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Catholo-
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i Has Wrought Havoc in
Latin Country.
Coach Robinson Arranging for
teat on Howard Campus
, Saturday.
dents HEAR ADDRESS.
u, Jtione in Mexico, and the
(t.Dt Missionary's Work There,”
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theme of Dr. J. 0. Chastain, a
№llry from Mexico, in hie speech
i ; acuity and atuueuie of How
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-ege at assembly last week.
„■Inatlon of Roman Catholo-
k directly responsible for the
il, conditions now existing in
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said Dr. Chastain. "That
r lias held the Mexican people
1; the .customs of the Middle
There are throe striking
, (|f Roman Catholocism that
that country. They are ignor-
BERRY BEGINS TO FRAME
PROGRAM OF ALUMNI DINNER
Howard Graduate
To Preach May 21
Banquet Probably Will Be at the
Tutwiler Hotel
J. W.r Ralph and Norman Cohron
Enter School at Seeond Semester.
Dr. J. 8. Dill of Gaffney,; 8. C., Will
Deliver Commencement
Sermon Here.,
Howard College has among Its
students J. W. Cohron, age 38, and
two sons, Ralph and1 Norman, It
in the history of
«nlBi: up for the work. Sp, today,
•re ii a splendid opportunity to
Jlexlco frbm the ruins of their
olid, us ways."
"Th ee main means are being
ed by us who are laboring there.
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tin first place we are educating
■cm, ;nd especially th£ women. We
lliew that no people cun be raised
■yhiiher than their women; So we
lew .blDhing schools and teaching
■not' go out as native missionaries.
Has* -"e have our medical mission-
■ctt bo are doing a Ann worjc.
■'Th n the climax of our work is
Bsgi item. _That_ is our prime 1n-
H>|0 and we never lose opportun-
Hus we do in this country, but we
Hltl'm the truth which they hear
Bht'-eat eagerness."
■in i inclusion. Dr. Chastain urged
■ Importance of the missionary
Brit n Mexico, speaking of the
Bole system ns a great company
Bde up of stock-holders investing
B^ i' cans in the souls of men.
nl banquet of the Howard Alumni
Association will be taken this week.
William A. Berry, President of the
association, and members* of the Ad¬
visory Committee have already dis¬
cussed informally plana for the pro¬
gram.
The banquet will be held the eve-
ring of May 22, and probably will be
at the Tutwiler Hotel. Last year’s
banquet was held at the Birmingham
Newspaper Clyb, at which ninety-
two Termer students, trustees and col¬
lege professore were present.
OTHER SPEAKERS A!
SOUGHT.
being the first tii
the collegfi that a father and two
aona have attended school together.
The father is & epeclal student,
while the two sons are students in
the Howard High School. The three
matriculated for the work at the
opening of the se* ond semester.
“I had bepn in pastoral work reg¬
ularly for five years.'’ 'said Mr.
Cohron. “and all that time I realised
the need of bitter preparation.
Finally I decided to come to Howard
and spend
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while tn oultege work.
Also, 1 thought I could give my boys
a better opportunity here, and that
is one of my greatest ambitions. I
am going to do my beat to -make men
of my boy*. I still think I did the
right thing when 1 came to Howard,
and if I can encourage some others
to come, I shall be glad. We cer¬
tainly need the training we get
here."
Mr. Cohron came to Howard from
Excel, Ala., where he had made hie
home for the last five years while
preaching to country and village
churches. He brought his family
Dr. J. S. Dill, a graduate of How¬
ard of the class of 1875, a eon of
Dr. T. J. Dill, for many years pro¬
fessor of Qreek and Latin at Howard,
will preach the commencement ser¬
mon May 21. Dr. Dill is now pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Garf-
ney, South Carolina.
Dr. Dill is said to be a strong
speaker, and it ia expected that bia
addition to the commencement pro¬
gram «vi!t jWf «*UJketive to the
older alumni and friends of the col¬
lege. Dr. Dill at the time of this
visit to Howard will present to the
t4Rlege an oil painting of his dis¬
tinguished father.
President James M. §helburne is
at work seeking out other apeakera
to take part in the commencement
He,'.waa hopeful early this
LITTLE INTEREST BEING
TAKEN IN TRACK MEET
Mile Runners Are Only Men in
Regular Training.
Little interest is being taken in
preliminary training for the Bir-
College-Ho*ard track
mingham
meet, according to Eugene L. Caton,
Mr. Caton says he .has been unable
to get track men interested in the
coming meet.
Mile runners are said to be the
only track men who are giving them¬
selves to training for the meet. Mr.
Caton was at a lose as to how to
handle the situation.
program,
week to be able soon to announce
the speaker for the evening of May
21, and for the baccalaureate ad¬
dress.
Commencement this
уёаг
will
begin Sunday, May 21. and close
Wednesday morning with the bacca¬
laureate address and the delivery of
diplomas.
US AND MISS SCANDRETT
HAVE THE LEADING PARTS,
if nett Harris, a Senior, and Mias
icandrett. a Sophomore, will
Hie leading parts in the play,
I Lose of Plymouth Town,” to be
nted by the Senior Class com-
jUfett week.
ih-rs taking part in the play will
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Lula Mehaffey, Jessie Ma¬
ui Mary Swindall, and Watson
k*r and Robert Leo Tate. The
f characters will be selected
SENIOR CLASS TO HAVE
BANQUET AT HILLMAN
FRANKLIN AND PHILOS
CHANGE TIME OF MEETING,
BOOKS OF BUSH LIBRARY
TO BE CATALOGUED SOON
Leaders Hope to Stimulate Interest in
Work.
Weekly meetings of the Philomath-
lc and Franklin Literary Societies
have been changed to Wednesday
nights. >The societies have been meet¬
ing on Saturday nights heretofore.
Monthly open meetings will be held
on Friday nights.
Leaders of the two organizations
think that thia change will stimulate
interest and Increase attendance.
Books of the Bush library, com¬
prising 1,800 volumes, probably will
be catalogued ^luring the next two
or three months by an expert cata-
according to Prof. A. »t.
Lucille Green, e
will direct the play.
loguer,
Olive, Chairman of Faculty Library
Committee.
Announcement of the gift of the
new library by
Мгя.
T. G. Bush, of
Birmingham, was made last week. .
"The collection has been classified
to some extent since it was received
at the library a week ago.
religion is the best restraint
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while poverty ia often a
ment.
Auburn has a. -wireless station
which will allow its operators to com¬
municate with stations within .a
radius of about 200 miles.
> »krd i Baseball Schedule
Season of 1918.
& M., Starkville,
Elmer Ford Also Speaks on “The
• Franklin Spirit.”
In the United
Howard’s Football Schedule
Season of 1918.
DUNLAP TO LEAD PHILOS
Debaters in the Franklin
ыотагу
ctety will discuss tonight the aub-
ct: "Resolved, That the educational
»t should be required of all lmmi-
anta." ,
The debaters are R. A. Parsons and
C Vaughan on the affirmative, and
B. Gibson and W. R. Nettles on the
igative. Roy 8mart will declaim.
UriversUy of Alabama, fuses--
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АРГП
1.
* enth District Agricultural
«'■I. Campus, April 6, 7 and 8.
*ith western, Campus, April
N 11.
*1Гсег
University, • Campus,
19 and 20.
■ Hhern University, Campus,
and 25. •
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Bernard College, Cullman,
* 1 and 3.
*«hern University. Greens-
* *«y 10. 11 and is.
E mu Presbyterian .'College,
■ton, April 28 and 29.
I "«ogham College, alternat-
Other Officers Are W. W. Adams and
C. L. Martin.
Telegraph lines
States should be controlled and oper¬
ated as they are now, and not by the
government, said winners in the de¬
bate on the question at a meeting of
the Franklin Literary Society last
Wednesday night
The debater» were J. C. Vaughan
and Trnett Weaver on the affirma¬
tive, and R.
Л.
Parsons and G. M.
Harris on the negative.
Elmer L. Ford spoke on "The
Franklin Spirit."
Ernest H. Dunlap, a member of the
Junior Class, was elected President of
the Philoraathlc Literary Society last
Wednesday night. W. W. Adame, a
Freshman, was elected Vice-Presi¬
dent. and G. L. Martin, a Freshman,
was elected Secretary.
These offleera are to eerve for the
balance of this scholastic year. They
succeed H. 8. McMillan, as President;
Fred Bryaut. as Vice-President, and
Richard Griffin, aa Secretary.
A. A. HUTTO TO ASHLAND-
Rev. A. A. Hqtto, a graduate) ol
Howard of the Claes of 1896, ha» ac
cepted a calk to the pastorate of tb«
Baptist church at Ashland, Ala. He
will preach hie first sermon there
next Sunday Mr, Hutto resigned th
When youth’s ship
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wafted by the
breeze of love, prudence fliea with
the wind.
Founds, dates to be
Samford Universi
THE HOWARD CRIMSON
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, MARCH IS, 1916
lionary Telle J Eight 0f Last Season’s Baseball Squad Back in Uniform
0f Mexican Plight1
Left to right — Hunter, 3d basi; Hilliard, fielder; Blaokwelder, 3d base; Carroll pitcher; Griffin, short¬
stop; Griffin, W., 2d base; Bradford, fielder; Boozer, pitcher and fielder; Gibson, fielder; Wallace, pitcher;
Weaver, fielder; Newman, fielder.
The four not reporting this aeuon are Hunter, Carroll, Bradford and Wallace.
LIGHT WORKOUTS LA8T WEEK-
Baseball practice was featured
Monday and Tuesday afternoons by
games between two teams picked
from the baseball squad by Robert
Robinson, Assistant Director of Ath¬
letics. These were the first games of
the season, and this was the first
time the pitchers were allowed to
; “put something” on the ball.
| Workouts last week were only of a
light nature, Coach Robinson not al¬
lowing the men to extend themselves.
This week the soreness will be work¬
ed out to some degree, and the play-
i era will be hardened to the work.
Proapecu for a good team are
| brighter than they were two weeks
ag<^ some of the players think.
For the catcher’s position, Howard
- I has four men trying out. They are
Preliminary steps looking to the Rupert Lindsay, from the Baptist
formation of a program for the alum- Collegiate Institute at Newton; Eric
M. Strickland, a former Albertville
player; Thomas Morton, of Newton,
and Clyde Wilder, a Shelby County
boy.
To take the place of Robert Robln-
sdn as first-base, Roney Hilliard, the
understudy of Robinson last year,
ar.ti Arthur Duke are the two moet
promising candidates.
The rest of last! year's infield la
back, with Captain briffln at second;
Richard Griffin at short, and Lee
Blackwelder at third.
Newman, a regular oullelder for
lour years, Is back at his position in
left field. Wearer, a letter , man of
last. year, and Gibson are the other
old men back trying! for an outfield
berth. Of the new
щеп,
Clayton and
Parker seem to have ability as out¬
fielders. These five men will fight it
out for the three positions in the out¬
field.
.Ed Duke, Morgan Boozer and Rifle
Simmons are the old! men trying for
the pitching staff. (The only new
man trying out f«ff that position ia
Charles Martin, of DeKalb County.
Coach Robinson is planning for a.
practice game with Chalkvllle, or
some other team Saturday afternoon:
on the Howard campus.
MACON SAYS BACTERIA
IS NECESSARY FOR LIFE.
Professor of Biology Talks at Assem¬
bly on the Value of Genu.
Values of bacteria were pointed
out Monday by Dr. George W. Macon.
Professor of Biology at Howard, In an
address before the student body. Dr.
Macon eald bacteria were necessary
to plant life, and that plant life was
necessary to human lifo*
’’Much bacteria la dangerous,” said
Dr. Macon, "but the greater part is
useful and necessary to life.”
Auburn, Rlckwood Park, Oct. 7.
Southern University, Campus,
Oct. *14.
Mercer University, Rlckwood
Park. Oct. 21.
Sixth District Agriculture»
School, Hamilton, Oct. 28.
Alabama Presbyterian College,
Anniston, Nov. 4. (Pending.)
Southwestern, Clarfasville.Tenn.,
Nov. H. (Pending.)
Jacksonville Normal, Campus,
Nov. 17.
Birmingham College. Rlckwood
Park. Nov.
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