Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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Pageantry in Southwestern University And pomp, and feast, and revelry With mask and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. — Milton. In Spirit of Southwestern, given in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college, Southwestern University presents its ninth pageant. The initial pageant in the form of a May Fete was produced in 1915 under the able management of Miss Laura Kuykendall, Dean of Women, and Miss Etelka Evans, Dean of the Department of Music, and formed the occasion for the homecoming of many former students. Each succeeding pageant has been produced on an increasingly elaborate scale by the directors of the first pageant who have also been the moving spirits of all the succeeding ones. The number of returning students has increased each year, until, in 1923, the Golden Jubilee pageant marks the climax of the greatest homecoming in the history of Southwestern. Former pageants have taken place in May and have been celebrated with festivities lasting for two days. The chief features have been the Queen ' s banquet on the first evening, the hanging of May baskets in the early morning, a ball game, and the pageant itself in the late afternoon. Each year the pageant has been appropriate to the spirit of the time, as the World War pageant, the Victory pageant, and the Homecoming pageant in 1923. Southwestern University was the first school in Texas to take up pageantry from an educational standpoint. The public schools of the State have been in- vited from year to year to send representatives, and large numbers have re- sponded. Thus the pageantry of Southwestern has become so widely known that graduates and former students of Southwestern have been called upon to direct pageants in many public schools of the state. In this manner a closer contact has been established between the college and the public schools of Texas and the sphere of the influence of Southwestern is steadily increasing. Nine years of systematic training culminate in Spirit of Southwestern the Golden Jubilee pageant of 1923, which Southwestern University presents in honor of its semi-centennial celebration. Page 21

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