mr. Chamberlain says, "H.
G. Wells is more incorrigible than any one
else at repeating himself. But he does it
in so glib and so amusing a manner in 'Mr.
Blettsworthy on Rampole Island' that one
is very much inclined to forgive him. There
is nothing new in this fantasy that becomes
a parable at its close, nothing that can't be
found in the long list of Wells books, but
the old ingredients are whirled together
by such a competent hand that the finan­cial
product is entirely acceptable to one
who likes entertainment.
"Doubtless Mr. Wells has designed this
book to edify. What he has to preach is
simply that mankind, with its static capitu­lation
to the dead hand of custom, its ad­diction
to warfare as a last resort, is un­redeemed.
Through a minor character at
the end of this bouncing story Mr. Wells
speaks his own mind even as he spoke it
in 'The World of William Clissold.' He
simply remarks through his mouthpiece
that a chance exists for ultimate Utopia
through the slow contagion of intelligence.
All of which was implicit years back in his
story of 'Tono Bungay,' that lively parable
of the wrongheadedness of certain business
interests, and the hope for salvation
through the spread of the scientific ap­proach.
"What gives 'Mr. Blettsworthy on Ram­pole
Island' a certain air of up-to-dateness
is the injection of the Sacco-Vanzetti case
into the final pages. This is engineered to
give point to the conclusion of Mr. Bletts­worthy
that mankind is roweled and ridden
by fear, by blind conservatism. Bletts-worthy's
friend, ever the optimist, takes
hope from the palpable fact that a good
number of people sympathized with the
shoemaker of Brockton and the fishmonger
of Plymouth. He sees the sympathizers on
the increase, and that is the bright lining
of the sombre cloud.
The parable element of 'Mr. Blettsworthy
on Rampole Island' is, however, but a small
portion of a book that is exciting in the
manner of Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'
and Well's early romances. In fact, the
whole thing reads as if the author had
started out on a fictional holiday, taken
time out to write 'The Open Conspiracy,'
and returned to his story with the exalta­tion
of the reformer and prophet still seep­ing
from his pen to dictate the finish of
what had been hitherto a delightfully
pointless and harmless exercise of the
imagination.
"The main character of 'Mr. Bletts­worthy''
is in the Wellsian tradition of the
Mr. Ponderevo, who invented the patent
medicine, and the gentleman who was
Christina Alberta's father and thought
himself Sargon, King of Kings. In other
words, Mr. Blettsworthy himself in a trifle
vague, a little weak-minded, just enough of
a muddler to seize hold' of a big idea and
go for a grand rocket ride. Blettsworthy
is brought up in the home of a churchman
who believes, with Browning, that all is
fundamentally right with the world. The
big idea that is too hefty to handle comes
to him after Oxford, when his firse love af­fair
goets up in smoke along with his first
essay in business. This idea is the horrible
one that perhaps the world is not a cam-fortable,
well-gardened spot, after all. .
"Through divers incidents, Mr. Bletts-worthy's
retreat from the unpleasantness
that visited itself upon him after his uni­versity
days were over lands him upon an
island in the South Atlantic, Rampole Is­land,
not far from the Patagonian coast.
Well's painting of a shipwreck makes
highly exciting reading—H. M. Tomlinson
has done better, but the tossing and heav­ing
of the Golden Lion, in which Bletts­worthy
sailed from London, is realistic
enough to suit any but the most captious.
Once ashore on Rampole the real fantasy
begins, fantasy that one takes in with a
complete oblivion to the lurking fact that
Wells is merely setting the stage for his
moral. Blettsworthy maintains life among
the cannibals of Rampole solely because he
is taken for a sacred lunatic. He wonders
that the aborigines who are his captors do
not live on the sunny uplands, but rather
prefer the dank shelter of the gorge. He
marvels at the megatheria—ground sloths—
that still exist on Rampole Island, and even
goes so far as to compare the megatheria
to the customs of men. For the ground
sloth of Rampole 'is not an evolving spe­cies;
it is a species that lacks fecundity,
that lives on simply because the old do not
die, that blights the island verdue by de­stroying
buds and roots. Here is the first
gleam that a fable is in the offing.
"And then, with all the shock of an ice
bath on a hot day, comes the fade-out of
the Ramople Island experience into the in­nocent
outlines of a dream! It seems that
Blettsworthy has not been living on Ram­pole
Island after all. He has been ship­wrecked,
true enough, and picked up, a
raving madman . All this about savages and
warfare and niegatheria has been the dis­tortion
of insanity, the refraction of that
world of insecurity into which Blettsworthy
was plunged because the world of his uncle,
the good churchman, turned out to be a lie.
He is brought back to the world of reality
and clarity through the ministrations of an
American specialist and a girl, the girl who
is to become Mrs. Blettsworthy. He comes
out of the engaging Rampole Island inter­lude
to carry a message. For Rampole Is­land
is the world in microcosm, the world
of wars and stultifying habits, and Mr.
Blettsworthy sees that such a world must
not last until our sun blows up or some
wanderer from space knocks the solar sys­tem
to smithereens."
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND THAT
"tBv ^Benjamin Trovose—
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It is
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
AFRIEND accused me of being op­posed
to hair-shaving simply be­cause
it is an old custom. Nothing
could be more erronious. I am opposed
to hair shaving because it is a practice
which is detrimental to Auburn. I am op­posed
to it because an Auburn freshman
class looks like a prison contingent to the
outsider. I am opposed to it because it
tends to submerge individuality in the
mass—to make each new student exactly
like the rest of his classmates. I just
don't like to sit around the living room
after dinner with a bunch of thuggish
looking persons with no hair. I never saw
one who looked civilized with his head
shaved. Any old custom is good, provided
it is based on reason and produces con­structive
results. A detrimental custom
which is maintained by virtue of its being
a custom is the bunk.
* * * * *
THE REGISTRAR'S office recently
published an analysis of the grades
made by various student groups dur­ing
the session of 1927-28. The mass of
figures reveals some very interesting
points. For instance, the fraternity pledges
average is below that of the freshmen who
were not members of fraternities.
Do the Auburn fraternities pick those
men who are lowest in the scale of mental
ability in each class? Or do the fraterni­ties
make it impossible for freshmen to
apply themselves to their work as they
would do were they not members of fra­ternities?
Do the various distractions
which necessarilly accompany the good
features of fraternity life counteract those
good features by proving detrimental to
study? Are the barbs more serious about
this business of getting educated than are
the fraternity men? Just what is the ex­planation
of the fact that the fraternity
pledges fall below the non-fraternity
freshmen in the scholastic averages?
* * * * *
THIS IS A complex problem, and the
situation is not to be remedied by
sleight of hand. Many widely vary­ing
elements enter in to complicate the
problem. Each fraternity places its own
peculiar valuation on scholarship. Some
chapters stress scholarship, some stress cam­pus
activities and sociability, some stress
nothing in particular. A few of the fra­ternities
take the attitude that the men
are here for the prime purpose of becom­ing
educated, and that the fraternity is
merely an adjunct to facilitate this process
by providing certain desirable conditions.
The grades of these fraternities are evi­dence
that it is a correct attitude.
* * * * *
VARIOUS MEANS are used by these
fraternities to keep their grades
above the average. They arrange
for freshmen to room with upperclassmen,
they give trophies for good grades, they
make initiation requirements strict, they
enforce quiet study hours. These chap­ters
have tangible results to which they
can point. However, their ideals and
methods might be taken up by the major­ity.
When fourteen of the lowest eighteen
places in the scale of averages are occu­pied
by members of the Interfraternity
Council, then something is wrong. It can­not
be that these fraternities pledge only
slow-witted men who are not capable of
making good grades. I don't believe that
such is the case. In the last analysis, we
are here to acquire education. Grades
may not indicate true values in every
case, but they come remarkably close to it.
Here is, in my humble opinion, an oppor­tunity
for some cooperation -on the part of
the fraternities.
* * * * *
IDEAS AND methods might be ex­changed
and put in effect. A large
group working on the same problem
would surely achieve some constructive re­sult.
We need an organization composed
of representatives of all the fraternities
which would handle these problems and
bloster up the scholastic showing of the
Greeks. Low averages don't speak well for
Auburn fraternity life.
FROM ALL THE FOOLS WHO WENT
BEFORE
From all the fools who went before
I learned a wealth of wit.
For over Wisdom's darkest door
Some fool a lamp had lit.
Ye shun, O Sages overwise,
Experience's school
And lose the lore—for which he dies—
Gained by some gallant fool!
—Margaret Root Garvin.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
BROTHERS OF AUBURN GRIDDERS
FORMERLY ON AUBURN TEAMS
By Dick Jones
The football teams at Auburn are
getting to be strictly family affairs.
If it had not been for big brothers
of previous Auburn athletes the foot­ball
team of this fall would have been
a weak uncertain proposition.
The Tigers forward wall from
tackle to tackle is made up of grid-ders
who had former brothers to star
on the gridiron teams at Auburn.
Howell Long and Grady Long, -two
brothers, are now holding down right
guard and right tackle respectively.
And only two years ago these two
hustling Tigers had a brother to hold
down a guard on the Plainsman grid
team. Both these present grid per­formers
are giving every opposing
team they meet plenty of trouble.
They have shown up excellently in the
past three games and will be seen in
action against Mississippi A. & M. in
Birmingham Saturday November 17.
Another regular grid performer in the
front ranks, who was preceded by a
brother two years ago, is Pete Spinks.
Pete's brother, Buck, played three
years on the team, performing at
right end most of the time, and that
is enough years to prove he was above
the standard. Pete has played' well
this year. He has trailed along in
Buck's tracks every year and is put­ting
in his last appearance this Sat­urday
in Birmingham under the
Orange and Blue colors. Pete plays
left guard opposite Hfowell Long.
Working along with Pete on the left
is Erk Taylor, the Sophomore left
tackle. Erk is the brother of the
famous "Babe" Taylor who played on
the team in 1914 when Coach "Booz­er"
Pitts, who is now assisting Bohler
at Auburn, was captain and all-south­ern
center. Erk has improved con­siderably
in every game and if he con­tinues
to do so he will be able to reach
the good record made by his older
brother. Working between these four
stars is none other than Dunnam
Harkins, the younger brother of the
well known "Red" Harkins who was
captain of the Tigers in 1925. Dun­nam
has been snapping the pigskin
back in fine style all season. He has
been in the opening lineup for every
game so far this season and it is al­most
certain that he will be among
those to start against the Aggies Sat­urday.
Dunnam Harkins and Erk
Taylor both hail from Birmingham
where they played on Jones Valley
and Jefferson County Hi School
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teams respectively. Both were cap­tain
of their teams their last year.
Travis Brown, Sophomore lineman
and back who is showing up good this
year, is the son of J. V. Brown who
was a former Auburn star and cap­tain
of the Plainsmen in 1894 when
Auburn swamped Georgia Tech 96-0
Auburn only played four games that
year. They were with Vanderbilt,
Georgia Tech, Georgia, and the Uni
versity of Alabama. Fony Yarbrough
a hustling end this year, is also the
son of an Auburn star. His father
was All-Southern in '99.
In the backfield Auburn has two
gridders who had former brothers to
star for the Tigers. They are "Stum
py" Granger and "Gus" Wingo.
"Stumpy" hails from Bessemer Hi
and Wingo hails from Phillips Hi.
"Stumpy had a brother of this same
size, to carry off many honors on the
Plainsmen team in 1925 and Wingo
had a brother to star in 1911. Stum
py is playing his second year on the
varsity this year and has been a con­sistent
ground gainer in all the games
he has entered. He played his best
defensive game against the Georgia
Bulldogs last year while he was back
ing up the line. Gus Wingo is a Soph
omore back this year but has been
unable to make the varsity this year
on account of his light weight. Wingo
is the first string quarterback for the
scrubs though and has been a real
flash in all the scrimmages and mock
battles with the varsity and Fort
Benning.
There are also two sets of brothers
representing the Orange and Blue
backfield this year. "Snitz' 'Snider
his brother "Ford" Snider, and Clyde
Sellers and his brother Roy Sellers.
"Snitz" is the fastest human at Au
burn today. He is also the fastest
that has been here in quite a num
ber of years. "Snitz" has established
a name for himself on the cinder's at
Auburn that will last indefinitely.
"Snitz" has been a "goal saver" in the
backfield this year. On account of
his speed he has over run and pulled
down every man cutting aloose from
the Tigers within their 40 and 50
yard line, while he was in the battle.
"Snitz" is completing his college ca
reer this year and will be missed a
great deal when he leaves. "Ford"
Snider is a Sophomore and was un­able
to make the varsity this year.
However, he is showing up well in all
the scrimmages and will be a sure bet
for a place on the varsity next year
if he continues to improve. The oth­er
set of brothers are also showing
up in good style. Clyde Sellers is
making a reputation for himself as
being the swiftest and hardest hitting
fullback that Auburn has boasted of
in quite a while. Clyde has also prov­en
to be an excellent punter in a
pinch. He surprised Bohler and
many others in the Florida gdme this
year. He punted three times in that
game, averaging 60 yards to hold the
Gators scoreless in the last half.
Clyde is playing his second year on
the varsity this year and will be back
next year stronger than/ever. Roy
Sellers is a Sophomore back, but has
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PRAISE FOR THE
FRATERNITIES
It is a dull year that doesn't bring
an attack from somebody on the col­lege
fraternity system.
Not long ago a wealthy Ohioan of­fered
to give Cornell a fabulous sum
of money if the fraternities were
abolished. A little later a young
southerner, being initiated into a fra­ternity
at another university, died as
a result of the stunts he was put
through, and the outcry against fra­ternities
was renewed.
Now, however, comes Dean Max
McConn of Lehigh university, writ­ing
in the North American Review for
November, to defend the fraternity
system which makes a college or uni­versity
course far more valuable, to
many men, than it would be without
fraternities.
His defense is based on unusual
grounds.
The average' college youth today,
says Dean McConn, simply is not fit­ted
for a higher education of the old
style. He has not the intellectual
capacity to delve into books very
deeply. What he is really after is
the training that college gives out­side
of its classrooms—training in
the practical matters that will be of
assistance to him in making a living.
He gets this training, continues the
dean, in student activities—student
politics, class publications, glee clubs,
athletics on a big business scale, and
the like. American college men have
built up mimic worlds of business
within the .college walls, and for the
majority these mimic worlds are the
most important thing in college. .
It is the fraternity, says Dean Mc­Conn,
that fosters these activities to
their fullest extent. Each fraternity
house is a center for the active, pul­sating
life of the college. The fra­ternity
takes the somewhat puzzled
college student who is really incap­able
of getting the "higher education"
the professors talk about, and gives
him the kind of training that he can
assimilate.
For this reason Dean McConn
thinks fraternities are a good thing.
'"the fraternities are not undemo­cratic,"
he says. "The fact is, that
they are the refuge for what we may
call the intellectual proletariat, and
are devoted predominately to the
democratic object of training prac­tical
business men."
been unable to jump to the varsity
ranks his first year. Roy has been
an outstanding ball toter for the
scrubs in the mock battles .and will
add great strength to the varsity next
year.
In the coaching staff is "Pop" Pat-erson,
captain of the 1927 Tigers, who
was preceded on the Plainsmen teams
by his father, a brother, and two
uncles, one of his uncles being cap­tain
also. The Paterson's have made
a showing on Auburn's grid teams
that will be hard for any family to
surpass. The Creel family is run­ning
the Paterson family a close race
however, having Carl Creel, a Sopho­more,
out for the grid team this year.
He was preceded by'many cousins and
sisters.
Then in the past few years come
announcements from Coach "Slick"
Moulton; Coach "Boozer" Pitts; Ru­pert
Ingram (Alt. capt. of the team
this year) ; Charles A. Jones, Jr., '17,
of Birmingham (All-Southern end
'17); Freshman coach R. C. "Red"
Brown '20; "Dizzy" Pruitt, '26 (Now
coach at Opelika Hi); "Hard Boy"
Pruitt '24; "Bedie" Bidez, capt. '15;
Ben. E. "Rabbit" Harris four letter-man,
graduated '9 (Montgomery) ;
Chas. Scott '23 (5 years of football) ;
S. L. Toomer '92; Dean Peterson '24
(Chattanooga, Tenn.) ; E. L. Caton
'11 (Gainesville); and many others of
the arrival of future Auburn football
stars. In fact their places on the
team have already been picked out
for them. When all these youngsters
arrive on Drake Field the competition
will be very keen indeed. With their
Daddies insisting that they make the
team and pulling for them with all
their might, they should make for
themselves an even greater name in
Auburn's Athletic history than did
their parents.
Wilsonian Society
Features Debate
Within a few minutes after the
members of the Wilsonian had assemb­led,
the contestants of a debating
squad came forward to debate the
question: Resolved, That Auburn
should have Sunday Movies. Audrey
Fuller and Charles Brock defended
the affirmative, and Blanche Tancre-di
and R. G. Upchurch, the negative.
The negative won by a seven to three
vote.
Miss Fuller stated that from "in­side
dope" she knew that most of the
boys here do not go to church on Sun­day,
but that quite a few of them
spend their time playing cards, shoot­ing
dice, "cracking" jokes, and talking
about the co-eds. She suggested the
theatre as a remedy. There was much
mirth apparent when R. G. Upchurch
hinted that he knew certain girls who
were just as bad as regards Sunday
occupations. He brought forth sev­eral
points to prove that Sunday Mov­ies
would not prevent these practices.
He showed that the boys would have
plenty of time anyway.
The fact that Mr. Rogers intends
po give the profits from these after­noon
pictures to a student scholar­ship
fund gave room for heightened
interest in the subject, and the point
was also brought out that it will serve
as a means of keeping the boys at
Auburn, and preventing them from
hiring U-drive-its, "even though," Up­church
said, "that's exactly what the
girls want."
The society is planning a social.
The girls entertained last and the
boys just hope they will be able to
return the entertainment as royally
as it was given them.
AUBURN PLAYERS
TO MAKE TRIP
STUDENTS TO EVADE EDICT BY
TAKING A SMOKE ON STILTS
Resourceful students at the Uni­versity
of Utah are getting around
an edict against smoking on the
campus by smoking on stilts, the mat­ter
is being left almost entirely to
the discretion of the individual
smoker, but twelve inches is con­sidered
a safe distance off the cam­pus.
College Graduates
Have Longer Life
A new slant on the value of a col­lege
degree is pointed to by Royal J.
Davis, New York newspaperman,
commenting on the summary of ma­triculates
contained in the Septem­ber,
1928, Alumni Directory of his
alma mater, Haverford college, here.
Haverford, established in 1833,
has had 1,731 graduates, 1,358, or
78 per cent of whom are still living.
Her students who did not complete
their four year course number 1,361,
of which group only 709 or 52 per
cent are recorded living.
Mr. Davis' inference from the
Haverford figures is that the chances
at longevity of the college graduate,
or of the Haverford graduate at
least, are 50 per cent greater than
the chances of his college mate who
failed to carry on to a degree.
Christopher Blorley, for instance, who
was born on the Haverford campus
and took a Haverford degree in 1910,
is a better insurance risk than Max-field
Parrish, who left Haverford at
the end of three years to devote him­self
to the study of art.
Miss Kempthorne Visits
Camp Fire Girls
On Friday and Saturday of last
week the campfire girls of Auburn
were honored by a visit from Miss
Edith M. Kempthorne who is national
field secretary for the campfire girls
of America, with headquarter s in
New York.
Her visit is said to be in recogni­tion
of the high honor won by the
Auburn group upon being scored, re­cently,
second in the United States.
Their leaders are Miss Elizabeth Dun­can
and Miss Marie Sewell.
Last Monday night Dr. C. P. Weav­er,
professor of English here, an­nounced
the presentation of a produc­tion,
"Biologically Speaking," that the
members of his play-writing class, in
cooperation with him, adapted from a
modern play by a present-day author.
Many will be interested to learn that
that is the play for which Miss Per­sonality
was so eagerly sought. Mar­tha
Haupt, the winner of the person­ality
contest, presented a very credi­table
performance as an instructress
in Biology, doubled with about an
equal amount of the vamp. Her boss,
Haskins Williams, playing the head
professor, fell in love with her. Mat­ters
were further complicated when
he found that one of his assistant
professors, Rat Burgess, was also in
love with Carol, the girl. The tri­angle
was rudely but romantically
broken when the two admirers found
that Carol is already married.
Everyone enjoyed the real drama ex­pressed
in the scenes. William's
make-up was perfect, and the rat's
dialogue made a real impression.
It seems that there is no end to the
inventive genius of Charles Rush and
Neil Suffich. When the footlights
flashed on for the play, the words
"AP" and "presents" appeared in the
electritc box just above the topmost
edge of the curtain. These faded as
the words "Biologically Speaking" ap­peared
in the form of a heart, to por­tray
the romance contained in this
production.
Dr. Leo Gosser is getting prepara­tions
under way to present four short
plays, prepared under Dr. Weaver's
direction by the members of the play-production
class, at Union Springs,
the players to leave here about noon
Friday of the week following this.
They plan to take "Scraps," "What
They Think," "Paths of Glory," and
"Biologically Speaking." The club is
planning several productions to be us­ed
on later trips.
Kiwanis Club Hosts
To Local Teachers
The Kiwanis Club was host to the
teachers of the Grammar and High
Schools Monday at a luncheon at the
Thomas Hotel. Mr. Milligan Earnest
delighted the guests with a short wel­come
address. Miss Annie Heard
graciously thanked the Club for the
wonderful assistance given the Gram­mar
School in securing milk for un­derweight
children. Professor Par­rish
introduced the members of his
faculty.
NEW HOME OF STATION WAPI NOW
RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETION
Station WAPI, under the joint
operation of Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
and the city of Birmingham,
will soon be "telling the world" again
from its new station on the fourteenth,
top floor of the new Protective Life
Insurance building in Birmingham.
W. A. "Bill" Young will retain his
former position as announcer. J. M.
Wilder, '27, will be a member of the
staff of engineers.
The" new station will have the finest
equipment of any station in the South
and will be modern and up-to-date in
every respect. Its broadcasting rango
will "cover Dixie like the dew," and
will include practically all of the
United States. It will have ten times
the power of the old station, the old
station being rated at one KW and
the new station at five KW. This
greater power will enable it to broad­cast
over long distance and also will
give the listeners-in better reception
results.
The towers and broadcasting eqiup-ment
proper will be located on the
mountain near Sandusky. The Jeffer­son
County Board of Revenue is now
building a road from the Birming­ham-
Jasper highway to the station at
the tops of the mountain. The cot­tage
for the manager and also the
station house is now complete
The policy of the station will be
controlled by the college. Contrary
to the general idea, the station will
not be merely for those people in­terested
in agriculture. Its program
will be of general interest, including
such things as music, lectures, news,
and many things of interest. to the
public at large.
Veterinary Medical CHECK FOR S1'000-000 MADE
Association Meets
The regular meeting of the Veter­inary
Medical Association was con­ducted
on Wednesday night Nov. 7,
1928, at 7:00 P. M. in the Veterinary
Building. An interesting talk on
Dairying was given by Mr. Rainey, in
which dairying was discussed from
the producers standpoint. The value
of good cows, individual records on
each cow, good pastures, and home
grown feeds were emphasized as
factors to success in dairying.
Dr. Ed Everett, who is an assistant
State Veterinarian, made a interest­ing
talk on dairying, showing the
rapid development of the dairy indus­try
in the state.
WIRT SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
Judging by the way they act most
middle aged people must feel younger
than they look.
Nobody can be quite so independent
in his dealings with his boss as he
whose wife has a good job.
Students! Buy your Christmas
Presents at the Student Supply Shop.
Faculty Members Enjoy
Armistice Dance
A brilliant affair of Friday even­ing
was the Armistice Dance held in
the Alumni Gymnasium from nine un­til
twelve. The Military members of
the faculty were in charge of the
evening's entertainment. About six­ty
couples enjoyed dancing, music be­ing
furnished by Max Jones and his
Collegians.
Opelika School Presents
"Style Revnue"
The Opelika High School present­ed
a most elaborately staged Musical
Comedy and "Style Revue," Monday
night in Palmer Hall. The Senior
class sponsored the play, "Walk This
Way," which was in four acts. The
direction was under the supervision
of the Gayl Producing Company of
Atlanta, Georgia. Their representa­tive,
Miss Carolyn Cheves, was in
charge and proved a very able as­sistant.
The play was a success and
the audience most enthusiastic in its
applause.
Students! Buy your Christmas
Presents at the Student Supply Shop.
WE MAKE
H T T T ^ O NEWSPAPER
.1 N MAGAZINE
~ y' A W CATALOG
S e r v i c e Engraving Co
Montgo
The regular meeting of the Wirt
Literary Society was the scene of
many heated political arguments as
the election of officers took place.
Those elected were as follows: Mr. H.
C. Pitts, President; Mr. Roy N. Sel­lers,
Vice-Pres.; Miss Bernice McMil-lian,
Sec; Mr. W. T. Oakley, Treas­urer;
J. D. Harris, Reporter; and Mr.
R. Kelso, Sargeant at Arms.
After the election of officers an
initiation was held for the new mem-1
bers. The details of the initiation'
were secret, of course, but it was
learned that the new members are
doing as well as can be expected, and
some may even survive.
PAYABLE TO U. OF TEXAS
Checks may come and checks may
go, but seldom is a check for as
large amount as the one presented
to Attorney-General Claude Pollard,
conveying $1,000,000, to the account
of the University of Texas.
The check was the result of a
judgment awarded the University
against the Texon Oil Company and
the Big Lake Oil Company.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
HAS 72-YEAR OLD FROSH
The University of Chicago claims
to have one of the oldest freshmen
in Frederic J. Gurney, age 72. For
35 years, he has served as recorder
for the University, keeping records
of thousands of students.
Finally deciding to retire from his
position in order to see how the Uni­versity
looks from the classroom, he
enrolled as a student. Most of his
classmates are young enough to be
his grandchildren.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN ^ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928
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JACK McLESKEY, CAROL PORTER, Associate Editors
Dick Jones, Tad McCallum, T. S. Winter, Howard Sparks, Assistants
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AUBURN TO FACE MISSISSIPPI
TEAM CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
By Tad McCallum
The Auburn Tigers will enter Sat­urday's
battle with the Mississippi
Aggies in Birmingham with a feel­ing
of confidence that goes a long
way toward deciding the victor in a
football game. The Plainsmen have
shown a decided improvement in each
encounter since the win over How­ard
and should reach their top form
this Saturday.
The Aggies will not be easy meat
for the Tigers by any means. The
Mississippi aggregation got away to
a bad start for the early part of the
season and then settled down and
fought the strong Michigan State
eleven to a deadlock. The Aggies
will outweigh the Auburn crew sev­eral
pounds to the man and boast of
several dangerous performers in their
ranks. In Pappenheimer, the Mis-sissippians
have a back who can step
with the best in the South. He is a
constant threat and will have to be
watched carefully Saturday.
The Auburn Tigers have improved
more in the past three weeks than
any other team in the conference.
Their turning point came when they
defeated the Howard College Bull­dogs
25—6 on Drake Field three
weeks ago. Auburn worked her
passes to a perfection in that game.
Rupert Ingram pulled two of them
down out of the ozone to score the
Plainsmen's first two touchdowns. He
sprinted 40 yards to score the first
one and 5 yards to score the second
one.
The Tiger mentor's worries of hav­ing
ends to snag passes from all
angles is about over. Ingram, Shan­non
and Chappelle have nearly reach­ed
Bohler's expectations of what is
necessary to fill the bill. They have
improved 100 per cent since the first
game and are looking better every
Saturday. Bohler is planning on giv­ing
the Mississippi Aggies a real taste
of his overhead plays and Birming­ham
fans will be able to see a pair
of pass snagging ends if these two
gridders are at their best Saturday.
Although scores don't prove it but
the wearers of the Orange and Blue
colors played a much better game this
year against the Tulane Greenies than
they did last year. For last year
they were lucky not to have been
beaten by the Greenies who tied them
6-6. But this year the Greeniets got
a head start in scoring on the Tigers
and it was hard for the Plainsmen to
catch up. However after the second
quarter got under way the Tigers
played the Greenies off their feet..
Mississippi will be facing a much
stronger team than was expected this
Saturday and they will have much op­position
in trying to hold the Tigers
scoreless. Bohler has shifted his line
continuously every week and has
finally placed them in the positions
for which they are fitted. The line
held better against the Greenies than
they have against any team in a num­ber
of years. They held Tulane for
three downs on their two yard line
where the ball went over to Auburn
and the Tigers punted out of danger.
Athletic relationship has been
going on between Auburn and Miss­issippi
A. & M. since 1905 and only
one have the Aggies defeated the
Tigers. That was last year when the
Plainsmen failed to register a victory
over any of their opponents. The
Aggies defeated the Tigers last year
7-6. Auburn has scored 148 points
against A. & M.'s 22 to average 13
5-6 points to every game while the
Aggies only averaged.2 point to every
game.
Past scores are as follows:
1905—Auburn 18—Miss. A. & M. 0
1910—Auburn 6—Miss. A. & M. 0
1911—Auburn 11—Miss. A. & M. 5
1912—Auburn 7—Miss. A. & M.
1913—Auburn 37—-Miss. A. & M.
1914—Auburn 19—Miss. A. & M.
1915—Auburn 20—Miss. A. & M.
1916—Auburn 7—Miss. A. & M.
13—Miss. A. & M.
7-—Miss. A. & M.
6—Miss. A. & M.
1917
1919
1927
-Auburn
-Auburn
-Auburn
Auburn Basketeers
Go Through First
Work Out Monday
By Dick Jones
The Auburn Tiger basketball can­didates
went through their initial
practice Monday night in the local
Alumni gymnasium. There were 18
aspirants present for the first work­out.
Among them were the four last
years lettermen, three scrubs, and ten
new men. Student manager "Pee
Wee" Wright was also out hustling on
the job his first night. "Pee Wee"
is succeeding Elmer Salter who was
student manager last year.
Coach Bohler gave many good
points to the cagers the first night.
Also stressing the point that he
would turn things over to Captain
DuBose until after Thanksgiving.
The thing he drilled on mostly was
the fact that he wanted the early
comers to work hard in getting their
legs in the best of condition. He also
showed them a few fundamentals of
the game that he has worked out in
his new system that he will install.
The cagesters present the first
night were: Captain Frank DuBose,
who was all-southern center last year;
L. James, younger brother to the
James twins; Moon Mullins, and Al
Smith; these were the last years let­termen
; the scrubs were Peter Booth,
Kennedy, and Vines"; the new comers
were Howard Smith, H. D. Harmon,
G. T. Harmon, Kuykendall, Pierson,
Odis DeVaughan, "Boots" Fulton,
"Maggie" McGee, Bill Jester, and Joe
Anderson. The eighteenth man being
Manager Wright.
Only three practices a week will be
held until after Thanksgiving. They
will be held at 7:00 o'clock on Mon­day,
Wednesday, and Friday nights
in the gym.
BABY TIGERS TO FACE GEORGIA
BULLPUPS IN COLUMBUS FRIDAY
JIM CRAWFORD
Jim Crawford, flashy halfback on
the varsity, has been playing a con­sistent
game throughout the present
season. His garne against Georgia in
Columbus Saturday before last was
especially notable. Jim is just a
junior this year arid is expected to
be one of the bulwarks of the 1929
team. Not only is Crawford showing
up well on the gridiron but he is one
of the best bets for the baseball team,
making his letter last year with a
sensational record behind him.
GRID REVIEW AND FUTURES
By "OSWALD"
Auburn 148—Miss. A. & M. 22
Engineers And Second Battalion End
Battle In 6-6 Deadlock On Thursday
Freshmen Reserves to
Make Trip to Gadsden
To Play High School
The Engineers and the Second Bat­talion
of the Artillery Division wast­ed
one good afternoon Thursday after
battling four long quarters. It was
found that they had crossed the last
white line only once, and both had
failed to add the extra point that
would have meant so much.
Through the afternoon it was a
contest of "you carry it down to one
end of the field and I will get it and
bring it back," this was done several
time by both teams but the necessary
last few yards that mean so much in
a football game was just a little to
The second Bn. began to function
in the third quarter enough to break
through the Engineers strong line
when" near the goal. Taking the ball
on the 50 yard line the 2nd Bn. march­ed
for a touchdown on straight foot­ball,
with Snider showing consider­able
drive in the march.
For the Engineers Armstrong was
the outstanding player, while Snider
showed best for the 2ncT Bn.
Battalion football is coming to its
own in Auburn, and quite a bit of in­terest
is being shown and real foot­ball
ability is being shown by the dif-well
guarded to allow either one to I , . , _ , .
come 6t hrough more than once, i ferent teams, and several men proven
The second Battalion was the more
themselves to be real prospective var­sity
material. In the future Auburn
aggressive and did most of the gain-|w i l l b e n e f j t g r e a t l y f r o m t h e e x p e ri
ing through the first three quarters.
Several times it looked as though they
would push over a marker, but the
Engineers always pulled themselves
together and sopped them a few yards
short of the last white line.
The game rocked along well into
the second quarter before any dirty
work was pulled off. The second Bn.
had carried the ball well into the En­gineers
territory on straight football,
but the possibility of a score by the
passing route was too much to resist,
and one was let loose in the direction
of the left end but an Engineer by
the name of Shobel came and picked
the oval from, the air and put in a
beautiful exhibition of side stepping
and stiff arming to cover the requir­ed
80 yards for a touchdown. In this
run Shobel broke loose from several
tacklers, and at, one time he was
knocked from his feet, but got up and Students! Buy your Christmas
continued to trot for the six points. Presents at the Student Supply Shop
ence these men are getting from Bat­talion
football.
Engineers
Miller •
Armstrong
McQueen
Hayes
Spinks
Martin
Austin
Green
Shobel
Mosley
Hunter
Referee, "C
LINE UP
2nd Battalion
LE
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
RE
QB
LH
RH
FB
ash" Wood;
Weisinger
Taylor
Mims
Dunbar
Meig
Smith
Holston
Ellison
Slaughter
Biley
Snider
Umpire, Lt.
Leitch; Head Linesman, Joe Kennedy;
Time Keeper, Lt. Barth;
Bn. Luke Ward; Coach
John Moseley.
Coach 2nd.
Engineers,
The third team of Coach Brown's
freshman team will leave Auburn
Friday morning via bus, and travel
north to play the strong Gadsden
High School. Coach Brown will take
his first two teams to Columbus Fri­day
to play the first year men of
Georgia, while coach Paterson will be
in charge of the third team.
The rats have been working hard
this week getting in shape for their
tilt Friday. Coach Paterson has a
hard working bunch of boys and they
are developing rapidly.
Gadsden has one of the strongest
teams in north Alabama. This year's
team is one of the strongest the school
has ever had. The boys up north are
in tip top condition, and are prim­ing
for the game Friday.
The men that coach Paterson has
been working on and the ones he will
probably take on the trip are: Smith,
center, Pate, Duke and Hardnet,
guards; Craddock, Stewart and Johns,
tackles; Gholston and Bothies, Ends;
Reedy Quarterback; Wible and Ward
Halves; and Jacobs, Fullback.
ATTENDANCE AT THE AUBURN-TULANE
GAME VERY MUCH
UNDERESTIMATED
By K. G. Taylor *
According to certain newspapers
which had an account of the Auburn
Tulane game the attendance was very
small. This seems to be untrue as
several spectators of this game say
that this was the largest crowd to
witness an Auburn-Tulane game in
the three years that they have been
playing in New Orleans. This crowd
was estimated at about ten thousand,
but there were many more spectators
than that. Auburn had a large num­ber
of supporters, among these the
band which together with a strong
delegation of Auburn students kept
up the "OLE AUBURN SPIRIT."
The Tech Tornado slashed, swirled
and blew all about the Vandy Com­modores
Saturday, thus overpower­ing
one of the most potent elevens
that Coach Dan McGugin has devel­oped
in many seasons. Tech's na­tional
stock also took a jump now
being ranked on par with the best.
The Tornado backfield delivered in
a wonderful manner and Father
Lumpkin and Mizelle are All-Ameri-can
material. Mizelle carried the
ball 33 times and gained 201 yards.
Vandy came out of the game crippled
and in a dazed condition after put­ting
up a valiant fight. Schwartz
and Armistead can still be counted
among the luminaries of the South.
Just here: Tech will doubtless win
over the Crimson Tide Saturday but
remember that Alabama's line will
probably be nearer on par with
Tech's than any line they have faced
this year with Wade in a position to
call in ample reserve strength—some­thing
McGugin couldn't do. Alabama
always fights hard and with the prob­able
return of Suther to the lineup
—don't be surprised at anything.
Remember Maryland-Yale;
Dame-Army.
Approaching interest to the above
clash was the vengeful Florida Ga­tor's
triumph over the Georgia Bull­dogs.
A funeral march was played
for a valiant Georgia Bulldog team
as that mighty backfield of Bach-man's
thundered on, composed of
eight alternating backfield aces. Can-nonball
Clyde Crabtree in the lead­ing
role was amply assisted by Good-bread,
Bethea, Brumbaugh, etc.
Crabtree made one run of 84 yards
for a touchdown. Van Sickle and
Stanley, ends for Florida, also gave
a great exhibition. Florida will de­feat
Clemson easily.
Alabama showed much potential
strength in the game with Kentucky
Saturday and displayed enough ver­satility
to have made the score triple
that amount except for faulty signal
calling. Kentucky fough a game
fight but just didn't "click." With a
little assistance Covington would be
a marvel. Bill Brown, brother of the
ever McEver of Tennessee, is now
leading Southern Conference in scor­ing.
A fighting team from Maryland, in
all its wrath turned in one of the
biggest upsets Saturday by defeat­ing
the mighty men of Eli. Snyder
led his team to the greatest heights
ever achieved by an Old Liner grid­iron
team. Thus the mysteries of
football carry on and hair-pulling by
so called experts reaches an unprece­dented
stage.
The Green Typhoon of Tulane's—
Billy Banker, was stopped by a fight­ing
team from the village Saturday—
and that was something in itself to
brag about for Banker has only been
stopped by one team previous to this.
Tulane was extremely lucky to win
this game for Auburn showed power­ful
offense the last half and came
very near scoring twice in the last
quarter. Auburn's line demonstrated
its strength in the first half when it
held Tulane on the 5-yard line. Au­burn's
passes are beginning to work.
Tuxworth chunked 16 and 10 were
completed. Volumes could be said
Notre about this game but must pass on.
However Miss. A. & M. will go down
in defeat Saturday.
L. S. U. defeated Ole Miss scoring
the first touchdown on a fumble made
during the first period, Brown racing
96 yards for a touchdown; the "Pony
Express" of V. P. I. with the addition
of a supposedly sick man, Peake,
routed Virginia 20 to 0; Clemson
showed comeback power in defeat­ing
V. M. I. 12 to 0; North Carolina
and South Carolina battled to a
scoreless tie in the mud of Chapel
Hill; North Carolina State defeated
Davidson; Princeton beat Washing­ton
& Lee; and Miss. A. & M. and
Centenary played a 6-6 draw.
By Dick Jones
The "Baby" Tigers of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, fresh from their
18-7 victory over the Greenie "rats"
last Saturday, will journey into Geor­gia
Friday Nov. 16, for their third
and last time, to lock horns with the
"Rat" Bulldogs of the University of
Georgia. The game is to be staged at
Columbus, Ga., in the Memorial sta­dium.
This will be the fifth and last
game for the Auburn "rats" this sea­son.
The "little" Tigers showed a great
deal of improvement in their offen­sive
and defensive work against Tu­lane.
They blocked well, ran well,
passed well, and tackled well through­out
the whole game. Holdcraft play­ed
the best game in the line for the
Tigers. He has held down left tackle
in every game so far this season, deal­ing
misery to every team he has
faced. Holdcraft recovered a fumble
in the Tulane game that helped to
count for one of the Tiger touch­downs.
Coach R. C. "Red" Brown has put
his Freshmen gridders through an
extra hard week of training in prep­aration
for the Georgia battle and
he believes it will show results Satur­day.
They had a rather light work­out
Monday but things began to stif­fen
up Tuesday. Their weakest de­partment
seems to be the punting.
However Coach has had them punting
more this week than usually and they
have shown considerable improve­ment
already. The first thing on his
menu every day this week has been
punting. The punters that have been
sticking their toe under the pigskin
for the "rats" have been Leo Young,
Wadsworth, Smifeh, Tamplin, and
Pate.
"Frock" Pate, the well known
Woodlawn Hi star, ran like a real
Tiger against the Greenies and will
do the same thing against the Bull­dogs
if he is given half a chance. He
gained 89 yards through the Greenies
line of the 246 yards gained by the
Tigers. He also intercepted one of
Tulane's passes and made a broken
field run for 60 yards to score the
Tigers third and last touchdown.
Leo Young was another outstand­ing
man for the Auburn "rats" Sat­urday.
Young also gained 89 yards
against the Tulane "rats". He made
the longest run of the day when he
broke through the Greenies line,
shaking off several would-be tack­lers,
and sprinting 75 yards for the
Plainsmen's first touchdown.
The Georgia tilt will complete the
five game schedule the "rats" have
every year. They have won two and
lost two so the Bulldogs can look for
a real scrap Saturday for the Tigers
are working hard to win over them
to keep from dropping below the 500
percentage mark.
Scores so far this season are as
follows:
Rats 25—B'ham-Sou. 2.
Rats 7—Tech 20.
Rats 0—Florida 7.
Rats 18—Tulane 7.
Total: Rats 50; Opponents 36.
Prospects Are Good for Tiger Track
Teams During The Year 1928-1929
By Howard Sparks
Prospects for a good track team in
'29 look very bright at present. A
large number of good prospects has
answered the call and are receiving
instruction from coaches Hutsell and
Baskin. The regular fall grind is on
and each man has settled down to do
his best. Although we are very op­timistic,
much depends on the turn of
the wheel of time. Sam Robinson,
veteran javelin man who was injured
in an automobile accident, is improv­ing
at a steady rate, but it is not
| Galliard, Withington, and Summer-ford
look best in the pole vault. We
have very little to worry about in the
hurdles with Capt. Beard and Vir­gin
leading the parade in both low
and high hurdles. It will be remem­bered
that these men carried off hon­ors
at the Conference meet last year.
Willis and Harmond are looking good
in both events. The weights events
will be dominated by the football men,
Carter, Robinson, Newton, Taylor,
and Harkins.
Sam Robinson, Nagley, and Willis
known yet whether or not he will i will heave the javelin. The middle
be available for duty in the spring. | distance races will fall to the mem-
These
Here goes the funeral march.
After parading my egotism before a
gaping multitude last week suppose
I had it coming to me. But here's
the statistics: Out of 19 games pre­dicted
3 were tied, 8 won and 8 lost,
so I broke even. Managed to predict
3 correct scores and picked relative
famous Johnny Mack was a new star strength of Florida-Georgia; Tenn
playing a wonderful game and scor- Sewanee; Harvard-Penn.; N-West'n-ing
one of the touchdowns. Alabama | Purdue. It will be noticed that I
needs a punter terribly but Suther's
return will help this materially.
The Touchdown twins of Tennessee
had ample assistance Saturday from
their Captain, Roy Witt, who turned
in a couple of touchdowns. The Vol­unteers
continued to display their
usual strength but will hardly come
through the season undefeated. They
will likely go down before Vandy this
week if injuries do not play havoc
with the Commodores and if not by
Vandy, Florida will surely win. How-predicted
Navy to win over Michi­gan
when they were hardly conceded
a chance and they tied. But out of
the ruins comes a clear vision of
what the week will bring forth.
"Oswald's" Pick
AUBURN 19—Miss. A. & M. 6.
Alabama 7—Ga. Tech 13.
Florida 32—Clemson 6.
Georgia 13—L. S. U. 6.
Kentucky 19—V. M. I. 0.
Virginia 0—Maryland 13.
Ole Miss 26—Southwestern 0.
The sprints left vacant by the grad­uation
of Captain Snider, will fall to
Bell, Hanby, and Postell. All of these
men can be counted on for duty in the
spring for they are developing at a
rapid rate. Bell is the more expe­rienced
of the three. In the high
jump Virgin Anderson, Rutland, and
Bennett seem to be the best bets for
a regular berth on the team. Capt.
Beard and Tuxworth will carry the
burden of the broad jump. Hughes,
N. C. 19—Davidson 7.
N. C. S. 13—Duke 6.
Sewanee 6—Tulane 27.
South Carolina 13—Furman 0.
Vanderbilt 14—Tennesse 13.
V. P. I. 19—Wash. & Lee 6.
Chicago 0—Illinois 20.
Indiana 6—Northwestern 7.
Iowa 14—Wisconsin 7.
Nebraska 13—Pittsburg 6.
Notre Dame 13—Carnegie 12.
Princeton 13—Yale 0.
Stanford 6—Washington 14.
of the cross country teams.
are Allen, Beard, Baskerville, Dol-lins,
Huff, Mapson, Moss, O'Hara,
Oliver, Plant, Stacey, Turner, Wul-lenbucker,
and Wood.
First Battalion Artillery
Hammers Out Victory
Over the Third Battalion
Wednesday saw the powerful team
of the 1st Bn. of the Artillery ham­mer
its lighter opponents of the 3rd
Bn. Artillery for a 13 to nothing vic­tory
on a rain soaked field. The 3rd
put up a game fight, being greatly
handicapped by lack of substitutes, but
the charge of the 1st Bn.'s Four
Horsemen—Cooper, Conradi, Camer­on
and Dyer was too much for them.
Cameron was hurt early in the first-quarter
and was replaced in the back-field
by Argo, whose speed and ball
(Continued on page 6)
1928 Football Schedule
Sept. 28—Birmingham Southern
Oct. 6—Clemson (Home coming)
Oct. 13—Florida
Oct. " 20—U. of Mississippi
Oct. 27—Howard
3—U. of Georgia
10—Tulane
17—Mississippi A.
29—Georgia Tech.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
& M.
—Montgomery (Night game)
—Auburn
—Gainesville
—Birmingham
—Auburn
—Columbus
—New Orleans
—Birmingham
—Atlanta
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
FEATURES OF THE GEORGIA-AUBURN
GAME IN COLUMBUS
By D. M. Jackson
To sum up the game, we might say
that Georgia got the breaks when they
counted most. This spelled defeat for
the "Tigers." To back up this state­ment,
we offer the following: In the
first quarter, Auburn fumbled on their
own 12 yard line and a Georgia man
recovered it. This somewhat dazed
the "Tigers" and before they could
collect their wits, Waugh, behind per­fect
interference, swept left end for
a touchdown. Again, when Auburn
had the dogs with their backs to the
wall, a fumbled punt by Peake gave
them the ball in mid-field. Once
more, by successive end runs, passes,
and hard line bucks by Sellers, the
"Tigers" carried the ball to the Red
and Black's 11 yard mark. A few
minutes before it had started raining.
Tuxworth fumbled the slick ball and
Auburn's chances collapsed.
Except for a few minutes in the
first quarter, Auburn's line from
tackle to tackle consistently out play­ed
Georgia's. Georgia's interference
and fast backs showed to good ad­vantage
and especially in the former
department was Georgia superior to
Bohler's men. Let is be said, how­ever
that Auburn's offense had a
punch and 11 earned first downs will
indicate. The "Bulldogs" made 15.
It was quite noticeable that the
"Tigers" played a clean game as a
camparison of penalties indicated.
They drew one 5-yard penalty for off­side
and a like number for excessive
time out, while Georgia drew a 15-
yard penalty for holding, five 5-yard
penalties for offside, and an additional
5 yards for killing time in the late
stages of the game.
As for individual performance,
Rothstein of Georgia was a power on
offense, while Dudley and Hill made
some good gains. On defense, Dud­ley,
Jacobson and Lautzheizer were
shining lights. They, uncovered a good
end in Maffett, a sophomore. This
man will probably be heard from later.
For Auburn, Tuxworth and Sellers
'Tis Fine to
Dine
at the
showed to good advantage in carry­ing
the ball, while Crawford made
some nice gains around the ends. On
defense, the Long Brothers, and Har-kins
serve credit for ocnsistent line
play, while Joe Burt played well dur­ing
the short time he was in the game.
Callahan, on secondary defense,
showed his worth.
The principal offensive gains were
Rothstein's thrust of 22 yards coupled
with his 12 yard runs and Hill's 20
yard end run late in the game.
Tuxworth had the distinction of
making the longest gain from scrim­mage.
He started the drive that end­ed
on the "dogs" 11-yard line by slip­ping
off tackle for 23 yards.
Through the air, Georgia's 34-yard
gain on a pass, Hill to Maffett, was
a feature.
Sellers' 46 yard return of the kick-off
as the second half began, and
Peake's 21 yard return of the kick-off
after Georgia's first touchdown
were features as well as Tuxworth's
ability in returning punts.
AG. CLUB STAGES
ANNUAL PARADE
Letter Shop Opened
At Northwestern
PICKWICK
Three enterprising co-eds at North­western
University have turned their
knowledge of English and Psychology
to a strictly practical use, and have
opened a Letter Shop, where they
write difficult letters for sufficient
remuneration.
They will write custom-made love
letters—each guaranteed to contain
suitable sentiments—for the trifling
price of $10. Ordinary thank-you
letters are $2.
When it comes to that most dif­ficult
and yet most important type
of letters, the "Dear Dad—Please re­mit"
type, the scribes assess their
fee on the commission basis. Ten
per cent of the check is the amount
demanded.
Although this letter-writing busi­ness
seems to be something quite
new, it has medieval precedents.
Manuscripts preserved from the
Middle Ages show that in the good
old days when each teacher was paid
directly by the pupils, the first thing
the student learned .was the proper
method of writing home for money.
A whole series of dunning letters
was mapped out by the instructors,
the final one purporting to be writ­ten
from a debtor's prison, where the
writer claimed to be languishing
among rats, and subsisting on moldy
bread and water.
The annual parade for the "Ag"
Fair sponsored by the Ag Club was
pulled off Friday afternoon and
proved to be a great success. Floats
and exhibits from the various de­partment's
of agriculture made up the
greatest part of the parade which
was led by the famous Auburn band.
Perhaps one of the most beautiful
floats was that of the horticulture de­partment.
This float was designed by
Professor Hyde and had on it all man­ner
of flowers arranged in the middle
and surrounded by various kinds of
fruits and nuts.
Leading the floats and just back of
the band came a very interesting en­gineering
exhibit which included two
tractors of the very lafest type, a
thrashing machine, a hay baler, and
many other things of interest.
Among the other features of the
parade was a veterinary float, bedeck­ed
with all manner and sort of instru­ments
used in this work. There were
two fine specimens of bulls who car­ried
the following placards, "Dean
Judd's Extra Curricula" and "This
Bull Is Called Fence Because He Runs
Around A Lot." A cow bore a card
saying, "When You Pull Her Tail She
Will Butter." A hunting exhibit con­sisted
of two hunters leading a Boston
Bull and a Russian Wolfhound. Anoth­er
interesting feature, which grew out
of a debate in Ag Club as to the rela
five merits of sugar cane and sorgum
cane, was a big husky Ag student
bearing a placard "Sorgum Cane" and
a small student who bore a card with
the words "Sugar Cane". Bringing
up the tail of the parade came a
Freshman leading or rather being led
by a goat who bore the inscription,
"Socialist Party."
Engineers and 3rd
Battalion Tie 6-6
In A Hard Battle
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Why write home for money?
Here's an easier way out.
The Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce, 45 West 45th Street,
New York City, offers $1,000 for a
good, snappy sentence of only a few
wt>rds, provided they are the right
words. The sum is the prize to be
paid for the slogan best expressing
the thought that music is a prime
means of self-expression and culture
and that there are hours of pleasure
in store for those who learn to play
some sort of a musical instrument.
No limit is put on the number of
words in any slogan submitted, but
contestants are reminded that the
best slogans are short ones and that
a single sentence, if brief and peppy,
"packs a punch" more powerful than
a whole volume of words.
Anyone is eligible to enter the con­test
and there is no limit upon the
number of slogans any one person
may submit, provided they are mailed
to the Music Industries Chamber of
Commerce before January 1, the
closing date of the contest. The
judges who will decide the winner are
S. L. Rothafel ("Roxy") New York
movie impressario; Dr. Frank Crane,
journalist-essayist; and Frank Pres-brey,
advertising authority.
Leaflets explaining the contest
may be obtained at any music deal
er's or from the Chamber direct.
On last Thursday afternoon the En­gineers
and 3rd -Batallion matched
wits for forty five minutes and as a
reward received a 6-6 tie. The light­er
Artillery gained quite a bit of
yardage thru the line during the last
half. Stuckey did most of the ground
gaining and Louis did the passing.
The Engineers threw a number of
passes but confined most of their work
to the ground. Shabel was especially
good, ripping off tackles and circling
ends for several yards gain.
Artillery won the toss and elected
to receive. Shabel kicked off to the
Artillery who returned to the 30-yard
line. Art. made first down but was
held a few minutes later and was
forced to kick. Greep fumbled the
punt and Art. recovei'ed. All line
plays failed and the ball went over
to the Engineers. After an exchange
of punts the Artillery took a par­tially
blocked punt on their own 40-
yard mark. A pass, Louis to J. D.
Champion, was good for 20 yards and
he ran the remaining 40 yards for a
touchdown.
Late in the second half the Engin­eers
took the ball in midfield and car­ried
to the Art.'s 30-yard line on a
series of line plays. A pass Green to
Austin placed the ball on the 20-
yard mark. On the next play Sha­bel
went off right tackle, reversed his
field, and sidestepped his way to the
much desired goal line. A pass fail­ed
to get the extra point and the
score was left 6 all. The Engineers
kicked off to the Art. and they re­turned
ot the 40-yard mark where the
game ended.
Engineers
Miller
Beavert
Prater
Hayes
Fink
Martin
Austin
Green
Shabel
Solomon
Hunter
Substitutions
Green, McQueen for Baevert, Thomas
for Solomon, Green for Allen, Solo­mon
for McQueen, Beavert for Thom­as
; Artillery: Taylor for Sommerville.
Referee: Ward.
MOTION PICTURES
AN AID IN STUDY
Fink
Martin
Austin
Green
Shabel
Solomon
Hunter
Substitution
Position
L. E.
L. T.
L. G.
C.
R. G.
R. T.
R. E.
Q. B.
L. H.
R. H.
F. B.
Artillery
DeShazo
Sommerville
Allen
Vance
Bridges
Champion, W.
Champion, J.
Louis
Stuckey
McClure
Pyke
s—Engineers: Allen for
It is very probable that the grade
school teacher's load will soon be
lightened by the use of films in
teaching. The Eastman Kodak Com­pany,
acting with the National Edu­cational
Association, has just com­pleted
an experiment that seems to
demonstrate conclusively the super­iority
of the new method over the
old. In geography a thirty-five per
cent gain was registered by the pu­pils
taugh by means of films, and a
fifteen per cent gain in general sci­ence.
Approximately 5,500 children
were taught with films and 5,500
more were taught the same material
without the aid of motion pictures, in
public schools scattered over twelve
cities.
A 500 word report has just been
completed by Dr. Ben. D. Wood of
Columbia and Dr. Frank Freeman of
the University of Chicago, directors
of the experiment.
"In this experiment," the report
said, "We have studied the films not
as a panacea to be substituted for
present instrumentalities of the
schools, nor as a means to revolu­tionize
the aims of education, but as
an addition to the present pedagogical
devices of the schools which may
help in the attainment of currently
accepted goals." As one might ex­pect,
a majority of the teachers and
school officials reported that the use
of classroom films had been "more
effective in arousing and sustaining
the children's interest, in improving
the quantity and quality of their
reading, and in aiding them to cor­relate
features of the lessons with
personal experiences and community
conditions."
M. L. NICHOLS IS GIVEN NATIONAL
ATTENTION BY AGRICULTURISTS
As an agricultural engineer, Prof.
M. L. Nichols, of the college of ag­riculture
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, has attracted Rational at­tention.
His career is reviewed
briefly in the current issue of The
Journal of the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers, he receiving
first mention among "Who's Who" in
the group.
The publication reviews his career
as follows:
"Mark Lovel Nichols—member of
the Council of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers—is profes­sor
of agricultural engineering and
head of the department at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. He is a grad­uate
of Ohio State University, where
he majored in agricultural engineer­ing.
On graduation he became as­sociated
with the Ohio Cultivator
Company in experimental work. Af-
Paddling License
Must Be Secured
ing committee for the initiation af­fair.
Just as there have been issued
licenses for automobile operators,
dog-catchers, and back-seat drivers,
it has been proposed that the sopho­more
class adopt a type of paddle-wielders'
license to accompany the
rule that only a limited number of
men will be allowed to handle the
pieces of oak at the skin-scalping
event.
terward he farmed for three years,
after which he taught agricultural
engineering one year at the T. N.
Vail Agricultural School in Vermont.
From there he went to Delaware Ag­ricultural
College where he taught
agricultural enginering for three
years and at the same time he se­cured
a master's degree. For eigh­teen
months he was extension specia­list
in agricultural engineering at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
later tractor specialist for the Rich­mond
branch of the International
Harvester Company. In 1919 he was
appointed to his presen,!, position.
Perhaps his most notable contribu­tion
to the advancement of agricul­tural
engineering has been in re­search.
His work in soil dynamics is
in particularly outstanding. He has
been very active in A. S. A. E. af­fairs.
He was the first chairman of
the Southern Section and he has
served as chairman and member of
the Research Committee and also on
others."
Isn't it pleasant to hear of some­thing
nice that somebody has said
about you behind your back?
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"Where's your paddling Jicense?"
That is a question that several Uni­versity
of Oregon sophomores may
have to answer on the occasion of the
annual frosh parade, if the license
suggestion is accepted by the paddl-
TOPMOST VALUE!
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OCTOBER FRATERNITY
DEFICIENCIES
1928-29
No. Stu- No.
dents Defici-with
de- encies
ficiencies
Sunday Movies Are
Discussed By Evans
Everyone should learn to think
while they are on their feet, and the
best way to get practice of this is to
engage in impromptu debates. The
subject for discussion was: "Resolved:
That there should be Sunday movies
in Auburn." The time of this dis­cussion
was limited on account of the
declamation try-outs, but while the
discussion lasted Prof. Butler, Mor-phet
DuBose, and Mr. Bennet began
the "mud-slinging." There were
some excellent points given on both
the affirmative and the negative
sides, and the members were left in
a kind of a haze as to which view­point
to take.
The try-outs for the declamation
contest were held for the final time
for this year. Mr. Carraker spoke
on "Young America, You Are The
Hope of The World," and Mr. Du­Bose
spoke on "The Keystone To
Citizenship." The decision was ren­dered
in favor of Morphet DuBose,
who is to represent the society in the
annual declamation contest.
HOT DOG
A magazine writer says a dog fills
an empty place in a man's life.
Emily Miller says that this is espe­cially
true of the hot dog.
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Kappa Alpha
Kappa Delta (Sorority
Kappa Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Delta Chi
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Delta
Phi Kappa Tau
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Tau Omega Chi
Theta Chi
Theta Kappa Nu
Theta Kappa Nu
Total Fraternity
deficiencies
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Total Non-Fraternity
deficiencies
ALL-COLLEGE
14
12
3
13
10
1
2
14
11
) 2
16
18
9
13
13
6
28
18
19
17
18
17
11
2
14
16
16
7
324
397
721
29
17
3
22
15
1
3
20
19
2
29
27
19
28
20
11
43
40
27
22
34
29
15
4
20
38
38
9
546
695
1244
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Miss Glanton Is Chosen
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Miss Louise Glanton, Chairman of
the Department of Home Economics,
at the recent meeting of the Alabama
Branch of the Parent-Teacher As­sociation,
was chosen state chairman
of the State Board of Directors of
of "Rural Life" and made a member
the Association. This provides Miss
Glanton an opportunity to get in
with the rural schools, with the
school teachers, and the parents.
She has just written a bulletin on the
rural school lunch, a very important
factor in school progress.
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1928
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY TELLS
OF EARLY AMERICAN COLLEGES
College students of today have noth­ing
on their Puritan exemplars.
Brawls, hazing, wrangles with the
faculty, extreme dress, excess smok­ing,
and reading bad books, the hold­ing
of "senseless" and disorderly
commencements, religious negligence,
free thinking, waywardness—all such
portentous outbreakings and disre­spectful
conduct, which, we are told,
mark the spirit of the 20th century
collegiate, played as apparantly large
a part in the lives of the college stu­dent
300 years ago.
Dr. Henry W. Lawrence, Profes­sor
of History, Connecticut College,
has revealed these facts in his new
book "The Not-Quite Puritans," the
material for which has been gather­ed
from such authenic sources as con­temporary
church records, diaries, and
histories.
"We commonly think of the Ameri­can
college man of the 17th and 18th
centuries as so incurably addicted to
studious piety that he found little
time for play and none for dissipa­tion,"
writes Lawrence. "It is hard
to reconcile with this view such an
incident as the following—recorded
by one Ezra Clapp, in 1738.
"Last night," this earnest Yale stu­dent
has recorded, "some of the fresh­men
got six quarts of Rhum and about
two payls fool of Sydar and about
eight pounds of sugar and mad it in
to Samson, and evited ever scholar in
college into Churtis is room, and we
mad such prodigious Rought that we
raised the Tutor, he order us all to
our rooms and some went and some
taried and they gathered a gain and
went up to old father Monsher dore
and drumed against the dore and yel-ed
and screamed so that a bodey
would have thought they were kill­ing
dodgs there . . . ."
Students of Harvard at an earlier
date took a stong dislike to the presi­dent
of the time, which was Harvard's
third, and forced him to resign by
turning "cud-weeds," as the Rev.
Mather writes in his diary, and, by
violating the fifth Commandment,
"set themselves to travestie whatever
he did or said."
Minister's sons began to get their
reputation as early as 1644, we learn
by the following account':
"Two of our ministers' sons, being
students in the college, robbed two
dwelling houses in the night of some
15 pounds. Being found out, they
were ordered by the governors of the
college to be there whipped, which
was performed by the President him­self—
Yet they were about twenty
years of age; and after they were
brought into the court and ordered as
two-fold satisfaction, or to serve so
long for it. We had yet no particular
punishment for burglary."
In the diary of Nathaniel Ames, a
Harvard student who entered college
in 1758 and completed his course in
1761, we get some amusing accounts
of college life, and note as well a
marked similarity between 18th and
20th century youths:
March 13, 1758—Came to College,
began logick.
March 18, 1758—fit with the Sopho­mores
about customs.
March 20, 1758—Had another fight
with the Sophomores.
Nov. 23, 1758—Went to Boston, the
Revenge acted at Bowmans. .
June 13, 1760—Acted Tancred and
Sigismuda for which we are like to
be prosecuted.
Sept. 9,1760—President sick, where­fore
much deviltry carried on in col­lege.
Oct. 1, 1760—1 scholar degraded
this morning, 2 admonished, 1 punish­ed.
Oct. 10, 1760—Kneeland's and Thay­er's
windows broke last night.
Dec. 22, 1760—Gardner and Bar­nard
admonished stealing wood.
Feb. 26, 1761—lost 2 pistareens at
cards last evening.
March 26, 1761—First game of bat
and ball.
April 15, 1761—Dependants on the
Favors of the President and Tutors
sign an agreement to inform of any
schoolar that is guilty of profanity.
May 19, 1761—Josept Cabot rusti­cated.
As soon as the President said
he was rusticated, he took his hat and
went out of the chapel without stay­ing
to hear the President's speech
out. After prayers he bulrags the
Tutors at a high rate and laves col­lege.
His mother faints at the news.
May 20, 1761—Chapel robbed of the
cushing and. Bible Cloths.
July 15, 1761—Commencement.
July 16, 1761—A dance in Town
House, Cambridge."
Commencement exercises seems to
have given occasion for great revel­ry.
Cotton Mather shows no small
displeasure with Harvard customs
when he writes on July 3, 1717: "This
day, being the Commencement, as they
call it; a Time of much Resort un­to
Cambzridge, and sorrily enough
thrown away . . ." Still later, in a
letter to Governor Saltonstall regard­ing
the recently established "College
at New Haven." "When the servans
of God meet at your Commencement,
I make no doubt, that under your
Honor's influence and encourage­ments,
they will make it an opportuni­ty,
in the most serious and mature
manner, to deliberate upon projec­tions
to serve the great interests of
education, and so of religion, both in
your College and throughout your
Colony, and not suffer an interview
of your best men to evaporate such a
senseless, useless, noisy impertinency,
as it used to do with us at Cambridge."
"Petting," Lawrence tells us, was
quite as much, if not more, of a prob­lem
300 years ago than now, although
it did not play as large a part in the
college boy's life, there being no co­eds
and few girls' schools in college
vicinities. But despite the immediate
absence of the fairer sex, the college
fop abandoned; to such an extent, in
fact, that laws had to be made to regu­late
the clothing worn.
For instance, in 1754 the under­graduates
of Harvard College were
forbidden to wear silk "nightgowns."
These were a sort of dressing gown
of silk or damask, "suitable for print­ers
and importers, perhaps, but too
luxurious for college students," writes
Lawrence, for !'Plain thinking and
high living was not to be tolerated by
day or by night, it might seem."
AUBURN-MONTGOMERY
BIRMINGHAM STATION TO
BEGIN CHRISTMAS DAY
(Continued from page 1)
Industries building on Dexter Avenue.
Orders have already been placed for
input equipment for the stations at
Auburn and Birmingham.
While the purpose of the radio
broadcasting station is first of all the
transmission to every section of Ala­bama,
of crop price quotations, live­stock
quotations, and news and infor­mation
generally of interest to farm­ers,
it is planned to also broadcast
regularly special programs by Ala­bama
artists.
At the beginning the Alabama sta­tion
is to be "on the air" for an in­definite
period during the day and
one hour at night, except Saturday
and Sunday; this is only a tentative
arrangement that is subject to change,
as the hours that will finally be allott­ed
for broadcasting have not yet been
definitely determined.
The broadcasting station on Red
Mountain is to be one of the most
powerful east of the Rockies.
FIRST BATTALION OF ARTIL­LERY
HAMMERS OUT VICTORY
OVER THIRD BATTALION
AUBURN KIWANIS CLUB IS
REPRESENTED AT MEETING
CHARTER IS RECEIVED BY
OMEGA CIRCLE -OF O D K
(Continued from page 1)
T. Sankey.
Membership in Omicron Delta Kap­pa
is- regarded as the highest honor
on the campus. Election is based on
five points: scholarship, athletics,
social leadership,' including conspic­uous
service to the institution, pub­lications,
other non-athletic activities.
A student must be conspicuous or
shall have obtained special distinc­tion
in at least one of the above
points. For the convenience of stu­dents
an honor schedule based on
the five points will soon be made
public. By the use of the honor
schedule the fraternity strives to
eliminate any element of politics in
electing members.
(Continued from page 1)
its first year. P. O. Davis, who was
appointed recently to serve as lieuten­ant-
governor the remainder of 1928,
was elected for a full year. His elec­tion
was accepted as a high compli­ment
to the Auburn club, which is
next to the youngest in Alabama.
After featuring agricultural work
for two years, the Kiwanis clubs of
Alabama will stress industrial de­velopment
in 1929, Captain Anderson
explained upon his return to Auburn.
Agriculture and other projects will
not be neglected but the organization
feels that industry needs emphasis
and will take the lead in this develop­ment.
Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the
University of Tennessee, was the prin­cipal
speaker at the annual banquet.
More industry for Alabama—and for
the South—was his subject, Captain
Anderson said.
Students! Buy your Christmas
Presents at the Student Supply Shop.
Mould the man first, then the metal
CARNEGIE developed the steel in­dustry
by first developing his men.
The Bell System is growing faster
than ever before in its history and this
growth, like the steel growth, is based
on the development of men.
Today, in the telephone industry,
men in supervisory positions must co­ordinate
many and varied factors. For
example, before locating a new central
office, population trends are studied.
While it is being built, telephone appa­ratus
is planned, made, delivered and
installed on orderly schedule.
But more basic than all this, the
executive shows leadership by his in­sight
into the human equation and by
the sympathy and understanding with
which he adapts individual to job,
moulding his men first.
BELL SYSTEM
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" O U R P I O N E E R I N G WORK HAS J U S T B E G U N'
Boys! If You Eat
M E A T
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—Phone 37—
(Continued from page 4)
carrying ability was very much in evi­dence.
For the victors the work of
Conradi and Argo was outstanding
while for the 3rd. Bn. the honors go
to Ben Lively and Lewis.
The 1st Bn. team showed much im­provement
over their play of previous
games and any one journeying to
Drake Field on Armistice Day after­noon
is sure to see a real scrap be­tween
the 1st. Bn. of the Artillery
and the Engineer team. The Engin­eers
are going good, having a clean
slate in the league to date. They al­so
took on Auburn High this week,
running rings around their lighter op­ponents.
Everybody come out at 2 o'clock
Monday, November 12. While we do
not promise the perfection of a Var­sity
game we feel that there will be
thrills a plenty before the final
whistle blows.
COLLEGE BOYS PAY
WAY WITH BLOOD
1st. Bn
Blakey
Argo
Barber
Fort
Bradshaw
Campbell
Rice
Cameron
Dyer
Cooper
Conradi
Position 3rd. Bn.
R. T. Champion, J.
R. E.
R. G.
C.
L. G.
L. T.
L. E.
Q. B.
R. H.
L. H.
F. B.
Referee: Pop Paterson.
Students!
Presents at th
Buy your
McClure
Lively
Vance
Morton
Oakley
DeShazo
Lewis
Stuckie
Ellis
Pyke
Christmas
e Student Supply Shop.
Selling their blood as a means of
paying part of the expense of a col­lege
education is the unusual "occupa­tion"
of J. L. Lecky, 19, sophomore,
and E. W. Johnson, 19, junior in the
University of Kentucky.
Although reticent at first to relate
their experiences, both boys finally
overcame their modesty to tell a re­porter
how it feels to have a pint or
so of blood taken from one's system.
Mr. Lecky is from Marshall Coun­ty
and a student in the College of
Agriculture at the university. He
said he first conceived the idea of
selling blood to those in ill health by
reading of blood transfusion.
' He first went to the clynic, a neces­sary
procedure, and had his blood
tested to see if it was of a quantity
desired by physicians. The clinic took
care of the remainder of the job by
sending physicians who desired the
blood to see the lad. In this way he
sold a quart of blood for $70 and
readily admitted it was one of the
biggest factors in financing his first
year's course at the university.
The blood was taken from the body
by means of a small incision in the
right arm on the inside of the elbow
joint. Mr. Lecky said he was on the
operating table about six minutes and
that he felt no unusual experience.
Mr. Lecky sold only a pint of blood
each time and nine weeks elapsed be­tween
operations.
Following extraction of blood from
the boy's body, he carried newspapers
in the afternoon and said he ate a big
supper at night and slept soundly
after going to bed at his usual hour.
TEAM STANDING—INTRA MURAL
FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Won Tied Lost Per.
Engineer Bn. 1 2 0 1000
1st Bn. F. A. 2 0 1 667
3rd Bn. F. A. I l l 500
2nd Bn. F. A. 0 1 2 000
Results of last weeks games.
1st Bn. Field Artillery 13—3rd
Bn. F. A. 0.
2nd Bn. Field Artillery 6—Engi­neer
Bn. 6.
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