Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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12 (Elte trustees of SHUttljmestcrn lUmticrsitg (Officers M. M. BROOKS President REV. J. E. KlLGORE Vice-President REV. A. J. WEEKS Secretary C. C. CODY Treasurer llcxas (Conference Rev. I. F. Betts S. F. Carter Rev. James Kilgore R. M. Kelly Rev. Nathan Powell Cone Johnson Rev. Ellis Smith William Weiss Rev. L. B. Elrod ROBERT A. JOHN, A. B. (Alumni Member) ;Nortl] ' Sexas (Conference rev. W. F. Bryan N. P. Doak Rev. C. M. Harless S. V. Stark Rev. R. G. Mood J. J. Russell Rev. J M. Peterson M. M. Brooks Rev. O. S. Thomas H. G. KING, ESQ., (Alumni Member) (Central Texas (Confeience Rev. J. M. Barcus, D. D. A. F. Bentley Rev. Horace Bishop, D. D. M. B. Lockett Rev. James Campbell, D. D. F. F. Downs Rev. W. L. Nelms, D. D. H. S. Wilson Rev. Emmett Hightower T. L. MCCULLOUGH, (Alumni Member) $ortljmcst ' (Texas (Conference Rev. J. G. Putnam Geo. Barcus, Esq. Rev. J. G. Miller Walter Nelson, Esq. Rev. A. L. Moore W. A. Palmer Rev. g. S. Hardy Otis Truelove Rev. Simeon Shaw (Alumni Member) Iflest ITexas (Conference Rev. Thomas Gregory J. c Smyth Rev. J. T. King W. H. Hagy Rev. T. F. Sessions B. D. Orgain Rev. a. J. Weeks J. E. Pritchett Rev. F. B. Buchanan M. D. SLATOR, (Alumni Member) (Herman (Conference Rev. c. a. Lehmberg c. H. Grote Tljc xecntioc (Committee R. S. HYER, Chairman C. C. CODY, Secretary A. A. Booty B. D. Orgain JNO. R. ALLEN O. S. THOMAS E. G. Gillette . A. F. Bentley JAS. KlLGORE O. F. SENSABAUGH

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1 1 June 8, Thursday, 3:30 p. m. — Declamation Contest in Fitting School. 8:30 p. m. — Music and Elocution. June 9, Friday, 10:00 a. m. — Junior Orations. 4:00-6:00 p. m. — Art Reception at the Annex. 8:30 p. m. — Alumni Address and Reunion. 9:00 p. m.— Student ' s Banquet. June 10, Saturday, 10:00 a. m. — Address to Literary Societies. 3:30 p. m. — Prize Declamations. 8:30 p. m. — Brook ' s Prize Debate. June II, Sunday, 11:00 a. m. — Baccalaureate Sermon. 8:00 p. m. — Sermon to Undergraduates. June 12, Monday — Thirty-Seventh Commencement Day. June 13, Tuesday — Summer Normal Begins. June 13, Tuesday — Summer Session Begins. June 13, Tuesday — Summer School of Theology Begins. ' outljtucstmt Unhici-sity JtteMcal College. 1910 September 23, Friday — Examinations for Entrance and Advanced Standing Begin. September 29, Thursday — Lectures for Year 1910-191 1 Begin. October 17 — Examinations for Removal of Conditions Begin. November 24 — Thanksgiving Holiday. December 15 — First Intermediate Examinations Begin. December 22, Thursday — Christmas Holidays Begin. 1911 January 3, Tuesday — Exercises Resumed. March 1 , Wednesday — Second Intermediate Examinations Begin. May 11 — Final Examinations Begin. May 26 — Alumni Association Meeting. May 26 — Commencement Exercises. May 26 — Annual Banquet.

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13 JRctmspccthte A FEW small scattered dwellings, a shabby little courthouse in the middle of a square where Indians gathered on trading days, near a great oak tree of legendary interest; rows of bois-d ' arc hedge outlining the possessions of the earlier settlers of the country; to the east vast fields of blue bonnets beyond an old rock fence that marked the edges of town; southeast, stretch- ing far across the prairie, a road over which came great droves of cattle on the way to northern markets; to the west and north, a beautiful, shady little river — such, the old timers tell us, was Georgetown in 1873. This was the year that Southwestern was founded. On August 2 1 , the commissioners who were to decide upon the location of the University, in their meeting at Galveston accepted the offer of buildings, land, and money made by the little town. Upon the reception of the news at Georgetown, said Dr. Mood, there was great rejoicing, the firing of a hundred anvils expressing the great satisfaction at the result. In October the University opened. A financial panic and a serious yellow fever scare made the first enroll- ment small, and work began with only thirty-three students and three professors. The present Fitting School building, minus the third story, with six unplastered, unceiled recitation rooms and a little chapel was the scene of the early labors of Southwestern. So rough was the appearance of the interior that, to one entering, the building looked like a cave. An early chronicle tells us that the attention of the students was often diverted by wrens building their nests in the crevices of the rock wall and sometimes enlivening the monotonous routine of class work by their cheery songs. In 1876 the first commencement exercises were held. To the invitations sent out over Texas, this important note was added: Also, if you come by rail, let us know the route, as the citizens here will make arrangements to con- vey visitors from Austin and the terminus of the International Railroad.