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Grid Stars Tuck .Away for Winter SO L;, \ ''v i V N, In !,npfis, 1einn. NEELY NITISTS RATHER '9 AGREE ON CRYSTIC p QUEER WITH r ANSWER NORMAL TO DEBTS VOLUME IX. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, DECEMBER 9, 1927 NUMBER 13 FRESHMEN HOLD .. _ - f - _.._.r.-.. -. -- - .r, MI55 PROUD BOYS THE PASSING Trio Controls of DOMINION OVER LThis Reps Upperclassmen In Frosh Issue I SPORT EMBLEMS "Egypt," Campus Vamp, In Last Mortal Stage EDITORIAL ROOM ON LEFT LAPELS "Egypt," vamp of the campus, suffering from a severe case of Rule Over Glue Pots and All New Pledges Belong senility, of the immobile type, has left her collegiate surroundings Copy Paper to Freshman Class and is now hauling coal during het dying days. CHRISTMAS EDITION PREDICTIONS UPSET The faithful girl, otherwise known as Luther Southworth's Neophyte Handiwork Will Eligible f o r Initiation struggle-buggy: the 1924 Ford that carried 16 Southwesterners in the Blazen in Green After Next Feb. 1 parade the day of the Quantico game, has run her last dignified Southwestern freshmen have com- Fifty-five freshmen at Southwestern race. mandeered all the glue pots, shears, dis- are wearing that look of satisfaction She was well foddered in gas, oil, paraging puns, incriminating stories on since they have pledged one or the other air, and water, but she didn't do the upperclassmen, and other articles of the six Greek-letter frats on the right-she ate up too much gas, and information on the campus in prep- campus. pumped oil, leaked air, and mixed aration for the annual freshman edi- Their joy reached its crux last Thurs- oil in the radiator water. tion which comes out on Dec. 16. It will day night when "rushing" season of- During her early life, historians likewise be the Christmas edition. ficially ended, and bids were accepted. say, she had youthful lines, and The Sou'wester, student weekly publi- There were many upsets, according to ephemeral beauty. But those days cation, will be turned over to the fresh- advance predictions by old-timers on the are past. Her fenders have taken man scribes and wits for their annual campus. Some of these miscalculations were on the corrosion which comes from atrocity number next week. due to several causes, paramount misuse; her motor fails to function CHRISTMAS EDITION among them being premature rushing, properly-a lung is missing, with a The regular staff of upperclassmen, in gang-rushing, and family connections. cylinder scored. deference to the freshmen for what they LIST OF PI.EDGES When cold weather comes will publish concerning their senior stu- l ere is the necrology: Kappa "Egypt" gets balky. She must dents, have given them the last issue Sigma-Robert Miller, Robert have her rear end jacked up and before Christmas, so that whatever they Logan, Glover Brasfield, Marion Painter, the gear thrown into high, thus miight say that is sarcastic and real ac- Edward Barbour, Charles Patterson, Per- ry giving her the opportunity to kick, rimonious, will have been forgotten be- Bynum. an echo of her former youthful- fore college re-adjourns on Jan. 4, 1928. Beta Sigma-Bill Alexander, Charles ness. The freshmen have prepared for their Garraway. Emile Roth. Malcolm Ritchie, Jack She will long be remembered by scurrilous edition by electing the fol- Alexander, Ronald Hayhoe, Arthur Prof. W. R. Cooper, for she was lowing officers-Richard Monk, editor; Bill, Malcolm Gibbons, Gilbert Patton. Roger Wright, Sam Jackson, a constant disturber of the prof's Houston Minniece, assistant editor; and Schey- ler Lowe. midnight slumber. She had no Harry Walton, sports editor; Margaret Pi Kappa muffler and, naturally, being deep- Layne, co-ed editress; Edmond Berry, Alpha-Redmond Eason, Clinton lunged, she liked to rouse the pro- cartoonist; Richard Harwood, feature Pepper. fessor. editor; Frank Cothran, joke editor; Sigma Alpha Epsilon-Billie Fountaine, Richard Monk, Houston She is called "Egypt" because Newton Wilson, typist; Mary Hogg, Minniece, Erle I lowry, she is so old and emaciated. Beth Sivley, Horace Harwell, Charlie Ritchie Morgan, Richard Har- Diehl and Bobby Carpenter, special 2s- wood, Horace Harwell, Battle Malone, signments; Leroy Montgomery, copy lharry Walton, Tom Frist, and Bobby editor; Richard Duncan, telegraph edi- Carpenter. WAR DEBTS ARE tor; Charles Garraway, circulation Alpha Tau Omega-George Hightower, manager. Jeff Davis, Wray Whitten, William Company. NITIST PUZZLE GIRLS RULE TILLS Engraving by Bluff City Engraving hall, ltavron Parnell, Lamar Pittman, publish all they know in the Sou'wester next While the boys occupy the limelight You won't be able to tell what they know until after they Eldon Heard, Robert Wiggs, John Cul- and Business Man- in wielding the pen, the girls rule over Friday. These Freshmen--Editor Richard Monk, Assistant Editor Houston Minniece, berson, William Alexander, Walter Viers, Club Rules On Plan To learned a lot they can't the tills. Pauline Barton heads the busi- ager Pauline Barton, haven't been at Southwestern for three months without having Charles Diehl and James E. Luster. is the annual Christmas clean-up Handle Debts ness department as manager. She will be say in polite society. But polite society must give way next week, for it Kappa Alpha-Neil Rogers, Warner assisted by Charlotte Bruce as assistant before the new year starts off with all having fresh reps and clear names. Beard, Dick Duncan, Dootchie Sher- The World War debts, if cancelled, Louise Russell is advertising man, Charles Calhoun, Frank Cothran, would ruin the country; and if collected manager. presi- Bill Martin, Buck Roberts, John Porter would bankrupt the country. manager, and Jeff Davis, frosh TO ENACT dent, is bookkeeper. THAT FACE MUS t Bah-bahs Get Seat CO-EDS and Arthur Omberg. This momentous conclusion was reach- be printed on ALL ARE FRESIIMEN ed by both student and faculty philo- The freshman issue will BE LIFTED NOW On Council; All Is BIBLICAL SCENES the natural color paper-green, with Everyone of the new pledges are fresh- sophers in the regular Nitist meeting re- black ink. men. They will be eligible for initia- after the reading of a paper by W. M. Well-Get Pass, Too say at present," If You Think It Will En- Give Christmas Program tion after the second semester starts on Bryant. "We have nothing to Beta Lambdas-stray Greek organiza- says Editor Monk. "What we would say next Feb. 1. Following a long technical discussion hance Your Winning tion just blossomed on the campus-has At Dec. 14 Meeting it be agreeable the campus intellectuals finally agreed we will write-whether or not." been officially recognized by both the been better never to Southwestern students contemplating Southwestern co-eds will enact two that it would have boys' Pan-Hellenic Council and the fac- Coolidge Praises have counted the war debts. having their faces lifted or having a Biblical scenes when a Christmas pro- The Nitists are expected to pass a new proboscis constructed, or some other ulty. gram will be given by the Y. W. C. A. Non-Flop of Trousers resolution condemning war debts and Students Answer change in their physiognomy, must do The Beta Lambdas, playfully dubbed in I lardie Chapel the afternoon Dec. 14. WASHINGTON, D. C. - President urging the United States to lend Euro- so immediately. with the appellation, "baby Lambs," be- Fire Alarms But The first tableau will depict the three Coolidge does not favor the "college pean nations nothing except a set off Editor Frank Heiss, of the Lynx an- cause they have strayed from the home sheik" type as symbolized by naggy. nual, announces that the customary race wise men who trailed the bright heavenly political captions proclaiming the Mon- Halt All Traffic fold, have five wandering members, in- flopping trousers. Ilis attitude in that for popularity and beauty queens will star until they arrived at the manger ;n roe Doctrine. SEATTLE, WASH.-(IP)-Local city respect was again emphasized Wednes- be launched soon. The winners will cluding: Vern Baumgarten (Delta Sig- which the new-born Saviour was lying. After deciding that of the three pos- firemen from station houses in the vicin- day when he received the football team the queen section. ma Phi, Georgia Tech), president; Leo- The second tableau will be the manger sible ways for the foreign nations to ity of the University of Washington, are have their pictures in of Newman preparatory school, Lake- Anyone having snapshots of any form lin "Mike" Wailes (Sigma Nu, Bethany), scene. pay their debts to the United States, protesting that it is almost impossible wood, N. J. of campus life are asked by the staff to The part of Mary will be taktn i.' the only feasible plan promulgated was for them to reach a fire because the vice-president; Clinton Rodgers (Phi After greeting the football players, the submit them for use. The greater the Miss. Dorothy Green, and that of Joseoh that American industrialists buy up the minute a fire gong rings, the college men Gamma Delta, University of Alabama), President looked them over carefully selection the better the choice for suit- by Miss Anne Shewmaker. Nell Hollo- stocks and bonds of European industry. pile into their campus cars and block and remarked pleasantly: "I am glad to able snaps to go in the annual. secretary; Carrington Bacon (Lambda way will sing a solo, "The Little Town alltraffic in their rush to the blaze. see that your trousers are not flopping already been Chi, Sewanee), and Wilson Foote (Theta of Bethlehem," during the manger tab- to keep the The athletic panels have around on the ground." Measures are to be taken Kappa Nu, University of Illinois). leau. assisted by the college choir.
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