Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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As Bill Brown approached the chair, the Doctor reached for his kid gloves. After a careful examination of Bill’s head, he said that he would make a name for himself as athletic director at the Home of the Feeble-Minded. On examining the skulls of Miss Camp, Miss Russell, and Miss Williams, he closed his eyes in a mysterious way and said: “I see a hat shop with this sign, ‘If you have nothing on your mind, come in and buy a creation designed exclusively by our own artists.’ ” Lillian Cox, Freda Landers, and Gladys-Lynch were the next to be taken in consideration. -He saids “I see an old maids’ ‘convention: Lillian Gox 41s president, and Freda, the sergeant-at-arms, is having trouble with Gladys, who has grown frantic bewailing her fate of ‘single blessedness.’ The pur- pose of the convention is to buy tooth paste for the starving Chinese.” When La Nelle came forward he assumed an air of curiosity, and ex- claimed, with evident sincerity: “My daughter, you shall be the beacon light of a famous skipper as he sails o’er life’s solemn main!” Of Miss Soyars and Miss Baines he said: “They will be sardine dealers along the coast of Cape Cod.” Personally, we predict that they will “sell out their sardines on this mundane sphere.” ; When the Doctor saw George Kinnie and Alex Burford step forward, he appeared to be: dismayed. He said: “Boys, I see you are men of destiny. After being tossed about for some time on the billows of love, you will at last exile yourselves in the Canary Islands, and there listen to the nightin- gale’s sweetest notes, leaving the broken-hearted maids at home, waiting and sighing under the old apple tree.” He quickly dismissed Eleanor Frazier with the remark that she had a bril- liant outlook in the field of poetry and drama. Miss Ruth McCarley and Miss Irene Burch, he predicted, would be famous relief workers for entombed cave explorers. We predict for them, many days of sweat-begrimed countenances. The Doctor said that Kirk and Smith would be menders of souls and soles in the far-away country of Georgia, and that Miss Northern and Miss McMahan would be the authors of a famous household book on how to make egg custards and how to cure the gout. When the writers came forward to be tested, he “folded his tent, like the Arabs, and silently stole away.” WOOD AND CLARK. Twenty

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Sentor Class Prophecy N order to take so much of the uncertainty out of the Senior prophecy, we have obtained the services of Doctor Forecast, who says he is a x § world-famous phrenologist and lighthouse builder. After examining the craniums of the Seniors, he predicted the following, which has been carefully arranged and preserved: The first man the Doctor examined was Roy Vaughn. He said Roy has a type of head which he has never found outside the State of Mississippi. He found that Roy has a pastoral head, which indicates that he will be a mis- sionary to Mississippi. The Doctor then went through the trying ordeal of examining Elmo’s head. He refused to commit himself until he had felt of Miss Baars’ head. Then a look of enlightenment passed over his features, and he said: “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.” He offered no explanation. Dr. Forecast noticed Sam Tatum and Leslie Carver, and called them up together. His manner was that of a naturalist who has found a very rare specimen. “Boys,” he said, “you will both find the gentle Russians ready to receive you with open arms. I predict that you will be authorities on the social conditions of Russia.” When the Doctor called Alice Blair forward, Herman habitually followed. After examination, he muttered: “So let it be.” And then: “What nature has joined together, let no man put asunder.” He said Herman would be editor of the World’s Almanac, and Alice would be the mistress of statistics. Bill Mason was quietly dismissed with the assurance that he would. be president of a bank in Yucatan. When he heard Greer’s voice, he said, without even examining him, that he would soon be the Caruso of Sequatchie Valley. (Greer sings bass.) The Doctor then called James Camp, Henry Carter, Graves Williams, and Owen White. After a minute examination, he said that they would be great lawyers and logicians of their age. Otanrice cra wieysene said: ble will bera ereat mathematician and .an authority on eclipses, comets, weather conditions, etc. He predicted that Philip Parham would be the Secretary of Food on Sand- wich Island, and his slogan would be “Parhamize.” After examining some of the fair ones, he said they would be keepers of a chain of restaurants owned by the three great magnates of the future— Dixon,-Copeland, and Johnson. The fair ones referred to are: The Simms sisters, the Lewers sisters, Nelle Carver, Catherine Johnson, Cullie Gaither, Ora Lee Winters, and Lois Cullum. These restaurants will be noted for their tumblers of fresh air and plates of sunshine. He found that Oma Morton, Hazel Dennison, and Joyce Whitelaw would brave the dangers of Alabama and be school-teachers. Miss Smith, according to the Doctor, is to be a famous divorce attorney. Nineteen 2S! | (SR a Sa a a ec | asses Yo |

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Sentor Class : PRESIDENT OF SENIOR CLASS eVGA WG TAIN eo a eer te) Pig ys Re ee Ae 2s eet ackson, Miss. “We live by admiration, hope, and love; And even as these are well and wisely fired, In dignity of being we ascend.” Calliopean; Mississippi Club; Expression Club; Preachers’ Club; Business Manager Backlog Ck. Ss. Editor Babbler: Twenty-one