The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 30, 1919 Page: 2 of 6
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Entered as second-class mail matter, September 7, 1912, at the postoffice at
Georgetown, Texas, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1911.
ROBERT G. MOOD, JR..... Editor-in-Chief
f C. E. WILLINGHAM ..Business Manager
ERSYL BATTLE .General Assistant Editor
HENRY D. AIKEN. Assistant Editor
"ftTOM H. GIBBS... Assistant Editor
AUBREY A. GRAVES .Assistant Editor
JOE L. BERGIN Assistant Editor
IVY STRAW Assistant Editor
HAZEL OATMAN ^.Assistant Editor
LAURA COURTNEY Assistant Editor
LUCILE 8NIPES Assistant Editor
GRACE ANNA KERR., .Assistant Business Manager
MANLEY LEE PEARCY. Assistant Business Manager
.CHAPMAN DAVIDSON Assistant Business Manager
INTRODUCTORY
This is the first Megaphone of the present staff. We are not go
ing to emphasize the fact; mere mention of it is sufficient. A state-
ment of editorial policy might not be amiss in this first issue.
It shall be our policy to reflect as largely as possible the feelings
ajid wishes of Southwestern students; to express the complaints, to
ice the approval, to record the doings, to publish the comments, of
the\student body. We intend to "kick" about things occasionally,
.because we believe that calling attention to things that are not as they
shoi Ud be is often of help in remedying those hings. The giving of
ente Vainment to tfie students, the giving of publicity to our college,
and Wording of our college life for the benefit of our friends; thpse
shall/ be our aims.
ABSENCE RULES
In this issue wil be found the faculty rules governing absences
from classes and chapel. A careful reading of these rules will save
much trouble later on. The end of the term is usually made unpleas-
ant, disappointing, even tragic, for a few students who fail to take
account fo the.rules governing absence. The rules are made with the
view of preventing the cuttilig of classes and there is no provision
| which will prevent a student honestly working at his job from receiv-
ing eredit for his work, even though so unfortunate as to incui1,
through sickness or unavoidable absence, a number of absences. They
H aim to prevent useless absences and at the same time to protect stu
dents who are unavoidably absent. A thorough understanding of the
rules by both faculty and students will prevent much-trouble at the
end of the term.
RETROGRESSION?
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Th<y/iewspaper for to-day has on its front page the account of four
"murders, of two accidents due to carelessness which resulted ir two
deaths, of two destructive strikes and lockouts, of revolution, in three
| iiktions. Does this mean that the world is running to murder, war,
and crime? Does it point to a backward step in the progress of the
race ? A certain men who has devoted his life to work for social bet-
terment in a large eity complains that he can get no publicity in the
newspapers. "And yet," hes ays, "I can't blame them, for when I
do get an account of some benevolent undertaking in the papers, no
one reads it." Men of to-day more interested in crime and destruc-
tion than in social uplift and the peaceful securing of economic jus-
tice! Does not this point to retrogression? Never! It is one of the4
[ surest signs that the foundations of racial progress are oo well laid
for them to ever be disturbed by local crimes and degeneracy. Peo-
ple are not interested in social uplift and the peaceable securing of
ffjfeononiic justice because the human race has too much confidence in
the belief that the normal and regular course eof the human race is
progress toward better times. The human race has an instinctive be-
lief that the world is becoming daily more ideal and it is pnly depar-
tures from the normal, betterment of the race that attracts attention.
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A crime is more interesting than an act of virtue because one feels it
to be abnormal, and the criminal feels himself that the progress of the
society he is attacking is sure and that his crimes against the body so-
cial are impotent. Hulnan nature cannot conceive of retrogression
and that inability to conceive of retrogression furnishes one of the
.best guarantees of progress.
RULES GOVERNING ABSENCES
FROM CLASSES AND- CHAPEL
1. There are' to be no excused ab
sences. \ ts
2. Ftfr all absences the student must
satisfy the instructor on the Work miss-
ed. It is suggested that full value be
not given to made up work.
3. A student may be allowed to sat-
isfy four (4) absences for a major and
twp (2) absences for a half-major by
arrangement with the instructor.
4. In case of absences in excess of
the above numbers (that is, four for a
major and two for a half-major per
term} the student shall nol be allowed'
to take final examination nor to receive
credit for the course in which the ex-
cess absences occur, except in accord
with the provisions stated below.
5. A committed consisting of three
prs of the faculty shall meet near
> end of the term or at the call of the
for the purpose of receiving writ-
or oral statements from debarred
as to the causes of absences.
sent a card from the committee to the
instructor before he may take an ex-
amination.
I 6. The statements of students must
bear the.date of the absences for which
they are made.
7. All instructors must report in
writing to the Dean exery student who
has gotten his first excess absence from
any period as soon as the last absence
of such limit occurs.
8. At least one week before the end
of each term every instructor shall make
to the Dean a Written report giving cor-
rect dates for absences for students who
have absences in excess. If the instruc-
tor finds no ekcess absences in his class-
es he shall so certify to the Dean.
9. In the case of chapel any student
having an excess of five (5) absences in
one term shall be dropped from school
for the rest of the term, except that a
student having such excess absences
may appear before the committee of the
faculty to which these duties are assign
ed and be re-instated. Such
students shall be
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Mood, Robert G., Jr. The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 30, 1919, newspaper, September 30, 1919; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394827/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Southwestern University.