Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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In the final analysis, man finds that his greatest pleasure comes from his stomach, that of all the human appetites, including the spiritual, the gastronomic is the most pleasant, the strongest, the most easily satisfied, gets him into less trouble, and lasts the longest. II, as has been alleged, one thinks in retrospect only of the pleasanter and happier moments, then indeed college is a failure, a menace to the Church, and a hot hole of sybarites. It is a constant source of amazement and wonder why the young men of this country continue to go to Harvard, Michigan, Princeton, Wisconsin, Illinois, Dartmouth or Chicago. Surely at some time or other they must have heard of the free oasis of McGill. Certainly love is inadequate. When a woman loves thoroughly, she becomes uninteresting to the man except fragmentarily; when she loves insincerely, he is ever in a dilemma. Whenever a woman says she loves a man, she has her reason; whenever a man commits himself, you may rest assured that he has his. Felling a woman that you love her has long passed out of fashion. Since the arrival of the automobile, to make such a confession is a sin against tautology. The sharpest thrust that one can make at the Bohemian writer as one sees him on the near-North Side of Chicago or Greenwich Village, New York, is that instead of drinking because he likes it, or its effects, he does so because he genuinely be- lieves that the vinuous potations vended by the neighborhood druggist, cobbler, barber, milliner or bell hop is a beverage especially prescribed by a bousy but generous beldam who will see that he receives large royalty checks if he keeps sufficiently soused. I hadn ' t been in the hotel more than a lew hours when someone cautiously knocked twice on the door of my room. I jumped to my feet, opened the door, and with a flush of pleasure beheld Bell Boy Number 18 grinning before me. Sh, I think I got it for you, sir, he whispered. ' I had a hard time and the police almost pinched me once, but I managed to elude them and I ' m prettv sure that I have just what you want. Are you positive it ' s genuine? I asked. I ' m getting suspicious of some of the stuff that they ' re selling around here nowadays. Take my word, sir, this is the real thing. Set your mind at rest. In fact, I can guarantee it myself. I got it from a feller who ' s in touch with the very best sources of supply and he assures me it ' s absolutely genuine. I gave him the agreed amount and he handed me my precious purchase. With trembling fingers I ripped off the paper wrappings and an involuntary cry of pleasure escaped me as I beheld my genuine, Pre-Thompsonian, un-expurgated, Pro-British, Chicago Public School History Book! Page Twelve

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DAVID IIARl.hY HIE This is Professor Fite ' s first year as a teacher at M. U. S. lie came to M. I . S. at the beginning of the vear, and has been head of the Historv Department lie has also held a class in Geography Mr kite came to M. U S from the Middle Tennessee State Normal Teacher-; College, at Murfreesboro. Mr. lite is a most popular teacher with the boys, and many times gets out and plays various sports with them. He is liked by all the boys, and we feel that he will be back again next vear Mr. kite has aided many a boy in his lessons privately and has given them his best attention. We all wish him luck and we hope to see him with us again next year. R. C. PROVINE Robert C. Provine has just completed a very successful vear as English instructor at M. U. S. He first attended Bowen school in Nashville, and later graduated from Vanderbilt in 1923. receiving his A. B. degree. The following year he received his A. M. degree. In 1926 he attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and the next year took a course at Harvard. He taught at two other schools before he began teaching at M. U. S. He is one of the best liked teachers here, and gets along fine with the boss. He came to M. U. S. in the middle of the year ami has rounded the boys into great shape for their next year in English. We all wish him the best of luck and success m his following years as a teacher. MR. [ONES W. P. Jones, expert penman. This is the classification that he is listed under. He has taught at M. U. S. since 1916 except for the five years he taught at Ford-Kilvington Joneis went to Greensboro College, where he graduated with a B A degree He also graduated from many various commercial colleges. Mi. Jones has had great success with his classes. He has had many graduate from these sessions. Mr. Jones has taught writing for thirty-five years, and has never missed a day of teaching in this time. He has aided in tracing many forgeries, and is an expert in this line lie has been called to many distant cities on cases of this kind Mr. Jones used to he a great pitcher. He was on a Mississippi baseball team.

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