Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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The Weather Always Makes w The News rpni- LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN which graced the ■ .Mercer buildings and grounds over I lie course of the war just past came as no great shock to the average Mer- ccrian, who with eves fixed firmly on the impending week- end and consciousness oblivious to all but the bare essentials I food, clothes. clubs) paid no real heed to the buckets of moisture which plummeted us all and returned to plummet again and again. The plummeting was hard on the plumbing to say the very least. Macon weather official announced that this year’s amount bested all rainfalls held since 193Qi Those who noticed the precipitation would probably be prone in agree, since swollen gutters, raging sidewalks and the tortured turbulence in the drains, storm sewers and pipe , all attested to rain quantities unknown before in the lives of the young sons of Mercer. But even the constant spatter of the rainy matter made no impressionable dent on the general Mercer consciousness. Club reported steady attendance at meetings. RQTC hoys cursed and braved the torrential blast, ami the PE classes on the hill met like the good Mercer institutions that they were. .Student Covernmetit passed a resolution deploring the rain but expressing the hope that since it had to come, the students would cooperate, Thu the rains came, the floods came up. and the house founded on that unknowable something stood firm. end Mad dash from Ad Building In hot coffee part of Mercer ritual, here Math prof Mrs. Lois Dicks lends the charge

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Mercer Beauties Beth Herrin selected fairest af fair Other Beauties pictured on pages 22, 206, 42, 229, 52,100,250,154, 62, ami 259 .swiff soucAeni cawpws almost by definition, abounds with a wealth of beauty. But Mercer University takes particular pride in its pulchritude. The 1960 Cauldron has selected a cross-section of that beauty for your contemplation. There are nine of these girls, and they can be found in unexpected places throughout the book. In the early fall, these girls were fudged informally by three local authorities of femininity and horsehide. They chose Beth Herrin as the fairest of the fair. Beth will not represent Mercer on the state or national level. She will simply reign as the prevailing example of beauty on the Mercer Campus until next year when another is picked to take her place. ' « ' ■ 23

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concerned that Yahuteh might be A pictoral and verbal lank at the tears I rain (tt Mercer in 30 years View from top of Student Center makes students appear transparent, they endured 637 inches of rain in less thou two months Monsoons hii PE department attendance heavily, here faithful fete make trek to the two halls of health 25