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Volume 001, Description 02 of The Semi-Monthly Tech Oracle student newspaper. Transcript: THE SEMI-MONTHLY TECH ORACLE Our Alma Mater We are pleased to review our school since the present graduating class of 1924 has been here. Six years has made a great difference. In 1918 when the class of 1924 began, the school plant consisted of three buildings, the main building, much smaller than it is now, and what is now the two boys dormitories. The student body numbered 250 and the college graduating class of ’24 looks back over these years it can think of only two important things that were here when it sprang into existence. These two were Mr. A.W. Smith’s department of History and Herschel’s department of “Applied Domestic Science.” Perhaps the reason for the permanency of these two is the superiority of each in his field over any who might try to fill the places. these two remain but the present class has helped welcome all other members of the faculty. Only one other class can remember Mr. Early, Mr. Sisk and Miss Robinson. No other class can lay claim to Mr. Daniels, Mr. Lowery, Mr. Netto, Miss Brandiewie and Mr. Barnett. Miss Smith, Mr. Johnson, Mr. West, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Ring, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Clardy, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Owens, Miss Dunn, Miss Thomason and Miss Leonard, now Mrs. Conry, and many others have all come and gone under its regime. The mechanics buildings, the agricultural houses, including the paltry yards and the dairy barn, the main building addition, and the girls dormitory have all been built since 1918. The campus has developed from a mere “splotch” of ground to its present splendid condition mainly under the wise direction of Mr. Conry. The library under Mr. Passons has grown from 900 volumes to 3000 volumes. Many other reforms have been brough about. A school spirit has been really developed. A “Dynamo” has died, () but an “Oracle” has sprung up. In fact, we challenge any school to present a record of growth as great as that of Tennessee Tech. We are here to stay, here to grow, and we are issuning warning to the schools above us to clear the track for the “Coming School of the State.” The Class of ’24 we feel sure is proud indeed to soon be alumni of T.P.O. and the other classes are also anxiously looking forward to the time when they, too, can be alumni. Our advice to any young man or young woman wanting to go to a real school “pull off your hat and hop right in the line” and get a claim on what will someday be the state’s leading college We find the growth more pronounced than the past and in a few such periods of growth, Tennessee Polyechnic Institute will be on top, Tech’s Growing Athletic Aerial Cumberland University played two games on the Tech diamond last week, one Wednesday, the other Friday. In the first game Cumberland made a race track of the satchels and counted ten runs in the fourth before they were returned. They found little trouble in pounding “Kildee” Anderson’s slants to all parts of the garden. The slaughter began in the fourth and Anderson was knocked completely off the mound. Summer came in and was also knocked for a number of hits, which netted runs. “Jimmie” Clark toop up pitching duties in the last stanza but too late to be much use. Tech’s runs came at different times in the slug fest, one being made by Rickman in the sixth, and the other by Shipley who scored from second on Fowler Clark’s double to deep left. Cumberland used three pitcher to quell battling rallies which threatened to break out during the game. The score for the first game has not been settled, some mathematicians say 19 to 2 and some 22 to 2. The second bame was a real ball game until the sixth, “Bug Buff” was hurling for Tech and Lynch for the Bull Dogs. Tech ran in two runs in the fifth and had the Bull Dogs two to one. Let’s stop here and say two scores are enough to win any ball game. Tech should have won, but fate decided otherwise. Cumberland scored four runs in the first of the sixth. This was the Alpha of the Omega, as the Red Bull Dogs continued to run in scores until the end. The Tech boys did not have a chance after Buff’s arm gave out. The game was turned into a batting practice for Cumberland. Jimmie Clark slapped out a sizzling single in the fifth, knocking in Summer and Puckett, which ended Tech’s scoring. The game ought to have ended two to one, Tech leading. Tech is sadly in need of a twirling staff. Tech does not have the number of pitchers needed and at least two more good ones that can be depended upon to win are needed. In the last game with Cumberland Tech was robbed of a good numbers of good hits. Malone robbed a child of misfortune in the person age of Fowler Clark of a delicious larrup to the recesses of deep left. Malone came up and made a shoe string clutch which he had no license to do. The duplicate of this was when Board, second baseman for the Bull Dogs, stole a hit from Jimmie Clark, the ball passed over second on a line drive, but Board pull a grandstand and cheated the scoreboard. Rickman and the other players were robbed by the horse shoe catches of the “Would be lawyers.” Coach Overall is perfecting plans for a track team next year. All boys that think they can run will be given a chance to show their stuff. There is no reason why Tech shouldn’t develop some Charlie Paddocks or Joie Pays’, They are here I the rough but they can be polished up and the track teams of U.T. Vanderbilt and Sewannee will be given a run for their money. There ought to be a few who can do the century in twelve seconds. More students will be given a chance to get into athletics than ever before. Tech should have at least four good tennis courts, with backstops all the way round and good nets provided. A number of good players can be seen in action on the local court which is inadequate for the school’s tennis players. There has been talk that Tech is going to organize a tennis team and go to Cumberland for a match. Cumberland seems to think they can blot out Tech in Tennis, but there are some doubts as to that. Cumberland has four splendid courts which are always occupied by boys who do not have the time for other athletics. Tech will be stronger in ath- () letics next year and more students will be able to take part in one form or another. The students should back Tech and take more interest in the work of the different teams. The old students ought to all the good athletes that come under their sight and when the bell rings for fall term to begin a new era in Tech athletics will be ushered in and a Bigger and Better Tech should be the result. Boost Tech and Boost yourself. Senior College Class The date for the Senior Class picnic has been fixed at May 10, a committee has been appointed on arrangements and preparations are being made for a day of pure enjoyment. The Senior Class has undertaken to sponsor the Commencement edition of the “Tech Oracle. It is intended for this Description to form a class souvenir. It is hoped that the “Oracle” will continue this policy of making each commencement edition a memorial for the graduating class each year. The Senior appreciate the adoption of President Smith of their suggestion for marching out of Chapel. This has done much to relieve the congested condition of the hall, immediately following Chapel. This was the sole purpose of the Seniors in making this suggestion and not to satisfy any feeling of vain dignity, as some of the under classmen have intimated. The program of the Senior Class for Class Day exercises is as follows: Salutation, James P. Buck. Class History, Madeline Jackson. Prophecy, T.E. Crowder. Will, Callie E. Marcom. Memorial Dedication, Pres. H.L. Barger. Valedictory address, Harry H. Jenkins. Sherwood Society The Sherwoods under the leadership of President J.P. Buck, is doing splendid work. President Buck is a Senior at Tennessee Tech. He has a keen appreciation of the need of organization in Society work. Undoubtedly the Society is more nearly fulfilling its mission in preparing its members for good citizenship than ever before. Our attendance is good. The work of the last two meetings consisted mainly of preliminary tryouts of our declaimers. We note with pleasure the progress made by some of our younger members in the art of declaiming. Tech Oracle Published semi-monthly by the student body of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Cookeville, Tennessee. Staff Harry H. Jenkins, ‘24 Editor in Chief. Emmett E. Smartt, ‘24 Associate Editor. Jas. P Buck, ’24 Class Editor Luther C. Harris, ‘24 Editor Student Organization Henry L. Barger, ‘24 Faculty Editor. Mable Holladay, ‘24 Exchange Editor. Alex Shipley, ‘25 Athletic Editor. Nellie Anderson, ‘26 Wit and Humor Editor. Juanita Oliver, ‘27 Social Editor. James D. Miller, ‘26 Business Manager. Madeline Jackson, ‘24 Assistant Business Manager. Thos. L. Passons, English Faculty Advisor. Belles Lettres Literary Society The progress of the Belles Lettres Literary Society has been very noticeable this year. The growth bespeaks very strongly the stability of the many members. The program committee has endeavored to plan programs of a constructive and edncational nature. On Monday, April 28th, the Society met in the regular meeting room and the following program was given: Invocation, Nellie Anderson. Reading, Clyde Jackson. Story, Anne Lee Boles. Current Events, Velma—Hill Jokes, Gladys Speck. Report of Critic. After the program the business meeting was held. We received a new member of whom we are proud. We feel that every member is receiving a lasting benefit from the work of the Society which never could be obtained from text books. FRESHMAN HIGH We were disappointed to learn that we could not have a class party or picnic at the close of this term, but our sponsor, Mr. McClanahan, suggested that we save a portion of our dues each year and of graduating from here, leave something permanent by which the large Freshman class ’24 will be remembered. We are very proud of the fact that one of our number, Miss Mary Ellen Shanks, is a contestant for the Essay medal. Although we have been at T.P.I. only a short while, we have learned to love it and want to do our part in making it the best school in the State. Lookout for us Freshmen. We’re growing stronger day by day. And joy to you we’ll lend when we our stunt shall pull class day. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS The Junior High School Class boasts of being the largest class ever in T.P.I. having eighty-five members. The class boasts not only the quantity of the class but also of the quality. Most of the members have been with this class since the Freshman year, and while a few have dropped out, other have come in. The junior class expects in 1925 to be the largest class ever graduating from T.P.I. Mr. McDowell, the president has succeeded in keeping the Juniors going, altho it was a very difficult task. Miss Huffman, the sponsor, has also done much to make this a successful year for the Juniors. She worked hard to help the Juniors make a success of the Junior-Senior party given Apr. 25th. The Juniors are expecting to finish this year with an excellent program Class Day, and to be the liveliest class in school in 1925. Sophomore High The Sohpomore High School Class is progressing nicely under the leadership of Miss Shelah Officer as president and Mr. S. Lewis Land, of the Manual Arts Department, as sponsor. President Officer has displayed a great executive ability in the management of the class affairs, while Mr. Land has given many helpful suggestions. The Sophomore Class has planned a very interesting program for class day, during commencement week. The nature of the program has not been disclosed, but will be announced later. The Class of ’26 is one of the largest classes in school and is growing larger each term. Upper Cumberland Society The work of the Upper Cumberland Society has advanced until the year ’23 and ’24 has proven to be the most successful year in its history. Each member is always willing and anxious to promote the welfare of this wonderful organization. The Society is living up to the motto that has carried it thus far, “Determination is success.” This Society will be represented in the oratorical contest by at least three of the talented orators of the Society. Paul Moore and Ernest Brooks were selected as the Declaimers and they are determined to see the black and gold stand for the successful efforts of its many members. JUNIOR COLLEGE The Junior High School class boasts of being the largest class ever in T.P.I. having eighty-five members. The class boasts not only the quantity of the class but also of the quality. Most of the members have been with this class since the Freshman year, and while a few have dropped out, others have come in. The junior class expects in 1925 to be the largest class ever graduating from T.P.I. Mr. McDowell, the president has succeeded in keeping the Juniors going, altho it was a very difficult task. Miss Huffman, the sponsor, has also done much to make this a successful year for the Juniors. She worked hard to help the Juniors make a success of the Junior-Senior party given Apr. 25th. The Juniors are expecting to finish this year with an excellent program Class Day, and to be the liveliest class in school in 1925. Sophomore High The Sophomore High School Class is progressing nicely under the leadership of Miss Shelah Officer as president and Mr. S. Lewis Land, of the Manual Arts Department, as sponsor. President Officer has displayed a great executive ability in the management of the class affairs, while Mr. Land has given many helpful suggestions. The Sophomore Class has planned a very interesting program for class day, during commencement week. The nature of the program has not been disclosed, but will be announced later. The Class of 126 is one of the largest classes in school and is growing larger each term. Upper Cumberland Society The work of the Upper Cumberland Society has advanced until the year 23 and ’24 has proven to be the most successful year in its history. Each member is always willing and anxious to promote the welfare of this wonderful organization. The Society is living up to the motto that has carried it thus far, “Determination in success.” This Society will be represented in the oratorical contest by at least three of the talented orators of the Society. Paul Moore and Ernest Brooks were selected as the Declaimers and they are determined to see the black and gold stand for the successful efforts of its many members. Junior College At a recent meeting of the Junior College Class a committee of fifteen was appointed for service during commencement. This committee is to have charge of decorating the auditorium, to act as ushers during the exercises and to give any information that may be required by the visitors on that occasion. We are also completing our plans for a class day program and there is little doubt that this program will uphold the standard set by the class in all previous attempts. We note that the –Class of ’24 is leaving a tree upon the campus as a memorial, and wish to commend them for their devotion. Other classes would do well to continue the monuments to beautify our campus. Miss Anna Del Harp and Miss Susie Copeland who were in school with us last year attended the Sunday School Convention held at the Methodist church April 21-26. Faculty Corner We have gleaned the following for Faculty Cornes this Description. We wish to thank those contributing. Let us urge that the faculty members furnish more suggestions for the next Description. We go upon the hypothesis that knowledge should be dispensed elsewhere than in the class room. Mr. Richmond reports that the most elaborate and extensive plan for commencement that the Institution has ever known is about complete. Commencement activities will begin Friday, May 23rd, and continue until May 28. The complete program is not ready for publication at this time but will follow in the next Description. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered Sunday, May 25, by Judge C.E. Snodgrass. The commencement address will be given by Dean Malcolmn McDermott, of the Law School of the University of Tennessee. Mr. T.W. Kittrell will be toastmaster of the Alumni Banquet. The program for Class Day is the most extensive and varied one ever planned for that occasion here. It is suggested that it will be wise for the students to get tickets for the Mikado at an early date, because many visitors will want tickets entitling them to choice seats. This opera will be given on the evening of the 27th. Mr. McClannahan makes known the fact that the school picnic will be on May 23rd. This picnic will be likely be on the scenic grounds of Mayland if arrangements can be made for transportation. The prospects for a large attendance at Summer School is the best in the history of the Institution, reports Dean Smith. This is proof of the growing usefulness of the Institution to this section of the State, especially for teachers, as well as ambitious students to become more efficient, and gain additional credits toward graduation. To those who hope to receive the various medals offered in the various contests may be interested to know that these medals have been ordered. We are very gald to report Coach Overall’s Program for Athletics for the coming year. He suggests that there will be the usual schedule of football, basket ball and baseball with the addition of track team and other forms of athletics, which will enable a greater per cent of the students to participate. He thinks the record of the Basketball tournament shows us what can be done by the formation of an association of the schools of the counties around about to participate in an annual affair of this kind, which will include field meet, and other forms of contests. Mr. Overall further announces that such an organization will be perfected next season. Senior High The Senior High Class is very busy at the present time. Plans are being completed for Class Day and Commencement programs. The work of sponsoring the “Mikado” to be given May 27th, is being very efficiently handled by the president and members of the class. The Senior Cooking Class is re-decorating the “Y” Tea Boom to be used as a lunch and rest room for the girls of the school. This will meet a long felt need. In the absence of Mr. Passons, English XII was conducting by Mr. Benton Carr Thursday morning. He handled the work in a very satisfactory manner. Mr. Edd Hudgens is ill at his room in the East Dormitory. Misses Louise Cornwell and Rebecca Johnston visited in Nashville the early part of last week. Miss Willene Grisham has moved to her new home near Burgess Falls. Misses Carlen West Evans and Bill Powell spent Sunday in Bon Air at the home of Miss Powell. Carl Hudson spent the week end in Algood. Palladian Literary Society The Palladian Literary Society is still progressing nicely. The Society will be well represented in the essay contest which is to be held Saturday, May 3rd. Much interest was shown at the last meeting which was held in the auditorium, April 28th. Besides the regular business the following program was given: Reading, Virginia Wilcox. Piano Solo, Willene Grisham. Jokes, Charlotte Watson. Vocal Solo, Thelma Rash. Piano Solo, Mary Ellen Shanks. Vocal Duet, Bill Powell, Madeline Jackson. Reading, Juanita Oliver. Junior Senior Party The Junior High School class entertained the Senior Class with a delightful party Friday evening, April 25th in the T.P.I. auditorium. Progressive conversation and Virginia Reel were the principal enjoyments. The music was furnished by the T.P.I. Orchestra. The Senior colors, crimson and white, were artistically displayed in the refreshments.

Volume 001, Description 01 of The Semi-Monthly Tech Oracle student newspaper. THE SEMI-MONTHLY Tech Oracle SENIOR COLLEGE CLASS The Senior College Class of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute is the largest graduating class in the history of the institution. Several members of the class who lack sufficient credits to graduate in June are planning to graduate at the end of the summer term. The Senior Class has for its very efficient president Henry L. Barger. This is Mr. Barger’s second year in this capacity and he has filled the office with honor and distinction. Our faculty sponsor for this year is Mr. William K. Tipton of the Department of Science. Mr. Tipton is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee and has given us many helpful suggestions as to class activities. The Senior Class has planned an interesting program for class day during Commencement Week. It is planned to make this the most interesting program given by any class in several years. Practically every member of the class will appear on the program. Members of the Senior Class were the recipients of a very pleasant Social given them by the Juniors on Friday evening, April 4th at the Smith Apartments. Everyone was more pleased with the splendid program. The Senior Class has adopted the idea of leaving as a class memorial a tree upon the campus. Accordingly a committee of the class was selected to secure an American elm and set it out on the South end of the Campus. This was done on Tuesday of this week. It is hoped that this precedent will be followed by the graduating classes in succeeding years. Junior-Senior Reception A recent social event of interest to Tech students was the reception given by the Junior College Class on Friday evening, April 4, in honor of the Senior College Class. Those receiving were Mrs. Q.M. Smith and Mr. Kittrell, () class sponsors, assisted by the Officers of the Junior Class; Eugene Collier, President Rose Dow, Vice-Pres, and Donnell Evans, Treasurer. A very interesting program was given: Reading, Villa Carmack. Trombone solo, Gilbert Hatfield Solo dance, Mary Ada Neal Group of songs, Mrs. Q. M. Smith. After the program, the guests gathered in the dining room where a buffet supper awaited them. This is probably the first attempt of any class in T.P.I. to give a formal reception, but the success of this event removes all doubt as to the desirability of such a class function and it is to be hoped that future classes will follow the precedent, thus making it an annual affair. With The Base Ball Team Coach Overall's retinue of baseballers came into Lebanon at 12 o’clock Thursday to battle with the Cumberland Bull Dogs. The team rode a ‘Reo Bus from Nashville so no one can blame them for losing the game. Summer pitched for Tech while Majors pitched for Cumberland. The game was nobody’s for a few innings, but Cumberland lucked one run in the second frame, the score sttod 1-0 against Tech until the fifth inning when the Bull Dogs bunched their hits and ran in six scores, most of which were unearned. The Cumberland men found trouble in hitting the cock-eyed slants of Summer. He walked only three men while Majors walked six. Cumberland 010 063 000-7 T.P.I. 000 000 010-1 Stolen bases, Mooney Moore. Left on bases, Tech 10, Cum. 8, Bases on balls, off Summer 3, off Majors 6. Struck out by Summer, 3 by Majors 6. Time of Game 3:15. In the second game with the Bull Dogs “Big Buff” LaFevers pitched for Tech and Lynch handed out the balls for Cumberland. Cumberland took an early lead and collected two runs in the second stanza, they again gleaned three more in the fourth, they then skipped an inning and made four more in the sixth, the slaughter stopping here and “Bug Buff” came loose and held them scoreless for the remaining innings. Tech’s one counter was made in the seventh when Jimmie Clark came to bat. Cumberland’s catcher, “Dusty” Miller called the outfielders in lose, little thinking that so small a man could pack such a hard swing. Over came the ball and crash –it was gone over the centerfielders head, Murray chased the ball to the score board where it rolled under. When Murray got the ball Jimmie was just checking out from third. This is one of the few home runs that were ever knocked on that field. Murray smashed out a triple for Cumberland with the satchels loaded. The line up same as first except Summer for Shipley. Summary. Three base hits. Macy, Murray, Sotouen bases, Maione, 1. Left on bases, Tech 6 Cumberland 5. Base off balls, Lynch 1 LaFever 1. Struck out by Lafever 7, by Lynch 5, by Curry 4. Some people are kicking because Tech didn’t make much of a showing against Cumberland. Well, Cumberland beat Tech 7 to 1 and University of Indiana 7 to 3. So there’s the dope. Cumberland has one of the best college teams in the South. Many of her players have played four years college ball and then take a law course and play four more with the lawyers. You will have to hand it to them. They have a team. Well, it’s a long lane that has no turning. Tech beat Cumberland two years ago 24 to 6. Coach Overall has done great work for Tech Athletics this year. It is a great disadvantage to take a high school team and try to compete with four year colleges, only two college men will get letters this year and they are Freshmen. The Tech team journeyed to foreign lands again Monday to play Castle Heights, of Lebanon. The game was called at 3:30. The Tech boys were in no condition to play as they had just completed a week’s trip. The work and loss of sleep had changed the Tech clan into an aggregation of invalids. They played a listless game and only came out of their lethargy a few times during the game. Johnston came up in the second inning and knocked a three base smash down third base line, he drew up at third and Clark laid down a bunt and Johnston was thrown out in home. “Peel” Webb was handing () up the ball for Tech and Swift for Heights. Swift, naturally, threw some fast ones, but he was bumped for six runs. Webb whiffed 9 men and Swift 5, Anderson 3. The budding soldiers clustered their hits and when the smoke cleared away they were leading 8 to 6. The Tech team did not come out of their “Rip Van Winkle” in time to win. Three base hits, Johnston, Homers, Williams, Baird. Left on bases, Tech 8, Heights, 6. Struck out by Webb, 9. Anderson 3, Swift 5. Hit by pitcher by Webb, Swift. By Swift, Coillier. Umpires, Malone, Hightower, Time of game 3:30. Senior Highs The Senior High School Class of ’24 is one of the largest in the history of the school. Most of the members of this class have been in this institution during the entire four years. We have for our sponsor Mr. C.B> Richmond, the instructor in music, who has at all times manifested great pleasure in being with us. He has been very enthusiastic in assisting us to make plans. Through his instrumentality the Seniors are sponsoring “Mikado” a musical opera, to be given during commencement. This opera is very classical in its nature. Lee Sadler Darwin is the class President and he has very successfully executed the duties of the office. He has always shown a great interest in the class and we are indeed proud of his active leadership. Our class has been very active in athletics this year. During the winter term we had a basketball quintette which won the championship of the school and also played Baxter Seminary and Algood High School. We have a baseball team which we hope will also excel those of the other classes. A number of the Seniors intend to teach school next year, some will follow other occupations, but they will do this merely for money to continue their school training. Practically all of them plan to go on to college. The Senior Class has made arrangements for a class day program during the commencement which will be given in connection with the Senior College Class. The Senior Class is very grateful to the members of the staff for the space which they have allowed us in the School paper and we assure them that we shall put forth every effort to make the paper a success. The high premium on honesty may be due to the fact that it is the best policy. Faculty Corner We are glad to give this part of our paper over to our faculty. We shall from time to time publish such matter as the various teachers will hand us. This section will be called, “Faculty Corner.” The editor of this department here by invites the teachers to furnish plenty of material to make this the best department of all. With a very few exceptions the teachers attended the State Teachers Association at Nashville, April 17th, 18th, and 19th. President Smith and Mr. Land participated in the program of the Association. We are very glad to note that Mr. McClanahan is manifesting his usual enthusiastic attitude toward our efforts in the publication of this paper. His many suggestions have been very valuable. He says that there is not reason why we cannot have a paper second to none. Mr. S. M. Hatfield says, “Why, yes, Dean Smith has decided lately to abolish the Constitution and put us under a parliamentary form of government.” Dean Smith reports that he has challenged Mr. J.M. Hatfield to a forensic duel on the subject, Resolved: That Congress should have the power to over-ride decision of the Supreme Court declaring acts of preceding congresses unconstitutional. This battle will likely materialize within a fortnight, if Mr. Hatfield accepts. Dean Smith suggests also that evidences of spring fever are becoming more numerous as spring advances. We are glad to learn from Mr. Barnes that the Chemistry Laboratory is soon to be equipped with hoods to take care of the escaping gases and smoke which is occasioned by the numerous experiments. Mr. Passons is expecting a splendid program to be rendered when the contestants for the Ezra Davis oratorical medal meet. The Student Activity Committee has recognized this contest by allowing it to count one point toward the Wilson Banner. This is a new medal and much interest is being manifested in it. TLere will be about one half dozen contestants for it. Miss Bryan says she has no special report, except it might be said that one of her greatest worries is to keep Charles Branham from smiling too loud. Mr. Tipton says he is very much pleased with the start we have made with the “Oracle” and that he sees no reason why we cannot have one of the best school papers to be found anywhere. Mr. Tipton is Sponsor for the Senior College Class, and expresses his approval of the action taken by this class when they planted a tree on the campus, to be left as a permanent mark of the class. Mr. Kittrell suggests that Dean Smith broke the rule the other day by returning his and ink which was borrowed the day before. We wish to thank the various members of the faculty for their advice and aid on this publication. We shall expect all faculty members to give us plenty of material for each Description, and help us to make the last Description a howling success. Sherwood Literary Society We are very proud of the work being done by the Sherwood Literary Society this year. We have received the following new members this term: Tardy, Langford, Bohannon and Parsons; men of whom we are justly proud. The Inter-Society Debate which was won Friday evening, April 11, has caused joy to the Sherwoods and redeemed for us the Womack loving cup. The Sherwood Debating team, composed of L.C. Harris and J.C. Evans, principals, and J.P. Buck and G.E. Crowder, alternates, are deserving of high honors in adding this point in our fight for the Wilson Banner for next year. This banner has been in our possession continuously ever since it was first awarded, which fact in itself is ample proof of the stellar work of the Society. Our opponents are launching their 1924 attack with a greater determination than ever before. The Sherwood forces are in battle array. The first assault has been repulsed and we stand ready to defend this sacred banner whose silken threads have woven themselves into our very being. If we were to prove unfaithful, and betray this flag to the foes ‘twould droop its head in sorrow to remind us of its woes. Freshman High The freshman class this year is one of the largest classes to enter T.P.I. since the birth of the institution. The work done by this class has been of a high standard, there being very few failures reported. David Terry was elected President the first two terms, and was succeeded by Audy Johnson this term. These and other officers have performed their duties with efficiency during the entire year. Our sponsor, Mr. McClanahan, has been of much assistance this year giving many valuable suggestions which have been of a great deal of aid in carrying out our class organization. The Freshman class has been planning for a class picnic soon, provided satisfactory arrangements can be made. The Freshmen have cooperated with the sponsor to give an interesting program on Class Day at the Commencement. The nature of the program has not been disjointed but it is assured that the Freshmen will “pull something” original. According to the old adage that is “in union there is strength” we may judge that owning to the numbers of the Freshmen we may have something interesting. Y.M.C.A. The Y.M.C.A. is getting in shape now to do really active work. Our Sunday afternoon services are beginning to draw large crowds. Last Sunday Bro. Lawrence came out and gave us a very interesting talk was enjoyed by all. In addition to this the “Y” is doing some outside work. We are sending J.I. McDowell and Lee Sadler Darwin to Nashville this week-end to represent our organization in the Students Bible Conference in the Y.M.C.A. Building in that city. Y.W.C.A. The Y.W.C.A. met and elected a new cabinet for 1924. The following officers were chosen. Miss Clyde Jackson, Pres. Miss Villa Carmack, V. Pres Miss Auby Scott, Sec’y and Treas. Miss Irene Paschall, Chm. Program committee Miss Jackson was chosen as the local delegate to the Y.W.C.A. Conference to be held at Blue Ridge, N.C. in June. Tech Oracle Published semi-monthly by the student body of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Cookeville, Tennessee. Staff Harry H. Jenkins, ‘24 Editor in Chief. Emmett E. Smartt, ‘24 Associate Editor. Jas. P. Buck, ’24 Class Editor Luther C. Harris, ‘24 Editor, Student Organization Henry L. Barger, ’24 Faculty Editor. Mable Holladay, ‘24 Exchange Editor. Alex Shipley, ‘25 Athletic Editor Nellie Anderson, ‘26 Wit and Humor Editor Juanita Oliver, ‘27 Social Editor. James D. Miller, ‘26 Business Manager. Madeline Jackson, ‘24 Assistant Business Manager. Thos. L. Passons, English Faculty Advisor. Strand Theatre Make arrangements now to see “Down to the Sea in see “DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS,” Thurs. and Fri. 24th and 25th this week. A real fight with a 90 ton whale in mid-ocean makes this one a masterpiece. Anita Stewart in “The Love Piker” 28th and 29th. “The Call Of The Wild” May 1st and 2nd. “Way Down East” May 8th, 9th, 10th. Tech on the Road The Tech boys journeyed to Fayetteville Tuesday for a couple of games with Bryson. The first game was played on a field ofturf as regular diamond was too muddy. The Tech infielders were at a disadvantage but they handled the balls better than the Brysonites. “Peel” Webb pitched a splendid game.His curves made the Bryson men look like carpet beaters. They often missed the rainbow outs a yard. The score was 3 to 0 in Tech’s favor in the seventh but Bryson tied by bunshing hits. Tech untied the score at her next bat. Bryson scored a run in the 8th stanza. The game ended 5 to 4, Bryson leading. The Tech men collected more hits than Bryson. All Bryson’s runs were unearned by being due to errors. “Peel” Webb struck out ten of Bryson’s men, while Tucker whiffed nine of Tech’s batters. “Peel” had to lay down his glove and laugh when he saw the Bryson men strike at balls which hit the turf a yard in front of the plate. Webb threw three balls to the first batter and then fanned him. He then promptly fanned a couple more. The first twelve men for Bryson never reached first base due to the good pitching and fast fielding. The two Clarks and Rickman fielded hard balls and whipped them to Collier who took them in for put outs. The outfielders, Summers, Puckett and Hudson covered their ground. Summary: Hits, Hudson 1, Dick Clark, 2; Summers 1, Johnson 2, Two bases, Clark. Anderson pitched the second game and pulled Webb’s trick of throwing three balls and then fanning a couple of men. Anderson whiffed ten men of Bryson’s against eight for Harwell of Bryson. The game was 0 to 0 in the sixth when the head of the list came up for Bryson. Six hit were made in this stanza which netted Bryson six runs. Rickman fielded two balls which came sizzling down 3rd base line and shot them to first for put outs. Jimmy Clark gleaned the first hit by laying down a perfect bunt one yard inside the third base line. He beat it out by yards and then promptly stole second but died on third. Many men were on at different times but the Tech batteries could not connect with the ball so all chances to score were lost. Summer and Puckett collected a hit apiece in the sixth but two men were gone and they failed to score. Johnson played good game at catcher and helped the pitchers mow down the batters. Fowler Clark was hit in the head in the first game by a high fast ball. Bryson won 7 to 0. A majority of Bryon’s runs were unearned. The Spokesman Retires After One Description After one Description had been gotten out the Society Spokesman has retired in favor of the Tech Oracle. Feeling that it was to the best interests of the school, the staff of the Spokesman decided that there was no further need for the Spokesman to continue since a school journal had been so well established and so unanimously voted to discontinue its publication. However since it was on such a firm business basic and its advertisements so well arranged it was decided to offer to the Oracle the benefits of such subscriptions and advertising as it had taken which offer has been accepted by the staff of the Oracle. Therefore, all subscriptions to the Spokesman will become subscribers to the Oracle without further payment. College Types Those who are really familiar with America’s college system no doubt grow a bit wear at odd times with the manner in which fiction, magazine articles and newspaper stories today treat and show the general public current college types. At first glance it would appear that the average college community was made up of boys and girls who did nothing but play various games with greater of less kill and success, or else cheered for their fellows who did, danced to all hours, had queer ideas about things in general, wore even more peculiar clothes spoke an odd language faintly resembling English, and, in short, did almost everything but study and behave in a normal fashion. AH this to judge from reports. As a matter of fact, there are many college students who do follow out the course of procedure above hinted at with rather remarkable fidelity, and there are, perhaps, entirely too many of them in almost any institution one might choose to mention, but, fortunately for everybody concerned, the study through it usually ends here, need not and should not. The varieties mentioned do get publicity, as is but natural, for they are spectacular, but there are other sorts to be inspected for all that. In the American college today, be it said for the comfort of those who are alarmed over the future, there are hundreds and thousands of normal young men and women, without much money, actuated by a sincere desire to improve their minds, bodies and souls, and with a firm determination to amount to something worthwhile. These individuals wait on tables, fire furnaces, do tutoring, work in stores in the afternoons or at night deliver papers and labor in a thousand and one other jobs that help provide the necessary funds for an education. They are usually quiet enough to pass inspection anywhere, tho it must be said to their credit that the great majority of them are anything but down-hearted and hold up their heads with the best. They are interested in college life, take part in its activities as time and money allow and are worthy citizens of the college community generally. There are likewise present in all college communities a large number of boys and girls who study for all they are worth without the incentive that comes from the necessity for working their own way. They have a real interest in matters intellectual and love knowledge for its own sake. They are few enough, perhaps, but they are there for all that, and taken with the element that is working its own way, make up a class that functions with considerable ability and intelligence. The above statements are not to be construed as any effort to minimize the prevalence of frivolity and extravagance among students as they are, but with the desire of presenting another and equally truthful phase of the situation as it exists. The college problem is not a simple one and it needs the most earnest thought and efforts of those directly concerned with it and the hearty cooperation of parents and the public. The same thing may be said with equal accuracy of the high schools and primary schools. Changes and reforms that are salutary can be and will be made, but it is a serious error to be led to believe that there is no balm to all in the scholastic Gilead. --Nashville Banner. SOPHOMORE HIGH CLASS The Sophomore High Class are progressing nicely, with Mr. Land as sponsor. He has given many helpful suggestions which have aided in the class organization. The Class officers have been Willis Huddleston, President, for the first term, Haynie Beasley for the second term, and Shelah Officer for the present term. The class is planning on having an excellent baseball team this year. The team has organized by electing Holland Denny manager, and Lawrence Stamps captain. There are some of the Sophomore boys going out for the first team. Luther Puckett, Holland Denny, Clyde LaFever and Huston Wells are making good. The Sophomores are looking forward to winning the class championship this year. The Sophomore Class has made arrangements to take part in the class day program at Commencement, and are planning on giving an excellent program. Palladian Literary Society For the past several weeks much interest has been shown in the Society. It is being manifested in every program that the society presents. Each member is beginning to realize more and more that the life and the very existence of the society depends to a great extent on her attitude toward the Society. This interest and this spirit which finds us so closely in the Palladian Society is not that of individuality and self praise, but it is that of unity and the welfare of the Society which we keep in our hearts and which gives to each of us a common responsibility. The Society is showing some progress under the leadership of the President, Miss Verna Huddleston, and other efficient officers; who are doing all within their power to make the society better. They are giving to the society a foundation on which it can stand hence forward. The fidelity and loyalty of each member to the Society is clearly shown by the way she is performing her duty. Names is Names In the matter of names, Tech is blessed with numerous “handles” of significant meaning. For instance we have such craftsmen as four Coopers, two Millers, a Wheeler, a Baker, a Barber, a Cook, or two, a Draper, a Miner, a Taylor, a Dyer, and a Sadler. In addition we have such animals as a Fox, a Buck, two Robbins and a Bullock, with even the Gill of a fish head. Our geographical complex consists of two Hills, a Vallie, and a Lee with Fountains and Brooks flowing all around. We will not starve as long as we have with us a Berry, Rice and Wheat which is Alcorn. Barnes, Walls, Land, such flowers as Roses and Violets, fifteen cents (three Nichols) and even some stamps compose our quota of personal property. We have a King, and a few Officers, students who are Long, students who are Little, students who are Haile, Students who are Young, some who are White, some Brown and one who claims to be Smartt. Our Holidays are becoming fewer but we still have a Payne from being two Rash. Our luxuries consist of Two Carrs a Ford and a Maxwell. We might mention Moore but we see a Storm coming and this Story is Overall the allotted space. Tech Oracle For the first time in four years, Tech has a school journal. This is, we believe, an evidence of the growth of school spirit that actually finds some concrete way in which to express itself. For the remainder of this term little can be done except to put this paper on a sound foundation upon which, in the years to come, a towering skyscraper of spirit and development can be built and which will stand for and represent Tech only as a first class journal can do. We cannot nor could we expect to create within a month a paper with the literary style of a “Spectator” or the volume of a “Times” but we do expect to have a clean, wholesome paper, thoroughly in accord with those principles upon which our school is founded and in its columns we shall endeavor to have only those things which are of the highest value. We hope the subscribers will take this paper in the spirit that is it established, a nonpartisan paper except that is purely for Tennessee Tech, but without connection to society, class or any inside organization. So let us all, students of Tech, get behind this publication as we have gotten behind any other good movement in school and put it across with vim, making this in due time the highest class school publication in the state. Local Social Season Opens The local social season was opened Thursday evening with an informal dance given at Milfred by Whitney White. Hughes’ Joyland Six Orchestra furnished music for the occasion and throughout the evening Tutti Frutti frappe was served. Among those present were Miss Nan Holladay and Mr. Joe Copeland, Miss Harel Jenkins and Mr. Charles Cox, Miss Rozelle Pendergrass and Mr. David Terry, Miss Shelah Officer and Mr. Max Taylor, Miss Pauline Hudgens and Mr. Ernest Brooks, Miss Madeline Jackson and Mr. James Woodard, Miss Mary Frances McDearman and Mr. Harry Jenkins, Miss Mildred McDearman and Mr. John William Terry, Miss Myrtle Bullock and Mr. Benton Terry, Miss Verna Huddleston and Mr. Fred Terry, Miss Hallie Ray and Mr. Whitney White, Miss Elise Gregory and M. Lauren O’Dell, Mr. Robert Cornwell, Mr. Bancroft McDearman, Mr. John Alison and Mr. Raymond Hamilton. The Upper Cumberland Literary Society Since the loss of the debate the U.C.L.S. has turned it attention toward the forth coming contests. Declaimers are being tried out in Society meetings and the other contestants for medals are being spurred on to work. The programs of the Upper Cumberland Society given every Monday afternoon are showing marked imprivement In their preparation and show an increase in literary appreciation. Many good men have come into the Society this year and altho the loss of many valuable men through graduation this year is going to deprive the Society of its best leaders there is little doubt but that the Society has in its ranks enough men to keep the U.C.L.S. in the front. BELLES LETTRES LITERARY SOCIETY The Belles Lettres Literary Society met with the Sherwoods in a joint meeting April 7. The following interesting program was rendered. Invocation, Nellie Anderson. Opening Address. Donald Evans. Music, Merrelf Hughes. Reading, Flyde Jackson. Trombone Solo, Gilbert Hatfield. After the program the Sherwoods adjourned after which the Belles Lettres held their business meeting and passed that the President appoint a committee to select a gift for our debating team to show our appreciation of their hard work toward winning the Loving Cup. It was decided that a gold fountain pen and pencil should be presented to them on the night of the debate. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS The Junior High School Class is progressing nicely under the leadership of Lewis McDowell. We are looking forward with great pleasure to the Senior party which will be given by the Juniors Friday evening, April 25th. The Juniors have planned the following program to be given on class day during Commencement week. Class History, Thelma Rash. Song, Class. Prophecy, Clifford Massa.

Volume 002, Description 03 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper. Transcript:  THE TECH ORACLE TECH WINS FROM BETHEL AND HIWASSEE Bethel Beaten As Tech Plays Good Football Score 22-7. One Friday, Oct. 31, Tech played the strong Bethel College football aggregation on the local field. The game resulted in a 22-7 victory for the Tech gridders. Tech scored a touchdown in the first quarter receiving the ball in midfield. The locals drove it across the goal line on several thrilling plays, one a 30 yard run through the center of the line by Russell, the flashy Tech quarter. This run was followed by several shorter gains and Jobe finally carried the ball over. Blount added the extra point by a goal from placement. Tech scored again late in the second quarter. The strong Tech offense carried the ball to the visitor’s 20 yard line. Here the Bethel defense seemed to tighten, and on the fourth down Blount went back for a placement kick, which he executed with amazing accuracy. This was perhaps the first field goal that a Tech team has ever made. The third quarter was a defensive game, both teams punting frequently. Tech scored a ain early in the fourth quarter by a dazzling air attack. The score came by a pass from the 50 yard line, Blount to Puckett. Puckett received the ball on the 30 yard line and by eluding a number of opposing tackles, made a brilliant dash across the goal. A ain in the early part of the final quarter Blourt on a sweeping end run ran 35 yards, with the aid of a perfect interference. The last two tries for points were vain, one because of a plenalty to a Tech man. At this point Coach Overall threw his substitutes into the fray and a continuation of the air attack was attempted, but the ball had become wet and could not be thrown with any degree of accuracy. When the game was within one minute of a close, Sylar, the Bethel right half, intercepted a Tech pass and darted 70 yards to a touchdown. The extra point was added by placement and here the game ended with Tech leading 22 to 7. The Tech aggregation exhibited the strongest offense that the institution has ever amassed, regardless of the loss of Miller as a regular half back. The backfield showed a surprisingly strong attack. Especially pleasing was the passing system, with Blount heaving the ball and Hill, Puckett and Russell at the receiving end, the Tech boys completed eleven passes, while only five were incomplete. The entire Tech back field must be accredited with shining offensive play, and the same must be said of the line of the defense. Brilliant runs were made by Blount, Puckett and Russell, while hard tackling by LaFevre and his mates kept the opponent’s score down. MUSIC CLUB TO PRESENT “MISS CHERRY BLOSSOM” The music lovers of this community are assured of a real treat in Miss Cherry Blossom, a musical comedy which the Cookeville Music Club presents the latter part of this month. This is an exceptionally tuneful play from beginning to end, and is full of bright attractive music in solos, quartets and choruses. When this play was given in Nashville critics declared the music as good as any light opera of the entire season. Good music, however, is only one of the requirements of a musical comedy –and attractive setting and pretty girls are just an essential. The setting of Miss Cherry Blossom is a Japanese tea garden, which will be a veritable bower of flowers, while some distinctively new and beautiful stage effects will be used. As to the girls –two lovely choruses are presented besides the principals. These girls will delight the ear and the eye equally. The Japanese chorus of Geisha girls will wear oriental costumes, which give range for rich and varied color effects. In sharp contrast will be the chorus of American girls, who will wear the very latest and most fashionable models. Of the principal –one girl is a Japanese and one an American –to the same contrast will be observed throughout. The men principals also represent the two nationalities and oriental robes and tuxedos will vary the costuming. The Japanese costumes will come from New York. A chorus of American men will furnish some splendid quartets, and nothing is more generally pleasing than a good male quartet. But not content with all this, Mrs. J.H. Carlen president of Cookeville Music club determined that there must not be a dull moment during the entire performance, and to provide entertainment between acts, she secured, after many efforts, little Miss Mary Alice Farr, dancer. Miss Farr’s ability as a solo dancer is well known in Cookeville. She is a pupil of Mrs. Celia Grady Reddy, with whom she has studied several years. She has had many flattering offers from movies and vaudevilles, which have been refused on account of her extreme youth. She is much in demand in Nashville, where her appearance is always a signal for a large audience. Miss Farr is preparing several special dances for this occasion with suitable costumes for each dance. The music club feels that Mrs. Carlen performed quite a feat in securing such an attractive artist. Mrs. Carlen reports that Mrs. Farr says she is in heart sympathy with the work of the music club and is delighted for her daughter to assist them. The score for the entire performance will be played by Miss Tennie Alma Stanton, pianist, and Mrs. Wesley Flatt and Miss Elizabeth Ensor, violinists. These accomplished musicians will furnish a brilliant overture in addition to the accompaniments. The performance is under the capable direction of Mrs. J.H. Carlen who has given unsparingly of her and her voice to make this event memorable in musical circles. Mrs. Carlen is a musician of unerringly good taste and her direction is a guarantee of music of the best quality. Miss Jobe of the T.P.I. faculty, is director of the aesthetic dancing that the play requires and both new artistic effects in group dancing are assured. The cast in full is as follows: Miss Cherry Blossom, Miss Mary Rash. FEW PEOPLE MASTER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Close observation will convince anyone that the great majority of the people –the common people as we say, and that is one reason why they are common –have no mastered the English language; and that they use and speak a low form of it compared to its possibilities. A glimpse of everyday conversations and relations will at once reveal this fact. In the home possibly the lowest type of language is spoken. There are no restraints; here are no “strings” attached, so to speak; everyone is free and outspoken. On the streets slang and are heard in abundance. “Nothing else but,” and “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo,” hold full way. Not only at home and on the streets is “common” English outspoken but everywhere it rebounds –at work, at play; in school, out of school; in this thing or that. And your friends, your personal associates, are their conversations as intelligent and as forced as they might be? Are their letters clear and concise: their vocabularies varied? To ask the question is to answer it: on the whole they are not. Why do these conditions exist? Why do very few people attempt the mastery of the English language? Because the English language is the most difficult language to master that is known at the present time. After a knowledge of the pronunciation, and a few simple forms of conjugation and rules of syntax are acquired, together with the memorization of a book of idioms. Spanish and French or any of her foreign language, are easily mastered. But not so with the English language. The conjugations, inflections, declensions, colloquialism, idioms, and rules of syntax are almost numberless and difficult to acquire. It has been said that in preparing a college course in Spanish it is difficult to find enough good literature for a two-year course. But it is a well known fact that it takes years of hard study during grammar school, high school, and college to master the English language to any considerable degree and yet there still be to be learned about it. All men have a desire to be successful. A reasonable efficiency in the use of the mother tongue is indispensable in any business or profession. The lawyer, the politician, the preacher, the teacher, and the man of letter especially need to be masters in the English language if they would be successful. Most men belong to some club or civic organization or both: and if they are real, wide-awake members they are sure to be called upon to express their opinions on certain vital masters. If they have mastered the mother tongue they may easily carry their point. People are what they are taught; and most of them teach themselves by what they read –whatever it may be. Furthermore, it is said that there are too many books being published. If people have not mastered the English language, to a reasonable degree, it is certain that they cannot distinguish good literature from bad; real from unreal; wholesome from unwholesome. And thus, as a result of the fact that very few people have mastered the English language, we find that very few comparatively speaking, are really successful in business; tare leaders in civic organizations; or can appreciate literature so as to absorb what is good and reject what is bad. Team Continues Winning Streak and Wins From Hiwassee 26-0 The football team of Hiwassee College, Madisonville, Tenn., played the Tech team on the local field Friday, Nov. 7, and Tech again emerged victor by a margin of 26-0. Although neither team scored in the first half, the visitors were clearly outplayed in every phase of the game. Tech missed many chances to score in the first half. At the beginning of the game the visitors received and on the second play they stumbled on the 40 yard line. From here Tech carried the ball to the visitor’s 4 yard line, where they were held for downs. Again in the initial quarter Tech was held for downs when in striking distance of the goal. The second quarter was made a punting game, neither kicker getting a decided advantage, and neither team seriously threatened to score. Early in the third quarter Tech opened its offense. Blount sttod on the visitor’s 40 yard line and hurled a pass to Puckett on the 20 and line, from whence he raced to the 5 yard line. A line play failed but three successive passes were attempted, the third, Blount to Russell brought a touchdown. Blount added the extra point from placement Russell scored again in the third quarter by an end run, and Blount again kicked the goal. In the last quarter Watson made a mad dash through the center of the line for 20 yards and a touchdown. Blount failed to kick goal. When the game was nearing a close a pass Blount to Puckett took the ball to the visitor’s one yard line, and Russell carried it over on the third down. This ended the scoring, as Blount again missed goal. No individual star can be picked from the Tech team. The entire aggregation function as a well oiled machine. The runners received good interference and the interference received good running. The entire time also played great defensive football. The line did some fine tackling, while the backs broke up all but one of the attempted passes and tackled with deadly accuracy when the occasion demanded. The only player of note on the visiting team was Prince, a back of exceptional speed. He often tore thru the Tech line for nice gains, and accounted for every first down that the visitors registered. The lineup follows: Hiwassee Crockett R. End Hill (c) Clark R. Tackle Starnes Hutson R. Guard Jackson Cox Center Clark Warner L. Guard LaFevre () Frizzell L. Tackle Suggs Dickenson L. End Puckett Lewis (c) Quarter Russell Prince R. Half Blount Grubb L. Half Watson Reynolds Full Jobe Substitutions –Tech: Bynum for Suggs, Suggs for Clark, Davis for Jackson, Hughes for Watson, Watson for Hughes, Jackson for LaFevre, Hughes for Watson THE PALLADIAN LITERARY SOCIETY The Palladian Literary Society has now retained that wonderful spirit that always prevails among the members. This spirit has been manifested in various ways, namely, the regularity of attendance, the responses to programs, etc. Last Monday a very entertaining program was rendered which consisted of the following numbers: Society gossip Amy Shipley Reading Thelma McCormick Review of Recent Novel Audrey Hoffmeister Jokes Hazel Jenkins BELLES LETTRES LITERARY SOCIETY The Belles Lettres met in the auditorium Nov. 3 1924. A very interesting program was rendered: Reading Vallie Huddleston Piano Solo Georgia Whiteaker Today Talk Daisy Leonard Reading Alberta Cooper Reading Treva Cooper Popular Music Alberta Cassetty Miss Maurine Quarles was appointed chairman of the program committee. The intention of the committee is to have each member of the society on program before this quarter is over. THE SHERWOOD LITERARY SOCIETY The Sherwood Literary Society held a very interesting program in their regular meeting Monday afternoon, November 3. The president Mr. Gilbert Hatfield, not being present, Mr. Benton Cantreli occupied the chair as temporary chairman. The most interesting part of the program was a debate on the question “Has religion contributed more to humanity than science.” The affirmative was represented by Mr. C.W. Davis and Henry C. Jenkins, while the negative was upheld by Mr. Jack Morrison and Wendell Johnson. All the debaters delivered very creditable speeches and showed evidence of considerable preparation. The question is one of great depth and many interesting points were developed. The outcome was a victory for the affirmative. On account of the vice-president. Mr. Walter G. Birdwell, withdrawing from school, an election was held to fill the vacancy. Mr. Jack Morrison was elected to serve the remainder of the term. THE TECH ORACLE Official Publication of the Students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Printed by Herald Publishing Co. Entered at the Cookeville Post Office. Second class rate pending. STAFF Bryce D. Stone ’26 Editor-in-Chief Eleanor Haile ’27 Asst. Ed.-in-Chief Associate Editors Dewitt T. Puckett ’25 Wit and Humor Shel Officer ’29 Class Hallie Ray ’25 Faculty John J. Bell ’26 Exchange Hendon Johnston ’26 Athletic Thos. L. Passons English Alex Shipley Poet Business Department James D. Miller ’27 Business Manager Jack Morrison ’26 Assistant Subscription Rates $1.50 per year PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY STUDENT HONOR There are certain fundamental principles that are essential to human progress; certain habitual modes of action which determine our status in the social, moral, and educational phases of our existence. Without these qualities we cannot hope to develop that richness and fullness of life that is so much a part of the individual who possesses character and intellect. In the building of character there are no more important considerations that honesty and truthfulness. Honesty with yourself, your friends, your visitors, in fact, with all whom you may in any way become associated with. We may truthfully say that the greater part of the students at our colleges have only the highest ideals and standards of conduct, but occasionally we are brought face to face with the fact that there still exists in the minds of a small number of students, conceptions of honesty and truthfulness belittling the wandering tribes of central Africa, who still flounder in the barbaric stage of their development. When an individual so attunes his conscious that he can unthinkingly or maliciously appropriate to his own the property of his associates or when he can so far forget his training and self-respect that he cannot or will not discriminate between truth and untruth, then, according to our present moral standard it seems logical to assume that he should forfeit his right to the association of clean-minded people. It is fortunate, indeed, that the number of Ananiases and cleptomaniacs in our college is small, but college is hardly an appropriate place for a fellow with an overdeveloped “hoarding instinct” or a tongue that fits the word to any and all emergencies so these unfortunates should either be eliminated or be given such assistance as would enable them to overcome their obnoxious habits. Whether these faults be due to thoughtlessness, lack of training, or unfortunate environment, the results are the same, and every progressive student should resolve to keep his own standard of conduct high and join in the condemnation of this petty moral decadence with a steadfastness of purpose that would assure its destruction. A man is the part he plays among his fellows. He is not isolated; he cannot be. His life is made up of the relations he bears to others –is made or marred by those relations, guided by them, judged them, exressed in them. There is nothing else upon which he can spend his spirit –nothing else that we can see. It is by these he gets his spiritual growth; it is by these we see his character revealed, his purpose, and his gifts. Some play with a certain natural passion, an unstudied directness, without grace, without modulation, with no study of the masters or consciousness of the pervading spirit of the plot; others give all their thought to their costume and think only of the audience a few act as those who have mastered the secrets of a serious art, with deliberate subordination of themselves to the great end and motive of the play spending themselves like good servants, indulging no willfulness, obtruding no eccentricity, lending heart and tone and gesture to the perfect progress of the action. These have “found themselves,” and have all the ease of a perfect adjustment. --Woodrow Wilson. FACULTY NEWS Pres. Q.M. Smith spent two days in Nashville last week on business. Mr. Hatfield was called away last week on account of the death of one of his relatives. Miss Stanton, Miss Huffman and Mr. Henderson attended the teachers’ meeting at Knoxville last week. LUNCHEON FOR BANKERS The Bankers’ Association of Middle Tennessee met Tuesday and were entertained with a luncheon at T.P.I. A menu of five courses was served by the H.E. Class X. under the auspices of Miss Thelma Rose. A color scheme of orange and white was carried out and the tables had for their decoration pumpkin baskets filled with autumn leaves. Music was furnished by the T.P.O. orchestra. About seventy-five guests were present. MISS POINTER ENTERTAINS WITH DINNER Monday evening Miss Lilian Pointer entertained a few friends with a six o’clock dinner at the home of her parents in Algood. A four course menu was served and a color scheme of gold and white was carried out. Those present were: Misses Lilian Pointer, Effie Judd, Anna Alizabeth Bracey, Johnnie Bilbrey and Pearl Cornwell; Messrs. Clifford Massa, James Miller, Dutch Russell, Ed Hudgens and Eugene Collier. MISS SHANKS ENTERTAINS One of the most enjoyable social courtesies of the local social season was given on Saturday night when Miss Mary Ellen Shanks entertained with a dance at the home of her parents on Washington avenue in honor of Mr. Dutch Russell. Most of the younger social element of Cookeville was present, and dancing was enjoyed from 9 until 12 o’clock. Delicious refreshments consisting of hot chocolate, cheese and loveknots were served. BACKWARD PARTY The Epworth League of the M.E. church entertained Friday night with a backward party at the home of Walter Carlen on Broad street. This was a very original party and was much enjoyed by all. Delightful refreshments were served as the guests arrived, goodbyes were said, and respects paid the hostess. Clothes were worn backward and the old game of Virginia reel was played backward. Many new and unusual games were played. A backward spelling contest was held with Robley Jobe and Clifford Massa as captains. Mr. Jobe’s side won the prize. Fifty or sixty attended and all report an enjoyable time. HALLOWEEN WITCH PARTY On Friday, October 31, the Palladian and Upper Cumberland societies entertained the members of the faculty and student body with their regular Halloween social, which took on the guise of a witch party. A color scheme of yellow and black was successfully carried out in the hall and auditorium, showing the skill of the decoration committee. Rapid were the steps of those who went through the witches’ home where a peculiar rattling of chains and ghosts were among the spooky things to be seen and heard, as they went to the gym where odd and amusing games and contests were in progress. A box of candy was awarded to the best costumed couple. Miss Rose Dow and her escort, dresses as devils, were the winners. The gym was artistically decorated with pumpkins and corn stalks. Two Gypsy fortune tellers were persuaded to leave their tent to occupy a booth of pumpkins, cornstalks and crepe paper, and read the fate of all those who desired to know. Delicious refreshments of sandwiches, pickles and cookies were served and typical Halloween favors were received. From a steaming cauldron three witches were generous in giving to each one a cup of their witches’ brew. A large crowd attended and to add to the fun the Bethel football team of Russellville, Ky., were present. Everyone reports an enjoyable time and claim it to be a “peppy party,” due to the T.P.I. faculty and students in taking part in all games and contests. It was with regret when the lights were flashed that the many oddly costumed characters went for their coats to depart from Spookesville until the next annual jubilee. Ed: “Do you beliive in this talk of dance and grow thin?” Fred: “Sure; look at the soles of my shoes.” Music Department MUSICAL APPRECIATION The aim of the course in musical appreciation is, first, the study of music in its simplest form –the folk song. Gradually Miss Stanton hopes to develop a liking for and understanding of the more complicated forms. On Wednesday, October 29, the first number of the course was given when Miss Stanton played “Country Gardens,” by Percy Grainger. Mr. Grainger took an old Morris dance tune and from the Melody developed a very effective piano composition. This was followed the next Wednesday, November 5, by Edison selections giving further examples of the folk song. The records used were solos by Miss Anna Case and included “Old Folks at Home,” a representative American melody, and “Annie Laurie,” a typical Scottish song. In addition to these, two descriptive records, “In the Clock Store,” by Sodero’s Band, and “The Nightingale and Frog,” a duet using the piccolo and bassoon, the highest and lowest instruments of the orchestra, were played. “Let the humbling musician whose soul is in the work take heart, for ours is a glorious calling.” –Orth. “Music is the golden chain whose links bind all humanity together in a band of common feeling and fellowship. –Perry. THE TEAM PLAYS IN CHATTANOOGA FRIDAY The team will leave Wednesday noon for Chattanooga, where they will battle the Freshmen from the University of Chattanooga. A hard game is expected, but if our team is in the form of the last two weeks they should easily win. The Preps go to Rockwood Saturday to play the Rockwood High School. Little is known of the strength of our opponents, but our boys are certain to be eager for revenge from their defeat of last year. JOKES Lady (in Pullman office): “Can you give me the berth rate for Kansas City?” Green Clerk (disdainfully): “Lady, this is a ticket office.” “I guess I know my stuff,” said the learned professor as he took his coat and hat from the hook in the cloak room. –Orange Owl Dean Smith (lecturing: “I do not mind if a student looks at his watch occasionally, but what gets me is to see someone take out his watch, shake it a few times, and then put it up to his ear.” Puckett: Ah, what’s the matter with you? Bell: Nothing’s the matter with me, you bloomin’ idiot. Puckett: You gave me a nasty look. Bell: You certainly have a nasty look, but I didn’t give it to you. Alex Shipley: “Do you think we are descended rom monkeys?” Mr. Smith: “Sometimes –when I look around the class.” Mildred: “Has Alex proposed to you yet?” Mary Frances: “No, but he has an engagement ring in his voice.” Miss Jarmon: “Franklin, didn’t I tell you not to bring that chewing gum in here again?” Franklin Dyer: “Miss Jarmon, this ain’t the same gum.” Some Horse Mr. Johnson has a predilection for talking in his sleep. Several times recently he mentioned the name “Irene.” And his wifw questioned him about it. “Oh, that,” said he, thinking fast, “is the name of a horse.” Several days later when he came home he asked his wife the news of the day. “Nothing exciting happened,” she said, “except that your horse called up twice.” Franklin: “How come you never see any woman scarecrows?” Mr. Smith: “I reckon it’s because you couldn’t get ‘em to wear clothes enough to fool a crow.” Perpetual motion –well, Yes, it’s come! Just watch John Bell Wigwag his tongue. Mildred: “Say, how do you like Bobby Burns?” Snooks: “Like him? Why I don’t even know him. When did he come?”

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Volume 003, Description 02 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper. Transcript:  What Are YOU Doing for Tech? THE TECH ORACLE TECH DEFEATS CARDINALS 12-6 Ogden Game Played in the Mud At last the age old maxim that like breeds like has run true to form in Tech football history. Vanderbilt football teams are known the South over for their brainy playing for their smartness and alertness. Tech’s coaches are Vanderbilt products and have been doing their utmost to install that same spirit of alertness –of always following the ball—into Tech football teams. Friday, October 16th saw their efforts materialize when the Tech “Golden Eagle” journeyed over to Bowling Green, Ky., pounced upon the Ogden Cardinals when he was seemingly asleep and came home the victory 12 to 6. The game was played on a field ankle-deep in mud played on a field ankle-deep in mud and made anything but straight football out of the question. Determined to win and realizing that the team who cashed in on the breaks of the game would emerge the victor, Tech was not only waiting, watchful for anything that came her way, but by constant rushing of the punter, made a break, seized it, ran away with a touchdown and eventually the game. Tech kicked off to Ogden who was downed on their 25 yard line. On the very first play Ogden attempted to kick but the punt was blocked by Moss and Jobe grabbed the ball and was off for the first touchdown. Again Ogden received, and again were downed on their 25 yard line. Again they attempted to kick, but the kicker being greatly rushed and exceedingly nervous dropped the ball, whereupon, dapper Mr. Wilson pounced upon it as an eagle should and was away for touchdown number two and the last, but quite enough to come home the victor, for Ogden earned nothing () the remainder of the game. However, due to a slight misunderstanding as to when the game should end, after the last minute of play in the first quarter, Ogden bucked one over from Tech’s 3 yard line and therefore the Ogden six points. But if the old maxim that like produces like runs true to form another one known as old man. “Dope” received a rather rude jolt. In their first game of the season Ogden defeated Cumberland University 6 to 30, the next week G.P.I. defeated Tech 14 to 0; the next week Cumberland defeated G.P.I. defeated Tech 14 to 0; the next week Cumberland defeated G.P.I. 14 to 0; and the next week Tech defeated Ogden 12 to 6, all of which leads us to believe that on a dry field Tech would have beaten G.P.I. and thus removed what promises to be the only blemish on an other wise clean schedule. In the line Moss and Wilson were the outstanding stars, while Jobe played his usual great game in the backfield. The punting of Hughes was good enough to keep Ogden outside of scoring territory except in the last moments of the first quarter, when they advanced to our three yard line. The Tech line-up: Watson, L.E.; Brown, L.T.; Moss L. G.; Suggs, C.; Miller, R.G.; Wilson, R.T.; Cooper, R.E.; Hughes, Q.B.; Lewis, L.H.; Starnes, R.H.; Jobe, F.B. Ogden not available. SOME FACTS ABOUT MEMBERS OF ALUMNI ASSN. Total number of graduates from both Institute and High School, beginning with the first class of 1928, 313. Number of Institute graduates, 71 or 23%. Number of boys, 133 or 42%. Number of girls, 180 or 58%. (The following figures are only approximately since the address and occupation of all graduates are not available.) Number in school at present, 60 or 19%. Number teaching, 125 or 40%. Number married, 80 or 25%. Number dead, 4 or 1%. Number whose address in the same as when they graduated, 125 or 40%. COLLEGE STUDENTS FORM ORGANIZATION At noon Monday, October 19th, the students of the three College Classes met in the main auditorium and organized as a unit, electing officers for the college student body as follows: President Bryce D. Stone 1st V.-Pres. Hazel Wall 2nd V.-Pres. Harry Draper Sec’y.-Treas. Fred Terry This is a continuation of the organization which proved so effective last year in successfully executing a great many worthwhile movements for the betterment of Tech. prominent among the organization’s past accomplishments is the presentation of a Shakespearean Drama which was given as a part of the 1925 Commencement program. Plans are now being made to present another of Shakespeare’s plays, and every effort will be put forth to make it an even greater success than our previous performance. College spirit is emphasized and encouraged by the organization. We have the “pep,” a splendid staff of officers and plenty of room to work for we are starting just one to work for we are starting just one notch from the bottom, so lets cooperate in the efforts for improvement. Let every college student aim to do something beneficial for Tennessee Tech during the coming year. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Oct. 23 –M.T.T.C. Here Oct. 30—Bethel Russellville. Nov. 6—Hiwassee Madisonville Nov. 13—Sewanee Freshmen Here Nov. 20—Cumberland Lebanon IMPROVEMENTS FOR OUR LIBRARY Old students and alumni who visit T.P.I. always express themselves as being highly pleased with the growth or the library. The library has been enlarged year by year until now it is a library of which any institution might well be proud. We now have a much larger reading room, more tables, a more convenient track with binders for periodicals, and a larger stacks room well filled with volumes that bear directly upon the courses offered at T.P.I. The president and the faculty are succeeding in their efforts to extend the library still further. Miss Ray, who last year was student librarian ahs been made regular librarian and is now in full charge of her department, Miss Ray is still doing the splendid work this year that she did last, and we are fortunate indeed to have her. Four hundred new books will be added to the three thousand that are already in the library. These books will deal chiefly with subjects related to English, Education, and English and American History. Next month one hundred regular library chairs will be placed in the reading room. With its many improvements, including the new card system which has been installed, our library is quite modern, and when the new library tables come next year it will compare favorably with the libraries of the largest institutions in the south. Every Tech student who has not already done so, should subscribe for The Oracle at once, and urge others to do so. It is your newspaper. TEACHERS ARE COMING FRIDAY A Good Game Expected. Tech Ready. On the afternoon of Friday, October 23rd, the Tech “Golden Eagles” will have as their opponents on the gridiron, the team from Middle Tennessee Teachers College (former M.T.N.) at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The “Teachers” come in quest of revenge for a 6-0 defeated which was handed them last year when Tech’s warriors journeyed down to Murfreesboro. The Murfreesboro team is rated as stronger than that of last year and has been playing good football all season. A real struggle may be expected when the teams take the field next Friday. “EAGLES” EVEN OLD SCORE Beat “Heights” 54-0 Smarting under the defeat at the hands of Gallatin Private Institute a week before, the Tech “Golden Eagle,” on Friday October 9th, sunk his claws deep into the very marrow of the Castle Heights football team and tore it all to shreads. And thus was last year’s 20 to 0 defeat of Tech by Heights avenged and well done at that. The final count was 54 to 0 and would have been twice as much had the varsity team been used the entire game. The game had hardly started, however and Tech had scored her first touchdown when the reserves were sent in to show their ability. Only straight football was attempted, and that quite effectively. Runs by Jobe anywhere from fifteen to thirty yards were quite a common thing, and Dowell, Hughes, and Lewis likewise received their share. The game was such a runaway that instead of comparing the merits of the two teams we are compelled to substitute a comparison of our own squad. For the varsity, Jobe and Wilson had a slight edge over the others in individual playing, while the work of Dowell and Carr of the reserves looks very promising indeed. But after all has been said and done, the victory was an empty one at that, for Heights was only a shadow of her former self, and is () really not in Tech’s class. Her victory at Tech’s expense last year was mainly due to better physical condition and not to a better quality of playing material. For Heights, Captain Rochelle was all of the team, but as it takes eleven like him to make an efficient, smooth-running team, his efforts were useless. The line-up and summary: Tech Heights Watson L.E. Rice Brown L.T. Fletcher Moss L.G. Rochelle Clark C. Doval Miller R.G. Love Wilson R.T. Waldrum Cooper R.E. Rutledge Hughes Q.B. Sewall Starnes L.H. Barnette Lewis R.H. Morton Jobe F.B. Martin Score by quarters: 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Final Tech 13 6 14 21 54 Heights 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring touchdowns: hughes, Jobe 3, Carr, Cooper, Starnes. Points after Touchdowns: Wilson 4, Hughes 2. Substitutions: For Tech; most of the reserves; for Heights: McGregor for Rice, Sewall for Powell. Official: Referee Hughes (Nashville); Umpire, Carlen; Head Linesman, Bryant. THE RESERVES DEFEAT CLAY COUNTY HIGH It has been said, somewhere, that when hard luck comes it comes all at once, and the opposite should also be true –at least it was for Tech the week-end of October 10. After helping the varsity lick. Castle Heights 54 to 0 on Friday, October 9th, the resevres went over to Celina the next day and proceeded to give the Clay County High School a good drubbing to the tune of 21 of 0. The reserve team, during the afternoon frolic, completed three passes for a distance of 100 yards, two of them resulting in touchdowns. Matheny scored two touchdowns and Minor one. On the defense Bassett and Keene were exceptionally strong, but it was the good work of the whole team which made possible the well-deserved victory. PICTURE SHOW On Saturday evening, October 17, the Y.M.C.A. presented the picture “Top of the World” in the auditorium of the main building. The picture was splendid and was attended by quite a few of the students and faculty. All who like movies should attend these shows, for the pictures shown are first class in every particular, the proceeded go to the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. which organizations purchased the screen upon which the pictures are shown, and the price of admission is small, being 10 cents each for students. Don’t miss the next picture. SOPHOMORE PEP The meetings of the Sophomore College Class are very enthusiastic and full of pep. Each member seems willing to do their part in making their class the best in school. Mr. Darwin has withdrawn from the office of secretary and Miss Bracey has been elected in his place. Plans have been made for some kind of class entertainment, to be decided on later, and the president. Mr. Miller, urged that every member be present and make it a full-fledged Class affair that will be enjoyed by all. TECH GIRL’S SOCIETIES HAVE JOINT PROGRAM The P.L.S. and B.L.S. started something new when both Societies voted one hundred per cent for a joint program. Almost every member of both Societies were present Monday afternoon, October 19th, in the auditorium. The following interesting program was given, by talent from both Societies; Devotional Beulah Clark (B.L.S.) Vocal Solo Emily Stanton (P.L.S.) Reading Edith Gentry (B.L.S.) Vocal Solo Mary E. Rash (P.L.S.) Piano Solo Mary B. Davis (P.L.S.) Jokes Lucille Lee (B.L.S.) President McKeel of the Palladian Society and President Quarles of the Belle Lettres Society, each made an interesting address. A large number of visitors were present. The sentiments of several Society members were given and it is believed that a practice has been started which will prove beneficial, as well as distribute a feeling of good spirit and fellow among the student and Society members, heretofore unknown. THE ENROLLMENT Tech now has an enrollment of 207 students. Of these 111 are high school students, and 96, or 47%, are students of College grade. While the total enrollment is less than that of last year, this is not especially discouraging since Tech trains most of the teachers for the grammar and high schools in this section of Tennessee. We anticipate the return of many of these teachers for the winter and spring terms at Tech. The percentage of college students is increasingly annually. Watch us grow into a four-year College. ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY TO BE GIVEN On the evening of October 31st, the P.L.S. and U.C.L.S. will entertain the entire student body and faculty members with their annual Halloween party. Committees have been appointed including Invitations, Decorations, Entertainment and Refreshments, and elaborate plans are being made. Owing to past records of Tech Halloween parties, a large crowd will be in attendance and the social is sure to be a success. THE TECH ORACLE Official Publication of the Students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Printed by The Herald Publishing Co. Entered as Second Class matter at the Cookeville Postoffice, Cookeville, Tenn. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Bryce D. Stone ‘26 Assistant Editor Edward McKay ‘27 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Athletics M. Douglas Robbins ‘27 Wit and Humor David Dow ‘29 Exchange Elizabeth Ensor ‘28 Classes Martha Sedivak ‘27 Society Shelia Officer ‘29 Alumni Hazel Wall ‘27 Faculty Advisor Thos. L. Passon BUSINESS Business Manager Lee S. Darwin ‘27 Assistant Bus. Mgr. J. Fred Terry ‘27 CIRCULATION Circulation Manager Otto Masters ‘28 Asst. Circ. Manager Nola Quarles ‘27 Subscription Rates $1.50 per year PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY NEW ATHLETIC FIELD Our new Athletic Field is daily becoming more a reality and less a cherished dream. It is an addition to our school plant and will fulfil a long felt need. For several years we have been losing money at baseball and football games because we have had no adequate playing field. We may now expect our Athletic Association to be more prosperous in the future. The field will be ready for use during the next baseball season. TO WHOM PRAISE IS DUE To girls of the Y.W.C.A. are proving themselves about the peppiest crowd on the campus this year. They are holding regular services every morning, have taken two hikes into the country and are planning others, and are selling sandwiches and confections on the campus and at ball games. It takes real pluck for girls to brave wintry weather, such as we have had at ball games this year, in an attempt to better an organization. Let’s patronize them, fellows –they deserve it. THE NEWS REEL We appreciate the courtesy of the Strand Theatre management which permits us to enjoy the regular Pathe News Reel occasionally at Chapel hour. This picturization of the world’s current events is a worthwhile innovation to our daily routine and is enjoyed by all. “Why do they call the dental office a parlor?” “That’s just another name for drawing room.” “KEEPING FIT” By Ruth Van Hooser What is health? Health is that quality of life that renders the individual fit to “love most and serve best.” Health results from living in the proper way. It flows from life as a by-product of actions, responses or conditions that are wholesome. But in order for you to secure and maintain health you must know more than the mere meaning of the word. You must know the laws governing and the conditions influencing good health. Now, these leading conditions essential to health may be thus enumerated, discussing each in turn. 1st. A constant supply of pure air. Everyone knows that we must constantly be supplied with air –pure air, for if it be loaded with mixtures or it’s proportions deranged it cannot be breathed without producing injurious results. Various conditions such as improper temperature, improper humidity and lack of air movement tends to surround us with contaminated air must accordingly be guarded against. It is probably in bedrooms, theatres, churches, and schools that the most harm is done. 2nd. A sufficiency of nourishing food rightly taken. You should become acquainted with the process of nutrition in order to understand how to eat, what to eat, when to eat, and how to conduct yourself after eating. Mastication of food is thoroughly inductive to health, while fast eating is injurious and even dangerous. Farinaceous foods of all kinds are highly suitable to the human constitution, while beverages increase the wasting of the natural strength and their use is unwise. Water has a very important place in the diet, the individual requiring six to eight glasses per day. A variation in food is both useful and important. With regard to the number and time of meals nothing can be said with authority, but breakfast, dinner, and tea as a light meal may be considered as a safe if not very accurate prescription for the daily food of a health person. A short period of repose should be allowed before and after each meal and no exercise, either mental or bodily, should be taken directly after eating. 3rd. Cleanliness To keep the body in a cleanly condition is important, and the bath is the most important of all things as an aid to securing both cleanliness and beauty. The mind should likewise be kept clean, for an unclean mind retards growth in that id does not function as it should and lowers the vitality of the individual. The preservation of the teeth is also an important factor. 4th. A sufficiency of exercise to the various organs. The amount of bodily exercise taken should be adapted to age, sex, occupation, climate and the individual himself. The body must be in a state of sufficient health to endure the exertion, and the exercise must never be carried beyond what the parts are capable of bearing with ease. In activity there is an increase in the force and rate of the heart, the respirations are increased in depth and frequency, perspiration becomes more and more marked and more waste is eliminated. The brain should also be exercised for by disuse it will fall out of it’s proper state and create misery to its possessor, however, by over exertion the functions of the brain are liable to be deranged and destroyed without a due share of exercise to the whole of the mental faculties, there can be no soundness in any. 5th. A right body temperature. Theat degree of heat which the body finds agreeable when in a state of inactivity is sixty degrees Fahrenheit, and this temperature should never vary; and it cannot without producing injury. Proper clothing should be worn at all times and that worn in proportion to the temperature of the climate and the season of the year. Wet clothing should never be applied to any part of the body as it tends to reduce the temperature. At all periods of life it is desirable to avoid exposure to low temperatures. 6th. A sufficiency of cheerful and innocent enjoyment and exemption from harassing cares, for –“All work and no play will make you a dull person.” Now summing up we have— 1st a constant supply of pure air. 2nd a sufficiency of nourishing food rightly taken. 3rd cleanliness. 4th a sufficiency of exercise rightly taken. 5th a right body temperature. 6th a sufficiency of cheerful and innocent enjoyment and exemption from harassing cares. You abide by these suggestions follow these instructions and maintain your health. Keep fit. Y.W.C.A. NOTES This year the Y.W.C.A. is a live, enthusiastic organization inspired by the many splendid new ideas gained at the Blue Ridge Conference last summer. The leaders are conducting the work in such a way as to make the strongest appeal possible to the vital interest of the members. A new conception of the meaning of the Y.W. organizations is being have been suspended by “discussion groups,” which gives an opportunity for intimate, comradely discussion of vital problems. FUN Wilson –Go to town Jimmie and get me an Arrow collar. Miller –How narrow? “Merrill,” said Dannie Wright, “will you love me when I grow old and ugly?” “Dearest,” he replied, “you may grow old, but you will never grow uglier.” “She was a fine girl, B.C.” “B.C.?” “Yes, Before College.” Mr. McClannahan –Stop arguing. You are as bad as the man who argued all day as to whether his grandfather was 97 or 98 when he died. Fred Terry –How old was he? Frosh –Ever home sick? Soph –Yes, that’s why I left. “Waiter,” said Winningham, “have you any shelled corn?” Waiter (Surprised) –“Yessir.” Winningham –“Well take this egg out and feed it.” R.E. Smith –The bath over at our hall hasn’t been working for a month. Moss –When did you find out? R.E.S. –This morning. She is only a farmer’s daughter, but she sure does know her oats. Elsie –What is your idea of a smart girl? L. Puckett –One that can make her complexion taste as good as it looks. Dean Smith –A burglar broke into my house last night. Mr. Kittrell –What did he get? D.S. –Practice! He –You look like Helen Brown. She –Thank you! I even look worse in white. Wilson –Boys, I just heard from my girl. Brown –Where’s she cooking now? Denny –What are you going to give your girl for Christmas? Luke – Nothing. Denny –Engagement broke? Luke –No—I am. “Ditty” Bruce –Are you the man who cut my hair last? Barber –No, I’ve only been here a year. McKay –What shall it profit a man that he earn ten bucks and yet lose his own soul? Jobe –Ten bucks. Frank Small (With changing voice) –(Fine) Let me in (Course) Let me in. Elise –Come in both of you. Amy S. –Oh, Aubrey, I’m so glad you’ve come back. I heard some silly man had toppled over the cliffs –and I was afraid it might be you! My bonnie was fond of jazz dancing had a partner –weight five hundred three. The floor was too slick and too slippery— O bring back my bonnie to me! JUST IMAGINE Brownie without a chew of “Star Navy.” James Miller with hair all wavy. Nola Quarles being a “gink.” Jellie Watson without a “kink.” Jack Morrison with a date. Mr. Passons being late. The Dean without “Teaberry.” A “special” not addressed to Fred Terry, The East Hall without a Wa-o-w! Robley Jobe not having a “row.” Mr. Barnes with a smile. Simon Suggs walking a mile. C.W. Davis teaching aesthetic dancing. Louise Woods without incessant prancing. Jesse Clarke in a “mad fury.” Lee Darwin in abject penury. Merrill without Danny Wright, Elizabeth Hargis doing something right. CUPID’S VICTIMS In the wake of an epidemic of marriage “it is” which struck Cookeville during the past summer, the ranks of the Tech “hobnobbing” society are sadly depleted. Many of the old familiar “pairs” recently trod the road to the domicile of the Justice of the Peace, via the County Clerk’s office, incidentally exploding the theory that the college “flame” of romance does not last. Four of the five couples, who are now so blissfully wedded, who are now so blissfully wedded, did their Romeo and Juliet-“ing” while in school at Tech. the victims of Cupid’s darts are: Ruby Barksdale and Hunter Hill, Lola Massa and Emmett Smartt, Wilsie McGee and James Bockman, Pearl Sadler and Lewis Loftis, Delia Gentry and Odessa Johnson. Adieu, enchanted ones. You have crossed the bar into those ethereal realms where each shall hold the key to his own and another’s happiness. We, who are left behind, salute thee, and solemnly resolve to cause Dean Smith to do Nick Carter’s daily dozen at least once each day and to require his strict attention to his duties as a sleuth, at the same time upholding our historic traditions as hobnobber of the first order. WHAT THE FRESHMAN ENGLISH CLASS IS DOING The members of the Freshman English class have been providing quite a bit of entertainment as well as improving their oratorical powers. The class is studying the foundations of speech-making. This course embodies a great deal of practical experience, since each student delivers two speeches before the class. The art of speech making is something that is sadly lacking to the average individual. The first year English course is doing much toward remedying these defects. While the freshies may not become as silvery tongued as Demosthenes, they are at least learning to express their thoughts and ideas better. The student body has had the treat of hearing some of the freshmen deliver their speeches. Four of the best orators were selected by the class and their speeches formed a very interesting part of the Chapel program. Those speaking were: Ruth Van Hooser—“How to Keep Fit.” Leslie Myers—“The important of Good Roads to the Farmer.” Amy Shipley –”Planning, Meals for Economy and Nutrition.” Charles Davis –“Effective Ways of Advertising a Certain Class of Good.” We are printing Miss Van Hooser’s speech in this Description of the Oracle.

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Volume 003, Description 05 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper. Transcript:  THE TECH ORACLE TECH STUDETNS FAVOR WORLD COURT Vote Taken Friday at Chapel Assembly The Tech student body voted on the World Court question at the regular Chapel assembly on Friday, December 4. About 65 per cent of the students voted on the question 92 per cent of those voting favored United States participation in the Court, while 8 per cent were opposed. Through the student Christian Associations the results of this voting will be forwarded to The New Student where the returns from colleges all over the nation will be tabulated. This consensus of student opinion will be laid before congress when it begins a discussion of the World Court, on December 17th. “TWELFTH NIGHT” As is announced elsewhere in this paper, the college department has chosen “Twelfth Night” for the annual presentation of Shakespearean drama. While the play will hardly be given before commencement, elaborate plans are already under way for the event. As an inducement to attendance from the surrounding towns, those coming from each town will be assigned a section of seats in the auditorium, especially decorated for their delegation. To all communities represented by ten or more people, a prize will be given and a special award will be made to the largest delegation. The above is but a small part of the plan which is to make of “Twelfth Night” the most phenomenal success of anything ever attempted by Tech students. Characters for the play are being selected now and real work will begin after the holidays are over. Messrs. McClanahan and Passons will direct the play. (A column in each succeeding Description of the Oracle will contain information relating to “Twelfth Night.” Read it. –Editor.) GLEE CLUBSIN CONCERT There are three Glee Clubs at T.P.I. this year –A girls’ Glee Club, a boys’ Glee Club, and a mixed chorus –all are working regularly each week. Girls’ Glee Club The Girls Glee Club started early with a good membership and has been doing good work. Those belongings to this club are: Mary Ellen Rash, jessie Barnes, Amy Shipley, Elsie Young, Beulah Clark, Muriel Gibson, Elise Gregory, Mary Ellen Shanks, Virginia Wilcox, Louise Wood, Emily Stanton, Agnes Greenwood, Thelma McCormick, Elizabeth Hargis, Lucille Cameron. Boys’ Glee Club The Boys’ Glee Club was organized later in the term. Some good voices are beginning to show up as the work progresses. This club boasts two members of the faculty, Mr. Hilliard and Mr. McClanahan. Mr. McClanahan, who has had a great deal of experience with glee from Calhoun: Davis, a guard from Shop Springs High. The others trying out are the two Stringfield brothers, and R. Robbins, guards; and Johnson, Snyder, M.L. () club is assisting Miss Stanton I the direction of the work. The following are members: Luther Puckett, Gradys Winningham, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. McClanahan, George Lewis, Otto Masters, Ray Baker, Thurston Tipps, Alvin Jackson, Armon Clark, Eugen Wood. Mixed Chorus The mixed chorus was formed by combining the Boys’ and Girls’ Glee Clubs. This organization will do some concert work during the year. Their first appearance will be at the City School auditorium Dec. 11. On a program under the auspices of the Cookeville Music Club. The Girls’ Glee Club will also appear on this program. Orchestra The School Orchestra will take on different timbre this year. There are stringed instruments to take the place of the wind instruments that we had last year. We lost several of our members of last year to other institutions but the new members are working hard to make this year’s orchestra the best one T.P.I. has ever had. The Personnel is as follows: Violins –Mr. Hillard, Kathleen Gibson, Agnes Greenwood, Mary Ellen Shanks. Guitar –Beulah Clark. Mandolin –Fred Tardy. Trumpet –Clem Allen Womack. Drums –Albert Brogden. Piano and Director –Miss Stanton. COLLEGE DEPARTMENT At a recent meeting of the United College Classes the following business was transacted. Mr. Davis Chairman of the committee for the selection of the Shakespearean play reported that the committee had decided upon “Twelfth Night.” This play is to be presented some time during the spring term by the College Department. It was suggested by Mr. Darwin that the balance of the money realizes on last year’s play be used for the floral tribute sent by the T-Club at the death of our schoolmate, Louis B. Lefevre. All the members were urged to be getting up enthusiasm for an Annual this year. We are attending a real school, let’s have all that goes with it. BASKETBAL SQUAD BEGINS PRACTICE Coaches Report Splendid Material for Team On Monday, Nov. 30th, varsity basketball practice was begun in earnest and about twenty men have been responding to the call each day since. Five letter men on last year’s team are here working out daily –Jobe, Watson, Poteet, Winningham and Carr –and Alcorn, a very efficient guard also of last year’s team, will arrive in a few weeks. The worth of these men are well known to Tech followers. Jobe, at center, was the equal of any man who opposed him in jumping. He can also play any position with as equal ease. Watson is a good shot. Poteet is a very fast forward and good at close shots. Winningham last year alternated at guard and center. He is capable of playing any position with equal ability. He is a good floor-working, fairly good at distance, and excellent on close-ups. Carr was a substitute on last year’s squad, but is showing up better this year and promises to give somebody a hard fight for a regular position. Cooper, captain of the team of 1923-24, and one of the best guards ever seen on the local court, is out and certain of a varsity berth. Moss, tall center on last year’s U.T. Freshmen team, promises to make one of the best centers Tech ever had. Outside of these two, who stand out above the lot, there are among the newcomers, Little speed, guard from Livingston academy.: Lewis, a fast but light forward, and Whittaker, forward. () from Calhound; Davis, a guard from Shop Springs High. The others trying out are the two Stringfield brothers and R. Robins. Guards: and Johnson, Snyder, M.L. Robbins and Burrows, forwards. Only eight games on the schedule have been definitely settled, but more are being arranged. Among the teams to be played this season are Cumberland, Bethel, Ogden, Carson-Newman, King College, East Tennessee Teacher’s College, Milligan, Cincinnati Surety Co., Bowling Green Business University, Western Kentucky Normally, and Middle Tennessee Teachers College. The complete schedule will be given in the next Description of the Oracle. CO-ED BASKETBALL For over a month the co-ed basketball squad of about thirty players have been going thru preliminary practice. The squad has now been cut to thirteen, the number that will be carried all seaso and is comprised of the following girls: Misses Shipley, Cassety, Annie Pearl Whitson, and Van Hooser, forwards. Of these girls, Miss Shipley, Cassety, Annie Pearl Whitson, and Van Hooser, forwards. Of these girls, Miss Shipley is the only one who has seen extensive service and is one of the best in the state. The guards are Misses Lucile Moore, McKrel, Cornwell, and Peters. Miss Moore and Miss McKeel received letters last year and are experienced players—Miss Moore being exceptionally good and Miss McKeel not far behind. The centers are Misses Lucy Whitson, Barnes, Starnes and Marguerite Moore Miss Whitson is by far the best of the lot and with good training should make one of the best in the state. The Co-ed schedule is also indefinite, but plans are being made for six games away and five at home. Among the teams to be played are Carson-Newman, E.T.T.C. Maryville. M.T.T.C., Cumberland Peabody and possibly Alabama Normal, where Miss Jobe is now coaching. PROFESSOR PEPP On Thursday evening, Dec. 17th, the much heralded visit of Professor Pepp to Cookeville will become a reality. Professor Pepp will appear at the city aschool auditorium of the above named date, in the person of one, J. Leslie Myers, who will be acocompanied by fifteen other enthusiastic Sherwoods and Belles Lettres, including in the cast. The nervous hysteria of Professor Pepp, the ludicrous absurdities of the Butterfly Buttonbuster, and the clownish antics of Sim Batty (C.W. Davis), the town constable show the prevailing mood of the play which is full of fun from beginning to end. Time—Three days in September. Place—A small College town. Time of Performance—Two Hours and Twenty minutes Admission—Adults 35c children 25c Doors Open—7 o’clock Play Begins—8 o’clock SOMETHING DIFFERENT Tech students seldom become bored with Chapel exercises. Fortunately this year we have been pleasantly entertained at Chapel by moving pictures, music, speeches, and interpretations of dances. It remained to Miss McClanahan’s physical education department to give us the most spicely different program of the season. On Nov. 26, at chapel a number of graceful and beautifully attired young damsels held intense attention of the student body for twenty whole minutes. We watched with great interest the almost forgotten dances so popular with other generations. The first dancer was that of the Irish Wash Woman, a hilariously funny dance involving a comical harmony of movements and a dizzy series of gyrations and oscillations. The three dances that follows were Skater’s Shattiche, Old Rustic, and the Sailor’s Hornpipe. These dances were much enjoyed, and the () student body called repeatedly for encores. Miss McClanahan and the girls who participated in the dances are to be congratulated upon the excellence of the program. The physical education classes can always be depended upon to give a different and amusing program. We are looking forward to being entertained by them at others times. NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES At Antioch College, the results of a study of the effects of smoking upon scholarship has been announced. The conclusions drawn were that, while there are no permanent effects of smoking upon blood pressure, lung capacity, or pulse rate, a definite relationship exists between smoking and low scholarship. Among the men students 31.8 per cent of non-smokers fail to maintain required grades, while 62.3 per cent of heavy smokers similarly fail. Inhalers fail most often. Of the 23 men dismissed from Antioch last year for scholarship, 20 were smokers. The working student does not always sacrifice his scholarship, as might be supposed. Forty-four percent of the honor students graduating from the undergraduate schools of Yale University, last June were students working their way through college. What is to be done with the $2,500 bequest of Emily J. Bryant, recently turned down by the Trustees of Vassar College? The money was to have been used as a scholarship find for students who played cards. It was declined on the ground that Vassar, an educational institution, cannot accept gifts placing restrictions upon the students’ personal or social behavior. Last year a student curricular committee at Hood College, Mary () land surveyed the college education system. Last May the committee submitted a report to the faculty, recommending a plan of class cuts for students with B grades or over. After a week of undergraduate discussion Yale College voted overwhelmingly for abolishing the compulsory feature of chapel. Two days of balloting resulted in a vote of 1681 for 241 against. By a 3 to 1 majority the faculty also expressed their disapproval of the institution. Students of Rutgers College, New Jersey, have voted to abolish the Honor System. Failure of the plan throughout most of its five years of existence is given as reason for the action. Enterprising radio fans at Harvard College, Pa., are planning an international intercollegiate chess match with the University of Argentine. Last year a match was arranged with Oxford University but was called off when nearly half completed by the British Government, because the University radio men’s license permitted the transmitting of experimental work only. At Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Malcolm Stevenson, managing editor of The Tripod, student publication, rebelled –and was suspended from college for a month. His Offense: editorial criticism of a statement by Dean Edward Troxell in a chapel speech. Dean Troxell said, “Our duty in college is to disregard the individual and to turn out a Trinity type.” In commenting on this Stevenson declared, “Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type-a goosestepper—a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself.” The oldest journalism school in the United States, founded in 1869, at Washington and Lee University at the time Robert E. Lee was president, has recently been reestablished. HOW WE KNOW ‘EM It wouldn’t be “Powers” if he didn’t want to know how many credits he was making, or to borrow a U.T. catalogue. It wouldn’t be “Jess Clark” if he didn’t run thru the doors when the dinner bells rings. It wouldn’t be “Tipps” if he didn’t want to bum a chew of tobacco. It wouldn’t be “Louise Woods” if she wasn’t acting goofy. It wouldn’t be “Brownie” if he wasn’t calling respiration –aspiration. It wouldn’t be “Mrs. Morton” if she wasn’t trying to be hard-boiled. It wouldn’t be “C.W. Davis” if he wasn’t pleading with the waiters to bring on more eats. It wouldn’t be “Amy Shipley” if she wasn’t arguing with “Mr. Me” in Psychology class. It wouldn’t be “Robert Rose” if he didn’t always have a bad smelling pipe in his mouth. Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, the greater, the higher, and the nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy through generations and centuries. –Jordan. One of the things in life which we use the most and value the least is language. It is the distinction of our race, our highest prerogative, the instrument of our progress. It is the bond of brotherhood, too, and the body in which truth becomes incarnate. The thought history of the race is written in the very structure of its speech; and a language or a dialect is as significant of great social forces now long spent as the strata of the earth’s surface are concerns seismic energies. –Adams. “The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages; the questions is what he will do with what he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he leaves the corner stone of a solid and honorable success.” “Half the giant’s strength is in the conviction that he is a giant. The strength of a muscle is enhanced a hundredfold by the willpower. The same muscle, when removed from the giant’s arm, when divorced from the force of the might will, can sustain but a fraction of the weight it did a moment before it was disconnected. When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently,; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into habit. –Tillotson. Seventy-six percent of all men students and thirty eight per cent of all women students at the University of Nebraska are wholly or partially self-supporting. Exclusive of the College of Law, the average expenditure per student for the nine months is shown by a recent survey to be $714.66 for the men and $714.66. Time’s the king of men. For he’s their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave. --Shakespeare. CONSOLING PHILOSPHY It is better to have loved and lost than to get married and be bossed. THAT CUMBERLAND GAME In a previous Description of the Oracle an advance notice on the Tech-Cumberland game under the above heading was given and we were very optimistic of the results. In this Description under the same title we are attempting to tell—How We Lost. If view points are to be given as to why we lost, it might first be said that we had no game the preceding week, and as a consequence the team relaxed in its training. And, if the true be told, such was the case and part of the cause. Then we might say that Cumberland got all the breaks and as a consequence our morale was broken. And, if we speak alright, such was the case and part of the cause. Then we might say that Cumberland got all the breaks and as a consequence our morale was broken. And, if we speak alright, such was the case and part of the cause. And again as a consequence deserved to have won. And, again we say, such was the case and part of the cause. And so on and so on, far, far, into the ink of football blackness. But that’s not so bad! Remember King College! And for fear somebody isn’t inclined to interpret this article in the right spirit, Remember Pleasant Hill! () To get down to plain facts, after waiving the more or less nonsense above. Tech lost the game partly because she didn’t play football, play it for all there is in there, as she did against M.T.T.C. and hard enough to at least have lowered the score by a big majority, and partly because of Singleton –the versatile half-back, who punts, run, passes, and does anything else with seemingly equal ease, and who is possibly the equal of any half in the South. Captain Miller, playing his last game for Tech was outstanding in his efforts to stem the tide, but had to be taken out because of injuries in the third quarter. It seemed that he and Jobe were the only ones who were actually doing all they were capable of. Outside of these few things that was about all there was to it. By the way, in passing, we forgot to mention that the score was 51 to 0. Line-Up Tech Cumberland Watson L.E. Hicks Brown L.T. Chastain Moss L.G. Sims Clark, J. C. Humphries Miller R.G. Vaden Wilson R.T. Martin Davis, C. R.E. Wesson Hughes Q.B. Singleton Starnes L.H. Haney Dowell R.H. Cockrill Jobe F.B. Yeargin REVIEW OF FOOTBALL 1925 There are some who will say that Tech’s 1925 football season was a failure and there are some, of course, who will say that it was a success. The writer is of the opinion that is was a very successful one. Measured, even in terms of the number of games won, it should be counted successful, for any team who wins half of its scheduled games has certainly had a successful reason. But this is not all. A method of coaching –new to Tech, and which bespeaks greater results for the future—was begun, and a most satisfactory beginning it was. And yet not all. The fine spirit of harmony and team-work which was prevalent after the first game is sure to be beneficent to the men themselves and to call forth cherished memories in after years. In the first game of the season we were defeated by Gallatin Private Institute 14 to 0. The game was played on a muddy field, but instead of sticking to straight football, as might have been expected. Gallatin brought out something we were unable to cope with all season () a well ordered passing attack which proved our undoing. However, the game brought out many defects in the team and served to make it a more efficient machine for future opponents. The next week we completely smothered Castle Heights 54 to 0 and thus avenged our defeat at their hands the previous season. The following week we journeyed to Bowling Green, and by general alertness and smart football, played a perfect score on the gridiron keyboard to the tune of 12 to 6, at Ogden’s expense. Ogden had previously beaten Cumberland 6 to 3. The week afterwards was the big game of the season and we were determined to stop the much talked of “Teachers” of Middle Tennessee. We did—but they stopped us also. The score was 0 to 0 and was the result of one of the best games ever seen on the local field. The next week the team went to Russellville, Ky., for a game with Bethel but because of a deep snow the game was called off—much to the satisfaction of the Bethel coach—so it seemed. The following week we journeyed to Madisonville for a game with Hiwassee. The bunch won the game 39 to 2 mainly thru the efforts and success of Watson in receiving passes and of Jobe in ploughing the line at will. The next week, due to a misunderstanding with the Sewanee Freshmen, no game was played, and that it proved very disastrous the following week was easily to be seen. This game, the last of the season, was played with Cumberland, who crushed us under an avalanche of passes 51 to 0. Cumberland had the better team and deserves to win, but by not more than three touchdowns. It was a plain case of giving up after a few breaks went to the opposing team. If the team had given Cumberland the battle it gave M.T.T.C., the score would certainly have been much lower, probably in our favor –Singleton notwithstanding. Football Scores Tech 0 Oct. 2 G.P.I. 14 Tech 55 Oct. 9 Castle Hts. 0 Tech 12 Oct. 17 Ogden 6 Tech 0 Oct. 23 M.T.T.C. 0 Tech 39 Nov. 7 Hiwassee 2 Tech 0 Nov. 20 Cumberland 51 OUR FOOTBALL TEAM There are football teams and other football teams. Which should a school prefer, a team composed of eleven brutes who massacre their opponents with an avalanche of touchdowns, or a hard fighting team composed of gentlemen who can both win and lose with the same old ready smile? Any college would prefer the latter kind of team, and that is the type of football team that has represented T.P.I. this season. There was no place for a quitter on this team. There was no place for a coward or for the player who fights only for self glory. Every man on the team at all times did his best and when it became necessary, a little more for the team and T.P.I. The work of no player was characterized by anything low or dirty or foul. No player tried attain individual stardom. There was no a player who did not at all times have the interest of the team first in his heart. It has never been our pleasure to have associated with a cleaner group of gentlemen than the men on the team of ’25. () What more could be said of a team? Scores made on the gridiron are soon forgotten. Forgotten, too, are the great stars and their imposing records. But lessons learned on the gridiron are always remembered long after the stars have faded away. We on the sidelines never know the priceless things that a football player learns. Football players win victories over themselves that we never see. Students in a large university are never conscious of the self-denial made by the fellows who play football. But our team is a part of us. That is why we appreciate our team so much. That is why we compliment our players so highly; ad we know whereof we speak. Much of the team’s success is due to the efforts of coaches Overall and Smith. Instead of teaching the players to fight with a brutal ferocity, the coaches have succeeded in instilling the fighting spirit of real men into the players and in bringing out their qualities of true sportsmanship. Although our team won no championships, the players won hosts of friends and admirers whenever they appeared. The team which can stand victory and which can lose without “beefing” never knows the bitterness of defeat. There is nothing but victory. In conclusion it can be truthfully said that no other team has ever won its way into the hearts of the students of Tech as has this hard fighting team of ’25. FOOTBALL SQAD GUESTS OF T.P.I.A.A. AT BANQUET On Friday evening, Dec. 4th, the Athletic Association entertained the members of the 1925 Football squad with an effective, well-planned banquet. About forty couples were seated at a large T-shaped table, the decorations of which developed a gold and black color note. A basket filled with an artistic arrangement of yellow Chrysanthemums and ferns was the central adornment of the table. Cut glass candlesticks holding gold and black tapers and smaller vases of Chrysanthemums and ferns, placed at intervals, further carried out the chosen colors motif. Miniature down-boxes were used as nut cups. The place cards were miniature football men in Tech uniforms. A delicious four-course menu was served. Mr. T.W. Kittrell acted as toastmaster, and the program for the evening was as follows: () Review of Team of ’25 Coach Overall Speaking of Outlook of ’26 Coach Smith The Scrubs and Their Relation to Literary Works Dean Smith Athletics on a Higher Plane Prof. McClanahan Miscellaneous Talk Jess Clark Relationship of Future of Athletic Pres. Smith Charge to New Captain Capt. James Miller Response --Captain of 1926 Eddie Watson Retiring Capt. Miller presented the Coaches—Overall and Smith, with small remembrances from the Football Squad. Letters were awarded members of the varsity. Eddie Watson, star left end of the team, was elected captain for next year. This brilliant affair was a fitting, conclusion to one of the most successful football seasons in the history of Tech. NEWS NOTES On Friday, Nov. 20th., Dean Austin W. Smith, accompanied by Robert Rose, Willie Gentle and Robert E. Smith, who were on their way to the ball game at Lebanon, visited the High School at Alexandria. The entire morning was taken up with this visit and each of the visitors made a favorable report on the cordial reception of the faculty and student boy. In his address before the student body Dean Smith took occasion to compliment the faculty on the excellent work being done in both the elementary and high school departments. Many progressive movements have been undertaken at this school during the past few years, one of which is to increase the already splendid library. All of the visitors were very much impressed with the program given by one of the societies and supervised by the faculty. The faculty has the confidence of the community as well as its cooperation which fact has enabled great things to be accomplished. Miss Gladys Atwood, an old T.P.I. student, is very favorably remembered by those who taught her at T.P.I. one of the teachers in the Alexandria elementary school. President Smith visited Carthage recently in the interest of Tech. Dean Smith has been accused of being a raging Democrat since his chapel oration for the World Court. A few more days of work before Christmas. Let’s make them count. School will be demised for holidays December 18th, and everyone will be off for a happy Christmas. Have a delightful time, and be back ready for work December 29th. We are glad indeed to note that Mr. Passon’s father is improving, and we wish him a speedy recovery. The deepest regret of the Campus girls is that Quentin, Jr., is not large enough to chauffeur his dad’s new Studebaker. Frame your mind to mirth and merriment. Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life. –Shakespeare. Y.W.C.A. NOTES The Y.W.C.A. sent two delegates to the Christian Students’ Conference at Chattanooga, Nov. 27, 1925. The delegates, Miss Auby Scott and Miss Ruth Weaver, reported the conference as being marked by enthusiasm and inspiring discussions. The World Court was the main topic considered, the leaders and students strongly advocating America’s entering into it. The President of the Y.W.C.A. at T.P.I. urges all students to study this important question in order that they may be prepared to vote intelligently on December 4. When we are in the satisfaction of some innocent pleasure, or pursuit of some laudable design, we are in possession of life. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. It is the height of folly to throw up attempting because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character. --Muller. “But pleasures are like oppies spread— You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.” THE TECH ORACLE Official Publication of the Students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute\ Printed by the Herald Publishing Co. Entered as Second class matter at the Cookeville Postoffice, Cookeville, Tenn. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Bryce D. Stone ‘26 Assistant Editor Edward McKay ‘27 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Athletics M. Douglas Robbins ‘27 Wit and Humor David Dow ‘29 Exchange Elizabeth Ensor ‘28 Classes Martha Sedivak ‘27 Society Shella Officer ‘29 Alumni Hazel Wall ‘27 Mary Crenshaw ’26 Literary Editor Faculty Advisor Thos. L. Passons BUSINESS Business Manager Lee S. Darwin ‘27 Asst. Cir. Manager Nola Quarles ‘27 Subscription Rates $1.50 per year PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY LIFE PURPOSE The busy world shows angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set Until occasion tells him what to do And he who waits to have his task marked out She’ll die and leave his errand unfulfilled He who floats lazily down the stream in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar and “speeds up” by his own labor, he must be always about the same distance from that which he is following. In the voyage of life we must not drift but steer. Every youth should form, at the outset of his career, the solemn purpose to make the most and the best of the powers given him and to turn to the best possible account every outward advantage within his reach. This purpose must carry with it the assent of reason, the approval of the conscience and the sober judgement of the intellect. It should then embody within itself whatever is vehement in desire, inspiring in hope, thrilling in enthusiasm and intense in desperate resolve. Such a plan of life will save him from many a damaging contest with temptation. It will regulate his sports and recreations. Those who labor and study under the inspiration of such a purpose will soon soar out of sight of those who barely allow themselves to be carried along by the momentum of the machinery to which they are attached. In nothing is childhood more strongly distinguished from manhood than in this, that the child has no purpose, no plan in life, no will by which his energies are directed. The man has his own purpose, his own plan, his own life and aim. The sorrowful experience of multitudes in this respect is that they are never men but children all their days. Think out your work then work out your thought. No one can pursue a worthy object, with all the powers of his mind, and make his life a failure. A man may work in the dark, yet one day light shall arise upon his labor; and though he may never with his own lips declare the victory complete someday others will behold in his life work the traces of a great and thinking mind. What a different place this would be if other activities were given as much thought as Athletics. And yet it requires both sides to develop a student properly. WHY GO TO COLLEGE? As a variation from the regular contents of this column we are printing an article on the "Honor System." This is the system of student government in most of our large colleges- and as such should 'be of interest to any student who contemplates entering college. —Editor. WHAT DOES THE HONOR SYSTEM INVOLVE? The term "honor system" is used to indicate the formal recognition and adoption by students and faculty of a system of mutual responsibility among students for honest scholastic work. The purpose of this system is to enlist the co-operation of students for the maintenance of fair play and honesty or preparation and performance of classroom activities. The immediate and ultimate aims of the honor system which may be considered of most significance are: It rests fundamentally upon the initiative of undergraduates, and initiative always has potential good as a possibility: it is dependent upon unity of purpose and community of effort, which is another valuable asset when turned in the right direction: it tends to bring a frank and candid relation between the students and the administrative force of an institution: it tends toward increasing the loyalty to an institution, by strengthening public opinion in regard to the virtue of honesty: it increases individual responsibility, which may take a marked drop during college days: it breeds confidence and self-respect in similar situations: as a rule it appeals to the better class of students, and leads them to look at their own actions and the actions of other fellows from the point' of view of an adult: it utilizes the stronger characters to help bolster up the weaker ones. Student government is a term used to indicate that the administration of the college, as far as student activities are concerned, is in the hands of students. The honors system is in reality a subdivision of student government and is usually an indication of a highly developed form a student government. It may cover all forms of student activities and conduct, or it may involve the examination only. However, it loses in efficiency when applied to too wide a range of activities. The operation of this system usually involves the signing of a pledge neither to give nor to receive help, but in some colleges it would be considered an insult to be asked to sign a pledge. There is a considerable disagreement among the claimant for the credit of having initiated the first well-defined honor system in an educational institution of higher learning in this country. The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, has almost universally been credited with being the originator. The faculty minutes of May 4. 18f2, show the formal adoption of the organized system in this institution. The University of South Carolina. and the College of William, and Mary practiced the honor sys, tern in an informal way before 1842, but the University of Virginia was the first to inaugurate a definite system of control, legislation, and form of penalties. According to a survey made in 1915, 123 institutions practice the honor system in all or a few departments. Some authorities claim that this system is more successful in small colleges than in large ones. In the larger universities, the honor system is independent of any form of student government. In the smaller colleges, it is the natural outgrowth of the participation of students in the direction and control of their various collegiate activities. Many institutions have an honor system in vogue spirit but not in organization: while others favor it, but the sentiment is not sufficiently mature to put it into practice. The 123 institutions that are trying the system are its strongest advocates, and there has been a steady but marked tendency toward general adoption throughout this country. Some authorities regard the honor system as the only agency that will prevent cheating in examinations. To secure the best results from any form of the honor system, both student and faculty sentiment should be in favor of its adoption and it is most successful when the initiative for' its adoption comes from the students. Students, must be willing to accept the obligation of reporting any - student who violates the system. Violations of 4 the honor system should consist of any attempt to receive assistance front written aids or from any person, or paper, or in any attempt to give assistance, whether the one so doing has completed his own paper or not. Offenders must be treated kindly but justly. A cheating student dishonors his whole class and lowers the tone of the college. It is. the duty of the students of the college where this system is practiced to see that no dishonest paper ever goes into the hands of an instructor and to make it impossible for stolen work to receive credit or for hilt to remain permanently in the college. An administrative council, composed of students and faculty, should give decisions on violations of this system. Final jurisdiction in regard to penalties is very successfully administered in a number of large institutions by the students but in general it is better to have this power rest ultimately with the faculty or the board of trustees. There must be hearty cooperation between students and () faculty. In adopting the honor system the students are given to understand that the faculty assume that they can be trusted. Therefore, the instructor may or may not be present during the examination. If he is present, he is there the purpose of giving instructions and making the examination dear. It is not possible to recommend a single type of constitution for organization of 'the hem& system, hut 'the constitution and by-laws should be short, simple, and definite, since new and untried students must be educated yearly. Likewise every two or three years. The people who oppose the honor system are greatly in the minority. Their chief arguments against it may be summed up as follows: Classroom honesty is an academic matter; some people believe, therefore, that it should be under faculty jurisdiction and control. Some executives do not care to give. more control to students since these duties are difficult to define and Lake the students' time from the regular studies. Students contend also that it tends to burden the better or more honest students with the shortcomings of the delinquent ones. In some communities there is a sentiment that signing a pledge implies dishonesty, and in many institutions there is still a feeling that individual honor does not involve the reporting of theft and dishonest on the part of others. Some large institutions have such a cosmopolitan group of students that homogeneity in the classroom ideals is difficult to secure and maintain small institutions have younger preparatory students to include in their regulations. But, on the other hand. a large majority of the college and university authorities have the same idea as Prof. Edward S. Joyner of the University of South Carolina who wrote that "the only true system for the education of a gentleman by gentlemen is the honor system—that is, the system of mutual respect and confidence." The success of the honor system is due in the main to the natural desires of the students to formulate ideals for themselves, the interest for co-operative activity and teamwork and the pride involved in creating college public sentiment and college loyalty. NOTICE—In making up the first page we accidentally got five lines of the basketball write-up at the foot of the first column story of the Glee Clubs, omitting these five lines the story read right on. –Printer. PALLADIAN LITERARY SOCIETY Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom has seen' fit to call from earth the father of our, beloved society member, Charlotte Watson; and, Whereas, we deem it fitting and proper that we should give expression to our love and affection for her in her bereavement in the form of resolution; Therefore, be it resolved; That we the members of the Palladian Literary Society desire to express our genuine appreciation for her and to extend our sympathy to her and her mother. Be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family a copy to the press, and a copy spread on the minutes of the society. HAZEL WALL, Chairman, MARTHA SEDIVAK, REBECCA JOHNSTON, MARY ELLEN SHANKS, Committee on Resolutions. December 2, 1925 SHERWOOD Sherwood Literary Society met in the regular meeting room, Monday Nov. 30th, 1925th, and rendered the following program; Invocation –Bill Gentle The roll was answered with a Bible quotation. Debate; resolved, that the development of a pleasing personality while in college is more important than the acquisition of facts. Affirmative –Alvin Jackson, Tim Huddleston. Negative—A. Clark, Jack Morrison Current Events. BELLES LETTRES In spite of the fact that about half our girls are preparing to entertain "Professor Pepp" in the near future, we had a very interesting, though impromptu, program on Nov. 30, Often an informal meeting calls forth more activity and arouses more enthusiasm than the regulation program. Let's each act as a committee of one solely responsible for the advertising of "Professor Pepp." Tell everybody and send word to the rest. UPPER CUMBERLAND The Upper Cumberland Society met in its regular meeting room Monday, Nov. 30th. This day had been set aside •for the election of officers for the coming term the following officers were elected: Jesse R. Clark President. Earl Tipps Vice-President Wm. S. Massa Secretary Robert E. Smith Treasurer Monroe Powers Attorney-General Sewell Brown Sergeant-at-Arms Douglas Robbins Critic Each elected officer expressed his appreciation and promised to serve to the best of his ability. With such a body of officers as we now have, next term promises to be one of the best in the history of our society. We wish to express our appreciation for the retiring officers, as they have served faithfully and well. Let's go Upper Cumberlands and make the spirit ring. PALLADIAN SOCIETY The Palladian Society dispenses with their regular Monday afternoon program and elected the following officers for the second term; Pres Martha Sedivak Vice-Pres Rozelle Pendergrass Secretary Elise Gregory Treasurer Agnes Greenwood Critic Hazel Wall Yell Leader Louise Woods With these competent leaders, the work of the society during the second term will be promoted. JOKES Elsic –What is the matter with your hand? Puckett –I was down town getting some cigarettes and some bum stepped on it. Martha (at Football game) –So the players wear numbers for their identification. Dan –Yes. Martha – I didn’t know they were killed enough for that. Merrill –Will you marry me? Dan –Yes. Merrill –But the doctor says my life will be short. Dan –Is it insured? Mary Ellen Shanks –Eddie, what are you going to give me for Christmas? Eddie –Close your eyes. (She closes her eyes). Now what do you see? Mary ellen –Nothing. Eddie –Well that’s what you are going to get. Health Inspector –Is this a fraternity house? Senior –Yes. Health Inspector –Are there any rats around? Senior –No, they died of starvation. Victim –you’ve pulled three teeth. I only wanted one pulled Dentist –Yes, Yes, we gave you a bit too much gas a I didn’t want to waste it. Man in speeding car –High fence isn’t it? Driver –that’s no fence, them’s telephone poles. Rose –I had a tooth pulled this morning. Clark –did you have an anesthetic? Rose—No, a toothache.

Volume 003, Description 07 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper. Transcript:  Tournament Girls, Welcome to Tech! “It Happened in June” Presented by Upper Cumberland and Palladian Societies, March 25th The Upper Cumberland and Palladian Literary Societies will present "It Happened In June" at the city school auditorium March 25th. This play is a beautiful story abounding in mirth and action. It will be directed by Mr. Pinkerton who has had considerable experience' in directing dramatic preformances. The cast has been chosen, and is one of ability and reputation, some of which have appeared in a number of plays in Cookeville. The cast is as follows : Bettie Branson, pretty young owner of the Shady Grove Store —Samie Ruth Womack ; Susie Crundle,—Betty's best friend and nearest neighbor —Ann Elizebeth Bracey ; Nell Crundle, Susie's 11yr. old sister—Pearl Cornwall; Mollie Jessop, cook for the Bransons—Jessie Barnes; Evalina Scroggs, homeliest girl in the village —Milly White, Charles Atkins, a young visitor in Shady Grove —Eugene Collier, Randy Stewart, his friend who sells insurance —Donald Moore, Jim Pritchett, a village character with nothing to do in particular —Hendon Johnston, Jarvis Sneed, the meanest man in the country and president of the Shady Grove Bank —James Carlen. Tournament visitors you have seen us. How do you like us? Come back to Tech when you can stay longer! MEETING OF ALUMNI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL The Executive Council of the Alumni Association met on February 7th with the following members present: Bryce D. Stone, President, Hazel Wall, Secretary and Treasurer, Leonard Dunavin, Rebecca Johnston, Odell Cornwell, T. W. Kittrell. Plans were discussed for establishing two scholarships, one for boys and one for girls, to be paid out of the dues of the Association. These scholarships will probaly be awarded to students who make the highest average in the freshman year at Tech, but definite plans will be worked out later. The president and secretary (Continued on Page 6) Tournament Begins Thursday Evening, Twelve Teams are Entered. Miss Genevieve Collins, Peabody College, Will Referee. Twelve teams have entered the Girls, Tournament to be held Feb. 24th, 25th, 26th,. This is the first year that T. P. I. has held a tournament for the girls, although the boys' tournament has been an annual event for several years. This tournament is lure to be a success this year and we hope that it will continue to be held every year from now on. The following teams are entered, Pleasant Hill Academy, Alpine High School, Gainesboro, Granville, Watertown, Viola, Algood, Rickman, Red Boiling, Smithville, Cookeville City School and T. P. I. Preps. Efforts are being made to secure Miss Genevieve Collins Head of Physical Education for Women. Peabody College as referee for the tournament. Bulldogs Helpless After Licking By Eagles The Cumberland Bulldogs crawled back to their kennel, Tuesday night, dragging behind them the short end of a court which read 28 to 20. The Eagles played one of their best games, but at times they seem to be matching mits with those of their equal. Through it all the Bulldogs threatened from time to time, but after the first quarter the locals were always able to climb away to a good margin when things began to look a bit panicky. The fan who sees them all was asked Monday, "What's the matter with T. P. I." He scratched his head. Asked the same question Tuesday until about half past nine he said, "nothing at all". When the rifle -shot pass was fumbled or overthrown a week ago it went straight to the wash and was handled as clean as possible. Where a shot fell off to one side last week it slid through tie loaf in fact one shot made by Vaughn actually climbed back into the basket after over half of it was falling The game was no set- up. There was one, Roberson, in a red uniform, who offered to show something of the art of basketball. He ran the team and worked himself in and out in good style but when the Bulldogs did succeed in working the ball back to crip shot range sue of his twelve foot jumps to block the throw at the hoop." and ran up a count 7 to 3 by the end of the first quarter but when the Eagles got their hooping machine to going they came ahead in double quick time. Moss and Winningham drew the anger of the Bulldogs offense, the reason being that they were the monkey wrenches that presested in gumming up the cogs of the Lawyer’s goaling machine. Vaughn worked the floor in his usual style and made good many difficult shots. He was the high scorer of the game. Winningham the genial back guard, brought the house down when he ended one of his fast trip up the floor with a long loop without touching anything but the netting. Watson's work in intercepting enemy passes was good. The officiating of the referee Clark was the kind which makes the game a game. Line Ups Tech (28) Cumberland (20) Vaughn (10) F Frilts (3) H. Evans (3) F Martin (4) Moss (7) C Robinson (9) Rubbins G Goodman (3) Winningham (6) G Hicks Substitutes: Tech – Watson. Refree –Clark Opera to be given by Glee Club The T. P. I. Glee Clubs are working on a light opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which they are planning to give some time during the spring term. Mr. James Greer will sing the part of the pirate chief and Oyama Winningham is the pirate apprentice. Robert Smith is a major-general in the British army and Fannie Wright Jarvis is his youngest daughter. Beulah Allison, Virgie Lowery, and Elsie Young are daughters of the major-general also, and Emily Stanton takes the part of maid-of-all-works. The boys' ad girls' choruses add very much to the charm of the opera. The scene is laid on a desert island and the whole opera promises to be unusually interesting. We are glad you are here. We wish that we could keep you. Boys’ Tournament March 3rd 4th 5th, With Twenty-five Teams Entered The fourth annual Upper Cumberland Basketball Tournament for Boys will be held at the City High School Gymnamim on Mar. 3, 4, and 5. Twenty two teams have entered, thirteen of which have been here before. The list is as follows : Gainesboro, Celina, Livingston, Alpine, Baxter, Al-good, Watertown, Granville, Spencer, Smithville, Jamestown, Monterey, Cookeville Junior High School, T. P. I. preps, McMinnville, Manchester, Viola Dunlap,' Gordonville, Carthage, Crossville and Pikeville. That three teams that have won tournaments are: Granville, Gladeville, and Alpine. Many students now in T. P. I. have played on various teams during former tournament. Among them are G. Winningham, Richardson, K. Evans, H. Evans Vaughn, Greenwood, Woods, Mallory, S. Carr, Rich, Dowell, M. Gates, C. Davis, Butler, Poteet, Hargis. Basketball fans will have an opportunity to see as many games as they like during this tournament which is one of the outstanding events of the year. Co-eds Lose to Murfreesboro After holding the lead into the middle of the third quarter, the T.P.I. girls lost to middle Tennessee Teachers College 29-13. The score at end of first quarter was 6-1, T. P. I. leading. At half, the score was 9-7, T. P. I still ahead. Third quarter-19-13, Normal ahead; final score, 29-13 with Normal ahead. The score does not indicate the closeness of the game. The first half of the game was fast and interesting, but the second half was rough and the playing was ragged. Beasley was high scorer of the game, with 19 points: A. P. Whitson was next with 11 points. Lineup: Tech M.T.T.C. A.P. Whitson (11) F Beasley (19) Thompson (2) F Pitt L. Whitson C Vaughn Moore G Dillon Haile G Jones Referee Josh Hughes Substitutes, Normal: Templeton, Keeling, Ganaway. A school is prosperous in proportion to the horsepower and horse sense of its boosters. Can You Answer These Questions? Ask Biology Students about These Questions Which Are Studied in That Class The following are a few of the questions asked and discussed in the biology class. Some may appear easy and simple, but when studied scientifically have an important bearing on various subjects. 1. Do snakes have feet? 2. Do earthworms have a brain? 3. What means of communication do bees have? 4. How does an oyster eat? 5. Can a toad taste foot? 6. What are vitamins? 7. Do fish have blood? 8. What is the smallest animal in the world? 9. What is the smallest plant in the world? 10. How are leaves of plants made green? 11. What is the morphology of yeast? 12. Is there anything older than its mother? 13. What is life? 14. How is bread mould formed? 15. What is “Pond scum”? 16. Does a crawfish have a backbone? 17. Do honey bees see? 18. How many eggs does a queen bee lay per day? -The Babbler Bethel Five Wins from Tech by 39 to 17 Score Bethel College took revenge from Tenn. Tech in their home gym. Friday night Feb. 11. For the first half the teams were evenly matched. They swapped fumbles and bad passes after the rest period the Kentuckians took the floor, with renewed energy and overcome small margin that the Eagles held on them, never to be checked. The crip shots that the Kentuckians were permitted to make marked the decisive part of the game. Line Up Tech Bethel Evans F Regnold Vaughn F Higgins Winningham C Sanford Robbins G Rogers Watson G Cabrey Subs: Tech –Cobb, R. Evans, Johnson and Davis Bethel: Girh. Referee: Johnson Upper Cumberland Chooses Affirmative Side of Question for Debate The Upper Cumberland debater have chosen the affirmative side of the question submitted by the Sherwoods for the annual intersociety debate which is: Resolved, That Labor Unions as they now exist, are on the whole beneficial to the American people. Both teams are strong and will represent their societies well. College Finances Let students pay for education now suggested Let students pay for the entire cost of education. Here is a means of eliminating the necessity for perpetual begging, for the brother and danger of million dollar drives so at least thought some of the del-agates to a recent Association of American Colleges convention at Chicago. Instead of paying only 31 per cent of educational cost as they do now, college students should foot the entire educational bill, argued Trevor Arnett, authority on college finance, who represented the Carnegie Institute. He recommended that tuition fees be raised gradually to cover the entire cost of college courses. Scholarship loans and student aids of all kinds should be utilized to enable students to meet this additional charge, he said. Money now used for endowment could be diverted to these channels. Alfred College Experiments While discussion goes on, one college has lately begun to experiment with this new idea. The forthcoming catalog of Alfred University (New York) carries the announcement that tuition fees will be gradually increased to meet the cost of education. By a cooperative agreement the Harmon Founda lion premises to lend money to students unable to furnish cash. The tuition will increase gradually during the next three years, from the present amount of $150 year to $300. Eventually, Alfred University announces, this move will free education from the "stigma of eleemosynarism". Students Will Borrow Students will, of course, not be expected to pay the entire fee at once, except in rare cases only $150 or possibly $100, will be asked for in cash payment. The deferred obligation will be turned over to tuition within the next five years. In return, the Foundation will furnish the University with cash for current operating expenses. This is not the first attempt of the Harmon Foundation to lend money to students for completing their education. Since 1922 groups of students in 60 colleges have been borrowing from this source. The money loaned for a period of five years, to be repaid in installments of $10 per month. So far the plan has been quite successful; out of 357 borrowers only two have failed altogether in their payments. Students Will Lend Meanwhile something new under the sun, a system of student loans, has been established. Palaeopitus Dartmouth student government has begun the system of student loans described in the New Student of December 8. The following are the main provisions in the measure passed by Palaeopitus: 1. This fund shall be known as The Palaeopitus Student Loan Fund, the appropriation for which shall be made by Palaeopitus from the College Chest and shell be administered by the Committee hereinafter described. 2. The purpose of this fund shall be solely to furnish financial aid for any Dartmouth undergraduate who would otherwise be unable to meet his college bills in acceptance with the regulations of the college, “No student shall be perceived to register any semester take the final examination in course unless all college bills at that time are paid.” This fund shall be super by treasurer of the College man, a committee of three of the personnel department, the treasurer of Palatopitus, the Personnel officer acting Chairman of the Committee –Student Automobile Dictionary Carburetor –The place from all trouble starts. The Tech Oracle Official Publication of the students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. Published Semi-monthly Subscription rates $1.50 per year Editorial Staff Editor in Chief Hazel Wall Assistant Editor Eleanor Haile Assistant Editor Benton M. Carr Associate Editors Athletic Harry Burrow Wit and Humor Robert Smith Exchange Alberta Cassetty Class Editor Lucille Lee Society Odell Cornwell Alumni Rebecca Johnston Feature Editor Jonnie Bilbrey Poet Vadus Carmack Business Manager David Terry Assistant Business Manager Circulation Manager Paul Tidwell Asst. Circulation Manager Alfred Gill Faculty Advisor J.M. Hatfield Printed by Herald Publishing Company. Entered at the Cookeville post office. Second-class rate pending. Dear Old Dad Sammie Ruth Womack We honor our mother and love her more than any other woman living, but I sometimes wonder if “dear old dad” does not grow a wee bit jealous of all the love and devotion we lavish on her? You rarely ever heard dad praised. He is the man that pays the bills –the fellow we go to when we are in need of money, and in many instances he is hardly considered a member of the family. I love my mother as much as any of you, but my father holds a place in my heart that no one can fill; and so it is of our “dear old dad” that I would speak to you today. When our fathers married and took upon themselves the responsibilities of family life, they were practically all of them young of perhaps younger than you college boys. They had the same love of life, the same enthusiasm in sports, and the same capacity of enjoyment that you boys have. Probably none of them and the advantages of a college education, but no matter from what station of life they came, they had a good time. All this they gave up for us. What have we done for them? They do not except much from us; but they do expect and we show them due respect and that we make the most of the opportunities which they have made it possible for us to have. Our fathers are human beings, and they enjoy being loved and praised as much as our mothers do. We have a mother’s day, a young peoples’ day, and recently in Nashville a week was set aside as boys’ week. But where does dad’s day come in? I know the fathers have long ago lost faith in the old adage “that every dog has his day”. Let us consider how hard they have worked and toiled for us and what we owe them in return. Some of them have worked from early morning until late at night in order that we may have better advantages than they had. They are happy in our success and they have long ceased to dream of what they might have been and they have transferred their dreams and ambitions to the lives of their children. What proud father has not pictured to himself his son as a president? And thus it is if we would make dad happy and make him feel that all his efforts have not been in vain, we must do our best in everything. Let us not think of dad as an outsider and one who can not understand things. The reason many of us have formed this opinion of our fathers is that we have not given him a chance to prove himself otherwise. We have lived under the same roof all these years, and yet understand each other as much as do the rankest of strangers. Young people, this applies to you. May I ask that you get acquainted with him and make him your partner and pal in every place of your life. He will enjoy hearing all your joys and your sorrows and will take pride in helping you. Long ago the idea was formed that the whole existence of the family depended upon the mother, but this idea has been proved false as it was formed in a time when so many fathers turned down their families for strong drink. We have ceased to say that when we lose our mothers we have lost our best best friend, but that we have lost one of the best friends, for our father is, in truth, as good a friend as our mothers. And let us not wait until t is too late to show dad we love and appreciate him but if we have any roses for him, give them to him now instead of putting them on his grave. Palladians and Upper Cumberlands Have a Valentine Program “With a steady swing and an open brow We have tramped the way together.” The Palladians and their follow workers, Upper Cumberlands, were loath to admit the passing of a festival day without some commemoration. And accordingly, when Valentine came, thinking of past work together and “The leagues that lie before us” they met together in the auditorium and left on the program books of the society a few numbers for future members to be proud: Devotional –Baily Bockman Vocal Duet –Beulah Allison and Robert Smith, accompanied by Dan Jarvis Declamation –Paul Moore The program was as concluded with a Valentine contest, and prizes were awarded O’dell Cornwell, Polly Hudgens and Beulah Allison. Death of Mr. Henderson’s sister We were very sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. A. G. Scott which occurred at her home in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on February 11 after an illness of several months. Mrs. Scott was a sister of Mr. J. M. Henderson and the mother of Allen G. Scott, who was a student of T. P. I. at the beginning of the fall quarter. He was called home on account of the illness of his mother and was unable to return. We extend our deepest sympathy to Mr. Henderson and the Scott family. Eagles lose hard fought game to businessmen The quintet of Bowling Green Business University won a hard fought game from Tennessee Tech’s five by a one point margin. The score being 30 to 29. The first half of the game was a little slow but through the entire last half it was not known whether either team had the edge on the other, as both teams were playing a rapid game. It was not until the time whistle ended the game that the spectators or team knew which would win. Vaughn was the high scorer of the game, he looped 19 of Tech 29 points. Line up T. P. I. B. G. B. U. Vaughn F Perisho Evans F Stamper Winningham C Williams Robbins G Lewis R. Evans G Weems Subs, Tech: Cobb, Johnson Referee: Smith Advertising is the life of trade and the death of failure. Music Notes The chapel hour Wednesday of last week and Thursday of this week was given to Miss Stanton, who arranged some very interesting programs. On Wednesday, the program consisted of: Piano solo: Minuet Paderewski Virginia Wilcox Vocal Solo: Where my Caravan has Rested A Garden Romance – Beulah Allison Saxophone Solos: Selection from “The Mikado” Toddling Sax –Lauren O’Dell On Thursday morning the following program was given: Reading –“Home Sweet Home” O’dell Cornwell Vocal Solos: “By the Water of Minnesota” --Cadman “Spring Fancy –Denmore --Daninie Wright Jarvis. New Books for Library The following books were added to the library last week: “Far From the Maddening Crowd” by Thomas Hardy. “The Choir Invisible” by James Lane Allen “In the Tennessee Mountains” by Charles Egbert Craddock “The Black Tulip” by Alexander Dumas. “The Marble Faun” by Natahniel Hawthorne “The Appreciation of Art” by Eugen Newhaus “Great Artists and Their Work” by Alfred Mansfield Brooks “Democracy and the Party System” by Osthogorski “Hand Andy” by Samuel Lover “Ninety-Three” by Victor Hugo “Shirely” by Charlotte Bronte Everybody Wants to Attend College “More and more students in our colleges” –year after year the Boston Transcript’s annual survey of college education has brought forth this hackedneyed statement. This year it is revised. Now, “everybody wants to go to college.” Approximately 750,000 young people are now attending colleges in the United States. Many statistics will follow, the transcript announces, of which a good percentage, it is hoped, will prove illuminating; but none will there be more indicative of current conditions in the realm of American higher education than these: Only thirteen in 10,000 of the population of France and only fifteen in 10,000 of the population of the British Ilses are found in the universities of those countries; there were in our colleges and universities during 1923 about 600,000 students, or about sixty in 10,000 of the population of this country. --New Student. Locals Several former Tech students will present at the Valentine party given Saturday evening, February 12, by the Belles Lettres and Sherwood Literary Societies. The following T. I. I. students spent the week-end away: Arlie Moss – Chattanooga Hugh Butler –Celina Milard Gates –Celina Willie Cherry–Celina A.C. Willis –Spencer Henry Chapman –Spencer Pearle Cornwall –Nashville Ann Elizabeth Bracey –Nashville Eugene Collier –Nashville Mr. and Mrs. Smith Entertain Faculty. The faculty of T. P. I and their wives were delightfully entertained at the home of Acting President A.W. Smith and Mrs. Smith on Monday evening, February 14. The Valentine idea was carried out in the decorations, amusements, and refreshments. Seven tables of progressive rook were played, Mrs. Pinkerton receiving the prize, a lovely handkerchief. For the highest score. Mr J.M. Hatfield was the winner of a contest, due to his proficiency in forestry. The faculty appreciated the counesy extended them by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, as this was the first opportunity they had had of getting together. News Items At a meeting of the State Board of Education on February 11, $400 was appropriated for the purchase of a large motor driven lawn mower for use on the campus and athletic field. Mr. Austin W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Pinkerton, and Miss Oliver attended the Teachers Meeting at Smithville last Saturday, where Mr. Smith addressed the teachers of Dekalb Count. Miss Eunice Allen, Miss Brownie Renfore, Miss Lilah Hembree, and Mr. Z. I. Beachboard, members of the faculty of the Smithville Highschool, were here for the game between the Smithville girls and T.P.I. Prep girls. Mrs. Chas. Cooper was president at the chapel hour Wednesday morning and sang three numbers which were very much enjoyed by the student body. Prep Beats Baxter in First Game In a game marred by unusual roughness and a great number of fouls. T.P.I. preps defeated the Baxter seminary 30 to 22 one night last week in the City school gyms. The preps led through the game by a small margin, but it looked as if the Baxterians would go ahead several times. Neville for Baxter was the high scorer. He basketed 8 field goals. McDonald for the Preps. Was successful in ringing the bell five times for 2 points each and one free goal. Line Up Preps Baxter McDonald F Puckett Greenwood F Boyd Moore C Neville Cobb G Lynn Rich G Brown Subs: Preps, Robbins Baxter –Jones, Jaquess Love Love is a native of the rocks, Of briery paths and stony places: She has no bond with men who wear The placid mask of happy faces; She favors not the glittering court, Its ennui- nor its gaudy graces-.L-. Love dwells among the weathered rocks. Of the wind-swept and silent spaces. Love cohabits with the winds That swirl in elemental fury Above the earth and when she sends Her challenge to a tired heart, weary With the quiet tenor of its way, Her mandate is so softly spoken It reeks not of the price to pay, Nor counts the hearts already broken. 0, yes! Love dwells among the rocks, Her haven is the unseen places Where God meets god and stars in flocks A- cruising go through empty spaces. And she is king and she is queen To fits of despotism given And through her scepter is unseen It rules the earth as well as heaven --Vadus Carmack It is a striking coincidence that American ends in “I Can.” The Luck of Having a Job Good luck is the twin brother of hard work, while hard luck is a close relative of laziness. Luck dreams of a dollar, work earn it. Luck pictures a home, while work builds it. Luck takes a nap, while brains are winning points. Trusting to luck is fishing with an empty hook. The map who relies on luck is lucky if he keeps out of the poor house. True luck means rising at six in the morning—out on the floor before the alarm clock stops. Living on a dollar if you earn two. Minding your own business. Noticing your own faults as closely as you do your neighbor’s. It means appointments you never failed to keep, trains you never failed to catch, the opportunities you did not miss. I’ve noticed, too, that bad luck and an unguarded tongue often go together. Then, too, the victim of bad luck is often incapable of team work. That handicaps him from taking part in the big Games. Good fortune is the accident that befalls the fit. There isn’t much perversity of events. The buttered side down of ill luck happens because it is the buttered side. Everything hits the sore spot, but not more than any other. One finds what he is looking for, and all things rush to the service of him who knows how to use them. Our successes are at least collaterally incident to our attempts. We meet casually some day the very mood for which we long have waited. If we carry a botany box of observation we shall gather many specimens. Into the magazine of the eager mind the spark of incident will inevitably drop. Joseph was a “lucky fellow,’ but part of his good luck was that he had an opportunity of demonstrating his fitness for doing large things by his faithfulness to small ones. He had the luck of being a servant. That was his chance. Every fellow who has a job has a chance. Don’t think for a moment that things went smooth and without opposition at the court of Pharahb. There were palace intrifues and high offcials who tried to knife him in the dark. Any man who tries to strike twele finds a dozen hands reaching for the muffler. When ou are at the bottom lots of folks at you on the head and say, “Poor dog! You deserve better,” but start bravely upward and the crowd haunts a rock to hurl at “such an upstart.” News From Other Colleges A student’s organization of Buenos Aires sent a telegram of congratulation to senator Borah expressing gratitude at his “defense of Nicaragua,” and for showing the people in the United States the “true situation.” In Mexico City an association of Central Americans to boycott American goods until the Marines are withdrawn from Nicaragua is being led by Juan Mella, a Cuban student. The association has already sent telegrams to American political leaders’ demanding the withdrawal of American troops. A national Union of Canadian students may be formed, similar to the National Union of England and Wales, the “Confederation Internationale des Etudiantes” of Europe and the National Student Federation of America. Representatives of eleven Canadian colleges and universities met in Montreal during the Christmas vacation to decide whether the project is feasible. In the West Canadian colleges fell an especial need for this union. The “better understanding” which a union would bring about is wanted in these institutions which are at present practically isolated from the rest of the Dominion. The situation is somewhere better in the East, because of an Intercollegiate Union. More than 1,000 persons attended the annual short course for farm people at Albama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. Sixty countries of the 67 in Albama were represented. Teachers to the number of 114 from British overseas dominions, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, are teaching this year in schools of Great Britain, and the same number of teachers from England and Scotland have gone to replace them temporarily, under the plan for teacher exchange arranged by the British League of Empire. Sherwoods The Sherwood Literary Society met in its regular meeting room on February 14, and rendered the following program: Devotional—Chaplain Debate: Resolved that Japanese and Chinese should be admitted to United States citizenship Affirmative Negative Clyde McDonald Joe McClain Jasper Harp Homer Gates Declamation –Olin Carr. Jokes—Guy Boyd. The negative were successful in obtaining a favorable report from the judges. The affirmative speakers proved that they were competent of consideration as debaters. There were no vacant seats in our meeting room and several of the members were required to stand. Come on, Sherwoods, and let’s make it 100 per cent next time. J.L. Myers made a peppy speech which brought us to a realization of our duty in Society. Dr. Sheeley Here on Feb. 22 On February 22 Dr. F.N. Seerly of New York will be at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute to speak to students. He comes under the auspices of the Young Men’s Chstian Association and will spend the day in conferences with various groups. Those who remember Dr. Hall who was here a few years ago will look forward to Dr. Seerley’s visit, as his work is similar to that of Dr. Hall. Cumberland University Falls Before T.P.I. Shift their combination as they would and battle to the end as they did, Cumberland University’s Bulldogs were unable to match goals with T.P.I. Golden Eagles, and went down in defeat by 26 to 22 in the Cumberland gym. The constant swapping of the Bulldogs made a good game of one which otherwise probably would have been mediocre. It was a constant repetition of the things all the way. The Eagles would bring the ball up the floor and one of the TPI’s sharpshooters, would pitch a goal and the Bulldogs would slip in and fight their way back up the court and flip in a counter. Things went evenly at times but usually the Eagles kept five or six points in the lead. It was a hard game for the Bulldogs to drop, more so for the reason that Coach Knee thinks his superior to those of TPI Seven Bulldogs saw service, while Coach Overall used but five men. Try as they might, the Lebanons could not find a smooth working combination. Line Up Ten Tech Cumberland H. Evans F Fitts Vaughn F Martin Moss G Robinson Robbins G Goodman Winningham G Hicks Subs: Cumberland Drescall, Layman Importance of Brood Sow on Farm Donald Moore There is no other animal department of the farm that is of more importance than a good brood sow. The farm that keeps a brood sow does not have to depend on the meat market for its meat supply. The cook only goes to the smokehouse without her purse, and not even realizing how much she gets. The farm is looking for cash income; nothing will come nearer filling this demand than a sow. A quick turn-over of feed is realized and usually a nice profit is made. The sow utilizes all garbage such as: skim-milk, buttermilk, kitchen slop, etc., also eats refused feed, and other products from the garden that would otherwise go to waste. The hogs, if the farmer desired, will gather and market his crops. The necessity of pasture for hogs will force the farmer to plant legumes and cover crops, which will be indirectly a great benefit to the farmer. The farm that keeps a sow has available an even supply of quality feeders at all times. The farm that does not have a brood sow on it can easily see where it is losing money both directly and indirectly. Belle Lettres and Sherwoods Sponder Valentine Party A delightful social event of the winter term was the Valentine party given Saturday night Feb. 12 in the TPI auditorium. The room was decorated with red and white crepe peper streamers and hearts. Streamer of paper led from each window to large red heart in the center of the room. The lights were shaded with red paper giving a radiant effect. Games were played in the gymnasium and contests were enjoyed in the auditorium. The ones receiving prizes were Mrs. A.W. Smith, Mayme Gipson and Homer Gates, Jessie Barnes Johnny Bilbrey, Mary Frances Whitson and Harry Burrows. Refreshments were served from the library. The menu included, Heart sandwiches hipolite and cherry sandwiches, Heart mints, nuts in red meat cups and coffee. The chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Lane, Mr. Lane being Sponsor of the Belles Lettres and Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield. Mr. Hatfield being the Sherwood Sponsor. Other members of the faculty enjoyed the occasion. Because chapel groups hear prominent speakers number barely enough to start a good basketball game and because voluntary chapel means to most a permanent excused absence, the Richmond collegian, University of Richmond Virginia pleads for the return of compulsory services. You can be successful in boosting your town, but don’t try to shove it. Meeting of Alumni executive council (continued from page 1) Were authorized to write the Senator Hensley and Representative Anderson in the name of the Association, asking them to support the Appropriation Bill for this institution which is before the Legislature. Interesting Chapel Address The students of TPI were again fortunate in having Dr. TC. Crume, the evangelist from Kentucky, to speak to them the second at the chapel last Friday. Dr. Crume’s subject was “success” and he made a very inspiring talk. Practically all the students took notes and Dr. Crume has offered a copy of his book, “Evangelism in Action” to the student who will send him the best outlines of both the addresses which he has delivered to the students. He has also presented a copy of this book to the school library and the students appreciate it very much.