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vl ■ f.. m W'- % i '. 4? :V;v, v> . . y-'ir■■•«■' ' ./ THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. SOCIETY EVENTS OF INTEREST TO WOttEN I^ury B. Dillard, Society Editor. Telephone, 154 OWENS-MARTIN ANNOUNCEMENT W. E. Owens of this city, announces the engagement of his daughter, Mary Muldrow to Ben H. Martin of Easley. The wedding will take place early in June. BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR LITTLE FOLK On Saturday afternoon little John Ball Burroughs celebrated his fourth birthday by inviting a nufaber of little friemls to his home. After a round of merry games cones of cream and candies were served the little tots. At tractive souvenirs were given the lit- > tie guests. h >• r MRS. PAYNE IS HONORED On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Clair Hays honored Mrs. Horace Payne of Florida with a beautiful party. Vases of cut flowers adorned the'attractive home and the guests of the occasion wer$: Mesdames Horace ^ayne, Wal ter Johnson, Wm. Bailey Owens, W. P. Jacobs, Pringle Copeland, R. C. Adair, R. W. Wade, W. J. Bailey, W. C. Oxley, R. W. Phillips, T. J. Peake, J. A. Chandler, Zee McLees, D. R. Nimocks, John Little, Carl Robinson, Walter ' Richbourg, Hubert Pitts, Frank Kellers, W. D. Copeland, Miss es Sallie Wright and Clara Duckett. searchers. There was, of course, the near expulsion of John Fiske from Harvard in 1861. Young Fiske was one of the firsl to be stirred in Amer ica by the Darwinian discoveries. The faculty was frightened at this serious and exceptionally well-read sopho more. And they finally got something on him. He was observed reading from a volume of Comte in church and was swiftly summoned for punish- MOTHERS’ CLUB HOLDS MEETING Mrs. J. W. Finney delightfully en tertained the Mothers’ dlub on Wed nesday afternoon. The May meeting , was devoted to the study of Hayne and Simms. An account of their lives was given by Mrs. J. W. Finney and Mrs. L. D. McCrary. Roll call was answered with the name of an indus try or product of South Carolina. Mrs. W. H. Simpson, the new president for the'coming year, appointed the dif ferent committees. Mrs. Irby Hipp was graciously received into the club as a new member. Mrs. Finney, as sisted by Mrs. Lula Davidson, served an attractive salad course followed by cream arid cake. The followng mem bers were present: Mesdames R. F. Adair, T. L. W. Bailey, J. W. Dillard, L. B. Dillard, G. H. Ellis, Bothwell Graham, R. E. Jones, J. T. Little,* A. V. Martin, L. D. McCrary, W. H. Simpson, J. Lee Young and Irby Hipp. SCHOOL PUPILS TO PRESENT PLAY On Wednesday evening at 6:45 Ac ademy Street school pupils will pre sent “The Golden Whistle,” a juven\le operetta by Miss Gertrude Willis and Mrs. Forman. Beffo, Paul Whitlock, is asleep in the woods and is greatly disturbed by elves. A little old woman, Alice Bal lard, presents him with a golden whis tle at the sound of which, roses, but terflies, cardinals and fairies dance. In his glee Beffo drops the whistle, whch is stolen by a white rabbit, Billy Carter. This causes Beffo and all Fai ryland much distress. A little white rose, Frances Lyles, suggests that the Fairy Queen, Zona Norris, be sought. The white rabbit is found and pun- sHed and happiness restored. The ma gic spell is cast from the little old woman. Rachel Webb, Howard Get- tys and Joe Carter take prominent parts as cardinals. The -public is cordially invited. ment. Taken before the faculty he was charged with disseminating infi delity among the students and with “gross misconduct” at church. Fiske denied the former allegation and ad mitted thfe latter. Although several faculty members wanted to suspend him for a year he was let off with a “public admonition.” James MacNeill Whistler, like Poe before him, was expelled from West Point for poor scholarship. In his third year he was found deficient in chemistry. One Col onel Larn^i gives the following ac count of the incident: “Whistler said: ‘Had silicon been a gas, I would have been a Major Gen eral.’ He was called up for examina tion on the subject of chemistry . . . When called upon to recite he started: ‘I am requifed to discuss the subject of silicon. - Silicon is a gas.’ That will do, Mr. Whistler,’ and he tired quickly to private life.” As might be expected, the writers of the contemporary era revealed a more rebellious spirit in their student days than their Victorian predecessors. Some were dismissed, others left vol untarily, an atmosphere they found much too stifling. With them should be classed Stephen Crane. Thomas Beer has this to say of Crane’s year at the University of Syracuse: “He lounged at Syracuse in the back room of a restaurant and other freshmen were impressed by a classmate who sold sketches to The Detroit Free Press and who assured them that the police court was the most interesting place *in Syracuse. He got notice from the faculty by telling a professor that be disagreed with Saint Paul’s theory of sin and seriously shocked the wife of another authority by declining to meet Mrs. Willard at her home for the reason that he thought Mrs. Willard a fool ... As for college, it was a damned nuisance and he glad to have done with all things academic in June.” One year was all that Theodore Dreiser needed of the University of Indiana. He was pot known through scholarly ability or athletic prowess, W. M. Toner wrote in The New Stu dent, Dec. 19, 1925. He plodded through his first year, then left, con scious only of an acute inapprehension concerning the polite usages of educa tion in our factory of knowledge. His particular fire of intellectual power could only grow brilliant under the bellows of personal tutelage. As it was, this Fire only smouldered under the cramping exigencies of the class room in he pursuit of a. particular for mula. There was no place for Theodore Dreiser in the Scheme of the univer sity. To every one who knew him, he was an intellectual misfit. He would wander aimlessly through the fields or sit in a chair at his rooming house tying and untying knots in his hand kerchief. The university and life in general held for him nothing but be wilderment. He could find no philoso phy that eased his mind towards the prosaic tragedies that surrounded and engulfed him. Eugene O’Neill was expelled from Princeton at the end of his freshman year for trifling offense. He might have returned in a year, but he was busy experiencing a world whose re- verberatoins never penetrate the pre cincts of a rural campus. Years af terward he learned to transmute his stock of raw experiences in the foc-sle of tramp steamers on a gold hunting expedition in Honduras into plays as a student in Professor George P. Ba ker’s famous ’47 Workshop, then at Harvard. Sinclair Lewis, too, left college to return later. A long-legged drawling middle westerner fresh from Sauk off j Center, he waa constantly in rebellion than one willing to be “put in his against the Yale environment. He was place” without objecting. And to put'editor of The Yale Literary Magazine the faculty benediction on undergrad- • in his junior year. The next year ha uate nose-thumbing, Professor Walter f, ed college and lived at Hellkon Hall, L. Whittlesey of Princeton, says thatil T P to n Sinclair’s haven for radicals in “Young Jeffersons or Franklins would Jersey. After a p;riod of har- be fired in short order today. They rowihg adventures he returned to Yale would not be likely to submit to re- *<>*• a year and hi* degree, strafnts put 'upon modem students. | A Harvard professor told Conrad I doubt very much if either *would Aiken to interpret' some work of a have lasted through his ‘freshman E^epch dramatist. He became inters year.” jested in the work, forgot all about Has the United States a distinguish- classes and rolled up an astounding ed list of those who were expelled number of cuts. He left college in dis- from college? The writer broadcasts gust but came back later on the be- this question for enterprising re- best of an uncle. I There are other expulsions, near ex pulsions and hegiras that ought to be included in this list. The New Yorker of a recent date carries the hint of such a ope. Mrs. Cora B. Mil- j iay, mother of Edna St. Vincent, j writes: , “The really good story of Vipcent’s near expulsion from Vassar on the verge'of commencement, the Profile /lid little vHth. I have not the time, nor have you the space, to deal' with this now. However, I will say' that the fact that a good part of her 1 class refused to graduate without her might have had some influence on the, academic ultimatum. ( Whatever the bearing, she graduated with her class J as they sang her ‘Baccalaureate j hymn.’ ” Certainly there are many one hun dred per cent American cases of ex pulsions, actual or threatened waiting to be ferreted out. The writer sug gests his bit of research for the con sequently next rebellious college stu dent who suddenly finds himself col legeless and with a lot of time on his hands. V A HOME If you want to buy If you want to sell If you want to rent See GEO. H. ELLIS Real Estate and Insurance FLOWERS For Funerals, Sick Friends or Wed* dings. . ^ We represent Glenn- Ayers Floral Co., of Spartanburg, S. C. Call 74 CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Stationery Dept = 7- ’ ' Tastefully Ckeenj ■3 FLOOR OIL For your spring celan- ing. 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