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The 'irjghttnadfitions least Ahalloirof ,reverential awe whic h, Qadided. to the of the facademic ofsprhere, Jmake it .a ap,art.'where one can and dreamf and hold, A A with the- great Soul-S, gOff-feairth,. Four years spent in such at sacred place .createa 'love for' alma ma- iierjinailas like nothing else. CFI eafiilflg f ' - in 'fA -Southwestern tradition that has fallen into-disuse is tfheograveyard..The idea was to loiuryy-our..defeate'd toes. T-his was always done -with pro rrtzere m'ony,,.but' t-he the CamDuS,3nd b.Uild-- ' n idea 'ofuarcemoetery orfour ca miprus is udistastefulll We have room hyer'e1fo.rarn,othing dead! .Let our rivralsf bury their own deadlon their own campusesi Q , l if ' Q 'Qutof the graveyard eer- emony, however, ,grew up and developed onelof the rnost unique co,iiege'tradif tions in America, afbsolutely' original with Southwestern - the' story of-the Jirix.-' . 4 when 'Hold Fairmount College P- ' 'Wichita State U niversitlys 'to a you - .4-f -was defeated in affootba ll. ga me to thie .tunefrof 41 1l0'j3,'a Southvvesterng e-student pre- y i feat-fSouthwesterno!' Ocea- ' ! g ifbR:'LERoY1ALLEN- pa red j at tohib'stone with the figure, of a, black scat, the word' '?Hoodoo ' at the top, and the score underneath. g. A ' This f -stoneg ' Jreposed pea cefu I ly' ,enough aim oinfg 'fithie ghosts. of it-he 'burial ground-fuontilg. it began to be noticed that from that time on, 'Fairmount couldn't- ,de- Saionally s. C.'sTrivals would rnavnage :to tie ftheiisoore, but they, Could ' never ewizh, ,whereas Sout-h'wesiternfa'IQ ways--won, or ,at 'least -tied the, score. Then the black' ,cuaipa-m'e args be' pa-lied me J,anx.fv g 1,
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I his remarkable record was kept up for 14 succes- sive years. Sometime the odds were ,so great that it seemed Southwestern couIdn't win, but, in the nick of time + often in the last few minutes of play - a mysterious change oc- curred, the tide turned, and Southwestern was saved again. A Then the black cat came to be called the Jinx. . 2 Q jginally, the Fairmou ers got suspicious a superstitious, They c cluded they couldn't against the invincible which really was the querable Southwestel Spirit that prevailed those days. In fact, so one conceived the noti that if Fairmount had t Jinx it might work for hers it had for S.C.
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