THE HOW ARD CRIMSON
Vol. VI
Birmingham, Ala. Wednesday Oct. 13, 1920
Number 3
ELECTS OFFICERS
CITES RECEPTIDN
ft. B. Slttie, preedent; Moses Aubrey,
vice-president; Nena Harr 1b, secre¬
tary; Ford Robinson, treasurer; Bur¬
ney Acton, historian, and Wilma Wag¬
goner, poet.
A social committee was appointed
and plans wore made for the class to
give a social within the next two
weeks. Class spirit was emphasized
and the Jus lore intend making this
year the best In their history.
FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICER8 FOR
YEAR.
Amid mucU enthusiasm, Mr. W. T,
Henderson vas elected President of
the Freshm; n Class of Howard Col¬
lege in the (allege Auditorium, Thurs¬
day morning September 30. Other of¬
ficers were sleeted as follows; ' Mr.
J. L. Watscn, vice-president; , Mies
Jerry Sowell secretary, and Mr. .1. E.
Lambert, tre isurer. The preaid ent^of
(he class is i member of the Student
Government Council by virtue Of his
ofTice and Mr. . Henderson promises
that when juestions' of interest to
Freshmen a. a before tbe Council he
will call m< e.tings of the class and
vote accord! tg to Its decision.
The meet ng was called and pre-
R. D. Urns Elected President
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tel.re.t I. being .town
Sl'V" t . b, the friend, and .he loenl
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offleern. The officer, elected were. Co||<f,
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of Dr.
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B. Williams, the president
to re-locate the colege at a point south
of Woodlawn station on the hill about
a half mile south of the Tidewater cai
line.
The plans were looked on with little
seriousness, it Is stated, until the ex¬
ecutive committee of the board of
trustees granted to Dr. Williams the
right to secure an option on the tract
of land, which consists approximately
of 120 acres. Since that
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bent of the alumni say. President Wil¬
liams has prosecuted his ideas with
considerable zeal and vigor.
A meeting of the executive commit¬
tee of the college trustees was held
recently In the rooms of the Civic As¬
sociation, at which time it developed
that there was to be much opposition
to the removal of the college from
East Lake. , ;
The college Is governed by twenty-
seven trustees, who are selected at the
Alabama Stato Baptiet convention;
twelve of these .trustees reside In Bir¬
mingham. It became known this week
that nine of the twelve local members
of the board of trustees signed the fol¬
lowing statement;
“The undersigned look with disfavor
w on the further agitation for the re-
° tbn 0K»*P* College, which, to do-
• H. b, Nlpp,,r 11 ing considerable damage to the ln-
wae the first meeting of the Freshman
Class and much enthusiasm was
shown. ffev« ral brief and snappy nom¬
inating spee. hes were made and great
interest waf taken in the voting, in
response to iriee.of ‘.speech,'* the new
president ar jse and made a brief ad¬
dress of acceptance which produced
still greater enthusiasm.
Mr. Henderson came to us from El¬
more, Ala., and received his prepara¬
tion for colh ge at the Autauga County
High School whore he was a member
of both the t ootball team and the glee
club. He he s served In the Navy and
has spent a half session at the Uni¬
versity of Alabama. Mr. Henderson
Is a talented speaker and evidently
has the welfi re of his class and college
at heart, die says he Is opposed to
basing.
The vice-! resident, Mr. J. L. Wat¬
son. hails f-om Enterprise, and is a
promising l tember of the Divinity
Club. His friends are confident that,
should occaF ion arise, he 1b amply able
to aaaume he responsibilities of the
presidency. Lancaster. South Caro¬
lina, poses i* the home of the secre¬
tary, Miss Jerry 8owell. She is a
member of the Oirl’s Glee Club and
is . now res ding at Hendricks* Hall.
The Freshm in treasurer, Mr. Lambert,
is a membe of the Bulldog Eleven.
'erests of the denomination and the
imtlution and, therefore, desire t‘iat
.here be no further mention of the
matter."
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Officers of the College Alumni Ae¬
ration have been act.ve during ihe
past few days ascertaining the views
of former students of Howard College
on the question and it Is stated by
Thomas E. Huey, president of the
Alumni Association, and Albert Lee
Smith, secretary and treasurer, that -
the alumni are practically unanimously
opposed to the removal of the college
It will be remembered that Howard
Colege was moved tp East Lake from
Marion. Ala., about thirty-three yean
ago. This caused considerable con
troveray among the Baptists of the
SUte et that time, and It Is stated it
required more than a quarter of a can
tury of time
Го
establish a feeling oi
reconciliation in the denomination.
Local trustees and officers of the
alumni are very hopeful that the mat¬
ter of again moving the college Is
closed, since it is believed that a
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Jority of the membership of the boarc
of trustees are opposed to the plans
of Dr. Williams.
On the other hand, If the trustees
should allow the matter to be de¬
cided by the State Baptist Convention
which will be held at Decatur, Ala.,
on the 16th of November, an interest-
to deevjpp. — Btrm-
Age-Herald.
teer telling why, he or the became
a volunteer. Judging from the inter¬
est and enthusiasm manifested at
the first meeting, of the bend, great
things can be expected of them dur¬
ing the ensuing year.
ALPHA DELTA PI BREAKFAST.
M 18810 ARY BAND MEETS.
On Thui-iday evening, October 7,
tbe mission iry band bad Us first reg¬
ular meeting of the year. All of the
thirteen m jmbers of last year, are
back excel t three while five new
members 1 ave been added to the
band in tl e persons of Miss Lucy
Logan. Mbs Mount. Miss Upchurch,
Mr. T. E. Swearingen and Mr. Joe
Jeffers.
Having no definite program ah
ranged, th< meeting was turned into
a» experience meeting, each volun¬
Early on the morning of Thursday,
October 7, Alpha Delta - -Pi sorority
entertained at a breakfast oooked in
the woods at Lake Wood. By six-thirty
tho hills were filled with the favours
of sizzling bacon and boiling coffee.
With Mrs. Thompson as chaperone (he
following girls enjoyed the hospitality
of Alpha Delta PI; Virginia Cleaver,
Bessie Ruth Steele. Caroline Webb,
Jerry Sowell. Elizabeth Haynes, Una
and Urn Abrahm, Mary, Shirley and
Althea Dryden. The hostesses were
Gussle May Brasfleld, LeBta Larkin,
Lois Williams, Ann Senn and Lois and
Gladys Wellington.
Misses Mary Jane Lawson and Al¬
thea Dryden were visitors at Howard
last Tuesday.
Miss Irma Tapp, a national officer
of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, visited
the members of Kappa chapter on
Thursday, October 7. Miss *I>pp has
been a welcomed and frequent visitor
at Howard since the Installation of
this society.
HONOR HOWARD MEN.
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"Word comes that Prof. A. J. Mqpn,
a graduate of thl clkss of 87, Howard
College, and for quite a time the tfro-
feasor of Latin and Greek, but Who
several years ago went to Simmons
Collfege, Abilene. Tex., will this (fll
enter upon his duties as professor of
Greek in McMaster University, To¬
ronto, Canada," says J. M. Webb.
"He was always a great etudent, but
was so modept In manner that hi» reai
worth wae not fully known durl.ij
his connection with Howard, althougL
when he resigned be' was the dean o.
the Institution. I am sure that his
тару,
college chums and the students
who studied trader him will be glad to
.earn of the honor which has come to
him. for McMaeter University is one
of the outstanding sealB of learning in
Canada.*’
PER80NALS.
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H. P. Durrett, q former student
Howard, has gone into the automobile
business in Birmingham.
Miss Louise Heacock is continuing
her study of music in this city.
Miss Eva Backer a former stu¬
dent of Howard, visited the campus
Friday. \
Miss Marie Dark visited the campus
last Thursday.
The Delta Gamma Sigma had as
their guest Monday Miss Ruth Mor¬
ris. ’ I
Mr. M. F., Langston visited tfco Sig¬
ma Nu last ‘Friday.
After so long, the ministerial
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dents are beginning to realize tbit
they are social beings, and they are
also beginning to bring the other
students on the campus to the reali¬
zation of the same fact. Nobody who
attended the delightful social' affair
given in the home of the Divinity
Club on Friday evening. October 8.
could doubt the natural social pro¬
clivities of the preachers nor their
ability to give expression to those
remote tendencies. Tbe three score
uid ten persons who attended the
reception seemed unanlmoue In their
tpproval of the way in which they
were entertained. To put It In plain
English, they seemed to enjoy it
very much. -. .
Realising that a reception without
punch would be as Incomplete as a
linner without soup, the hosts served
punch as the first course. After
everybody bad time to meet every
body else and talk to’ them until
they tired of their conversation, a
delightfully Informed program w*s
given with the Rev. Joe Jeffers pre¬
siding. The first number on the pro¬
gram was a violin solo by Miss Lita
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Hendricks, which was so good
that it called for another one. This was
followed by a very instructive and
illuminating discourse by the Rev.
Samuel L. Heath on' the subject:
“Why tbs Preachers Did Not Wear
Jazz- Bow Ties,’* This was followed
by a new version of "The Little
Hatchet Story,** by I. Ni JPatterspn.
Miss A. Bess Clark followed this
with a short humorous speech, which
was In turn
и,
iww «I by n delightful
reading Py Mr. W. E.
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Miss
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Thompson next favored the
guests with a short, humorous read¬
ing. As a fitting climax to this little
program Prof. J. A. W. Luch pointed
out so convincingly the advantages
of married life, that several of the
boys have already proposed, so it is
said. Their success, however, had
not been ascertained at this writ¬
ing. The last course was cream and
cake.
The outstanding features of the
reception were Its Informality and
the absence of Prof. Eagles, whose
absence was the cause of so much
punch being left that several of the
boys made themselves sick in a vain
attempt to keep It from wasting.
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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLOW SUBJECT
OF CHAPEL TALK.
John D. Rockefellow was the subject
Friday morning of the first of a series
of chapel talks on lives of great Amer¬
icans, to be given by President Wil¬
liams.
Dr. Williams in his biography of the
"Oil King,” emphasized the fact that
Mr. Rockefellow started as a poor boy,
working for $2.00 a week, from wlilch
place he gradually rose to his present
position as a millionaire, whose wealth
is Inestimable. Dr. WllSams also
stated that Mr. Rockefellow had noth¬
ing to do with the price of' oil, this
being fixed by a board of the ofl com¬
pany, and (hat be is a consecrated
and humble Baptiet. Three lessons
it Lake, were drawn from the life of this fiiil-
llonalre. They were; first, he found
ft W. Boozer, a graduate of last hie place in life, what he was best
year, has entered Vanderblle Unlver- fitted to do; second, he went to work
sity as a student of dentistry. ; land utilised his talents; third, he
- I tithed to the Lord, It being estimated
C. R. Plttard has entered the Theo- that he has given $350.000,000 to
I logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky. charity and church work,
ALUMNAE NOTES.
R. F. Carlisle, a graduate of last
year, still retains his position with
the First National Bank of Birming¬
ham.
A. D. Carlisle is connected with the
Guarantee Shoe Company. |
Miss Ann Senn ia teaching school
in the Robinson School in
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