Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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' g rnoluntainfon our own ca'mpus'wiIl' afford unlimit- ed opportunities for picnics and hikes and for fishing in -its 'streams and lakes as well as forhiuntinig in its These states will gradually be cleared' of stones as the students scour for stones to 'do their part invthe ceremony. V ,unexplored forestsg The vi,- sion of its -snow-caqpped peaks will be an inspiration to 'students and faculty alike to set-their affections onpthings above. Cool summer resorts' near lat home will be ia boon to fru- gal professors and their unfortunate families. The moiuntafin' .will afford a splendid' location for the Southwestern .Sum-mer School with escape from ' the heatof our Southern climate.iThus again will be symbolized the invincible spirit of Southwestern. lf the mountain will not come, to us - thenwewill buildae mountain of our own. ' Some disadvantages are however, foreseen and per- hapsit may be just as well toispecify now that cabins be erected at intervals of every few miles to shelter students who get lostin the ,A V mountains andito protect them from the storms 'till I' 5,4 X 2 P' -'Ax 'wi --L.gI5 Bunker H-ill Monumen' .s Man is not made of reaso 77,4 'W Xxx , Y . fx- - V I t 5 X' l , Us 'I' ' Jn A b I i Ilsl- , - I . Ng A mf- U U T, ' VV mf?..3ff5-? 4 I in l 'V V V :fees A f 1' ix - . g L ' 'ik A . rescuing parties Can reach them. Who can tell what may be the end of the pro- ject we start tonight? Let us enter into this matter with spirit and with wi.ll. Let us remember what Daniel Webster said inhis -address, at the dedication of 8 and judgment only,,but imagination and sentimen also. Surely that man wht has not sentiment in hi soul has somethinglacking Let tonight betdevoted ti sentiment, and let that sen timent be loyalty ti So uthwestern !-

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e South Sea lsland, ofthe- net Mars, 'sitting on the ins of Richardson' Hall d wondering what ran-ge goings-one were inducted by the long since tr-gotten -inihafbltants of is carnpu's,Qwill1 dig down the moiund- and after ofeffort-men may able to-decipher-some of documentsberein con- C. ROBERT HAYWOOD i and exclaim: What those mortals were!-'r' 'Thisyea-r the mound will e low, and the sum .total of rr efforts- discouraging, as Jet beginnings ,always are. each year, as hundreds dx thousands of' teachers 1d students add-their Conw- ib u-tio ns -to the monu menf ll bile, -itwill 'grow with the fowth andgreatness of the ollege, and forever be a lken of floyalty anddevo-i tion, so that visitors to the College will: be shown the I mound asoneof the unique- sights of the w-hole territory .- around. And when 'thiey-ask: 'What mean- yebe these stones? they shall each alumnus reply: Loyalty to Southwestern- so 'long as thismound -sh-all-stand! l am- in that monumen't,and so -is every son and tdaughf ter of. the College and our- hearts and hands are with her to the end.'x' Sorshall 'a- new spirit be born- and' lead S-o'utfhwest,ern -on from strength, to strength and from grace to grace. ' c bout this mound, so uniiqueand appropriate as monument to the loyalty of all who have been connect-i ed with the institution -over a long, period of years,,shall cluster many sacred memos -ries. Here in days,-sto .come student-s shall assemble to. urge on their representa- .. . at thezgloomy hour of. o nine, everyjstudent and faculty member 'come to the foot ofthe sacred 77. ' tives to grapple with :the-' A foe. Here they will --gather when the victory-,sQha,lfl -have been won to celebrate the outcome. Here they 'shall come to plight their .troth 'til death do them part. l 75- ceeds anothoer, with, only a few short months between, this pile will be first afoun- datio-n, 'then a mound, -then a, im,Aonument,- then- a hill., Q.. let all ioih hanas.'- Permitted by special. action of c-the ,deans for this one occasion-onIy'....f' - , and finally a mountain: - i if The ,advantage tothe ag- riculture A of -Cowley ,County and finally of' Kansas, Okla- homa and Colorado will be obvious., The-se- States will gradluoally be cleared' -of stones. jars the- ,st-u.d,e'nts scour, ,first the vicinity of the College for stones, to do their part ini the cerremony and-' then- are tC0mPel1l.ed to bring ,stones from thei r' homes, or required to send them .inc with'qth,eira,pplica- tions for admission. Anothf er advantage to -agriculture. will be the condensation of moisture -by this mountain, resulting ina more-plentiful rain-fall for this 'section as well as rushing mfountain torrents:-which will fu rni-sh at purer and cheaper ',l. vliater supply and abundant power for the -factories which will be, erected to give. work -to needy- students. Other 'adv va ntages- now. lodmover the far horizon. Far'-' is ,surely 4 ,thefright word here. Aslone'iSe,pltember suc-

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1 x ' EXPLANATORY NOTE , -he abofve paper was ad at the first regularlas- 'mfbly of the year on ursday, September 8, 27. The 'ceremony pro- sed was actually carried t,jthiat night, attended by -actizcally all students and rofessors. Dean Allen pres- Aed and put in-the first 'o.n'e,- on .which Joe Neville, resijddent of the student dy, stood to- dedicate the ound., The dedicatory ra-yer was offered by Presi- ent -A.-E. Kirk. -An unfore- ,en difficulty arose in the tternrpt of, the vast crowd ,pu-t all' the stonles in at nce. Some-threw theirs verthe heads of others, nd Donald Teed, shoveling ,ortar on the pile,wasicut n-I-the head.. 'This first martyr of T,l'l'S'iI'l'lOUTld'7' owevler, .had his head ,a ndaged and went on. i T The--iron box was placed rt the' bottom .ofthe oiund. Professor Pound- tone at the last moment uggested that a list of all llumni--of the schoolbebin- liuded, and this was done, Aoi that .now all students of ,outhwesterndfrom 'the' Qegin-ning to the ,pres-ent lme have-their names in he mo.un'd..A mound three eet high and perhaps nine n diameter was the result uf thejfirstfyea r's1buildi ng... Poistascnipt b ' end time passed. The immutable, finefsands of seconds seeped throusghr the hour 'glass of time one by one and -time passed.. ' An 'unforeseen difficulty' arose in the attempt of the vast crowd,-to' put all the stoneslinat once. i Q Q ' . Each .year the stones were., A added and-the mound grew. The fictitious callfor tradi-. tion ripened into a.. cher-,Ig T ished ritual. 'Once each year the -mound became the .mecca of fledgling and vet- eran. Builders - emblaz- szoned in gloiryfand forthe moment' the holy of holies. night' was followed by the coldgfgrey dawnof neglect. The Mound seldom served asa trysting spot for plight- ed trothsg nor the back- ground for victorious 'cele- brations: ,nor the arena for inspirational assemblies. Brambles and briars -block the inquisitive visitor, and only the 'field l'Tl'OUS'6fSOL.lgi'lI the shelter of the mound,'a far cry -from the way-station . sanctuary envisioned by DeanAll'en.' e 'L Then too, the sound' of Cornet, flute, harp, sack- but, psaltery, dulcifmer and saxaphonge calledfor by 9 - I . , the ceremony of the Build- ing of the Nlound, requires the vigilant application of T the -coroneristyme, fiutist, the harpist, the sackbutist, thewpsalterist, the dulcimer- ist and the'saxaphonist.' The . ,same sands of -timethat fixed the ceremony into a meaningful tradition erod- ed the very walls, fstudding, beams and roof 'A.' of -the quaint and archaic-G.gl. co- lonial home ofthe-fine art-. ists, whorwould but improve their artistry. Neglect' to1o, had ,come to shroud the halls ofthe fine artists, as it had obscured. the symbolic mound. ' .A - --, , Changeseemedinevita- ble. Conferences were heldg Bold' action was -proposed. A new .Fi ne Arts,VC'ompliex' was to be raised, andon the To disturb the entombed Each , bright ceremonial be he .box containling the revered Qprexyfs locks :would be as to do 'violence to tnhelcasket of alovedone.. -' . very spot wherethe mound Amournfully reminisced over what it-might. of been. . BQut do we dare Slayjrude hands on such la sacred pile? To disturb the revered D,rexy's locks and the dean's check would be as to do violence tothe 'casket of a loved one. These -and other awe ' -filling thoughts flickered with their' awful portent through therninds of those - -whoiplanined. 7 . eb -.