Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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woman as she tears up his playhouse, over- turns Kis howl of pottage and breaks his study chair Golden locks has always been with us. Mythical lore tells us that she was driven away by the BEARS whose home she daintily plundered and wrecked. But not so. She survives and will never die. She is still vitally identified with the homes of bears, men and men-bears. She still robs them of their pottage, treats their household accoutrements with capricious and destructive abandon; and yet, and yet, every one swallows hook, line and sinker and likes it. And when college days are over. he becomes suddenly aggressive, and with great sophistication takes captive a '‘gentle” hun- tress for himself And then the poor dub flatters himself that he WON his huntress, Goldenlocks, 1 The editors hope that this theme will in future years recall our student follies and farces; for after our swan-songs ere ended, much discord lingereth on.

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 ' I 'HE theme of this book is unique. Mercer is essentially A university for men, but woman long ago proclaimed that man cannot live to himself alone ’ Man comes to college, purposing to leave light matters behind him end to burn the pro- verbial midnight oil over endeavors of serious concern, But man's ambitions are want to be thwarted. And the theme that runs through this book essays to portray the vicis- situdes of the poor college man as woman trifles v?ith the serious business of h« college career. Woman has ever been a huntress; and her cleverness has ever kept man believ- ing himself to be the pursuer. She chases him by making him enter into chasing her. 4 And the college man is usually accept able game. The sponsor, the college girl, the co-ed, the “town girl ’ all hear the horn and join the merry chase. And all through college the poor studious swain watches IL -

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JOSEPH FARRF.R SMITH PHONEY Who, as a nonpareil athlete and knightly sportsman, has sent the name and fame of Mercer all over America; who. as a modest, unassuming and cultured gentleman, has won the love and acclaim of faculty, alumni and; fellow students alike; who, as a celebrity, has received his honors humbly and grace- fully, we gratefully dedicate the 1928 CAULDRON