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THE MEGAPHONE
PUBLISHED EVEEY TUESDAY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAE BY THE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
VOLUME IX.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1916.
NUMBER 29
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MAY FETE PAGEANT
DRAWS URGE NUMBER
Most Elaborate Affair is Witnessed
by Many. Drills are Perfect.
Music is Good.
The "merrie month of May," the
gala month of all the year, appropriat-
ed to out of door celebrations and pas-
toral pageants, has been welcomed by
the students of Southwestern Universi-
ty with a beautiful fete in accordance
with the time-honored custom of com-
memorating May Day. Although the
day generally celebrated, May the first,
-was spoiled by a continual downpour of
rain, the sun shone bright and clear on
May the third, and that day was duly
devoted to the Queen of the May, who
summoned her subjects before her on
the green lawn in front of the Woman's
Building. In the words of the poet,
"It was a beauteous evening calm and
free," well fitted for the parade of the
subjects before their gracious queen.
No more ideal place could have been
selected for the smooth green of the
lawn with the background of trees made
a picturesque setting for the royal par-
ty and her loyal subjects.
For some time the students of the
University and people of Georgetown
have been anticipating with pleasure
the return of May and tl\e annual festi-
val. Long before the time for com-
mencing, the temporary seats erected
for the purpose of seating the spectators
were filled and chairs brought out for
further accommodations, while the
whole length of the Avenue in front
>of the Woman's Building was occupied
by cars. Still there was Hot a sufficient
seating capacity for the crowds and
even standing room was at a piemium.
The conservative " estimate places the
number of spectators between 3500 and
4000.
Before the festival began the veranda
of the Woman's Building was a gay
mixture of costumes and colors. Span-
ish girls, colonial dames, Greek maidens,
and shepherdesses could be seen indis-
criminately mingling together, but soon
the confusion changed to order as one
group after another were assigned to
their respective places.
When the orchestra at a given signal
burst into the familiar strains of Sou-
sa's "Stars and Stripes Forever," over
a hundred of Southwestern 'b young la-
dies arrayed in many colored, brilliant
and effective costumes, came forward to
take part in the grand march which
■was to begin the festivities of the day.
Miss Kuykendall, the director of the
fete, in a brilliant costume of yellow
and white with silver trimmings, wear-
ing a white airgrette in her hair, pre-
ceded the line of the grand march which
was led by Misses Ruth Blanks and
lone Irwin holding long wands of green
capped with yellow jonquils to match
their costumes.
The immediate stage was a square of
ground each corner being designated
by a post decorated with green festoons
and red roses. In the eenter back of
the stage and at either Bide stood dou-
ble arches decorated in a like manner.
As the line of march made its entry
through the rear arches the audience
greeted the young ladies with a burst
Of applause, which was repeated after
each of the many and intricate figures
-of the march. At a signal from the
director the two columns broke ranks
and marched single file around the
stage, meeting again after passing
through the back arches. The double
line was increased to four abreast; then
to eight. In this manneT they retreat-
ed and marched forward in grand re-
view before the Queen. One of the
pretty figures of tie march was the ser-
mtining of tstylft two divisions of girls
ding in and out of the
MBgeous costumes were
Jivid relief. Another
iown figure was the diagonal march
the two columns across the lawn in-
d in the
visions the
irought into
rsecting in exactly the center bl tfte mai
.r the double pyramids Were formed,
the loud, clear notes of a bugle were
heard and through the double arches
of roses and greenery'came the Queen's
party numbering forty. First appeared
the four heralds in striking green .and
white apparels carrying tall standards
and trumpets. When the first herald
stepped forth and announced the ap-
proach of the royal .party, the little
Misses MeElroy, representing Easter
lilies and carrying a large lily in their
hands, led in the royal party. Six lit-
tle maids in waiting, wearing yellow
beruffled costumes and carrying an enor-
mous American Beauty roses, followed
the Easter lilies. The crown and sceptre
bearers, Misses Rose Boddie Bishop and
Mary Elizabeth Onderdonk, in white
Pierette costumes, preceded the two
duchesses, Harriet of the house of Stan-
ford, and Anne of the house of Mc-
Clendon. The duchesses wore charm-
ing green and white dresses with silver
trimmings, and carried enormous Eas-
ter lilies in their hands. As the herald
announced Princess Katharine of the
house of Cain, the princess of the fete
was seen approaching dressed in a
handsome white costume with American
Beauty roses used as trimming, carry-
ing a staff with a bouquet of the same
flower. Accompanying the princess
were the two maids of honor, Misses
Carol Smith and Janie Brown, in yel-
low and white, carrying baskets of
American Beauty roses. The pillow
bearer and flower girl followed the
maids and arranged themselves in the
semi-circle of the Queen's party await-
ing the coming of the Queen.
The Queen of the May, Rowena, of
the house of Onderdonk, slowly march-
ed to the foreground between the rows
of her admiring subjects, dressed in a
handsome gown of white tulle trimmed
with silver, over a foundation of white
taffeta, with a court train of tulle. The
Queen held in her hand a shower bou-
quet of Easter lilies and fern. The
four little pages who supported the
train of the Queen wore yellow and
white Lord Fountleroy suits, their hats
being decorated with long white
plumes. The last of the royal party to
appear were the twelve ladies in wait-
ing to the Queen.. They carried sheath
bouquets of American Beauty roses,
which added a distinctive note of color
to the yellovv and white frocks with
their quaint poke bonnets to match.
Dr. Bishop, the president of the Uni-
versity, met the Queen and after a
beautiful and impressive address crown-
ed her with a dainty crown set with
pearls and brilliants. In her hands he
placed the insignia of power, the scep-
tre, from which fell a shower of lilies-
of-the-valley.
As her majesty ascended the royal
throne of Spring, her court grouped
themselves around her. On the dais
with the Queen were the princess and
two duchesses. The remainder of the
royal party were arranged in a semi-
circle aroUnd the thTone. The bugle
call announced that the Queen ready
for the grand review of her subjects
before her throne—and so the revel
commenced.
Out tripped Miss Lalu Shands, a
woodland sprite in a silver spangled
dress with white wings and to the
strains of Oecile waits, played by the
orchestra, gave greetings to the Qneen
and audience in behajf of the May fest
participants.
Now came the tall and dignified shep
herds of the far Bast, accompanied by
the happy and frolicsome nymphs. To
strains of rustic music, played on the
pipes of pan, the nymphs skipped in
and out between the two rows of the
shepherds. The shepherds were in dark
« and capes with turbans to
EXPRESSION RECITAL
SATURDAY EVENING
MISSES ROTHSCHILDS, ONDER-
DONK AND TANNER TAKE
PART ON PROGRAM.
On Saturday evening, May 6, at the
University auditorium, Miss Laura
Kuykendall', director of expression, pre-
sented Misses Rothschilds, Onderdonk,
and Tanner in an expression recital.
They were ably assisted by Miss Bere-
nice Cook, piano, and Miss Mattie Mills,
violin.
Miss Kothschilds gave War Brides in
a most impressive manner. She show-
ed marked ability as a reader and her
interpretaton of the part of Hedwig
was most excellent.
Miss Onderdonk read "The Wheels
of Time," by Barclay. This was Miss
Onderdonk's original arrangement of
the story and her "cutting" was most
excellent, as was her reading of it.
Miss Tanner not only looked, but act-
ed, the part of Judy in her reading of
"Daddy Long-Legs" in a most im-
pressive manner. She was pleasing,
charming throughout the entire num-
ber and deserves congratulations upon
her success as a reader of exceptional
ability.
The nnmbers by Miss Mills and Miss
Cooke were most artistically rendered.
These young ladies of the expression
department showed excellent training
and Miss Knykendal is to be commend-
ed upon her selections and the snccess
with which each number was greeted.
BASEBALL TEAM OFF
ON A WEEKS TOUR
TEAM FACES A HARD WEEK BUT
EXPECTS TO BRING BACK
VICTORY.
For some accountable reason the base-
ball team has failed in the past three
weeks to measure up to the standard
that it is capable of. However, there
now seems to be a new spirit prevailing
among the players—a spirit of fighting
for Southwestern. It is hoped that the
student body will not fail to catch this
same spirit and get back of the team.
Find out where the team is on this trip
and each day pull just as hard for a win
as if the team were at home. Somehow
the boys off on the trip will realize that
we are back of them, win or lose. So
here's to the baseball team, Jack Ash-
ton and Coach Rix—wo are with 'em.
The team is now on a week' trip,
playing at A. & M. Monday; Rice at
Houston, Tuesday and Wednesday; A.
& M. at Brenliam, Thursday and Fri-
day, and Texas at Austin Saturday. So
it is seen that a strenuous week is
ahead of the team, but it left in a fight-
ing mood and expecting to win. The
big annual May Fete at Brenham at-
tracts thousands of people and it is said
that the rooters are about evenly di-
vided.
The team is in the best of condition
The pitching staff is going good and
victory is certain.
Tftose going on the team are Coaches
Rix and Ashton, Matlock, Buford, Mc-
Daniel, Brewer, Walker, Laws, Baker,
Smith, McKenzie, Watson, Simmons,
Forester, and Manager Lyons.
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HOW THEY STAND.
Clnb:
Played Won Lost
Pet.
Texas ....
14
ia 2
.886
14
10 4
.714
10
6 4
.600
S. U
11
0 5
.545
8
4 4
.500
e i--7
.461
Simmons .
3
k 2 J
.333
Austin College... 6
2 4
.333
S. M. U...
10
3 7
.300
John A.
Heath, father of our
Guy
(Goat) was
here from Normangee
this
week.
I
wore graceful
dresses of green festooned with gar-
(Contlnue* fe pog three.)
Edwin blabaugh, Caradine Hooton,
and Clifford Tucker wil leave the lat-
ter part of the week for Dallas, to as-
sist in the installation of the Pi Kappa
Alpha Chapter at 8. M. U.
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Miss Elisabeth Matchett, who has
been visiting Miss Hazel Davis, has re
turned to her home at Baa Angelo.
MUCH APPLAUSE AND
BIG OVATION FOR CLUB
Glee Club Returns With Good Re-
ports of Their Recent Trip.
Enjoyed Receptions.
(By Harry DeVore.)
S. M U.
We arrived at Dallas all O. K. and
were met at the station by a number
of S. M. U. students who escorted us
out to the University. Somebody told
us that it took only thirty minutes to
go from town to S. M. U., but the reg-
ular forty-five or more was entirely con-
sumed before he arrived there. As we
single-filed across the campus, some with
a suit case on their shoulder, others with
theirs on their heads, while still others
had one in each hand, it looked very
much like a caravan going across the
Sahara. Yes, and from the way some
of the fellows eyed that woman 's build-
ing, it must have looked like an ousis.
Hooton had a hard job on his hands get-
ting the fellows past it. On arriving
at the men's dormitory a bunch of yells
were given us. We soon were made to
feel at home and the feeling of friend-
ship shown us was appreciated.
In a very few minutes we were shown
to rooms which were turned over to us
by students who found some other hab-
itat for the night.
Our next move was toward the sup-
per table, but before starting to eat
fifteen loud rahs were given us, led by
Mr. Fleming Carter. Mrs. Gardner had
an elaborate feast prepared for us and
we did full justice to it.
Before we left the table "Bub"
Gardner announced that our dates were
waiting for us at the woman's building,
and you should have seen the way ev-
eryone got into those swallow-tailed
coats. Barney Oldfield or Ralph De-
Palrna would have looked as slow as
an ice wagon alongside of the Texas
Special compared to the speed that was
made in getting into the purple and fine
linen. We had a grand time meeting
old friends and making new ones for
half an hour before the concert.
(The concert as S. M. IT. printed it
in The Campus, the official mouthpiece
of S. M. U.) The evening's program
was of the highest order, absolutely ev-
ery number was first class. The club
was encored time and again. It seem-
ed as if Mr. Hutton, tenor soloist, would
never get to proceed with his second en-
core so great was the applause. Mr.
Hull, bass soloist, was encored, ,as was
also Mr. Manchester, piano soIoist.Tliere
was an intermission of ten minutes and
during this time one of the club brought
greetings from Southwestern. When
the audience was told that the Glee
Clnb desired to carry the good will of
8. M. U. back to Southwestern, there
was thunderous applause, showing that
8. U. has the good will and best wishes
of S. M. U. When the speaker kadi fin-
ished, some one in the audience (an old
S. U. student perhaps) arose and! asked
the S. M. U. students to rise. The whole
audience arose and' sang "Southwestern,
Ain't You HappySome of the old
S. U. students shed tears of joy and
sadness. Others said they would re-
turn with the Glee Club with the small
inducement of two cents. It was a
great occasion and one that will be long
remembered and one that is hoped! will
join the two institutions in bonds of
friendship. Southwestern, come again.
After the concert we almost wore our
hands out shaking hands with old ac-
quaintances and also new ones. We
again adjourned to the woman's build-
ing, which, of course, was the logical
place, and stayed there until we were
chased away. Every man on the cllib
has nothing but the highest praise for
the royal reception and courteous treat-
ment we received. S. M. U1 won our
friendship, and we know wo received
theirs, for actions speak louder than
words.
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Piano.
Arriving in Piano about dinner time
we were loaded into cars and driven
out to the Country Club about five miles
from town. There we were met by
some fifty of the town people. We did
some fishing, but the only thing that
was caught was a "sardine" by Hoyle.
Next, came the big event, the "grand
staker" of the day, a barbecue. We
ate as though we had been starved for
a month, and no wonder we had such
life-sized appetites, because a norther
cold enough to freeze the horns off a
'' mooley'' cow and strong enough to
blow down a cement sidewalk had toyed
with us an hour or more. It is needless
to say we went back to town as soon as
—well, as soon as we ate everything in
sight.
The concert was enjoyed and appre-
ciated by all and we were encored ev-
ery time, but as a whole it was not up
to our standard. This was caused by
too much of an airing during the day.
Mr. Leslie Douglas, one of our ex-
S. U. students, came over from Van
Alstyne to hear us. Piano is the home
of ex-Seudents A. S. Kendrick, Miss Ed-
na Russell, Martin Hamilton and Miss
Ruby Kendrick, who later went from
S. U. as a missionary to Korea, It is
also the home of Miss Travis Cottrell.
Mr. Kendrick showed us a goed' time
every minute we were there, also one
of the big clubs of the town let us use
their club rooms.
Y. W. C. A. MEETING.
'Are There Weeds in Your Garden?"
Discussed at Y. W. O. A.
Did you ever stop to think that col-
lege life could be compared to a gar-
den? That the deeds we do here are
similar to the seeds in a garden, and
their results like a harvest! These
comparisons were successfully and
forcefully made at Y. W. C. A. Sunday
evening.
Mary Lynne Walker discussed the
first phase. '' The planting of the seed.''
In her talk she brought out the thought
that "Whatsoever we sow, that shall
we also reap." This was followed by
a short talk by Lila Bass on the sub-
ject, "Weeds in your garden." Marian
Mallard followed this with a practical
application of these thoughts to our
lives during a four years' college course.
The service closed with Grace Lemmons'
talk on "The keeper of the garden,"
showing that we can expect no harvest
from our gardens unless we have Christ
* our keeper.
Mrs. John M. Barcus of Hillsboro
visited her sou this week.
'LEANS" vs. " OORPULENTS.'
Every ardent baseball fan should read
this announcement with the greatest
glee for the most terrific contest of the
season is here at last. The "Leans,"
16 joints from top to toe, everyone of
them, and snpple as zephyrs in a sum-
mer 's breeze, challenge the ''' Corpu-
lents,'' spineless scum of the earth that
they are, to a baseball game to be play-
ed on Snyder Field during the coming
week, date to be announced later, and
agree to clearly demonstrate to them
their true status in this vale of primor-
dial protoplasm. It is to be hoped that
the '' corpulents'' can muster up enough
of the old pep to accept this challenge,
otherwise the "loans" declare them-
selves unquestioned "cocks of the
walk." Captain "Happy" Hardt rep-
resents the "leans" in all diplomatic
relations.
Quite a crowd of students heard the
armless county judge of Dallas county,
Quentin D. Corley, Sunday night in bis
splendid lecture on "Overcoming Dif-
at the. Presbyterian church.
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