1926-12-11 The Plainsman

              HAPPY
NEW YEAR THE PLAINSMAN MERRY
CHRISTMAS
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926 NUMBER 14
MID-TERM DANCES ARE TO BE HELD JANUARY 27-29 INCLUSIVE
ANNUAL ALL-COLLEGE HIKE
DECLARED HUGE SUCCESS
Largest Crowd in His ('RABBIT - FEET
tory On Hand For
Yearly Event
Eats and Variety of Entertain­ment
Features Day's
Program
About two o'clock in the afternoon
of Saturday, December 4, the large
crowd of students which had gather­ed
in front of Langdon Hall followed
the Auburn Band out through the
Main Gate and into the street. It
was a noisy bunch, and one which
stepped lively to the cadence of a
snappy march and the sharp beat
of the drums. They went North of
Gay Street and then out of town.
After a hike of a mile or so, they ar­rived
at a large field where extensive
preparations had been made for the
entertainment of them.
The program for the afternoon was
soon began. First contest was a box­ing
match or rather a series of box­ing
matches. Ring-side standing room
was open to the first to occupy it.
The first bout in the.fistic ring was
between Rat Reeves and Rat Smith.
It was a swift" and well matched pair
for the outcome was unanimously pro­claimed
a tie. The outcome of the
next fight was also a tie. It was be­tween
two slightly heavier contend­ers,
Rats Dowdy and Long. Barrel-
Boxing was next in order. Two well
known freshmen Wooten and "War-horse"
participated in this contest.
Wooten proved to be an experienced
hand at the game and so the decision
went to him.
The pie-eating contest proved to be
a most comical one. Rev. Langston,
the College Pastor outdid Rev. Hay
in eating the-pie and won the contest.
A sack race followed this. It was a
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VARSITY SHOP
WILL BANQUET
TIGER ELEVEN
"Uncle Billy" Askew Extends
Invitation to All Members
of Squad
PRESENTED BY
LOCAL PLAYERS
Three-Act Blackface Comedy
Plays Before Large Au­diences
on Three
Occasions
"Rabbit-Feet", a three act comedy
written and directed by Professor
Harry L. Hamilton of the English
department, was presented before
large audiences in the Hut Theatre on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights." The action of the play hing­ed
upon the superstitious nature in­herent
in the decendants of Ham and
an atmosphere conductive to a full dis­play
of this quality was delightfully
the weird touch to this charming
representation of negro life in a
small Mississippi town, making pos­sible
a ghost scene in a country ceme­tery.
Outstanding performances were
given by Robert Leary as Pete ("Rab­bit-
Feet") Boone, Maryline Cauthen
as Orchid Davenport, Celeste Nes-bit
as Meriky, Robert Hobdy as El­der
Welker and the inimitable Cath­erine
Hare as Cerise Johnson. The
farsical element of the plot was ma­terially
strengthened by the superb
acting of Miss Hare and Hobdy.
Bob Leary covered himself with a
sheet and a thick coating of grease in
order to win his woman when he as­sumed
the part of Pete Boone in the
blackface comedy hit.
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X-RAY MACHINE
IS DONATED TO
THE COLLEGE
Equipment Is Gift of Dr. Fred
Boswell of Montgomery
WILSONIAN HAS
FIRST SOCIAL
OF SEMESTER
The Varsity football team, The
Scrubs, members of the faculty, and
friends of Auburn, are among those
scheduled to enjoy a banquet some­time
shortly after the Christmas hol­idays.
This banquet to be given by
The Varsity Shoe Shop, and The Bar­ber,
will be given at The Auburn Inn
in honor of The Auburn Football
Teams..
A number of fine turkeys will be
brought from Tennessee and a coop
has already been prepared for them.
The time and date of the event has
not yet been made known.
PROGRAM
College Show
Monday, Dec. 13
UP IN MABEL'S ROOM
With Marie Prevost, Harrison
Ford, Phyllis Haver, Harry
Myers, and Sylvia Bremer
Last Episode "Fighting Marine"
Comedy
Tuesday, Dec. 14
No Show
Wednesday, Dec 15
THE COUNTRY BEYOND
Starring Olive Borden, Ralph
Graves, Gertrude Astor
Comedy
Thursday, Dec. 16
No Show
Friday, Dec. 17
SYNCOPATING SUE
A First National Picture with
Corrine Griffith, Tom Moore
Comedy
Saturday, Dec. 18
SHIPWRECKED
with Seena Owen and Joseph
Schildkraut. Comedy
The Wilsonian Literary Society
held its social for this term Friday
night. The event was quite a suc­cess,
giving an unusual amount of
pleasure in various forms.
At 6:45 the party left Langdon
Hall, about fifty members being
present. They* promptly adjourned
to a select and ideal spot in the woods
beyond the pistol range. The place
wass all aglow with the light from
big fires made by the Rats before
the group arrived. The fun and sport
soon began. Various extemporane-.
ous speeches were given by the Rats
as well as the upperclassmen. This
bit of humor was followed by songs
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Dr. Fred Boswell of Montgomery is
the donor of a large and well equipped
x-ray machine to Auburn. The
machine was received here the first
part of the session but has just re­cently
been installed in Dr. Thomas'
office, and is now ready for work.
Machine is kept in one of the rooms
in the old engineering building, while
opposite itvi s a dark room for de­velopment
of the negatives. Altho­ugh
the machine is a gift of ap­preciation,
it has not yet been made
known just who is responsible for the
gift.
Several pictures have recently been
completed very successfully. Dr.
Thomas, the college physician, stated
recently that, due to the operating
expenses of the machine there would
be a nominal charge to students.
A CORRECTION
GOOD REMAINS
AFTER CHANGE
IN FIRST PLANS
To Defer Taking Degree Until
Next Summer
The Nov. 24 issue of the Plainsman
carried a news story of the program
rendered in Langdon Hall by the
Western Railway Band. In the ar­ticle
the following statement was
made:
"—Hoards of students and citizens
followed the parade to the doors and
were requested to submit a fee of twen­ty-
five cents; the program here had
been announced to be free."
In all justice to the operators of
the College show it is necessary to
correct the impression that the man­agement
put something over on its
patrons f&ter having announced a
free show. The fact is no FREE
show was ever scheduled. The fol­lowing
is the exact wording of the
advertisement of the evening's en­tertainment:
-
"The famous band of the Western
Railway will be in Auburn Friday,
November 19. It will arrive on a
special train from Montgomery at
6:25 p.m., headed by its Drum Lady,
Miss Margaret Faulin. This band
will parade from the station to,Lang­don
Hall for a concert from 6:45 to
7:15 in connection with the picture
show. NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE."
NEW HOTEL IS
PLANNED FOR
CITY OF PLAINS
Definite Action Taken Toward
Erection of Modern Struc-ture
in Auburn
A CLUB DANCE
Last week an article came out in
The Plainsman stating that Professor
Good, assistant professor of zoology
and entomology, would take his Ph.
D. from Cornell during this month.
Just before his departure he decided
that he would wait until next summer
to do his graduate work, therefore he
is still in Auburn and will not leave
until a later date, according to a state­ment
made by him today.
PROBLEMS OF MEXICO IS
TOPIC OF PETRIE'S TALK
That President Calles of Mexico
has enough troubles on his hands "in
solving the internal problems of his
country without antagonizing the
United States is the opinion of Dr.
George Petrie, dean of graduate stud­ies
and the history department in
his weekly lectures on current affairs.
It is scarcely conceivable, Dr. Pet­rie
declared that Calles will risk be­coming
involved in another and far
more serious problem than those con­fronting
him now by pushing the
United States too far.
Dr. Petrie's lecture follows in full:
"Are we to have more trouble with
Mexico? Those of us who like to
live peacefully with our neighbors are
getting anxious. Ten days ago we
were startled when Secretary Kellogg y«"r l a w s retroactive."
says the Mexican government. "We
oil lands in Mexico. That is unques­tionably
a big thing. The owners of
these lands are disposed to stand up
for what they consider their rights,
and they have a good deal of influ­ence.
"The Mexican government is equal­ly
insistent on carrying out it's policy.
It plans to restrict the ownership of
these lands so that in time they will
be in the hands of Mexican companies
and under Mexican control.
"Very well" says Secretary Kel­logg,
in substnace. Make whatever
regulations you wish in regard to the
acquisition of lands in the future, but
do not attempt to confiscate in whole
or in par^ lands which Americans
have already acquired. Do not make
"Certainly,"
made public some correspondence that
recently pased between the two coun­tries.
It was polite, of course, but it
was quite firm on both sides. It seems
that somebody must back down, or
there will be trouble.
The Question at Issue
"The controversy touches chiefly
the question of American ownership of
have no intention of doing that."
"Yet the Mexican laws which are to
go into effect in January seem to do
just that thing. Owners of oil lands
which wei'e developed before 1917, the
date of the new constitution in ac­cordance
with which these laws were
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There will be an A Club dance
in the gymnasium on Saturday
night beginning at 9:00. Music
will be furnished by the College
Orchestra. Admission $.75.
During the last two yars Auburn
has experienced a great amount of
improvement. In accordance with
this attitude officials of the Au­burn
Chamber of Commerce have de­finitely
decided that Auburn needs
a new hotel. They have been discuss­ing
the proposition for several weeks.
At a meeting of the board of direc­tors
last wek a committee, consist­ing
of S. L. Toomer, chairman; A. L.
Thomas and Emmett Sizemore, was
selected to make arangements for
drawing up the plans and determin­ing"
the location. This committee was
also authorized to consider plans for
financial matters. The committee
has begun its work promptly and will
be able to present its plans in the
near future. The citizens of Au­burn
are almost unanimously in fa-
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JUNIOR PROM TO OBSERVE
RULES OF FORMAL DANCE
AUTHORESS IS
SPEAKER RAT
CONVOCATION
Mrs. Chapman Discusses Short
Story Writing in Talk to
Freshmen
NOTICE!
All Seniors turn in their laundry
Monday morning in order that it
i
may be ready for delivery by Wed­nesday.
No laundry received after
Monday will be returned before
Thursday noon.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1927
Sept. 24—Stetson University at Auburn
Oct. 1—Clemson College at Clemson
Oct. 8-University of Florida at Auburn (Homecoming)
Oct. 15—Louisiana State University.... at Montgomery
Oct. 22—University of Georgia at Columbus
Oct. 29—Howard College at Birmingham
Nov. 5—Tulane University. at New Orleans
Nov. 12—Mississippi A. & M at Birmingham
Nov. 24—(Thanksgiving) Georgia Tech.... at Atlanta
Tuesday's Convocation exercises
were made unusually prominent by
the presence and speech of Mrs.
Katherine Hopkins Chapman, a very
noted and widely read Alabama
writer; she was the prominent speak­er
of the period.
Mrs. Chapman talked on Ala­bama's
natural resources in the field
of writing, both in facts and fiction.
Many interesting facts were brought
to light along the line of writing by
her. She stated that Alabama was
equally as abundant in writing mater­ial
as any state in the union, and
that just as many interesting stories
could be plotted here as in the West,
or even abroad.
Explanations by Mrs. Chapman,
proved that Alabama holds and has
held heroes and heroines, as well as
plot localities. The outstanding in­dividuals
produced by our state,
placed in story settings of their own
native state, go hand in hand in mak-the
best stories to be had, she ex­plained.
Mrs; Chapman .concluded her
speech by reading a southern negro
story of her own production, entitled,
"The Postponed Funeral." This was
highly enjoyed and applauded by the
entire audience.
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Zez Confrey and His
Orchestra to Furnish
Music
Tuxedos Shall Be Ordered At
Once
Cards will be sent out the first
week after Christmas for the Mid­year
dances, and will be collected one
week later.
The Junior Prom will be held Jan­uary
27, 28, and 29, and will be
strictly formal. It has been defi­nitely
decided that the Prom will not
be a fancy dress ball.
Zez Confrey and his Orchestra of
Chicago will probably furnish the
music for the dances. Confrey is
the author of "Kitten on the Keys,"
"Stumbling," and "Lazy Fingers,"
and he is reported as being one of the
greatest novelty pianists of the
United States.
MUCH PROGRESS
NOTED IN WORK
OF DEPARTMENT
Auburn Graduates in Architec­ture
Declared to Be in
Great Demand
MEIKLEHON IS
HEARD IN TALK
TO STUDENTS
Formula of Success Is Given
Upperclassmen By Dis­tinguished
Speaker
The man who make a success is the
man, who prepares himself thorough­ly
for his work, who keeps training
rules, who plays the game fairly and
who strives to make himself the best
in his particular line. H. P. Meik-lehon
of Lindale, Ga., southern rep­resentative
of the Massachusetts cot-
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ENGINEERS FROM
AUBURNSOUGHT
BY COMPANIES
Local Graduates Rank High in
Engineering World Is
Revealed Here
l h a t Auburn graduates of engin­eering
are making good with large
corporations of the north and east
is indicated in letters received to­day
by Prof. Charles R. Hixon, pro­fessor
of Mechanical Engineering
and director of shops.
For example, of 52 men represent­ing
18 colleges of the United States
enrolled in graduate students course
with the Allis-Chambers Manufactur­ing
Company, of Milwaukee, five are
graduates of the engineering college,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Among the Institutions represented
on the Allis-Chambers student staff
are the University of Illinois, Uni-
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FIVE STUDENTS
CHOSEN TO GO
TO MILWAUKEE
Representatives of Presbyte­rian
Church and Sopho­more
Class Yet To
Be Selected
Five of the delegates to the Nat­ional
Student Conference at Milwau­kee
have been elected, but the repre­sentatives
of the Presbyterian
Church and Sophomore class have
not been selected yet. The delegates*
that have already been chosen are:
J. M. Edwards—Delegate for the
Baptist Church.
Sam Mosely—Delegate for the
Methodist Church.
H. W. Head—Delegate for the Y.
M. C. A.
H. G. McColl—Delegate for the
Junior Class.
Celeste Nesbitt—Delegate for the
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AG. MAGAZINE
IS SUBJECT OF
MUCH PRAISE
P. I. Receives Recognition
in Large Chicago Con­ference
Alabama Polytechnic Institute re­ceived
recognition in an important
conference of representatives of Ag­ricultural
College Magazines As
sociated in Chicago recently. G. B
Phillips of Headland; Coffee county,
editor of the Alabama Farmer, stu­dent
agricultural magazine, repre­sented
Auburn.
Mr. Phillips has reported that
much interest is manifested in the
Alabama Farmer, by Northern and
Eastern representatives. Auburn
and University of Tennessee were the
only Southern colleges represented.
The conference was held at the La-
Salle Hotel.
Mr. Phillips also represented the
Auburn Agricultural Club in a meet­ing
called for the purpose of or­ganizing
a National Ag Club Council.
Twenty of the large Institutions of
the country were represented, in­cluding
Cornell, Penn. State, Min­nesota,
Wisconsin, Ohio State, Ne­braska,
Iowa. Mr. Phillips also at­tended
the international stock show
at Chicago.
Architecture, someone has said, is
the most useful of the fine arts and
the noblest of the useful arts, for it
is concerned not only in sheltering
man and administering to his wants,
but also in providing him with places
for worship. In fact the state of archi­tecture
is the index of people.
The profession of architecture is as
old man himself. In fact it anti-dates
man for God was the first great
architect, his monument, the universe,
a small but important part.
Originating in the great Nile Val­ley
far back in the misty past archi­tecture
has a history both unique and
interesting. Numerous references in
the Holy Scriptures indicate the im­portance
of architecture in the pro­gress
of man. For instance, in First
Chronicles we are told that King Da­vid
gave to Solomon, his son, the pat­tern
of the porch of his temple, bid­ding
him to build a house for Jehovah.
The great pyramids of Egypth are
solemn reminders of the fact that the
profession of architecture was not on­ly
important, but highly developed
long before the days of Christ. Ar­chaeologists,
digging here and there
throughout the world, have brought to
light much evidence of the high state
or architecture in early times.
If one contrasts an Egyptian pyra­mid
with a Birmingham skyscraper,
which is modeled after towering piles
of concrete and steel on Manhattan Is­land,
on the surface there appears to
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PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Monday, December 13
ALIMONY ONLY
A William DeMille Production
Pathe News and Comedy
Tuesday, December 14
THE FLAMING FOREST
Metro Picture with Antonio
Moreno and Renee Adoree
Wednesday, December'15
THE POPULAR SIN
Paramount Picture starring
Florence Vidor, Gretta Nissen
and Clive Brooks
Thursday, December 16
THE KEEPER OF THE BEES
With Clara Bow, Robert Frazer
and Alice Mills
Friday, Dec. 17
PARISIAN NIGHTS
Starring Lou Tellengen and
Elaine Hammerstein
Saturday, December 18
FLAMING WATERS
With Malcolm McGregor, Pau­line
Garon and Mary Carr
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A PROTEST
All of the country's noted football ex­perts,
including famous coaches as well as
famous sports writers, seem disposed to
accord to Southern football this year the
recognition that it has earned—all of them
except one. The one notable exception is
the esteemed and illustrious Mr. Grantland
Rice, who is of the opinion, judging from
the article accompanying his selection of an
"All-American" team for 1926, that South­ern
football players are not to be consid­ered
in the least with the players of other
sections of the country. And Mr. Rice,
strangely enough, is, or was, a Southerner.
Mr. Rice's selection of an Ail-American
eleven is announced this week in Collier's
Weekly.
Football in Americaa is divided into four
sections: The East; the South, the Middle
West, and the Far West, or Pacific Coast.
Every one of these sections except the
South is represented on Mr. Rice's team.
We do not object to Mr. Rice's selec­tions.
We want that understood at the out­set.
No unprejudiced person could object
to them, although he might differ with Mr.
Rice in the selection of players for some of
the positions. It would be difficult indeed,
if not in fact impossible, to improve upon
Mr. Rice's team, either collectively or in­dividually.
It would not be difficult, how­ever,
to pick other players equally as good
as those he names for several, or possibly
all, of the positions.
Picking an All-American team is ob­viously
much more difficult nowadays than
it was when the late Walter Camp first
named a mythical eleven more than a quar­ter
of a century ago. There are dozens of
notable football teams of today for every
one that was notable then, and scores of
outstanding players for every single star of
those early days of the sport. Football is
now played equally well by teams in every
section of the coutry, whereas in those
years the East had far and away the best
teams. Today it is possible to name three
or four players, and sometimes more, for
every position, none of whom would vary
from the others to any extent in ability.
It would be unreasonable, therefore, to
object to Mr. Rice's selections.
What we do object to, and what we have
a right to'protest against, is the manner in
which he ignores Southern players in men­tioning
the outstanding candidates for the
various positions.
Mr. Rice expects objections to his choices.
At'the outset of his article he says:
It is' hardly necessary to state that in
the arranging of a modern All-American
Football Team most of the positions are
so evenly contested that opinion is bound
to be widely varied and the final award
somewhat roughly challenged as the parade
passes.
This is all in the game, whre the canny
selector will merely put on his rhinoceros
hide as the poisoned arrows of dissent be­gin
to fly.
If he is looking for objections, he will
be surprised, so far as we are concerned.
We do not dissent. But we do not believe
his strongest rhinoceros hide will'be imper­vious
to the arrows of criticism that we
are sending his way, for the cogency of our
criticism cannot be denied, in view of the
fact that so many other football authorities
are giving Southern players full recogni­tion.
Consider the South's outstanding team,
Alabama's Crimson Tide, one of the coun­try's
three major undefeated elevens. It
has a record, not only for this year, but
for the last several years, that is as good
as that of any other team in the United
States. Does Mr. Rice even mention Ala­bama
in the same breath with the other
outstanding teams of the country? We
have read his article twice, and have failed
to find any such mention. To be sure, he
takes note of the fact that Alabama "again
took over the championship of the South
with another unbeaten parade from start
losing Hubert, Mack Brown and other lead­ing
stars of the year before." He then
names what amounts to his selection of an
All-Southern team, saying: "Judging from
the vote of the leading coaches the stars of
the South might be ranked in this way,"
and proceeds to name a man for each posi­tion.
That, and> bare mention of Alabama in
a list of teams boasting star backs, consti­tuted
the total consideration given the
team. Scarcely any mention is made of
other Southern teams. In no case is a
Southern team ranked favorably with any
other team. He names, an All-Southern
team as if to say: Here is the best the
South had, but of course, they aren't to
.be compared with the players in the other
sections." He does not pick an. All-Eastern,
or an All-Middle Western, or an All-Pacific
Coast team. Why should he pick an All-
Southern eleven?
Hoyt Winslett, Alabama's star end, has
been named on several other All-American
teams, including that selected by vote of
the leading critics of all sections and com­piled
by the Associated Press. Winslett
received a plurality of the votes of these
experts from all sections, besides which he
has been named on a majority of the first
teams picked by leading sports writers. But
does Hr. Rice even mention him? He picks
Hanson, of Syracuse, and Oosterban of
Michigan, as his All-American ends. He
mentions' about a dozen others, but Wins-lett's
name is not among them. It would
have required only three words more to
have included him, and thus to have given
recognition to the South. We cannot and
do not criticize Mr. Rice for failing to
name Winslett, or any other Southern
player, but we do object to his failure to
even mention him and others. Winslett is
only one example. There are several other
Southern players who have been named or
mentioned prominently in All-American se­lections
by many experts. Of these, the
only one mentioned by Mr. Rice is Spears,
of Vanderbilt, generally regarded as the
South's best quarterback.
Mr. Rice, as we have said, is, or was, a
Southerner. He is a native of Tennessee,
and a graduate of Vanderbilt. He was
reared in the South, and began his news­paper
career on a Southern paper. He was
on the staffs of papers in Nashville and
Atlanta. He "went up" from the South in
newspaper work. He might reasonably bs
expected, as a sports writer, to be inter­ested
in Southern sports.
Needless to say, merely because he is a
native of the South is no reason why he
should accord recognition to Southern foot­ball
. But when all the other sports author­ities
of the coutry, regardless of their sec-tionality,
are according this recognition,
does it not seem strange that Mr. Rice
should fail to get in line?
—The Montgomery Advertiser. •
SENIOR CLASS LEADERSHIP
At a recent meeting of the senior class,
called especially for consideration of its
petition to leave early for the Christmas
holidays, the question of sending a dele­gate
to the great student conference to be
held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the latter
part of this month was opened for dis­cussion.
But because of its relative lack
of importance in the minds of the members
of the class it was voted down by a sub­stantial
margin.
One week later, Royce Crawford, stu­dent
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. again
broached the matter to the consideration of
the class, pointing out that the treasury of
that body had a sufficiency of sums to war­rant
such an expenditure, quoting official­ly
the amout now accredited to the organ­ization.
In addition to this he explained the pur­pose
of this conference, speaking at length
upon the advantages it offered the south­ern
student to place his views before the
northern and western young men and
women.
But in spite of these obvious advantages
to Auburn men and women, the senior class
saw fit to deny the request of the Y. M.
C. A. to send a delegate, voting it down
by the scant margin of two votes. To the
members of the other classes which have
signified their willingness to send a rep­resentative,
this action came as a distinct
surprise and somewhat as a disappointment.
In a measure, they look to the seniors for
leadership.
How could they know that petty pre­judices
' and little politices defeated this
plan? How can it be conveyed to them
that one or two members of the class to
whom the stomach was much more to be
considered than the soul had contrived to
defeat the measure? To the members of
these classes the move taken by the senior
class is condemnatory of the conference.
When it seemed that all obstacles played
its trump, they appealed to the young
men of the class through their pocketbook,
the shortest route to the brain of a man.
Thinking purely in terms of dollars and
cents, enough students voted against the
motion to defeat it. Why? "Because we
shall have to PAY FOR OUR BANQUET
TICKETS." In terms of modern phrase­ology
this is a cheap attitude and entirely
unworthy of seniors of Auburn. If money
making were the sole aim of higher edu­cation
it would have been more advisable
for these quasiorators to have gone into the
business of vending peanuts, in which both
their ability to speak and to conserve nick­els
(their sole assets) would have stood
them in good stead".
It. is rather provoking to think that stu­dents
who are entirely incapable of think­ing
beyond the materialism with which
they have surrounded themselves can de­feat,
in a measure, the purpose of a great
ideal. It is disgusting to think that the
seniors have allowed themselves to be duped
in this manner.
Then, too, the action of the class in ac­cepting
the views of a man who has receiv­ed
honors- from his class and his college
without having contributed one single item
to either is greatly to be deplored.
A great many have realized their mis­take
and many more are certain to per­ceive
the supreme selfishness which prompt­ed
this opposition to the plan to send a
delegate from the senior class to Milwaukee.
RELIGION AMONG COLLEGE
STUDENTS
That there are many things in our pres­ent-
day social life that are calculated ser­iously
to disturb us there can be no ques­tion.
And it is entirely proper that we
should face the facts as they really are
instead of shuting our eyes to them and
seeking to ally our fears by taking refuge
in * shallow optimism. No good can come
from crying, "Peace, peace" when there is
no peace. It is quite possible for us, how­ever,
to err in the opposite direction—so
to magnify the evils of the present as com­pared
with those of the past as to make
it difficult, if not impossible, for us to
maintain our confidence and courage. In
other words, it is just as much our dflty
to take account of our gains and our re­sources
as it is to face with open eyes our
failures and our difficulties.
A striking illustration of what we mean
is furnished by current discussions of re­ligious
conditions in our American colleges.
The prevailing assumption in these dis­cussions
is that college students are quite
generally either indifferent or hostile to
religion, that our colleges are hot-beds of
atheism, and that to send a youth to one of
these institutions is seriously to endanger
his faith. If this assumption be correct,
the situation may well be regarded as a
matter for grave concern. For our colleges
are centers of the intellectual life of our
nation, and from them are drawn a major­ity
of our leaders in almost every depart­ment
of sociai endeavor.
But is the assumption warranted by the
facts? Those who have made the most
careful investigations are almost unani-mous.
in the couclusion that it is not. A
fair sample of the results of such investi­gation
is given in an article by Professor
Walter Crosby Eells, of Whitman College,
Walla Walla, Wash., which appeared in the
August issue of Religious Education. Whit­man
College is an independent institution
with an average enrollment of about five
hundred students, composed of men and
women in about equal numbers. Religious
conditions in Whitman are probably fairly
representative of those existing in the col-lges
and universities of the country as a
whole. Many of the Church colleges, we are
sure, would make even a more favorable
showing, while there are doubtless certain
large institutions in which conditions are
not so encouraging. At any rate, the facts
brought to light by careful investigation
recently conducted in Whitman are worthy
of serious consideration.
Professor Eells opens the article in
which the findings of this investigation are
summarized by quoting from a paper by
President Burton of Chicago University:
"At Bowdoin College in 1807 there was
only one Christian. At Yale there was
for four years but one, and but four or
five in other years about the beginning of
the century. Often every student was a
professed infidel, or at least outside the
Church. Bishop Meade of Virginia said
in 1811 that William and Mary College
was a hot-bed of French infidelity and that
for many years in every educated man he
expected to find an infidel."
In comparison with this drab picture
the following facts discovered through the
Whitman investigation are most encourag­ing:
1. The majority of the students are re­ligious,
seventy-three per cent of them re­porting
themselves as Chuch members.
2. They attend church regularly and for
worthy motives. Forty-seven per cent at­tend
at least three Sundays in the month,
while only fifteen per cent seldom attend
and only six per cent do not attend at all.
And by far the largest number of these
students give worship as their chief reason
for attendance.
3. Men are as regular in church atten­dance
as women.
4. Seniors attend as regularly as fresh­men,
thus showjng that students do not, as
a rule, lose their religion as they go through
college. This conclusion is further con­firmed
by the fact that fifty-nine per cent
teport that they are attending church
in college with the same degree of regular­ity
as before they entered, and ten per cent
say that they are actually attending more
regularly.
5. The average attendance of the college
student who is a Church member upon
religious services surpasses that of the
average Church in the commuinty in which
the college is located. The average atten­dance
of the Church membership of eight
of the leading congregations of Walla
Walla on two successive Sundays, when
weather conditions were entirely favorable,
was about forty-six per cent, while the
average attendance of student Church mem­bers
was fifty-eight per cent.
We do not mean, of course that these
facts justify the inference that religious
conditions in our colleges are ideal. As a
matter of fact, those who are at all familiar
with college life know that they are very
far from being so. But nothing is to be
gained by picturing the situation as so bad
as to be utterly hopeless. And the facts
here presented are given, not for the pur­pose
of suggesting that the religious life
of colleges does not call for intelligent and
diligent attention on the part of boards and
trustees and local Churches, but solely for
the purpose of encouraging such attention
by showing that the college furnishes one
of our most inviting and promising fields
for wisely conducted Christian work.
« AUBURN FOOTPRINTS %
Yes sir, we attended the All-College hike.
We had a big time and we are sure that
all of you did too. Now that we have
something in common allow us to comment
on some of the happinings.
We were shocked upon hearing so much
discussion on the part of the friendship
council involving indecent language. It
was to this effect. "Keep off the dam "
but we never learned what they wanted us
to stay off.
can overlook that particular shade of red.
Bob Leary would like to use them to paint
the town red. He believes that should he
acquire these sox he can paint all of Geo­rgia
and part of Atlanta the deepest kind
of red. However the C. E.'s object to
any disposition on the part of Royce, on
the grounds that when Royce wears these
sox it is unnecessary to heat the building.
As usual, Rowe Johnson was on the job.
Apparently his recently (published cook
book has met with a wide-spread "demand,
or at least we saw Rowe in the "Kitchen"
demonstrating to a half-score of the "good-looking
but "dumb" members of the student
body the gentle art of dispensing food.
We cannot help but compliment Rowe on
the success of his undertaking.
Sam Mosley would like to know where
he can acquire a similar pair. It is thought
that another kind of "pair" is responsible
for Sam's wishes.
Yet, we doubt Sam's good judgement.
Christmas is too close.
We were disappointed in the boxing in
so far as "Little Square" failed to partici­pate.
But we fear that "Little Square"
is becoming so old that he will be forced
to retire from the ring. This will leave
Auburn without a "stamp weight" cham­pion.
We look forward with anticipation
to the settlement of the controversy as to
who shall follow Salter.
THE RISEN SOUTH
Any doubts which anyone might have
harbored concerning the prestige of south­ern
football have been dispelled by the
selection of Alabama to participate in the
Festival of Roses for the second consecu­tive
year, a record of which no other team
in the country may boast. For a number
of years southern football, in its infancy,
bore, the same relation to eastern and west­ern
football as the minor leagues bear to
the majors in baseball realms.
It i« true that Auburn, Vanderbilt, Se-wanee,-
Georgia and Georgia Tech boasted
strong elevens, but northerners were un­able
to see through the glamor which sur­rounded
the battles of the now defunct
"Big Three." All-American teams were
picked and the really great players below
the Mason-Dixon line were ignored.
Then came Wade's miracle team of the
nineteen twenty-five Reason which com­pelled
the respect and admiration of the
critics in all sections of the country. Who
the possible exception of the great Dart­mouth
eleven, the Crimson mentor placed
the strongest team on the college gridiron
and the south's team was loudly and gener­ously
praised by fans from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
The triumph ober the strong combine
from the University of Washington was the
culmination of an unparalelled season in
modern football. Critics were ready, eager
to concede a clean cut victory. But at the
same time they asked the question, "Can
.the South stick to its position, at the top?"
There were many who predicted that the
Alabamaians were a mere flash in the pan
and that when the flash had had its glow
Dixie football would once more fall into
disrepute.
When one considers the results of the
season just past, the fallacy of this pro­phecy
is evident, for there can be no doubt
that the record of the University of Ala­bama
has been unequaled in grid circles
for the nineteen twenty-six season. And
that means that the state of Alabama, and,
consequently the South," stands pre-eminent
in America's favorite sports competition.
The decision reached recently by the
Southern Conference officials at their
annual meeting was most commendable.
By their assension, the Crimson-Tide will
again flow out to the Pacific Coast to par­ticipate
in another inter-sectional game at
the Tournament of Roses. This time the
Alabamaians will have Pop Warner and
his Stanford team to contend with instead
of t'.ie Huskies from Washington. They
will face a far more difficult assignment,
also, as the Stanford team will virtually
be playing on home grounds, a most de­cided
advantage. Then too, the fact that
Warner will be at the helm makes this
team a formidable opponent. Alabama
will require concerted support of her ad­mirers
to emerge victors from this game.
And Alabama should have the whole­hearted
support of the citizens of this state,
whatever college they might claim as an
Alma Mater. They.will be pitted against
a common foe. They have been chosen to
represent the South and every southerner
who glories in the name of Lee, .Jackson,
Gorgas, Pettus, Wheeler, Yancey and
others of noble lineage and nobler lives,
should feel a keen personal interest in the
outcome of this game of games. When
thousands of Alabamaians gather on New
Year's Day at the many matinees to hear
At last Auburn has produced another
All-Southern center in the person of "Big
Six" Pirce. She undoubtedly proved the
most versatile player on the co-ed teams
that graced the all-college hike grounds.
If you should doubt our word as to her
ability, ask Red Roberts. We undestand
that the said sorrel-topped gentleman was
thrown for losses on several occasions by
the deadly tackling of "Big Six."
We understand that after getting a
"sugar report" Leonard Yancey is trying
to find out the meaning of "Je t 'aime."
Goofey Williams says that it means the
same thing as "Ich Hebe dich." Firechief
Simms says he knows but he ain't gonna
tell. But the most satisfactory means
of translating this is the offer of Miss Ann
Lichty. She says she will tell the mean­ing
of this sentence to anyone—privately.
Shorty Cullpepper wants to know what
a "necking" party is? He says that he
has never been invited to one.
"Empty" Walker wants to know why
"concrete" is so abstract.
BLIND TIGER
We are indeed sorry that the Freshmen
lost the tug-of-war. It is a generally un­derstood
fact that the class of '30 has
usurped all the privileges of the seniors,
and to lose this tug-of-war to the lowly
Sophomores is indeed a regrettable affair.
We are indeed gratified to know that
we have a championship cross country
team. But yet upon reading of our decisive
victory in the B. A. C. road race a certain
Rat said that he thought that all the "Ags"
were good-natured. It appears as though
it is time for some of our lowly upper-classmen
to give this ruling class a few
lessons.
Ev'ing' Folks! I jus' bin hie— upt' Op-
Opel—HIC, O-O-Opelik-eeee, n' weighted.
Hie, I put a put a penny hie! 'cuse me
ladies, Hie, put a penny int' th' Patrol
Wagin, an'vlooked at th' faceo' the' Cout-hous
clock, and I've lost ten lbs. hic~hic,
sins I sthated to lisipatin' by quitin' booze.
Th' resun I quit wuz becuz I lost my stop­per
an' had to durink it all at onct. Hie!
'cuse me ladees.
Coach:—"You boys are loafing on the
job."
Cunningham:—"That sounds like "bull"
to me." (as the bellow of a yearling floated
across the valley from the Vet Building).
It appears as though the game of "Tagj
Football" has become very popular in some
parts, around the loveliest village of the
plains. We would suggest that this game
could be turned into a basketball game
very easily by introducing two goals. We
also hear that the laundry is objecting,
claiming that they have the sole right to
detach buttons, tear sleeves and rip panta­loons.
We all agree with the laundry's
claim, and we can not help but say that
the laundry has not used this monopoly in
the restraint of trade.
Where is the Freshman "Ag" that want­ed
to know in what year he would have to
take "plow lab?"
The Crimson Tide scored another tri­umph!
We make this statement after a
close investigation of a recent causalty.
Dr. Thomas was called to dress several
burns on Royce Crawford's pedal extrem­ities.
After investigating these injuries
it was found that they were caused by a
pair of sox, worn by the victim, the hue
of which resembleds that of J. M. Edward's
week end. It is alleged that the police
department of Birmingham is bidding for
these sox. They believe that no motorist
the returns of the game, petty prejudice
should be cast aside and the mantle of state
pride assumed.
Victory for Alabama will not simply
mean that the University of Alabama has
had the outstanding team of the year and
that another Wade-coached eleven has
passed through another season unmarred
by a defeat. It will be emblematic of the
ever increasing prowess of the South. Ala­bama
will have become assured of a fore­most
position in the realm of sports. She
will have convinced the country that her
young are as capable of winning athletic
contests as are those of Michigan, Indiana,
New York, Califirnia or any of the others.
If the eyes of the sporting world are
focused upon the Alabama-Stanford clash,
it is entirely logical that the birthplace of
the southerners will be a center of con­siderable
attention. Thus, without pur­posely
doing so, the Crimson Tide will
have advertised Alabama to the world at
large in a manner in which no other agency
could have succeeded.
To the members of the Alabama squad,
Auburn students), (wish success in j their
quest for the national title. We shall
cheer you on as loudly as, any wearer of
the Crimson and White. We hope to re­joice
in your victory.
Frank:—(On his knees) "Darling, why
do you keep me in suspence? I wonder if
there is another man."
Miami:—"Since you mentioned it, I'm
wondering if there is, myself."
Clines:—"I have no confidence in these
men."
Turner:—"Why?"
Clines:—"Every time I go to a wild
party another man, I see my sweetie there
with another girl."
Hann:—"When I proposed to the dear
girl she fell on my shoulder and sobbed like
a baby, but finally she put her arms about
my neck and—"
Wooten:—"I know all about it, I re­hearsed
it with her."
DEFINITION
Angel—A woman who has had the con­sideration
to marry the other man
—Hullabaloo.
Brother "Jawn" Garret and his girl were
rambling around in Montgomery last week
end when they acme up to a building, with
a sign, "The Woman Pays," over it. Bro.
Jawn said, "I think we'll gang in here,
dearest,"
Lost— Between Post Office and Toom-er's,
last Saturday night, —one banquet.
Finder return to Bobbie. Reward.
"Bill should never have joined a frater­nity."
"Why?"
"The other night, on the sleeping porch,
he talked in his sleep and two of the
brothers broke their engagements the next
day."
U News.' *
"How come you are on probation?"
"Cause I took a girl out for a ride."
"Nothing wrong about that is there?"
"No, but the dean picked her up on the
way back."
U News.
Miami says that there is a good chance
for some woman to make a place for her­self
in History by being the first to shoot
her husband with a machine gun. Adapted.
pUp:—"What is the hardest thing to do,
that you can think of?"
Heart-Breaker—"The hard time two
cross -eyed people would have trying to
look each other in the eyes?"
When a man has a birthday, he takes a
day off, but when a woman has a birthday
she takes a year off.
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be little in common—a vast difference
—and yet the fundamental principles
of architecture involved are the same.
The elements of beauty-awe-inspiring
majesty in the cases of the pyramids
and the twentieth century skyscrapers
place works of engineering in the
realm of works of architecture.
Appropriate Studies
It is peculairly appropriate, there­fore,
that the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, the technical in­stitution
of the state that is destined
to be in the forefront along indus­trial
lines, should include among its
colleges the oldest as well as one of
the best architectural departments in
the entire south. Young men and
young women graduates7 of the Au­burn
architectural department today
occupy some of the most responsible
positions in the architectural firms of
Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile.
Since the organization of the de­partment
in 15)07 between two and
three hundred young men and young
women have received their architec-ural
training in whole or in part.
While the majority of them have re­mained
in Alabama the others are
registered architects as far notrth as
New York and as far south as Texas
and Florida. Two graduates are con­struction
superintendents for the
United Fruit company in Columbia
and Nicaragua. Almost the entire of­ficial
force of one prominent firm of
Birmingham architects consists of Au­burn
graduates.
The department at Auburn, al­though
greatly handicapped through
lack of funds for a building, equip­ment
and additional instructors, is
generally regarded as one of the best
and most efficient departments at Au­burn.
There are more than 100 stu-
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Does Dad Play Golf?
If so, why not a pair of Knickers
for Christmas?
SUGGESTIONS
NECKWEAR MUFFLERS
GLOVES BELTS
SLICKERS HATS
PAJAMAS SHIRTS
COLLEGE JEWELRY BEDROOM SLIPPERS
COME AROUND
The Toggery Shop
dents enrolled in the degree course in
architecture alone this year. They
have completely overrun their cramp­ed
quarters and on any day in the
week may be found working at tables
out in the halls of the main building.
Lack of proper facilities apparently is
not a deterrent to these eager and
ambitious young men and young
women. They also work far into the
night, the lights in the architectural
department in the main building be­ing
the last to go out always.
Art Instruction
Auburn has become an important
center of art instruction for the state
Only recently the newspapers of Bir­mingham
commented editorially on
the excellence of the art exhibits sent
to Birmingham by the Auburn arch­itectural
department.
When Professor Frederic Child
Biggin, head of the department, took
charge in 1916 the art courses given
to architectural students were from
other departments of the college. Two
years ago a four year degree course
in general art was established.,. The
college registration this year is the
largest in its history, 112 students, of
which seven are women, being en­rolled
in degree courses in architec-
| ural engineering.
In addition to this the department
gives required work in anatomical
drawing to the pre-medical students
of the college, and in free-hand draw­ing,
water color, decorative design,
house planning, interior decoration
and furnishing to the home economics
-.tudents. Altogether more than two
hundred students are under instruc­tion.
The department of architecture at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
was established in June 1907 and is
therefore the oldest in the south. It
was attached to the college of engine­ering
and Architecture. At first the
course in architecture had a common
freshman year with the courses in
engineering, but in 1917 a full four-year
course in architecture, separate
from engineering was published in the
college catalog. In this the architect­ural
work started from the beginning
of the freshman year. The same year
a full four-year course in architect-ural
engineering was also established.
First Department Head
The first head of the department of
architecture at Auburn was Prof.
Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, a grad­uate
of the school of architecture at
Columbia University. To him is due
all credit for building up a strong
course from the foundation. Pro­fessor
Curtis left in 1912 to become
head of the department of architect­ure
at Tulane University and was
succeeded at Auburn by Prof. Joseph
Hudnut, who graduated from the Uni­versity
of Michigan and is now Pro­fessor
of the history of architecture
at Columbia University. In the fall
of 1916 Prof. Frederic Child Biggin,
from Cornell and Lehigh Universi­ties,
took charge.
Professor Biggin, head of the de­partment,
outlined briefly his policies
as follows:
"Both courses in the department of
architecture prepare for professional
practice as architects, after the nec­essary
office and field experience and
are open alike to men and women.
Freehand and charcoal drawing, pen
and ink rendering, water color paint­ing,
clay modeling, life class, history
of architecture, painting and sculp­ture,
building construction and archi­tectural
design are the principle tech­nical
subjects covered. AH members
of the department take these courses,
but the student in architecture pro­per
specializes in planning and de­signing
giving more than one quarter
of his entire time in college to this
wirk, while the student in architect­ural
engineering specalizes in advanc­ed
building construction and gives on
ly sufficient time to design to enabl:
him to construct intelligently. Since
the avefrage student's bent develops
more positively after he has attended
college for a period, the earlier years
of both architecture and architect­ural
engineering are scheduled alike,
to facilitate change from one course to
the other.
Basic Foundation
"Graduates in architecture or archi­tectural
engineering however do not
always choose to practice as archi­tects
since these courses form and ex­cellent
foundation for other lines of
work, {such as interior decoration,
landscape design, contracting, manu­facture
and handling of building ma­terials,
etc. Women students in par­ticular
find a most satisfying voca­tion
in interior decoration or land­scape
design.
"Architecture is chief of the fine
arts and its proper practice demands
a good general education as well as
,'a wide technical training. Both of
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have you entered the Golf
Tournament? For only a small en­trance
fee all the golfers are in­vited
to enter the tournament to be
held in a few days on the links just
west of town. There are to be prizes
given to the medalists in each of the
four flights.to be run off, and a grand
prize is open to the lucky contestant
who finishes at the top.
Why not help to encourage golfing
here by taking an active interest in
the popular sport and help toward
getting a course of which we may all
be proud and enjoy playing on. A
movement is on foot now to form a
golf team which will, if organized,
compete with other southern colleges,
many of which now boast such a team.
Any student who may be interested in
golf and its success at Auburn is
eligible,—So come on, all you future
Jones, and Sarazans and enter the
tournament, thereby creating the nec­essary
interest which will later lead
to a golf team for Auburn. For par­ticulars
concerning the tournament
see Homer Wright..
these cannot be covered by the aver­age
studnet in a four year college
course, and the normal schedules in
architecture and architectural engi­neering
call for five years of work.
Methods of instruction however are
largely personal, and permit an ex­tra
industrious and capable student
taking advantage of summer sessions
of the college, to complete the required
work in a shorter time.
"Last May, at their annual meet­ing
held in Washington, D. C, the as­sociation
of college schools of arch­itecture
unanimously elected the de­partment
of architecture at Auburn to
membership. This association is com­posed
of the great architectural
schools of the country, such as Col­umbia,
Cornell, Pennsylvania, Massa­chusetts
Institute of Technology, etc.,
and is connected with the American
Institute of Architects. The election
places Auburn in the acknowledged
front rank of architectural schools
.and secures for its graduates certain
privileges, among which are the an­nual
medal from the American In­stitute
of Architects, offered in each
member school to the student who has
made the best record throughout his
entire course, the right'to apply for
membership in the institute without
examination and in many states hav­ing
registration laws for architects
the waiving of part of the examina­tion
requirements when applying for
a certificate to practice.
Demand for Trained Men
"Since the world war, which dra­stically
set back the building pro­gram
of America, the demand for
college trained architects and archi­tectural
engineers has been greater
than the supply. Architects' offices,
•construction companies, and numer­ous
other branches of industry em­ploying
draftsmen and superinten­dents,
are offering generous salar­ies,
but cannot get enough trained
men and women for the work. The
department of architecture could
place each year more graduates than
it has available.
Associated with Professor Biggin
are the following faculty members:
Milton Smith Osborne, B. Arch., Ohio
State, Columbia, Assistant Profes­sor
of Architectural Design. Frank
Woodberry Applebee, assistant pro­fessor
of drawing, water coloring and
modeling, graduate of Massachuetts
school of arts. Albert Sidney Gole-man,
B. S.( Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
M. in Arch., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, instructor
in architecture. Robert Kelley Posey,
instructor in architecture, B. S., Ala-
Polytechnic Institute; Sophia Mae
Osborne, assistant in interior
decorating and librarian, degree,
Ohio Wesleyan University, B. F. A.
Modeling is one of the unique phases
of the work of architecture at Au­burn.
Among the recent designs are
college gymnasium, crematory, and
combination church and apartment
hotel. An attractive display of models
was recently planned under the sup­ervision
of Professor Osborne.
The winner in the junior problem
the "college gymnasium" are as fol­lows:
First place, R. C. Sizemore, Gads­den;
Miss M. Stallworth, Beatrice.
Second place, T. H. Aldrich, Birming­ham;
H. C. Hopson, Leesburg, Flor­ida;
G. C. Morgan, Ozark; J. M. Rob­inson,
Birmingham; W. Stork, Col­umbia,
S. C, W. W. Young, Mont­gomery.
Senior design, "A Crematory,"
first place, R. K. Posey, Birmingham,
second place, Miss D. Duggar, Au-
At a conference last Saturday af­ternoon
between a group of Mont­gomery
women and a number of ex­tension
service specialists, among
whom was Miss Agnes Ellen Harris,
plans were discussed for a "cotton
week" in Alabama for the purpose
of persuading the public to use more
cotton and the farmers to grow less
cotton. A definite time for this pro­posed
week will be set later when
final plans have been decided upon.
Aside from this movement, a cot­ton
clothing contest will be held next
spring to emphasize the use of cotton
in clothing, in bags for flour, rice
and other things for the housekeeper,
and in the use of bags for feeds,
fertilizer, cement and like products
used by farmers.
Another movement for the further
and more extended use of cotton was
carried at a meeting of the executive
committee of the State Council of
Home Demonstration Clubs of Ala­bama
early in November.
Among the Montgomery boosters
of this plan who visited Auburn Sat­urday
were Mrs. C. F. Chandler, Mrs.
F. S. Ball, Mrs. W. M. Hays and Mrs.
A. M. McCall. They reported that
efforts would be made to show man­ufacturers
and consumers the many
uses to which cotton may be eco­nomically
put.
CONFERENCE IS
BEING HELD BY
A. T..0. FRAT
ANNUAL ALL COLLEGE HIKE
DECLARED HUGE SUCCESS
(Continued from page 1)
hard fought and shuffling affair. The
result was almost a tie, although some
say that Rat Dowdy was ahead.
Probably the most interesting con­test
of the afternoon was the football
game played between two picked
teams of Co-eds. It was a hard
fought game as-the referee, "Red"
Roberts will probably attest. No
one of the spectators however had
the nerve or foolhardiness to say
which team was the victor.
Pillow fights were next on the pro­gram
for the afternoon. Three of
these took place. They were between
picked men of the Artillery of the R.
O.T.C. unit and one man picked from
each of the three Companies of the
Engineers. Two contestants sat on
a log spanning a small creek; each
one of them had a pillow. The ob­ject
of the game was for them to try
to batter the other off the log into
the water which was about waist deep.
The results of two of these bouts
went to the Artillery, the third is
rather uncertain as both contestants
slipped off the log into the water
as the result of a blow.
To cap the program of contests
was the Sophomore-Freshman Tug-o'-
war. The two opposing teams each
composed of ten members faced each
other on opposite sides of the small
creek. Each team had hold of op­posite
ends of a long rope. To win
the contest a team must pull the
other through the creek and onto
the other side. The Sophs had some
organization with a picked team while
the "Rats" were just a "bunch" pull­ing.
The contest began and the two
sides began to pull. From the start
the Sophs had the Freshmen bested.
Gradually the "Rats" were pulled
closer to the water, then into it, and
onto the other side. The Sophomores
were the victors.
After all this had taken place the
attention of the crowd was directed
to a hill near by. On it were ten
large fires cheerily burning. On this
hill was held the weiner roast with
an abundance of "hot-dogs," rolls,
coffee, marshmallows, and pickles.
After everyone had eaten his fill, the
crowd wended its way home. Accord­ing
to the words of those who went
on this hike all had a most enjoyable
time.
SANTA IS COMING
One of these days before long
Santa Claus is coming. Oh Boy!
Aren't we going to have fun?
Yes, she is standing at the window
pressing her warm forehead against
the cool window pane thinking of
the past and dreaming of the future.
Within the next few days the echo
of the train "toot" will cause a thrill
which is unexplainable. Not only
burn; L. S. Whitten, Anderson, S. C.
Fifth year design " Combination
Church and Apartment Hotel." First
place, C. J. Snook, Birmingham; R.
J. Leary, Sheffield.
Auburn's chapter of the Alpha Tau
Omega, college fraternity, is to be
well represented in the Thirtieth Bi­ennial
National Congress of the fra­ternity,
which convenes at Tampa,
Florida, December 29. The official
representative from the Alpha Epil-son
chapter at Auburn is Mr. Alvin
Smith, '27. Other members of this
chapter who will attend are: Forrest
Ward, Paul Brinson, William Marks,
Mercer Helms, Frank Malone, Hal-cott
Jones, Guerry Pruett, and prob­ably
others. The local chapter is
very active, and is expected to make a
lively showing in the coming meet.
The Congress is the high point
in the "activities of this fraternity,
which has a national membership of
over 18,000; not less than 800 of
this number are expected to attend.
This meeting will be held in the
famous Tampa Bay Hotel, which will
be turned over to A. T. O. exclusively
for the four days of the convention.
Social entertainments, sight-seeing
trips, and other amusements are be­ing
provided by the committees at
Tampa for Congress visitors.
From Florida and from parts of
Georgia, notably Atlanta, visitors
will drive through to Tampa. Others
from more distant states will take
advantage of reduced railroad fares.
Considerable rivalry is now develop­ing
between the 87 different chap­ters
of the fraternity in competition
for two prizes offered by the Con­gress
committee for the best atten­dance.
One of these prizes will be
awarded on a mileage basis, giving
all chapters a fair chance, but ex­cluding
the Florida chapter.
Many college men and alumni, who
are members of the Alpha Tau Ome­ga
fraternity, are looking forward to
spending their Christmas holidays in
attendance at this Congress. Social
entertainments for the occasion will
include visits to the cigar factories
of Tampa, visits to Ybor city, Tam­pa's
famous Latin quarter, automo­bile
trips to famous coast resorts,
a boat trip, and others equally as
interesting.
Alabama has two very active chap­ters,
located at A. P. I. and U. of
A. which should furnish a splendid
representation at this approaching
Congress.
made on the fraternity houses by
thieves.
SERVKt
ENGRAVING CO
A thief entered the rooms of
boys at Duke University a few nights
ago, and made away with about 1500
dollars in suits, overcoats, shirts, and
travelling bags. None of the stolen
property has been recovered. Many
of the boys lost almost all their cloth­ing,,
and some of them are unable,
financially, to restore their ward­robes,
as they are self-help students.
This is not the first time that
thieves have stolen boy's property
in American Colleges this year. It
seems that there is getting to be
a wave of robbery in the colleges
this year. One of the Southern Col-lege
Fraternities lost a lot of valuable
jewelry this fall in a raid that was
she but "he" at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute will count the num­ber
of times the train passes before
he can leave on it.
Time passes slowly by until finally
she is found at the'station, looking
down the track as far as can be seen
and standing on tip-toes listening for
the sound of the distant train and he
is nervously waiting for the conduc­tor
to give the signal for the nearby
station. Don't you know the boy
who knows she is .waiting for him is
only dreaming during these days but
how about us who cannot dream
'cause she may not be there? We can
dream too, but it will be of how and
where we will find a pal.
Christmas will soon be here and we
will soon be there. We hope that
every "Prof" will have a pleasant
time during that time even if we
do know that he is spending some of
his time thinking how he is going
to "Four" us at the end of the semes­ter,
but we don't give a kick now.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN
AUBURN CROSS-COUNTRY
TEAM WINS B. A. C. RACE
The Auburn cross-country team,
coached by Wilbur Hutsell, hauled up
quite a bit in the sixteenth annual
Birmingham Athletic Club road race
Saturday afternoon to win. Climb­ing
from fourth-place finish last
year to the winner's post by a com­fortable
margin, the Hutsell clan won
trophies in three divisions for the first
time. Even in individual performance
the Hutsell men did well as finishers,
Collum outsprinting Ellsworth Rit-cher,
the veteran B. A. C. runner,
across the tape for second place.
Bill Tate, former Georgia runner pac­ing
under B. A. C. colors, won the
individual honors, finishing a few
jumps ahead of Collum and Richter.
The Plainsmen carried off the
Southern Conference championship
over Georgia Tech, 32 against 48, the
Southeastern A. A. U. trophy donated
by Jaffe Jewelry Company, beating
Tech 35 to 49, The Birmingham News
general meet trophy, beating Tech
43 to 61. Mississippi College won
the S. I. A. A. cup, donated by B. M.
Chenoweth, nosing out Birmingham-
Southern, 27 to 28.
Tate, Collum, Richter, Smith, of
Mississippi A. & M., and Morrow, of
Auburn, staged a close race over
three-quarters of the distance, but as
the finish drew closer Tate widened
his lead. His time was two seconds
slower than that of Luny Smith, last
year's winner, being 16 minutes 11
2-5 seconds.
Collum, who finished second this
year, placed nineteenth last year,
but Morrow, his teammate has al­ways
been up among the leaders.
Bunched at Half Mark.
The leading runners were bunched
over half the course, with Wilson of
Birmingham-Southern up among
them, but Wilson wilted after the
turn for the last half and fell way
back, finishing seventeenth. Tate led
the race all the way and finished with
his steady stride, which carried him
out as far as a quarter of a block in
the lead at times during the race.
Richter trailed him over nearly all
the last quarter, but coming down the
home stretch Collum beat out the B.
A. C. runner in the last 100 yards.
Though the first Mississippi Col­lege
runner finished seven places
back of Wilson, the first Birmingham
Southern finisher, and one behind
Bailey, the second man, the Choctaws
were able to win the race in the S.
I. A. A. sector by bunching runners
in the middle of the procession.
One note of promise for the Geor­gia
team is that Young, a freshman
running unattached, placed ahead of
all Georgia team members, finishing
tenth.
Aggies Third.
Mississippi Aggies, not qualified to
run for the Southeastern A. A. U.
trophy, placed third in the conference
competition and general meet. The
Birmingham Athletic Club finished
third in the Southeastern division,
and fourth in the general meet.
The team scores by divisions fol­low:
General meet—Auburn, 43, Geor­gia
Tech 61, Mississippi A. & M.., 71,
B. A. C. 89, Georgia 123, Mississippi
College 139, Alabama 145, Birming­ham-
Southern 149.
Southeastern A. A. U.—Auburn 35,
Georgia Tech 49, B. A. C. 67, Georgia
93, Alabama 107, Birmingham-South­ern
114.
Southern Conference—Auburn 32,
Georgia Tech 48, Mississippi A & M.
53, Georgia 9.0, Alabama 92.
S. I. A. A.—Mississippi College 27,
Birmingham-Southern 28.
Individual placing follows: Tate
(B.A.C.), Collum (Auburn), Rich­ter
(B.A.C.), Morrow (Auburn),
Smithe ,A. & M.), Wright (Georgia
Tech), Rainey (A. & M.), Whigham
(Auburn), Brewer (Georgia Tech),
Young (unattached), Mullins (A. &
M.), Fickett (Georgia Tech), Dun­can
(Auburn), Chason (Alabama),
Griffin (B. A. C ) , Williams (Georgia
Tech), Wilson (Birmingham-South­ern),
Walters (Auburn), Becton
(Georgia), Yonce (Georgia), Morgan
(Georgia Tech), Mann ,(A. & M.),
Bailey (Birmingham-Southern), Da­vis
(Mississippi College), Cliburn
(Mississippi College), Barrs (Geor­gia),
Peacock (Georgia Tech), Moak
(Mississippi College), Jordan (Ala­bama),
Raspberry (A. & M.), Mur­phy
(Mississippi College), Green
(Georgia), Heyman (Georgia), Orr
(Georgia), Davidson (Alabama),
Helms (Auburn), Teague (B. A. C ) ,
Kendrick (Alabama), Head (un­attached),
Perry (Birmingham-South-n),
Morrison (Birmingham-South
ern), Lindsay (Mississippi College),
Terrier (B. A. C. ), Reeves (Ala­bama),
Stephenson (Birmingham-
Southern), Krebs (unattached), Wil­liams
(Alabama).
The officials were C. W. Stricter.,
referee; H. M. Starnes, clerk of
course; C. P. Orr, head judge; Mc-
Linton, scorer.
Pi K.A. Defeat
Theta Chis 12-0\
TANGENTS FROM
SPORT CIRCLES
COACH WILBUR HUTSELL
Papke Issues
First Call to
Basketeers
Working minus the services of Cap­tain
".Buck" Ellis the Tiger basket­ball
team went through its first scrim­mage
Tuesday night. Ellis is a jun­ior
and as you know about this time of
the year they all have rather sore
arms. However the typhoid vacinnes
will soon be over and "Buck" will be
on the job.
Three teams were given a trial at
the rough work by Coach Papke. The
first team was made up of E. James
and Mullin at forwards, Hal* center,
F. James and Akin guards. The first
team to face these varsity men of
last year was composed of Howell and
Slaughter forwards, DuBose center,
Vines and McGhee guards. Substi­tutions
in the course of the scrim­mage
allowed Herbert and DeVau-ghan
forwards, Smith center, Booth
and Kaley guards to get into action
as a part of the evening's program.
There are quite a few recruits from
the last year freshman team that will
make some of the positions very inter­esting
for the varsity players of last
season who have returend to reclaim
their berths. Howell, Slaughter, Du­Bose,
Vines, McGhee, Herbert, De-
Vaughan, Smith, and Booth are all in
the fracas to earn their first letter in
the cage game and judging from the
pre-season dope it will be a battle
royal for the permanent places, it is to
be regretted that Snider is not to be in
back in the lineup this season. How­ever
with the -track and football rec­ord
that he has it is only fair that he
take time out for some much needed
rest. "Snitz" has the speed that
counts anywhere he goes but it has to
be conserved as does all other valu­able
things.
Thre are two tentative pre-season
games and it is likely that they will
be played now. The contests are with
Birmingham-Southern and B. A. C.
Decmber 15 and 16 respectively, ac­cording
to latest information.
The girls at Florida State College
for Women have a real, honest-to-goodness
band. This is something
far the girls to be proud of. This
band was started last year, and is
Coach Wilbur Hutsell is one of the
most popular and efficient men em­ployed
by Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
for the purpose of directing
the destinies of Auburn athletics. He
is in charge of the cross country
team and head coach.
Hutsell came to Auburn in the fall
of 1921 and has made a most pleas­ing
record with his cinder cohorts.
Last season he placed one of the
south's greatest track teams in the
field and the wearers of the Orange
and Blue brought fame to their Alma
Mater wherever they went in com­petition.
Last Saturday's results of
the Birmingham Athletic Club's three-mile
race were an evidence of the suc­cessful
coaching of Hutsell. The
cross country, team under the super­vision
of Hutsell won practically
every honor possible in the meet.
They brought back to the "Lovliest
Village" three loving cups, and eleven
medals.
The wealth of track material for
Hutsell to work with in selecting a
track team for the coming season
gives Auburn a very optimistic out­look
in track competition and we
would not be surprised to see the
Plainsman cinder artists land the
championship rag next spring.
Hutsell came to Auburn from the
University of Missouri where he was
track star of much renown.
Rats Begin
Cage Practice
The first call for basketball prac­tice
for the "Rats" squad was ans­wered
by about fifty promising young
athletes and they are going about
their task with the same earnestness
that was so characteristic of the Rat
football aspirants in the fall. That old
fight that carried them through a suc­cessful
season on the gridiron will
surely reward them on the court.
As yet it is of course impossible
to predict any probable lineups, but
there is surely material on hand to
form a formidable crew of baske­teers.
With half a hundred to pick
from and only a small fraction of
that number to be picked, it is quite
the right thing to think that a select
crew will be forthcoming. Picking
the men will be a hard job and the
coaches will be quite busy for some
time yet trying to get these men in
shape to make their selections.
The more familiar faces that ap­pear
on the floor each day for this
practice are Clarke, Cosper, Callahan,
and Coleman of football fame. It
would be impossible to tell each man
and his former home and field of
activities but the candidates come
from widely scattered areas. The
representative from Mobile is Thorne
Winter letter man from Barton Aca­demy,
a sontestant in the state tourn­ament
last season. From Montgomery
comes Neal Collins a star from Sid­ney
Lanier. Neal gives promise of
holding up the traditions of Lanier
here. We must remember that that
is the school of prep stars that shine
at Auburn in their college days. A
likely looking prospect for center is
Padgett, while there is Hogan, Abe-nathy,
Fulton, Morton, Thomas, and
many others to fill the other posi-.
tions. The gang is looking forward
to a good season and are getting away
to a good start making the necessary
preparations.
now well trained in rendering classi­cal
as well as lighter music. The
Band made its first public appear­ance
on Thanksgiving day.
Co-Ed Cage Team
Working Hard
Anyone who happens to stroll down
to the gymnasium between the hour
of six-thirty and seven-thirty may be
dazed by the scene of approxim­ately
twenty of our fair coeds doing
about eveything imaginable with a
basketball. Some are passing the
ball, some are shooting goals, while
others are dribbling the ball around
with apparent ease. In the center of
this group of feminine athletes can
be seen the agile body of Gene Til-man,
coach deluxe, explaining the
ways and means of winning basket­ball
games. Anyone doubting the
ability of these aspirants for a berth
on the Coed cage team should take a
peep at them in action some evening.
They can run with speed, pass and
shoot goals with accuracy and exhibit
form in the above procedure.
The immediate object of this dil­igent
and persistent practice and
training is to round out a quintet to
take the stand against Athens Female
College on the date of December 16.
This college is sending a strong com­bination
to the village to battle the
r mber of knocks and scratches be­fore
the game is won or lost.
At present it seems that the most
probable lineup to start the initial
game will be: Pertice Tucker and
Bessie DuBose forwards, "BigSix"
Price and Miss Nichols guards, and
Edna Creel center. This lineup is
only a guess on the part of the writer
and does not mean that many others
are not showing promising ability.
It is very probable that many not
mentioned here will see plenty of act­ion
before the curtain falls to close
the season.
One of the most colorful series on
the schedule for these young ladies
is the series with University of Ala­bama
Coeds. We see no reason why
the mild and enticing ways of the
fair sex should not assure peaceful
relations in athletics with our sister
institution.
Drake Field was the scene Sat­urday
afternoon of a spirited football
game staged by the Pi Kappa Alpha
and Theta Chi fraternities which the
former won by the score of 12 to 0.
Despite the fact that neither team had
had sufficient practice and were not
in the best of condition, an intense­ly
interesting game was the reward
of those who journeyed out to this
historic old battle ground to see the
clash.
The two teams took the field at
2:30 p. m. with the Pi K A's defend­ing
the south goal and the Theta
Chi's receiving . The Pikes were clad
in a varied assortment of unifirms.
very few headgears, shoulder pads or
football shoes being in evidence,
while the Oxes were resplendent in
varsity unifirms which "Goat" Smith
had purloined for the occasion.
When the Theta Chi's rushed the
ball down their opponent's twentyv
yard line in the opening few minutes
of play, it seemed as they were go­ing
to have a snap. The Pikers stif­fened,
however, and held for downs.
Gene Tilman and "Goat" Smith were
largely responsible for this advance
deep into the enemy's territory. Af­ter
successive attempts by Lynne and
Wood had advanced the ball six yards,
the Pikes punted thiry yards out of
bounds.
After a scoreless first quarter the
Pikes were placed in scoring position
as the result of an enemy pass which
Howard Smith intercepted and re­turned
to the ten yard marker. After
With the fall of the curtain on the
stage of the gridiron November 25,
there came the question? What are
the sport lovers to do now and what
are the sport writers to "Bull about?"
The answer is simple. It is the sea­son
for one of the sports which re­quires
more skill probably than any
L. C H. S. Starts
Practicing For
1927 Basketball
The first call for candidates for the
basketball team to represent Lee
County High for the coming season
was issued last week by "Snitch"
Snyder, popular grid and track star
college sport and certainly requires I and student at Auburn. The High
more team work on the part of the | school prospects are as yet a matter
players. It is basketball of course and | of much uncertainty but it is expect-anyone
who doubts that the spirit of
the game has not reached the Village
has only to see the schedule for prac­ticing
in the gymnasium. There is
constant practice from four o'clock in
the afternoon until nine o'clock in
the evening. The afternoon period is
occupied by the aspirants for the
Rat team under the supervision of
Coach "Red" Brown, Lee County High
takes the floor at five o'clock with
"Snitch" Snyder at the helm. Im­mediately
after supper Gene Tilman
teaches the Coeds the art of playing
the cage game . Coach Mike Papke
and varsity aspirants for a place with
the cagesters practice from seven un­til
nine and are already showing good
results.
Coach Hutsell and his band of
cinder artists journeyed to the Magic
City last Saturday and won first
place in a three mile race staged by
the Birmingham Athletic Club. Not
only did the Auburn boys win the race
but they won about every kind of a
cup and medal offered for the various
accomplishments.
Hutsell and all members of the
three attempts at the line had proved j c r o s g c o u n t r y t e a m a r e certainly in
unsuccessful, "Cush" Wood tossed a
pass to "Sede" Lynne who leaped high
in the air to snag the pass across the
goal line for the first score of the
contest. Wood's kick for extra point
wad blocked.
The second half found the two
elevens evenly matched. Time after
time "Cush" Wood, playing end on
the defense, stopped aspiring end
runs. Time after time "Red" Lane
plunged over the left side of the line
only to be stopped by the hard tackl­ing
Lynne when he reached the secon­dary.
In this half the" Theta Chi's
resorted to the air in an effort to
snatch a victory from the air. This
paved the way for the second touch­down
for the Pikers when Jack Nage-ly
intercepted an enemy pass and rac­ed
the remaining distance to the last
white line.
In the third quarter Wood clipped
off several gains while Lynne reeled
off a beautiful run around the right
flank, Lane, who had been transfer­red
from tackle position to play the
role of fullback, smashing the linere-peatedly
for substantial gains.
For the winners, "Cush" Wood and
"Sede" Lynne, in the back field, and
Jack Nagely, Jim Bethel, and Rat
Pearson, in the line were the out­standing
performers. Wood ran the
team fi-om the quarter-back position
in a most commendable manner. His
punts were well placed and deep into
enemy territory while his work as
defensive end was of the highest or­der.
Lynne with his fierce tackling
together with beautiful broken field
running and blocking was an invalu-eble
man to the victors. He was al­so
very adept at breaking up hostile
passes. Nagely played a heads up
brand of football in the line while
Pearson and Bethel proved towers of
strength on the defense.
Kirkwood at center was accurate in
his passing and from time to time
opened up great gaps in the Oxes'
line.
Theta Chi luminaries were Gene
Tillman and Red Lane in the back-field
and Goat Smith in the line. The
fleet-footed Tillman was the main
line for admiration and respect by
the student body at Auburn as it is
a known fact that to finish with the
first in a long distance race requires
constant training on the part of those
participating and patient coaching on
the part of the coach to obtain
such outstanding results as were made
by' the Tiger runners.
Glancing through the sport columns
from various sections of the south we
note that the University of Alabama is
sharing most of the lime-light. This
is certainly deserved by Alabama as
any team being invited to play at the
Tournament of Roses two years in
succession certainly has cause for pub­licity.
Auburn is pulling strong for
ground gainer for the conquered elev­en
and was a valuable man on the de­fense.
Lane crashed into the line for
considerable yardage in the third per­iod.
Goat Smith broke through the
forward wall on several occasions to
throw the runner for a loss.
Merritt Burns as referee, Hopson
Pearce as umpire and "Mutt" Greg-or
as head-linesman officiated in an
acceptable manner, none of their de­cisions
being disputed.
The Pi Kapps Alpha eleven will
meet the Kappa Phi team on Drake
field Saturday aftenoon at 2:30
o'clock.
ed that Snyder will whip a winning
combination into form in a few weeks.
The boys are going through rather
intensive training in preparation for
a game with Columbus High next
week. The team will be slightly
small this year but seem to be able
to overcome this handicap by ability
to pass accurately and shoot goals ef­fectively.
The team practices at the
gymnasium each afternoon from five
to six o'clock.
The team that seems to be Sny­der's
first choice at present is: Tamp-lin
and Ellis forwards; McNeal and
Witty guards and Fincher center.
This does not mean that this will
be the team to represent the school
but only that the above lads have
shown more fight and ability up to
date. It is possible that many others
may land a place with the squad by
training and diligent effort. We
wish coach Snyder success in his first
efforts at coaching and feel sure he
will be a most efficient man for the
position assigned him.
Georgia Tech has recently been
honored with a visit by Charles Kun-kel,
a representative of Harry F. Gug­genheim,
head of the Daniel Guggen­heim
Fund for Aeronautics. He came
in the Fokker plane that was used
to fly over the North Pole.
It seems quite likely that Tech
will get funds for the establishment
of a course of instruction in aeron­autics
as a result of this visit.
the charges of Wallace Wade to come
out of the New Year's fracas victor­ious.
Every sport scribe in the south­land
seems to have plenty of critic­ism
to offer in the selection of Grant-land
Rice for All-American. He is
being criticised for not selecting a
man from the south on his mythical
eleven in face of the fact that the
southern teams made such a wonder­ful
showing this season and are con­sidered
to have one of the strongest
teams in the country in their midst.
The players of the past season's
football squad have been getting some
substantial feeds since Thanksgiving
as guests of various fraternities on
the campus. It is an evidence of
the respect for those who really put
forth earnest effort to add glory to
fame of Auburn to give these feeds
and from the comment of the players
they have been enjoying these ban­quets
to the fullest extent.
Auburn Tigers' 1926-27 Basketball Schedule
January 8 Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga.
January 15 Florida Auburn, Ala.
January 28 Tuiane New Orleans, La.
January 29 Tuiane New Orleans, La.
January 31 Tuiane Auburn, Ala.
February 1 Tuiane Auburn, Ala.
February 3 i Pending
February 5 , University of Fla... Gainesville, Fla.
February 11 Sewanee Auburn, Ala.
February 12 Georgia Tech Auburn, Ala.
February 15 University of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.
February 16 Chattanooga -- Chattanooga, Tenn.
February 17 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn.
February 18 Sewanee Sewanee, Tenn.
Games are pending with B.A.C., Birmingham Southern, _ Howard,
Miss. A. & M., University of Georgia, Mercer and Oglethorpe.
There will be five games scheduled from the above colleges.
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DEBATE IS HELD
AT WEBSTERIAN
One of the most interesting meet­ings
of the year was held with the
•\yebsterian Literary Society at its
regular meeting last Tuesday night.
The following program was render­ed:
A debate: Resolved, That it is bet­ter
to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all.
OF BIRMINGHAM
AUBURN BRANCH
—In the—
IDEAL LAUNDRY
Particular People Pick—
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efflontgomery, o4la-
A. V. Blankenship and G. B. Hahn
ably represented the affirmative
while Fred Mathews and L. G. Beard
well upheld the negative side of the
question. From the points presented
and facts stated there seems to have
been some sad, solemn occasions in
the lives of some of these men as
well as inspirations on the part of
others. The judges, George Jester,
A. J. Collum, and Miss Alberta Proc-tor<
after giving the points and iacts
brough out due consideration, decided
in favor of the affirmative. It was
| a good debate and the society en-
I joyed it very much. You missed much
| by not being there.
TKe following new officers were
i elected for the second semester:
I . George Jester, president; William
Frank, vice-president; Thelma Graves,
secretary; A. J. Collum, treasurer;
Mamie Mathews, Plainsman reporter;
Clarence Lecroy, critic; George Hahn,
sergeant- at-arms.
The society regrets to give up Miss
Hester, not only as resident' but as
member, since she graduates at the
close of the semester, for we feel
that she has helped us accomplish
many things. On the other hand we
rejoice to have succeed her, Mr. Jes­ter,
who we think is very competent
and fitted for the place.
If you have not joined a literary
society yet, join ours. We need you
and yon need us.
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The regular meeting of the A. I.
E. E. was held at seven o'clock in
Room 200, Ramsay Engineering Hall.
This was the last meeting before
Christmas at which a program was to
be rendered as the next meeting is
to be for the election of officers for
the second semester. All new officers
are to be elected one month before
they are to go into office, thus ex­plaining
the early election.
The program for the night included
several good talks by student mem
bers of the organization. The first
number was given by Mr. S. L. Han­cock
on an oil electric switching en
gine. This type of locomotive is new
in the fields of railroading and from
all accounts it is creating quite a
sensation. It is driven by a Diesel
engine that furnishes the power to
turn the generator and drive the en­gine.
The lighting is furnished by
a set of low voltage storage batteries.
This type of engine is finding con­siderable
favor in such cities as Chi­cago
where they are having trouble
eliminating the smoke nuisance. Mr.
Hancock also gave us some of the
statistics for these locomotives and
their advantages.
The second talk on the program
was given by Fox uardwell on his
summer work with the Alabama Pow­er
Company. He gave us a complete
sketch of the work that he has been
doing for the past three summers.
His talk showed us that we can all
profit by our work in the summer.
He also gave us some of the specifi­cations
of the work that he was con­nected
with, that is, the specifications
of the type of equipment that he was
working with.
Following the talk by Mr. Card-well,
Ben A. Rives gave two selec­tions
on his musical saw which were
enjoyed by all. As our president
said, anyone that can get music out
of a saw can get it out of most
anything playable.
The third number on the program
was rendered by G. N. Lagrone on
the Subject of inaccuracies in the
reading of wattmeters. He enumer­ated
the causes of the troubles and
the way to prevent them. Most of
the trouble is found in the following
causes: defective bearings, friction in
AN ANALOGY OF PROFESSORS
It would take volumes upon vol­umes
of books and a mind far more
brilliant than ours to completely elu­cidate
upon the Prof. But with such
meager facilities as I do command, I
shall attempt to present a somewhat
synopsized Professor.
To begin with-the Professor is a
male, and nine times out of ten, he
is peculiarly fitted or perhaps, en­dowed
with such attributes as are
common to the greater part of this
masterful male population. The
Professor is always smart—in his
own line. For instance, one Profes­sor
can work Calculus like a starving
man can eat food. It is easy for him,
and does not actually require as much
reasoning as you would imagine.
This Professor has specfalized in Cal­culus,
and consequently he knows it,
backwards and forwards. He has
worked with it so much that now it
is a mere matter of putting it down
in black and white. Every year he
becomes more and more mechanical­like.
Anybody can acquire the abil­ity
if they only devote the necessary
time to it.
The Professor is not usually mar­ried,
for which he is not to be blam­ed.
But on the other hand, after
we see some of the people that do
succeed in their matrimonial trials,
we feel that all Professors have splen­did
chances of fooling some lady
(we do not vouch for her age).
And upon further thought, we feel
confident that if all of our Professors
would marry, that it would prove to
be of great benefit—to the students.
The Professor would have a wife to
think about, and he would have to
take some of the time that he has
been using for making out quizz
questions, to pacify his wife. So we
feel sure that the Students would
willingly procure a "customer" for
each and every one of Professors,
but they would not be able to guar­antee
the disposition of "wifey."
Judging from the past, and we
know no better way of judging, Age
(that will demand a respect), a long
arm (one that he can wave around,
and make his necessary gestures), a
monotone voice (so that the students
may sleep in class, if they so desire,
and yet not be disturbed by his leng­thy
discussions on subjects so deep
that the bottom has never been
found) are the requisites of the Col­lege
Professor. '
There has long been a doubt in
the minds of the students whether or
not the Professors are human. We
will not take either side, but let the
reader judge for himself. The Eng­lish
Professor gives six poems to
study and analyze; the Math Profes­sor,
feeling confident that we take
no other subject but Math, gives us
ten problems; the Physics Professor,
knowing that we do not usually have
classes after five o'clock P.M. wants
to be sure that we have plenty to do,
so he gives us five problems to work.
Of course, the Professors do not have
to worry about our other classes.
They have enough of their own. 5b
it is. We believe the Professors are
giving us all this work because they
do not want us to feel slighted.
Yet the Professors look human,
so we will have to leave it up to our
gentle reader to decide this all im­portant
question. We have now reach­ed
a point where we think it advisable
not to go any further, because we
might get in water over our heads,
and of course, we cannot swim.
ARCHITECTURAL
ASSOCIATION OF
AUBURN MEETS
The regular meeting of the Archi­tectural
Association was held at the
regular time last Wednesday night.
President Snook called the meeting
to order and the roll call showed
that the attendance had reached the
half hundred mark.
Nominations for the office of vice-president
were called for, because of
the fact that Vive-President R. C.
Sizemore is unable to return to school
because of the serious sickness of his
father. The nominations were Wil­liam
Stork, Rosser Alston and Dick
Vandersys, from the Junior class.
The constitution calls for this office
to be filled by a Junior. The votes
will be cast next Wednesday night
at the meeting.
President Snook made a motion
that a committee be appointed,to con­fer
with President Dowell and request
that more room be given over to the
Architectural Department. Half of
Professor Biggin's office and the hall
are now being used as drafting rooms.
The motion was carried and the Pres­ident
appointed Messrs. Campbell,
Ledbetter and Smith.
All business disposed of the Presi­dent
introduced the- speakers of the
evening. Melvin Brod gave a very
enjoyable and instructive talk on
"The Uptown Chicago Theatre." "
John Thomas followed with a very
instructive and interesting talk on
"Welding Structural Steel." The
meeting was then declared adjourned.
MAKING AN 8
O'CLOCK CLASS
A.S.C.E. MEETING
HELDONFRIDAY
The American Society of Civil En­gineers
held its last meeting this year
on Friday night, December third, in
the gears, bent disc wheel, loose
pointers on the dials, dust in the
magnet jaws, open potential coil, and
a short circuit in the potential coil.
All of these can be eliminated and
then the meter recalibrated.
To round out the evening two sides
were chosen and questions pertaining
to some engineering project were ask­ed
first to one side and then to the
other The two sides were led by G.
N. Lagrone and Edgar Hauser. This
concluded the program for the night.
As stated before there will be an
election of officers at the next meet­ing
and all members are requested to
be present. Remember, Room 200,
Ramsay Engineering Hall, at seven
o'clock on Wednesday, December 8,
1926.
Br-r-r-ring, the big ben makes an
effort to arouse the sleepy-headed
freshman from the lazy arms of Mor­pheus
to arraign him before a bald
headed Prof, at eight o'clock. Slow­ly,
and yawning at the same time,
the freshman raises himself on one
arm and squints his heavy laden eyes
toward the challenger. With a sigh,
and another yawn, he buries himself
in the depths of a mass of covers
and pillows. The round-faced chal­lenger
is not to be denied. Br-r-r.
He sends out his omnious" warning.
Then he takes one long look at his
face and jumps out of bed with a
flying leap. "Eight o'clock! Gee!
I've got to hustle." He hurriedly puts
on his clothes, but does not lace his
shoes' as he feels that it will cause
him to be late to class. Another
glance at the clock, "five after eight."
He rushes madly about the room in
search of his Trig book. Deciding
that the fellow across the hall must
have borrowed it, he makes a dive
into the room and finds it lying
on the table. He cusses and discusses
people for- not having books of their
own and hurries back into his room.
He takes one last look to see what
he has forgotten, and sees that he
has only two minutes to make his
class. Forgetting everything, he
rushes out of the room and hurries to
school.
He gets in his seat, answers "pres­ent"
to the monotone voice of the
Professor, "Roberts," and flops over
in his seat to sleep through the rest
of the classes.
Room 103 of Ramsay Hall.
The program was opened by T. H.
Pearce with a talk on the extension
of the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad from Aberdeen to Pensaco-la.
The total length of this line will
be 365 miles, of which 153 miles will
be entirely new track and must not
have a grade greater than one-half
percent.
E. O. Fowlkes then gave the So­ciety
a very interesting account of
his work with the State Docks Com­mission
at Mobile. His talk centered
about the construction and driving
of concrete piling for the docks.
The civil engineer's part in in­dustry
was brought out by H.L. Mul-lins'
explanation of the systems used
by the Eastman Kodak Company, the
DuPont Powder Company, and the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.
Every one was impressed by the ef­ficiency
of the organizations.
R. E. Johnson concluded the pro­gram
with a description of his ex­periences
in stadia work. In his talk
he rather forcefully brought out some
of the hardships faced by the civil
engineer in the field.
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MONDAY
"UP IN MABEL'S ROOM"
Look at the LUt!
Marie Prevost
Phyllis Haver
Sylvia Bremer
Harrison Ford
Harry Myers
That mirth provoking Comedy
which played on Broadway for
Two Seasons
WEDNESDAY
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"COUNTRY BEYOND"
That Beautiful
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"RABBIT-FEET" PRESENTED
BY AUBURN PLAYERS
(Continued from page 1)
In order to insure double good luck,
Pete always carries two left feet of
a rabbit caught in a graveyard at the
dark of the moon by a bow-legged,
cross-eyed nigger, so he has managed
to collect the nick-name of "Rabbit-
Feet." He's one of those heah go
getting' boys, too especially when
it comes to Orchid, his high-stepping
'oman. Sure he marries her
even tho he has to carry her away to
a graveyard and surround her with
ghosts in order to persuade her that
she loves him.
Orchid had left her home in Tuck-aloo,
Mississippi, and won success as
a singer and dancer in a New York
show. When she visits the old home
town, she is more important than
Queen Marie—and just as uppity.
Mervin Maxwell, a yeller nigger from
Memphis, falls in love with her, too,
but "Pete makes short work of him.
In fact, Pete and his two rabbit feet
sweep down just about everything in
the way.
Orchid is played by Maryline Cau-then,
who makes it easy to see why
New York did a double flip-flop be­fore
her, even if her color is a pale
lemon. John Youngblood plays Mer­vin
Maxwell for all he is worth, and
Sabrie Williams is highly entertain­ing
as Oi-chid's mother. Her sister,
Nervie, is depicted by Dorothy Dug-gar,
who excels in rapid squealing
exits and an appetite for barbecue
sandwiches. Celeste Nesbitt plays
the part of old Meriky, aged 84, who
is in close touch with the "speerits
and ha'nts." Celeste enjoys a quiet
two hours smoke on a clay pipe, sick­ness
prevented by the Fates (and
perhaps an absence of tobacco in the
pipe). "Ra " Hobdy makes an ex­cellent
Elder, one who raises his eyes
ENGINEERS FROM AUBURN
SOUGHT BY COMPANIES
(Continued from page 1)
versity of Michigan, Boston Tech,
University of Phillipines, University
of Nebraska, University of Washing­ton,
Penn. State, University of Min­nesota,
Georgia Tech, Texas A. & M.
The five Auburn men in the group
are: Solon Dixon, of Andalusia;
Maurice Midgette, of Montgomery;
Joseph Singleton, of Ragland; Lu-cuis
Turner, of Rayston, Georgia,
Robert Young, of LaGrange, Ga.
Recently the graduate students
with the Allis-Chambers people or­ganized
a student Engineering Club
for the purpose of promoting mutual
cooperation between the Company
and the engineering students employ-devoutedly
to heaven, but does notjed. Two Auburn men, Robert Young
fail to observe a trim ankle, as well. | and Joseph Singleton, were recent
James Price is Swaunee Johnson, speakers
keeper of the goober stand at the
barbecue, and his two children, As­pirin
and Cerise, are played by Char­les
Apps and Catherine Hare. As
Cerise the heavily-brunett flapper
Catherine indulges to the hilt her ex­cellent
flare for comedy of the hilar-ous
type. In addition, many Voodoo
Rangers, who look more like ghosts
than they have aright to, in this
superstitious locality (and what lo­cality
is not superstitious?) move
about, striking terror to the hearts of
the inhabitants of Tubkaloo.
Much credit is due Mr. Hamilton
for the decider success of his comedy
and student actors who helped make
possible this success. Several ad­ditional
plays are scheduled for the
second semester by the Auburn Play­ers,
local live-wire dramatic club.
THE CHURCH WITH A CHEERFUL WELCOME
9:30 A. M. Sunday School
11:00 A. M. "Power of Influence"
6:30 P. M. Christian Endeavor
7:30 P. M. Installation of Rev. Sam B. Hay
Rev. Donald MacGuire
Preaching.
AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
"The Auburn boys certainly hold
their own up here, when we meet
at the A. C. Club house. Where you
find an Auburn man, you find a
gang of men, listening to his line.
We don't intend to sit on the back
seat, but we get the front seat, and
at each meeting,- an Auburn man
gives a talk or is on the floor, for
something, anyway".
PROBLEM OF MEXICO IS
TOPIC OF DR. PETRIE'S TALK
"RED" ROBERTS
Probably one of the best and most
conspicuous cheer leaders Auburn
ever had is Red Roberts. He is yet
with us for the basketball, and base­ball
seasonSj but he graduates in May
and has lead football cheers for the
last time in his college career. He
has followed the team to every game
and carried the Auburn banners and
Auburn yells with him. A clean
cut, optimistic, cheer leader, not out
for jeering at the teams of our ad­versaries,
but for cheering the Au­burn
teams to victory. Red Roberts
has proven his worth, and whether
another can do as well remains to
be seen.
AUTHORESS IS SPEAKER
AT RAT CONVOCATION
AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE IS
SUBJECT OF MUCH PRAISE
(Continued from page 1)
ton mills, told Auburn upper class­men.
Mr. Meiklehon is one of the leading
cotton mill men of the south and in-cidentially
is a lineal decendant of
Thomas Jefferson. He won his "C"
at Columbia university in football
and rowing.
The speaker gave some wholesome
advice to the students, urging them
to play the game fairly in the class
room and on the athletic field. He
told the boys that one should not get
an education to make a living but that
they should regard education as a
means of learning how to live. He
added that one should work for work's
sake and not for the money made out
of it.
Mr. Meiklehon was the guest of
President Spright Dowell and mem­bers
of the Auburn Villagers club.
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(Continued from page 1)
This noted writer ranks well in
Southern literature of today, and her
splendid speech on this occasion was
indeed a tribute to the institution,
and especially the Freshman class.
The exercise was presided over by
Pres. Spright Dowell. Prof. Rutland,
Dean of the English department, an­nounced
that Mrs. Chapman would
speak on some phase of literary
work in the "Y" hut at three o'clock
on the same day.
This meeting was evaluated by
Pres. Dowell as the most oustanding
occasion of "its kind here so far; the
comment coming as the result of Mrs.
Chapman's appearance.
A.S.M.E. MEETING
HELD IN RAMSAY
HALL LAST WEEK
The A.S.M.E. held its regular meet­ing
Wednesday night in room 109
Ramsay Hall. Several talks on various
subjects were given by members of
the society.
"Process of Wire manufacture"
was presented by P. E. Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick has worked quite a bit in
the wire mills in Birmingham and
was well qualified to taik on this sub­ject.
He gave his talk entirely from
a practical viewpoint, tracing the
process from the billets as thy enter­ed
the mill to the final galvanized
products.
J. I. McConnell talked on "Refrig­eration."
He told the society of the
many different methods of obtaining
refrigeration, discussing in detail the
absorbtion system of vaporization of
liquids. The great importance and
many uses of this vast subject was
also pointed out.
The final number on the program
featured "The History of Cast Iron"
by O. G. Quenelle. He began with
the earliest record known of cast, iron
which dates back before the Brass
Age and traced the improvements in
its manufacture up through the pres­ent
day foundry with its modern pro­cesses.
President Gillette thanked the mem­bers
taking part on the program for
their talks and urged that all mem­bers
be present next Wednesday at
the last meeting before the holidays
A.I.E.E. MEETING
IS REPORTED ON
The members of the local branch
of the A.I.E.E. met in Room 200 of
Ramsay Engineering Hall, last Wed­nesday,
and held their last meeting be­fore
the Christmas holidays, and in­cidentally
the last meeting of the year
Due to the fact that many of the
members would be in such a rush
getting ready to go home, it was de­cided
not to hold a meeting next week,
and consequently this one was made
the last one.
Some very important business was
transacted during me meeting of this
week. After opening, the chairman
made several important announce­ments,
one of which concerned a con­test
for Freshmen and Sophomores
in Engineering, and fostered by one
of our prominent honorary fraterni­ties.
Details of this contest will be
published later. Watch for it all you
"Rats" and Sophs, because it is very
worthwhile.
The most important business of
the meeting, was the election of of­ficers
for the coming semester. Mr.
J. D. Stewart and Mr. W. L. Garling-ton
were reelected to their old offices
of Chairman and Vice-Chairman
while several very fine officers re­signed
their places to a few new men.
Mr. I. L. Knox gave his place as
Secretary-Treasurer to Mr. T. S.
Lynch, while Mr. J. L. Jones refilled
Mr. C. N. Worthington's place as
Plainsman reporter. A new man was
elected, in the persoii of Mr. J. B.
Walters, to assist Mr. Jones and to
handle the A.I.E.E. articles for the
Auburn Engineer.
Just before coucluding the meet­ing,
the secretary made a final check
of his list of those who had served
on the program during the last sem­ester,
and made sure that everyone
would receive his allotted number of
quality points for having done his
part.
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passed, will have to go through a legal
process which will leave them a title
good only for fifty years. To an Amer­ican
this looks like partial confisca­tion.
It is serious, for the property in­volved
is very valuable.
"So we wait anxiously for further
news from Mexico, and we grow more
anxious as January draws nearer.
Why Mexico Is Sensitive
"Why is it that we get on so much
more smoothly with Canada than we
do with Mexico? It is because both
Canada and the United States get
their ideas and their institutions
largely from the same British sour
ces? That doubtless does help us un
derstand one another. But we must
not forget an equally important ex­planation
of a different kind.
"Canada is a part of the great
fear of us, and feels amply protected
against any aggression. Mexico on
the other hand is weaker than we are
and knows it. Mexico remembers too
that Texas, California, and the land
between them were once a part of
their dominion. They have seen
what we did in Panama. They note
our influence in Nicaragua and else­where
south of their own borders.
They know how eager American en-terpises
and American capital are to
develop the rich resources of Mexico.
"It is surprising that Mexicans are
afraid of us? Can we blame them if
they are trying to unite the Central
American states against us? It is
not natural for them to leave no plan
untried to get control of their indus­trial
development in their own hands?
"Yet they must play the game
fairly. Will their idea of fairness be
the same as ours? Let us hope so.
"President Calles may seek to win
popularity in Mexico by taking a
bold stand against the dreaded bigger
nation. But he has troubles enough
on his hands already. It is scarcely
conceivable that he will risk becom­ing
involved in another and far more
serious one by pushing us too far."
NEW HOTEL IS PLANNED
FOR CITY OF THE PLAINS
Howard College has been admitted
to the Association of American Uni­versities.
This means that her grad­uates
can enter Columbia, Chicago,
and any other larger institution of
learning that they may wish to. This
is the highest honor that can be be­stowed
upon this college as it signifies
that she has a high degree of scholar­ship
among her students, the academ­ic
work is satisfactory, and her facul­ty
is of the highest calibre. Her
graduates can enter any college in
the nation without taking entrance
examinations. We congratulate them.
According to the latest figures giv­en
out, fifteen million people saw
the college football games that were
played during the season just closed.
Gate receipts were over $30,000,000.
The record for attendance and gate
receipts from any single game was
broken by the Army-Navy game when
110,000 people witnessed the game,
and paid a total of $800,000 dollars
to see it. This all attests to the
popularity of the Americanized game
of Rugby. No wonder some pessi­mists
are viewing football as an A-merican
religion. If it is a religion,
it is a harmless as well as a popular
one.
A professor of Geneva College ad­vocates
early marriages on the part of
the students. In his opinion, there
should be a law that no student should
pass his sophomore year without
taking unto himself a wife.
We wonder what the wife would
do. We all know that the sophomore
can be told absolutely nothing. All
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vor of the hotel.
In view of the fact that Auburn
has grown to such an extent, a hotel
attractive enough and large enough
to accomodate travelers in this part
of the state is a necessity. The gen­eral
idea it to make the hotel modern
in all respects with private baths,
circulating ice water and other fea­tures
to add a homelike atmosphere.
The people of Auburn are inter­ested
and well pleased with the steps
that are being taken for a greater
Auburn.
women are going to tell their hus­bands
what .to do, and a sophomore
won't stand for it. That would mean
early divorces, and incidentally, the
taking of more names in vain.
There seems to be quite a bit of
indignation on the campus of Miss­issippi
A. & M. over the taking of
their goal posts by the students of
Mississippi University after they had
defeated A. &. M. on Thanksgiving
day. It seems that the A. &. M.
students repelled all attempts of the
university boys to take theni in open
daylight, and they resorted to noc­turnal
measures to get them by the
light o' the moon.
This is something new in Southern
Football annals, but is a tradition at
Brown, Harvard, and Yale, and has
been for many years, for the win­ning
student body to capture the
goalposts immediately after the game.
It seems that the students at A.
& M. should not become so badly
disturbed over their loss, but revel
in the pleasant thought that the Uni­versity
boys couldn't get them in
daylight and were forced to resort
to moonlight raids to get them.
Dean Collins says that it is mighty
hard to compete with one of his in­structors.
For further information
see W. W. Johnson.
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FIVE STUDENTS CHOSEN
TO GO TO MILWAUKEE
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Y. W. C. A.
The guiding qualifications in the
selection of these delegates were
Christian character, proven ability
of self-expression, and promise of
future leadership.
This conference is to be held in Mil­waukee,
Wisconsin, from December
28, to January 1. This is not just
another conference. It has been de­manded
by this student generation,
particularly that more mature group
that desires to know what resources
Jesus has for life in our World.
About three Milwaukee Convention
Committee has decided that two hun­dred
and fifty foreign students shall
be invited.
There are several purposes of this
convention. In the first place, it is
"To look out over the world and its
human need in the light of the King­dom
of God, a commonwealth of bro­therly
men." The next is "To con­sider
our country: is it the free home
of brother-hood and justice, alert for
every opportunity of costly service
in a neighborly world?" To scru­tinize
our college life; whether it
is fit to be 'Exhibit A' of a Christ­ian
world and is sending out streams
of illumined, contagious personalities
for a world ministry and mission."
But considering the main purpose in
a more general way, it is to discuss
national and world student problems.
These three thousand carefully sel­ected
students will without question
come away from Milwaukee with a
message to the world, and with fire in
their blood. It is impossible to as­semble
that kind of a group today,
and center their thoughts for five
days on the question, "What Resour­ces
Has Jesus for Life in Our
world" without such a result.
Several noted foreign speakers are
among those who are to stimulate
the thinking for this convention.
They are: T. T. Lew, of China, C.
G. Kullman, of Switzerland, G. A.
Studdert-Kennedy, of England, and
others. Some of America's leading
thinkers will also be there.
There is to be a special train, which
leaves Birmingham December 26, to
carry all the delegates from the
southern colleges.
WILSONIAN HAS FIRST
SOCIAL OF SEMESTER.
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rendered by the co-eds. Miss Haupt
attracted special attention by a solo
rendered in German.
The remainder of the time was
passed in playing games and tricks.
You never know how dry a cracker
is till you see how soon you can
whistle after eating one! Some of
our Auburn students looked very
romantic eating strings with the co­eds
to see who could reach the grape
first that was attached in the mid­dle.
Eats were then served in grand
style. There were all kinds of fruits,
cakes and candies in abundance. The
party broke up at 8:30.
The Wilsonian is the first to con­ceive
of the idea of carrying on a lit­erary
society social in this manner.
It is to be congratulated on it suc­cess.
Mr. F. W. Gist will speak to the
student class at the Auburn Presby­terian
Sunday School, Sunday, De­cember
12th. All are invited to at­tend.