The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 29, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WA-HOO BIRD
S.iElLU.
Southern Education Does Not Keep In
Step With Southern Industrialism
The Wa 11 no Mini
Girls, the Wa lino Bird has a
grand surprise for you this week. It
| is the chance of a life time. Dreams
| Mr. and Mrs. K. I
! tvs visited their
J friends in
week end.
Kurt h of Kel-
son, Ernest, and
SoutInvestern ox er t he
M r. K urt h graduat ed in
RAYBURN BROWN ..............................EDITOR-1NCll 1 EF
DAV K L. OATES.............................BUSINESS MANAGER
STATE:
Edgar Allamon ....................................Assistant Editor
Virginia Ryman .................................. Assistant Editor
Leo A lib r it ten ..........................................Sports Editor j
"Tip” Allen ..................................Assistant Sports Editor
Mary Frances Bowers...................................Feature Editor I
lone Wilson ..........................................Society Editor j
Vivian Adams....................................... Literary Editor
Cecil Glasscock................................................Reporter j hunt. Will make trip to New Mex
Edith Stinson ............................................... Reporter I ico and Arizona coming August
Shelton Gafford............................Assistant Business Manager
Samuel Wilcox................................Assistant Business Manner
Benny Lorenz.....................................Circulation Manager
Edwin Uav .................................... Circulation Manager
have become reality. The day you 19df> and found his wife. Miss Isla
have prayed to come; the great op Kinsolving, who was an "Annex
portunity you have been seek ing; I girl” at that time in Southwestern!
the joys of a lifetime can now be
realized by some lucky Miss Sou’
wester. How can this be donef
In last week’s issue ofvTIie Wil
liamsou County Sun, January 25th,
page number ti, the following :ul
\’ertisernent wa« found:
"WIFE WANTED—One who is
fond of outdoor life, travel, fish and
Mr. K u rt h is one of the Big hum I
be: nii'n of East Texas. When in col-
lege he was an outstanding man onM"ls
th(> campus,a ml since entering the
business vvorfd has always been a
loyal supporter of S. U. as demon
strated by sending his son to col-
lege here and by his gilts.
j Southern colleges are doing little
to prepare their students to cope
vs it h the grow ing industrialism ot
the South, according to an article by
I’rofcssor Mumford Jones in the ()e
tober issue of The New Students.
"Nowhere in the South,” he says,
"has the studv of economics proceed
ed so far as to offer notable oppor
THE HONOR SYSTEM AT RICE
The honor system of regulation of examinations has
Weight from SO to 110 pounds, dark
or blonde headed. Address I*. <).
Box Georgetown, Texas.”
—ooOOoo—
Isn't it great/ Aren't you thrilled
t o dea 111/ Did you e v er think it
would really happen/ And here it
The following item appeared in
the Long Beach, California, paper
some days ago: “A 1-4 year obi
youth, Reinhardt Schumann, a can-
didate for graduation with the June,
191/9, class of Polytechnic High
School, has been chosen from among
all other high school students of
Southern Calif, to comp do in a na-
is, and how! Just address Box
been called before ! Georgetown. Texas.
t tie bar of student opinion at the University of Texas and found ineffec- | rj-1, (. Walloo Bird is wondering
five. I’rinceton has found the system wanting; and throughout the nation | wj1(, vvj|] ^,,,| ))|js ,n.t,,_ |>)( V()U |<nuSV
universities that have employed it for years are beginning to call intojvv|l() |1(. IS > |> (> |p,x
question its usefulness. Some of the universities are returning to t lie j \y;| ||(M, pjrd pmnvs y(lU would sure
old proctor system, usually considered odious by a student body where be surprised if volt traced it down,
the honor system once has been employed, while other schools are frankly j Localise this fellosv is —well, lie’s
puzzled at the solution ot the dilliculty. Oregon State Agricultural Col j |* o pox ;>_
lege celelltat.-o ill, - i \ t 11 ium i t n -n i i i ' I I i - i ■ , i 11,, j n^> r» i » 111 i in.-. >v.ij ii i m I ( o()()
Williamson would not be
Neither would Gladys
(unities tor advanced training. One
goes north for his graduate work in
liehl. Only belatedly has the
studv of sociology come to be an ef-
fective force in Southern university
life, and at that, only in a few
schools. Yet it is evident that the
South needs now as it needed a hun-
dred vears ago, an effective exam-
ination of the foundations upon
which the industrial system is to be
built.”
"Such college men as are now in
control of Southern business were
graduated (if they are alumni of
Southern colleges) at a time when
modern departments of economics for academic freedom is yet 1
and sociology were almost unknown, j fought — that is, the right and iic-
and necessarily they believe in, and j cessity for universities to investi-
mir data to go on,
that in the future
Sout hern indust rial
the possibility
there may be
a leas of the
saint' hideous ugliness, the same raw
and gigantic energy. Even if his
teacher tells him so, the fact means
little to him.
"It is out of tliis dilemma that
Southern colleges must somehow find
their way. As yet. it would seem,
they have not on the whole 1’otVni
any solution. What is even more
depressing, there are a good many
Southern institutions of learning ia
which the need for awakening an
interest in social problems is not
even felt. Sheltered behind the lib-
eral arts curriculum, these colelges
continue to educate gentlemen and
gentlewomen. They frown on Menv-
ken but they do not substitute any-
body half as interesting in his place.
And in those schools which are be-
ginning to survey the actualities of
life around them, most of the battle
be
tionnl contest for a .‘f.ntMl yearly
scholarship, for I years at any col- ! operate under a laisserfaire system! gate economic and social phenomena
onsidered
once has been employed, while other schools are frankly ;
lilt ion ot the dilliculty. Oregon State Agricultural <’ul I
1 the sixth anniversary of its honor system this year and j
believes it to be a success, though far from being all that it might be. j
The Thresher is inclined to be pessimistic about the success of the I
honor system employed in the orthodox manner at Rice Institute. No in- j
stnictor is required to be present in the examination room, and the stu-
dents are required to sign the pledge, "I have neither given nor receiv'd 1
aid on this examination,” alter they have finished their papers. Each
student is personally honor bound to report any infractions of this code'
to the Honor < 'on tic i I, a body of students empowered to t ry the cases. The ;
pledge i itself is an entirly useless instrument. I’eople who have a high
regard for their honor will mu cheat on examinations, and do not linvi to;
Tin
sign any personal guarants to that effect
no scruples about falsifying the pledge,
reporting cheaters absolutely e -eiitial as il is
t cm, is totally || isl'1 ga I'd Cl i by the student body
into students the idea that they are bound to
they see it, they will llntly refuse to accept t h
ei a I tendency is 1
d ism issa I from t h
t hose w ho will elien t has e
ceond obligat ion t hat of
to the Mm cess of the sys-
Try as you may to drill
report ( heat iiig w henever
responsibility. The gen-
shrink from a duty such as this because he knows that
institution is the only penalty, once guilt is proven. In
the light of the seriousness of the penalty, everyone is inclined to belittle
the seriousness ot’ the offense. "It' 1 tell oil him for cheating on this one
little pesky exam he gets kicked out.” we reason, and make it our busi
n e s s to forget all about i t. Let every student who has been at Rice for
several years ask himself how many times cheating on examination has
conn* under his notice. Then let him inquire further of himself how many
of such cases he has reported to the Honor Council. Almost without ex-
ception the answer will be none. And to just this extent is our honor
Bystem a failure.
Every year there are eases of cheating come before the Honor Council
and students are expelled from tin* Institute. Rarely are the offenders
apprehended by students, instructors or at least student graders usually
assuming the responisbilitv. Consequently, our honor system devolves
into a proctorship and nothing else. Howl as the students might at a
system of proctors, they should remember that under the present honor
system every stundent is himself theoretically a proctor. When the stu
J ewel
i ill crest <
Noble, for they are sacked. But
there are plenty of others. Lois
Thornton, and Martha < 'ot t ingham.
Tula Lee Stone and Mai v Sue Bur
chain, ('larissa Emert and Zenada
11 lie kn bee. a re a less that would
sack this opportunity.
The Wa 11 on Bird.
oo( H )oo —
('housing a 'Miss Sou'wester is a
good joke the best the Wa lino
Bird has seen in many moons. Whs
select such a person/ Mho cares
about that anyway? The annual
staff “cciiis interested in the propo
sit ion, byt why shouldn’t they/ The
Wa I loo Bird would be willing to
bet a "yankee dime” against a
"dutch quarter” that with guesses
one—two—three Miss Sou'wester j
could be determined.
One poor fellow has already se-
cretly stated that he would spend j
$f>0 on the last day for his Miss Sou’- i
wester. And then the campus will
wonder how it was all done. The I
Wa-lloo Bird never saw so many
sleepy heads on one campus as ex- |
ist oil this Southwestern campus. !
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lege which the winner may choose.”
Later information states that the
young man won out. Young Schu-
mann is the son of Mrs. R. (Schu-
mann. formerly Miss Alice Sduiford,
who was in Southwestern in 1908
and lbOtl.
Solitary Dreams
if economic life which makes thc| has in most eases yet to be establish-
Hai'vard or ( olmubia student rub his j (1(] The campaign, when it is fought,
But 1 doubt wlieth- wj|| |)(, ;|M absorbing one, but the
present collegiate attitude does not
Tis sweet at times to be alone
Away from work and care,
Where Mowers have for centuries! 11
grown.
To catch their fragrance there.
eves in womb
or there is any sinister control by
Southern business or Southern uni
versifies which prevents the growth
of economic thought in that region.
The situation is far subtler.
"One truth—one profound trulh-
m the gejieial situation is that tlioj ptl] sign that the negro literature of
Soul hern midei graduate is blankly i f |)(. present awakens a wide interest
indiM oi cut alike to economic theorj j;iiiioug Southern undergraduates—
to the incipient and baffling j ;if least is one situation in
problems ol the new order in the i u |lj,.)| ||iev are very much alert. But
s,mth. I) is only natural that he | ,mt j, , he hold of Menekeiiism among
seem likely to furnish manv re-
cruits. It is possible that a change
of literary diet might awaken tin'
old Maine of enthiiiasm for Southern
| things and themes. It is a liopo-
A nil as we take a roving glance
AI t his old world of ours
A ml go into a, kind of t rn m-e
Forgetting all the Mowers,
Perhaps an image in a cloud
Reveals an old sweetheart.
I hen come the thoughts that make
us proud
And dreams begin to start.
We dream of all the tender love
That grew from out our fancy.
It changed as does t he moon above,
But still it was- romam y.
’Tis well to seek such solitude
And i'est at times it seems
O’er life and all its changes lirood
Reviving earlier dreams.
j should be so. Typically the prod j
| net of a small community, typically!
j also the product of an upper middle j
! class family, lie does not know, be-1
j cause lie has never seen, sm-h indus I
trial areas as 1 he coal Melds of Pena i
syivania, the mills of New Jersey,
the ma mi fact u ring region around the!
fhe undergraduates is broken, or un-
til ii wanes, we cannot look for
inurli forward going interest in the
new South and its problems.”
Marian 1'rban, Miss Uevillc, Miss
Onderdonk. Tennessee Spencer and
Abney were visitors in
io this week end.
Edith and Ethel Stinson were at
! their home in San Antonio this
week-end.
Emily Flanagan and Ruth Wilcox
were week-end guests in Litt'i^ield
Dormitory in Austin.
With wakened minds we soon return j Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Fox and daugli-
Our mission to fulfill, j ter, Frances, were guests on the
For dreams we do no longer yearn, campus Sunday.
Real life is better still. I Thera Cock was in Granger dur-
—Rufus O. (Cow) Burns. ing the week-end.
Margaret
Great Lakes. lie cannot envision, j ,,
Sun Ant
because he has neither experience
Such dreams arouse a new desire
And give a new ideal.
They make our dreamy hearts aspire
To change if all to real.
j
Mary Kuhn Browning, Aubra An
lor son, Dorothy Cavitt, Marion Ur-
dent shirks this responsibility, it is passed on to the professor with the j ban, and Iva Lee Clark spent Tues-
result that our honor system is actually not a bit different from personal | day afternoon at the home of Dor-
supervision of examinations, clumsy and inefficacious as that supervision
may be.
Would it not bo better to admit that our honor system as now con-
stituted is a failure Granting that, it is a failure, it would not do to
scrap the present system without having something better to put in its
place. On the face of things as they now stand it appears that it would
be best to do away entirely with the pledge and place full responsibility
for supervision of the examinations in the hands of the instructors just as
Texas University proposes to do. Cheating would obviously be reduced
to a minimum because the dishonest student could no longer rely on the
sympathies of his classmates to protect him from detection. What, do
Rice students think about our honor system, and what suggestions can
they offer for its improvement?—Rice Thresher.
We’re not skeptics, but we’re beginning to doubt just a little if thero’s
any great load of news in the usual Monday story headed, ‘‘Coolidge
8pends Quiet Sunday.”
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