The Gavelyte, March 1906

-- --· - - -- - - - - - - · Tne recent aduress or' Ambassador I The Gavel Club. White has brought tD thP attention --'- of the . \rnerican Public some import- The organization of The GavPl . ant points bearing upon lawless;1ess. Club was a demonstration that there He aid that last year there were were students in our midst who were 9000 people met their death at the willing to take on a little more \\'ork hands of criminals; also that there an<'! this desire naturally came from are more lynched than meet death some of the hardest working studentH at the hands of the law. in the college. It is to be expected Within the past _month we have I that ther~ will be short seaso11s been "living near a scene of · lawless-! when the other work will creep up ar d ness that for pure wantonness out- Itbreate~ to overwhelm the studellt ranks by far the average mob lynch- and this has been true the pa:it ing, and a significant point has ·been I month in the work of the Club. brought to our minds in the trials I The interest in the work has not whi~h followed closely. And this I lessened in the least but in the lan- · fact interest. us as Americans and J guage of the Senat0r from N. C.. college students. The large major- !"too much is too much." But watch ity of rioters tried were mere youths / them go this next month. and one ·of them a collegP ·student. That men may be led by the. seem- Directory. ingly, interminable delay of the law and the probability of acquital at its j Pres. Philadelphian Literary Society, hand. finaly of a· person charged ! .......................... .R. W. Ustick • • I with a · seriou crime, to take the !Pres. Philosophic Literary ociety, lmv1 into their own hands and adn1in- / ................. : ........E. McClelland .. ister punishment has often been 1 1 Pres Gavel Club, ......... J. A. Finnep excused. But that y,rnt'h.~ should try Pres. Athletic As'n ...... G. C. dew art this is a deep stigma upon our sch,Jols I Mgr. Basket Ball Team.. .. C. G. Ware and other places of earl_r develop- .. Girls' " " ·· Mi sEdith Morri~ rnent. 'l'he early training of the " Base Ball Team, !'...Walker Austin American youth Jacks much of this· Pres. Senior Class.......... J. A. Finney is a fair sample of their moral re- " .Junior Class, .......L. T. Marshall gard for law ant.! order. " Soph. '' .......G. WiITi.ami::on --- - - -- H Fresh'n " ..... .. E. Hutchison Send in your sul,. eriptioa now. I " Sen. Prep. (;lass, D. J. Brigham