Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

Text from Pages 1 - 346 of the 1912 volume:

p ■ L I. b | Ct)e£ ou ' toe«ster PUBLISHED BY The STUDENTS ' ASSOCIATION of SOUTHWESTERN UN I VERSITY GEORGETOWN, TEXAS Volume IX MGMXII I i HBB BM IBeMcatitftt %0 Ijc |lc ereno duties iir%etre $felja:p t P + P % t fiftlj to o,oibe tlje bestinies of ontl)hiestern Hni ersit|), ttttjo Ijas for some gears been a Jeaber in J ootljern Jltetljobism, anb toljose sljort term of office Ijas alreabg commanbeb tlje respect of tlje entire J tate; mlfose genial bisoosi- tion, tonsbom anb eagerness to seme eaelf student Ijas mon tlje hearts of all, anb ioljose breabth, of minb, learning anb ontstanbino, personality in- spires each, to make tlje most of life, tljis oolume of tlje J on ' wester is most affectionately bebicateb. We, The Sou ' wester staff of ' 12, find great consolation in the proverb Pride goeth before a fall, for there is an abso- lute lack of affected pride amongst us over the merits and demerits of this book, and we humbly trust that with the pride absent the fall will also not appear, and that this volume of The Sou ' wester will receive from you the commend- ation we have attempted to win for it. This is truly Southwestern ' s book this year; published for the first time by the student body, and with the medical college no longer represented, its contents concern Southwestern only, and we have attempted to make it depict your college days in 1 9 1 1 - ' I 2 so that it will be to you an ever-living reminder of the scenes through which you passed, and of the friend- ships you formed in your college days. Our sincere thanks are extended to the many without whose un- selfish co-operation this book could never have been. CONTENTS Frontispiece Dedication Greetings Sou ' wester Board of Publication Calendar . Trustees of Southwestern Poem Glimpses into the Future Faculty Student Assistants Methodist Church Senior Academic Junior Academic Main Building . Sophomore Academic Freshman Academic Literary Societies Marshals Lecture Committee Oratorical Association Fraternities Sororities . Barb Design Y. M. C. A. . Y. W. C. A. . Ministerial Association Mission Band Prohibition League Honor Council Woman ' s Self-Government Association Student ' s Association Publications Press Club Musical Organizations Department of Expression Art Department Proposed Library Building Athletics Co-eds Gymnasium Fitting School Clubs . . . Popular Beauties Leap Year Results Views Home-Comers Addition Literature Southwestern Song . Knocks Advertisements Page 2 4-5 6 8-9 10-11 12 13-14 15-16 17 38 42 43 63 75 76 88 99 125 126 128 129 139 148 150 152 154 156 157 158 160 162 164 171 176 182 184 185 187 206 212 214 222 226 230 231 232 232 233 270 295 BOARD OF PUBLICATION jfot tfje gear 1912 (Eliitor=in Cbief A. Frank Smith TBwinees S anacjrr Thos. E. Lee associate dEtiitors M. Y. Stokes, Jr. S. P. Conn Mary Thomas associate Managers J. R. Sanders F. A. Boutwell Olive McConnell associate (ECitor ant) Manager Anne Carter Sit (Sbitor Corinna Cooper CALENDAR 1911- 12 Colltp of Etneral £rtef 19U September 19-21 . Registration and Examination for Admission. September 21 , Thursday, 10:00 a. m. Formal Opening. September 22, Friday, 8:45 a. m. Class Work begins. September 23, Saturday, 5:00 p. m. Period for Registration closes. November 1 , Wednesday. Mid-Term Reports; Fall Term. November 30, Thursday. Thanksgiving Day. December 14, Thursday. Final Examinations for Fall Term begin. Christmas Recess. From Thursday noon, December 21, to Tues- day, 8:45 a. m., January 2. 1912 January 3, Wednesday. Winter Term begins. January 4, Thursday, 5:00 p. m. Period for Registration closes. February 7, Wednesday. Mid -Term Reports; Winter Term. February 22, Thursday. Washington ' s Birthday; Anniversary of Clio Society. 10 March 6, Wednesday. Anniversary of Alamo Society. March 9, Saturday, 8:00 p. m. Senior Orations. March 12, Tuesday. Final Examinations for Winter Term begin. March 19, Tuesday. Spring Term begins. March 21 , Thursday, 5:00 p. m. Period for Registration closes. April 19 and 20. Second Home Coming. April 20, Saturday. San Jacinto Day; Anniversary of San Jacinto Society. April 25. Senior Day. May 2, Thursday. Mid-Term Reports; Spring Term. May 30, Thursday. Final Examinations begin. June 7 , Friday, 4:00 to 6:00 p. m. Art Reception at the Annex. 8:30 p. m. Music and Elocution Recital. June 8, Saturday, 10:00 a. m. Address to Literary Societies. 3:30 p. m. Alumni Address and Reunion. 8:30 p. m. Brooks Prize Debate. June 9, Sunday, 11:00 a. m. Baccalaureate Sermon. 8:00 p. m. Sermon to Undergraduates. June 10, Monday. Thirty-eighth Commencement Day. June 11, Tuesday. Summer Normal begins. June 11, Tuesday. Summer Session begins. June 11, Tuesday. Summer School of Theology begins. l l BOARD OF TRUSTEES SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ©fftcfra JAMES KlLGORE President A. J. WEEKS Secretary C. C. CODY Treasurer (ttirrnlibr Committee C. M. BISHOP Chairman C. C. CODY Secretary John. R. Allen A. A. Booty E. G. Gillet Jas. Kilgore R. G. Mood B. D. Orgain A. F. Bentley Otis Truelove MKest Sesae Conference Rev. Thomas Gregory Rev. J. T. King Rev. A. J. Weeks Rev. F. B. Buchanan Mr. W. H. Hagy Mr. B. D. Orgain Mr. J. E. Pritchett Rev. T. F. Sessions Mr. J. S. SMYTH Mr. M. D. Slator Rev. J. G. Miller Rev. A. S. Moore Mr. W. A. Palmer !5ortl)U)ei3t tZTerae Conference Rev. J. G. Putnam Rev. G. S. Hardy Mr. Walter Nelson Mr. Otis Truelove Rev. Simeon Shaw Mr. Geo. W. Barcus Mr. W. G. Swenson Rev. J. M. Peterson Rev. R. G. Mood Mr. N. P. Doak 12ortJ) terau Conference Rev. O. S. Thomas D. H. Aston Mr. J. J. Russell Mr. Sil Stark Rev. W. F. Bryan Mr. L. Blaylock Mr. H. C. King (german Conference REV. C. A. LEHMBERG Mr. C. H. Grote Rev. W. L. Nelms Rev. C. R. Wright Mr. A. F. Bentley Central QLettw Conference Rev. Horace Bishop Rev. E. Hightower Mr. F. F. Downs Mr. H. S. Wilson Rev. James Campbell Mr. M. B. Lockett Mr. T. L. McCullough Heias Conference Rev. Nathan Powell Rev. Ellis Smith Rev. Jas. Kilgore Rev. L. B. Elred Mr. R. M. Kelly Mr. Cone Johnson Mr. W. S. Gibbs Rev. I. F. Betts Mr. W. N. Weiss Mr. Robert a. John 12 AN ADDRESS TO THE CLASS OF 1912 We hail you, Brothers, from the marts of trade. From shop and forum; farm and factory; From mine and mansion; pulpit, and from press; From plain and prairie; from beyond the sea; From hamlet, and from city; and from where Men fight alone their battles, with the soil, Or with the mountains, or, in foreign lands. With sin and sorrow, squalor and disease; From every corner of the busy world; From North we hail you; and from South and West And East we give you greeting; Hail, O, Hail! Strangers are we, perhaps; and yet we were Nursed by a common mother, and we knew The same dear places, daily walked and talked With the same masters, met the same defeats, Thought the same thoughts, and found the same ideals, Holding at last, enshrined in our hearts, The same fond mem ' ries. Of the tiny stream Limping along between its banks of stone, Tripping o ' er shallows where the minnows p ' ay, Gliding by banks of sloping meadow-land, Pausing in woodsy glades as if to hold The pictured image of the sturdy oak And elm and willow, hung with hoary moss. God-giv ' n restorative for tired minds, To linger on its banks, and while away An afternoon of pleasure unalloyed. More than a pleasure; inspiration, too: Here came Jess Stanford, and his brother, Frank, Metcalfe, and Jones, and all who went before, With Smith and others, who the murmur caught Of Nature ' s oratory, and the sweep Of God ' s own eloquence, to sound it forth In pleas impassioned, or in grave debate. Here Mosely walked and wooed the wayward Muse To flights of fancy; Walling heard the Voice Of that Divine Infinitude, whose name Is God; and uttered forth his heart in song. Here later Bowden came, to dream and sing, Philosopher, pure-minded, and the friend Of all the friendless, the interpreter Of Life and Nature, whose sweet, limpid verse, Clear as the viol and mellow as the lute, Bespoke a poet-soul unspoiled by time. The morning hour of prayer, when from the desk, The words of life were read, by one of those Who were our teachers, or by one who came From that wide world that lay beyond our ken; Dreamed of, and known in part, but full of power To charm our fancy. Travelers were they, And men of learning, ministers of God, Who told us mighty tales of mighty men, Giving their lives for Him in distant lands. Of women, too. One I remember well. A fellow-student she, who put aside Her gay young life to follow Christ into The land of morning Calm; but as the flowers Wither before the sun-blast, so she died. Their speech was full of wisdom and advice, Kindly, ennobling, pointing ever up To true success. Then, when the speaker ceased. Chapman, or Hendry, as the case might be, Led in the singing; or in other years Some other singer. Gloria was the tune, Or Faith of Our Fathers; and we stood and sang 13 Sometimes with feeling; but, alas, too oft Our thoughts strayed off to other fields and themes. The dearest mem ' ries linger ' round the men Whose lives touched ours with compelling power To mould and fashion as the potter hath. Upon his wheel, to turn the shapeless clay. Until, beneath his skillful finger-tips, It grows a vessel, fitted for the wine Of sacrament; and subtle as the strains Which gods invoked to raise the walls of Troy. First, and the Nestor of them all, was one. The dean in title and in honor, who Bore reverently his years, who best was known As friend and counselor; of keenest wit, Yet kindly: may his latter years reflect The sunlight of his influence, as the West, At evening, catches up the beams of day, And flings them back, in glory doubled twice. Yet softened and subdued. The sunny smile That shone upon us in the Latin room. Was symbol of a nature, highly bred. Lofty in feeling, yet, withal, so veiled In modesty, that few did find it out. But those who did found that a vein of humor Lay beneath, sparkling and clear as crystal. Breaking forth to fling a spray of laughter O ' er our hearts and minds. Lord, crown his life With quiet evening ' mid his books and friends. The beating, pulsing fire of poesy Ran in the veins, and sparkled in the eye Of him who led us upward to the height Of dread Parnassus, there to introduce Us to the Masters, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, Milton and Lanier. How did our hearts expand, to sit and hear His clear, deep voice, as from the hidden page Of his true memory, like the diamond drops From mountain spring.remembered things leaped forth Couplet, and stanza, epigram, and phrase, Culled from wide reading, yet so blent and fused That none would call them other than his own. Poet he was, yet nobler name was his, A manly, honest type of gentleman. So may the God of Peace be ever near To bless his home, and bring him to the Grail. Time fails me to recall those other names, Moore, Reedy, Allen, Barcus, and the rest. Count yourselves happy, Brothers, to have known Such men as these, and to have walked a while In their instruction. In the darker hours, When clouds shall gather, and the night seems long. Their mem ' ries shall rise, to shine like stars Along your pathway, and the words they spake Shall seem like music, comforting the weak, Or ringing as the trumpet to the strong. Thus as you fare forth to the fighting line, Do we who go before, with those behind Hail you as brothers, comrades, and as friends: Hail to you. Brothers, Hail and Hail and Hail! E. S. ALUMNUO ' 10 14 GLIMPSES INTO THE FUTURE HE public is familiar with the controversy that has B J raged in Methodist educational circles for the last fc few years, and which awakened fears in some quarters as to the future of Southwestern University. But in the midst of all the commotion the grand old institution has moved on, developing in all directions. The new president, Dr. Bishop, is inspiring all departments with new energy. Today the out-look for the future is indeed bright, and the prospect broadens into great and attractive vistas. One of the things an institution most needs is ready money that can be used for any needed purpose. As the money raised for our institution has usually been for some building, endowment, or some definite purpose, it follows that the offi- cers have often needed money for pressing purposes, which they could not command. So many a stitch that might have saved nine has failed to be taken in time. This deficiency is to be provided for by an organization of former students which is expected to provide at least $10,000 a year. This movement is now in promising process, and we expect it to be consummated in the near future. Another movement, on the part of the ladies who were former students, is an organization to provide a fund to beau- tify our grounds, and provide for their being permanently kept. This is a small thing, but one which will please and delight all visitors, and render these dear old grounds dearer and more attractive than ever to the boys and girls who shall throng them in the future. Then the plans for buildings in the near future include a Library, a Young Men ' s Christian Association building, a Gymnasium, and a building for the Young Ladies ' Cooperative Home. Some parties are considering seriously building one or more of these in memory of their dear ones. Other parties have under consideration the permanent endowment of a chair to be named by them. 1 5 . In the meantime our present buildings are crowded to their capacity, and there is not a desirable house to rent vacant in the town. Georgetown now has miles of cement walks, has lights on her streets all night, is soon to have full delivery of the mail, and a United States post office building. So it will become more and more a model site for a great college, and the growing college will steadily react in stimulating a further enlarging and beautifying of the town. In a few years the imagination can behold all those things provided for our town and University, making our Alma Mater, a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Standing down by the railroad where the arch is to span the drive-way between the University and Mood Hall, these buildings will loom up in a magnificent vista. To the left will rise first, the new Library, with a chaste and effective facade, imposing in size, and filled with the wisdom of the ages. Then will come the well kept Ten nis Courts made into things of beauty. Next the familiar Mood Hall, that magnificent house for boys. Then, still on the left, half way between Mood Hall and the Women ' s Building, the Gymnasium that will be a gem in two senses. Completing the view on the left will be the Women ' s Building, whose great proportions and homelikeness give dignity and effective- ness to inharmonious architecture. Coming back now to our arch and looking to the right we see, first, the University itself, that noble edifice that no new structure will cast into the shade. Then the Y. M. C. A. Hall, the center of a mighty influence for good, offering comfort and recreation, and at the same time furnishing a great spirit- ual stimulus. Then further on and completing the view to the right, a beautiful and substantial home for the Co-ops. The beautiful driveway running through the midst of these great buildings will be lined on either side by shade trees, while the grounds in every direction will be completed by grass, smooth and well kept, interspersed by flowers and by trees whose shade wooes a man to loaf and invite my soul. This is a dream now, but dreams have a way of concret- ing themselves, and movements are already on foot to bring this one to pass. 16 swl7 18 CHARLES McTYEIRE BISHOP, A. M., D. D. President of Southwestern University GHARLES MCTYEIRE BISHOP, is a native Virginian, in which State he received his elementary education. In 1 884, he received the M. A. degree from Emory and Henry College, in which institution he was adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek during two years, dating from 1885. Entering the active ministry in 1887, he served two years in Ashville, N. C, being transferred to the Southwest Mission Conference in 1 889, as pastor of Melrose Church, Kansas City, where he remained four years. From this time forward Dr. Bishop rose rapidly to a position of pre-emi- nence in his conference, holding in succession the most prominent charges in Missouri, besides the presidency of Missouri Preachers ' Institute, chairman of Board of Missions, Missouri Conference, and innumerable Conference offices. In the summer of 1 900, Dr. Bishop traveled in Europe, after which he made a tour of the principal cities of the Eastern States, where he made an especial study of church architecture. In 1 899, the honorary degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Central College, Fayetteville, Missouri; he was a member of the Inter- Church Conference on Federation, New York, in 1905; amember of the General Conference in 1 906, in which assembly his name was prominently mentioned for the college of bishops. Dr. Bishop has been a lecturer on the poetical books of the bible at Scarrit Bible School, at the Missionary Training Institute of Nashville, Tenn., and at the School of Theology, Southwestern University, and has been writer of the Senior and Intermediate Quarterlies of the Sunday School literature of the Methodist Church. In 1909, he delivered the Cole lectures at Vanderbilt University, which have since been published in book form. In 1910, Dr. Bishop was transferred to Texas, being stationed at Wichita Falls, which charge he resigned to assume the presidency of Southwestern University in June, 1911. But one year has passed since Dr. Bishop assumed the presidency of Southwestern University, yet the grasp of his administrative ability has already been felt, and his magnetic personality and force of character is exerting a mighty influence upon the student body. Charles McTyeire Bishop ' s life has already been a noble success, but his greatest work lies in the future, and Southwestern University entrusts herself to his leadership with a firm faith that the most glorious epoch in her career is but just beginning. 1 9 20 C. C. CODY, A. M., PH. D., DEAN Professor of Mathematics GLAUD CARR CODY, a true representative of the beloved Southern Gentlemen of the Old School, is a Georgian by birth and education. He was graduated from Emory College in 1875, and received the degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1 78. After several years of very successful teaching, his Alma Mater, in recognition of his learning and ability, honored him with the Ph. D. degree. In 1879, he was elected Professor of Mathematics in Southwestern University, then a newly established, obscure and struggling college; and here he has remained ever since, standing loyally by Southwestern in her days of adversity, making her advancement the one great purpose of his life, and exerting with his lovable Christian character and magnetic personality a tremendous influence for good upon the lives of all her students. His great love for Southwestern and his loyal and self-sacrificing spirit may be best illustrated by the willingness with which he has always placed his services at the disposal of the University. Besides being actively engaged in the Department of Mathematics, of which he is the head, he has held the offices of Secretary of the Faculty, Chairman of the Faculty, President of the Ladies ' Annex, Manager of Giddings Hall, Dean of the Summer Schools, and is now the Secretary of the Executive Com- mittee and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He is also the author of several books, among which are a biography of Dr. Mood, the founder of Southwestern University, and a text-book of plane geometry. Dr. Cody is now the senior member of the faculty and is believed to be the senior college professor in Texas. The biography of Claud Carr Cody and the history of the development of Southwestern University are one and the same. For the past three and thirty years he has served her faithfully and well; and while his prospects for further usefulness are as yet undimmed, he is living to see the gratifying results of his early labors. One of the greatest tributes that can be paid to him is the men- tion of the fact that no one is held in greater esteem by the old students of Southwestern University nor has more fully enjoyed the confidence and love of her student body — as a token of which he is generally known as The Friend of the Boys. sw2 1 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS John Robert Allen, A. B., D. D. Professor of Philosophy and Economics BORN in Iredell County, N. C; A. B. degree from Southern University in 1873; D. D. degree in 1891; ex-member of North Mississippi Conference; at present member of North Texas Conference; held Chairs in Dallas Female College and Mar- vin College; elected to Chair of Philosophy in 1892; once Chairman of the Faculty; several years President of the Annex; Rep- resentative in Who ' s Who, both National and International. W. M. Board, A. B. J NSTRUCTOR in Latin, Allen Academy, 1902-03; Instructor in Latin, Bradshaw Training School, 1903-04; Professor Econ- omics, Martha Washington College, 1 904- 06; Principal Vanderbilt Training School, 1906- ' 07; Principal Woodson Institute, 1907-08; President Central Texas College, 1908-11; elected to Chair of Economics and Sociology, Southwestern University, 1911; native of Kentucky, born in 1877, Grayson County. 2 2 Robert Jay Eddy, A. M. German BORN in Wisconsin. Educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, and Beloit College Academy; A. B. Beloit College with first honors in 1895; A. M. ibid. 1 898; traveled and studied in England, France, and Germany in 1899; Graduate student University of Wisconsin 1900; Summer School, Oxford University; Supervising Principal of School Systems in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and an Institute Conductor; Vice-Principal Beloit Col- lege Academy; Department of Modern Lan- guages, Beloit College; elected to Chair of German, Southwestern University, 191 1 . V. Cejnar Professor of Bohemian BORN and reared in Bohemia. Giaduate of the Preachers ' School at Menkirchen, Ger- many; student of the Free Chuich College, Glasgow, Scotland; once pastor of the oldest Evangelical Church in Bohemia; leader of the German Alpine Mission at Gratz, and founder of the German paper, Alpenboten; founder and for four years leader of the Free Church Mission among the Bohemians at Vienna; founder of the Gospel Temperance Societies, and of a Gospel Temperance Paper in Austria; for two years engaged in the mission work among the Slavic people in Pennsylvania and Chicago; since 1907 Professor of Bo- hemian in Southwestern University. 23 Stephen H. Moore, A. M. Professor of History BORN in Tennessee. Student in Milam (Tennessee) Normal, 1884-85, and Mc- Tyeire Institute (Tennessee), 1 886-89, and Vanderbilt, 1 889- ' 91 ; Associate Principal Mc- Tyeire Institute, 1 89 1 - ' 93; A. B. Vanderbilt, 1894; Principal of S. U. Fitting School, 1894- ' 04; Manager of Giddings Hall, 1901 - ' 04; summers spent at University of Chicago and Harvard; elected to Chair of History in S. U., 1904; A.M. Columbia, 1905. Phil. H. Arbuckle, Ph. B. Professor of History and Athletic Coach IN 1903- ' 04 was a student in the University of Illinois; in 1905-06, a student in the University of Chicago; in 1906- ' 07, Instructor in English and History and Director of Ath- letics in the Western Military Academy, Upper Alton, Illinois; in 1907- ' 08, Football Coach in Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Illinois; came to S. U., 1908- ' 09; Ph.B. degree of the Uni- versity of Chicago, summer of 1 909. 24 Herbert Lee Gray Professor of Theology BORN in Newton County, Georgia, near Ox- ford, the seat of Emory College, May 2 1 , 1 868. Graduated at Emory College with B. A. degree June, 1887. Went as missionary to China, October, 1 889; returned from China November, 1895. Took a course in Theo- logical Department, Vanderbilt University, February-June, 1 896. Prevented from return to China by medical advice; took work in North Georgia Conference, 1 896- ' 98. Went to Mexico as missionary, January, 1 899. Went to Cuba, August, 1 906. Accepted position as teacher in Methodist Training School at Nash- ville, September, 1907. Took course at Chicago University under George Adam Smith, summer of 1909. Came to Southwestern, Sept., 1910. Frank Seay, A. M. Professor of Theology, Hebrew, and New Testament Greek A SON of the late Governor Seay of Alabama. A.M. degree from South- ern University in 1 899; spent sessions of 1 900- ' 02 in Biblical Department of Van- derbilt; summer of 02 in University of Chicago; spent sessions of 1902-03 at Harvard; spent one year abroad at Halle, Berlin, and Oxford; has held some of the leading churches in Alabama as pastor; is the author of two books: The Gist of the Old Testament and The Story of Mobile Methodism; elected Professor in S. U. 1909. 25 aL. Claude A. Nichols, Pb. D. Professor of Science of Education Dean of Summer Schools N TAT1VE of Texas. A. B., Southwestern University, 1898, with first honors; Fel- low at Vanderbilt University, 1898 ' 99; Ph. D., University of Havana, 1905; Tutor in Fitting School of S. U., l897- ' 98; Professor in Candler College, Havana, Cuba, 1901 - ' 07; spends summers at University of Chicago; elected Professor of Science of Education. 1908; Chairman of Board of Advisers of Y. M. C. A.; Member of the National Edu- cational Association. Albert Shipp Pegues, A. M. Head Professor of English BORN in South Carolina. A. B. and A. M., Wofford College, 1892; elected in 1893 to position in Fitting School; in 1903 elected Assistant Professor in English; in 1904 elected Principal of Fitting School; in 1905 elected to Chair of English in S. U.; has done graduate work in Chicago and Cornell Universities. 26 John H. McGinnis, A. B. Assistant Professor of English BORN in Pennsylvania. A. B., Missouri Valley College, 1 904; graduate student, Missouri University, 1905; taught at Charleston, Mo., 1 906; elected instructor in English in S. U. Fitting School in 1907; elected Assistant Professor of English in S. U. in 1909. Mary Shipp Sanders, A. B. Assistant Professor in English T3 ECEIVED early training at Fitting School ■ ■ in Georgetown, and Webb School of Bell Buckle, Tenn.; attended Southwestern University for some time, but took degree in University of Chicago, 1 906; also spending the summer of 1 909 in that institution; taught in Colegio Palmore, Chihuahua, Mexico, for six years; taught English in Corsicana High School 1909- ' 10. 27 T. J. Mosley, A. B. Professor of Physics GRADUATE of Southwestern University, 1907; Rhodes ' Scholarship to Oxford University, England; A. B., Oxford University, 1911; spent several summers touring Europe; elected to Chair of Physics in Southwestern University, 1911. John Henry Reedy, A. M. Professor of Chemistry NATIVE Texan. First Honor Graduate S. U., 1900; A. M. degree from S. U.; taught Latin and Greek in Hargrove College, 1901-02; Department of Science, Coronal Institute, 1902-05; summers spent at Univer- sity of Chicago doing work in Chemistry for Ph. D.; elected to Chair of Chemistry in S. U., 1905; Secretary of Faculty; Chairman of the Board of Registration. 28 Randolph Wood Tinsley, M. S. Biology and Geology NATIVE of Virginia. Graduated from Miller Training School (Virginia), 1 890; University of Virginia in Science in 1893; Assistant Professor of Science, Washington College (Maryland), 1893- ' 94; Vice-President of Friends ' Institute (Maryland), 1 894- 96; Chair of Science, University of New Mexico, 1897- ' 98; Professor of Science, State Normal School of Pennsylvania, 1 899- ' 03; elected to Chair of Biology and Chemistry in S. U., 1903- ' 04; elected to Chair of Biology and Geology, 1904; summer of 1907 spent in University of Chicago. Wesley Carroll Vaden Professor of Latin and Greek A Virginian by birth. Prepared for col- lege at the Onancock Academy; received certificate of merit from the University of Virginia for local examinations in Latin, Greek and German; was graduated from Randolph-Macon College with the degree of A. M., and with the first position in four for- eign languages; Associate Professor of Latin and Greek in Randolph-Macon College; Asso- ciate Principal of Chesapeake Academy; elected in 1893 to the Chair of Latin and Greek in Southwestern University; Academic work advance, Cornell and Yale Universities. 29 Mary H. Howren, A. M. Latin and Greek IN 1890 received M. A. degree Southwestern University, first honors. Taught Mathematics in Paris, (Texas), Institute; summer 1906 in University of Chicago; taught Latin and English in Polytechnic Institute, Midlothian, Texas; Latin and English in Granbury College, Granbury; Superintendent Girls ' Co-operative Home. Roland Fletcher Young, A. M. Professor of Romance Languages BORN in Fayette County, Texas, on Sep- tember 30, 1858. First A. M. Graduate of S. U.; several months at Leipzig, Germany, and later in France, Italy, and England- elected in 1 880 to Chair of Modern Lan- guages in S. U., and now holds the Chair of Romance Languages. 30 F. C. A. Lehmberg, A. B. Assistant in German NATIVE of Texas. Student in Sam Houston Normal, Huntsville, Texas, 1897- ' 98; A. B. degree from Southwestern University in 1 900; one summer spent in the University of Texas, and three summers in the University of Chicago; graduate student, Chicago University; taught three years in Public Schools in Mason and Bosque Counties; Latin and German in Temple High Schools, 1 902- ' 06; Department of German, John Tarleton College, 1906- ' 09; elected Instructor in German and French in Southwestern University Fitting School, 1 909; elected Assistant Professor of German in Southwestern University in 1911. COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Miss Berenice Long Director of Music and Instructor in Violin A FTER several years ' study under various ■ teachers, was for seven years under the personal instruction of Mr. S. E. Jacobschn, Director of the Violin Department of the Chicago Musical College. She won the First Honors of her class, and has since taught successfully two years in Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, and four years in the Illinois College of Music, Jacksonville, 111.; came to S. U. in 1906. 31 Miss Florence N. Boyer Voice TFACHER of Voice in S. U., 1899- ' 01, 1902- ' 05, 1907- ' 12; for more than three years a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music; 1901 - ' 02, a pupil of Maestro Van- nini in Florence, Italy; 1905-07, a pupil in Munich, Germany, of Regina de Sales and Madame Hermine Bosetti of the Royal Opera. Miss Alberta Bragg Voice STUDIED one year Chevy Chase College, Washington, D. C; four years in Ameri- can Conservatory of Music, Chicago, Illinois, as a pupil of Karleton Hackett; private teach- ing one year in Oregon, Missouri. 32 Miss Jane C. Allen Piano and Assistant in Voice STUDIED in Boston. Piano with Miss Georgia M. Harris (graduate of the Leip- zig Conservatory); Voice with Miss Clara Munger; studied in New York. Voice with Edward Schloemann of the Metropolitan Opera Company; three years study in Ger- many; Piano with Karl Klindworth and Felix Dreyschock; Voice with Frau Baumann of the Frankfort Opera; taught in the English and Classical School, West Newton, Mass.; taught in Leach Wood Seminary, Norfolk, Va., taught in the Berkshire School, Sheffield; Mass.; came to S. U. in 1908. Miss Katherine Mitchell Piano and Harmony GRADUATE in Piano of Southwestern University; studied in Berlin under Herr Ignaz Friedman; taught in Galloway College, Searcy, Ark.; taught in Wesley College, Ter- rell, Texas; came to S. U., 1911. v33 A Miss Innis MacDonald Piano and Pipe Or£an GRADUATE of Grinnell School of Music, Grinnell, Iowa; taught at New Hampton, Iowa, and at Grinnell School of Music. Came to S. U., 191 1. Mrs. Nellie D. Clement Art GRADUATE in Art from Southwestern University, 1910; afterward studied two years in Newcomb Art School, New Orleans; one summer term, Tulane Art Normal, New Orleans. 34 Miss Cora Lee Smith, B. S., Ph. B. Oratory and Expression FIRST Honor Graduate Logan College, Rus. sellville, Ky., B. S.; Ph. B., University of Chicago; student Stetson University, School of Expression, Boston, Mass., and Chautauqua N. Y.; Certificate in Expression, University o Chicago; taught expression in Lynnland Insti- tute, Glendale, Ky., and the Cross School Louisville, Ky.; taught English Literature in Kidd-Key College, Sherman, Texas; elected to Chair of Expression in S. U. in 1905. Miss Smith toured Mexico as a reader in the sum- mer of 1 909. Also she traveled with the Bureau of University Travel, summer 1910, pursuing a course in the study of sculpture from England to Greece. John N. McKay Bursar NATIVE Texan. Came to Southwestern in 1907 and has since that time kept all the University Records. He was elected in 1911 to the position of Bursar of the Univer- sity, and the success he is ma king bespeaks his splendid executive and administrative ability. 35 A O. W. Peterson Cashier Mrs. Margaret M. McKennon Librarian DAUGHTER of Dr. F. A. Mood, founder of Southwestern University. Graduated from Southwestern with A. B. degree with first honors; taught for several years in the Colegio Ingles, San Luis Potosi, and in the McDonnell Institute, Durango, Mexico; studied Library Methods in the University of Chicago, 1901-02, and in the Carnegie Library of San Antonio, 1904; elected Librarian in 1903. f B 1§i MP ' ■ H Ik ■ . w - - J J f ' ■ ' ) 36 THE FITTING SCHOOL Frank E. Burcham, Ph. B. Mathematics Principal of the Fitting Schoo STUDENT in the May- field-Smith Academy; Ph. B. degree from Central College of Missouri in 1 890; Professor in North- west Missouri College and Mavern Collegiate Insti- tute; one summer in the University of Chicago; in 1905, elected Manager of Giddings Hall; Associate Professor of Mathematics in University Department. J. Frank Dobie, A. B. GRADUATE of South- western University, 1910; Principal and Pro- fessor of English, Alpine High School, 1910-11; elected to English Depart- ment of Fitting School of Southwestern University, 1911; Secretary to Presi- dent of University. H. Bookwalter Drury, A. B. GRADUATE of Otter- bein University, 1910; enrolled in University of Chicago Graduate School, 1911. Instructor of History and Mathematics, South- western University Fitting School, 1911 - ' 12. Frank E. Burcham J. Frank Dobie Horace Bookwalter Drury sw3 7 Tl 38 STUDENT INSTRUCTORS AND ASSISTANTS K Bt Hyi J. C. DELGADILLO Instructor in Spanish ELLA SEDBERRY Instructor in Piano W. J. VAUGHT Instructor in Latin H. D. WOODS Assistant in English ALEATHA McKAY Assistant in Expression H. B. CROZIER Assistant in English 39 STUDENT INSTRUCTORS AND ASSISTANTS A. FRANK SMITH Assistant in Hi lory IONE CLAY Assistant in German EARL HUFFOR Assistant in History S. E. SHEFFY Assistant in Physics GRACE GILLETT Assistant in German J. E. K1LGORE Assistant in Spanish 40 STUDENT INSTRUCTORS A ND. ASSISTANTS W. P. DOUGLAS A ssistant in Biology FLORENCE RYAN Assistant in Education W. F. WAGNON Assistant in Biology R. M. MOOSE Assistant in Chemistry W. M. HEADRICK Assistant in Chemistry J. W. HARRISON Assistant in Chemistry 41 V METHODIST CHURCH 42 43 SENIOR HISTORY T GRACE GILLETT ' HE Seniors of 191 1- ' 12 are in the last stage — of life at South- western. Last stages always pass quickly, but there are different symptoms that characterize these periods. A glance at ours will suffice to classify us. The faculty seems to have an ir- revocable conviction that one must pay for his diploma in more than one way — else the proper appreci- ation, both for the faculty and the sheepskin will be lacking. Therewas once a time when no exams were given to Seniors of respectable stand- ing in their third and final sprint for the goal. But times have changed. Such a concession would give the student a wrong impression of the ways of the world. Scholarship is the war cry. Consequently a Senior ' s life is now fuller of a number of things. My Alma Mater of 1911-12 has an additional record to that of football, baseball, parties, banquets, lyceums, recitals, picnics, picture shows. The significance of the mortar-board and tassel is significant. In fact, quality is still our ensign. There are just enough grinds to give the scales the right balance. We have taken great pride in the fact that the Seniors ' 1 2 have dwelt together in such harmony of spirit, — an improve- ment that we recognize, — but greater pride in the fact that this harmony has arisen from the real touch of kinship in the great family of common interest and ambition. Hitherto we have written in a strain of levity, as becometh under-classmen. But in this our last word to posterity, we want to express our sincere wish that the classes which follow us will remember to make theirs the best yet — and be able to leave old S. U. with the warm feeling that comes only with the consciousness of life lived in its fullest sense. 44 SENIOR ACADEMIC J. E. KlLGORE Mabel Flanagan Lula Talley . Grace Gillet . Earl Huffor . Qtpotto h ldge us by our works i Jflotorr Forget-me-not Colors Blue and White JFaD ! ! ! - ■ N Officers ' President %Jice- c P resident Secretary Class Editor Chairman ofS ocial Committee 45 SENIORS Sallie Louise Allison, A. B. Georgetown, Texas I do these wild things in sheer despite, and commit these fooleries you catch me at, in pure rage. Alethean ' 10. Sallie Louise Allison Anne Carter J. H. Bridges, A. B. Wichita Falls, Texas A dedicated spirit. -1 Anne Carter, A. B. San Antonio, Texas 1 am made up of an intensest life. AAA; Alethean; Dramatic Club; Student Government Council 10- 1 1, ' 11-12; Associate Editor Megaphone; Sou ' wester Staff, 11-12; Pan Hellenic Council, ' 11-12: Alethean President, ' 12; English X-XI ; Also English V. Ione Clay, A. B. Dublin, Texas She wore a blended grace and dignity of mien. ZTA; Clio; Student Volunteer; Magazine Staff, ' 10-11, Honor Council; ' 10-1 I; Y.W.C A. Cabinet 11-12; Honor Council, Women ' s Self-Gov ' t System, ' 11-12; Clio Pres., ' 12; Student Assistant in German. J. H. Bridges M C M X I I Clay 46 SENIORS F. D. Dawson, A. B. Garrison, Texas Ther was no mon nowher so virtuous. Mess Haller; Alamo; Barb; Alamo Intermediate Debate, ' 09-10; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 10- 1 1; Secretary Athletic Association. ' 10-11; Junior Orator, ' 10-11; Vice-Presi- dent Ministerial Association, ' 10-1 1 President Y. M. C. A., ' 11-12; President Honor Council, 11-12; President Ministerial Association, ' 11-12; President Alamo Society, ' 11-12; President A. C. I. Club, ' 11-12; Student Assistant, ' 11-1 i. F. D. Da W. P. Douglass C. A. Fisk Georgetown, Texas ' O, Sir, he smiled no doubt whene ' er I passed him, but who passed him without much the same smile. W. P. Douglas Tyler, Texas Whenever you see me you know me. K2j Student Assistant in Biol- ogy, ' 09-10, ' 10-11, ' 11-12. Mabel Flanagan, A. B. Georgetown, Texas It ' s wiser being good than bad; Safer being meek than fierce. AA$! Vice-President Senior Class. C. A. Fisk Mahel Flanagan M C M X I I 47 A SENIORS ' Jl Grace Gillett R. G. Giles, A. B. Belton, Texas ' Trouble him not, his wits are gone. Grace Gillett, A. B. Georgetown, Texas And beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. ZTA; Vice-President jY. W. C. A., ' 10-11; President Y. W. C. A., ' 11-12; Class Editor, - 09-IO, 10-11, 11-12; Vice-President Freshman Class, 07-08; Student Assistant in German, I 1-12. L. G. Gr L. G. Gresham, A. B. Centerville, Texas i will be quiet and talk with you and reason why you are wrong. KA. J. W. Harrison, A. B. Marshall, Texas ' 1 am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world. $A0! San Jacinto; Intermediate De- bate, II; Junior Orator, II; Scrub Football Team, ' 10; Marshal, - 10-11; Chief Marshal, ' 11-12; Pres. Amos Bible Class, ' 11-12; Student Assist- ant in Chemistry, 11-12; Doctors, Club, ' II. R. G. Giles M C M X I I J. W. Harrison 48 SENIORS J. E. Kilgore, A. B., A. M. Houston, Texas Chance cannot change his love or time impair. $A0; Fresh-Soph Contest, ' 08-09; Glee Club, ' 09-10, ' 10-11. ' 11-12; Manager Glee Club, ' 11-12; Octette, ' 10-11; S. U. Quartette. ' 11-12; Honor Council, ' 10-11; President Senior Class, ' 11-12; Delegate to A Convention, ' 11-12; Student Assistant in Spanish, ' 10-12. N. Y. Henry J. E. Kilgore N. Y. Henry, A. B. Reisel, Texas For my heart was social and loved idle- ness and joy. San Jacinto; Marshal, ' 09- 10; Bas- ket Ball Team, ' 09-10; Mega- phone Staff, ' 10-1 1 ; Sou ' wester Staff, ' 10-11; Magazine Staff, ' ll-12;Senior Staff, ' II -12; Jun- ior Orator, ' 10-11; Executive Com. Student ' s Ass ' n, 11-12; GleeClub. ' l l-12;PressClub, ' l 1- 12; Intermediate President San Jacinto, ' I 1-12. R. L. Kurth, A. B. Keltys, Texas Created out of pure intelligence ' (j)A0; Glee Club, ' 11-12; Quar- tette, ' 11-12; Honor Council, ' 1 0- 1 1 ; Assistant Business Manager of Senior, ' 11-12; Press Club, ' 11-12. Earl Huffor, A. B. Earl Huffor D evine , T exas He gave us his best; he gave us all his best — he had no wish or pleasure but to give . ' (p A 0; San Jacinto; Student Assistant in History, ' 1 1-12; Megaphone Staff, ' 07-08; Glee Club, ' 07-12; S. U. Quartette, ' 08-12; President Coro- nal Club, ' 07 08; Mgr. Glee Club, ' 08-09; Marshal ' 08-09; Mgr. Basket Ball, ' 09-10; Intermediate Orator, 10; Freshman Class Editor; Class Editor of Megaphone, Freshman, Sophomore and Junior; Magazine Staff, ' 10-11; Editor Megaphone, ' 11-12. MCMXII R. L. Kurth sw4 9 ■■■ SENIORS N. G. Landrum, A. B. Georgetown, Texas And, oh, all my heart how it loved himl But where was the sign. Alamo. N. G. Landrum T. E. Lee, A. B. Pearsall, Texas I was detached internally from aca- demic cares. Barb; Alamo President; Secretary of Freshman Class; Marshal, 11-12; Secretary Mood Hall Council; Manager Sou ' wester, Ml-12. R. E. Leonard R. E. Leonard, A. B. Clarendon, Texas And he came back the pertest little ape That ever affronted human shape. San Jacinto; Press Club; Magazine Staff; President of San Jacinto, •12. Lula Lipscomb, A. B. Lockhart, Texas A golden mind stoops not to show of dross. Clio, II; Ass ' t. Mgr., Senior. T. E. Lee Lula Lipscomb MCMXII 50 SENIOR S J. E. Matlock, A. B. Georgetown, Texas Well, such as he was. He must marry, we heard. Track Team, ' 09-10. ' 10-1 I ; Soph.- Fresh. Contest, ' 10-11; Intermediate Debater, ' 10-11; S. U. Representa- tive in State Oratorical Prohibition Contest, ' 10-11; Secretary of the A. C. I. Association, ' 11-12; Presi- dent of Prohibition League, ' 1 1-12; San Jacinto. J. E. Matlock Olive McDonnell, A. B. San Angelo, Texas She moved with a slow, sleepy motion As if quite used to the notion, And her manner was chill As a water fowl ' s bill, When he ' s fre sh from his dip in the ocean. AA(j ; Alethean; Basket Ball Team, ' 08-09-10-11-12; Capt. Basket Ball Team, ' 09-12; Pres- ident Girls ' Athletic Association, ' 11-12; Alethean President, ' 11; Pan-Hellenic Council, ' 09-10- 11-12; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet. ' 11-12; Sou ' wester Staff, ' 12. Monta Morris, A. B. Sipe Springs, Texas To break the heathen, and to uphold the church. Clio; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, ' 09-10; Epworth League Cabinet, ' 10-11- 12; Vice-President Student Vol- unteer Band, ' 09-10; President Student Volunteer Band, ' 10-11-12; President Daughters of Philip Bible Class, ' 10-11-12. R. M. Moose R. M. Moose, A. B. Agnes, Texas For he never whispered a private affairwithin hearing of cat ormouse. §A0; Alamo; Magazine Staff, ' 09; Press Club, ' 09-10; Treas- urer Athletic Ass ' n, ' 10-11; President Athletic Ass ' n, ' 1 1-12; Executive Committee Athletic Ass ' n, 10-11, ' 11-12; President Oratorical Ass ' n, ' 11-12; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11-12; Student Assistant in Chemistry, ' 11-12. Olive McConnell Monta Morris M C M X I I 51 p Ben E Neal Mary Willie Perrin, A. B. Georgetown, Texas Along the cool, sequestered vale of life She kept the even tenor of her way. SENIORS Ben E. Neal, A. B. Lytle, Texas ' 1 have just determined to become the greatest and most glorious man on earth. Barb;. Alamo; Fresh-Soph. Contest, 10; Lawyers ' Club; Coronal Club; Orchestra, 09- 1 2; Glee Club, ' 09- 1 2; Alamo Intermediate Orator, ' 11; Glee Club Quartette, ' 10-12; Mar- shal II; Business Manager Senior, 1 2; Distributor ofAIuminum Cook- ing Utensils. P. J. Rutledge P. J. Rutledge, A. B. Chillicothe, Texas Let no man presume to wear an unde- served dignity. Alamo; Barb; Intermediate Deba- ter, ' 09-10; Alamo President, ' 11-12. Mary Willie Perrin Florence Ryan, A. B. Georgetown, Texas And most intent on making of herself a prime enchantress. Clio;Vice- President Sophomore Class, 10; Exchange Editor of Magazine, 12; Student Assistant in Educa- tion, ' 12. Florence Ryan M C MX I I 52 SENIORS Sim E. Sheffy, A. B. Plainview, Texas And of his part as meek as is a mayde. He never get villynye ne said In all his lyf unto no mone wight He was a verray parfit, gentle knyght. San Jacinto; Assistant in Physics; Mgr. Baseball Team, ' 12; Ed. -in- Chief Senior, ' 12; San Jacinto Pres., ' 12; Intermediate Debater, ' II; Y. M. C. A Cabinet, ' 11-12; Assistant Mgr. of Baseball Team, ' 11; S. U. Magazine Staff, ' 11. Sim E. Sheffy L. L. Sir A. C. Shell, A. B. Georgetown, Texas ' Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature has framed strange fellows in her time. L. L. Simons, A. B. Edna, Texas For love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Barb; San Jacinto; Glee Club ' 09- ' II; Executive Com. Athletic Ass ' n; Mgr. Football Team, 11; Megaphone Staff ' 1 l-12;Student Instructor in A. A. A. A. A. A. A. C. Shell A. Frank Smith, A. B. Mart, Texas His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might Stand up and say to all the world, ' This is a man. ' KA; Alamo; Fitting School De- claimer ' s Medal, ' 08; Fresh-Soph. Declaimer ' s Medal, 09; Executive Comm. Students ' Ass ' n, ' 09-10; In- termediate Debater, 10; Glee-Club, ' 09-10-11; Student Ass ' t History, ' 1 0- ' 1 2; Pres. Students ' Ass ' n, ' 10-11; Associate Fd. Sou ' wester, ' 10-11; Brooks Prize Debater, II; Junior Orator, ' ! 1 ;Ed-in-Chief Sou ' wester, ' 12; Alamo Pres., ' 12; Representa- tive Student Body at Inaugural Banquet, ' 11. M C M X I I A. Frank Smith v5 3 SENIORS F. R. Standford, A. B. Lorena, Texas He sang of love with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never endiTig, Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song — the song for me. Alamo; Fresh-Soph. Declaimer, ' 09; Pres. Soph. Class, ' 09; Lecture Com. ' 09; Track Team. ' 08-09; Glee Club, ' II; Pres. Junior Class, ' II; Inter- mediate Debater, II; Junior Ora- tor ' s Medal ' II; Megaphone Staff ' I l;Editor-in-Chief S. U. Magazine, ' 1 2; Honor Council, ' 12; Pres. Mood Hall Council, ' 12; Alamo President, ' 1 2; Pres. Student Ass ' n, ' 1 2; Brooks Prize Debater ' 12. F. R. Stanford F. J. Storey, A. B. Ennis, Texas And Paul said unto Peter. San Jacinto; Junior Orator ' II; Glee Club, ' 12; Barb; Band. Errata F. R. STANFORD, A. B. L C. STRANGE, A B. Riesel, Texas ' Something- between a hindrance and a help ' Kappa Sigma CLARA WAGNON, A. B. JAMES M. WILLSON, A. B. Lulu Talley, A. B. Georgetown, Texas But of her smiling t ' was full simple and coy. ' AA$; Class Secretary, ' 12. F. J. Storey M C M X I I Lulu Talley 54 SENIORS Mary Thomas, A. B. La Grange, Texas There ' s a woman like a dewdrop. She ' s so purer than the purest; And her noble heart ' s the noblest. Yes, and her sure faith ' s the surest. ZTA; Alethean; Y. W. C. A. Cabi- net, ' 10-11-12; Honor Council, ' 09- 10; Sec ' y-Treas. Self -Government Ass ' n, ' 10-1 1 ; Pres. Self - Goverm ' t Ass ' n, ' 11-12; Magazine Staff, ' 09- 12; Megaphone Staff, ' 11; Sou ' - wester Staff, 12; Student Ass ' t, French, 10; Student Ass ' t, Latin, ' 11; Intercollegiate Essay Medal, ' 11; First Honors, ' 12: Clara Wagnon Mary Thomas Clara Wagnon Cameron, Texas O, love me, love me, little boy. ' Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, ' 12; Ale- thean Pres., 12; Alethean Secy, ' II; Secretary Woman ' s Self- Government Ass ' n, 12; Honor Council, ' 12; Pres. Bishop Sun- day School Class, ' 12; Lecture Com. ' 12. James M. Wilson, A. B. Bridgeport, Texas He carefully weighed it all, and once decided, immovable he stood for what he believed. K2: San Jacinto; Megaphone Staff, ' 11-12; San Jacinto, ' 12. C. Hughes Thomas C. Hughes Thomas A. B., A. M. Greenville, Texas He cooed, and cooed — And somewhat pensively he wooed. KA; San Jacinto; Press Club, ' 09-10- ' 11-12; Magazine Staff, ' 09-12; Del- egate to Texas Intercollegiate Press Ass ' n, ' 11; Junior Orator, 11; Pres. Texas Intercollegiate Press Ass ' n, 12; San Jacinto Pres., ' 12; Student Ass ' t Chem., ' 12; Inter-Society Re- lations Comra, 09; Track Team ' 09-10; Second Team Baseball, ' 07- 08, ' 1 0- 1 1 ; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 1 2. MCMXII James M. Wilson 55 SENIORS Jftiu flrt«s Frances Barcus Frances Barcus, Violin Jackson ille, Texas The earth seemed to love her And heaven smiled above her. ZTA; Orchestra. ' 07-12; Honor Council, ' 10-11; Woman ' s Self-Government Ass ' n, 10-11. Aline Bass, Violin San Marcos, Texas Her face is fair, her heart is true. As spotless as she ' s bonnie, O. ZTA; Orchestra, ' 11-12. Aline Bass 56 M C M X I I Bond Sneed Annie Sanford, Violin Timpson, Texas ' If I am not worth the wooing. Surely I ' m not worth the winning. AA§! Orchestra. SENIORS Bond Sneed, Violin Georgetown, Texas Her little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. AA ; Orchestra. Lois Dixon Lois Dixon, Piano Shepherd, Texas ' How is it in my power. To love and n t to love. AA$. Annie Sanford ELLA SEDBERRY, Piano Marshall, Texas Thy memory be as the dwelling place For all sweet sounds and harmonies. AAA; Assistant in Piano; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet; Clio President; Chairman of Indoor Censorship Committee; Orchestra. Flla Sedberry M C M X I I 57 SENIORS Laura Patrick Zoe O ' Neill, jJrt Clarendon, Texas A daughter of the gods, divinely tall. AA$. Anne Carter, A. B., ' 12 Expression Earl Huffor, A. B., ' 12 Expression Florence Ryan, A. B., ' 12 Expression Grace Gillette, A. B., ' 12 Voice Laura Patrick, Piano Georgetown, Texas Her eyes were stars of twilight fair Like twilight, too, her dusky hair. Corrinna Cooper Corinna Cooper, Jlrt Georgetown, Texas Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. AA : Sou ' wester Art Editor. M C M X I I Zoe O ' Neill 58 SENIOR POEM %z a Petition for CanbiDacp Aye, throw the hated old thing down! Too long has it held sway, And many an eye has flashed to see This nightmare come his way. About it many a lass did weep, And many a lad did swear! And wished this horror of his life Could die by his hot air. Its page once scarred with many marks Where pored the anxious grad, Whilst joys of the outside world he harks With looks cast down and sad; No more shall hear the Seniors ' sass ' Or feel his shaking hand; The members of the next year ' s class Must sweep this ogre from the land. Oh better that her tattered shape Should die in awful flame; Her hours caused the strong to weep, Her majors I cannot name. Place on the page your A-B-C ' s, Two plus two you must add, Then sling it in the office now And get up quick and grad. A. F. C 59 A SENIOR ' S DIARY Sept. 21, 9:00 a. m. Seniors matriculate in a maze of majors and hours. Sept. 21, 9:20 a. m. Ben Neal reports to assembled class the presence of quite a few pretty Freshmen girls. Oct. 1 . Eng. V reported with hopeful looks. Oct. 2. Eng. V wears dazed look, having been assigned the complete works of Sterne, Smallett, Fielding, Richardson, and all other deceased authors. Oct. I I . Seniors visit Austin in a body for the purpose of viewing the cap- itol and incidentally the State Game. Owing to the lateness of the train and weariness of the journey, Lowe and Mary almost ran out of something to say. Oct. 1 2. Attendance at Sunday School very slight. Oct. 20. Seniors have meeting in great excitement. Mr. Simons is almost elected president. Oct. 2 1 . Mr. Simons still chagrined over defeat, wears crepe on hat. Oct. 22. Mary Thomas insists that election should be held again. Oct. 25. Annex passes from history. Woman ' s Building. Arkansas foot- ball players win the hearts of Senior ladies. Senior men much depressed. Oct. 30. Mr. F. D. Dawson perpetrates a poem upon the public. Class still in disgrace. Nov. 2. Minister Stanford arrives. Nov. 3. Minister Stanford departs. Miss Gillett purchases another un- abridged dictionary for aid in correspondence. Nov. 4. A mouth safety valve is all that keeps J. W. Harrison from explod- ing with self-importance in Chem. lab. Nov. 5. N. Y. Henry elected to another staff. Nov. 6. Mr. Huffor changes his diet to one of less fattening propensities. Nov. 8. Our honored president, Kilgore, goes to Atlanta and fails to write to his affinity on account of the engaging entrancingness of the Georgia belles Nov. 1 1. Mr. Kurth attends an Annex reception to act as chaperon to cer- tain parties. Nov. 1 8. Tom Lee buys another bottle of glycerine and pays a visit to the widow and the fatherless. Nov. 23. Mr. Leonard begins campaign for the presidency of the San Ja- cinto Society. Nov. 27. Miss Lipscomb plays volley ball with her Freshman lover. Nov. 29. Mr. Matlock secures a circuit with the munificent salary of $25 per. This lends an air of dignity to his bearing. Nov. 30. Miss OConnell outgrows the teaching of Miss McLean and emerges a la Cupid with Freshman lover attachment. 60  . Dec. 1. Miss Morris still true to Huffstuttler and San Jacs. Dawson loses out Dec. 5. Ben Neal discovers Miss Siebe. Dec. 6. Miss Siebe discovers Ben Neal. Dec. 8. Inaugural banquet. Mr. A. F. Smith makes speech, thus covering class with glory. Was not very scared. Dec. 9, 10:00 a. m. Class appears in grad gowns and mortar boards. Boys look their sweetest. Dec. 9, 9:00 p. m. Annex reception. Senior girls very important as recep- tion committee. Dec. 1 1 . Prof. Reedy is called to account for using wrong word. Order by Miss Mary Willie Perrin. Dec. 1 3. Mr. Rutledge adds a few more gray hairs to his crowning glory, because of anxiety produced by near approach of Eng. X exam. Dec. 15. Miss Ryan ensnares Parson Clower at the League social. Dec. I 6. Miss Ryan is appointed Student Assistant in Economics. Dec. 1 7. Exams in full blast. Sen rs hibernate for brief space. Jan. 2. Lowe and Mary came back to school but not to earth. Jan. 3. Senior boys moved to west side in chapel so that Frances will not have to wait so long for Johnnie to get out. Jan. 4. Dr. Bishop recommended soothing syrup for meningitis scare. Jan. 5. Seniors purchase atomizers except Anne, who was prepared to die by way of Cupids dart. Jan. 6. Anne found sobbing in halls, particularly before Eng. V door. Jan. 7. Prof. Pegues interviewed by Anne and Lowe. Prof. Pegues looks somewhat worse for wear. Jan. 8. Article entitled Busted appears in Megaphone. Author unknown. Jan. 9. Anne takes up Phys. lab. in preference to Eng. Jan. 1 0. Dr. Bishop entrusts the care of the nervous unbalanced under- classmen to the sane, calm Seniors- Seniors call meeting and instruct Freshmen how to act. Jan. 12. Mr. Sheffy succeeds to Phys. lab. Jan. 1 4. Oyster Shell retreats still further into his shell. Jan. 1 7. Mr. Simons fully decides to forsake all others to cleave to one only. Jan. 18. T. R. Stanford goes back to the farm to stay. Jan. 20. The last vestige of a scratch disappears from Frank Smith ' s face. Feb. 1 . Frank Story continues to attract great crowds at Richardson ' s book store by his matchless rendition of the immortal Casey Jones. Feb. 5. Seniors have grad party. For full account see Megaphone. Feb. 7. Leslie Strange finally settles his affairs with his two affinities. Feb. 8. Hughes Thomas ' derby is demolished by falling off University roof . Feb. 10. Lulu Talley decided that it is great to be a grad. 61 — Feb. 12. Miss Sedberr gets dates mixed. Uncle Billy and Pitt fight deadly duel. Uncle Billy is vanquished. Feb. 1 5. Clara Wagnon is called before council for walking from town with three boys. Feb. 20. Laura Patrick continues to practice in auditorium, thus interfering with Mr. McGinnis ' lectures to the entranced Eng. X class. Feb. 22. Washington ' s Birthday party. Miss Bass and Mr. Strange converse sweetly of George Washington throughout the entire evening. Feb. 29. All Senior girls take note of fact that this is leap year. March 1 . Frank Stanford announced that his rheumatism was worse, due to a change in the weather. March 3. Mr. Sheffy turns flip in flower bed in front of Main Building for benefit of assembled Annex maidens. March 6. Alamo picnic; only we couldn ' t have it, because Ben Neal refused to go out in the rain with his new bronze suit. March 8. Mr. McGinnis comes to Eng. XI class and finds that it has went. March 12. Exams begin. Seniors feverishly claw the air and look wise. March I 3. Prof. Pegues ' life is threatened. March 1 4, 9:00 a. m. Prof. Pegues gives English exam. March 14, 2:00 p. m. Seniors carried home on stretchers, grasping out names of Sheats, Kelley, Bardsworth and Wurms. March 1 9, 9:00 a. m. Seniors secure petition for candidacy and retire to secluded spot to think on same. March 20, 6:30 a. m. Seniors appear in office limp and exhausted and an- nounce that they will not grad — that is, all except Miss Allison. March 2 I . Senior Class is divided into two sections. Section A comprises those who will grad (viz. Miss Allison) and Section B, those who will not grad, (all the others). March 22. Miss Allison begins her brave career as a soul worshiper in the grad section at chapel. POSTSCRIPT The Senior Diary dwindles down to the diary of one lone maid. Miss Alli- son can not stand it and decides to take a partner. She elopes on the first of April, and verily, verily, is the Senior Diary at an end. CURTAIN 62 63 m JUNIOR HISTORY T 1 ' HE Junior Class of 1911 and ' 1 2 has adjusted itself in its proper attitude and place, in regard to the student body and in the annals of history. The class is, without doubt, one which has won and will continue to win laurels for it- self. While none of our famous HAZEL PLATT members have especially turned the world over, yet no one can say that it is impossible for us to do so if we desired. Out of con- sideration for the Seniors we try not to let our light shine so as to cause any reflection on them. We are the best class in school, in our own opinion at least, and if anyone should question our word, we are entirely willing to show our records. Next year when we will be Seniors we intend to show a few things to our friends, namely the under- classmen, and like Alexander we will weep because there are no more worlds to conquer. 64 JUNIOR ACADEI vIIC President ' Dice-President Secretary Editor £o ot White and Purple Jflotoet Pansy JfaD Rings Stpotto We are coming W. M. Headrick Hazel Barnes Merle Thomas Waggoner Hazel Platt .... sw6 5 JUNIORS 66 W. SHELTON BARCUS, Jacksonville KA; Alamo; Prep Contest, ' 09; Glee Club, 11-12; Assistant Business Manager Magazine, 10-11; Business Manager Megaphone, ' 11-12; Marshal, ' 11-12; Intermediate Debate, 12; Football Team, II. Hazel Barnes, Cleburne AAA; Alethean; Student ' s Self Govern- ment Council; Vice-President Junior Class. J. P. BARTEK, Pilsen Y.M.C.A.; Prep.; Declamation Contest. HENRIE RUTH BELL, Waxahachie AA$; Pan-Hellenic Council. R. G. BOGER, Cleburne KS; San Jacinto; Glee Club, ' 11; Inter- mediate Orator San Jacinto, ' ! 1; Maga- zine Staff, ' II; Dramatic Club. F. A. BOUTWELL, Jr., Celeste $A0; Alamo; Football, ' 08-11; Alamo Intermediate Debate, 12; Megaphone Staff, ' 1 2; Sou ' wester Staff, ' 1 2; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, 12; Press Club; Lecture Committee, 10-1 1 ; Chairman Lecture Committee, 11-12; Glee Club, 12; Texas Oratorical Association. S. P. CONN, Fort Worth San Jacinto; Y. M. C. A. Delegate to Montreal, N. C; Lecture Committee, ' 1 1-12; Vice-President Oratorical Asso- ciation; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' I 1-12; Sou ' wester Staff, ' 11-12; Y. M. C. A. Delegate to Ruston, La.; President of University Press Club, I 1-12. J. C. COX, Estelline, Texas San Jacinto; Member Ministerial Asso- ciation. ANNE MCLAURIN CRAIG, Georgetown Orchestra, ' 09- 10-11. C. E. DOWELL, SXCcKinney KS. 67 S. W. FRAN KLIN, Cordell, Oklahoma S. J. Intermediate Debater, ' 12; Secretary Prohibition League; Ministerial Asso- ciation; Student Volunteer; Secretary Mission Band. C. W. HALL, Ltander San Jacinto; Fitting School Scholar- ship, ' 09. W. M. HEADRICK KS; President Junior Class Football Team ' 08-09- 10-11; Track Team ' 08- 1 0; Cap- tain Football Team, ' I 0; Captain Track Team, ' I 0. Elliot Hamilton Jones, Celeste I7KA; Alamo. W. J. Lewis, Midlothian Alamo; Track Team, ' 09- 10-11; Basket Ball Team, ' 10-11. 68 G. B. Marsh, San J arcos IIKA; San Jacinto; Coronal Club. Fannie Marie Mitchell Los Angeles, California Honor Council, 11-12; Clio, ' 09-10. M. M. MURRELL, Columbia, Kentucky Ministerial Association. W. E. PASCHALL, JXCesquite San Jacinto. Grace Helen Patrick, Georgetown AA . Wr A t ,. lPfll 8 s r 1 B L ,  ■ ■. ' : : ' - j J|?!l RmmpS w ► t| L - v :■ ■ vV ■ ■L Bj sw6 9 Hazel Platt, Groveton A $; Editor Junior Class Orchestra, ' 10- 11-12; Basket Ball Team, ' I 0-1 1 -1 2; Assistant Manager Basket Ball Team, 11-12; Students ' Self Government Council. J. F. RlPPY San Jacinto; Preparatory Intermediate De- bate, 09- 1 0; Preparatory Commence- ment Debate (resigned); San Jacinto Intermediate Debate, ' 10-11; Brooks Prize Debater, ' 11-12, Marshal; Vice- President Ministerial Ass ' n, ' 1 1-12. Randolph Sanders, Georgetown $A0; San Jacinto; Glee Club; President Sophomore Class, 11; Marshal ' 11; Magazine Staff, II; Lecture Com- mittee, ' 12; Sou ' wester Staff, ' 12. H. Grady Spruce nKA; Alamo; Press Club, ' 11-12; Assist- antBusinessManager Magazine, 1 1-12; Vice-President Alamo, II; Secetary Alamo, ' I 2; Alamo Intermediate Debater, 11-12. M. Y. STOKES, Jr., Lampasas Alamo; Corresponding Secretary Texas Inter-Collegiate Press Association, ' ! 1- 1 2; Assistant Editor Sou ' wester, ' 1 1-12; Alamo Editor; Press Club; Orchestra; Tennis Club. W. J. VAUGHT, Waller A0; Alamo; Preparatory Scholarship; Freshmen-Sophomore Declaimer, 08- 09- 1 0; Marshal, ' 09- 1 0; President Fresh- man Class, 09- 1 0; Glee Club, ' 08-09- 1 0- 1 1-12; University Quartette, ' 09-10-1 1; Student Instructor in Latin; Mood Hall Council, ' 1 2. 70 n B ' immt V f - teiw , Wg 1 Pr ' K ' - 4 H m ' U Wa jsk r JBHtfT f Merle T. Waggoner, Wichita Falls IIKA; San Jacinto; San Jacinto Vice- President; Treasurer Junior Class, ' 12. W. T. WAGNON Barb; Students ' Assistant in Biology, ' 11- 12; L. L. D. in Southwestern University; A. P. S. Club, 09-10-11. H. B. WATTS, Rochester San Jacinto; Secretary San Jacinto, 10-1 I ; Intermediate Debater. E. MID WESTBROOKE, Kerens $A0; San Jacinto; Basket Ball, ' 09-10; Freshmen-Sophomore Contest 09-10; Lawyers ' Club, 09- 1 0; Secretary San Jacinto, ' 10-11; Dramatic Club, ' 10-11; San Jacinto Orator, 10-1 1 ; Assistant Manager Football, 10-11; Executive Committee Students ' Association, ' 11- 12; Dramatic Club, ' 11-12; Manager Football, ' 12-13. B. W. WISEMAN, Blooming Grove A0; Glee Club, 11-12; Dramatic Club, 12; Football Squad, 1 1 ; Illustrator for Sou ' wester, 10-1 1. HARLIE D. WOODS, Abilene A0; Alamo; Alamo Secretary, ' 1 0; Press Club, ' 10-11-12; Magazine Staff, ' 10-11; Sophomore Megaphone Staff, ' 10-11; Megaphone Staff, 11-12; Associate Editor Y. M. C. A. Handbook, ' 11-12; Glee Club, ' 1 1-12; Student Assistant in English A, ' II, C, ' 12. 71 JUNIORS OF 1911 ' 12 a Propfjfttr IPtcto In looking through my dreams one day — 1 saw the 13 class, And in the scenes so far away I saw each member pass. Some of this grand and noble class have realized the substance of things hoped for, while others have drifted along, taking life as it came. Ruth Bell is at present teaching the young idea how to shoot; she spares not the rod, neither does she spoil the poor child. Hazels Barnes and Piatt, becoming enthusiastic over politics after 191 1-12 Boys ' Beauty Contest are making stump speeches over the state in favor of woman suffrage. Annie Craig, a consummate flirt, is entertaining her numerous admirers in the towns where she visits. Something whispers that she will some day become a matron for one however. J. F. Rippey, our incomparable debater, is teaching the heathen how to say speeches and be loyal San Jacs. Fannie Mitchell is teaching school, and a great success she is. There are several boys in our class, but it is almost as great a problem as Math. A to decide what some of them are. Bartak and Ross have long since crossed the waters and are teaching the heathen Chinee, while Watts and Murrell are in America teaching, so they say, heathens worse than any ' Chinee ' that ever wore a queue. E. Mid Westbrook is teaching History A in some Normal School, near his Alma Mater. We have heard that Mid thought this said town to have numerous attractions, scenery — grandeur of it — etc., and some friends he thought of more than often. W. J. Vaught — who would have thought it! After giving a certain performance one afternoon at Southwestern on his bicycle, decided that on this vehicle he could become quite an entertainer — some circus — name not given. 72 Ben Wiseman is a professional dreamer and has unexcelled plans for air castles — see him! Elliot Jones, centering his affections on one girl and education, got one — we are told — not knowing which, we hesitate to grieve or rejoice with him. Grady Spence — Notice — authority on all ponderous words. Roy Boger, happy as in ye olden times says he still loves ice cream and girls. Merle T. Waggoner has recently broken the world ' s record in a track meet for 1 yard dash. Clifton Dowell has astonished us by becoming a poet — he caught his inspiration in Psychology A and Math, it has been said; but we do not hasten to judge his poetry by such an inspiration. Oh yes! what about Melmoth Stokes? Well, he decided after his studious days were over, that he had missed his calling, and he is at present one of the society men of the day S. P. Conn is advocating more recreation for college students; for instance, he says, give them an animal picnic. Barcus and Boutwell are advancing the idea of taxing old bachelors — they say that they would love to pay the tax, but since they haven ' t that pleasure, other folks deserve no better treatment than they get. George Marsh, we hear, is a farm manager; but woe unto him! We hear also there is on this farm a manager of a farm manager. Harley D. Woods has given up all worldly pleasures — disap- pointment being the cause — and is cultivating his voice and flowers in a far away land. Last but not least our president, Bill Headrick, comes forth with such marvelous tales of the athletic supremacy of a certain univer- sity in which he is Y. M. C. A. director and athletic coach, that we needs must pause to catch every word that falls from the lips of this member of 13 class. Surely we were not far from wrong; To everyone it doth seem — When one time we ended our song. By — watch our ripple in the stream. 73 JUNIORIADE {Due Apologies to Homer) Sing of the class, O Muse, of Juniors so gay and so gallant, Of all the girls that are fair, and all the boys that are famous. Sing of the balcony high, where they sit every morning in chapel; And one tender strain for the ring, with ' I 3 so bravely engraven. What, then, of the woes of this class? and what of their battles and fighting? What of their thrills of success, their paeans of victory and triumph? The Profs first their tortures began, cruel tests, hard exams and long lessons, With parallel page after page, until eyes hurt and brains whirled so dizzy; Until busting seemed sure and a B looked as big and as fair as Olympus. There were combats severe in debate, and collisions and knocks on the gridiron. And out on the diamond our men chased lightly the far winging spheroid. But some have, through digging and work; the lessons and tasks have been conquered; And parallel, some have been read, and papers and note-books been finished. And some with sharp hair ' s-breadth escapes, and some with a grade that brings honor, Have passed through the halls of the Fresh and climbed up the stair of the Sophomore. So now through the triumphs and joys of the year, when we ' re Juniors together, We pass to the place of the grads, then into the world and its conquests. S. W. F 74 75 76 SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY O ' kNCE more the wheel of time has made its round and with the passing days progress has nowhere been more evident than among the Sophomores of 1912. The men of note among our ranks are many. Reference to our class roll is convincing evidence of this fact. We have produced the most BESS CRUTCHFiELD noted scholars, orators, debaters, and musicians in college!! As athletics we play no minor part. The names of McHenry, Mickle and Neal are familiar to all and our men can be found on every team which represents the University. Three of the intermediate debaters from the two societies and the leader of the S. U. band are members of the class of 14, to say nothing of its representatives on the staff of the Sou ' wester, Maga- zine and Megaphone. Data galore might be offered as evidence of the active part played in student affairs by our class, but limited space forbids. We are proud of the class as it is. We have accom- plished great things in the past, and no doubt will accomplish still greater things in the future. This June we will regret to say that we ' re Sophs-no-more. 77 SOPHOMORE ACADEMIC Colors Purple and White jFlotoer Violet JFab White hats with purple bands Qpotto What we don ' t know s torn out GDttitttS W. D. Blair . Frances Clay Sophie Meachum Bess Crutchfield President Vice President Secretary Editor 78 SOPHOMORES 79 SOPHOMORES 80 SOPHOMORE ROLL Abney, Ruth Bishop, Mary Martha Lampasas Georgetown Clio; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet. AAA; Alethean. Adams, E. P. Crockett Black, Nellie D. Hereford Clio; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11-12; Allison, Mary Lecture Committee, ' 11-12; An- Georgetown nex Honor Coumcil, ' 1 1-12. Blair, W. D. Allison, B. R. Georgetown Georgetown $A0; Alamo; Secretary Alamo So- ciety, ' 11-12; Magazine Staff, ' 11- 12; President Sophomore Class. Barcus, J. M. Lorena San Jacinto. Bludworth, Grace Flatonia ZTA; Clio. Barrett, Alma Temple AO . Bobo, Chester Barton, R. M. Georgetown Malakoff Baseball Team, ' 10-11. KA. Bock, Chloe Bass, Corinne San Marcos Chico ZTA; Clio. Student Volunteer. sw8 1 Brigman, F. C. Uvalde Brown, J. E. McGregor KS: Alamo. BURK, J. E. Center Point San Jacinto; Band. Chadwick, Gladys Carthage Alethean. Clay, Elizabeth McGregor Cli Clay, Frances Dublin ZTA; Clio; Secretary Girls ' Associ- ation, ' 11-12; Magazine Staff, ' 11- 12. CODY, M. D. Georgetown $A0: Alamo. Courtney, Eula Temple CROZIER, H. B. Paint Rock KA; San Jacinto; Football Squad; Student Ass ' t English. Crutchfield, Bess Hope, Ark. AAA; Alethean; Orchestra; Secre- tary Students ' Association, 11- 12; Secretary Press Club, ' I 1-12; Magazine Staff, ' 11-12; Editor Sophomore Class. DlTZLER, W. L. Ardmore, Okla. Barb; San Jacinto; Freshman-Soph- omore Declamation Contest. Dobie, Fannie Beeville Clio; Annex Honor Council; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11-12. Floyd, Elizabeth Nacogdoches CI io. Fisher, Florence Alto Clio. 82 Gribble, Luther E. Wellington San Jacinto; Intermediate Debater, ' 12. Hughes, H. L. Hillsboro KA; Alamo; Alamo Intermediate Debater, -11-12; Marshal, ' 1 1 -1 2; Vice-President Texas Intercolle- giate Oratorical Association, ' 11- 12. Griffin, G W. Holtville, Cal. Alamo; Student Volunteer. Hudson, Sadie Thornton Hardy, W. E. Cameron A0; Band; Orchestra. John Lisle Bridgeport Henry, M. L. Riesel San Jacinto; Baseball Squad. Jones, W. T. Georgetown KS; Alamo. Howard, C. H. Moody KS. Kelly, Margaret San Saba Alethean; Y. W. C. A. Howard, Carrie Knolle, Juanita Seguin ZTA. Horner, Ruth Wallis Alethean. Koonsen, L. J. Bartlett Alamo. Hightower, Cornelia San Antonio AAA; Alethean; San Antonio Club. 83 Lackey, J. P. McFadden, Robert Rice Moore San Jacinto. Meachum, Sophie Langwith, J. E. Rogers Terrell Y. W. C. A. Cabinet; Officer Wo- I1KA; San Jacinto; Treasurer Soph- man ' s Self-Government Associa- omore Class. Laws, Kate tion, 1 1-12. MlCKLE, O. O. Beeville Fort Worth ZTA; Clio; Megaphone Staff, ' 11- nKA; Football Team, ' 10-12; Base- 12; Woman ' s Self Government ball Team ' 1 1-12; Treasurer Ath- Association Council, 1 1-12. letic Association 1 1-12. Mayer, William Miller, C. E. Georgetown Claude Alamo. KS; San Jacinto; Intermediate De- bater, 11-12; San Jacinto Cor- responding Secretary; Editor Mangum, Julia Alamo Edition Megaphone, 12; Uvalde Press Club, ' 09-12. $M. MlLLIKEN, J. B. McHenry, R. K. Lewisville Georgetown KA; Alamo; Y. M. C. A.; Leader Football, ' 09-10-11; Baseball, ' 10- Alamo Intermediate Debate, ' 11- 11-12; Captain Football Team, 12; Megaphone Staff, ' 1 L12; ' 12; Captain Baseball Team ' 12. Magazine Staff, ' 11-12; Vice-Pre- sident Prohibition League, 11- 12; Lecture Committee, ' 11-12; McKay, Aleatha Commencement Vice-President Alamo Society ' 12. 84 Montgomery, C. M. Park, Mae San Marcos San Marcos IIKA; Alamo; Magazine Staff, ' 11- 12; Press Club, ' 11-12; Coronal Club; Editorial Staff Sophomore Pittman, Ruth Edition Megaphone; Y. M. C. A. Cleburne Delegate to National Convention of III Kcnnra A t a, ' 11. Price, R. E. Moore, Gray Marlin Rogers San Jacinto; Sam Houston Com- KA; San Jacinto; Director S. U. Band; Orchestra; Football Team, mencement Debater, ' 09; Treas- urer Freshman Class, ' 1 0. ' 11. Pritchett, Natha San Marcos Moss, A. E. Chireno ZTA. Morgan, Ruth Georgetown Pritchett, A. B. San Marcos Morris, Maud $A0; Glee Club, 12. Neal, Tom Lytle Alamo; Football Team, 11; Base- Ransome, R. G. Bastrop ball Team, ' 12; Coronal Club. Ray, J. H. Alexander City, Ala. O ' Neille, Lee C. Wellington San Jacinto; Intermediate Debater, ' 09-10; Choir, ' 09-10; Honor San Jacinto; Assistant Manager Council, ' 10-11; Glee Club, ' 1 0- Baseball Team, 12. 11-12; Brooks Prize Debater, ' 12. .8 5 Rogers, W. W. Tingle, R. L. Elgin San Jacinto; Executive Committee Athletic Association, 1 1-12. Sessions, Ray Rockdale Touchstone, Carry Merkel San Jacinto; Barb; Student Volun- teer. Simons, Stuart Edna San Jacinto; Coronal Club. Treat, Mary Whitney Clio. Smith, G. W. Cameron Stone, Warren Georgetown Wallace, Pearl Y. W. C. A.; Alethean. STOREY, T. G. Florence White, E. E. San Antonio IIKA; Alamo; San Antonio Club; Freshman - Sophomore Contest, 11; Intermediate Debater, ' 11; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11-12; Vice- President Alamo Society, ' 12. Stuckey, L. N. Kaufman IIKA; San Jacinto; Intermediate Debater ' 12; Secretary -Treasurer Pegues-Carlisle Bible Class, ' 11- 12; Yell Leader ' 11-12. SWITZER, D. S. Itasca A0; Alamo; Band; Ministerial As- sociation. Whaley, Laura Lee Kosse ZTA; Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11-12. 86 SOPHOMORE POEM We were callow Freshmen last year — That ' s a fact we don ' t deny — But our greenness was refreshing, And it didn ' t hurt the eye Like the verdancy of others, We could mention, should we try. — But now we are gay Sophomores. Now our infant cares have ended, And our joys have just begun; Intermingled with our studies We have had a deal of fun. And we ' ve lost all thought of trouble, While we do as we were done. — So here ' s to the gay Sophomores. There will be time enough to worry In the years now on their way. Then as sober-minded Seniors, We will have no time for play. So then call the class together; We ' ll be happy for to-day. — And here ' s to the gay Sophomores. Thus the class of nineteen fourteen, Will be care-free while they go Through the dreary paths of knowledge; And ' tis better even so - Than to labor with misgivings, And small satisfaction know. — Oh, here ' s to the gay Sophomores! 87 88 FRESHMEN HISTORY A MARGUERITE BLANTON BLOT fell on my tablet; my candle burned low; my eyelids grew heavy. The big letters Freshmen His- tory scrawled across the top of my paper were blurred. In vain I called on Clio for assistance, but the haughty muse ignored me. Why should she not hear me? Why should she not help me to record the chronicles of so worthy a class? I flung my head into my arms and despairingly gave up. I was climbing a very steep and rug- ged road. Many older students were climbing too. Many of their faces were bright and happy, and they talked merrily as they skipped along. Many were sorrowful and sad, and some could hardly drag their weary feet up the steep hills. At one side of the road two lovers strolled slowly along, whispering sweet nonsense. There was a squad of football men. They stopped every now and then for a heated discussion on some question or other. There was also a team of basket ball girls ascending the hill. There were many others in the company, but all were going in the same direction. As they neared the summit, they eagerly quickened their steps. Suddenly there shone a brilliant light. Our company had at length reached the top. Before us was a la rge arch and looming up beyond we saw the coveted land of Sophomores. The sun was shining brightly through my window. The bell rang and I came to with a start. No history was written and no time was left. How terrible! But accidents will happen to the best of us. Trusting that we may all be on hand next year, armed for the fray, we remain the friends of everybody connected with old South western. 89 FRESHMAN AC AD :en 1 rs sleep EMIC President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Editor Colors Green and Gre Jflotoer Nigger-Heac iao Rubber Rattle S otto Drink milk and ; i3Df f iccrsf Carl N. Williford Miss Mildred Richardson Miss Beulah Talley Porter Stanford Miss Marguerite Blanton 90 FRESHMAN ROLL ' 11-12 Abney, Nettie . . Hilhboro Adams, R. V. . Comanche Agnew, Lucy May. Ravenna Alexander, Elmo . Meridian Allen, Mamie Midland Ashmore, Jesse L. . Comanche Avery, Ruth . Taylor Bailey, Ruth . . Waco Bailey, R. C. . Georgetown Bain, H. H. . Georgetown Barnhart, K. E. . Edna Barton, H. W. Malakpff Bass, Alline . San Marcos Bayer, Gladys Georgetown Bayne, Beatrice . . Trinity Beall, J. H. . Lubbock Bevens, M.C. . E ooneville, Arl . Binion, W. T. . . Cum by Bishop, F. P. . Georgetown Blanton, Marguerite . Gainesville Bode, E. W. . . Castell Bogard, Ona Belle Timpson Bolivar, D. W. Morgan Boyce, S. W. . Leesburg Brady, Maggie . Temple Bridges, F. E. . Center Brouthertin, R. P. . Teague y-A Brown, A. J Haskell Brown , C. A. . . Jllpine Brown, C. A. . Leesville Brown, Leila Mae Goldthwaite Bull, Rowena Brownsville Burns, J. G. . . Cuero Caraway, R. A. Georgetown Carrell, Jappie J. . . Grand Saline Cason, Willie . Nacogdoches Clark, Ina Garble Falls Cheatham, J. G. . Italy Clower, J. V. Ladonia Cooper, Corinna . Georgetown Curry, H. F. . Rockwall Cowan, J. B. . Lampasas Crutchfield, Hall E Hope.jlrk- Cushing, A. B. Floresville Daniel, Vivien Victoria David, J. W. . Corsicana Dayvault, H. . Lone City Delgadillo, J.C. Sc in Luis ' Potosi, Mex. Dent, I. O. . Georgetown Dickenson, B. Y. . Itasca Dixon, Lois . Shepherd Dobie, E. {Reeville Dodson, C. T. Qroesbeck Downs, E. . Mineral Wells Edens, L. E. . Bertram Ellison, P. A. . gelton Embry, Zella M. . ZKCcGregor Etter, Robbie Lone Oak Evans, B. M. . . Georgetown Fairman, Earl . Goldthwaite Ferguson, J. R. Leesville, La. Ferguson, T. A. Jimarillo 93 FERRELL, ATHA . . Granbury Fleming, D. H. Mt. Pleasant Fleming, L. J. . Ml. Pleasant Forester, Clara Locfchart Germany, E. B. Grand Saline Gillesspie, Emma . Dallas Gooden, O. T. . A thens Graham B. S. . . Alice Green, J. I. Foreston Gregory, H. C. San A ntonio Greer, W. W. . Cameron Griffin, Mary . Henderson Hall, M. B. . Georgetown Hanks, Lela . Coolidge Hardt, L. D. . Yancy Harless, H. S. . Houston Harris, T. H. . Fulshear Harvick, Iva . Georgetown Henderson, Arthur San Angela Hendry, J. L. . QeorgetoWn Herrington, W. W. . Floresville Henrichsen, Ruby Houston Hopkins, Leo . . Pittsburg Hotchkiss, D. H. Luffcin House, Pearl Lee . Brownsville Howard, Carrie Coleman Humphries, E. L. Waco Hutchins, J. R. . Grandview Irvin, S. J. . Floresoille Jenkins, Nellie . Caldwell John, Mary Peery . Bridgeport Keese, Walter . Lyons Kinchloe, Fannie Mexia Lamb, A. J. Houston Lea, W. E. Ingleside 94 Lee, Ida Mae Pearsall Long, Della, . . Dallas LONGINO, J. L. . Minden, La- MOOREHEAD, H. K. . £mory McAfee, J. C. . . {Bridgeport McClendon, Annie . Ben Jlmold McComb, Mary Alice Georgetown McHenry, CD. Georgetown McKee, Lucile . . Velasco McKee, Winnie . A rlington McKennon, Fletcher Georgetown Malone, Rector San Jlngelo Markham, Lucile . Kosse Martin, Dottie Grand Saline Martin, J. R. . Georgetown Mayes, Virginia Comanche Meachum, Eldora . . Rogers Milliss, E. R. . T)awson Mitchell, T. M. Linnflatt Montgomery, Nellie tJXCcQregor Mood, Jennie Rose . . Hartley Moore, J. H. Beaumont Morris, J. R. . . trinity Mowrey, J. I. Childress Munden, Mable . Dallas Nelms, F. D. Georgetown Nelms, Lena Mae Georgetown NORTHRUP, R. L. Houston Paine, J. E. . tJXContgomery Nalley, Jewel . Georgetown Padelford, Grace . Cleburne Partain, Jewel . {Reeville Patrick, Jeffie . Georgetown Perry, M. M. . Ennis Pluenneche, Milton . Castell 95 POTEET, EUNICE . . Holland Poteet, Ruth . Holland Price, Sibba Georgetown Queen, Nolan . Georgetown Rand, F. G. . Chief Reynolds, Nettie ylharado Richardson, Mildred Jourdanton Root, Margaret Georgetown Russell, Edna . . Piano Rylander, Clara B. . . San 7 arcos Sanders, Annie . Cameron Sanders, Mrs. Beulai i Qeorgetown Sanford, Annie . Timpson SCHLOEMAN, E. H. Qatesville Secrest, Effie . Qeorgetown Siebe, Sadie V. . . Dallas Simons, T. A. Beeville Smith, Carol . Brownsville Smith, Clarence ZACacogdoches Smith, Donnella Brownsville Smith, H. S. Carlsbad Smith, Lillian . Beeville Smith, H. F. . Canton Smith, Lois . Chireno Sneed, Bond . Georgetown Sparks, F. W. . . Georgetown Spellman, L. U. . . Georgetown Spivey, J. R. Graham Stanfield, H. H. . San jinlonio Stanford, Myra . Lorena Stanford, P. T. . Lorena Stanford, R. C. . Canton Stanford, H. H. . Stark, T. V. . Plano Stephens, I. K. . . Chico 96 STOKES, T. M Lampasas Storrs, Anita . Georgetown Story, F. M. Georgetown Talley, Beulah . Georgetown Terry, King A Ipine Thompson, Beulah Mae . Georgetown Traylor, Carrie Joe . . Olivia Tucker, F. H. Nacogdoches Turk, Veitch Canyon Turner, A. E. Jlbbott Vetter, A. R. . Paige Vinson, E. C. Timpson Vice, A. V. . Lone Oaf? Wahrenberger, J. C. . Conroe Watts, Delle Timpson Walker, A. A. . . Fayte Walker, Leo Moody West, P. M. . Floresville Wheeless, Leola . Weir White, Vera Obar, N. M. Weimers, Marvin Fredericksburg Wilkerson, Frank . Georgetown Williams, Anna Mec . . Dangerfield Williams, Mary . Qatesville Williams, R. H. . Lorena Williams, R. H. . McDade Williford, C. N. . Fairfield Wilson, A. R. . Floresville Wilson, G. K. Cleburne Wilson, Ruby Forest Wills, Mary Lorena Yardley, Annie . Ben Arnold Yardley Rena Ben Arnold Yates, Genevieve Longview Yett, Almeta Qeorgetown  97 THE PARABLE OF THE TEN FRESHMEN THEN shall the kingdom of knowledge be likened unto the ten Freshmen, who took their books and went out to meet the philosophers. And five of them were wise and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their books but took no jacks with them. But the wise took jacks in with their books. While the philosophers tarried they all slum- bered and et. And at the end of the term there was a cry made: Behold the philosopher cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all the Freshmen arose and quickly opened their books to study. And the foolish said unto the wise: Lend us your ' jacks, ' for it is too late for us to buy now. But the wise answered, saying: Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves. And while they went out to buy, the philosopher came and they that were wise went in with him to the exam, and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other Freshmen saying: Prof, Prof, open unto us. But he answered and said: Verily, I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour when the exam, cometh. M. B. 98 99 W r ALAMO PRESIDENTS lOO ALAMO LITERARY SOCIETY A. D. 1873-1912 9£otto Let men learn illustrious virtue by association. Color Black and White gell Hullabaloo, Ro, Ro, Hullabaloo, Ro, Ro, Hero, Hero, Three Cheers for the Alamo! flDff icecss 1911 = 1912 eptrmber A. F. SMITH President P. J. RUTLEDGE Critic H. G. Spruce . Vice-President W. D. BLAIR jl3obember Secretary F. R. Stanford President F. D. DAWSON Critic T. E. Lee . Vice-President W. D. BLAIR Januarp Secretary P. J. RUTLEDGE President J. B. MlLLIKEN Critic M. Y. STOKES, JR. . Vice-President H. G. SPRUCE S@arcb Secretary F. D. Dawson . President M. Y. STOKES, JR. Critic E. E. WHITE . Vice-President H. G. SPRUCE 39ap Secretary T. E. Lee President H. L. HUGHES Critic J. B. MlLLIKEN . . Vice-President H. K. MOREHEAD Secretary) swlO 1 ALAMO INTERMEDIATE DEBATERS 102 ALAMO INTERMEDIATE DEBATE ZD Martin Lulher 2D Resolved: That the Form Initiative, Referendum by the State of Texes. AFFIRMATIVE: J. B. MlLLIKEN W. S. Barcus H. G. Spruce Decision: Negative, ration F. Wilkinson cfaate of Government Known as the and Recall should be Adopted NEGATIVE: H. L. Hughes F. A. Boutwell J. R. Spivy three; Affirmative, two. 103 104 ALAMO ROLL Adams, E. P. Ferguson, T. A. Paine, Ernest Allison, B. R. Graham, S. B. Rutledge, P. J. Bain, H. H. Griffin, C. W. Satterfield, C. L. Barcus, W. S. Henderson, A. R. Schloeman, E. H. Blair, W. D. Hester, C. T. Simons, T. A. Boutwell, F. A. Hopkins, Leo Smith, A. F. Bridges, J. H. Hughes, H. L. Spivey, J. R. Brown, C. A. Hutchins, J. R. Spruce, H. G. Brown, J. E. Jones, W. T. Stanford, F. R. Cody, M. D. Koonson, L. J. Stokes, M. Y., Jr. Cowan, J. B. Lea, W. E. Stokes, T. M. Cushing, A. B. Lefevre, W. H. Switzer, D. S. David, Wilson Lewis, W. J. Terry, King Dawson, F. D. Mayer, Wm. Thompson, J. C. Delgadillo, J. C. Milliken, J. B. Vaught, W. J. Dickinson, B. Y. Mitchell, T. M. Vise, A. V. Dobie, E. H. Montgomery, C. M. White, E. E. Ellison, Peyton Morehead, H. K. Wilkinson, F. Fairman, Earl Moose, R. M. Williford, C. N. Ferguson, J. R. Neal, B. E. Woods, H. D. 1 05 ALAMO HISTORY HE ALAMO LITERARY SOCIETY traces its be- ginning from the Alpha Society of Soule College, organized in 1856. In 1873, shortly after the founding of Southwestern University, the society was reorganized under its present name. From its earliest days old Alamo has maintained definite ideals and has stood for well defined principles. The one great purpose of its ex- istence has been to assist its members in forming well rounded characters — and efficiency has been its watchword. The spirit of the historic defenders of the Alamo has mani- fested itself in the history of the Society, and the Alamos have pressed forward year by year, undaunted by temporary set- backs. Of this history and its traditions the Alamo is justly proud; but past history, past traditions and past ideals are useless assets unless they contribute to the advancement of the present. That the Alamo is utilizing its ideals is apparent from the work of the present year. To the loyalty and ex- perience of its old men have been united the vigor and enthusiasm of the new, so that its sessions, both public and private, have been characterized by an enthusiastic, efficient spirit that can own no defeat. The Intermediate Debate of this year successfully indicated the attitude of the members of the Society towards the vital issues of the day. In its Commencement Debaters, Stanford and Bridges, the Alamo has implicit confidence, and their ability to maintain its standard is unquestioned — for they are Alamos, tried and true. The outlook for the future of the Alamo Literary Society is very bright. With the encouragement and inspiration of the past and the strength of the present, it is prepared to maintain its high ideals and to press on to nobler things. M.Y. S. 106 3 ALAMO POEM A L A M cross three score and moie of years sound of conflict fills ours ears, voice from men who knew no fears, t the ALAMO. ong may we, who are their heirs, ed by the spirit which was theirs, ed through all our fears and cares, ove the ALAMO. 11 their names we honor now, nd the best that we know how, t their shrines we gladly bow; t the ALAMO. ay we who have to fight to-day, ake a stand as firm as they; ark their bold heroic way; ark the ALAMO. n! their spirits cry to us, n! they say, and on we must; n! the cry comes from the dust f the ALAMO. F. D. D. 107 BROOKS PRIZE DEBATE alamo fas. fe an lacinto T esolved: That All Corporations Engaged in Interstate Commerce should be Required to Take out a Federal Charter — Constitutionality Conceded. AFFIRMATIVE: F. R. Stanford 1 J. H. Bridges J NEGATIVE: J. F. RlPPEYl . J.H.RAY p n ' flcmto 108 FRANK R. STANFORD Intercollegiate Orator, ' 12 ©race, TBr Still 109 J.K.WILLSOM SAN JACINTO PRESIDENTS 1 lO SAN JACINTO LITERARY SOCIETY S otto Perfect t eloquence clothes men with king ly power. Colons Old Rose and Pearl Gray gell Hallabaloo, Blick-Black, Hullabaloo, Blick-Black, San Jac, San Jac, Tigers. Officers JFtrst 2Tcrm C H. Thomas . President J. M. WILLIAMS Critic J- R. Sanders . Vice-President W. L. DlTZLER f cconti Ccrm Secretary S. E. Sheffy Presid nl R. G. BOYER Critic J. F. RIPPY Vice-President H. W. BARTON SCinrti 2Cerm Secretary R. E. Leonard . President J. R. SANDERS Critic C. W. Hall Vice-President GRAY MOORE jfourtb 2Cerm Secretary N. Y. Henry President R. M. BARTON Critic M. T. Waggoner Vice-President W. E. PASCHAL eTommcncrmrnt 2Term Secretary J. M. Wilson President C. W. HALL Criti- S. P. Conn Vice-President C. E. MILLER Secretary 1 1 1 SAN JACINTO INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATERS 1 12 SAN INTERMEl The Jlnglo Saxon Resolved: That sidize her Merchant i H. B. Watts L. C. E. Miller L Decision in JACINTO DIATE DEB ATE G. BOGER hould Sub- Franklin L. Evans e. flDtation . . . R SDebate the United States s Marine. FFIRMATIVE: S. W. N. Stuckey NEGATIVE: L. E. Gribble favor of the NegatP swl 13 m (- U o K h o H . A- Z u ■ z ■ c« gate i ■ 1 1 4 SAN JACIN Alexander, Elmo [TO LITERAI IY SOCIETY Price, R. E. l oll Hall, M. B. Barcus, J. M. Hardt, L. D. Queen, Nolan Barnhart, K. E. Harrison, J. W. Rand, Fred Barton, H. W. Hendry, J. L. Ray, J. H. Barton, R. M. Henry, N. Y. Rippy, J. F. Boger, R. G. Henry, M. L. Ryan, G. E. Caroway, R. A. Huffor, Earl Sanders, J. R. Carrell, J. J. Keese, W. H. Sanford, G. B. Clower, J. V. Lackey, J. P. Sheffy, S. E. Conn, S. P. Langwith, J. E. Simons, Lowe CORRY, H. G. Cox, J. C. DITZLER, W. L. Downs, E. G. Leonard, R. E. McKay, Jno. N. Marsh, G. B. Smith, Goodhue Stephens, I. K. Story, F. J. Stuckey, L. N. Edens, Lee Matlock, J. E. Thomas, Hughes Evans, L. L. May, R. W. Tingle, R. L. Fleming, L. Miller, C. E. Touchstone, Cary Franklin, S. W. Millis, E. G. Vinson, E. C. Frisk, C. A. Moore, Gray Waggoner, M. T. Germany, E. B. Nelms, F. D. Walker, A. A. GlLLELAND, W. B. Paschall, W. E. Watts, H. B. Gooden, O. T. Perry, M. M. Westbrook, E. Mid. Gribble, L. E. Porter, R. L. Willson, J. M. Hall, C. W. Poteet, Horace Wiseman, B. W. 115 SAN JACINTO LITERARY SOCIETY HE history of Texas has been full of heroic deeds and glorious achievements, but there are two events which, above all others, seem to typify the spirit of Texas: the battle of the Alamo, and the battle of San Jacinto. The one presents the spectacle of patriots dying for their country the other presents the spectacle of patriots conquering, that they and their children may live for their country. Thus the name Alamo, has come to be symbolic of heroic defeat, and San Jacinto of victory no less heroic but more glorious. At Southwestern these names have a local significance, but the distinction is not lost. Wherever an honor has been open to the members of San Jacinto, they have striven for it, and more often than otherwise have obtained it. Of the thirty-five Inter-Society Debates, San Jacinto has been victor in twenty-one. However, let no one believe that San Jacinto is living in the past. If it seems that interest in the society work is not so great as it was when R. L. Henry and R. E. Brooks were fined for fighting in the society hall, let us remember that that form of energy has happily been transferred to the athletic field. This year the regular work of the society has been more thorough than ever before. The Intermediate Debate has given promise of victory in our Commencement Debates for two or three years to come, and under the leadership of Rippy and Ray, we are confident of adding another victory to our record. 1 l TO SAN JANCINTO With name whose origin was made A source of pride, by men who paid Themselves as the fair price, e ' er Shalt thou have our deepest love. Ne ' er Shall we suffer thee other fate Than that deserved by thy estate, Which from us always shall demand Our strongest efforts; and the band Of patriotic thrills and love, Borne for our heroes past, shall move Us on and e ' er shall help us make New records, which, if could they take A part in, they should find quite high To suit e ' en their appraising eye. Thus shalt thou our true worship know, And we, disciples thine, shall sow The seeds of knowledge given us By thy just mandates, which discuss Those themes of fluent speech and wit Which known shall fully well befit. One for a marked career of deeds. That helped to life by those same seeds Which thou didst plant, shall make well known Now one succeeds if thou hast sown — And ever peerless shalt thou stand A teacher great, whose learned hand Shall always guide with certainty Her men straightway to victory. E. C. V. 1 1 7ms ™! 1 18 CLIO PRESIDENTS 119 120 CLIO SOCIETY 9®otto Volamus alis propriis Colorgf Jflotoct Pink and Gray Pink Carnation otitty ftoll Abney, Ruth FOJT, VLASTA Pittman, Ruth Bass, Corinne Henricksen, Ruby Richardson, Mildred Black, Nell Cora, Hill Ryan, Florence Blanton, Marguerite Howse, Pearl Lee Sedberry, Ella Bludworth, Grace Hudson, Lodie Smith, Carol Bogard, Ona Belle Jackson, Rebecca Smith, Donnella Boyd, Beulah John, Lisle Smith, Lillian Bull, Rowena John, Mary Stanford, Hattie Cason, Willie Laws, Kate Stanford, Myra Chapman, Lucile Lee, Ida Mai Stokes, Margaret Clay, Elizabeth Lewis, Amber Studebaker, Inez Clay, Frances Lipscomb, Lula Traylor, Carrie Jo. Clay, Ione McFADDEN, RUBB1E Treat, Mary Clark, Francis McKay, aleatha Wallace, Pearl Dobie, Fannie McKee, Lucile Wallace. Bessie Lou. Embry, Zella Milner, Carrie Ward. Mary Fisher, Florence Moses, Mildred White, Vera Forrester, Clara Mae Moss, Maud Whitfield, Ruth Floyd, Elizabeth Partain, Jewel Williams, Anna Mec. 1 21 ALETHEAN PRESIDENTS 122 123 ALETHEAN LITERARY SOCIETY Q otto I wou d rather be than seem to be. Colorg Dark Blue and White jflotoer Bluebonnet feonetp IRoll Amos, Mrs. Hightower, Cornelia Mowrey. Jimmie Barnes, Hazel Harper, Florence Perkins, Myrta Brown, Leila Horner, Ruth Park, Mae Bishop, Mary Martha Kelley, Margaret Russell, Edna Carter ANNE Kingsbury. Merle San ford Annie Crutchfield. Bess McConnell, Olive Swafford, Pauline Chadwick, Gladys McLaughlin. Grace Thomas, Mary Dixon. 1 OIS Murphee, Vera Wagnon Clara Fisher, Mabel Munden, Mabel Walters , Mary Lee Griffin, Mary M cKee, Winnie Walker, Leo Hudson , MattieJohn McClellan, Sibyl li-4 1 25 THE LECTURE COMMITTEE 5 5? = £ V SB M s £8 HE four Literary Societies elect two mem- bers, who, with one representative from the faculty, compose the Lecture Committee. The duty of this Committee is to select a series of high class entertainments which will both benefit and entertain the student body. The Committee was very fortunate this year in securing a course that seemed to please all. This year ' s course has not only paid for itself, but there is a small balance over expenses. Despite the fact that one or two numbers had to be substituted, the attractions as a whole have been excellent. The following were the numbers on the course for 191 1-12: Chicago Glee Club, Brush, Ernest Thompson Setan, Gov. Jos. W. Folk, John Kendricks Bangs, Jesse Pugh and Co., and Packard. After the course and its expenses are paid for, what money remains is divided among the four Literary Societies, and if there is a deficit the societies are asked to bear their proportionate part. This seldom, if ever, happens. The popularity of the Lyceum Course is shown by the liberal support which the student body gives it. Between three and four hundred season tickets are sold annually. 126 1. Boutwell 5. Milliken LECTURE COMMITTEE 2. Wagnon 6. Dobie 3. Sanders 7. Conn 4. Kelly 8. Black 123 1 It ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION jr(fNHE Oratorical Association of Southwestern University is an  organization of the two Literary Societies, the Alamo and San Jacinto, for the purpose of promoting the oratorical interests of its members. This association has a representative at each State Contest, and has also under its supervision the arranging of debates with other colleges. 128 swl 2 9 130 Prof. W R. H. H. J. L. W C. . S. M. W B. W. G. .B Found A. NICHOI Barcus Barton . Barton Crozier David Gresham gillilan KAPPA ALPH ed at Washington Lee, ' Decemb A er21, 1865 1 lay! K. A.? say! ray! NYDER Prof. J. H. McGinnis F. D. Nelms R. L. Porter, Jr. A. F. Smith C. H. THOMAS E. C. Vinson R. H. Williams G. K. Wilson XI CHAPTER Established 1883 Dieu et les Dawes Colore Crimson and Old Gol m High rickety! Whoop la ' hat ' s the matter with old Vive la, Vive la, Viva la, Kappa Alpha; rah, rah, jfratrtB in Qltbe V. R. MOOD J. E. S JFratrco in jfacultate „s Prof. J. H. Reedy JFratreo in !tniber?itate B. S. Graham A. R. Henderson H. L. Hughes C. R. Malone Gray Moore V. H. McCall d J. B. MILLIKEN 1 3 1 § 80 o 1 32 PHI DELTA THETA Founded at Miami University 1 848 TEXAS GAMMA Established 1886 Jflotoer White Carnation Colors Azure and Argent fell Els ' Avt|p! Els ' AvTJp! 0 i5cis, 0v6eis, O-05eis ' Avrjp! Ev-pr|-Ka! $l-K€i-a! $t AeXTa 0fJTa! ' Pd! ' Pa! ' Pa! JFratrts in fltrfae D. K. Wilcox D. W. Wilcox S. V. Stone C. M. Armsti ONG JFratrrs in JFaruItate C. C. CODY Frank Seay W. C. Vaden H. L. Gray JFratrrs in flinibrrjaitate Elmo Alexander ' 15 J. W. Harrison ' 12 A. B. Pritchett ' 13 W. D. Blair ' 14 L. B. Heafer ' 15 J.R.Sanders 13 F. A. Boutwell ' 13 J. L. Hendry ' 14 D. S. Switzer ' 14 J. G. Burns ' 15 H. E. HUFFOR ' 12 W. J. VAUCHT ' 13 M. D. Cody ' 14 J. E. KILGORE ' 12 E. M. WESTBROOK ' 13 L. L. Felder ' 12 R. L. KURTH ' 12 R. H. WILLIAMS ' 15 M. B. Hall ' 15 R. M. MOOSE ' 12 B. W. WISEMAN ' 13 W. E. Hardy ' 14 O. W. Peterson 14 H. D. Woods ' 13 - J. C. Sheffield (Pledge) ' 16 133 134 KAPPA SIGMA Founded at University of Virginia 1869 IOTA CHAPTER Established 1886 Colore Scarlet, White and Emerald Green jflotoet The Lily of the Valley Hell Rah! Rah! Rah! Crescent and Star Vive la! Vive la! Kappa Sigma! jfratrcs in fltrfae S. A. Hodges M. F. Smith R. G. Boger J. E. Brown, Jr. J. H. Beal C. E. Dowell W. P. Douglas, Jr. L. J. Fleming Don Fleming aiumnuss anbisrr M. F. Smith jfrater in JFacuItatr Prof. S. H. Moore jfratrcs in atniberisitate J. R. Ferguson E. R. Gregg T. H. Harris J. R. Hutchins C. H. Howard W. M. HEADRICK E. L. Humphreys, Jr. W. T. Jones W. H. LeFevre A. J. Lamb C. E. Miller W. L. Robbins L. C. Strange J. M. Willson 135 H.H.S m KAnnA aa a 136 PI KAPPA ALPHA Founded at University of Virginia, March 1 , 1 868 ALPHA OMICRON CHAPTER Established November 12, 1910 jFIotoet Lily of the Valley Colors Garnet and Old Gold mi Hobble Gobble! Razzle Dazzle! Zip, Bang, Hi! Hurrah! Hurrah! Pi! Pi! Pi! JFratrrgi in cUnibcrsitatc W. T. BINION J. B. Cowan H. J. Gregory S. J. Irwin E. H. Jones J. E. Langwith G. B. Marsh O. O. Mickle C. M. Montgomery J. E. Paine H. G. Spruce H. H. Stanfield L. N. STUCKEY M. T. Waggoner E. E. White 137 THE FRATERNITY RATRES in the highest, the noblest sense, Each giving of himself a part, intense, To reach a high ideal. All earnestly Striving to win for you the fraternity. ENOWN of that high kind and greater sort That shall to all who see clearly report The working of a strong ambitious hand, Which in its unity a telling force shall stand. CENTRALIZED host of intellect, And bone and sinew strong, each to reflect In different fields a glory on the name For which, in tribute, glows the incense flame. HE embodiment of these attributes, Which go to make a unit having roots Implanted deep in soil that suits the growth Of manly effort and of manly worth. EGARDLESS of the telling sacrifice Which must be given always as the price Of anything worth while, each frater strives To give his best that it may help the fires NTOMBED in one vast furnace where the heat Of many small weak flames shall.when they meet, Become in strength and power greater far Than they could e ' er dare hope to be, at war — UCH is the spirit which in compact binds As one, several bodies and the minds That shall their actions name. All earnestly Striving as one; such is fraternity. E. C. V. PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL DELTA DELTA DELTA ] Bess Crutchfield 2 Anne Carter ZETA TAU ALPHA 3 Mary Thomas 7 Ruth Bell 5 Julia Mangum 4 Grace Gillett ALPHA DELTA PHI PHI MU 8 Olive McConnell 6 Nettie Abney 139 140 DELTA DELTA DELTA Founded 1888 THETA EPSILON CHAPTER Established in 1912, by merging of Alpha Delta Chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma which was established in I 905 jfloton Pansy Colors Silver, Gold and Blue Pine ALPHA — Boston Universiiy ALPHA ALPHA— Addphi ALPHA UPS1LON— Calby BETA — St Lawrence . RHO — Barnard . . OMICRON— Syracuse . ETA — Vermont SIGMA— Wesleyan GAMMA Jldrian EPSILON— Knox . . THET A— Minnesota . UPSILON— Northwestern MU — Wisconsin Lambda— Baker . . THETA BETA— Colorado Phi— Iowa .... KAPPA— Nebraska THETA GAMMA— Oklahoma Lucy Mae agnew Mary Martha Bishop Marguerite Blanton Hazel Barnes Anne Carter Kittie Cain Bess Crutchfield elrjaptrr . Boston, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y. Waterville, Me. . Canton, N. Y. . . New York Syracuse, N. Y. Burlington, Vt. Middletown, Conn. . Adrian, Mich. Galesburg, 111. Minneapolis, Minn. . Evanston, 111. Madison, Wis. Baldwin, Kansas . Boulder, Col. Iowa City, Iowa . Lincoln, Neb. Norman, Okla. EoII DELTA — Simpson .... Indianola, Iowa THETA EPSILON— Southwestern . Georgetown TAU — Bucknell .... Lewisburg, Pa. Xl — Qcucher Baltimore, Md. PSl—Pennsylvaria .... Philadelphia, Pa. ALPHA XI — Randolph- Macon Lynchburg, Va. ZETA — Cincinnati University Cincinnati, Ohio DELTA ALPHA— DePauw . Greencastle, Ind. NU — Ohio State .... Columbus, Ohio CHI — Mississippi Oxford, Miss. BETA ZETA — Transylvania . Lexington, Ky. DELTA BETA — Miami . . . Oxford, Ohio DELTA GAMMA— Vanderbill Nashville, Tenn. Pi — California Berkley, Cal. THETA DELTA— Oregon . . . Eugene, Ore. OMEGA— Stanford . . . Palo Alto, Cal. THETA ALPHA— Washington Seattle, Wash. SororfB in (Untbcrsitatc Hallie Crutchfield Sadie Hudson Mattie John Hudson (Pledge) Cornelia Hightower Myrta Perkins Nellie Montgomery Sadie V. Seibe Luruth Smith (Pledge) Pauline Swafford Ella Sedberry Mary Williams Mary Wills Soror in JFacuItate Katherine Mitchell 141 1 42 ZETA TAU ALPHA Chapter Soil ALPHA— Alumnae BETA — Judean College DELTA— Randolph- Macon . EPSILON— University of Arkansas ZETA — University of Tennessee THETA— Bethany College IOTA — Alumnae KAPPA — University of Texas LAMBDA — Southwestern University MU—Drury College NU — University of Alabama Xl — University of Southern California OMICRON— Brenau College Pi — Wesleyan College Fanville, Va. Marion, Ala. Lynchburg, Va. Fayetteville, Ark. Knoxville, Tenn. Bethany, W. Va. Richmond, Va. Austin, Texas Georgetown, Texas Springfield, Mo. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Los Angeles, Cal. Gainsville, Ga. Macon, Ga. Eambda Chapter Established 1906 Miss Alberta Bragg, Sponsor UDatronfBses Mrs. Gillett Mrs. Board Mrs. Nell Clement Sororrgi in atnibergitate Aline Bass Corinne Bass Frances Barcus Grace Bludworth Frances Clark Frances Clay Ione Clay Frances Gillett, (Pledge) Grace Gillett Kate Laws Lucie Markham HATTIE NELMS (Pledge) juanita knolle Lena May Nelms Natha Pritcheit Grace Padelford Nettie Reynolds Lillian Smith Lillian Strange Mary Thomas Mary Lee Walters Mary Ward Eddie Weldon, (Pledge) Laura Lee Whaley Genevieve Yates 143  ! 144 ALPHA DELTA PHI Founded at Wesleyan College, May 15, 1851 ZETA CHAPTER Established in I 907 Colors Blue and White jflotoet The Violet ©atroneasrs Mrs. Harry Graves Mrs. Kate H. Makemson Mrs. W. J. Burcham Mrs. Henry Price Mrs. Lee J. Rountree Mrs. Louis Price onsor Miss Mamie Howren Sorares in flfrne Louise Belford Gladys Snyder Florra Root Martha Pegues Sanders Mrs. Mary Mann Richardson Mabel Taylor Johnnie Wright Gene Daughtrey Bessie Belle Cooper Sororrs 1 Henri Ruth Bell 2 Corinna Cooper 3 Mabel Louise Flanagan 4 Olive Ruth McConnell 5 Grace Helen Patrick 6 Jeffie Davis Patrick 7 Hazel Platt 8 Margaret Root 9 annie mirian sanford 10 Bond Sneed in (Hniberisitate 11 Lula Victoria Talley 12 Beulah Kates Talley 13 Delle Elizabeth Watts 14 Kate Gresham 15 Alma Barrett 16 Fletcher McKennon 17 Winifred Zoe O ' Neill 18 INEZ STUDEBAKER, (Pledge 19 Lois Lavinia Dixon 20 Grace Booty swl 4 5 146 XI KAPPA CHAPTER Established 1908 OF PHI MU Founded ( Wesleyan) I 852 Colot0 Old Rose and White jflotofr Variegated Carnation ©atroncgWB Mrs. Wm. F. Magee Mrs. Storrs Mrs. Banner Lucile McKee Anita Storrs Ray Sessions Nettie Abney Beatrice Turman Mildred Moses Almeta Yett Sponsor Miss McDonald ■)ororcj3 in (Iinibrrjaitatf Willie Haire Mayme Pipkin Leila Brown Mabel Munden Julia Mangum Lois Campbell Jewel Nally Emma Gillespie 1 47 1 48 ' . 148 1 j swl 4 9 Y. M. C. A. CABINET 1 60 YOUNG MEN ' S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 1911- ' 12 Cabinet F. D. Dawson President S. P. Conn . Vice-President C. H. Thomas Secretary O. W. Peterson Treasurer E. E. White . Chairman Bible Study H. B. Watts . Chairman Devotional Meetings F. A. Boutwell . Chairman Membership Committee R. M. Moose . Chairman Social Committee J. H. Bridges . Chairman Mission Study Classes S. E. Sheffy . Chairman Publication Committee flbb igorp Committee Dr. Bishop Dr. Nichols Prof. Reedy 15 1 ,YM STANFORD Y. W. C. A. CABINET 152 Y. W. C. A. Grace Gillett Frances Clark Ione Clay Fannie Dobie Annie Sanford Clara Wagnon Mabelle Getsin Robbie McFadden Olive McConnell Natha Pritchett Frances Barcus Frances Eula Courtney Florence Fisher Dottie Mar Mary Ward Wii Fannie Mitchell Ruth Abney COMMITTEES FO R 1911- ' 12 President . Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Margaret Kelly Cornelia Hightower ary Treat with Kate Davis rrett Zoe O ' Neill Mary Griffin Sadie V. Siebe . Smith Hattie Stanford carol Smith Ruth Abney Ruby Henderson Hazel Platt Margaret Stokes Bible StuDp Nellie Black, Chairman Natha Pritchett Anne Carter ger M fission StuDp Lillian Smith, Chairman Ione Clay Donella Si Social LOIS DIXON, Chairman Sophie Meachum Alma Ba SIfJemberiebip Olive McConnell, Chairman Hazel Barnes Dcbotional Mary Thomas, Chairman Zoe O ' Neill Clay Caroi Jfinance Myra Stanford, Chairman Robbie Etter Beatrice Bayne riN Social Serbice Vera White, Chairman -lie Cason Hazel Platt alumnae Club Clara Wagnon, Chairman Intercollegiate ELLA SEDBERRY, Chairman Elizabeth Clay 153 lrflC ( % •■-■ ' K pftcSK 1 54 MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION 3Dtticet0 F. D. Dawson President J. F. Rippy . Vice-President J. H. Bridges Secretary J. E. Matlock Tre asurer SPemfarrs Allison, B. R. GlLLILAND, PALMER RIPPY, J. F. Bain, H. H. GOODEN, O. T. Rogers, W. W. Barkow, G. P. H. Gordon, Ross, D. A. Barnhart, K. E. Graham, B. S. Ryan, G. E. Bartak, J. P. Griffin, C. W. Satterfield, C. L. Bishop, F. P. Hall, C. W. Smith, D. F. Blair, E. M. Hardt, L. D. Smith, A. F. Blair, W. D. Harwell, J. G. Spellmann, L. U. Bode, E. W. Henry, M. L. Spruce, H. G. Bridges, J. H. Hester, G. T. Stephens, I. K. Brown, J. J. Hopkins, Leo Stephenson, W. D. Carrell, J. J. Hotchkiss, D. S. Storch, V. C. Clower, J. V. Kemp, Geo. Story, T. G. Cox, J. C. Matlock, J. E. Stuckey, L. N. Dawson, F. D. May, R. W. SWITZER, D. S. Delgadillo, J. C. Mitchell, G. G. Touchstone, Cary Dent, I. O. Montgomery, C. M. Vaught, W. J. East, K. C. Moore, Harvey Vetter, A. R. Evans, L. L. Morehead, H. K. White, E. E. Ferguson, T. A. Murrell, M. M. Wilkinson, Frank Franklin, S. W. Poteet, Horace WlLLMANN, EMIL Germany, E. B. Price, R. E. Watts. H. B. GILL1LAND, W. B. Rand, F. G. 155 1 56 PROHIBITION LEAGUE SDfficrrB J. E. MATLOCK President J. B. MILLIKEN Vice-President S. W. FRANKLIN . Secretary J. F. RIPPY Treasurer K. E. BARNHART . . Intercollegiate Orator ALLISON, R. B. Brown, a. J. BARNHART, K. E. Bishop, F. P. Cox, John O. Carraway, R. a. Carroll, J. J. cowan, J. B. embers Downs Delgadillo, J. C. Dent, I. O. Grote, M. E. Germany, E. Griffin, C. W. Friske, C. A. Franklin, S. W. Hardt, L. D. Hopkins, Leo Kemp, G. E. Keene, N. E. May, — .— . Matlock, J. E. MOREHEAD, H. K. MILLIKEN, J. B. MURREL, M. M. Rand, Fred Ryan, G. E. Smith, V. C. Smith, A. F. Spivy, J. R. Thompson, J. C Willman, Emil Wilkinson, F. 157 HONOR COUNCIL 1 58 COUNCIL OF HONOR F. D. DAWSON .... President Senior Class KcprccrntatibES F. R. Stanford Clara Wagnon Junior Slags Ecprrsrnratibcis H. B. Watts Fannie Mitchell Sophomorr ©lass IKcprrsmtatibrs H. B. Crozier Fannie Dobie JFrfsbman Class Brprrscntatibcs E. C. Vinson Fletcher McKennen The Honor System has -worked successfully since its introduction several years ago. It is thoroughly co-operative, consisting of a young lady and a young man from each of the college classes. The president is elected from the Senior Class by the Students ' Association. l 59 WOMAN ' S SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 160 WOMAN ' S SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION FANNIE DOBIE MARY THOMAS CLARA WAGNON The second year, 1911 - ' 12, of the Woman ' s Self -Government Association of Southwestern University has certainly shown a year ' s growth in development. It is an association of the girls for their own self-government and is earnestly supported by the faculty. Though the system is yet new and not fully perfected, it is even now a material strength to the student life. Mary Thomas Fannie Dobie Clara Wagnon Kate Laws Ella Sedberry Sophie Meachum Myra Stanford ione clay Hazel Platt Nellie Black Lillian smith Dixie Hoskins jDfficets President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Chairman of Out-of-Doors Censorship Committee . Chairman of House Censorship Committee Chairman of House Committee Council Senior Class junior Class Sophomore Class JFrestjman Class Sufa=JfresI)man Class President Anne Carter Hazel Barnes Natha Pritchett Vera White Vlasta Fojt swl6 1 STUDENTS ' ASSOCIATION $Dttitei F. R. Stanford Bess Crutchfield President Secretary The Students ' Association is composed of all the students in the University proper. It was organized primarily to inaugurate the honor system in the college. Since its organization, however, the Association has undertaken the publication of the college weekly, The Megaphone, and so successful has this been, that this year the Association has undertaken the task of editing The Sou ' wester, the success of which is assured by the enthusiastic support given the management by the student body. 162 163 164 The SOU ' WESTER PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE STUDENTS ' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY fetaff tot tfje $rat i9ii- ' i2 UDublication IBoarl) A. Frank Smith Thos. E. Lee . Anne Carter M. Y. Stokes, Jr. S. P. Conn Mary W. Thomas J. R. Sanders . F. A. Boutwell Olive McConnell Corinna Cooper Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Jlssociate Editor and Manager . Jlssociate Editor . Jlssociate Editor . Jlssociate Editor Jlssistant Business Manager Jlssistant Business Manager jlssistant Business Manager . Jlrt Editor Department ©Bitors Grace Gillett Hazel Platt Bess Crutchfield . Marguerite Blanton M. Y. Stokes . J. R. Sanders . Frances Clay Hazel Barnes Senior Class Junior Class . Sophomore Class . Freshman Class Jllamo Society; San Jacinto Society Clio Society . jllethean Sooiety swl 65 MAGAZINE STAFF 166 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES feitatf for tf)e$ear i9ii- ' i2 F. R. Stanford Mary Thomas J. B. Milliken Florence Ryan Olive McDonnell Roy Boger N. Y. HENRY bess crutchfield Frances Clay C. M. Montgomery C. H. Thomas . R. E. Leonard W. D. Blair H. G. Spruce F. D. NELMS Editor-in-Chief . Associate Editor Exchange Editors Personal Editois Business Manager Assistant Business Managers 167 168 THE MEGAPHONE ' Published Etery Friday by the STUDENTS ' ASSOCIATION of Southwestern University fetaff for tf)f gear i9ii- ' i2 EARL HUFFOR Editor-in-Chief W. S. BARCUS Business Manager ANNE CARTER 1 ....... Associate Editors F. A. BOUTWELL | Lowe L. Simons jlthleiic Editor H. D. WOODS Special Editor J. M. WILLSON 1 KATE LAWS Assistant Managers J. B. MILLIKEN J 169 THE SENIOR PUBLISHED DURING COMMENCEMENT WEEK BY THE SENIOR CLASS S. E. SHEFFY . Miss Frances BarcusI N. Y. Henry J fetaff for tfje gear i9ii- ' i2 Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors B. E. NEAL . Miss Lula Lipscomb! R. L. Kurth J Manager . Assistant Managers 170 171 172 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS CLUB Officers S. P. Conn . Olive McConnell c Uice- c President Bess Crutchfield Secretary J. R. Sanders • Treasurer moil W. S. Barcus Grady Spruce W. D. Blair F. R. Stanford R. G Boger M. Y. Stokes F. A. BOUTWELL Hughes Thomas S. P. Conn J. M. Willson N. Y. Henry H. D. Woods Earl Huffor Miss Frances Barcus R. L. Kurth ' Marguerite Blanton T. E. Lee ' Anne Carter R. E. Leonard ' Corrinna Cooper J. B. MlLLIKEN ' Bess Crutchfield C. M. Montgomery ' Grace Gillett B. E. Neal ' Kate Laws F. D. Nelms ' Lula Lipscomb J. R. Sanders ' Olive McConnell S. E. Sheffy ' Hazel Platt L. L. Simons ' Florence Ryan A. F. Smith ' Mary Thomas 173 C. HUGHES THOMAS ' President Texas Intercollegiate Press Association 191 1 - ' 12 174 1El)t ' (Texas 3lntercolle$uate ress Association JNcettng; nutli outlimcstcrn Hniucrsitg, (ScofiKtuttm, ' Hicxas piil 4 an 5, ly 12 C. H. Thomas B. E. McGlamery Miss Manon Yantis b. b. hulsey m. y. stokes ©fftreirs Suuthwes ' ern, ' President ' Polytechnic, Vice- Prz. ' ident Baylor, Recording Secretary T. C U., Treasurer Southwestern, Corresponding Secretary Ittxetuttue (Committee C. H. THOMAS ........... Southwestern, Chairman W. O. Blount Raylor Miss Margaret Sackville C. I. A. UMPHREY LEE ' Daniel Baker J. M. POINDEXTER . . Trinity T. H. HOLMES North Texas Normal W. E. ROBERTS Simmons H. S. HlLBURN Polytechnic TOM LEE .............. Southwestern l hnrsoatr, 10:30 p. m. Call to Order Invocation Address of Welcome Piano Solo DR. W. L. NELMS . President . Miss Ella Sedberry Registration of Delegates Meeting of Executive Committee hursoag, 2:00 p. m. o ' rt (Simmons College) Vocal Solo The Editor and hi: First Aids to Publications — Student Body — ( Trinity) First Aids to Publications — Faculty — ( T. C. U. ) First Aids to Publications— English Department — (Polytechnic) Poetry in the College Publication — (Baylor) Literary View of the College Short Story — (Daniel Balder) . Why a Local Press Club?- (C. . A.) .... What Constitutes a Business Manager — ( Decatur Baptist College) The Magazine that is Yet to Be — (North Texas Normal) Lo, the Poor Editor — (Southwestern) ..... Miss Grace Gillett . Mr. W. E. Roberts MR. J. M. POINDEXTER . MR. H. S. HlLBURN . Mr. W. O. Blount Mr. Umphrey Lee Miss Margaret Sackville . Mr. T. H. Holmes Mr. A. Frank Smith Jrtoag, 10:30 a. m. Vocal Solo Miss Pauline Swofford The South and Its Neglect and Waste in Literature and the Fine Arts . DR. FRANK SEAY Reading of Prize Essay, Story and Poem ........ SECRETARY Presentation of Medals PRESIDENT Jribag, 2:00 p. m. Business meeting of Official Representatives. All other delegates are invited to be present. JMbajr, 10:30 a. m. Banquet at Mood Hall 176 ■ ■■■■■■■ ' - T- 1 76 - ' 176 m swl 7 7 mm mmmammmmm 178 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB £ ttitm Prof. Frank Seay President J. E. KlLGORE Manager Miss Florence Boyer . Directress $®tmbti 1st tEenors W. S. Barcus F. A. BOUTWELL C. Hazel 2no tenors Earl Huffor E. Alexander W. David R. L. Kurth 1st Basses F. J. Storey N. Y. Henry B. E. Neal A. B. Pritchett B. W. Wiseman - H. D. Woods 2n Basses R. G. Boger J. R. Sanders J. E. KlLGORE 1 79 mmm mmm 180 SOUTHWESTERN f UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA Miss Berenice Long, Directress Miss Anita Storrs Miss Ella Sedberry Bess Crutchfield Steiner Booty Hallie Crutchfield Emma Ford Frances Barcus Mr. Robert Hendry Aline Bass Robert Williams Annie Sanford Emory Campbell Bond Sneed M. Y. Stokes, Jr. Ruth Widen E. T. Fairman Jeffie Patrick C. M. WlLLIFORD Lois Campbell T. M. Stokes Velma Tisdale Ben Neal Annie Craig Charles Beseda Mabel Taylor Gray Moore Gene Daughtrey Garry Sanford Hazel Platt Curtis Vinson Mabel Wilson E. B. Germany Dixie Hoskins Hubert Smith Johnnie Wright J. J. Carrell Emma Grote Edwin Hardy Pearl Lee House J. I. Gordon 1I8I —p i SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION 1 82 Cbe g mtti) Jftpsterp and t tt e €nt of tije jRatnboto (jitocti fap Department of O£jpre$0ion anb 03tetante t Bmbergitj ubttoritm SaturDap ffibming, JFcfaruarp 17, 1912, at 8 o ' clocft Uf)e femitft St stftp ' Cast of Characters Miss Jessica Smith, The Pretty Young Aunt Florence Ryan MISS PAULINE SMITH, The Pretty Young Niece . Marguerite Blanton ROSINA, The Maid obT Clara May Forrester Sit tbe (Knb of tije IRainb (East of Characters Robert Preston, A Lawyer John Milliken DOUGLAS BROWN, A Foolball Player .... Ben IVisiman Dick Preston, The Groom .... . Mid Westbiook STANLEY PALMER, Hawkins, the Butler . Roy Boger TED WHITNEY, Captain of the Varsity Team Willie Lea JACK AUSTIN, Preston ' s Secretary .... . C. Hazel Marion Dayton, A Ward of Preston Nell Jenkins Nellie Preston, A Bride .... Juanita Knolle LOUISE ROSS, Known as Miss Grayson Fletcher McKennon PHYLLIS LANE, A Football Enthusiast . Anita Storrs KATHLEEN KNOX, Chairman of Rushing Committee Mamie Pippin THE IMP, A Freshman . Mildred Moses EMILY ELLIOTT, With a Conscience Anna MecWilliams JANE, A Maid With a Taste for Literature . Earl H-ffor MRS. BROWN, Stepmother of Douglas Brown Miss Smith Polly Price Mary Griffin Els a Ernest Ruby Suanson Majorie Arnold ■ Of the Theta Phi ■ Mary Alice McComb Marie Swift . Jimmie MoWrey Molly Bruce Anne Carter 183 ART DEPARTMENT 184 ILLUSTRATORS AND DESIGNERS FOR SOU ' WESTER The Sou ' wester staffj wishes especially to thank those who have so generously assisted, with both their assistance and counsel, in making of the book what it is. The following are the designers and illustrators: Corinna Cooper Carol Smith Robert McFadden C. H. Thomas Wm. Mayer Randolph Sanders Lucy Mae Agnew B. W. Wiseman Echo ' 1 1 J. C. Delgadillo ART DEPARTMENT Lucy Mae Agnew Grace McLaughlin Mrs. Bishop Lillian Mills Corinna Cooper Zoe O ' Neil Edith Crain Irene Pennington Mary Griffin Margaret Root Maimie Horgor Mildred Richardson Nell Jenkins Catherine Sells Lucy Markham Mary Lee Wolters Nell Montgomery Miss Yates Robbie McFadden Ethel Morelle Mrs. McDaniel Fay Masterson 185 1 86 18 ' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 188 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Prof. R. W. Tinsley ' President R. M. Moose O. O. Mickle S. E. Sheffy F. R. Stanford R. L. Tingle L. L. Simons R. K. McHenry A. R. Henderson E. W. Bode Through the untiring efforts of the Executive Committee, Athletics have been pushed this season, and every effort has been put forth to bring the As- sociation out of debt. 189 COACH ARBUCKLE MORE than anyone else, an athletic coach is judged by the results which he secures. Of Phil H. Arbuckle, Southwestern University is justly proud, both because of the results which he has achieved for her in athletics and because of the high type of sportsmanship which he typifies. Coach Arbuckle has perhaps developed more good teams from raw, unpromising material than any other Texas coach. With only a few old men to serve as a back-bone for the team, he has each year put out teams of which we had the right to be proud. A still higher testimonial to his ability is the ready acceptance which the men he has trained meet in secondary schools of the State and the success which has invariably attended their efforts as coaches. 1 90 a a CO -I 03 H O O 19 1 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE ' 11 Oct. 5 . S. U. . . A. M. 22 Oct. 11 . S. U. 2 . . . Texas 11 Oct. 21 . S. U. 24 . . T. C. U. Oct. 30 . S. U. . . Arkansas Nov. 18 . S. U. 15 . . L. S. U. 6 Nov. 23 . S. U. 5 . . Baylor 5 Nov. 30 . S. U. . Austin College 3 Sl en P. H. ARBUCKLE . . . Coach L. L. Simons Manager A. R. Henderson . . Captain R. K. McHenf W. S. Barcus IY Captain elect O. O. MlCKLE E. W. Bode Terry Moore F. A. Boutwell Tom Neal J. W. David W. L. Robbins T. Harris Jim Sheffield W. E. Lea Paul West V. McCall G. K. Wilson 1 9 2 FOOTBALL PERSONNEL R. K. McHenry Half Back I IE is as agile, as heady, and as versatile a player as has graced the Texas gridiron for some years. Bezdek called him a wonder, and his long run through a broken, muddy field in the Arkansas game was a star performance. Mc is our hero, our idol, our contribution to the All- Texas Eleven. And by way of recognition of the general esteem, he was elected captain for 1912. A. R. Henderson Quarter Back HPO Captain Henderson belongs as much as to anyone else, except to Coach Arbuckle, the credit of a respectable team having been developed from a squad of three regulars and half a hundred inexperienced, light, but nervy young aspirants. Hendy works hard all the time and, though out of his natural position at quarter, did wonders with such odds against him. Walter Robbins End T3 OBB1NS is one of the fastest men in the State of Texas. Getting down on punts is his long suit, and in this department of the game he has few equals. He can kick with that left foot of his — and occasionally does some kicking with his vocal chords. sw 1 93 FOOTBALL PERSONNEL-Continued Tom Neal Half Back T HE lightest man on the squad, he plays a heady game and has a straight arm that keeps the best of them guessing as to how he does it. On line plunges he goes with head down and keeps his feet well. He tore up the Baylor game like a Wendell. F. A. Boutwell End Tackle F ROPPED out of the game last year but came back strong this season, playing a star game both at tackle and at end. He starred in the Texas and Arkansas games. At Texas they wanted to know the name of that Indian! He was mentioned for the All-Texas Eleven. Wilson David jT ' XAVID, Tubby. He comes from Corsicana and plays football like he liked it better than his life. He made a trade with his papa that he wouldn ' t play unless he made all As. But he fell foul of Philo in Freshman Latin, and barely scratched a C. Papa David, however, was too good a sport to hold him to it, and Tub- by played the season through. 1 94 FOOTBALL PERSONNEL-Continued Titus H. Harris Guard I JE ' S a Freshman, in collegiate rank, but a vet- eran in grit, spirit and knowledge of the game. He was in every game and never did he call for time. The size of his opponent never bothered him; he had but one object in a game: to do his part, and he did it and more. Shelton Barcus Guard ] FADE the team on pure nerve — that ' s all he ' s got, but it ' s enough for a whole squad. Celery never gets tired of the game. He wants to play the year ' round. W. E. Lea End HAD one year on the scrubs before breaking into fast company. Willie Lea didn ' t have an opportunity to show them until the Houston game, when he went in for the last few minutes of play. He didn ' t do it then so much as at Dallas, where he displayed the real stuff in sand by breaking that Austin College interference around right end. Willie takes football seriously — he likes to win, — blubbers sometimes when he doesn ' t. He is expected to be in the game strong next year. 195 FOOTBALL PERSONNEL-Continued V. McCall Full Back I ' HOUGH he hails from the piney woods of East Texas, is, so far as football is con- cerned, a product of West Texas — having formerly attended West Texas Military Academy. Though handicapped by lack of weight, he has all the pep and ginger in the world, and plays the game like a demon. E. W. Bode Half BacU BODE, no kin to Ping, is a track man drafted for the eleven. Coach had to do it — material looked scarce at the beginning of the season. Bode was put in at half back on the regulars one Wednesday afternoon without the customary scrub preliminaries. On Friday afternoon, after a couple of days hard signal practice at that position, Coach happened to say something about the half backs position in a certain play — Bode asked innocently — Say, Coach, which is half back? But he is a wonder at ground gaining, and had he not been crippled, would have made a strong bid for All-Texas mention. Paul West Center T3LAYED his first year of college football. The proverbial Stone Wall in our line, knows all the tricks of the game, and goes through the enemies ' line at will. He has the record of not having made a bad pass throughout the season. Has lots of ginger and plays hard all the time. He received mention for All-State center. 1 96 FOOTBALL PERSONNEL-Continued O. O. Mickle Tackle T3LAYED his third season on the ' Varsity team and has the reputation of never having been taken out of a single game. Uncle Billy ' s lengthy form jumps loose like a spring and hits the op- position with the force of a hammer. He has a sweet disposition and seldom gets ruffled, but after the A. M. game they say he swore. T. Moore Half Back I ' ERRY isn ' t a big man at all, but he has lots of sand and likes to play the game. He tackles hard. One of A. Ms mammoth back- field men looked down upon this little hero with a smile of appreciation and said: Say, sonny, you ain ' t trying to hurt me, are you? Keene Wilson Full Back • THE papers had him The Big Full Back the next day after the Texas game. He did look pretty good size with all that mud sticking to him, but on ordinary occasions weighs but 150 pounds. In the Baylor game he was a demon and divided the honors with McHenry for back- field work. sw 1 97 THE SEASON ' 11 O the casual observer the football season of the Southwestern might appear to have been far from satisfactory, if not entirely unsatisfactory. But if you take into con sideration the aspect of things at the first of the season, it will seem to have been a feat to have tied Arkansas and beat Louisiana. In September, Coach Arbuckle mustered his forces on the field and found that he was confronted with the task of making a team with only three S men and a bunch of scrub and prep school men to pick from. This he started to do, with that energy and patience which is so characteristic of his work. The schedule mapped out was a hard one, some of the heaviest and best teams in the Southwest being included, so Arbuckle set to work to make speed and team work take the place of beef and strength. Three of the seven games were played in the mud. This was a decided disadvantage to a light team. In spite of these difficulties and the fact that the team was outweighed in every game, S. U. did not put up a bad fight; indeed she made a record to be proud of. The final score stood two games won, two tied, and three lost. However, we were the only Texas team to score on the record breaking team of the State University. Then we tied Arkansas and beat Louisiana. The first game was with A. M. at College Station. The score, A. M. 22, S. U. 0! tells the story better than words could. Suffice it to say that the team put up a grand fight when the odds were all against them and there was almost no chance. They were outweighed forty pounds to the man, and for most of the players, this was their first college game. On the offense they were not able to do much, as the team work was not thoroughly organized, but on the defense they did brilliant work. Time after time Moran ' s bunch of experienced Giants was held for downs, and during two quarters they were unable to mark up a score. The boys came home with the score against them, but not beaten- They felt that they had simply been outclassed and set to work to take on Texas the next week. The day for the game with Texas came, accompanied by a slow rain. After waiting at the station for a late train from ten o ' clock until four, the team finally arrived in Austin at five o ' clock, where they found an anxious crowd, which had been waiting in the rain for an hour. Then the mud battle started to the tune of rain. Both teams fought hard, but the game was slow and not very plentiful in brilliant plays. For Texas, Puett, the fast quarter back, was the star. Several times he ran the ball out of danger t and both of the touch downs were the result of his work. It was the work of 198 McHenry, Henderson, Boutwell and West that kept the ball in Texas territory for the greater part of the game. Mickle and West succeeded in making the only score put up against Texas by a State Team. If the field had not been muddy, it is hard to say how the game would have gone, but as it was, Arbuckle nor Southwestern, was ashamed of the score of 1 1 to 2, for the team was under every disadvantage. Then came the game with T. C. U. By this time the players had recovered from the previous games and were in good shape. They started in for blood, and got it. The final score of 2 1 to does not tell the story. T. C. U. played a good game, but was outclassed in every respect. The cross bucks of McHenry could not be stopped, and the only wonder was that the score was not larger. It was only in the last quarter, when Arbuckle had put in his subs, that T. C. U. was able to do anything, and then they could not score. Next Arbuckles men met the Razorbacks from Arkansas. This game was also played in the mud, but was, nevertheless, one of the best yet. These men came down confident of victory but they were doomed to disappointment. All of the ravings of Coach Bezdek could not help the big huskies to score, though their interference was all but perfect and they fought as hard as men could. Time and time again they were held for downs within a few yards of the goal. The defense of Boutwell and Sheffield was up to the highest standard, and Arkansas was not able to break it down. Their men having lost one game in Texas, played their best game of the season, and Southwestern has need to be proud of the to score, for this shows that she is a foe which even the strongest teams need reckon with and fear. When Voight, a 1 9 1 star, brought his bunch of preps from Marshall Train- ing School, everybody expected a walk-over, and many scrubs were placed in the line up. Soon, however, the mistake was seen, for though Marshall is a small school it did not have a small team, but one which would have done credit to any college. Soon the line up was changed and most of the regulars put in, but for all this S. U. was not able to score, and at times was hard pressed to prevent Marshall scoring. Marshall certainly played a great game and well deserved the championship of the training schools of the State, which she won. Next Southwestern met Louisiana at Houston. The Alumni of S. U. at Houston were expecting a hard game and did everything to encourage the team. Both teams were confident of victory and when they met at Houston, the odds were slightly in favor of the team from Baton Rouge. At the first whistle, however, Southwestern was off with a rush that almost took Louisiana off her feet. McHenry with his cross bucks and Robbin ' s long end runs and recoveries of punts, caught Louisiana napping, and when they woke up five minutes later S. U. had a touch down and a field goal to her credit. 199 Louisiana ' s line was very heavy, but this time Southwestern had a dry field and a chance to show her speed. They held Captain Thomas ' bunch almost at their mercy until the fourth quarter, when McHenry, Louisiana ' s two hundred pound full back, began to batter our light line. By individual work he succeeded in making one touch down. This made the final score 1 5 to 6. After the Houston game, Baylor came to Georgetown. S. U. started the game well, making a touch down in the first five minutes. From this on the game was slow. Some brilliant work was done by some of the players, especially Wilson and Henderson, but the team work was not up to the standard. Boutwell was hurt and taken out early in the game, and this demoralized things, to some extent. But even then the score should have been different. The game was always in Southwestern ' s favor, but the team did not seem quite able to score. The game dragged along until Baylor, by the lucky recovery of a long punt, crossed the line for a touch down, thereby tieing the score. This game was not up to the expecta- tions of the supporters of the team, but Baylor had a team which had been underestimated by many, as was shown later when she ran up two touch downs on A. M. On Thanksgiving day a special train carried the students of S. U. to Dallas to see the contest with Austin College of Sherman. The game was expected to be a hard one and Southwestern went into it in a badly crippled condition. Robbins and Boutwell, the two ends, were out, and West was badly crippled though he did stay in the game. It was a hard fought battle from the start. The work of the Austin College backs was especially good. It was the work of the usual stars, Henderson, West and Wilson for S. U. For three-quarters the ball went from one team to the other, but neither was able to score. It looked as if it would be a tie game, but in the fourth quarter A. C. got within striking distance and Captain Richards succeeded in putting a field goal between the posts. S. U. tried hard to make this up but the time was too short and they were not able to do it, so the score stood 3 to 0. This ended the season for 1911. Though the record is not very bright, Southwestern is not ashamed of it. With almost nothing to start and many difficulties to contend with, it was only by the hardest work of Coach Arbuckle and the team that they were able to do anything, and then tieing Arkansas and beating Louisiana is no small feat. Therefore, this season should be, in no way, considered a failure, but Southwestern should be proud of the reputation which she has as one of the best teams in the State. To Assistant Coach McGinnis, Manager Simons and Captain Henderson much of the credit for this season is due. These men worked unceasingly and did everthing possible for the team. They worked with Coach Arbuckle from the start, and did much in helping to build up the team which represented the school. 200 1 20 1 202 BASEBALL TEAM OF ' ll WITH RECORD Sam Ayres, Jr. Captain — Pitcher Chester Bobo Catcher J. N. McLaughlin . 1 st Base T. Moore 2nd Base J. B. Snipes 3d Base R. H. Word . Shortstop W. L. Robbins Left Field R. K. McHenry . Right Field — Catcher J. Sheffield Pitcher — Center Field O. O. Mickle . Pitcher — Center Field FlNLEY YARDLEY Sub s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. s. u. St. Edwards 3—0 Chicago White Sox ..... 3 — 5 Texas ....... 8 — Austin League ...... 2 — 1 Austin League . . . (11 innings) 1 — 1 Austin College . . . . . . II — 1 Austin College ...... 13 — 5 Baylor 0—2 Baylor ....... 4 — 2 Polytechnic ...... 7 — 2 Polytechnic 11—0 Daniel Baker ...... 4 — 2 Daniel Baker ...... 4 — 1 Texas . . . . . . . — 4 Texas ....... 6 — 3 A. and M 5—2 A. and M 2—0 Texas ....... 7 — 5 203 SCENES ON THE ATHLETIC FIELD 204 1 ■ 7 205 206 L. L. STONE Gymnasium Director GROUP FROM GYMNASIUM CLASS 207 1 208 sw 20 9 - — 2 1 O S. U. BASKET BALL TEAMS Jftrst Uram Forwards Guards Centers Substitutes . Leo Walker Julia Mangum Annie Yardley Hazel Platt JlMMlE MOWREY Della Long Olive McDonnell, Captain Myra Stanford Mary Griffin Mildred Richardson Second tRam Forwards Guards Cente Myra Stanford, Captain Lela Hanks Leona Garrett Vera Murphee Rebecca Jackson Lois Smith Mildred Richardson Mary Griffin Clarite Cullen Rena Yardley cijetiule of C5ame0 Jan. 27 Howren Home vs. Annex Feb. 17 Austin High School vs. S. U. Feb. 19 University of Texas vs S. U. 13—31 4-32 27-27 2 1 1 1 n jP N J7 M ft ,3 3-flO CO I- , § - - y a 0 -. ' .iw,l. V • ■  ! ' . ' ' fc ; « j( 3 Xr j| 5 212 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE YOUNG LADIES ' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION sw 2 13 214 thiv THE FITTING SCHOOL Her glory is fading, I know; No longer her name is praised But memory tells me to go To the time when her pillars were raised. Great-hearted men were her founders, Noble, far-seeing and wise; Not just for the present mere builders, But making the whole enterprise One that should last on forever, Increasing and broadening each year, So that ravaging time might never Make her name any less dear. He who came here as a student, True-hearted, strong-minded must be; And their actions have proven their intent From unworthy motives were free. This is the heritage left us; This is the standard we bear; And Fitting School students are vigorous This prestige and honor to share. 2 15 SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS HISTORY LTHOUGH we are contemptuously called Preps by the Upperclassmen, (the Freshmen in particular), yet it is coming to be more and more self-evident, even to the haughty Seniors, that they are not the only pebbles on the beach, and that even little Preps have some abilities. The Sub-Freshman Class, or Preps, if you prefer it, has furnished more than its share of Southwestern ' s good athletes. The abilities of Cocke, Beckham, Smith and others are not to be despised, but more to be envied, even by their team mates. We have one of our many beautiful young ladies represented on the beauty page; and we have dozens of others worthy of any man ' s beauty page. We are also represented on Southwestern ' s Glee Club, and this Prep, worthy of the name in every respect, has proven himself to be not only a good singer, but an excellent comedian as well. But for fear that some who do not know us, may think that we are boastful of our vast abilities, we will forever hereafterwards hold our peace, and leave it to time to prove that great streams from little fountains flow. THE EDITOR 216 SUB-FRESH! Great str Little ' Giles Leath . Margaret Stokes Sibyl McClelland R. C. Gaston MAN ACADEMIC CLASS ' President Vice-President Secretary Editor Colore Blue and Gold jfloton Marechal Niel Rose ;ams from little fountains flo Preps to Seniors grow. GDttktz$ 217 • H ia Q UJ h 3 z o H O 2 18 SAM HOUSTON LITERARY SOCIETY S otto Colors Eloquentia et Sapientia Black and Red m Chick-a-fuma, Chick-a-fuma, His, His, Boom Houston, Houston, here we come, See us, Hear us, We are men. H-O-U-S-T-O-N, Houston. Officers jfirat tJEerm Sccont) tEcrm B. M. GILLETTE President R. C. GASTON . . President Vice-President N. P. STANFORD . Vice-President Paul Morgan Secretary B. M. GILLETTE . . Secretary C. G. MCAMICK . . Critic W. E. HUNTER . . . Critic Sfttrfi ®erm jfourti) tErrm M. C. SOMERVILLE . President R. S. HENDRY . President H.F.Cocke . Vice-President E. A. SHELL . . Vice-President C. G. MCANINCH . Secretary E. O. PERRIN . . Secretary R. S. Hendry . Critic J. L. Boyd .... Otitic Commencement SCcrm N. P. Stanford . President E. A. SHELL . . . Secretary E. A. Perrin Vice-President C. G. MCANINCH . . . Critic Society Declaimrrs R. C. Gaston M. A. GlLLAND C. G. MCANINCH E. A. SHELL Sliemfafrs J. L. BOYD M. A. GlLLELAND P. H. MARTIN C. A. PERRIN H. F. Cocke J. G. Harwell P. G. McAninch E. B. Persons H. Dayvault R. S. Hendry Paul Morgan E. A. Shell L. M. Fowler Paul Hightower Kirby Smith M. C. Somerville R. C. Gaston w. hunter c. J. Stalmach N. P. Stanford B. M. Gillette L. C. Ketcham S. H. Vaught 2 1 9 •220 TRAVIS LITERARY SOCIETY Established 1 900 Eloquentia et Sapientia Colore White and Blue Hoo, Ho, Hay! Hoo, Ho, Hay! Travis, Travis, She ' s O. K.! Who ' s O. K.? Who ' s O. K.? Travis, Travis, She ' s O. K.? € fficn September November January March President Neil Stephenson Barkow Gordon Vice-Pres. Chancey Moughon Gordon Leath Secretary Grote, M.E. Morris Moore Diaz Critic Stephenson Moore Stanford Morris Barkow Blair Chancey Diaz ECKMAN Gordon Ml Grote, M. E. Grote, W. Hill Jordan Leath Mitchel Morris Moore Moughon Smith Stephenson WlLLIFORD 22 1 TRAVIS-SAM HOUSTON COMMENCEMENT DEBATERS 222 223 ■ p 224 A. C.I. CLUB flDfficntf F. D. Dawson ' President Aleatha McKay Vice-President J. E. Matlock Secretary- Treasurer R. M. Barton . Business Manager Clara Wagnon Mae Park . Editors 9®tmbn Barton, H. W. MlTCHEL, T. M. Barton, R. M. MOREHEAD, H. K. Dawson, F. D. Park, Mae Downs, E. G. Peel, Mabel Gooden, O. T. Perkins, Myrta Hazel, Claude Peterson, W. W. Horner, Ruth Vaught, Sam Matlock, J. E. Wagnon, Clara McKay, Aleatha Wagnon, W. F. sv 225 226 NINE-THIRTY CLUB 9®otto The longest way round is the sweetest way home. Color Campus-Green jflotoer Touch-me-not feong 3 elody: We won ' t be home till morning. A dillar, a dollar, A ten-o ' clock scholar, What makes us come so soon? ? We used to come at leven o ' clock But now we come at nine-thirty. 227 r — 7 1—-- f-jf U— — - ' ■- 1ZZ ' _ Mm j J IM JfT iwr ]J ==r rr=? — CO-EDS 228 sw229 230 231 232 u MISS MATTIE JOHN HUDSON 233 234 FAMILIAR VIEWS 235 236 237 SOUTHWESTERN SONG Composed by PROFESSOR R. J. EDDY TUNE: Maryland, My Maryland Again we hail thee, Mother dear, Hail to thee, Southwestern. Thy sons are loyal, never fear, Loyal to Southwestern. We ' ll ne ' er forget thy fost ' ring care, The quiet hour of morning prayer, The ringing call to service there, Back in old Southwestern. Our fondest memories will cling, Cling to thee Southwestern. And all the service we can bring Shall be thine, Southwestern. The days of toil we welcome here, We love the town with all its cheer, The church to every student dear, Dear to old Southwestern. Come, let us on to victory For our dear Southwestern. For Texas still has need for thee, Needs her own Southwestern. And may thy sun forever shine, As students gather at thy shrine. For life and death we all are thine, Always thine, Southwestern. 238 THE SOUL OF A PROFESSOR ROF. LOUIS DUNCAN really couldn ' t help it that his shoulders were broad, and that his hair had an obstinate curl that gave a ruffled, boyish look to his forehead, and that his eyes had more than a smile — an illusive, understanding sympathy. It was rather more his fault that he taught advanced English in Stetson ' s Woman ' s College. It was a dangerous place, a dangerous subject, and Prof. Duncan was a dangerous man. He did his best to be unattractive, but his first year was marked by an unprecedented succession of rivalries and romantic attachments. The second summer he had brought back his bride; the faculty heaved a sigh of relief, the girls had sadly burned their little tokens of corrected themes, and all had united in being crazy about Mrs. Duncan. She was a quiet little woman, not very pretty, with humor- ous eyes and a sensitive mouth. Everyone knew she was smart, some knew she was interesting, and a few felt the charm of her intense, warm-hearted nature. It was generally believed that her husband was devoted to her, and for ten years Stetson had slumbered in this proper and undoubted fitness of things. It was left to Maisie to discover that this seeming fitness covered a world of untold misunderstanding and suffering. Maisie was a little, slim girl, with bewil- dering dark curls, dreamy dark eyes, a scarlet line of a mouth, and a tempera- ment. If her father had approved of co-education, she would probably have gone crazy over the football captain, worn a frat pin in her night-gown, and have been perfectly harmless. Instead she excavated Prof. Duncan ' s soul. The first public exhibition was made to her rather prosaic room-mate on a blustery night in late October. Maisie, an elfish little sprite, in a red kimono, was brushing her fluffy hair before a mirror. Did you notice how feelingly Prof. Duncan read that ' She was a Phantom of Delight ' today? she asked dreamily. Hired to do so, vouchsafed Kate, in a final hurry of winding up a history theme. His eyes just shone when he read that ' Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight ' s, too, her dusky hair. ' It ' s funny, his wife ' s a blonde. I guess he thinks she ' s the ' perfect woman, nobly planned; ' that ' s in there, too, Kate suggested. I don ' t think that ' s what he meant. He looked straight at me. My hair is kinder ' twilighty, ' isn ' t it? For heaven ' s sake, Maisie, you are enough to ' haunt, to startle, and way- 239 lay ' a person, at any rate. I hope you don ' t think Prof. Duncan ' s in love with you. I — I don ' t know. I think she ' s awful plain and practical, and I don ' t believe she ' s got the soul to appreciate him. Go to bed, you idiot. You don ' t know anything about men. I ' ve got six brothers, and they haven ' t ever needed any soul yet — just hot biscuit and worlds of waiting on. Maisie went to bed, but whether because of a subtle union of her spirits or the more material union of a Hershey and a pimento sandwich, she dreamed of Prof. Duncan. She couldn ' t remember the dream, but that didn ' t matter. She would look in his eyes next morning and they would understand. It was here that Prof. Duncan was to blame; but, as we have already said, he really could not help his smile. Maisie sat on the front seat, with naming cheeks, wistful eyes, and an eager responsiveness that was infectious. She reminded the professor of a slip of a dark-eyed sister who had teased and tan- talized him throughout all his boyhood days, and who had since learned more than her share of life ' s hard lessons. He wondered if Maisies eyes, too, would some day grow hard and the young life die out of her red mouth. And, of course, he smiled, smiled with an understanding love and questioning sadness. Maisie dropped her book and lost all consciousness of time and place and self. She was keenly alive, grown up at last, and in the heart of things. The fact that it was tragedy only made it the more real. This was only the beginning, but it was enough for Maisies ardent young heart and vivid imagination. Every day there was new proof — a lift of his eyes, a tone of his voice, a chance meeting, above all, his comprehending smile. The fact that it indeed usually comprehended the whole room, didn ' t make any difference — it was meant for her. She was too idealistic, too sensitive to the fineness of spirit, too pathetically sincere to reveal openly to him that she knew his disappointment and their mutual sympathy. Prof. Duncan noticed that she was easily embarrassed, and that her themes all had a personal, sentimental tone, but he attributed it to her intense little nature, and liked her none the less. He would probably have gone on in his genial, captivating, innocent conquest, had not the humorous, common sense and maternal affection of Maisies room-mate, Kate, taken an active part in the tragedy. Maisie could never keep anything from Kate ' s sharp eyes and sharper tongue. In less than a week she had grasped the fact that Maisie had an affinity. At first she tried ridicule, and Maisie smiled. Then she urged horse-back riding 240 and basket ball, early rising and cold baths — Maisie ' s delicate little face grew thinner every day. She raved over Mrs. Duncan, her sense, her charm, her husband ' s undying devotion. Maisie scoffed at her practical, housewify ways, and as for his love, why, he didn ' t even hold her hymn book in church. Finally Kate resorted to abuse of Prof. Duncan. All the sins of vanity, emptiness, insin- cerity were heaped upon his head. At this Maisie fired up; the little girl had grown to the dignity of a woman ' s loyalty, and Kate was afraid. In her despair she went with her straightforward frankness to Jack Nunn. Jack Nunn was the only unmarried professor in Stetson ' s; brilliant, resourceful, just twenty-five, and a sworn ally, in a platonic sort of way, of Kate ' s. It ' s just this way, Mr. Nunn, she concluded, Maisie isn ' t silly, you know she ' s smart, but she ' s got too much romance for this woman ' s college. It ' s turned the wrong way. It could go the other way just as well — she could glorify, with her imagination, his love for Mrs. Duncan if once she got the inspiration. She ' s beautifully unselfish — all she thinks about is his suffering. Isn ' t it silly? But something has to be done. I guess he ' ll have to tell her flat out, but tell him not to be too hard. Maisie ' s such a sensitive little creature, and I love the child. Thank goodness, we are not all blessed with temperaments. Jack Nunn had a long talk with Prof. Duncan that very afternoon. The latter emerged, puzzled, amused, angry, and wholly at his wits ' end. That night he smoked two cigars, and all the time looked across the library table at his wife ' s smooth light brown head. How could anyone think he wasn ' t perfectly happy! Hilda, he began abruptly, we ' ve been married ten years. Has it ever entered your head that I am not crazy about you? Oh, occasionally, she looked up whimsically, when you forget me com- pletely in raving over some dark-haired heroine; but I ' m pretty well satisfied. Why? Oh, Maisie Howells thinks we are painfully unsuited, a living, walking tragedy, or something like that. Maisie Howells; that little curly-haired, gypsy-looking girl? The same, and futhermore, she ' s my affinity. Imagine! Louis Duncan, I refuse to imagine any such thing. What are you talking about? The professor explained as best he could — the tragedy, the humor, the absurdity, the delicate but peremptory necessity of bringing Maisie back to her senses. Fortunately, Hilda had a sense of humor, and grinned philosophically through the whole embarrassing recital. sw2 4 1 And what shall 1 do? he finished. You know all about women and such. Hilda looked in the fire, still smiling, but with thoughtful eyes. Her husband went on in a monotonous voice: She ' s not even going home Christmas. I suppose her little sister really did take scarlet fever by the natural process of infection, but she confided to her room-mate, who, by the way, is a sensible sort of a girl, that she thought it was fate bringing us together — ' two souls shall be born a whole wide world apart, ' etc., you know. Oh, 1 have an idea! Hilda jumped up with an eager enthusiasm that would in itself have dispelled many of Maisie ' s ideas. I ' ll be the fate that brings you together, only you ' ll be brought a little too much. Don ' t you see that ' s what she needs? She hasn ' t had a chance to see how — how charming 1 am, and what a model, lover-like husband you can be. We ' ll have her spend Christmas Day with us. See? You ' ll have to be very romantic and affectionate. Hilda ducked her head impulsively on his shoulder. Do you think you could, possibly? Could, possibly? Wait and see. The last week before the holidays was a busy one. The professor was so engrossed in his plans that he actually gave an English exam that could be finished in two hours and a half. Hilda went around half-singing, half-thoughtful, and so wholly preoccupied that she broke two of her cut-glass wedding goblets. I haven ' t been so silly since we were first engaged, she confided laughingly to her husband. But Maisie was the worst of the three. After the invitation, she was sure of the hand of fate. She dreamed and dreamed, then crammed an hour or two, and managed to pass on her exams. Christmas Day was cold and rainy, exactly the kind of day to make the little bungalow seem like a haven of warm, homelike comfort. Hilda and the profes- sor had worked for days, worked with all their imagination, heart, and memory. It looks just like a curiosity shop, or a souvenir of ' Before we were married, ' Hilda protested, with shining eyes. There were two pictures of him on the dresser, one in college football suit, and two others on the wall. Altogether there were eight pictures of Hilda in the house — Hilda in a sweater, Hilda in her first evening dress, Hilda in furs, and a glorified, star-eyed bride Hilda in a filmy white dress. There were dance programs, faded little favors, stringy ribbons, and a burnt stub of a cigar, carelessly hung up in the Auld Lang Syne Corner. The first book he gave her, a worn copy of the Sonnets from the Portuguese, lay on the library table. The professor had slipped some old songs, the love ballads of his college days, on the piano. He meant to surprise Hilda with these. A 242 hundred and one things spoke of the past — lingering touches of the love-light that never was on land or sea. Holly and mistletoe boughs gave the Christmas glow of a still living youth. Ill be careful to explain all the artistic suggestions that she doesn ' t catch on to, Hilda exulted. I don ' t think you ' ll have to. This is the very atmosphere, the quintessence of delight for Maisie ' s imagination to work on. Maisie made her appearance about ten o ' clock, in a warm, red dress and a red band holding down her curls. She eyed in half-surprise Hilda ' s shining hair and the soft tones of her dull blue dress, fastened simply at the throat with an old pin. It was exactly the kind of a pin that a man would first give a woman, an old-fashioned little trifle with Hilda engraved on it, meaning almost anything. Perhaps he did love her once, Maisie admitted. She was very silent, where she had intended to be very entertaining. Some- how, in the cordial, home-like intimacy, she felt young and very untragical. Nor had they relied too much on her intuition and imagination. Maisie saw the Auld Lang Syne Corner, and the pictures, and the book of Sonnets with Hilda ' s name in front, and even the marked passages. Her brown eyes grew more and more dreamy, until they were lost in mystic shadows. Perhaps she was mistaken, after all. It was almost as romantic to have a real, live, in-love husband and wife near as an affinity. A little while after dinner she slipped unexpectedly out into the hall, and found the professor holding a flushed, almost pretty Hilda under the mistletoe. Maisie slipped away just as secretly, but her eyes were fairly shining. She was glad, glad with all her impulsive, generous young heart. As the evening shadows crept on, Hilda went to the piano. Maisie curled up in a big chair before the fire, and Prof. Duncan sang; sang all the old songs, sang them to Hilda with his head bent low, and forgetting all about the little girl. When they were through, Maisie stood up to go. She had thought it all out, or rather felt it all out, and in her own irresistible way she put her arms around Hilda. I love you both. I think you are beautiful, and understanding, and — and ideal. And I think you are the most wonderful woman on earth. And, she added, with a wistfulness that almost upset Hilda ' s gravity, do you think I ' ll ever, ever find a husband who ' ll be so crazy about me so long, so long? I ' m sure you will, Hilda smiled across at the professor. It ' s all in deciding to be. MARY THOMAS, ' 12 243 AUNT JEMYMY ' S VISIT AND sakes alive! Jeminy goodness! Marie Jane! Guess what? Aunt Jemymy Jenkins is comin ' to see us. Lawsy! Wont we lead her one more merry life? Guess we will get on her nervous system a little bit. When ' s she comin ' , Katherine? We ' ll have to get ready for the dear Methodist-raised old sister. Mother says she will be here this evening. How can we receive her? What can we do to entertain her? I ' ll tell you what! Let ' s put up all those awful signs and pictures we have, and she will die of mortification. She won ' t stay long, if 1 have anything to do with it. We ' re the S. U. girls that love the boys; We ' re the S. U. girls that love the boys! This came from one of the rooms on the right of the hall. How horrible! Think of them saying as loud as they can that they love the boys! If my nieces do anything like that, I ' ll get it right out of em. They was bred in a Methodist home tho ' . Seems like college bred girls ought not to be allowed to cut up like that, anyway. Seems to me like they ought to be more refined. The speaker was a tall, prim looking lady, dressed in a black jacket suit, which looked to be somewhat ancient. Two little cork screw curls were pro- truding from beneath each side of the little crimped-up hat. She was overloaded with boxes, an umbrella and a small bird cage, and an old fashioned telescope. She was directed by a little maid to the door from which the singing came. When she opened the door what a sight met her eyes! Two girls dressed in their gymnasium suits were dancing around. Before she had time to do more than gasp, her hat, boxes and all were deposited on the floor, and the girls had grabbed her and whirled her around with them. When at last she had time to get her breath, she screamed: Mary Jane and Katie Martin! You horrid creatures! Put on some clothes this very minute. What is the world comin ' to? It just kills me to think of your ma ' s Methodist-raised children doin ' such indecent things. I think I shall die of mortification. Give me my smellin ' salts before I faint. Why, Aunt Jemymy, you don ' t know anything about how girls off at school dress. Why, these are our gymnasium suits. How long are you goin ' to stay? What did you bring us? 244 I was goin ' to stay a month, but dear me! If you children act so — With this ejaculation her wandering gaze had fallen on one of the mottoes which read — Please do not spit on the floor. Remember the Johnstown flood. 1 ain ' t in the habit of spittin ' on nobody ' s floor. I cannot stand these awf ul sayin ' s. When I go home I will send you some nice pretty ones like — ' Blest be the tie that binds ' and ' Home Sweet Home ' . Aunt Jemymy, did you bring your ball dress? We ' re goin ' to have a dance tonight. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Aren ' t you glad? You ' ll get to see Jack then, Aunt Jemymy. Oh! he ' s the dearest, sweetest, and noblest boy in the whole — What ' s the matter? That horrible, indecent picture of that man an ' woman kissin ' . Seems as if your pa an ' ma could do something to recall you from ruin an ' perdition. What ' s the world a comin ' top What ' s that over there in the corner? Oh, Auntie, that is a boxing glove. Let me show you how to use it. See? Just like this. Aren ' t you proud of my strength? Your strength? Seems to me if you had any strength you ought to use it right now in gettin ' into some clothes. An ' get some water for my poor little birdie. He ' s so hot an ' thirsty. Poor little dear! My! Marie Jean, wouldn ' t that dear little birdie look good on my new spring hat? The yellow would contrast with the black so prettily. Gracious goodness, me! What on earth wouldn ' t you do, if you had the chance? You cold-hearted creature. I ' ve knowed people to be struck down by Providence, jes ' where they stood, for such cold-hearted remarks. If you had had as many trials and tribulations as I have, you wouldn ' t be so hard. Now please get on some other clothes an ' show me the round-abouts of this place. Rackety-yack, ty-yack, ty-yack! Rackety-yack, ty-yack, ty-yack! Hulla balloo, kala mazoo, Varsity, Varsity, S. U.! What in the name of common sense is that unearthly sound? Reckon war ' s breakin ' out again? Oh, I do hope not. My Alphonso was kill ' t in the war. Think of it! If he hadn ' t died we would be so happy. Oh, my dear Alphonso! Why, Auntie, what ' s the matter? That is only the boys. We ' re goin ' to have a ball game this afternoon, an ' they ' re just yellin ' . We must go to the game; so hurry up an ' dress, or we will be late. No, indeed, young ladies! You will not go to such a thing. You shan ' t dis- grace your pa ' s name that way. Your pa and ma must not ' ave knowed what this here school was. I sure do thank my stars that I never did go off to college. 5w245 All right then, Auntie, we will stay home from the game and rest for the dance tonight. Won ' t we have a great time tonight. Have you seen the ' Hop, ' Auntie? It ' s great. Yes, young lady, you ' ll be hoppin round right smart, when I tell your pa an ' ma bout all these awful carryin ' ons of yours. What ' s your Methodist raisin ' done for you? I can ' t stay in this awful place. I will leave here tomorrow. And I had looked forward to such a pleasant visit. I had planned how we could knit and talk together, and here you are disgracin ' yourself and your raisin ' by un- ladylike doin ' s. 1 hope all the girls don ' t carry on like this, and go round in ' Jimnastum ' suits, as you call em. I ' ll make you some jacket suits when I go back, and want you to — I think I shall die of disgrace. When did you get drunk, you good-for-nothin ' children? You have gone through the last step to ruin. Where did you get any whiskev to get drunk on? Another motto had caught her gaze and it read: The same thing that made Milwaukee famous Made me drunk. Your pa never drank a drop in his life, an ' here his children, an ' girls at that, have taken to it this early. Oh, what is the world comin ' to? She went over to the window and glanced out, and then fell back on the bed horrified. Children, children, let us run for our lives. Yonder are the cannibals com- in ' right up the road. How on earth did they get here? Oh, what shall we do? They will eat us alive. Well, Aunt Jemymy Jenkins! You cranky thing! Don ' t show your ignorance like that. Those are only the track team boys. They are practicing for the track meet next week. Don ' t they run fast? Just look, Auntie. Don ' t ask me to look at anything. You will be struck blind for it, yourselves. When will the next train leave this place? 1 cannot bear to stay here, an ' when I get home, make sure of it, young ladies, I will make your pa an ' ma send for you. You have done everything to be disgraced, and on top of it all have changed your names. Marie Jean an ' Katherine! You both need to be sent to a convent . At four-fifty the next afternoon two maids stood on the platform of the station waving farewell to a haughty looking lady whose head could hardly be seen over the bird cage and boxes which sat in the window of a coach of the Limited. Dear Auntie, do come back to see us real soon. We are so sorry you won ' t stay any longer, said Marie Jean. Aunt Jemymy, be careful to get out of the way of the cannibals, and don ' t, by all means, forget to send us those mottoes and jacket suits, said Katherine, with a wink to her sister. ELIZABETH FLOYD, ' 14. 246 THE WHIRLWIND Dramatis Personae Bacco — The High Smoke, who puffs continually of himself and the excellent aroma of his brand. Slangsillo — Who believes that Noah Webster was full of prunes. Humoresque — Who considers himself a wit, though his companions think he is only half so. Pipipo — A dreamer of fair women. Ringletto — A twanger of the Muses ' lyre. Beerac — An imbiber, who would move South Wind to Cockleburr. Cuprex — A social demigod, who adores goddesses. Sportico — The flashlight of fashion with a continually pressed button. Appeal to Reason — A Socialist Conservative, who loves to advise. Novus — Who learns from many teachers. T)ulcia — A maiden who loves Novus and dill pickles. Cats, dogs, mob, soldiers, ballet, hack drivers, chaperone, Annex guardian, guns, swords, noise, brass band, baseball bats, and other necessary accessories. Scene of Whirling University of the South Wind, whereat some twenty Breezes diligently attempt to blow their knowledge into the arid deserts which crown the persons of the attending fans — baseball, palmetto, lace, and others. ACT I. Scene I.— Campus. [The university campus is adorned with the university building; and around at irregular intervals several stunted trees stretch majestically towards the star to which Pat would hitch his transfer. In front of the east door, through which the prisoneresses of Madam Annex vaccillate whenever they may, a group of pants stands and much talk passes about, as it is the season of the beginning of the annual blow and Zephyrs from everywhere are gathering to the South Wind. Coffins scattered promiscuously about, though with a view towards the artistic, in order to give a desired solemnity and seriousness to the scene. A large, green cheese-cloth moon and a poodle hound for howling purposes carefully concealed in the pocket of a bee, which buzzes about and hums the Moonlight Sonata. Several old breezes windying among themselves.] Bacco — [With an embracing air] Hail, good fellows! Once again we stand beneath the South Wind ' s wings, The same live band of lusty breezes. Let us blow Ourselves to heart ' s content. 247 Beerac — Nay, good brother, say let us blow the sand From off the beer that stands Within the stein ' s sweet mouth. 1 trow Twould meet approval with us all. Humoresque — Your approval, pot-bellied sir, Indeed, would meat us all! And yet ' twere Meat round which our hands In sweet contentment ' s rest might span And meet in purest bliss. Let us Take heed. — Slangsillo — Aw, cut the spiel! Why string it out? A biff placed nicely on your snout Would meet more my approval. Bacco — Let words as these quite cease. The time ' s not suited well for them, But more instead for words of warmth And friendship ' s radiant talk. ' Twere sad Should ' mongst our own band ' s ring You bring your petty bickerings. How went the days Blessed by the god of idleness, With all of you? Stay not your words, But speak with that sweet freeness Which characterized the days of yore, When here we watched the moments pass, And studied all save what in class The breezes strong did blow on. Cuprex — Ah, Bacco, prince of fellows, Since thou wouldst know our yarns And how we passed the good days through, I scarce can keep from telling you How, in the village where I spent My days of mirth and joy, so well did I Entrance the belles and such a fame did win That scarce a night did I retire Before the curfew rang. Sportico — Tis not for me to brag, Bacco, But I am sure that Cuprex here Did hold but quite a dim, faint light To me, for I did take each lady ' s glance 248 As if by me alone entranced. And I untiringly did go To all affairs of social worth Included from the Elks to church. Ringletto — The ladies, ah, the ladies, The sweet entrancing ladies, Making light our troublous cares With trim, blithesome, winning airs. Slangsillo — At it again! Both words and music! Ain ' t it the line he ' s got. His Muses Always a-flapping their wings and a-singing, Strong as a garlicy dago and onions. Humor esque — Aye, Slang, you English hashing mutt, Ringletto warbles quite too much. He thinks because his bill is long, (Two months the Alcovean books Have borne unbalanced his account), That he should have the songbird ' s right And raise his ripsaw voice in song. [At this Pipipo casts his dreamy eyes heavenward and they hit an airship which in turn falls, strikes an air castle and the whole house is brought down in roars. Pipipo eyes himself with a new pair from diary and lifts his voice gently from beneath his Adam ' s apple.] Pipipo — Stern, prosaic creatures. Windjammers, full of gas, That pops — Beerac — Like the tops from off the Schlitz That flows in old Milwaukee. E ' en Cockleburr Can boast the spigot ' s bubbling whir. Let ' s up and to that thriving city, sir? Bacco — [Throws a board (bored) glance at Beerac, which splinters and pierces Beerac ' s bacchanalian spirits. Beerac hastily extracts the splintered glance from his spirits with the aid of a cork and thumb screw, and stops up the holes with a bit of haughtiness, Bacco to Beerac:] Beerac, your wagging tongue Speaks naught save of that foaming stuff Which men delight to drink. Your head is swelled — Humoresque — A slight mistake, dear Bacco, by some four feet or more. Just cast your glance a trifle low 249 Bacco — Beerac — Pipipo — Humoresque — Bishopodus — Beerac — Slangsillo — Bishopodus — Bacco— Ringletto — And in his equatorial zone You ' ll find the swell caused by the foam And its attendant waves of beeriness. Quite sure. See you, Beerac, how well Humoresque does give you? He knows not — The sweet dreams ' gentle kiss That brings visions of lace lovliness, And carries one from earthy morbid care To where St. Gabriel ' s golden trumpets blare — My pipe, my dear old cob of corn — Looks like a crazy bugle horn Shoved in the widest crack of your fair, classic mug. [Strolls up from behi nd.] What ' s this 1 hear described as mug? [Meditates around in a group of ideas] Mug — Now let me see — It seems to me That appellation is in general vogue Among the sippers of that cursed bug juice stuff. [He turns the idea over in his head but it spills, so he resumes:] Be on the square young men, be on the square. Yea, sir, I now am bound for Cockleburr Where, were this institution there at rest, The square would be so thickly packed with men That you would have your wish completely filled. Don ' t mind him, Doc. He ' s full of prunes As was old Noah Webster. The only things he harps upon Is beer, says he, Naught better. tempora, O mores! Would that I were Joshua! The sun should keep continual day Until our youths from this mean sway Of silliness in thought were free. [Reads his bible until he reaches Exodus, which he illustrates by acting.] We should be more marked in our respect. [Picks up his lyre and twangs away vociferously.] Oh, see the stranger laddie Come tramping up the way. His clothes are passing shabbie, But his looks are green and gay. 360 He bears a shining visage, He tramps with buoyant steps, I trow he has a message From some shady hamlet ' s depths. Humoresque — Companions, insert your ear trumpets! Ringletto communes with his muse. Bacco — Who approaches to the tune of Ringletto ' s jewsharp? Is it not some verdant stranger advancing To lay his ignorance at the South Wind ' s feet? Ringletto — [Still twanging.] Tis right you are, good Bacco, He ' s a trusting, tender child, And he ' d love a rousing whack, O! On his back, a greeting wild, To establish him securely And to fix him in our midst, As a fellow who is surely In for all that ' s on the lists. Slangsillo — Cheese it, Ringie, let up on your dry posey twitter. Look, fellows, an emerald-hued Rube cometh thither! Get on to his classical swing and that tuft Of new mown hay sticking through the brown top Of his holy sky piece. Isn ' t it a peach? And its colors exactly like cream of the wheat! Now isn ' t it the fun we ' ll for sure be soon having. My imagination ' s just full of the stripes That soon shall bedeck the new comer, O, Cripes. Head on, thou imp of the college man ' s devil, The poor sacrificial one, lead hence the fellow. [Slangsillo is severely stricken with an imaginative humor, and a fit of superimposed laughter fells him prostrate.] Humoresque — Slangsillo has slung himself silly. Amen! Let us selah. Bacco — Why such a crowish jabber and this chattering of tongues? Dost thou think that Carnegie is theory alone? Hold yourself in readiness to greet the coming youth With all enthusiasm, and we indeed, forsooth, Shall have another member for our crowd. [Aside to the Devil, who stalks near.] And I another satellite for you, oh, Devilish Sir, 251 n Shall swing into this highway where the ever busy whir Of useless, foolish creatures, living for the luring whirl Of empty, senseless revelry, does always swiftly stir. And thou must give as my reward The power here of King and Lord. [Seals, places a two cent stamp in the right hand corner, and addresses himself to the crowd.] Now, comrades, oil your tongues with this good Three-in-One, And when draws near the farmer ' s son Stay not your speech, but all salute, With words of cheeriness, the youth. Slangsillo — Yea, Old Top, Old Smoke-cured Bacon, We ' ll ope the pipes that flow from where — Beerac — The Budweiser so cool and clear — Pipipo — As any lady who does wear in Springtime ' s warmth Her loosened hair about her — Ringletto — Graceful swaying shoulders, Lovely snow white shoulders, Moving with the careless air Of a June bug on a trar — Moving here and moving there — Slangsillo — With the graceful curving sway Of a scenic rail-i-way. Humoresque — Yes, rail a way, fools, imbeciles, Your talk has touched my funny-bone And laughing, I straight-way fall prone. [Falls, makes a hit on a banana skin, and the two rush hurriedly off, being brought up, however, by a tirade of severe criticism from the sharp tongues of the stranger ' s shoes. Humoresque hails the stranger:] Wherefore, now goest thou, oh healthy lad? And from what clime dost thou so sprightly come? Tell me, I prithee, what you ' re called by name; For verily I like thy looks, and fain — Bacco — [Cuts the air with his sharp voice and shouts through the cloven space to Humoresque:] Tarry not, sir, with our fair guest But bring him on that all the rest Of us may honor him and his quest. [Humoresque and the stranger approach the group. A smile rests on the 252 stranger s stranger:] Sportico- Quprex — Bacco - Novus- face and a banana peel on that of Humoresque ' s. Bacco to the I hail thee, sir, as a newcomer in our ranks, And to thee, greetings I would give a s smooth As is LePage ' s glue, but with the self same knack Of sticking just so tight; and of this fact I ' d have you be quite sure. Pray tell us what your trade-mark is, And who, also, your tailor. Does Ed. V. Price Supply your wants and fit your form with costume nice? Or does some seamster obsolete Make your clothes fit always neat? [Pitching his voice gently into Cuprex ' s ear.] The turnups on his trouser legs Are quite too narrow for the day. And buttons five his coat sleeves have. Can he not know, poor ignorant mut, That fashion now deems four enough? [Returning with the same gentleness Sportico ' s voice and these words:] Tis inconceivable, old chap, The ignorance shown us by this yap! Should he be seen by some of those Fair damsels whom I do well know They ' d rivet on him such a stare That he ' d evaporate in the air. [Shoots two angry sparks from his eyesatSportico and Cuprex because of their murmurings and they immediately hush and get busy putting out the fire ignited. Bacco continues address- ing the stranger:] I ask thee still, Sir Stranger, who art thou? Kind sir, your friendliness to me, Your hearty greeting and your way Of treating me so kindly has, e ' en now, Caused me to think of you as a good friend, And of myself quite freely I shall speak. My name is Novus, and my home Is in the mountains far away. I ' m but a stripling, though with ideals high, And a willingness to sacrifice all things For their accomplishment. I would well know 253 Be Cuprex- Humoresque- Beerac — Novus — Bacco — Novus — Beerac — Humoresque- Just how to do and act while here, For strange the place does seem; though kindly cheer Into my heart your merry faces bear. You are more welcome, Novus, know you this, Than to the maiden slim and sweet sixteen The gem crowned circlet or the wedding ring. You are more welcome, Novus, listen close, Than to the loved briar, full caked, sweet A round of good tobacco packed in neat. [To the assembled crowd:] Shake men, let hand meet hand; Welcome a stranger to our land! [All hands do the pump act and waves of greeting ebb and flow.] Indeed, thou ' rt welcome, Novus, truly so, And as good Bacco very nicely said, More so than ring to maiden ' s soft bare hand, Which is indeed a welcome, for 1 know That pleasure which — Talking of yourself and conquests yours Always does give you. But it suits not us To— Linger thus in cruel thirst ' s pains, Let ' s hie away to Cockleburr, the city of the plains. Is there not somewhere close around A place where water can be found? Indeed, there is. This way for drink. I do not care, sir, to imbibe But Beerac here (that ' s the right name?) Did mention Cockleburr — Yes, Cockleburrr, Where stack on stack the barrels wait For — Their human fashion plates To come relieve them of their weight. I ' d hate to be like you Beerac, So round and big — 264 Cuprex — Like some huge pig That never could a lady ' s hand admire successfully A quite attractive skirt once said — Beerac — Like you No doubt, too much. Instead Of all this social prat Try once the friendship roll to take And make good Novus welcome. Pipipo — Yea, brothers, let us show him that We ' re glad he ' s come among us. Your advent to our breezy midst Is welcome, just as Bacco said, More than tobacco to the bowl Of empty pipe in human jowl. Novus — Thanks, sirs, you make me feel at home. [Aside.] But I must say, that human pot Set on two legs, that prates of beer, Must be better than does appear, If he gets my full liking — and I ' m not Fond of that strange smile. Ringletto — [Breaks into Novus ' musings, secures his attention and warbles a prelude to the approach of Dulcia.] Lo, the charming Dulcia Comes tripping down the walk, With laces all aflutter, And graces sweet that talk Of laughter and of sunshine, Of tenderness and love, And her smile a radiance, On whom it falls, does prove. Off fellows with your bonnets, Salute the coming lass — Novus — [Full up to the ears with eagerness, button-holes Sportico.] Tell me who the approaching lass is; Does she live this place about? [Aside to his imagination in a sub-marine voice:] Such a carriage she possesses! A nineteen leven model of delight. 255 Sportico - Pipipo — Cuprex — Humoresque - Bacco — Dulcia — And though her maker ' s often in a hurry He verily here made a charming sprite! [To Sportico:] Please, wilt thou when the vision passes by, Do as is done in dreams, and make of me A known arithmetical quantity? Yea, man, by all the jumping frogs That ever croaked a croak, I ' ll make you known To Dulcia. Why, sir, she knows to a T Y Exactly how the fashions lie, and very Often she to me has spoken quite encouragingly Of how I ' m always on a spree Of fashionableness. Ah, isn ' t she quite well befit To make that rare elusive bit Of stuff which dreams are made of? [Talks encouragingly to himself and uses his nails as a mirror for reflex (cts) action.] How fits my tie? Is my nose straight? Does my hair stand — Like in a rake The stiff and stark ' d teeth? Quite so, My dear and frisky Alphonso. Dry your tears and drown your noise, Fair Dulcia approacheth. [En passant] Hello, Bacco, Beerac, Cuprex. How are you all? Why crane your necks To see what I am eating? It ' s nothing but a pickle, A great big dilly pickle, And I do dearly love to eat It slow and thus enjoy complete The sour juice and feel the meat As I it swallow, tickle. [Sees Novus, starts, almost, lets a sigh escape, but recovers it, and passes quickly on.] Good by, my friends, and don ' t forget Next Saturday night the Annex lights On girl and boy may shine. [Enters the University with last look at Novus trailing after.] 256 Novus — Beerac — Bacco — Slangsillo — Humoresque — Pipipo — Ringletto — Beerac — Sporlico — Cuprex — Appeal to Reason- Gad zooks, she ' s gone and I not introduced! I did forget to ask, such soft sweet looks From ' neath their deep and shaded nooks Did fall- On Cockleburr when I Did show it her and explain why The college should be moved there. Let ' s to my room, good fellows. Come, Novus, we shall tell thee how To- Beat old Webster at his trade And— How to use right well a spade For other means than digging, Thou shalt know — Just why the boy Stood on the deck so peanutly with joy. And dreams of women, you may dream, And you — May make the Muses sing, N ow come- v or can, w hich?; {Racco — The same old welkin With shouts and beery splashes. Yes, Novus, 1 will show you how To comb your black eyelashes. I trow — That should teach you how To meet the ladies ' glances. You would, indeed, Straightway become — - [First time at the bat.] A fool of little reason. List to my tale of Whoas and Haws , Young plowman. Those fools chatter Like a monkey on a limb Or Polly with a cracker. [But he scores a hit.] Wilt thou with us, Novus? To my roomy room? ring sw2 5 7 Novus- [Starts towards Bacco, but an idea strikes and stops him.] No I will wait — awhile. Such eyes she had, and hair. [Exeunt all save Novus.] And when she looked at me It seemed that I could see half hidden A soft light — ah, what is this? [Sees the poodle hound ' s tail hanging out of the bee ' s pocket. Catches it and pulls it, whereat the hound joins in on the Moonlight Sonata with the bee, and the moon rises slowly and casts a cheesy shadow over all.] Exit. Curtain. Novus — Dulcia- Novus - Dulcia- NoVus — ACT II. Scene I.— East Side, University Stairs. [Dulcia descending; Novus pursues and butteth in.] Dulcia! For little as I knew concerning thee I do know that your name is that, And would have known so e ' en had I not Asked. For what else save what Dulcia does mean, Could one so sweet as you be called? [Knavery.] Do you like sweetness, sir? I fain would ask you that — Indeed, I do, for — Then would that I were fat! Yes, fat — a whole big barrel full! You would not mind fat women round you, Eh? But to acquire that flesh upon my bones Would mean that I forego my sour dills. Oh pickles! Sour and sweet! To whom shall I Thus distressed fly? To me, of course, my Dulcia. And pray, although I ' d like you still Were you as fat as a round pill, [A noise like a cracking conscience is heard.] Yet you can keep your present form And also my affection. 258 Dulcia — NoVus- Dulcia- Novus- Dul aa- Ah, Novus, dear, I knew you ' d say it. I knew, because I felt somehow That you were my Prince Charming. Quite charming of you princess. And I know that he always Sings to me in pleasant lays, And he has the nicest ways! Prince, shall 1 more say in praise? [Misses a step purposely and grabs Dulcia ' s little finger for support.] The gentle summer zephyr that in yourself is found Does draw me on, fair Dulcia, With gentle hand but strong. Tis short, the time I ' ve known you, But sweeter far than short, And but to surely win you I ' d e ' en the devil thwart. You can, Novus, win e ' en my love, But we must both the same way move. [Reaches the entrance steps, smiles at Novus and goes out singing.] Dilly pickles, dilly pickles, How I love you so. And I love you with all my heart, I hear the south wind blow. Gusts and breezes, gusts and breezes, Winds that reap and sow, But I love, and best of all, The breeze that soft does blow. CURTAIN. ACT II. Scene ii — Bacco ' s Room. [Room in appearance seems a curio shop. Pictures hang idly about on the walls while a group of flighty flies play hide-and-seek in and out among several swirling clumps of tobacco smoke. All seems as peaceful as on the Potomac, and little gusts of talkativeness eddy to and yon.] Bacco — And now, friend Novus, since we ' e got You here where we may show our lot Of living and how soft the spot Is, whereupon we sit, 250 Novus- Pipipo Cuprex — Beerac — Humor esque — Appeal to Reason- Beerac — Sportico — Novus — Slangsillo — Make yourself free from hinkering cares; Take off your shoes, ruffle your hairs, And we will show you that nowheres Else can you find such bliss. Tis true, good Bacco, here I am, And at your strong request; But 1 am such a simple lad And love such quiet rest — In the arms Of smoke, of good tobacco smoke, And dream of creatures made of laces, Ebon-haired and with such faces As— Is mine, to look at them. They ' ll gratify your every whim And- When you feel the good cold clink Of ice against the glassy brink Which holds the beery fluid You ' ll — Pop some day I hope Beerac, Or else you ' ll be a hogshead round And waddle piggishly, a clown In p urpose and intent — -Not to a hill of beans my lad — Not to a measley Cockleburr — Soft, hold your words, Old Sane Advice. Sweet Cockleburr, the city grand, In majesty always shall stand. Need not the foam of beer, Novus. List to me and you shall hear A tale of fashions you ' ll revere, For once you know the dressing art You ' ll bless me for the vital part Of knowledge that I gave you. But is not school to teach of books And how — To talk to music? Zounds, man, when once you get the knack Of slinging words like ham and eggs, 260 Ringletto — B acco- Humoresque — Appeal to R eason - Novus — Appeal to Reason- Humor esque — Bacco — Beerac- Bacco— Pipipo- You ' ll not care whether Noah Web Did teach to spell or not. And when the fair muses Strike a match to the fuses That lead to the powder your brain has, You ' ll fly like a feather, You ' ll crack heels together, And softly you ' ll trill as we breez-es. Yes, Novus, ' tis a glorious life, With naught to do the whole day through Save loaf — Now who said biscuit? Or was it light — Headedness, indeed sir, Is what you fools all prate on. I wouldn ' t give a butter-cup For all the knowledge in your nut. It seems — To me you ' re right, sir. I fain would have the fellowship Of all these happy ones. But it does Strike me in the head That knowledge is defunct and dead In them, and that they nothing know Save puffed-up-ness and vain show. -Let us then — Pray awhile? Even so be it. [Frowns, but removes frown quickly and places it in his sleeve where he button cuffs it.] We would have you be, Novus, One of our happy band. We ' d love you as a brother whom we owe. We ' d share with you our joys — And our beer. We ' d make you one of us always. And show you how the fleeting days To spend — In dreams and laughter. sw26 1 {Racco — Cuprex {Racco — Ringletto — {Racco — Sportico — {Racco — Appeal to Reason- NoVus — {Racco — Together through the classes long We ' d hold and shake your hand Like — Often 1 am wont to do When ladies near me stand. And you would find in us a song, The music — Of the dancing elfs, The ripping sound of laughters, Which splits the silence like the nail Did Jerry Jenkins ' trousers. Always we ' d cheer you up when blue, And to a brown turn do you — For you must know the fashion plate This year a brownish tint does state, The most becoming style is. Come, Novus, say you ' ll — Come with me? Let ' s go and you will sensibly Act, for I know — [Does the musing act.] Her eyes so tender were — And she did say we must together move. [Inserts a decisive manner into his voice, which fits it nicely.] Nay, Bacco, and my other friends, I feel a gentle summer ' s wind Is drawing me elsewhere. I go. [Exeunt Novus and Appeal to Reason.] And so our tongues do flatly fail — Well, fellows, there remains the flail! [Curtain drops unexpectedly.] ACT III. Scene I.— Annex Campus. ONE WEEK LATER. [More cheesy moonlight. Batty belfries and mournful lowing as the birds wind slowly through the leaves. Poodle hound still on the job but off the 262 key. Dim forms follow their natural bends and breaks. Crookedness is the watchword of all and the Annex looms up over all in a halo of unexpectedness. Ballet of track men dance weirdly on their fantastic rubber-clad toes. All is quiet in the orchestra save the brass tub which has the old ditty of Rub-a-Dub- Dub scrubbed mournfully out of it by the wash lady. Selah.] Enter Bacco and his Breezes. $acco — Slangsillo- Cuprex — 0e Humoresque — {Ffacco — [Clad in a black mask and a black-hand sneer.] Now, comrades, as the night wears on Clad in her sooty, inky dress, We ' ll ' wait our pop-eyed victim. And soon we ' ll have quite full redress, (E ' en dress suits if we so desire), For so refusing our request To make him one among us. You ' re right, Bacco, old dub, you ' re right! And verily well have this night The hot time which in proverb is, And from Novus the sparks shall whiz. S blood! S death! Tis mad I be. Before he came she smiled on me. But now, fair Dulcia, the sweet, Does smile when e ' er her eyes his meet. Revenge! Ah, I will have his goat! Yes, Water Wagon that he is. HyO devotee, Will not keep me from burning him To ashes with my ee! No, I shall drop My fiery eyes upon this blooming moke, And he will fly straight to the sky In surging, swirling smoke! And do I for this beggar bold Affection sweetly bear? Oh yes, and when 1 see the cuss, From out his head, his curly hair To make me ' member him I ' ll tear. Gad zooks, I will pop! Tis well, and soundly sleeps the watch Who guards the Annex Children. And when tonight the Grads return (The lordly stuck up Graddies!) From where they ' re merrymaking hay, 263 And cutting up as only they Could think to do, the sillies, We ' ll on some pretext safely laid Accuse Novus of giving aid To help them scape our clutches. And as the time is ripe tonight For making lord the power of might O ' er those who helped theGrads escape From all us Underclassmen. We ' ll seize him as the Grads return, And other Underclassmen burn, To show them their affection. And having him thus safely grabbed, We ' ll bearhimoff.andwhen we ' rewhere We ' re sheltered from outsiders, there We ' ll— Yes there we ' ll — alright, alright, But only Novus and the night Shall know — Why the moon, moons, And why the owl hoots And just how fast One shoots the chutes. Yes, we ' ll change his fashion. Stripes, perhaps, would better suit — Aye, I shall light My pipe and dream the color. Best it seems Is scarlet like the pipe ' s warm glowing bowl — Hush, they come! They come! Slangsillo — Rtngletto— Sportico — Pipipo — {F}acco — [A hushedness breaks into the scene but a stage hand breaks it into a thou- sand pieces with a well directed yell. The yell keeps going, hits the same old poodle and passes on through and out his mouth, but the purp catches up with the refrain and poodles away with it vociferously. To this accompaniment the grads make a rush for the Annex, but fail to capture it and the underclassmen fall upon them and shriek them to pieces. Bacco and his Breezes blow around Novus and he is being borne away, but he manages to send a message to Dulcia on the wings of supplication.] Dulcia — [Looking out of Annex window.] Ah, how they rave! Poor Grads, they can ' t complete their course For they completeness lack themselves, Since on them fell the Freshmen. 264 {Tjacco — {Fjeerac — Humor esque- ' Pipipo — {F}acco — [Novus ' message strikes her and sets her fears on edge.] What ' s this? A word from Novus? See — Ah! What read I? Those whirling clowns Have borne him off! There I descry Them as they leave, wrapped tightly round my Novus. But I shall to him blow and I shall aid him With my strength. Quick, where ' s my dilly pickles? 1 must have one more bite and then I fly To help dear Novus in his ticklish pickle. [With a long flight of imagination she reaches Novus and the Baccolan crowd.] Stop! you human clothes racks; stop, I say! He ith Nc bh t ow dare you with my Inovus blow away Do you not know that I shall stamp my foot Unless you turn him loose, quick, on this spot? [She blows softly into the petty breezes and Novus following in her wake they blow up together with a loud explosion.] Well, since we ' ve lost him, since the southern breeze Has borne him off, we might as well just sneeze At our ill luck and hie us back — To beer? Sir, please. Curses on your beer, Beerac, back we go — To know The joy of dreaming. Come, fools, lets on — or off, I care not which. [Aside to the Devil, who stalks near.] I did my best, the woman did the rest. [Exeunt all — Poodle still howls.] Scene II.— Annex Porch. [Immediately after explosion of last scene. Novus and Dulcia fall into con- venient postures on porch. Novus — And so, fair one, eater of pickles dill, Your love of pickles and you knowing how To handle such, did save me quite a row. It makes me think, dear Dulcia, That you, perhaps, a love may bear now. I hope to Patsy that you do, For since I ' ve known I ' ve loved just you. 265 Dulcia — [Sheds teary tears.] And I, dear Novus, have loved you Since first I ever saw you. Novus — [Saying the sweetest thing he can think of.] You little ice cream soda! [They embrace thrice, the cock crows, and far in the distance they hear the rollicking voice of Beerac] {Fjeerac — [Sings.] Where the beer ' s sweet spray Shoots out with the cork, And all night and day There ' s play, naught of work. There shall we gather, And there shall we stay, And we ' ll revel, no matter What happens, till day. Dulcia — Listen, Novus — A gust from the whirl of these purposeless fools, Who gather and blow all regardless of rules. None having a firmness and saneness of mind, They all drift together, a perfect whirlwind, That eddies and surges and draws in its wake All wandering breezes that its counsels take. Novus — And I, a wand ' ring breeze, was saved from such that By you my dearest Dulcia, a zephyr soft and sweet. Soft, yet the more compelling and thou hast given me My life which I in turn would gladly offer thee. Wilt thou, oh, Dulcia, my dear — Dulcia — [Sings.] The southern breezes gently blow Through many arid deserts But when they reach their own at last They find the shady coverts. The Storm King roars with mighty winds In gusts that chill and freeze, But still in gentle tenderness, Blows on the soft, sweet breeze. [They look at each other, the poodle forgets to howl and softly, like a maiden s blush, a curtain of happiness steals over all.] E. CURTIS VINSON 266 A CHANGE OF MIND DON ' T care if my mouth is little and red, and my eyes are big and blue — I can ' t help it — it ' s just because I was made that way. I ' m not sweet-looking. Why, my nose is just as turned-up as can be, and my hair is almost red. Imagine a red-headed person with a sweet disposition! Those girls make me perfectly furious saying I ' m ' too appealingly feminine to take care of myself ' — that 1 let everybody run over me and never know I ' m being worked. It ' s not so! I guess Hazel thinks just because she treats Johnny like a two-year-old, and yanks him around by the hair, that every- body else ought to do likewise. But just because they fuss every minute they ' re together, isn ' t any sign she ' s a bit more independent than other people. And because Gilbert and I don ' t have knock-down-drag-out fights, isn ' t any sign I ' m ' soft and yielding. ' I ' m not sweet — I — The sensitive mouth and big blue eyes gazing back at her from the mirror, didn ' t have a very sweet expression just then. Marjory counted the wrinkles in her usually smooth forehead, triumphantly. Oh, Marjory, I ' ve the dandiest trade-last for you — . The glass slid under a pillow and Marjory ' s hands flew to her face. Oh, you needn ' t make up one, I ' ll credit you. It ' s too good to keep. Marjory didn ' t turn so Hazel could see her face. If she had she might have stopped there, or again she mightn ' t. As it was, she hurried on breathlessly. You certainly ought to feel complimented. John said it, and he ' s terribly particular with his compliments. When he says anything about a person, it ' s pretty apt to be so. He said — Marjory, are you listening? He said you were the sweetest girl — that ' s exactly what he said — ' the sweetest ' — not always getting mad and fussing, but always — . Why, Marjory, what on earth is the matter? She sat down abruptly on the bed just as a hand mirror went whizzing past her and crashed into the window pane. Marjory Walton, if that had ' ve hit me I ' d be a mangled corpse and you ' d be a murderer. You ' d always be unhappy, and I spect my spirit would haunt you. You look like a wild cat. John ' d never think you were sweet again if he could see you now. You ' re about the least sweet looking object I ' ve seen in some time, Anyhow, I don ' t see why you should be mad about it. If anybody ought to it ' s me. To have a boy sit up and tell you some other girl is his ideal 267 of sweetness, and he wished you were like her, instead of being so fussy and independent — if it had been anybody but you, and I hadn ' t known it was so true, Id have been perfectly furious. He thought I was, anyway — still thinks so, too, and if 1 don ' t get a five-pound box of chocolates before tomorrow, I will be. Hazel wasn ' t in the habit of making such long speeches, and she was rather out of breath. But Marjory, who didn ' t offer to help out with the conversation, really did look dangerous, so she thought it best to keep saying something. Oh, Margie, what if you ' d freeze! Don ' t mar your sweet countenance with such a horrid expression. It isn ' t in harmony with your gentle disposition. The last words were meant as a joke, but that gentle disposition was the last straw. Marjory ' s eyes blazed. 1 hate you, Hazel Allen! You are horrid! horrid! I ' m not sweet — I despise sweet people. If you ever dare to tell me that again I ' ll — I ' ll — I don ' t, don ' t know what I will do. I won ' t be accommodating — I ' ll never do another thing for anybody — ever! And I ' ll fuss with everybody I see. Just see if I don ' t. My, but you ' re fierce when you are mad! I didn ' t know it was in you. Wouldn ' t Gilbert open his eyes! Don ' t ever let him see you in such a tantrum — the poor child would be scared silly. Don ' t ever blaze out on him — it might be fatal. I will, too! I won ' t ever be nice to him again, and I ' ll tell him this very night what I think of him — show him once and for all that I ' m not sweet, nor gentle, nor dependent, on him or anybody else. The lecture at the auditorium that night was to begin at eight-thirty and Gilbert was to come at eight. They always went before anyone else to get good seats, as they explained each time. But it was exactly twenty-six minutes after eight when Marjory came down, carelessly drawing on her gloves. Good evening, was her only greeting as she led the way to the door. Gilbert ' s expression was so puzzled that she wanted to laugh in spite of her resolution. But at just that moment voices floated down. Why, you know, she ' ll never do it. It was all put-on. She ' s just naturally too sweet to fuss with anybody; and with — . The door slammed loudly and she didn ' t hear the rest. But she had recognized Hazel ' s voice, and the smile disappeared. It ' s late. We ' ll have to hurry. Gilbert spoke positively. Marjory recog- nized her first opportunity. I won ' t. She spoke more positively. 268 Outside the night was black as ink and the wind was blowing like a small cyclone. Gilbert didn ' t like the weather, and said as much. I don ' t see why, Marjory wouldn ' t have admitted for the world that she was afraid of the dark. It ' s a beautiful night. No, thank you, you needn ' t hold my arm. I can walk very well by myself. By the time they reached the auditorium she had exhausted all her stock of disagreeable expressions. She hadn ' t expected to have to do all the talking — Gilbert generally did more than half — also she had intended to talk slowly and calmly. But when one has to fuss all by oneself at a person who doesn ' t seem to hear, much less to answer, one naturally begins to get nervous and talk rather fast. Great Caesar, Marjory, you ought to be a man; you ' d make a dandy lawyer. You ' d never give the other side a chance to say anything. The gentle sarcasm of the last words was lost on Marjory, but she caught at the first words as a drowning man catches at a straw. That ' s just the way with all you horrid men — think just because we are girls we can ' t do anything. I guess I can be a lawyer, or a doctor, or anything I want to — no, I don ' t want to sit down stairs. I hate this balcony. We will sit right here, I never did like to sit back of the third row. No, you need not help me take off my coat. I can take care of myself, even if I ' m not a man. No! The wind is not blowing nearly as hard as it might blow — anyhow I ' d lots rather hear windows rattle than people — . I certainly do not think the lecturer is handsome — . He ' s going to introduce him now, so please be quiet. Gilbert had not spoken since they reached the university building. Go on if you ' re afraid, I don ' t care if it blows the house down. I won ' t go till it is over; I ' ll go with John and Hazel; I won ' t go with you. Will you please? — There was a flash, a crash, and a scream. In the darkness Gilbert could just see a figure running toward the door. Marjory, come back here. Be still, I tell you. Don ' t you know you ' ll kill yourself if you jump over that railing? It ' s all over now; just the roof fell part of the way in, that ' s all. Of course you ' re not afraid — just a little excited, that ' s all. Oh, Gilbert, I am, too. And Gilbert, I don ' t see Hazel and John. Will you please, please take me home? An hour later two very tired little girls crawled into bed. Hazel, Marjory ' s voice was very soft, I ' m sorry I threw that mirror at you. I hate people that fuss. F. CLAY, ' 13. 1 69 COLLEGE SPIRIT Hip, hip, hooray! Forever and a day Shall college spirit, college youth, Contagious as new love in spring, Make smiles and pleasure, yea! forsooth, The joy of living shall it bring. When tired and weary Toilers, dreary, In their self-made chains of work, Have forgotten in their toiling That it ' s dangerous to shirk. Happy spirits! Life rejoicing, Full of spirits, Never cheerless, Only is the life worth while. Troubles, sorrows, cares and flurries Never like the happy smile Make of living a joy. Then worries Shall college men As the steersmen, Guide far out to seas of storm, Where the blustering winds of laughter Catching fast the Worry ' s form; Shall its mean existence shatter On the shores Of laughing hours? Catch the spirit, feel its tingle, Be lighthearted, seeking after Life in fullest sense. Ne ' er single Out the serious; feel the laughter! A student finds Quite oftentimes Failures for his pains, (cruel facts!) But he always, thanks for it, With light heart, again attacks, And he wins with laughter ' s wit. E. C. V., ' 14. 263 ANNALS OF AN ANNEX MAID HIS is the last time I will sit here at this desk and write in you, old book, for a long time I guess. They are afraid I will be homesick — I know they are, specially mother. Mother has such presentiments and peculiar ideas. She can ' t realize I ' m not a baby any longer. There ' s nothing so attractive in this burg anyway — I don ' t see what I could be homesick for. Of course, I ' ll miss every one at home, and all the girls, but I ' ll have letters from them all the time, and I ' m coming home Christmas — won ' t it be fun! Then it ' s not as if I hadn ' t been away from home before. Why, I was away three months summer before last, on Uncle Charlie ' s ranch, and then wept big tears because I couldn ' t stay longer. Mother and Eva say it won ' t be like going when I know everyone, and every one pets me, and that I will see the difference when I get there. Why they talk as if I were going to foreign lands to dwell among benighted heathen, instead of to college with a new silk kimono and chafing dish to be with girls just like Eva and all others. I just can ' t wait to get there, I know it will be so much fun. Everything is most ready. I must go help mother pack now. September, 21 — Left home on the ten-twenty night before last. I didn ' t think mother would care so much and Eva ' most drowned us both in tears. I don ' t see what makes them do that way; why, three months isn ' t long. I felt just a little bit weepy when the train pulled out; I guess there are lots of things at home I hadn ' t thought of before. I found a seat and had just squeezed out a few tears when the prettiest girl came over and sat on my suit-case, and talked a long time. She pretented not to notice that I had been crying and said such cute funny things I just had to laugh. She was going to S. U. too, and had been there last year, in fact the car was crowded with S. U. students and she took me around and introduced me to most of them. When we came back, the boy who had been sitting by me offered to change seats with her so that we might sit together. He was real good looking. I hadn ' t noticed him before, at least 1 was ashamed to look at him, I was crying so. 1 hope he didn ' t see me, it ' s so babyish, and then it makes my eyes swell up so. There was no chance for sleep that night. Everyone was laughing and singing college songs and giving old yells — oh, it was lots of fun! S. U. students got on at every station, and the next day was filled with the joys of reunion for the old students. 271 I was dead tired when the train stopped at this city of my dreams, and felt so queer and by myself when we left the train, but rushed on in the crowd and squeezed in a crowded transfer. When we stopped at the Annex a crowd of girls met us and seized our suit cases and showed us freshies to our rooms. I ' m not just crazy about my room — its ' so small and has such faded wall paper, but I guess it will look better when I get my rugs and pillows scattered around, and hang some pennants and pictures. My room mate hasn ' t come yet — I ' m crazy to see her. One of the girls stayed with me last night. September 28 — You dear old book, you seem just like a piece of home. Eva and I have laughed over you so many times. If I could just see her for one minute, I know I ' d be all right — I believe I ' d embrace anybody from home, even Aunt Delia (she ' s our wash lady ) it would seem so good to see even her. My room mate came yesterdy; she is the wildest specimen it has ever been my privilege to behold: I just cannot sit in this room another instant opposite that hideous family group she insists on ornamenting the dresser with; she shall not put those awful rugs down, they make me feel real creepy. If Eva were only here! I suppose I am breaking a rule now — I don ' t know what one it is but it must be some one — I know that hateful Miss Perkins has pointed out forty things I mustn ' t do already. This is the rudest place I ever beheld. The boys came up last night and sere- naded. They sang the same songs the quartette sings at home. I guess I am homesick. No, I ' m not either — I just want to see everybody at home, and get out of this miserable place. I hope mother won ' t think I ' m homesick when she gets the letter I wrote this morning. I don ' t see why Eva doesn ' t write to me, I didn ' t think she would do me this way. Well, anyway I ' m matriculated, that ' s over — it was horrible. I couldn ' t get my credits, half of them, just because — Prep isn ' t affiliated; I never heard of anything like it. Now, I ' ll have to take them over again and I know I ' ll flunk, I almost flunked last year, and its so much harder here. I wish I could go home, anyway I ' ll never come here another year. September 30 — I ' ve been to my first Annex reception and had a better time than I thought I ever could in this hole. My dress did look plain if it was hand made — but the cata- logue said plain white dresses on public occasions, and mother wouldn ' t let me bring a colored one. I ' ll write for my yellow one to-morrow. All the girls were dressed up lots, and some of them had trains. I was disgusted at first, I talked to so many muts. Then Ben came. He ' s the cute boy that sat by me on the train — I ' m crazy about him — and I ' m going to talk to him at ten tomorrow — right after chapel. October I — I won ' t stay in this place another minute — the idea — you know I heard 272 about the Honor Council the other day. — Well, today how ' d I know that boy and girl in front were cousins? Don ' t believe they are anyway — I ' d like to see one of my boy cousins walk that far and carry my books on a hot day just to be with me. Anyway, I saw them walking to the Annex and Ben and I walked too, and now I ' m campused. I never was so mad— mother ' ll think I ' m disgraced — I never can explain it to her. — And that girl that told me was so hateful. — October 3 — I ' ve wept and wailed without ceasing for two whole days and nights and my nose is so big I can ' t see over it. I am such a fright I am ashamed to go down to dinner, I can ' t eat anything anyway besides I don ' t want to see anybody in this awful hole. To think I called home an unattractive burg not two weeks ago! The girls try to be good to me but I know they think I ' m awful. I wish they ' d stay away. I don ' t want anybody but Eva. There ' s no one here a bit like her. Her letter came yesterday, a nice fat one, held for postage — it was lovely and so newsy, and just made me wild to be at home — Everybody there is having such a good time. She thinks she misses me more than I miss her — silly thing — I felt like I just couldn ' t stay here another minute after I got her letter yesterday morning, and at noon mother ' s came. She said if I still felt so badly I might come home for a few days, and I ' m going to-night — I just can ' t wait to get there — of course, Eva will be at the train to meet me. I feel dreadfully ashamed after all I said before I left, but nothing could keep me here. — October 5 — Back again at the same old desk, writing in you, old book, in less than two weeks, when I thought it would be three months before I should be here again. Got here last night and Eva has been with me every minute since. She just went home five minutes ago. Mother was so glad to see me, and no one has said I told you so. It is glorious to be at home. The last two weeks seem just like a bad dream to me, and I feel like I had just waked up. My poor room mate! I ' m sorry for her, and wish I ' d been nicer to her. She was so homesick. I guess being homesick was about all we had in common, besides both being human. Mother says I ' m to stay till I get anxious to go back to that abominable place. Imagine me anxious to go back — and she thinks it ' ll be a week, but I know, now I ' m at home, I ' ll never leave it, never till death do us part. October 10— I ' m going back, I guess I can stand it. Of course, I don ' t want to but I must. Everybody but mother wears that England expects every man to do his duty air, and I know mother ' s so disappointed. I won ' t be a piker, but just say homesick and it makes me shudder — meningitis, smallpox, or cholera are not a circumstance. R. H. B. ' 13 sw2 7 3 THE WOULD-BE HEATHEN T was almost unbelievable that so small a body could create such a volume of sound. The body was aged seven, and it lay upon the black and white tiled floor of its missionary father ' s study, and kicked and screamed and wailed and sobbed and cried — to be a heathen. Its blue gingham dress was twisted almost off. A plaid hair ribbon lay in a far corner of the room. Shoes and stockings, a huge sombrero half-full of withered oleanders and a brown paper parcel of dulces of a question- able hygienic state, were variously and unconventionally disposed of. Only the region immediately around the big desk and the quiet, unmoved man whose back was towards the scene were kept inviolate. Shoes might be in the maga- zine rack and dulces besmear the sacred little-god-bishop-brought-from-lndia, but nothing came near that preoccupied man. Sarah knew him — and she knew that he had not heard one word, and futhermore, that he would not turn around until she had utterly worn herself out and was convulsively sobbing in a dis- heveled, slobbery little heap under the divan. Then he would say, Sarah? and she would say, Yes, sir? Who do you suppose has been kicking up this fuss? (He always said it just that way — kicking up this fuss.) To which she would answer gleefully, Some bad boy, I spec. (It was a little game they had.) Of course, he would go on, No little girls, like American girls, ever do things like this, (in the mildest tone imaginable.) Then, most unaccountable, Sarah always got a lump in her throat which demanded instant relief by putting both hot, sti cky little hands over his eyes and making him Guess who? After he had guessed Cherubim and Seraphim and Lovey Mary and Robert E. Lee, she told him it was Tame Sarah and kissed him on the forehead and went to play. Then old Antero, the mozo, would come in and gather up her belongings. But today it was different. She had never cried to be a heathen before. She had reached the rolhng-under-the-divan stage several minutes ago, and still no Sarah? Instead an almost cool, Little daughter, come here. Sarah came — with a fling of her goat-hair out of her eyes, a sidewise wrench and an upward jerk at her dislocated apparel. Her little face was so red that the freckles hardly showed and swollen to ludicrous size. Cuban rooms are long and the divan was at the far end. The would-be heathens bare feet went spat-spat on the 274 bare tile floor and the would-be heathens heart went pat-pat-pat against her rebellious American ribs. Dr. Hale turned in his revolving chair and surveyed his only daughter quizzically and analytically. He had three older children — boys — who had been sent back home to prep school at an early age and had shown no heretical tendencies. Sarah cried to go to the convent, and with her poetic soul, longed to be a nun — a Mother Superior. Sarah always did things backwards, or sideways, or winding-stairs-like, as she expressed it. Why do you want to be a heathen? Cause they have candles and music and rosaries and pictures and crosses and robes and processions, and — and holy water and — and — Dr. Hale looked down at his desk to hide a willful twinkle. Sarah was good at noticing and taking advantage of twinkles, and the minister wanted to be serious. I say, he looked down at his desk and his eye encountered The Hallow Soul-starving Character of the Wholly Ritualistic Form of Worship used by the Roman Catholic Church. As there was no appealing to Sarah ' s reason, he experimented with her susceptibility to the awesome. Taking both her square, grimmy little paws into his own, he began: Sarah, the wholly ritualistic form of worship used by the Roman Catholic church, by which you seem to have become infatuated, is the most insidious thing that could come into your life. It appeals wholly to the physical and not at all to the deeply spiritual or transcendental. Its hollowness is utterly soul-starving. If the individual reaches a crisis in life with no other bulwark upon which to recline than this idle show, his condition will be verita- bly pitiable. Now run along. Before this was halfway over, Sarah felt cold spots all over her soul and her brain was concentrated to a hard-boiled-egg state in its effort to take it in. She listened attentively — and as she went into the patio and began to wade in the fountain, she said those she could remember — slowly. It was a clear blue day — one of those days which come only in Cuba; a bright blue sky bending down to a dark blue ocean, level as a floor with only a white curl of foam along the shore. The convent bells across the street had just struck three and the plump sister who had been obliged to climb up and hit the bell with a hatchet for want of a clapper, was still sitting on the belfry curbing, look- ing over in the Protestant Devil ' s house. All Havana takes a nap from one till five, so the streets were deserted. The high, monotonous sing-song chant of the convent children studying aloud all the patron saints of the principal towns of Cuba, filled the air. The plump sister, having mental note of the naughty pro- 275 testant child wading in the fountain, (good form forbids wading in the fountains in Cuba), descended to the chanting children. Sarah left the fountain and hied her to a thickly foliaged tamarind tree to await the coming of her bosom heathen- friend. It was not long before she darted out of the high, intricately designed iron-work convent gate and came scuddling across the street to the Protestant Devil ' s. Josefa was ten and slim and dark, and her eyes — well, her eyes, as Sarah said, looked like the bottom had dropped out of them, and you could almost plait her lashes. No, she would not climb the tree. Es Sara must come down. Sarah demurred, but finally descended and began chattering in Spanish about her latest tantrum. Ah — ee! your father made you cry. No? volunteered Josefa, displaying her English. No, he didn ' t. 1 did it myself. He ' s just the sweetest, unheathenest father I ' ve got, and anyhow it ' s sillious, and trandental and hallow to go to a convent, Josefa. You ought to be ashamed. And I ' m not ever going to play confes- sional with you any more. Mi padre, he me make, rejoined Josefa. Well, mira, Josefa, it ' s awful! Surely your soul gets starved and by and by it shrivels up and then blows away, and then, like Brer Fox said to Br ' er Rabbit in the book ' Whar is yuh? Confronted with this awful calamity, Josefa stared into the gray eyes of her Anglo-Saxon friend for a full minute before she said: But, mira, Es — Sara, if I no can help it — how should mi alma (my soul) starve? Eso no vale. Just at this juncture the plump sister began to beat out five o ' clock and the two diminutive theologians were forced to prostrate themselves close to the wall to evade her vigilant eye. I tell you, whispered Josefa, 1 no catch none of them things you say, if I, me, don ' t want to go by that convent. Is it to me the cause that my parents make me to go? No. Pues seguro que no. How shall they know you ' re not a really truly convent person unless we let ' em know? queried Sarah. That was how it started. An hour later, when the calm vesper hymn was floating out into the twilight and then the low murmur of the prayers began in many voices low and indistinct — the two young iconoclasts might have been 276 seen giggling in the shrubbery around the convent windows. Presently, prayer over, the sisters went out one by one in the semidarkness to kiss the feet of the crucifix. Then was the hour of the evil-doers come. Ay — ee! and Ave Maria Purissima! the nuns fell back from the altar, for the feet of the figure were covered with burrs. Ave Maria, said Josefa, me it pleases not to be of them! Gee! I ' m glad I ain ' t one of them heathen! said Sarah. THE WOULD-BE HEATHEN AGAIN HE would-be heathen was eight and fat and freckled and origi- nal and American. She was also the unhappy possessor of a poetic soul. This last asset of her mental equipment was a source of never-ending delight to her dusky Cuban friends and, it might be added, the cause of much dismay and many complications in the Hale household. For example, when Sarah came in and announced with solemn, unblinking eyes and a serene countenance that she and Josefa had found a dead baby on the seashore and had covered it up with seaweed and shells, Dr. Hale, thinking instantly of Revolutionista outrages, grabbed his hat and hurried to the beach, followed closely by the two young. ..?.. .only to find an old cocoanut-headed doll shrouded in dripping seaweed and pink sea-urchins. How he exclaimed, but Sarah interrupted, using her most winsome grin and calling him by the Spanish diminutive he loved, (Sarah was wise for eight): Why, Papasito mio, don ' t you see? It ' s a play-like. But it was such a good play-like that it was almost a sure- ' nough. Josefa didn ' t understand. But 1 knew — I — I — thought you would! Her little face clouded suddenly before the reproof in her father ' s eye. If he didn ' t understand, what was there left? It was like rippin g the horizon off of the great blue ocean. But Dr. Hale did understand — O, far, far better than Sarah guessed, else why did he waste twenty perfectly good minutes playing cemetery with them and then go off smiling? But Sarah ' s father was not the only victim. Sarah ' s mother was quite vexed one day when her explosive young daughter came bursting in with a disheveled appearance and stated that Sister Helena Maria, the one with the nose, you sw2 7 7 know, mother, that rings the bell, had fallen from the belfry in the convent across the street and broken all her legs and arms. Mrs. Hale left her native cook in the midst of the intricate mystery of rice pudding, into which she was being initiated, and fairly fell across the street to the little group of nuns gathered on the convent steps, — only to find that it was the clapper that had fallen — not the sister. Now, Mrs. Hale had an imagination, like her daughter, but she also believed in that old scriptural injunction which some seem to consider obsolete, Thou shalt not lie. So Josefa was sent home and the would-be heathen was left to stand in a corner of the patio with her face to the wall and meditate on the intricacies of this real world and that unseen, vivid, teeming life in which she spent the most of her time. If she could see it, why couldn ' t other people? Why did Josefa open those black eyes and look at her that way? And how awful it was to tell — lies. Josefa said that you should tell the priest everything and he would make it all right with God and Jesus and Cherubim and Seraphim and Grandfather Proctor, whom Sarah had convinced her sat in solemn council on solid gold thrones in Heaven judging the deeds of Grandfather Proctor ' s grandchildren — and others. It is strange, but true, that people with a genius or an insane person in their midst sometimes forget about it. Sarah ' s family simply couldn ' t keep up with her play-likes — it strained their minds and nerves. Sarah ' s father was a mis- sionary. It was his job, as Sarah called it, to show folks a better way to Heaven than kissing microbe-encrusted crosses and telling all their secrets to a sleepy old priest. Dr. Hale ' s daughter had a deep respect for him, in fact, she thought his job quite a grand one, in an abstract, impersonal sort of way — but secretly, inwardly, she hungered and thirsted — not after the waters of salvation, but to go to a confessional. Nothing in the world, she was sure, could ever make up for the loss of that experience. Josefa went — Josefa had told her all about it. But she had not told half as much as Sarah had imagined. She could see her- self walking down the dim aisle of the convent chapel to make confession for all the black and deadly sins of eight wicked years. She could hear the low murmur of penitents, telling their deeds, and could see the sunlight just touch- ing the heads of the great crucifix about the altar. Already she began to feel victorious and to wonder if a halo would be becoming. She thought how she would feel when she drew back the little green curtain and knelt in her half of the confessional box — . Well, and why not? She asked Josefa. Josefa was not enthusiastic; but the would-be heathen told her she would help her put ink in the Holy Water fount sometime, so she consented. And so it came about that on the first Sunday of the following month, Sarah Hale, daughter of a Protestant 278 missionary, hated by every nun in the institution, stood behind the banana trees in the patio of the Dominican Convent and waited her turn with a very red face, a wildly-beating heart, and a most delicious set of thrills playing tag up and down her spinal column. She was to go in immediately after Josefa, who was intensely bored by the whole thing and much preferred a direct method of communication with the Great White Throne (if any at all were necessary). Sarah ' s turn came. She braced herself for an influx of thrills and slipped through the half-open door into the coolness of the chapel. It was darker than she expected, and she had to smother a gasp when she stepped on a loose tile that clanged as though it were announcing her base protestantism aloud to all the world; then she stumbled and bumped against the altar of Santa Hermana de los Dolores so that the images and candlesticks jingled together as though they were laughing at her. At last she reached the confessional and found her way in. It was one of those boxes which have an intricate lattice-work divid- ing it. Only the priest ' s ear is visible to the penitent. Sarah resisted a strong temptation to blow in the ear, mentally resolved to advise Josefa to try it, and began her first and last confessional. The priest was used to hearing all sorts of woes and petty spites from the young culprits, but the tale of death and deceit and hate and theft which was now poured into his ear by a tinkling little voice with an almost imperceptible foreign accent, made him open his eyes in amazement and fervently wish himself free from his oath of secrecy. This per- son, so she stated, hated Sister Maria Helena — only last night she had resolved to kill her; she had tried to set the house on fire, and had poisoned the Mother Superior ' s coffee. She hated the president of Cuba and her father was a Revo- lutionista — she had stolen the priest ' s mass money and had bought vino agre with it and had made the girls sick — she had thrown away her rosary and made her catechism into paper dolls — she hated masses and she wanted to go play with the Diablos Protestants. Having brought out this final and terrible soul-craving, Sarah listened im- patiently to his rather incoherent blessing and advice, and then fled to the blessed privacy of the pomegranate bushes and — Josefa — Josefa awaited explana- tions. The would-be heathen was more subdued than she expected. She dropped on the ground and began in Spanish, soon, however lapsing into English: Ave Maria! Josefa, but it was fun! But do you really think he can remem- ber all those things to tell God? Shucks! I know he can ' t. And anyhow it was a sure-enough — so tonight when I say my prayers I ' m going to tell God not to pay that greasy, heathen Padre a speck o mind cause that what I said to him — why, it was a play-like. A. F. C. ' 12 379 THE ANNEX The Annex is gone and forever — So Prexy announced to us all, But his words are unable to sever The ties holding my heart in its thrall. Call it Woman ' s Building, if you want to, Any other old name is as good; But that is one thing that I can ' t do, Too long as Annex it has stood. Will the Co-Eds up there be called women? Can ' t one have a girl any more? When the lights are shining so dim in The room of one 1 adore. Won ' t the same old memories stealing Into my heart and my eyes, Set me to dreaming and feeling, And breathing the same old sighs? The Annex it IS and forever, You may say whatever you will; But down in my heart it will never Be aught but Annex still. 280 THE INTERVENTION OF TOMMY H, dear, wailed Mary Jane tragically, as she threw herself on Little Mae ' s pillow-covered couch, it has happened at last. What? shrieked the dainty Allene from the depths of the window seat. What? fairly shouted the athletic Katherine from her perch on the table. What? implored Marietta, the excitable, as she seized the panting and utterly demoralized Mary Jane and shook her vigorously. Do disgorge, murmured the somewhat cynical Lillie Mae, laying aside her Greek lexicon, and calmly appropriating the remainder of the bon-bons. Have you at last made your credit in English Eleven; or has the rest of the ceiling fallen out of the auditorium; or has the measles broken out in the Annex; or is little Bennie Neall in love again; or has Doctor Nichols taken my advice and bought him a wig? Why, Lillie Mae Lovell, you know you never advised — Don ' t get excited my dear. My advice to the faculty is not generally bestowed in public. Calm yourself, and proceed with the harrowing recital of your tale. Mary Jane assumed an elaborate air of mystery. You never could guess. There ' s a sure enough heiress in school. Let me see. That ' s the seventeenth, isn ' t it? remarked her room-mate sarcastically. If I remember right, there was Francis Jackson when she first came, and Mildred Pettigrew, and Elizabeth Saling, and Josie Spence, and — and — and even little Gladys Wheeler, whose mother was a washerwoman. But this is a really, truly millionaire ' s daughter, argued the newsbearer, pointedly ignoring the references to ancient history, and I saw her in the hall with Miss Middlebrook, and they ' ve got just loads of money, and her father lives in New York, and her name is Arabella Van Dieman, and — I suppose, cooed the skeptic sweetly, that Miss Middlebrook informed you of all of this; or, perhaps, the Lady Arabella herself. Lillie Mae Lovell, you are a regular cat; but your baseless insinuations are wasted. It was Miss Lawrence that told me, and so there. At the mention of the Principal ' s name, the disturber subsided and joined the circle of eager listeners. Miss Lawrence called me to talk about the Magazine, and we saw the girl in the hall, and she told me who the new girl was. She wanted us to be nice to her. Will she be nice to us? asked Katherine pointedly. For the present, continued the narrator, she is to have a room to herself. What a snob. 28 1 I suppose, blazed the adorable Allene, that she intends to live among us as an aristocrat, demanding our homage and repaying us ' with frequent glimpses of her diamond necklaces and Paris gowns. Is she to have her own maid? We don ' t want any heiresses, cried Katherine indignantly, as for me, 1 much prefer Gladys Wheeler, the washerwoman ' s daughter. She has come here to ruin all of our good times, sniffed Marietta dis- consolately, 1 just know that I shall hate her and all her uppish ways. All millionaires are stuck up, volunteered Mary Jane. How many are you acquainted with, my dear? inquired Lillie Mae pleasantly. This sally brought a laugh from the others, and an indignant toss of the head from Mary Jane. For the moment, the impending storm was averted. At any rate, she won ' t be bored with my society, snapped Katherine. Nor mine. Just think how her new Paris gown will outshine my little muslin at the final reception. I ' m going to hate her right off, so there. And the offended five stalked gloomily downstairs to heap an avalanche of haughty looks upon the innocent head of Miss Arabella Van Dieman of New York. That abominable young person smiled rather distantly at the multitude of girls who came trooping in to dinner, and took the place assigned her at the table, seemingly unconscious of the hostile attitude of the Mary Jane faction, who sat just opposite. She was a pretty girl, a trifle handsomely dressed, it is true, but quiet and well-behaved. Among the other girls, there were some who stared at her covertly, not having heard who she was, others who smiled pleasantly and nodded in a friendly manner, and others who, more enlightened than the rest, were frankly curious and anxious to win the attention of the reputed heiress. The only one of the five who had met in Lillie Mae ' s room that recog- nized Arabella ' s existence was Allene, whose curiosity was so consuming that she must needs peep under her pretty brows at the newcomer across the table. That Arabella was distant could not be denied; for, at the end of two weeks, she knew scarcely a half dozen girls, and had actually spoken to not more than twice that number. There was nothing really forbidding in her manner, but it was stiff; and Mary Jane, the insurgent, was positive that she felt herself too good to associate with the common herd. As Mary Jane was the most popular girl in school, this statement came to be generally accepted as the truth. The girl from New York still roomed alone, and this was taken as unquestionable proof that she was stuck up. The only fly in the ointment was the fact that Arebella Van Dieman did not seem anxious to parade her Paris gowns in the face of a resentful multitude. She wore elegant clothes.it is true, but they were simply made and always in the best of taste. Some of the girls were inclined to waver in their resolution to up- 282 hold the dignity of democracy, and to make advances. Even Lillie Mae, who wa s a little disposed to say I told you so, declared that if she didn ' t do some- thing outrageous in a day or two she was going to be her friend, in spite of Mary Jane ' s assertions. Mary Jane had an explanation, however, for the temperance of Arabella ' s dress. She thinks anything is good enough for us, stormed that young lady, with- out realizing the enormity of her inconsistence. She was lying on the couch, engaged in the highly diverting occupation of teasing Tommy, the pampered feline who boasted Mary Jane as a mistress. Do you suppose, inquired Katherine, that Arabella Van Dieman will go in for athletics? Katherine, my dear, the unexpectedness of your brainstorms are sometimes appalling. That aristocrated person who rooms alone in Number 77 has no more intention of cheapening herself with any form of physical exercise, than I have of making my Senior Elective in New Testament Greek. Well, as for me, I could forgive her all she has done, if only she could and would play basket ball. You know that we have never found anyone to take Hazel ' s place since she went away, and the game with B — is only a month off. Well, you needn ' t look for any assistance there. How sublimely peaceful and pleasant is the life of a basket ball captain, groaned Katherine, as she flung herself wrathfully out of the room. Poor old Kate. She ' s a brick; but she ' s worried to death this year. Adored room-mate, will you please close the door, or Tommy — Where on earth is Tommy? My impression, retorted Lillie Mae maliciously, is that he has just entered the sacred precincts of Number 77. Heavens, that girl will put him out into the corridor, and he will wander off downstairs, and Miss Lawrence will absolutely forbid me to keep him any longer. More likely she will hurl him out of the window to be crushed to pieces on the pavement below. You horrid thing, and Mary Jane ran out of the room in pursuit of her wandering Tommy. Juno to the rescue, murmured Lillie Mae, taking possession of the couch. For the moment totally oblivious of the fact that she was entering the territory of an enemy, Mary Jane flung open the door of Arabella ' s room and rushed in. Then she paused and drew back. I beg your pardon. The girl on the bed was crying very much as any other ordinary girl, and she had Tommy in her arms. She sat up and smiled a wobbly little smile at Mary Jane. Isn ' t he a dear? And I have missed my own Hannibal so much. Do you love cats? stammered Mary Jane lamely. 283 I am crazy about them, and people, and — and — and other things. What other things? said Mary Jane, touched by something in the voice. Books and swimming — Swimming? Swimming, and fishing, and rowing, and tennis, and — And basket ball? And basket ball. Glory be, shouted Mary Jane ecstatically, Come on down to the gym and get into a suit. The light went out of Arabella ' s face, and she drew back. I — I — I — I guess I ' d better not. A gleam of cold suspicion came into Mary Jane ' s face. Why? Because I might not be wanted. The listener flushed guiltily at the pathos of the tone. Ever since I have been here the girls have seemed to avoid me. 1 love girls, jolly, happy, sweet girls; and when I came here I thought I would have lots of good friends; but — but — but they don ' t want me, and I guess I ' m going home. No, you are not, Arabella Van Dieman, you are going to stay right where you are; and you are going to be my best friend next to my own beloved Lillie Mae; and you can claim half of Tommy; and we are going to find you a chum of your very own. Come on down to the gym. As they went their way gaily down the stairs, Mary Jane asked, But, why did you room alone? Well, you see, when I first came, there were no odd ones, and afterwards I thought nobody wanted to room with me. You poor old darling, we never thought of that. Six months later when Arabella had gone to room with Allene, who wel- comed her with open arms, and when she had rescued the basket ball team from defeat at the hands of B — , and when she had become at last a really, truly member of what the school was pleased to call Mary Jane ' s Club, one day in her absence Marietta burst out: Isn ' t she the sweetest thing on earth. And the smartest. And the brightest. And don ' t we all just dote on her. Amen, and amen, chanted Lillie Mae, Behold the great change that hath come about, and all through the intervention of Tommy. Whereupon the whole assembly fell upon that bewildered animal, and fairly rent him in twain with their caressess. 284 IN THE NIGHT WATCHES HE sun was just disappearing behind the western cliff, making a grate of shining bars, as Harold called it, on the bay as a figure appeared on the top of the bluff and called: Harold, Harold! supper ' s ready, and you know what mama said about your coming to supper last night all wet and fishy. I wish you all would let me alone, said a bedraggled boy of about ten, as he climbed suddenly out of a skiff that was tied to the wharf. If you ' d leave me alone, maybe I ' d get this sail put on, but every time I get started on it you have to call me. Well, Hal, you know mama doesn ' t want you to put a sail on that boat, because she ' s afraid you ' ll sail too far out into the bay and capsize it, said his sister as she climbed up the bluff. If you ' ll hurry up, I ' ll help you change clothes before supper, so mama won ' t scold you. Yes, and you ' ll tease me at the table afterwards. That ' s the way you always do. Just talk around enough to let mama know that I ' ve been doing something I don ' t want anybody to know anything about, and then she asks me and I have to tell her. Yes, but you shouldn ' t do what she doesn ' t want you to do, said Frances gently. You ought to know mama has enough to do without having to watch you to see that you don ' t drown. A few minutes later, Harold appeared at the table looking very neat in a clean blouse with his hair sleeked back a la pompadour. My! but my baby boy looks nice tonight, said mama as she came in a few seconds later. You must have been very good today to have kept so clean. Yes, your ' baby boy ' has been very good today, said Jack, Harold ' s senior by about nine years, and who was home from college for a few days. The last time I saw him he had Tige down in the bay making him pull that little flat boat of his. Harold, I thought I told you just yesterday that if I caught you making that dog go in the water again I would not let you go near the bay for a week. When you have finished your supper you may go right upstairs to bed. The tears welled up into Harold ' s eyes and two big drops fell upon his plate. It was hard enough to be called baby boy by his mother, when he 285 1 thought he was almost a man, but to be called baby boy by his big brother, who was but nine years older than he was and who couldn ' t swim any better than he could, was unbearable. The last straw was added, however, when Frances leaned over and said sympathetically: Never mind, Hal, I ' ll go upstairs with you so you won ' t be afraid. I ' m not afraid, and you know it, Harold stuttered, his mouth full of pota- toes. I ' m going to bed now, before I ' ve finished my supper, and if I starve to death you ' ll be sorry for it. Where do you want to be buried, Hal? jeered Jack as Harold passed him on his way upstairs. Now, Jack, please leave him alone, said his mother. You always make bad matters worse. The little chap is nearly sick with malaria, and I expect he needs some medicine. He ' s paddled around in the water so much that I don ' t see how he can help but be sick. Harold went upstairs to his room, locked the door and threw himself on the bed. He wished he could starve to death. Mama and Frances would be sorry, and even Jack might wish he hadn ' t laughed at him. He wondered how long it would take him to starve to death, and decided that it would be altogether too slow. Maybe God could help him. His mama had often told him that God would do anything for boys who would ask him. With his little brain full of the idea, Harold got down on his knees: O, God, he prayed, please make me die tonight — right away. Let mama and Frances be a little sorry, but let Jack be so sorry he ' ll cry. O God, if you ' ll do this, I ' ll be a good boy and do anything you want me to, for Jesus ' sake. Amen. He arose from his knees, took off his clothes, folded them up nicely, so they ' d be sorrier, put on his night-gown and got into bed. He lay there very still, in what he thought was the proper position, with his arms folded across his chest, and waited for Death to come. He had seen a picture of Death once, and there was a store down town with a thing that looked like the picture, and he hoped that Death wouldn ' t rattle his bones when he came, because his mama might come in and run him off. He lay quite still for a long time, listening to the folks talking down stairs, and half wished that he hadn ' t left the table before he ' d finished supper. He might have taken one piece of cake with him, at any rate. Waiting was hungry work. After a while they came upstairs and someone tried to open the door, but finding it locked, said: I suppose he went to bed 286 angry and didn ' t want us to come in. I realy ought to give him some medicine but I ' ll wait until tomorrow. Poor kiddie! He ' ll be better then. He heard his mama kiss Frances good-night and go across to her own room. He heard her moving around for some time, but after a while the house was perfectly quiet. This was the first time he had not kissed his mama good- night and said his prayers at her knee since he could remember. He hoped God wouldn ' t let her be much sorry. He turned on his side and looked through the window into the night. Suppose God had not understood his prayer or would not let him die. Then Jack would laugh at him again in the morning. Perhaps, God thought he wanted some one else to die. Suppose God thought he meant his mama! Harold hastily got out of bed and knelt down: O, God, I hope you didn ' t think I said I wanted mama to die. Oh, please don ' t let mama die, even if you won ' t let me die. Please! please, God! Amen. He got back into bed feeling awful shaky, and listened. Sometimes he could hear his mama cough when he ' d listen, but tonight he couldn ' t hear a sound. Suppose she was dead! Harold slipped out of bed, choking back a big sob, and softly opening his door, stepped across to the half -opened door of his mother ' s room. If she was not dead he ' d never make Tige go into the water again or put that sail on the skiff. His little heart seemed to be up in his throat, and he could not speak because of it. Mama! he whispered loudly. There was no reply, and he peered into the darkness, trembling as with a chill. He moved slowly toward the bed, a great terror gripping his little being and his fists clenched tightly at his sides. When he reached the bed he could dimly see his mother ' s face on the pillow. Mama! he said again. Again there was no answer for a second, but as he stood ready almost to shriek with fear, the head moved on the pillow and he heard his mother ' s sweet voice say: What is it, son? Is my sonny boy sick? No, mama. But I won ' t take Tige into the bay nor put the sail on nor nothing you don ' t want me to, he sobbed, as he flung himself down beside the bed and put his head against her ' s. I thought — I thought — you were dead! W. E. L. 287 y88 JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR OW it came to pass in the winter of the year nineteen-hundred twelve, that a great pestilence fell upon all the country. In truth, the pestilence itself was terrific, but it was not half so bad as the fright derived from fear of the same. At a time like this one has occasion to judge of the different types of the human mind, — some are like excelsior — inflammable, easily set afire and quickly burnt out; others are like the wood, commonly called hard, on which no impression can be made, not even with a pickaxe, — and it so happened that at this time I was residing in the little hamlet of Georgetown, a town famed for its students, supposedly of sound minds and good dispositions. But all the wisdom of books and sages was as the chaff which the wind driveth before it — it was gone, it was no longer there — lo! it had departed as a man as the news came that a member of the Ethiopian race, residing about twelve leagues from the city, had decided to quit this life and had chosen this plague as the quickest, most reliable means of exit. This happened about the 5th day of the first month of the year. On the 6th of that month several young ladies packed their belongings and fled precipitately for the tall timber, leaving tears and consternation in their wake. That afternoon Winnie McK.ee, assembled a throng and began to preach to them concerning the infectiousness of the disease in general and the plague in particular. So graphically were her descriptions and so terrifying her illustrations, that in less than fifteen minutes all of the sec- ond floor old wing were weeping into pillows and pulling the cover over their heads to keep off any strong germs which might be prowling around with claws extended and jaws open, seeking what and whom they might devour. At nine-thirty that night, Jimmie Mowery descended to tell the night watch- man to keep a special lookout for anything that seemed to be a germ or a mi- crobe in disguise. January 7th. — Leo Walker makes inquiries as to how high germs fly. January 8th. — Ruth Pitman asked how deep a germ must bite to be fatal. January 9th. — Rumors reached Georgetown that two cows in Taylor had been smitten. January I Oth. — Cows reported worse; Annex girls in hysterics. January 11th. — Cows reported dead; Annex girls prepare to leave in a body; much weeping and wailing; using of atomizers. January 1 1th. — Grace Bludworth receives ten gallon jug of listerine, with in- structions to use same both externally and internally. January 12th. — Little Moses announces that Uncle Walter is a — — — learned about the condition of this disease, and that she is going home to daddy. She goes. January 13th, 9 a. m. — Genevieve receives a gallon jug of listerine and six atomizers, with directions for using same. sw2 8 9 January 13th, 3:30 p. m. — Genevieve receives the telegram stating that de- spite the said atomizer, Mamma Yates prefers that she come to her warm side — Come in a hermetically sealed tube, if possible. She goes. January 14th. — Rumor reaches us of a quarantine to be put on shortly; Mabel Fisher asks if they have individual quarantines, and if they are becoming. Winnie announces that she simply will not live in a town that ' s quarantined. She doesn ' t believe it ' s nice. Joe Hill phones papa in San Antonio and insists on being allowed to flee from the wrath to come, the pestilence that walketh at noon day, et cetera. From young Hill ' s remarks, Papa Hill does not seem to acquiesce, and Joe explodes in stentorian tones, with tearful eyes and pallid lips: But, Papa, it ' s right here on us! I must get away! Papa seems to have thought that Joe was able to bear it, for he is still with us. January 15th. — Quarantine descends with a bang, and we are encompassed around about with atomizers, guards, health reports and fear. A great, all per- vading, ever increasing fear of the unknown. At 9 a. m. a telegram is received from Mattie Harris Brownfield, announcing that she will arrive on the Katy Lim- ited that evening. Mrs. Brownfield ' s 47 bosom friends plead on bended knees with the health officer to allow her to stay. Since he remains obdurate, they growl before the Annex authorities to be allowed to go to the train. Of no avail. Mrs. Brownfield arrives, steps from the train, and is seized by a fierce ogre, who bids her to return at once to the coach from which she stepped and have a care to take all the germs with her. She was borne weeping into the train and to Austin. 9 p. m. Miss Agnew burbles and sniffles into the phone for forty-five minutes, proving beyond recall the appropriateness of her title, Goosie. The banished party ' s 1 46 other friends sniff into the phone with varying degrees of emotion, while the quarantine and all its litter of yapping, snapping, health officers, sat back on its haunches, licked its chops and patted itself on the head, because it was upholding the dignity and majesty of the law. January I 6th, 7 a. m. — Ten of Mrs. Brownfield ' s friends gasping into an al- most broken down phone. They advise her to dig an underground tunnel from Austin to Georgetown and thus make a secret, quiet and certain entry. But the Abbie and the Cook got wind of this plan and declared that they would not sweep or cook for a place which employed such base devices, and so the tunnel idea was abandoned. January 16th, 1:15 p.m. — The entire University repaired to the depot to await the coming of the train which was to bear Mrs. Brownfield far, far away into the unknown wilds of the Panhandle. The ground trembles, the train comes. Sweet little Mattie, who had hitherto been so harmless and gentle, now boldly breaks the quarantine, kills two of the snarling health officers and flings herself, germs and all, into the arms of her waiting friends. Despite all hygienic rules, desinfectants and regulations to the contrary, she exchanges germs with the 47 and allows Goosie to weep down her nice collar for at least five minutes. ' Then, deciding that she would rather be smitten with the great pestilence, which •jqo all seem to think so imminent, than be drowned, she climbs back into the train and addresses the mob from the top step. Meantime, the health officers strive diligently to revive the collapsed quarantine. Mrs. Brownfield ' s friends fling candy and notes at her. The quarantine is raised — the train passes under, and — we are left alone with our atomizers. January 17th. — Goosie writes her fifteenth letter to Mattie and weeps on it to such a degree that the address had to be rewritten. January 18th. — The sound of gargling and spraying fills the air. Much weep- ing. Abbie kept busy mopping up tears of frightened Seniors. January 19th. — Dr. Bishop appeals to the Underclassmen to assist him in quelling the rising storm of excitement which threatens to explode the University, or at least sweep it away in a flood of idle tears. He tells them to lead the Seniors back to their senses. January 20th. — Underclassmen begin leading the school to its senses. January 21st. — Mood Hall Underclassmen take Frank Smith in a room and refuse to let him meet his engagement with Dr. Allen. (?) January 22nd. — Anne lectures Underclassmen on her hall, and in her zeal to show them how harmless an epidemic is, gives such realistic accounts of the yellow fever and bubonic plague devastations, through which she has passed un- scathed, that Mabel Munden is thrown into hysterics, and Maud Moss has to have smelling salts and water poured on her head. January 23rd. — Arthur Henderson suggests that the rules be suspended while the quarantine is on. January 24th. — Lois Dixon affirms that she believes the piano is so affected with germs that she can ' t learn her concerto. January 25th. — Hazel Piatt insists that Austin would be a much safer place to stay. The Ayres are so much better there. January 26th. — John B. Milliken gives up oratory because his ge sture work disturbs the atmosphere and raises the microbes therein to sudden and malicious action. January 27th. — Mr. McGinnis decides that an atomizer would feel just as comfortable in his mouth as a cigar and proceeds to use one, thus deriving pleas- ure from self-protection. January 28th. — Miss Boyer stops taking her morning, noon and evening milk, and uses peroxide and listerine instead. January 29th. — Mary Williams telephones home again and elicits no reply from her unfeeling parents, who prefer to let the microbes have her for their prey than have her at home preying upon them. January 30th. — Marguerite gets a message from Stuart saying that he is well and spraying his throat every day. Janury 31st. — Prof. Tinsley decides to try dissecting a germ in the Lab. He searches diligently but can find none. February 1 st. — Whole school turns out to search for the missing cause of all this trouble. February 1 st, 12 p. m. M. Y. Stokes, Jr., ends the search — peace reigns. All confusion, gargling and spraying of throats and weeping of tears ends. He dis- covers meningitis in the dictionary. 291 WONDERS OF S. U. Wonder what beauty parlor the prettiest boy patronizes. Wonder if the cutest one reads an almanac to get his cute sayings. Wonder who Dr. Bishop ' s elocution teacher was. Wonder what Anne will do when she has no more annuals to write for Wonder how it feels to be a Senior. Wonder if Mr. McGinnis really be- lieves all the girls like him. Wonder why Hughes Thomas does not take anti-fat. Wonder why Mr. Poteet and Tom Lee don ' t try the track team. Wonder why they have an Honor Council. Wonder why Willie Lea and Frank Stanford and Lowe Simons visit Physics ' lab. Wonder if Prof. Gray likes to pray. Wonder if June will ever come. Wonder what Dr. Allen does with a book on class room management. Wonder why the members of the band are not required to study har- mony. Wonder if they select the Glee Club on a basis of looks. Wonder where they grow prunes. Wonder why Preps remind one of wild animals 1 have known. Wonder where Sleepy Moore gets all his fresh jokes. Wonder where Prof. Pegues found the expression little purple patches of poetry. Wonder if there will be many wed- dings in the Senior Class this year. Wonder how many dreams of fair women Arthur Henderson has. Wonder why Mrs. Seay doesn ' t go into the barber business. Wonder why Celery Barcus is such a ladies ' man. ' Wonder if Frank Stanford is trying to fall in love. Wonder if they ' ll ever have another English V course. Wonder why Prof. Pegues busts all the bright ones. Wonder if they could get an auto- matic Reception Committee at the Annex. Wonder why the water cooler is so attractive to S. U. youths. Wonder why Sadie doesn ' t fall in love. Wonder why people faint. Wonder what makes the wheels go round. 292 THE ADVANTAGES OF THE ANNEX NE contemplating the wisdom of sending her daughter to S. U. should know something concerning the Annex. The Long year is divided into Sessions and we are governed by important Laws. The House with a red top is surrounded with beautiful Paries and Barnes. At the back is a High-tower with a small Bell a nd a Gable and in the yard a fountain in which you can catch Bass. Vines, such as the Traylor, cover the building. It is Sed-berry vines grow here also. We are a pious bunch, for have we not a Moses, John and a doubting (?) Thomas. At the head is a Bishop with a Cain in his hand. Isn ' t it Strange? At any time of day you can be taken to the station in a Studebafcer wagon. We no longer wear uniforms, but generally have on Black, or White and this year long Coats have been much in style. No matter how many attractions other schools have, the Annex has so many that you can ' t Marfcham down. There is a fairy Dell on the campus. It contains healthful Clays, and if one of the girls is ill, the way to Treat her is to Walter down there and let her Piatt her Haire and pick sweet Williams like those growing on the Hudson and are tended by a Forrester. If this does not help, we Cart-er to a Sophy and let her Barrett. But everything we do is Weldon. H- 3 - - t ! sw293 THE PSALTER Psalm I Blessed is the man that walketh not in the halls with women, nor standeth in front of the Alcove, nor sitteth in the girls section in the Library. But his delight is in the regulations of the Faculty; and on his studies does he meditate day and night. And he shall be like the nasturtiums planted by the Ladies ' Aid Society on the campus; his checks also shall not wither away; and whatsoever he doeth will be considered good. The ladies ' men are not so; but are like maline bows which the mist melteth. Therefore they shall not pass on their examinations, but shall stand before the Faculty to be accused. For the world knoweth the way of the student body, and the way of the unrighteous shall perish. Psalm 100 Make a joyful noise in chapel, all ye classes. Talk aloud, oh, ye Freshmen: come into the chapel singing and whistling. Know ye, that we were not made for the chapel, but it was made for us ourselves; it is our recreation hour. Enter into the doors with fist-fighting and yelling; be thankful unto the Faculty for this intermission; and lift up thy voice in singing parodies. For the speaker is long-winded; his sermon is everlasting, and his hot air is unlimited. Why should we harken unto him? Psalm 32 Blessed is she whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the girl unto whom the Honor Council imputeth not iniquity, and in whose heart they think there is no guile. 294 When I was ' campus ' -ed my bones waxed old through my lack of exercise all the month long. For day and night their hand was heavy upon me; and they broke down my haughty spirit. Selah. I acknowledged my sin unto them, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the chaperone; and verily the Council punished me for the iniquity of my sin. Selah. For safety and refuge shall everyone that is careful come unto thee, oh Alamo Hall, in a time when thou mayest be found vacant: surely on their scouting expeditions they shall not come nigh un- to thee. Thou art the hiding place of many; thou shalt preserve them from trouble; thou shalt compass them about with songs of deliver- ance. Selah. Oh, Underclassman, I will instruct thee in the way which thou shalt go: 1 will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no under- standing; but seek ye some secluded nook where ye may hide, lest they come near unto thee. Many days of punishment shall be to those who are overtaken in wickedness, but they that dodge the members of the Council, privileges shall compass them about. Be glad and rejoice, ye that came home on time; and shout for joy, all ye that are not campus-ed. 295 A PROF. A Prof. I have with features fair; His lectures treat of subjects rare, And each a flower of thought contains, Which he with conscientious pains, Has found and planted there. The lessons he assigns are such, They need not to be studied much. Ten minutes, somewhat more or less, Is all they take, I must confess, Whene ' er our books we touch. This Prof, is never late in class; He smiles upon each lad and lass. He praises us and helps us work — Until we lose all wish to shirk — And gives us each a pass. His kindliness is from his heart: He never flings the poisoned dart. And though his jokes are never blunt, He does not make us bear their brunt And smile to see us smart. At chapel does this Prof, appear To be above all else sincere. His prayers are brief and never tire, But make us reach out and aspire; His talks are true and clear. His name, you ask? I can ' t recall. No, you ' ll not find him in the hall. Now, if to tell, you think I must, — To you my secret I shall trust — HE NEVER LIVED AT ALL. 2 96 THE QUARTET Hughes, Hutchins, Henry and Simons, Eldora, Sophia, Hattie, Jewel. There is a quartet in the Annex, And as comes to all maidens ' views, So a vision to each of the opposite sex, And the first has made some permanent Hughes. Another per day takes her pen And supporting on her palm Hugh ' Chin (Hutchin) Writes sweet missives, So also the third to her Lynn. The fourth of this striking quartet Thinks she has the best, you bet: But we must confess, of all Texas ' sons, He is the simplest of most Simple Simons. VICISSITUDES OF LIFE There was a young man named Brown, Who loved a young lady named Smith, But thinking how the combination would sound, They made the combination a myth. But alone he could not remain, Nor she in this single state, So they looked — and not in vain — For each a congenial mate. Now there was a young man named Henry, And Perkins his lady ' s name, Now keep these well in your memory, For at these the others did aim. Well, to make a story short as custom, In some mysterious way, These four did finally come to agreement And now does run this way: Brown Perkins Smith Henry 297 DAFFODILS A LA SOUTHWESTERN If we were to see the Hudson, would it be at Knight. Homer cannot win favor with larguerite, but Milli-kin. If Natha listened to the babbling of the West (brook), would her heart be left E-Mid-it? Would Pauline be an old maid if she threw Stones and sheared Lambs? Is Poteet being made lean because he has not his Py-got? If Elliott Jones ' heart is damp, has he crossed the Hudson? If a cry comes over Mary ' s Lee, is her heart in the Marsh? If she is a Fisher lady, will she be caught in a Si-moon? If we have a Wagon (or) two, is the best brand Mitchell or Studebaker or Bain? If Olive cries over the Lea, Will-he be good to her? If Sadie V. encourages him, will Ben Neal? If Mary had a secret to tell, would she talk Lowe? Of all sweet words of tongue or pen, The sweetest is, I might have Ben — When Mr. Smith comes back, will Nell be good? Does Mr. Hutchins prefer a Sophie to a chair? If he were Board could Bishop Seay MooreGrayNichols thanyoungEddie? If Frank Stan -fords the stream of love, where will Anne Cart-er heart to? When will Bishop be a Wise-man? I wonder what color Myrta prefers in Kerrs? Brown? If Walter made a home run, would Eddy say Wel-don, and then would the Robbins sing? If Myrta and Lillian should cook him, would Edwin Brown? If Juanita should smile on her ad- mirer, would he be Bout-well? For the permanent address of Herr mein hardt Henry Katzebau, apply to Miss Grace Blud worth (Katz). If Kittie should sting him, would Barton raise Cain? If Aline would say y es - would it be Strange? 298 The House has the floor. Will the room please be quiet? Mae Park change if he should say O. B. Black. Annex gossip furnished in detail by Winnie McKee. Where Woods appears there is a Russell. Curtis says, Vine on Stude-baker. When Johnnie Kilgore fell in love with a girl on the Glee-Club trip, did Bar-cus? If Lois did not have a date, would Mc-Call? If Kate Laws were in the kitchen would Do-bie there? If Uncle Billy had Doug-las, would Ella Sed-berry him? It ' s Strange that Leslie fishes for Bass. Would Mary Treat if she had a P. Conn? Would Dick be a Porter if Barnes needed one? Phoebe does not care for any for- eign kind of fastening. She prefers Ar-buckle. When it is Ben ' s turn to come, does Miss Siebe turn all Hughes? . What makes the Lamb love Pauline so? Perhaps a timely Stone could eliminate it. Robert can curl his hair. Can Hazel Piatt? Why is Edwin Brown? Does Alexander believe the fables of Moses? If Frank Smith played short, would Crutch-field? If the little Minister went to the Annex, would his heart Tingle? Why is Red White? Could O-live alone for thirty days? Will Lea? If Mr. Stanfield were to ask Lucie for ten dates in advance, would she Mark-ham down? If he will not go when the lights wink, will Genevieve chase Howard? As Mr. Sheffy is manager of the team, why can ' t Do-bie Captain? If he should come too late to suit her, would Frances Kil-gore? 299 BY THEIR SPEECH YE SHALL KNOW THEM These little purple patches of poet- ry were made by the ' Weary Willies ' of the world. Do you get this picture of the Holy Roman Empire? Did you ever dre-e-am a dre-e-am of the future of Southwestern Uni versity? Only 500 more pages of parallel in this interesting little book. Lesen Sie weiter auf Deutsch, bitte. Now, young ladies and gentlemen, if you don ' t prepare your lessons a lit-tle better, some steps will have to be taken. Yett! R. R. Yett! Mr. Yett not with us today? Stand up, you! Stand up! and tel us what you know. When 1 was in the University of Chicago the oth er summer. Uh!-Uh!— Uh!— The young ladies will all please met me in the Chemis- try Laboratory immediately after chapel. Let us now pray earnestly for the next fifteen minutes. Now this form of the personal pro- noun is much used in Spanish. You cannot all be Presidents! Pre- pare yourselves for the common places of life! 300 JOKES Mary had a little lamb, He ' d follow where ' ere she ' d go. Now, dear little lambs should say just baa, So why should Mary ' s Low(e)? It is rumored that Miss Primrose has a book soon to be published under the title — The Rise, Decline and Fall of Dancing in the Annex. When a college for men only lets its doors be opened wide to the fair and waiting co-ed, she will enter in her pride; and the honors and the prizes will be taken without fail by the female of the species who is brighter than the male. The partnership of Smith Brown has been dissolved, and the names Perkins and Brown appear; while a change has also been made in the for- mer connection of Perkins Henry, Smith having taken the place of the former member, Perkins, of this firm. Anne — (rising at breakfast table on Sunday morning): This is the last day to hand in jokes and grinds for the Annual — the Annex as a whole has contributed about three. I hope all of you will write some and drop them in the box today. Dr. Bishop — (tapping silence bell sharply): While I sympathize with Miss Anne in her efforts, I trust that you will not give too much of your time today to that. Devote the day to rest and worship. 1 wonder how that ardent young humorous editor felt? Sophie — (peevishly to Eldora after a date): O, shut up, Eldora; I ' m tired and nervous, and on the verge of fall- ing in love! Mr. Flirt, don ' t get hur t, But how do your cases go? Of pretty belles, you always tell, And maids all in a row. 30 l an flnnct Cpioodc Oh, you can ' t mean it! Coming over from Austin this afternoon? Well, 1 should say we will go to the ball game. I am going to spend one half the morning polishing my shoes and the other half pressing clothes, said one fair Annexer to her room-mate. 1 wonder if he is good looking! Now tell me again if this is right: Your friend is coming over and is going to bring a dandy friend of his to see your room-mate. Isn ' t he lovely? Then after viewing the contents of this short-but-sweet missive again, they both plunged into work in earnest, polishing shoes, pressing dresses, ar- ranging frills, etc. Did they dress up that afternoon? All the girls agreed that they had never looked so sweet. It certainly was a pity that those young men didn ' t have a chance to agree with the Annex girls, but the truth is, the young men in Austin didn ' t know a word about it. We feel sure that they would have been delighted to have come, had they only known. The young ladies who spent much time and labor excavating this old letter, erasing the seals and rearranging the words, forgot to notify the young men in Austin that they had dates here for the the ball game that afternoon, however, and their victims wearily waited. Someone ventured to suggest to them that it certainly was a rich joke, but not so; she was politely informed that they were only preparing to take supper at the Commercial. fl Cfjara c My first is a word of syllables two; It is said to belong to whom it is due. Without it a prophet never can be, Except when he stays in his native country. To my second two syllables also belong. In it Ulysses was said to be strong And sage as Jove; without it a king Has seldom attempted to do a great thing. Take both words together; a body we see, Autocratic in spirit, impartial in act, Basing its decisions on fiction and fact, Unmindful of threats and tearful entreaty. But without it the Annex would meet the fate dire Of escaping the griddle to fall in the fire. Mrs. Reedy — (over the phone to butcher): Please send up 25c worth of brains for Prof. John Reedy. Mr. McGinnis — (to English XI in a disgustingly cool tone of voice): For the next time this class will learn its A B Cs. Gilbert Gresham (on the back seat): All of ' em? Mary Williams — (sitting very straight, and suddenly placing her hand on top of her head): Anne, what do you suppose is wrong with my head? It feels as if it had some- thing on the inside of it. When ' s a joke not a joke? When you tell it to John B. 302 Punch and Judy, both about to cry. Can ' t go together to grad parties. Why? Underclassmen. A certain young man here has the habit of staying very late whenever he calls on his girl. The other night it rained in torrents while he was call- ing. About two o ' clock the young lady ' s mother came in. It is so late now, she said, and the weather is so bad, you had better not try to go home. And he accepted, as he always does. The women left the room to prepare the guest-chamber and were gone several minutes. When they returned the young man was standing in the middle of a pool of water in the parlor. He was dripping wet and muddy, too. Why, John W., exclaimed the mother in consternation, where have you been? I ' ve just been home to get my night- shirt, was the answer. Mary — (after her fifth consecutive date with Lowe — coming into the room and dropping her chin pensive- ly in her hand): You know, Kotz, Lowe is going to make a wonderful man some day! Lowe — Mary, I heard the sweetest little mocking bird singing this morn- ing about four o ' clock. Next morning Kotz was aroused about 3:20 a. m. by a vigorously sound- ing alarm bell. Kotz — what in the world, Mary? Are you going off? Mary — after some hesitation: No, I just wanted to hear Lowe ' s bird sing! Grace Bludworth — (frigidly, after a prolonged and subdued monologue on the part of Mr. W. J. Louis): I ' m particular about who calls me dear- est. Benny Dandy, spick and spandy; Loved the girls and sugar candy. Bought some at a candy store And out he came hop, hop, hop. 303 So great is the popularity of Miss Bludworth that Mr. Louis was forced to ring for his date at 6:45 a. m. When the irate Miss Bludworth descended to the phone, the sweet vo ' ce of Mr. W. J. Louis tittered thru the receiver into her waiting ear and begged the boon of a date. He was much chagrined to hear a cool, sleepy voice announce that he must ring earlier next time. Winnie — (in a sepulchrally confi- dential voice): Come on, Ruth, let ' s slip off and go to town — Ruth H— (lazily): Why? Winnie — So we can get campused and have our pictures put in the Annual. Frank — How are you getting along with your play, Curtis? Curtis — Almost finished. I have only two more people to kill off. Ding, dong, doom, Olive was in her room. Who put her in? Underclassmen. Who pulled her out? Only man about? A dear little co-ed was campussed, But come up, she said that her Sam must. He came, meaning to stay, But they sent him away, And the co-ed was weeping, while Sam cussed. Disinterested bystander — Mary, why have you gotten so quiet here lately? Mary W. — O, reason enough. If I open my mouth, Anne puts it in the Annu al. . . Kindly return my lock of hair. Mr. B— Which one, the blonde one, or the one you gave me when you were a brunette? Anne (endeavoring to write a parody): When life ' s last picture is painted, And the tubes are twisted and dried; When the oldest colors have faded, And the youngest critic has — Mary W. (livid with astonishment): Great Pete! Are you just making that up as you go along? 304 Juanita — (when the auditorium roof fell in): O, my God! My God! My God! Mr. Boutwell — (with pallid lips): Who-who-whata-a-a-a you sas-say? Juanita — (recovering herself): 1 said it ' s too bad about the roof, isn ' t it. Bess — (on the eve of the election for most popular man): I think Tom Lee or Frank Stanford ought to get it. Phoebe: Well; I think Frank Smith is the most popular man in the Uni- versity. Bess: He ' s not the most popular, but he ' s the sweetest. Example of sentence in Freshman history themes: Vienna was seiged by the Turks, and would have been capitulated if the kink of Poland had not come to their aid. (Copied literally). Sadie V. — I don ' t think Hughes ' eyes are as good-looking as Ben ' s, but they have such a pretty light in them. Pauline had a little lamb, She knew it was a sin, And every time she looked at it, It grinned a silly grin. Said W. J. V., last summer, to a pros- pective student of S. U.: I am indeed glad to hear that you will be in S. U. next year. I am at the head of the Latin department there, and will be glad to welcome you. Query — Why didn ' t the student show up? Anne — (after a series of dates): Frances, don ' t you get tired of having the same fellow come to see you all the time? Frances — No, it ' s rather restful, be- cause, you see, I always know what he ' s going to say. S05 L ' ENVOI When school ' s last Annual is ended, And the copy ' s all finished and mailed, When the oldest chestnut is cracked, boys, And off to the printer has sailed, We shall rest — and, Lord, we shall need it! Keep silent for years or more, Till the bane of all hack writers Shall return to pay his old score. And those who are bright shall be happy, They shall sit in an office chair, And fly on the wings of the muses And drag every joke from its lair. They shall have new things to write on, And never the same ones that pall, They shall write for an hour and write Finis, And have the best Annual of all. 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