The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-08-22
The Foremost Mississippi Trouble

This lis the Ninth Of a Series Of Special Southern Farm azc,. Articles NJ,
tho 4. & NJ. College Chaos.
would not convey the idea that believe President HARDY q Va who,
Eb bad. He has m good qualities. and should be given credi, OR tbsr
His main good quality is possessing much enthusiasm. This has seryed
him well on many occasions when talking to students about, bal, payinr
No bs nut enthusiasm into hon ,d r,,o ,ho. -, ~. ' IAN
cheer for the College team. He has also helped o get the College h,nd
organized o n a good basis and drilled into a credi,able musical rrantza-
ton. 1t is somewhat credttable for ne in his position to arouse enthusi-
asm in students, and make them take an in,eres, eve In their athletic or
CARNATIONS There sill be many who will say tina, baseball football. etc.
should have no place n a school But students should have recroa,,o,
When the College encourages athletics II Is doing wha, most 6, IN c,.
leges In America do. He was wise who sad: An work and n ,loy
makes Jack a duh boy" The physical az vel. as the mental side ot man
should b. developed in college and ut of college. We may tall of the
soul In a lofty way. and some Ia talk as IL they scorned the body a. being
nothing mor than the temporary hahna,ion of the soul: but all OF US know
that the body is highly important. whether We regard Il merely a. a tenn
porary habmauon of the soul or our chief po~,ess,on Will. N e,r,n :.
College band Is a good thing also There should bc no quarrel with
President Hardy for making athletics and the band good In grade.
Tina, nc "A. attained >uec~-. In ,hc-~, iva line. T.. largely because ,h,v
give his character n chance u show Itself In = nasura These. two
lines "rr exciting. spectacular. SNOWY. They talk. lie appreciates
hat. They advertise the College. and he likes the College principally be-
cause b, his peculiar methods he manages to take to himself much of
the credit for whatever glory is connected with the College or the College
employees other than himself Re is a selsadvertiscr. nrs,. last. M all
the time. He pos.esse. nos, of the qualities. needed ~ , po,uc,,n H..
cn mile and give a warm andshake TO a man whom he In seeking , q
destroy. He n make trustees of the College accep, fiction as a mortal
truth. bu, o, all the trustees. In these matters. however. he Is inclined
TO overdo the things. cripple the institution with which he is INJECTED
and make his best friends wish he had more balance o keep him from
being an extremist. Whatever is spectacular or snowy will lead him be-
sond The hm'tso Of reason. II Injuries him. II has injured the College
For instance. his excessive za or what ia snowy caused him 70 en-
courage football and baseball TIL tho Agricultural College ~. h~~n dubbed
The Ha~ch"h ms Football College" DurnE the iast year the A. & II.
football can played ter with other colleges. and the baseball team
played thirty three Suppose " q way nothing about football n, present.
and consider what thirty-thrce baseball games mean. About half
the games were played a, home. the other half al, other points. II would
be conservative ito sar tina, three days rel needed for the IA to SC,
TO IN other place. rest umeiensiy before the game play the game. &c,
back home. and recover enough from the experience % e, down o stu iy-
Ing Allow N day for each of the games played Al, home. AM ~. have
N average of tao days for each game played during tho year. The aver-
age will OF hold true" in all eass~. but the avcrag will be a fair N for
the rear. Two days o n tho average for = gAmc and thi-ythrr- games
during tho year make "ia'y-"1 days given up to h~~ch~il. to ~y nothing
d tn pracicing necessary before any c"ntc~ttng gar - played. II IL
clear hat enough days q make W. Two months ~~rr g.rn up % base
ball. over on~-fou1h II College year. II that what you ar giving mp
your money or. taa-pay~r~? Not all the s,nden,s belonged to the ball
team. But 1t would be abou, right TO "a nj least fifteen players. sub
stmes.. etc. ~er required for each game. IL any baseball player al Il
pItenee AN testify. Furthermore. there had to be another set OF play
eb for The regular team to practice against Also. when n gam ws to
be played nj tho College. studying "a supposed to be lies" important than
attending tn. game and yelling I'LL the vocal cords sweled 40 thtck that
no mre yell could get out Tha, val intending TO apply to all the
suden, body. Abou, half tho games were played II, home. and tho days
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