Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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The Story of Southwestern lege speakers. This year again the state championship in debate was ours. The annual May Fete, originated by Belles Lettres in 1898, was handed over to the whole school in 1921. From the First May Queen, Marie Louise Robinson, to the latest, Betty Lowther, typical South- western girlhood has had its Fitting gloriFi- cation. The words oF Alma Mater were written by Florence Cate in 1907. The cemetery was established by the Student Council in 1910. The idea grew out oF the First tombstone, which was painted by Leonard Bacon. The 'Big S was built in 1919. The story oF the Jinx, one oF the most unique, picturesque, and inspiring myths in American student lore, originated in 1912, when Southwestern deFeated Fairmount in Football, 41 to 3. A stone was painted with the First replica oF the Fabulous mon- ster, who, since that time, oFten appears on the Field oF combat just in the nick oF time, to bring consternation to the conFident Foe and victory to Southwestern. It was stolen by Fairmount From the cemetery and placed in Morrison Library. Southwestern brought it back and placed it in one oF the vaults in Richardson. But the Foe crawled through a Ventilating duct, opened the vault, and took the Jinx to Wichita. This time they claim it was blown up with clyna- mite and the pieces distributed as sou- venirs, but this tale is disproved by the Fact that there are still three or Four Jinx stones concealed in and about South- westernsand by the Further Fact that the Jinx still liveslu The college weekly, started in 1889, had a diFFerent name each year until 1893 when it was Finally called The Southwest- ern Collegianf' The First HMoundbuilder was published in 191 Q. BeFore that the an- nual was called -lhe Southwestern, started in 1905. gl-heterm HMoundbuilder origi- nated in 1910. Arthur Crookham, Leonard Bacon, Jesse R. Derby, and Fred Clapp had been talking over the matter oF a suitable nickname For the college and its athletes. Derby wrote an editorial on the subject: Would it not be a good thing to associate the name oF KMoundbuilder' with South- western and her aFFairs'? Why not call her various teams 'Moundbuilders' rather than 'Preachers' or 'Methodists'? Qur building is on a mound and since we, as students, dwell largely thereon, we may consistently call ourselves moundbuilders- and what is more it will probably live. l-larry l-lart, too, was trying to establish a better athletic nickname and, aFter hesi- tating over UCliFFdwellers, chose HMound- builders, because anybody could just dwell there,,' he said, but 'Builders' show action. Through his stories in the Courier he popularized it over the state. The building oF a mound as a symbolic cere- mony started in 1927. At the First chapel that Fall there was suggested Hthe inaugu- ration oF a new college custom, absolutely unique among all the colleges oF the world. Nobody but Moundbuilders can build mounds. So no other college has now, or ever is likely to have such a customf' -l-hat night the mound was started and dedicated with prayer by President Kirk and an ad- dress by Dewey Short. Every year stu- dents and instructors each build a stone into the mound. It is a brave college that takes a Jinx as its mascot, though Southwesternls history shows the eternal Fitness oF the symbol, but Southwesterners are Builders and noth- ing can stop their persistent proclivities either on the Campus oF the purple or in the society oF the Future. They build, and will build, For God and home and native land, For Alma Mater, and For the Rar- liament oF Mankind. P1120 I6

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Southwestern ln dramatics there have been l-lelen Graham and the Campus Players. A Flaming soul, a fervent Southwest- ernerl l-ler yelling Cthere is nothing like ity is indispens- able at games. And she puts the same enthusiasm-and considerably more artainto her plays. Unusual and beautilul ehfects are obtained. l'ler attic studio, the Little Theatre, furnished and dec- orated to her own taste, is the most artistic room in any college tor miles around. More lately, there have been Edith Dielmann and the Le- neans, presenting religious drama at its highest. A most romantic troupe, like the barnstormers ol old, traveling all over the country, making and carrying along its own costumes and equipment and showing nightly the Gospel in action. The men,s glee club winning the state contest three times in succession, the 1AxCappellaChoirastonishing Chicago and New York with its concerts, the Violin Choir, Founded and directed by Dean Altvater, with its classic chamber music, the College Band, under the inspired direction ol professor C. O. Brown, are examples ol outstanding musical organi- zations. Successes in Forensics have been too numerous to catalog. Victories reached their culmination in 1930 when South- western won the state championship ard First in womens debate in the national tournament. She has a record equalled by no other college in the United States: For three successive national tournaments South- Piz-it' I 9 Frank E. Mossman President, 1905-18, 1931- A. B., A. M., Morningside College, D. D., Upper Iowa University, LL D South western College. Pi Cuamma Mu, Pi Kappa Delta. Vice-President Kansas Council of Church Schools, 3Qnd Degree Mason. western went to the Finals in womenjs debate, at Estes park ard again at Tiffin, Qhio, she took second, and at Wichita, First place. The girls who achieved this result were Lucile Wright, Edith Stewart, Freda Scoggins, Evelyn l-lunter, Phyllis Burgess, and lrlene Moore. Dr. J. lhomp- son Baker has continued these achieve- mentsinoratory,debate,extempoaatwinning state and national honors and putting on great tournaments lor high school and col-

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