Volume 004, Description 14 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper.
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The Tech Oracle
Miss Rebecca Johnston, Queen of May
Ten Other Girls Chosen for Maids to Queen
When we look back through the annals of history to the days of Cleopatra and Helen of Troy or, if by chance, we glance through the pages of fiction where Juliet and Rosalind reign supreme, we are inclined to wonder if the belles of old Teen do not make these pictures seem rather hazy and obscure.
On Tuesday morning twenty girls passed before the student body in beauty revue. These girls were selected as the beauties of Tech and it was a difficult task to select eleven from the following group:
Rebecca . Johnston, Eleanor Haile, Lucile Lee, Sammie Ruth Womack, Mary Ellen. Rash, Mary Nella Graham, Elsie Young, Louise -Settle, Maurine Quarles, Mary Ellen Watson, Bertie Brown, Marie Peters, Hazel Tompson, Lucile Camaeron, Pearle . Cornwell, Jesse Barnes, Muriel. Gipson, Mayme Gibson, Pauline Hudgens, and Cora Belle Frizzell.
After a close contest the first eleven girls were chosen, as the beauties to be the maids to the Queen of May at the Festival. On the following day came the contest to—choose the Queen from the chosen eleven. This honor was bestowed upon Miss Rebecca Johnston whose stately name, beautiful face and features, and rank as senior gave her the coveted place. Miss Johnston will be crowned Queen of "Tech" on May Day.
Emily Stanton Wins in Voice Contest
At the State Federation of Music Clubs which met in Springfield last week Miss Emily Banton, who was a student of T. P. I. last year and will also be here during the short spring term, won the first prize of $25.00 in the State contest for girls' voices.
Miss Tennie Alma Stanton attended the meeting and was a judge in the piano contests and appeared with Mrs. W. A. Howard in a two-piano number on one of the evening concerts.
April 26, Opening Date of Short Spring Term
The Short Spring Term will open on April 26 and continue for six weeks, closing June 3. Reservations have already been made to fill the girls' dormitory to its capacity, three girls being () placed in many of the rooms.
Indications are that at least one hundred new students will register for this term and the majority of them will remain for summer school.
Some additional instructors will be secured to take charge of the classes which will be organized at that time.
This term beginning at this time of the year is proving very beneficial to the teachers whose schools did not close in time for them to enter at the opening o the regular spring term.
Cumberland loses first game to Tech 4-2; wins second 5-3
Bulldogs Stage Comeback and win last came in double header
With Arlie Moss twirling the old pill in true virtuoso fashion, the Tech Eagles swooped down on the veteran Cumberland University Bulldogs Wednesday April 13, and carried off the victory in the first of a two-game series.
The game presented all the thrills of an evenly matched bout until Winningham in the eighth brought two men in with a two bagger which gave Tech a lead of two points. Strain as they might, the Bulldogs could not even the score. Cook pitched one inning for Cumberland, striking out three men. He was replaced by Hicks, who during the remainder of the game, struck out five men. Moss showed his true metal by allowing the visitors only seven hits, while the Eagles collected ten off Cook and Hicks.
The hitting of Moss, Summers, and Blount for T.P.I. and Baird and Hood for Cumberland featured.
In the second game, Cumberland was more successful, although there were no outstanding plays. Summers pitched for T.P.I. and Baird and Hood for Cumberland featured.
In the second game, Cumberland was more successful, although there were no outstanding plays. Summers pitched for T.P.I. while Cumberland put three or four different pitchers in the box.
The Eagles displayed good team work in both games, and we may expect further victories from them during the remainder of the season.
Sherwoods Win Annual Intersociety Debate
Stanley Carr and Leonard Crawford Carry Old Rose and Gray to Victory
The Sherwoods won the annual intersociety debate for the fourth consecutive year on April 8, when the judges gave a unanimous decision in their favor.
The Upper Cumberland speakers, Paul Moore and Robert Smith supported the affirmative side of the question “Resolved That Labor Unions, As They Exist Today, On the Whole Are Beneficial, while the negative side was defended by () the Sherwoods, Stanley Carr and Leonard Crawford.
A large crowd of enthusiastic supports of each society attended the debate.
The affirmative speakers advanced arguments to show that labor unions had benefitted the American public by securing increased wages and shorter work hours for all workers; legislating better working conditions, and the employment of women and children in factories; collective bargaining; a decrease in strikes; arbitration of disputes; raise in workmen’s standard of living and have helped in the establishment of the compulsory school law, the elimination of communism and Bolshevism from America, the Americanization program, and Industrial Democracy. On the other hand, the negative contended that Labor unions do not benefit laboring men generally; and are not economically sound; pollute politics; crush honest states men and force class legislation; curtail individual productivity of members; and that methods used by the union infringe on nonunion workers. The usual clashes over authorities, and several humorous remarks added to the interest of the discussion.
The judges who were from the University of Tennessee were R.B. Parsons department of education; A.D. Morse, College of Liberal Arts; M.B. Hamer, department of history.
Leather bills folds were presented the Sherwood speakers by their own co-workers, the Belles-Lettres. The Palladians presented gold watch charms to the representatives of their brother society, the Upper Cumberland.
The Upper Cumberland Orgchestra consisting of piano, Virginia Wilcox, saxophones, Lauren O’dell, Robert Cox, trumpet, Frank Neely; and drums, Albert Brogden furnished music.
New Loan Fund for T.P.I Given by Cookeville Book Lovers’ Club
The Cookeville Book Lovers Club which has been contributing something annually to the promotion of education, decided to change the channel through which to exert its efforts, so far as this one piece of its work is concerned. When trying to find the place that its contribution would fill the greatest need and do the most good it was agreed that nothing better could be done than to establish a student loan fund at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. The loan fund is to be known as the Cookeville Book Lovers loan fund and is to be controlled by the same regulations as are other loan funds at this institution. The amount that the members of this club raised for this purpose is $50.00 Whether this loan fund is large or small, it is one that is greatly appreciated by Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. It. is the first fund that has been added to the T. P. I. loan fund by any organization or individual. We hope it is the first of many that are to be added in the future. It is encouraging to have a local club feel that it could find no better way of doing a piece of constructive work than by setting aside this money to be used by worthy students of this Upper Cumberland section. We are already convinced of the worthwhileness of a student loan fund. We make some effort each year to increase this fund. The interest shown by this club should make us more zealous in our support of the Shakepearian play which is given for this purpose.
Bethel College Falls Before Tech in Initial Game
Confronted with almost their equal in baseball classification, the Golden Eagles wn the initial game of their season by a 4 to 2 score.
Not only did the Eagles win the game, but in the winning of it, they showed the pep and vim that looks like a real winning team for the season.
It was in the second inning when Little made his way across home plate. The game waswon in the sixth when with Nixon and Winningham on bas, Watson doubled to centerfield, scoring Nixon and sending Winningham to third, from which he scored on K Evans single to right field. The last of the scores crossed the plate in the eighth inning.
Summers, the Southpaw trick ball artist, opened and pitched a four hit game. Fourteen of the Kentuckians succumbed to his hooks. In addition, he delivered a nice hit in a pinch, which scored Little. Rogers, for the visitors was unable to keep up the pace of the game and his base-jointed type of delivery was given over to Grisham, a Southpaw, in the sixth inning. Grisham was only scored on once, but several times he was in a hole that he, by some miraculous way was able to overcome.
Score by innings R H E
Bethel 00 100 100 2 4 4
T.P.I. 010 020 01 4 12 3
Spring Football Training Ends with Game
For almost six weeks Coach Smith has been putting his large squad of football candidates through hard scrimage every afternoon. The squad was divided into two teams about two weeks ago, the "white" and the "gold", and these two teams have been working hard preparing for the final struggle that came Tuesday afternoon, April 12.
This long sought for battle between the two teams was settled to the satisfaction of both teams. When the whistle blew for the end, the score stood 0 to 0.
The game was a bitterly fought one, full of hard tackles and insulting invective. Both teams were able to get within about 8 yards of the goal line, but by some misfortune they were both turned back before any real damage was done. The game was a continued battle shifting from one end of the gridiron to the other
The playing of this game closed the spring practice which the coaches have expressed as, "one of the best things that has ever been done for the upbuilding of next years varsity team."
“The Eagle” In Hands of Printers
The manuscript for “The Eagle” has been sent to the McQuiddy Printing Company and printing will begin immediately.
The staff has worked hard to make this annual worth much to the students and one to be proud of, and they have succeeded. It is thirty-two pages larger than that of last year and has many unique and interesting features in addition to the material usually found in annuals.
Home Study of Highschool Seniors
To determine whether time devoted to home study by pupils in Western High School, Baltimore, is apportioned to the best advantage in preparation of different subjects in the curriculum, a questionnaire was sent to about 275 senior students. Answers show that history receives the most home-study time, an average of 80 minutes. Latin comes next, with an average of 58 minutes, then stenography, 57 minutes; mathematics, 46; and modern languages and chemistry with an average of 45 minutes each. Pupils reported an average of 42 minutes home study of English and 38 minutes of biology. The average per pupil time for each subject is 53 minutes, or about three hours and a half of home stud in all. This is thought to be an overestimate rather than an underestimate. A practical result of the survey has been to reduce the history assignment, which entails library work, and by readjustments of others to make more time available for home study in the subjects now below the median –School life
University Encourages Practical Study of Botany
A wild flower contest to continue 10 years in the schools of the State, has been projected by the University of Texas with the purpose of familiarizing teachers and pupils with wild flowers of their own locality. Annual exhibits will be prepared by the schools to consist of 30 specimens, 10 each gathered I the fall, winter, and spring, pressed and mounted according to directions announced by the professor of botany of the University, who is director of the contest. The scheme contemplates preparation of exhibits in triplicate and retention of one set by participating schools. The best exhibit in each county will be sent to the university. At the expiration of the 10 year period the university will have a collection of wild flowers from different parts of the State and each school participating will possess and exhibit of 300 authentically identified wild flowers of its locality. The process of collection is purposefully made gradual in order that pupils may learn the specimens thoroughly, and that the members received at the university at any one time may not be too great. –School Life
The Lady of my Delight
When the coals have burned to embers
And the lamplight flickers low,
Something tells me she remembers
Something tells me –and I know
That her eyes have lost the shining,
Soft, deep witchery--once they had,
And that somewhere she is pining
For her faithless Galahad.
Softly now the shadows thicken
And a score of spirits and frays—
Sweet tormentors—come to quicken
Memories of dead yesterdays
Pensive sorrow: burning token
Of the love that once was mine;
Oh, that I had never spoken,
Never worshipped at her shrine!
Every shadow breathes the essence
Of her gentle soothing ways;
Her dark eyes held the quintessence
Of all love, and in the blaze
Of my fireside glimmering lower,
With a questioning surmise
Burning through my bosom's core—
I can see those hazel eyes!
Soft they glow, like visions float
From the land of dreams and sleep,
And they set me doting, doting,
On the secrets I must keep.
She is gone from me forever,
Oh, what devilish chastisement!
But no man will get her-ever,
She's a chemise advertisement!
Vadus Carmack
Words
Someone has said, “Words are pegs to hang ideas on”. Then we must be very careful in our choice of words for the wrong idea may be obtained from them, for “words fitly speaken are like apples of gold in piatchers of silver.” “Think twice before you speak” is an axiom that cannot be too carefully heeded for words once spoken cannot be recalled. The following poem has a wonderful meaning:
“Keep a watch on your words, my darling,
For words are wonderful things;
They are sweet like the bees’ refresh honey,
Like the bees, they have terrible stings.
They can soothe in a time of anguish;
They can brighten a lonely life;
They can cut in the strife of anger
Like an open two-edged knife.”
Sophomore Class
The Sophomores continue to meet-and hold interesting meetings.
Mr. Carmack was in charge of the last program given by the class. He presented several clippings frpm the "Putnam County Herald" of the year 1950. According to these reports there can be no doubt that there is a bright future in store for the various members of this class.
The Sophomore class is proud to boast of the fact that of the four debates of the inter-society contest, which was held recently that three of these brilliant young men are members of this class.
Sherwood Society
The spirit of the Sherwood society has never been higher than at the present. This was well demonstrated in a pep meeting just proceeding the debate in which we added from twenty five to thirty new members to the two societies and later in the two societies and later in the annual debate in which the Sherwoods won by a unanimous decision. This is four years in succession in which the Sherwoods have won the debate.
We are now entering the contests which are to come off in the near future with the same determination which has meant victory for us in the past.
Miranda
Her cheeks are roses of delight
Upon sheen of creamy snow;
Her hair is like the shampoo ads,
Her teeth are pearls-a gleaming row
Encased in carmine lips so red,
Her eyes are pools of heavenly blue;
Her knees are dimpled like her cheeks,
And more electrifying too!
She’s just a wonder, nothing less;
She makes the fellows all go “flop”
When she walks by-but then I guess
SHE knows the way to the Beauty Shoppe!
A Freshman Tragedy
(Vadus Carmack)
There was a boy from our school
And he was wondrous dumb,
He bought a campus ticket
And lost a tidy sum;
And when he saw what he had lost
He took his stock and store
And bought a pass to the bathroom
And lost a great deal more!
Sign in a bookshop: “The Sleeping Lady” is a paper covers. Something new in bedclothes-what?
I often went and hooked the eggs
Which made my neighbor sore.
He hit upon a plan to check
My looted gains, ill gotten,
He threw a few up under the floor
Which broke and they were rotten!
And now the earth resounds with an irregular, monotonous cadence. It reverberates thru the hills, sweeps over the plains, and fills the ether with static. All day long, and far into the wee, small hours of the morning we hear a semi-rhythmic click-clack, bim bam! Smash bang! What is it? Oh, yes the collegiate poets are heralding the arrival of Spring!
Freshmen at McGill University, Montreal, Can. Are forced to carry song books to all of their classes and are not allowed to speak to upper classmen.
The Tech Oracle
Official publications of the students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Published Semi-Monthly
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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 Odeli Cornwell
Alumni Rebecca Johnston
Feature Editor Jonnie Billbrey
Poet Vadus Carmack
Business Manager David Terry
Assistant Business Manager
Circulation Manager Paul Tidwell
Asst. Circ. Manager Alfred Gill
Faculty advisor J.M. Hatfield
Pity the English Instructor
Mr. H.L. Mencken, whom someone aptly called a connoisseur of human ignorance would enjoy the Log Book kept by the English Department at the University of North Carolina. In that amusing journal is kept a record of the outstanding boners committed by freshmen and other.
Here it is recorded by one freshman that David Copperfield’s novels are infinitely superior to anything Dickens ever wrote. Another first yearling recalled having read Hawthorne’s House of Seven Gabriels.
Gems are gulled from compositions. A freshman describing a singer said “She had a charming voice of melodious noise.”
Lincoln’s mind, another essayist reminds us, “growed as his country kneaded it.”
“I pulled through a disease,” another recalls, “which was a victim of my sister. She was a microbe hunter, we presume.”
In public speaking class, an embryo Patrick Henry Exclaimed “Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat in my opponent’s remarks, but I propose to kill him while it’s young.”
Pity the poor English instructor!
A class at George Washington University recently waited fifteen minutes for an instructor and then dispersed. The next day the instructored claimed to have been in the class because he had left his hat on the desk. On the following day upon entering the classroom he was greeted with rows of chairs occupied only by hats, but not one student. Our informant does not state whether or not the instructor left his hat and went home.
A student at Western Maryland College desired a grand piano. His room was not large enough to hold both piano and bed so he may be seen peacefully slumbering on the musical instrument every night.
Resolutions of thanks to the book lovers club
At a recent meeting of the United College Classes the following resolutions were adopted.
Whereas the Book-Lover’s Club of Cookeville, has through the sale of tickets for the Strand Theater of the city added materially to the Student Loan Fund of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute express through these resolutions our thanks and appreciation for this addition to our loan fund and be it further resolved, that the secretary be, and is hereby instructed to give a copy of these resolutions to the Book Lover’s Club, and a copy to “The Tech Oracle” for publication.
Senior College Class
The matriculation for the spring quarter brought the enrollment of the senior class up to twenty seven, of which numbered, 20-21, will graduate either at the end of the spring semester or at the end of the summer quarter. The seniors are well represented in the various activities of the student body. We are well represented on the various athletic teams, and in the casts of the various play. Miss Rebeccaa Johnston has been chosen from our midst to be “Queen of the may”, Miss Eleanor Haile has been elected the most popular girl in school, and Mr. Robley Jobe was selected as the best all round boy in school.
The Senior class is planning a supper hike to be held at an early date. All members are expected to go, and all are anticipating a good time.
High School Requirements of the Engineering Colleges
A study of the entrance requirements of 154 engineering colleges will distributes over ing every type of Engineering College, shows that the standard requirement for entrance is 15 units. Of these three must be in mathematics, three in English, and usually two in science. The remaining units are distributed over a wide field of selection. The course in mathematics required by most of the colleges reporting were as follows: Algebra 1.5 units. Plane Geometry 1 unit, Solid Geometry one half unit.
About 80 per cent of those colleges will admit students with conditions amounting to from 1 to 2 units; but in most cases require that the condition be removed by the beginning of the sophomore year. Apparently a large percentage of the students admitted with conditions in Mathematics have their deficiency in solid geometry and the third half-unit of algebra.
The report of this study also shows that fully two thirds of the students who fail in engineering are deficient in mathematics, indicating the importance of securing the most thorough training in high school mathematics, for these expecting to study engineering when they go to college.
Failure to graduate either due to lack of interest, lack of ability, or poor preparations 69.5%
Fraternity, social and other activities 8.5%
Self support 8.1%
Bad health 4.7%
Unknown causes 9.2%
Total 100%
Palladians and Upper Cumberlands
The palladian and Upper Cumberland Literary Societies held a joint meeting on Monday, April 11th. An unusually interesting program was enjoyed by all. After the program sandwiches and drinks were served by a joint committee.
The meeting was full of “pep” and everyone was very enthusiastic.
Thelma Music
"What would we do in this world of ours, were it not for the dreams ahead?" Always before us, like a bright, beckoning star, are the dreams of what we shall do in the "afterwhile." Sometime we shall paint a beautiful picture, write a wonderful book, or put on paper that haunting bit of melody that has sung through our heads these many years. Dreams all of them, yet dreams are the factors that make life worthwhile.
What are dreams? Can we define them? They are so intangible and illusive that, though we may hold one in our hands and think to examine it minutely, it escapes our eager grasp, and is gone into the land of memory.
Yet we do know that reams are of a fairy-like beauty. In their varied shapes we see all the colors of the rainbow melting and shading into one another, Changing each moment, "yet ever the same." Dreams are made of some airy fabric, whose texture is so fine that a breath will blow it away.
Since the beginning of time man has dreamed. The caveman dreamed of less-brutal warfare, of fire-making appartus, of cooked, food and so, a crude civiliation was evolved. What would world be today if it had not been for dreams? If Columbus had not dreamed of westward route to India the progress of the world would have been stayed for years. Charlemagne dreamed of a drifted empire and gave to the world its first conception of a strong, centralized government. Caeser dreamed of conquest, and added large territories to the Roman Empire. Benjamin Franklin dreamed that "the lightning could be harnessed." and gave to us electricity with its manifold blessings. Abraham Lincoln dreamed of a time when the glorious flag of our nation should wave over a free people, and he lived to see his dream realized. Someone dreamed of college for the young people of the Upper Cumberland section, and we have T. P. I. Some member of the present State Legislature dreamed that the schools of the state needed better buildings, better qualified teachers, and a longer school term; so we are to have an appropriation of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for this purpose.
Dreams all of them! Yet the results have been far-reaching, and will be known through out the ages. Our dreams should have a purpose, and work toward a result like the examples given, not idle dreams, "we are not here to dream, to drift; we have burdens to bear, and loads to lift"
In sections of my home county where superstition still holds sway, each dream has a meaning. I would have you give your dreams a meaning, a God-born purpose. Then live up to and towards this_ purpose. Dream of your daily tasks. Dream that each one counts and means something in the Mastur's Dream of your life, and when you can do this and can say to yourself, "I dreamed I did what the other fellow couldn't, and my dream came true" then will you realize that dreams are the .stuff of which men are made! Dream on! I would not wake you if I could.
Calendar of Spring Quarter 1927
April 20 Tech Oracle Banquet
May 6 “T” Club Banquet
May 7 High School Junior Senior Reception 8 pm
May 13 College Junior Senior Reception
May 19 Annual Picnic –Special train to Mayland
May 28 Oratorical Contest 8 pm
May 29 Commencement Sermon
May 31 The Taming of the Shrew 8 pm
June 1 Declamation Contest 10 am
June 1 Reading Contest
June 2 Class day exercises
June 2 Alumni banquet
June 3 Commencement exercises 10 am
The examinations for the Spring Quarter will be held Monday and Tuesday, May 30 and 31.
The date for the Eagle Staff Banquet has not been set.
Tomas L. Passons
Chairman Student, Activities Committee.
Miss Catherine Hargis Becomes Bride of Walter Birdwell
The marriage of Miss Catherine Mgddux Hargis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge De-Witt---Hargis to Walter Birdwell, on Saturday afternoon, was an event of especial interest to Cookeville where the bride and groom both are popularly known. The two are members of families long prominent in their home county. The ceremony took place at the Presbyterian church at Granville, Rev. Van Smith officiating. The wedding music was given by Mrs. Judkins of Gordonsville pianist, and Mrs. Walter Cooper, vocalist. The church- altar was decorated with palms and Easter lilies and contained the lighted tapers in Cathedral candlesticks and developed the proposed color scheme of green and white. In the bridal party were the ring bearer, little Betty Katherine Reeves, the bride's cousin. Maid of honor was Miss Margaret Hargis, while Mrs. Herbie Shanks served as matron of honor. The bride's younger sister, Rebecca, was junior maid with orange blossoms, a shower bouquet of roses, sweet peas and lilies of the valley was carried. Miss Hargis wore orchid crepe with picture hat of the same shade. Her flowers were yellow roses with sweet peas. Mrs. Shanks was gowned in green flat crepe with lavender hat and carried lilies of 'the valley.
Rebecca Hargis wore pink-flat crepe with hat to match, her flowers were pastel shades of sweet peas. Betty Katherine Reeves wore pink crepe with pink hat and carried the ring in an Easter lily.
At one o'clock intimate friends of the bride and groom were entertained at a buffet luncheon. Mrs. Haile and Mrs. Henderson served from a lace-covered table which had an attractive center of violets and roses. They were assisted by Mita Byrne.
Mr. and Mrs. Birdwell each received their education at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Mrs. Birdwell being a member of the Class of 24, and Mr. Birdwell of the Class of 23. Mrs. Birdwell was a member of the Palladian Literary Society while Mr. Birdwell belonged to the Sherwoods.
After an extensive western tour this young couple will reside in Nashville where the groom holds a position with the Fourth and First National Bank.
Belles Lettres
The Belles Lettres Literary Society met Monday, April 11, in their regular meeting room. After the program was finished several members signified their intentions of entering the annual intersociety contests.
The first week of April was quite an eventful one to the Belles Lettres as several new members were sworn in, fifteen in at one time.
While the judges were making their decision after the Upper Cumberland Sherwood debate, the Belles Lettres president on behalf of the society, presented Messrs. Crawford and Carr with Billfolds.
It was George Moore, that provocative Lion of English Literature, who said this: “Good heavens! And the world still believes in education. Education is fatal to anyone with a spark of education feeling. Education should be confined to clerks and it even drives them to drink. Will the world learn that we never learn anything that we did not know before?” Which reminds us of this sparkling passage in Ecclesiastes: “And further, by these my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
Jokes
Mercilessly he pounded and thumped the quivering, inarticulate thing before him. At times he would ruthlessly strike it in a regular rhythmical frenzy and then, as if taking pity for a moment, would cease. But the intermissions were all too short for the racked and tortured object. Had it been able to speak it would have pleaded for a rest, but it was mute and could only endure this awful punishment in silence. When it seemed that the poor bruised frame of the persecuted could endure no more, the man rolled this manuscript out of his typewriter, folded the little portable machine, and put it away for the night.
Rebecca J: --“Name the five senses”
Arlie M: --“Nickles”
Miss Jarmon: --“Give me the definition of a polygon.”
Albert Brogden: --A polly-gone is a dead parrot.
James Dewey Poteet: --“Since Henry Mallory went to the Chicago he has a gold medal for running 5 miles; a silver medal for swimming; two loving cups for wrestling; and badges for a boxing and rowing.”
Hazel Thompson: You don’t say so. How did he get them? J.D. Poteet: He works in a pawn shop.
Lauren O’dell: I played with Beasey Smith’s orchestra once.
Miss Stanton: Oh did you?
Lauren O’dell: Yes, only once.
The Best Stories of Life.
(1) Dormitory student to ditto: “Lend me a dollar. I’ll let you have it back next week, sure.”
(2) Office boy, to Bosses’ wife: --“Sorry Mrs. Fippy, but Mr. Fippy is in conference and can’t be disturbed.”
(3) Housewife, to gas collector: --“Why I sent the check for that gas bill this morning.”
(4) Morning after night before: --“I’ll never, never take another drink.”
(5) Central: --“Line’s busy.”
(6) Girls: “Oh! Harold, You are the first boy I even kissed.”
“Is he dumb?”
“Dumb! Say –his wife sent him out to get a nut-cracker, and he came home with a rolling-pin.”
Professor Hatfield: --“I’m dismissing you in 10 minutes early Walk easy so as not to wake the other classes.”
When you were abroad did you see the Dardanells?
Miss harden: Yes, I had dinner with them.
A well-known minister, famous for absentmindedness, once met an old friend in the street and stopped to talk with him. When about to separate, the minister’s face suddenly assumed a puzzled expression. “Tom,” he said, “when we met was I going up or down the street?” “Down,” replied Tom.
The minister’s face cleared, “It’s all right, then I had been home to lunch.”
Motorgrams
(1) Never put off till tomorrow the joy rides you can have today.
(2) The man who hesitates gets run over.
(3) There is not use locking the garage door after the car has been taken out for a joyride.
(4) The fellow with the old car is lucky, if he runs into nothing but debt.
(5) It is considered alright to blow your horn provided it is attached to a high-powered car.
(6) Don’t count your chickens if you live near a highway.
News Items
Miss Shipley brought some of her pupils from City School out to “Tech” Friday morning to give us a sample of the program to be given the following night. The program at T.P.I. consisted of two numbers. The White Rabbits and The Tin Soldier. The dancers refused to give an encore saying that if we wanted more we would have to come to their program Saturday evening.
Acting-Pres. Smith and Mr. Kittrell have been in Nashville most of the past two weeks in the interest of the school.
Many teachers attending T.P.I. went to Nashville Thursday, April 14 to attend the State Teachers’ meeting.
Pres. and Mrs. Q.M. Smith spent the week-end with Cookeville friends.
Did you know the China is the most populous of all nations?
A school for parachute jumpers is maintained at Lakehurst, N.j.
Whales have been known to fight two days after being harpooned.
In large ice cream plants the product is never touched by human hands.
A pair of Zebras in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, are driven to a wagon.
An Italian has made a treasure chest containing 11,968 separate pieces of wood.
During a fur shortage in Europe, the skins of Shetland ponies were used for women’s wraps.
Forty men and women taught to read and write is reported as result of the first five months’ activity in Peru of the league against illiteracy, organized last year. Registration of 252 people for instruction in fundamentals of the language is reported in Lima, and of 62 in Callao.
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The Oracle, Volume 004, Number 14
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Volume 004, Description 14 of The Tech Oracle student newspaper.Transcript: The Tech OracleMiss Rebecca Johnston, Queen of MayTen Other Girls Chosen for Maids to QueenWhen we look back through the annals of history to the days of Cleopatra and Helen of Troy or, if by chance, we glance through the pages of fiction where Juliet and Rosalind reign supreme, we are inclined to wonder if the belles of old Teen do not make these pictures seem rather hazy and obscure.On Tuesday morning twenty girls passed before the student body in beauty revue. These girls were selected as the beauties of Tech and it was a difficult task to select eleven from the following group:Rebecca . Johnston, Eleanor Haile, Lucile Lee, Sammie Ruth Womack, Mary Ellen. Rash, Mary Nella Graham, Elsie Young, Louise -Settle, Maurine Quarles, Mary Ellen Watson, Bertie Brown, Marie Peters, Hazel Tompson, Lucile Camaeron, Pearle . Cornwell, Jesse Barnes, Muriel. Gipson, Mayme Gibson, Pauline Hudgens, and Cora Belle Frizzell.After a close contest the first eleven girls were chosen, as the beauties to be the maids to the Queen of May at the Festival. On the following day came the contest to—choose the Queen from the chosen eleven. This honor was bestowed upon Miss Rebecca Johnston whose stately name, beautiful face and features, and rank as senior gave her the coveted place. Miss Johnston will be crowned Queen of "Tech" on May Day.Emily Stanton Wins in Voice Contest At the State Federation of Music Clubs which met in Springfield last week Miss Emily Banton, who was a student of T. P. I. last year and will also be here during the short spring term, won the first prize of $25.00 in the State contest for girls' voices.Miss Tennie Alma Stanton attended the meeting and was a judge in the piano contests and appeared with Mrs. W. A. Howard in a two-piano number on one of the evening concerts.April 26, Opening Date of Short Spring TermThe Short Spring Term will open on April 26 and continue for six weeks, closing June 3. Reservations have already been made to fill the girls' dormitory to its capacity, three girls being () placed in many of the rooms. Indications are that at least one hundred new students will register for this term and the majority of them will remain for summer school.Some additional instructors will be secured to take charge of the classes which will be organized at that time. This term beginning at this time of the year is proving very beneficial to the teachers whose schools did not close in time for them to enter at the opening o the regular spring term. Cumberland loses first game to Tech 4-2; wins second 5-3Bulldogs Stage Comeback and win last came in double headerWith Arlie Moss twirling the old pill in true virtuoso fashion, the Tech Eagles swooped down on the veteran Cumberland University Bulldogs Wednesday April 13, and carried off the victory in the first of a two-game series.The game presented all the thrills of an evenly matched bout until Winningham in the eighth brought two men in with a two bagger which gave Tech a lead of two points. Strain as they might, the Bulldogs could not even the score. Cook pitched one inning for Cumberland, striking out three men. He was replaced by Hicks, who during the remainder of the game, struck out five men. Moss showed his true metal by allowing the visitors only seven hits, while the Eagles collected ten off Cook and Hicks.The hitting of Moss, Summers, and Blount for T.P.I. and Baird and Hood for Cumberland featured.In the second game, Cumberland was more successful, although there were no outstanding plays. Summers pitched for T.P.I. and Baird and Hood for Cumberland featured.In the second game, Cumberland was more successful, although there were no outstanding plays. Summers pitched for T.P.I. while Cumberland put three or four different pitchers in the box.The Eagles displayed good team work in both games, and we may expect further victories from them during the remainder of the season.Sherwoods Win Annual Intersociety DebateStanley Carr and Leonard Crawford Carry Old Rose and Gray to Victory The Sherwoods won the annual intersociety debate for the fourth consecutive year on April 8, when the judges gave a unanimous decision in their favor. The Upper Cumberland speakers, Paul Moore and Robert Smith supported the affirmative side of the question “Resolved That Labor Unions, As They Exist Today, On the Whole Are Beneficial, while the negative side was defended by () the Sherwoods, Stanley Carr and Leonard Crawford. A large crowd of enthusiastic supports of each society attended the debate. The affirmative speakers advanced arguments to show that labor unions had benefitted the American public by securing increased wages and shorter work hours for all workers; legislating better working conditions, and the employment of women and children in factories; collective bargaining; a decrease in strikes; arbitration of disputes; raise in workmen’s standard of living and have helped in the establishment of the compulsory school law, the elimination of communism and Bolshevism from America, the Americanization program, and Industrial Democracy. On the other hand, the negative contended that Labor unions do not benefit laboring men generally; and are not economically sound; pollute politics; crush honest states men and force class legislation; curtail individual productivity of members; and that methods used by the union infringe on nonunion workers. The usual clashes over authorities, and several humorous remarks added to the interest of the discussion. The judges who were from the University of Tennessee were R.B. Parsons department of education; A.D. Morse, College of Liberal Arts; M.B. Hamer, department of history. Leather bills folds were presented the Sherwood speakers by their own co-workers, the Belles-Lettres. The Palladians presented gold watch charms to the representatives of their brother society, the Upper Cumberland. The Upper Cumberland Orgchestra consisting of piano, Virginia Wilcox, saxophones, Lauren O’dell, Robert Cox, trumpet, Frank Neely; and drums, Albert Brogden furnished music.New Loan Fund for T.P.I Given by Cookeville Book Lovers’ Club The Cookeville Book Lovers Club which has been contributing something annually to the promotion of education, decided to change the channel through which to exert its efforts, so far as this one piece of its work is concerned. When trying to find the place that its contribution would fill the greatest need and do the most good it was agreed that nothing better could be done than to establish a student loan fund at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. The loan fund is to be known as the Cookeville Book Lovers loan fund and is to be controlled by the same regulations as are other loan funds at this institution. The amount that the members of this club raised for this purpose is $50.00 Whether this loan fund is large or small, it is one that is greatly appreciated by Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. It. is the first fund that has been added to the T. P. I. loan fund by any organization or individual. We hope it is the first of many that are to be added in the future. It is encouraging to have a local club feel that it could find no better way of doing a piece of constructive work than by setting aside this money to be used by worthy students of this Upper Cumberland section. We are already convinced of the worthwhileness of a student loan fund. We make some effort each year to increase this fund. The interest shown by this club should make us more zealous in our support of the Shakepearian play which is given for this purpose.Bethel College Falls Before Tech in Initial Game Confronted with almost their equal in baseball classification, the Golden Eagles wn the initial game of their season by a 4 to 2 score. Not only did the Eagles win the game, but in the winning of it, they showed the pep and vim that looks like a real winning team for the season. It was in the second inning when Little made his way across home plate. The game waswon in the sixth when with Nixon and Winningham on bas, Watson doubled to centerfield, scoring Nixon and sending Winningham to third, from which he scored on K Evans single to right field. The last of the scores crossed the plate in the eighth inning. Summers, the Southpaw trick ball artist, opened and pitched a four hit game. Fourteen of the Kentuckians succumbed to his hooks. In addition, he delivered a nice hit in a pinch, which scored Little. Rogers, for the visitors was unable to keep up the pace of the game and his base-jointed type of delivery was given over to Grisham, a Southpaw, in the sixth inning. Grisham was only scored on once, but several times he was in a hole that he, by some miraculous way was able to overcome. Score by innings R H EBethel 00 100 100 2 4 4T.P.I. 010 020 01 4 12 3Spring Football Training Ends with GameFor almost six weeks Coach Smith has been putting his large squad of football candidates through hard scrimage every afternoon. The squad was divided into two teams about two weeks ago, the "white" and the "gold", and these two teams have been working hard preparing for the final struggle that came Tuesday afternoon, April 12.This long sought for battle between the two teams was settled to the satisfaction of both teams. When the whistle blew for the end, the score stood 0 to 0.The game was a bitterly fought one, full of hard tackles and insulting invective. Both teams were able to get within about 8 yards of the goal line, but by some misfortune they were both turned back before any real damage was done. The game was a continued battle shifting from one end of the gridiron to the otherThe playing of this game closed the spring practice which the coaches have expressed as, "one of the best things that has ever been done for the upbuilding of next years varsity team."“The Eagle” In Hands of Printers The manuscript for “The Eagle” has been sent to the McQuiddy Printing Company and printing will begin immediately. The staff has worked hard to make this annual worth much to the students and one to be proud of, and they have succeeded. It is thirty-two pages larger than that of last year and has many unique and interesting features in addition to the material usually found in annuals.Home Study of Highschool Seniors To determine whether time devoted to home study by pupils in Western High School, Baltimore, is apportioned to the best advantage in preparation of different subjects in the curriculum, a questionnaire was sent to about 275 senior students. Answers show that history receives the most home-study time, an average of 80 minutes. Latin comes next, with an average of 58 minutes, then stenography, 57 minutes; mathematics, 46; and modern languages and chemistry with an average of 45 minutes each. Pupils reported an average of 42 minutes home study of English and 38 minutes of biology. The average per pupil time for each subject is 53 minutes, or about three hours and a half of home stud in all. This is thought to be an overestimate rather than an underestimate. A practical result of the survey has been to reduce the history assignment, which entails library work, and by readjustments of others to make more time available for home study in the subjects now below the median –School life University Encourages Practical Study of Botany A wild flower contest to continue 10 years in the schools of the State, has been projected by the University of Texas with the purpose of familiarizing teachers and pupils with wild flowers of their own locality. Annual exhibits will be prepared by the schools to consist of 30 specimens, 10 each gathered I the fall, winter, and spring, pressed and mounted according to directions announced by the professor of botany of the University, who is director of the contest. The scheme contemplates preparation of exhibits in triplicate and retention of one set by participating schools. The best exhibit in each county will be sent to the university. At the expiration of the 10 year period the university will have a collection of wild flowers from different parts of the State and each school participating will possess and exhibit of 300 authentically identified wild flowers of its locality. The process of collection is purposefully made gradual in order that pupils may learn the specimens thoroughly, and that the members received at the university at any one time may not be too great. –School LifeThe Lady of my DelightWhen the coals have burned to embersAnd the lamplight flickers low,Something tells me she remembersSomething tells me –and I knowThat her eyes have lost the shining,Soft, deep witchery--once they had,And that somewhere she is piningFor her faithless Galahad.Softly now the shadows thickenAnd a score of spirits and frays— Sweet tormentors—come to quickenMemories of dead yesterdays Pensive sorrow: burning tokenOf the love that once was mine;Oh, that I had never spoken, Never worshipped at her shrine! Every shadow breathes the essenceOf her gentle soothing ways; Her dark eyes held the quintessenceOf all love, and in the blaze Of my fireside glimmering lower,With a questioning surmise Burning through my bosom's core— I can see those hazel eyes!Soft they glow, like visions floatFrom the land of dreams and sleep,And they set me doting, doting,On the secrets I must keep. She is gone from me forever, Oh, what devilish chastisement!But no man will get her-ever, She's a chemise advertisement! Vadus CarmackWords Someone has said, “Words are pegs to hang ideas on”. Then we must be very careful in our choice of words for the wrong idea may be obtained from them, for “words fitly speaken are like apples of gold in piatchers of silver.” “Think twice before you speak” is an axiom that cannot be too carefully heeded for words once spoken cannot be recalled. The following poem has a wonderful meaning: “Keep a watch on your words, my darling,For words are wonderful things;They are sweet like the bees’ refresh honey,Like the bees, they have terrible stings.They can soothe in a time of anguish;They can brighten a lonely life;They can cut in the strife of angerLike an open two-edged knife.”Sophomore ClassThe Sophomores continue to meet-and hold interesting meetings.Mr. Carmack was in charge of the last program given by the class. He presented several clippings frpm the "Putnam County Herald" of the year 1950. According to these reports there can be no doubt that there is a bright future in store for the various members of this class. The Sophomore class is proud to boast of the fact that of the four debates of the inter-society contest, which was held recently that three of these brilliant young men are members of this class.Sherwood Society The spirit of the Sherwood society has never been higher than at the present. This was well demonstrated in a pep meeting just proceeding the debate in which we added from twenty five to thirty new members to the two societies and later in the two societies and later in the annual debate in which the Sherwoods won by a unanimous decision. This is four years in succession in which the Sherwoods have won the debate. We are now entering the contests which are to come off in the near future with the same determination which has meant victory for us in the past.Miranda Her cheeks are roses of delightUpon sheen of creamy snow;Her hair is like the shampoo ads,Her teeth are pearls-a gleaming rowEncased in carmine lips so red,Her eyes are pools of heavenly blue;Her knees are dimpled like her cheeks,And more electrifying too!She’s just a wonder, nothing less;She makes the fellows all go “flop”When she walks by-but then I guessSHE knows the way to the Beauty Shoppe!A Freshman Tragedy(Vadus Carmack)There was a boy from our schoolAnd he was wondrous dumb, He bought a campus ticketAnd lost a tidy sum;And when he saw what he had lostHe took his stock and storeAnd bought a pass to the bathroomAnd lost a great deal more!Sign in a bookshop: “The Sleeping Lady” is a paper covers. Something new in bedclothes-what?I often went and hooked the eggsWhich made my neighbor sore.He hit upon a plan to checkMy looted gains, ill gotten,He threw a few up under the floorWhich broke and they were rotten!And now the earth resounds with an irregular, monotonous cadence. It reverberates thru the hills, sweeps over the plains, and fills the ether with static. All day long, and far into the wee, small hours of the morning we hear a semi-rhythmic click-clack, bim bam! Smash bang! What is it? Oh, yes the collegiate poets are heralding the arrival of Spring!Freshmen at McGill University, Montreal, Can. Are forced to carry song books to all of their classes and are not allowed to speak to upper classmen.The Tech OracleOfficial publications of the students of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Published Semi-MonthlySubscription rates: $1.50 per yearEditorial StaffEditor in chief Hazel WallAssistant Editor Eleanor HaileAssistant Editor Benton M. CarrAssociate EditorsAthletic Harry BurrowWit and Humor Robert SmithExchange Alberta CassettyClass Editor Odeli CornwellAlumni Rebecca JohnstonFeature Editor Jonnie BillbreyPoet Vadus CarmackBusiness Manager David TerryAssistant Business ManagerCirculation Manager Paul TidwellAsst. Circ. Manager Alfred GillFaculty advisor J.M. HatfieldPity the English Instructor Mr. H.L. Mencken, whom someone aptly called a connoisseur of human ignorance would enjoy the Log Book kept by the English Department at the University of North Carolina. In that amusing journal is kept a record of the outstanding boners committed by freshmen and other. Here it is recorded by one freshman that David Copperfield’s novels are infinitely superior to anything Dickens ever wrote. Another first yearling recalled having read Hawthorne’s House of Seven Gabriels. Gems are gulled from compositions. A freshman describing a singer said “She had a charming voice of melodious noise.” Lincoln’s mind, another essayist reminds us, “growed as his country kneaded it.” “I pulled through a disease,” another recalls, “which was a victim of my sister. She was a microbe hunter, we presume.” In public speaking class, an embryo Patrick Henry Exclaimed “Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat in my opponent’s remarks, but I propose to kill him while it’s young.” Pity the poor English instructor! A class at George Washington University recently waited fifteen minutes for an instructor and then dispersed. The next day the instructored claimed to have been in the class because he had left his hat on the desk. On the following day upon entering the classroom he was greeted with rows of chairs occupied only by hats, but not one student. Our informant does not state whether or not the instructor left his hat and went home. A student at Western Maryland College desired a grand piano. His room was not large enough to hold both piano and bed so he may be seen peacefully slumbering on the musical instrument every night. Resolutions of thanks to the book lovers club At a recent meeting of the United College Classes the following resolutions were adopted. Whereas the Book-Lover’s Club of Cookeville, has through the sale of tickets for the Strand Theater of the city added materially to the Student Loan Fund of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute express through these resolutions our thanks and appreciation for this addition to our loan fund and be it further resolved, that the secretary be, and is hereby instructed to give a copy of these resolutions to the Book Lover’s Club, and a copy to “The Tech Oracle” for publication.Senior College Class The matriculation for the spring quarter brought the enrollment of the senior class up to twenty seven, of which numbered, 20-21, will graduate either at the end of the spring semester or at the end of the summer quarter. The seniors are well represented in the various activities of the student body. We are well represented on the various athletic teams, and in the casts of the various play. Miss Rebeccaa Johnston has been chosen from our midst to be “Queen of the may”, Miss Eleanor Haile has been elected the most popular girl in school, and Mr. Robley Jobe was selected as the best all round boy in school. The Senior class is planning a supper hike to be held at an early date. All members are expected to go, and all are anticipating a good time.High School Requirements of the Engineering Colleges A study of the entrance requirements of 154 engineering colleges will distributes over ing every type of Engineering College, shows that the standard requirement for entrance is 15 units. Of these three must be in mathematics, three in English, and usually two in science. The remaining units are distributed over a wide field of selection. The course in mathematics required by most of the colleges reporting were as follows: Algebra 1.5 units. Plane Geometry 1 unit, Solid Geometry one half unit. About 80 per cent of those colleges will admit students with conditions amounting to from 1 to 2 units; but in most cases require that the condition be removed by the beginning of the sophomore year. Apparently a large percentage of the students admitted with conditions in Mathematics have their deficiency in solid geometry and the third half-unit of algebra. The report of this study also shows that fully two thirds of the students who fail in engineering are deficient in mathematics, indicating the importance of securing the most thorough training in high school mathematics, for these expecting to study engineering when they go to college. Failure to graduate either due to lack of interest, lack of ability, or poor preparations 69.5%Fraternity, social and other activities 8.5%Self support 8.1%Bad health 4.7%Unknown causes 9.2%Total 100%Palladians and Upper Cumberlands The palladian and Upper Cumberland Literary Societies held a joint meeting on Monday, April 11th. An unusually interesting program was enjoyed by all. After the program sandwiches and drinks were served by a joint committee. The meeting was full of “pep” and everyone was very enthusiastic.Thelma Music"What would we do in this world of ours, were it not for the dreams ahead?" Always before us, like a bright, beckoning star, are the dreams of what we shall do in the "afterwhile." Sometime we shall paint a beautiful picture, write a wonderful book, or put on paper that haunting bit of melody that has sung through our heads these many years. Dreams all of them, yet dreams are the factors that make life worthwhile.What are dreams? Can we define them? They are so intangible and illusive that, though we may hold one in our hands and think to examine it minutely, it escapes our eager grasp, and is gone into the land of memory. Yet we do know that reams are of a fairy-like beauty. In their varied shapes we see all the colors of the rainbow melting and shading into one another, Changing each moment, "yet ever the same." Dreams are made of some airy fabric, whose texture is so fine that a breath will blow it away.Since the beginning of time man has dreamed. The caveman dreamed of less-brutal warfare, of fire-making appartus, of cooked, food and so, a crude civiliation was evolved. What would world be today if it had not been for dreams? If Columbus had not dreamed of westward route to India the progress of the world would have been stayed for years. Charlemagne dreamed of a drifted empire and gave to the world its first conception of a strong, centralized government. Caeser dreamed of conquest, and added large territories to the Roman Empire. Benjamin Franklin dreamed that "the lightning could be harnessed." and gave to us electricity with its manifold blessings. Abraham Lincoln dreamed of a time when the glorious flag of our nation should wave over a free people, and he lived to see his dream realized. Someone dreamed of college for the young people of the Upper Cumberland section, and we have T. P. I. Some member of the present State Legislature dreamed that the schools of the state needed better buildings, better qualified teachers, and a longer school term; so we are to have an appropriation of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for this purpose.Dreams all of them! Yet the results have been far-reaching, and will be known through out the ages. Our dreams should have a purpose, and work toward a result like the examples given, not idle dreams, "we are not here to dream, to drift; we have burdens to bear, and loads to lift"In sections of my home county where superstition still holds sway, each dream has a meaning. I would have you give your dreams a meaning, a God-born purpose. Then live up to and towards this_ purpose. Dream of your daily tasks. Dream that each one counts and means something in the Mastur's Dream of your life, and when you can do this and can say to yourself, "I dreamed I did what the other fellow couldn't, and my dream came true" then will you realize that dreams are the .stuff of which men are made! Dream on! I would not wake you if I could.Calendar of Spring Quarter 1927April 20 Tech Oracle BanquetMay 6 “T” Club BanquetMay 7 High School Junior Senior Reception 8 pmMay 13 College Junior Senior ReceptionMay 19 Annual Picnic –Special train to MaylandMay 28 Oratorical Contest 8 pmMay 29 Commencement SermonMay 31 The Taming of the Shrew 8 pmJune 1 Declamation Contest 10 amJune 1 Reading ContestJune 2 Class day exercises June 2 Alumni banquetJune 3 Commencement exercises 10 am The examinations for the Spring Quarter will be held Monday and Tuesday, May 30 and 31. The date for the Eagle Staff Banquet has not been set. Tomas L. PassonsChairman Student, Activities Committee.Miss Catherine Hargis Becomes Bride of Walter BirdwellThe marriage of Miss Catherine Mgddux Hargis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge De-Witt---Hargis to Walter Birdwell, on Saturday afternoon, was an event of especial interest to Cookeville where the bride and groom both are popularly known. The two are members of families long prominent in their home county. The ceremony took place at the Presbyterian church at Granville, Rev. Van Smith officiating. The wedding music was given by Mrs. Judkins of Gordonsville pianist, and Mrs. Walter Cooper, vocalist. The church- altar was decorated with palms and Easter lilies and contained the lighted tapers in Cathedral candlesticks and developed the proposed color scheme of green and white. In the bridal party were the ring bearer, little Betty Katherine Reeves, the bride's cousin. Maid of honor was Miss Margaret Hargis, while Mrs. Herbie Shanks served as matron of honor. The bride's younger sister, Rebecca, was junior maid with orange blossoms, a shower bouquet of roses, sweet peas and lilies of the valley was carried. Miss Hargis wore orchid crepe with picture hat of the same shade. Her flowers were yellow roses with sweet peas. Mrs. Shanks was gowned in green flat crepe with lavender hat and carried lilies of 'the valley.Rebecca Hargis wore pink-flat crepe with hat to match, her flowers were pastel shades of sweet peas. Betty Katherine Reeves wore pink crepe with pink hat and carried the ring in an Easter lily. At one o'clock intimate friends of the bride and groom were entertained at a buffet luncheon. Mrs. Haile and Mrs. Henderson served from a lace-covered table which had an attractive center of violets and roses. They were assisted by Mita Byrne. Mr. and Mrs. Birdwell each received their education at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Mrs. Birdwell being a member of the Class of 24, and Mr. Birdwell of the Class of 23. Mrs. Birdwell was a member of the Palladian Literary Society while Mr. Birdwell belonged to the Sherwoods. After an extensive western tour this young couple will reside in Nashville where the groom holds a position with the Fourth and First National Bank.Belles Lettres The Belles Lettres Literary Society met Monday, April 11, in their regular meeting room. After the program was finished several members signified their intentions of entering the annual intersociety contests. The first week of April was quite an eventful one to the Belles Lettres as several new members were sworn in, fifteen in at one time. While the judges were making their decision after the Upper Cumberland Sherwood debate, the Belles Lettres president on behalf of the society, presented Messrs. Crawford and Carr with Billfolds. It was George Moore, that provocative Lion of English Literature, who said this: “Good heavens! And the world still believes in education. Education is fatal to anyone with a spark of education feeling. Education should be confined to clerks and it even drives them to drink. Will the world learn that we never learn anything that we did not know before?” Which reminds us of this sparkling passage in Ecclesiastes: “And further, by these my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Jokes Mercilessly he pounded and thumped the quivering, inarticulate thing before him. At times he would ruthlessly strike it in a regular rhythmical frenzy and then, as if taking pity for a moment, would cease. But the intermissions were all too short for the racked and tortured object. Had it been able to speak it would have pleaded for a rest, but it was mute and could only endure this awful punishment in silence. When it seemed that the poor bruised frame of the persecuted could endure no more, the man rolled this manuscript out of his typewriter, folded the little portable machine, and put it away for the night. Rebecca J: --“Name the five senses”Arlie M: --“Nickles”Miss Jarmon: --“Give me the definition of a polygon.”Albert Brogden: --A polly-gone is a dead parrot.James Dewey Poteet: --“Since Henry Mallory went to the Chicago he has a gold medal for running 5 miles; a silver medal for swimming; two loving cups for wrestling; and badges for a boxing and rowing.”Hazel Thompson: You don’t say so. How did he get them? J.D. Poteet: He works in a pawn shop.Lauren O’dell: I played with Beasey Smith’s orchestra once. Miss Stanton: Oh did you?Lauren O’dell: Yes, only once.The Best Stories of Life.(1) Dormitory student to ditto: “Lend me a dollar. I’ll let you have it back next week, sure.”(2) Office boy, to Bosses’ wife: --“Sorry Mrs. Fippy, but Mr. Fippy is in conference and can’t be disturbed.”(3) Housewife, to gas collector: --“Why I sent the check for that gas bill this morning.”(4) Morning after night before: --“I’ll never, never take another drink.”(5) Central: --“Line’s busy.”(6) Girls: “Oh! Harold, You are the first boy I even kissed.”“Is he dumb?”“Dumb! Say –his wife sent him out to get a nut-cracker, and he came home with a rolling-pin.”Professor Hatfield: --“I’m dismissing you in 10 minutes early Walk easy so as not to wake the other classes.”When you were abroad did you see the Dardanells?Miss harden: Yes, I had dinner with them. A well-known minister, famous for absentmindedness, once met an old friend in the street and stopped to talk with him. When about to separate, the minister’s face suddenly assumed a puzzled expression. “Tom,” he said, “when we met was I going up or down the street?” “Down,” replied Tom.The minister’s face cleared, “It’s all right, then I had been home to lunch.”Motorgrams(1) Never put off till tomorrow the joy rides you can have today.(2) The man who hesitates gets run over.(3) There is not use locking the garage door after the car has been taken out for a joyride.(4) The fellow with the old car is lucky, if he runs into nothing but debt.(5) It is considered alright to blow your horn provided it is attached to a high-powered car.(6) Don’t count your chickens if you live near a highway.News Items Miss Shipley brought some of her pupils from City School out to “Tech” Friday morning to give us a sample of the program to be given the following night. The program at T.P.I. consisted of two numbers. The White Rabbits and The Tin Soldier. The dancers refused to give an encore saying that if we wanted more we would have to come to their program Saturday evening. Acting-Pres. Smith and Mr. Kittrell have been in Nashville most of the past two weeks in the interest of the school. Many teachers attending T.P.I. went to Nashville Thursday, April 14 to attend the State Teachers’ meeting. Pres. and Mrs. Q.M. Smith spent the week-end with Cookeville friends. Did you know the China is the most populous of all nations? A school for parachute jumpers is maintained at Lakehurst, N.j. Whales have been known to fight two days after being harpooned. In large ice cream plants the product is never touched by human hands. A pair of Zebras in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, are driven to a wagon. An Italian has made a treasure chest containing 11,968 separate pieces of wood. During a fur shortage in Europe, the skins of Shetland ponies were used for women’s wraps.Forty men and women taught to read and write is reported as result of the first five months’ activity in Peru of the league against illiteracy, organized last year. Registration of 252 people for instruction in fundamentals of the language is reported in Lima, and of 62 in Callao.
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