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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.
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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.
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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
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(From The New Student)
Has the United States a distinguish
ed kicked-out-of-college list? Oxford
today reveres the memory of Shelley,
John Locke, William Penn, Edward
Gibbon and Walter Savage Landor.
Yet these men were such unruly un
dergraduates that they were all ex
pelled from the university, charged
with such crimes as sedition, atheism,
duel fighting and manslaughter. Has
this country a comparable list?
Of late there has been a great deal
of discussion of dismissals. Editors
have been expelled, expulsions have
been threatened. Yet these defy the
authorities, hold to their principles
and pinot with pride to English prede
cessors. Gerald Fling, who was ex
celled from Kansas City Junior col
lege for writing outspoken editorials,
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