Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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bishop, took part in this campaign. Presi- dent Cook, saying he was unsuited for money-raising, resigned and Frank E. Moss- man vvas elected president in 1905. The naming of our college caused a lot of trouble. Conference, trustees, pres- idents, and friends--all took a hand at it. Finally, the students themselves named their ovvn school. l-lerefs the vvay it came about. The Conference of 1884 decreed that it should be called the 'Southwest Kansas College. The trustees in the first charter called it The South West Kansas Conference Collegef' Think of working that into a yelll Dr. Earp in the first advertisements sent out gave it tvvo names, HSouth West Kansas College and Hgouth- ern Kansas Normal School and Business College. Qther names suggested vvere Ucokesburyn and Hlfpvvorthn College. So the dispute Went on for tvventy-five years. The trustees, in a discussion lasting i, lil -- V--.ww The Story of all day and until tvvo the next morning, reduced the name to South Western Collegen and seemed to fix the matter forever by erecting over the entrance of Richardson the letters US. W. C. Stu- dent riots broke out against the offending middle letter. l-laving read about the Boston -lea Party, four daring souls, with faces blacked and heads tied up in ban- danas, got ropes, ladders,-and planks, constructed a svving, and cut the from the building. President Nlossman and Professor Phillips had a hurried con- ference the next morning. UWhat now? M-l'here's only one thing to do: grin and say nothingln Finally, the trustees had the charter changed and the S. C. standsl l3rexy's Barn, a vvooden structure standing where the sunken rose garden is novv, vvas the first building erected by Dr. lVlossman, vvho got six men to con- tribute one hundred dollars each. It vvas dedicated February 10, 1908. There vvas a boxing match, Doc l'lin- shavv's band of tvventy pieces, soloists, speeches, a tug-of-vvar, and a basket ball game betvveen St. Johns and Southwestern. ln this little gym, tvvo state championship teams and one na- tional championship team vvere trained. ln 1908 the Conference met in Winfield. A tent vvas erected on the campus and a banquet, supervised by Mrs. Mossman, served to a thousand people. Bishop Warren and others spoke. 543,000 was raised. A little later James Richardson gave 530,000 and the building that bears his name vvas erected on the lVloundbuilder's biggest mound, Sunset I-iill, from 1914 until 1916 the first great financial campaign vvas vvaged, for HS600,000, under the invincible leadership of Dr. Mossman, assisted bv C lvl. Gray and a score of others. Winfield raised fE78,000, the alumni 525,000 November Q9, 1916, vvas set as the last day. It vvas a day of Pug-' 10

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Southwestern warrants long past due and decided to celebrate. So, after long argu- ment, they bought a saclc oi peanuts and wallced a mile and a halt to save street-car iarel Only two oi our present Faculty survive from nineteenth-century days, one a stu- dent then, lfleanore l-layes, and the other an instructor, professor Robert B. Dunleyy, What tales they could tell, and how they must smile when present hardships are complained oil Cn a stair-landing of Qld North was a tanl4 For tire-protection. It was the custom to dip new students into this head-First, just to mal4e sure they were properly imbued with the Southwestern Spirit. But Elijah pilgrim Giger, colored stu- dent preacher, was too wary to be caught near this tanl4. So a bucl4et oi water was placed on the campus and, when least expecting it, he got his ducldng in the usual form, ii not in the usual place. Perhaps he got an extra dose be- cause oi the extra trouble his initiation had involved. ln any case, as he came up spluttering, he said, Hl'se been baptized by water and by the l'-loly Ghost, but dis is de lust time lise ever been baptized by de Deyilli' William l-l. Rose was acting president in 1899-1900. ln T900 to 1903, Frederick C Demerest was president. The hard times still held on and not much progress could be made. ln 1903 Pro- fessor George F. Cook became president. The merchants oi Win- tield in this year began to tal4e a vital interest in the college and promised to raise fiSQ5,000 it the trustees would raise 3375,- 000, Chaplain lVlcCabe, aiterwards Pauli' 9

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'wg- Southwestern anxiety and expectancy. Subscrip- tions poured in all day, people came and went, bulletins were posted from time to time, and at last, about tour o'clocl4, the goal was reached. Then about ten o'clocl4, R. A. Dadisman, Super- intendent ol the Pratt district, came in with an old satchel containing subscriptions lor 550,000 that no one l4new anything about. The total raised was fE678,000, South- western could now ranlc as an accredited college. It was ad- mitted to the North Central Asso- ciation in 1917. ln 1917 the war spirit invaded the campus. President lVlossman was authorized to otler the services of Southwestern to the nation. Enlistments began at once. Coach Willis Bates went to Camp Sherman and tool4 special training lor the S. A. T. C. Association l-lall and l'lolland, with a mess hall behind it, were turned into military bar- racks. Students prepared For war and toolc college worlc. Many nearly perished in the Flu epidemic. Three hundred and seventy-Five men entered the service. All branches were represented. Qne hundred and twenty attained to olficerls ranlc, 8 died in camp, 5 were lcilled in action, 3 died of diseases contracted in the A, E. F. The students at home organized a l.oy- alty League to raise funds for enter- prises connected with the war. personal letters were written to all Southwesterners in the service. Purple cartons with S. C. pen- nants were sent Filled with candy, other Ueatsf' boolcs, magazines, and 'always with the message, Return and we will Fill again. ln 'l9'l8 Dr. Mossman left to become president of his alma mater, Page Il