Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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M' A --r: ' ggi? ' '00-.,,,....-0'- ,. T JM, E rw CONTENTS BOOK CNE HISTORY BUCK TWO CDRGANIZATIONS som mais FEATURES BGOK rom ATHLETICS SOCK FIVE SQCIETIES BOOK 5:14 PERSQNALITIES

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l-lil. BOOK ONE The Story o By Dean SOUTHWESTERN is the locale of The Master's Degree by Margaret l-lill Mc- Carter, only she calls it Sunset College. l-ler novel has caught something of the romance, the elan vital, the pioneer spirit that characterizes our alma mater, the temperamental mood ofthe Western prairies snow swept by the fresh, invigorating breezes that incite to tremendous upsurge of activity, now sun-balced under hot Southern sl4ies, half- asleep, yet dreaming of days when these brown and bar- ren plains shall mean more to the world than they do today. A survey of the first fifty years of Southwestern brings the ineluctable con- viction that here is an institu- tion destined for greatness. for what else can be the meaning of those dreams and visions of presidents, profes- sors, and studentskyes, and of many a humble farmer and busy house- wife all over the Southwestmof unre- mitting labor, sacrifices, tears, prayers, faith, with which, though discouraged with toil and unfulfilled longings, one genera- tion after another has talcen up the worlc with wornout tools to build again what drought and disaster have torn down? And each time the college emerges stronger, more sure of her mission, and still she calls to the heights all who lift up their eyes to the hills to find inspiration to wider views, nobler aims, more significant living, Three years after its founding, the Southwest Kansas Conference in 1885 elected a board of trustees to start the new institution. Une of these was Val- entine Cartwright, son of the peter Cart- wright who carried the Gospel all over the West and whose Bible, after its saddle- bag career, reposes at last in the college library. A committee was appointed to Page 5 f Southwestern Leroy Allen select a location, and seven ambitious towns sent invitations. The committee vis- ited all and selected Winfield, because its offer of fB60,000, 40 acres, stone for the building, water for its construction, and all other materials at cost, was the best received, and because it believed that Winfield was the best location. Qne of the reasons is said to have been the wonderful view from Sunset Qf this view Bishop Dean Allen the exc COLJ tiful WGS fami of cam Sou A s Qua yle, standing one day at top of the Seventy-Seven, aimed, Doubtless, God d have made a more beau- scene than this, but l-le never didln n 'l886, Dr. John lf. Earp elected first president. on tells the story of the yfs arrival: K'Qn the sixth July, 1886, our family e into Winfield over the t hern Kansas Railroad, and as the train passed in view of College l'lill we eagerly gathered about the car windows to see the new building which we understood was to be ready for use in the Fall. Alas, the foundations were there, but no sign of life or progress. This was the first of a series of disappoint- ments which followed thiclc and fast. We were met at the station by Professor Wood, who was conducting a successful business school in the city and afterwards became the first professor of mathematics. . . . . The day was scorching and the hot winds blowing over the plains of the lndian Territory blistered face and hands. But the lovely hospitality of pro- fessor Wood's home stands out in grateful remembrance. September came and the building was still not ready. So temporary quarters were foundein McDougall l'lall, on the second floor of Baden's general store at Main and Tenth. These quarters opened upon