The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 2, 1920 Page: 1 of 4
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Miss Annex
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Mr. Mood Hall
are taking week- |
end visits this
week
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY THE SCHOOL
YEAR BY THE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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1920 HAT FETE TO BE
PAGEANT OF SEASONS
ESTABLISHED 1907 THIRTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME Xin. NUMBER 19
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAR, 2, 1920.
S. U. Girls 20
San Marcos
Academy Girls 18
PRESIDENTS LETTER
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THREE-ACT PAGEANT
TO BB UNIQUE IN ITS FIELD—
•"SPIRIT OP 8.U." A FEATURE
The announcement of May Fete plana
tyy its director, Miaa Kuykendall, justifies
the prediction that this year's May Fete
•will be a remarkable pageant in many
respects. Although the traditional tear
tures of the May Fete will be observed,
so many novel features will be intro-
duced that the fete will seem like an en-
tirely new pageant.
The pageant proper will be in three
parts, the first of which will be the
^march of the girls composing the pa-
geant. Not only will the usual march-
ing with drills and complicated inter-
windings be given, bnt the five May-
poles, danced.by a hundred girls, fea-
turing the gay colors of spring will also
be a part of the pageant.
Mirt< Rose Boddie Bishop will close
the first act with a beautiful dance drill
called "The Spirit of Southwestern,'
which will be an interpretative dance
particularly interesting to the home-
comers. '
Act II of the pageant will include the
crowning of Queen Helen of the House
of Oatman. All of the former queens
are expected to return to see the coro-
nation, and some four of five of the
kings will be present. The same colors
wheih characterize the "five May poles
will be the prevailing color motif of
the coronation. The costumes of the at-
^ tend ants will have green, yellow, blue,
and other spring eolors prevailing. Act
H will also include the four beautiful
dknees of the seasons. The first will be
the dance of spring *ith sixteen girls
as rosebuds. The second will be an nn-
n sua I dance to' summer, in which only
sisters, or ^rls looking enongh alik&tp^,
seem sisters, will participate. The third
dance, the dance of autumn, will be per-
formed by the tall girls who will carry
out the harvest motif in their poetry of
* motion. Trays of fruit will be used.
The winter' dance will be executed by
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«m 11 girls whose merry winter antics
. will be further enhanced by novel cos-
tumes.
- Act HE will consist of the usual pa-
rade formations in which the initials of
the college and the other figures will be
need to produce novel color effects. At
the conclusion of Los Paseados, a gen-
eral reception will be held at the Wom-
an's Building.
With this plan for the main pageant,
the working out of the details will pro-
ceed rapidly. Arrangements for in-
creasing the seating capacity will be
made;, the directors assure us that
places for all will be provided. After
mature deliberation, the suggestion to
move the scene of the May Fete to the
gymnasium grounds has been abandoned
as not feasible.
CHEMISTRY CLASS
MEETS IN CALL SESSION
SCIENCE BUILDING SCENE OF IN-
TERESTING AND PROFITABLE
MERRY-MAB3NG
Dr. Godbey called an extra session of
hi« classes in Chemistry III last Tues-
night at 7:30, quite an unusual, but still
what turned out to be a very appropri
ate time for a class. As usual several
couples came dragging in late to class,
bnt it happened that the roll call was
* forgotten and no cuts were recorded. ■
The class started by preparation of an
excess C02 and consummation of same
mixed with* NaCl and butter. Popcorn
does taste good salted and bnttered,
even though it does sometimes have to
be shaken a long time before the excess
of carbon dioxide causes it to pop.
Then the class went from the labora-
' tory to the lecture where, by some great
H miraculous power, Dr. Godbey turned
watervinto wine. Yet so far no arrests
have been made fot coloring water
which flows into a flask by replacing
the ammonia gas which it atftorbe fast-
er than it can replace it. After this
was done, Dr. Godbey solidified some
To the Alnmni and Former Students of Southwestern University:
From time to time, for several yean, I have sent out a little Bulletin in
the form of a letter just to remjpd old Southwesterners of the school where they
are loved and which, I am sure, they still love. Nothing is more sacred than
the tie that binds men and women to the Scenes and associations of their college
days; and nothing enriches more the college itself than the loyalty and affection*
of the old boys and girls. i
THE PRESENT STUDENT BODY
During the war the size of the student body was considerably reduced
because of the oillt^g of the young men of the country into the army. The
fearful drought in West and South Texas also had the effect of keeping at home
many who would otherwise have been in college. For these reasons we have
not quite the normal number of "upper*ftlassmen". But the unusual number
of Freshmen leads us to wonder what we will do to provide for the housing of
our students after this year. We have been crowded to the limit of our capac-
ity in dormitories and boarding houses and, though the faculty has been en-
larged, some of our teachers have been compelled to do extra work in order to
care for all classes. In fact, I have seriously thought of recommending that
the Board of Trustees pass a regulation limiting the admission of students to a
fixed number. This would enable us permanently to maintain all the advan-
tages of a "small college", and to put into effect some principles of selection of
students which would tend to eliminate those who will not make the best use of
college opportunities.
A MODERN AMERICAN COLLEGE
Southwestern wishes to retain all that was best in the old-time college.
At the same time it should equip its students for the best possible leadership in
the new day. We are still decidedly of the opinion that the so-called "small
college" is far the best institution for the young American. Every scientific
student of society will agree that a great heterogeneous crowd, especially if
made up ofuntrained young pttm^ uMgpt a wholesome educational environ-
ment. The tendency, under such circumstances, to revert to lower levels of
thought and conduct is a> commonplace of social psychology.
The impossibility of any close personal association between students and
instructors in the larger universities is a serious and vital criticism of these in-
stitutions which ban not be answered.
The opportunity of students for admission to athletics and other groups
is diminished exactly in proportion to the increased size of the student body.
But, while Southwestern proposes to maintain the advantages of the
nraaiiwr institution, it is determined also to keep to the front in the work it does
and in the equipment required for first-class college work. It will rigidly main-
tain the standards t f admission and of graduation fixed by the best Educational
Associations of the South of the Nation. And we are sure that we will have
the support of our former students in making it and keeping it one of the best
and most progressive colleges in the country.
THE HOME-COMING
The great college event of this year is to be the HOME-OOMING which
is to be held in connection with the Annual May Fete. The present plan is to
have the special Old Student exercises on Friday, April 30th, to be followed on
Saturday, May 1st, with a Musical Festival in the morning and the May Fete
pageant in the late afternoon. We are expecting to have the largest atten-
dance of former students ever gathered on the college campus, and if possible
to have representatives of every graduating class ever turned out from the
University.
As these plans develop we will give further notice through the public
press through th^ wmik in the mean time we want you to be making your
arrangements to come, and to be urging all your former fellow students to lAeet
you at Southwestern at the HOME-COMING.
Affectionately yours,
0. M. BISHOP.
February 23,1920.
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GIRLS WIN SEVENTH
BASKETBALL VICTORY
WIN FROM SAN MARCOS ACADEMY
AND THEIR REFEREE LAST
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
In a slow and very unsatisfactory
game, the 8. U. basketball girls defeat-
ed the San Marcos Academy team by ft
score of 20 to 18 last Wednesday night.
The referee, which the Academy girls
carried with them, did her best to win
the game for them, but the rally which
she staged was insufficient to overcome
Southwestern's lead. She would call ft
foul on Southwestern girls for runnings
and she would foul them for standing
still; but on the other hand she w(0
blind to all the fouls that the Academy
girls made. However, no one was put
out of the game, but three of the S. XL
girls had four technical fouls registered
against them.
In spite of all that can be said,, the
Academy girls had a strong team with
lots of fighting spirit, but not strong
enough to change the clean record of f
the Southwestern girls.
At the end of the first half Southwes*
tern was leading by a score of 15 to 8.
During the last half the ball was kept
almost exclusively in the Academy's
territory because, when it did getTfS
Southwestern territory the referree car-
ried it back. The Academy scored 10
points, while S. U. was able to score on-
ly 5. Southwestern threw a field goal
just as the last whistle blew, but it was
scored too late to count.
For th<? Academy* Rutledge showed
the best form by far. She scored 17
out of the 18 points and was the fastest
girl on the floor. For Southwestern
Nichols and Dienst each scored 10
points. Gillett also did some excellent
guarding. The line-up was as follows:
Academy—Rutledge and Stephenson,
forwards; Williams, jujnping center;
Brown, running center; James (Capt.)
and Bain, guards. '
Southwestern—Nichols (Capt.) and
Temple, jumping center; Graham, run-
ning center; Leigh and Gillett, guards.
Substitutes—Lowman for Brown; Ab-
bott for Gillett.
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dioxide with the aid of a little
and Professor Mast. The pu-
np and declared it
hot, but this heat immediately froze
mercury at a temperature of 50° below
zero. Several other such interesting
stunts were performed and then the stu-
dents went back to the leboratory where
several dozen bottles'of soda-pop were
disposed of, in spite of the fact that all
of the chemistry students knew that it
was only water, gas, and colored flavor-
ing. And, finally, carbon and its many
■ thousand eomnpounds, phosphorous, am-
monia, and all the rest of the elements
were entirely forgotten and just plain,
juicy apples and toasted marahmallowa
occupied the minds and mouths of the
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class for about an hour..
The class was dismissed at 10 o'clock,
bnt strange to say, no one was anxious
SOUTHWESTERN BOY TO
HEAD EDNA' SCHOOLS
Eugene Perrin, graduate of South-
western of the class of 1916, has been
elected superintendent of the schools of
Edna, Texas, where he has for some
time been principal. This position
coming to a man so young in the teach-
ing business is a distinct honor to Per-
rin's unusual ability. Perrin was man-
ager of The Megaphone during bis
senior year.
to leave and everyone expressed his ap-
preciation to Dr. Godbey for the inter-
esting and enjoyable way which he has
of conducting night classes.
Mr. Wentz went to Apstin Friday, to
have a second operation on his nose. He
is getting along very well, though the
operation was quite painful and nerve-
racking.
TEMPLE CLUB PARTY
HOSTS TO PIRATE GIRLS
PICTURE SHOW PARTY BY TEM-
PLE BOYS AND GIRLS ENTER-
TAINS BASKETBALL GIRLS
Peggy Barton, Shirley Gage and Mil-
dred Jackson went to Waco Saturday
for a short visit.
Helen Hitchcock has gone homo to
Caldwell for a visit, taking with her as
her gnest Elouise Matthews.
Laura^ Courtney went to Temple Sat-
urday.
Mr. Julius Caesar Rogers is up and at
his place of business at the Little Store
after a week's lay-off from flu.
The Temple Club entertained the vic-
torious Southwestern girls' basketball
team with a motion picture show party
on Friday sight, February 20th. Pre-
liminary to the walk to town, the Club
and the girls gathered early in the An-
nex parlors where the music on the Vic-
trole and the "lines" of the young Tem-
ple gallants kept them occupied for
some time. The party then left for
town and was escorted to seats wMch
had been reserved in The Monarch for
the occasion.
After seeing the show, the couples re-
turned to the Annex where other enter-
tainment was awaiting them. "Chats"
and porgressive games of "forty-two"
were next in order. The chatting and
the playing were promptly made more
delightful by the serving of the refresh-
ments, ice cream and cake. The party
then resumed its regular course and con-
tinued until the fading of the lights
sent the boys on their way Mood Hall-
ward.
Four of the girls on the basketball
team, Thelma Nichols, Grace" Helen
Dienst, Madye Kersey and Marj
Leigh, are from Temple. The other
ketball girls present were Blanche Tem-
ple, Eflie Jewell Snell, Louise Graham,
and Pearle Abbott.
Carlton
day.
Holloway "Wacoed" Sa
Margaret Harkey is visiting in Waco
for three days.
Estelle Gee is visiting in Temple.
Tom Gibbs took a little trip to Aus
today.
Juanita porter enjoyed a visit
home folks in Temple Saturday,
and Monday. *
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Mood, Robert G., Jr. The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 2, 1920, newspaper, March 2, 1920; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394757/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Southwestern University.