Lambuth College - Lantern Yearbook (Jackson, TN)

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The Administration Building, snapped on Commencement Day, presents a stern Grecian appearance. To the right is shown the fa- vorite spot for the campus ro- mancers. When spring is in the air, reservations for the bench are taken days in ad- vance.

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SPEAKING OF PICTURES The two great oaks which guard the Administration Build- ing seem to raise ghostly fingers over the south drive. Epworth Hall appears to be rather deserted. Reason? The shot was made at 8:30 A. M. Would you recognize the pic- ture to the left? If not, just look at it in a mirror and dis- cover yourself. This picture was printed backwards through a mistake, but it makes an at- tractive scene, n ' est ce pas?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Sirs: Just when is the Lantern going out anyway? I have heard so much about it going out in the last few weeks, that I have begun to wonder what kind of operation is required to put it out. Is it snuffed out as a candle, turned out like an ordinary electric light, or do you blow it out each night before going to bed? At any rate, I hope you get it out if it requires the Jackson Fire De- partment, so Lambuth can adopt a new theme song. LETT R. ALONE. Sirs: I hear you got a college up there at Lambuth what won ' t stop, an ' bein ' in a mood fer eddication, I figger ' d I ' d better try it a whorl. Maw says I ain ' t needin ' no more book larnin ' , and that I can talk up with any of you eddicated college doods. I told her I felt it my honest duty to come up and help you college fellers out. BILL HILLY. Sirs: Any one losing a son or daughter, or dear friend, at Lambuth College, will, if they are anxious about these wanderers, probably find them strolling around over the campus in the balmy spring evenings, in groups of two, or seated on the front steps of the administration build- ing, conversing with a partner in low tones. Such persons have become infected with a very con- tagious disease, sometimes called spring fever or love- bugitis . Those persons taking the course in campusology seem most susceptible. All persons who have inclinations to wander over the campus in the evenings are warned to be prepared for symptoms of this disease which first appear in the form of a weak heart, a tendency to pair off in couples, and a lowering of the voice. I. C. MIKE HOWE. Sirs: I wish to put you on the outside of the inside story about the mad scramble that took place at Epworth Hall last night. A cigarette was found on the person of Andrew Parker, in his room, which is upstairs in the basement. At the same time, a match was found on the person of Randy Cole in his downstairs attic room. A mad scramble ensued until said cigarette and match went up in flame and a hot time was had by all. MISS LOTTA NOISE. Sirs: I have your letter of March 17, last, stating that you have not received my check for the subscription of the Lantern for the past two years and that you are in a posi- tion to make things hard on me. It would have given me and the boys at the book-store a laugh had it not come to me in an open envelope with a one-cent stamp. You say that you do not know why the debt could not have been paid long ago. Then I will enlighten you. In 1937, I bought a filling station and some negro houses. Two weeks later the negro houses burned down and I sold the filling station when the new road failed to go through, and bought some cows. The cows all caught anthrax and died. On top of that my brother stole my shot-gun and sold it to my neighbor who shot my best dog for stealing chickens and dang near got me. In 1938 I sold my farm and moved to the city. In the city I bought a little garden and started truck gar- dening and a drought came and killed everything. I rented my truck to my neighbor and he got drunk and ran it in the Ohio river. Then I moved to the river front and woke up one morning and found my chickens in the bed with me. The river was in my house and for days I ate dried bread and prayed. In 1939 I used what I thought was hair tonic and my hair came out. I went on a river excursion and dropped my false teeth in the river and darn near drowned when I fell off the boat. And now you write that you will make trouble. Well, for Pete ' s sake, if you can see where I missed any, then dig in, for I can tell you, getting money out of me will be harder than peddling Frigidaires to Eskimos. SILAS UTELLEM.