The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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I
THE MEGAPHONE.
Published, every Friday during the
school year by the Student's Associa-
tion of Southwestern University.
Address all communications to the
Megaphone, Georgetown, Texas.
Entered as .. xond-class mail matter
Sept. 26, 1907, at the post-office at
Georgetown, Texas, under the act of
Congress of March S, 1907.
All matter for, publication must be
in the hands of the Editor by 10 a. m.
Thursday. Don't forget to sign your
name to what you hand in.
EARL HUFFOR, Editor-in-Chief.
MISS ANNE CARTER, } Associate
F. A. BOUTWELL, ) Editors
L. L. SIMONS, . Athletic Editor
HARLIE D. WOODS, Special Editor
W. SHELTON BARCUS,
Business Manager
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SENIOR STAFF.
L. L. SIMONS, . Editor.
MISS MARY THOMAS,
Associate Editor.
MISS FRANCIS BARCUS, ) Report-
NELMS HENRY, J ers.
When we come to the Senior edi-
tion of the Megaphone, we feel
like just slipping away with a
warm "God bless you" and that's
all. We've lived over our Sopho-
more learning, and our Junior zeal
in reforming the world. Even
those of us who still have a final
message to deliver and one last
good "knock" to hand out, some-
how lose the spirit of it when we
come out in this May sunshine and
feel there's only five weeks left.
We fear anyway you would forget
any sermon and advice we might
leave with you. But perhaps you
will remember that we Seniors
have had an everlasting good time,
that we've kept our faith in joy
and men, even in Preps, that we've
found the faculty friends in truth,
that we still hope to learn much in
this world, and that we are glad to
grad though the thought of saying
good-bye saddens our hearts.
a large number haven't and as a
repult are frequently late both at
chapel and at classes. The Faculty
naturally insists upon prompt at-
tendance at both but no student has
a timekeeper that can follow the
erratic wanderings of this time-
honored chronometer. There was
a difference of fifteen minutes in
two days last week in the soundings
of the gong.
or not, we will not comment upon
further than to say that we think
he is right. We said we had no
intention of setting forth a plan
whereby the American youth may
be more successfully educated. We
mean to say, however, that these
things ought not to be.
We hope that
Edition, will be
classes alike.
thiB, the Senior
interesting to all
There are a few students.we
presume, in every institution, who
wouldn't pay attention in class if
Demosthenes were standing before
them addressing them in modern
English.
The recent squabble pertaining
to the atheletic rules and regula-
tions was an unfortunate state of
affairs. It seems that the whole
affair originated from a misunder-
standing all around, Faculty indi-
viduals, student body, and all
around. Some have blamed the
Faculty and to a certain extent,
rightly so. We think, however,
that the blame rests almost entire-
ly upon the individuals concerned.
The press puts Coach Arbuckle in
an unfortunate position. As a
matter of fact he had nothing to
do with it and is entirely free from
blame.
The university should ha ye a new
clock installed in the hall. To
those having nine o'clock classes
the
In a recent number of the Liter-
ary Digest there appeared an arti-
cle entitled, "Mental Dearth of
College Boys." It seems to us so
timely, so much to the point that
we cannot refrain from- comment
ing upon it. Of course, no attempt
can be made at settling the ques-
tion through these columns because
the question itself is at present too
big to be satisfactorily settled by
our most eminent American Educa-
tors. The Digest selects and com-
ments upon some points brought
out in Owen Johnson's story,
"Stover at Yale," in which the
author rather strongly, points out
the lack of real culture in our col-
leges and universities. Mr. John
son's character, Brocky, puts a
string of rapid fire questions to his
fellows concerning Music Architec-
ture and Literature which com-
pletely demonstrated their gross
ignorance of all of these subjects.
It cannot be denied that this sys-
tem of academic education is fun-
damentally wrong.. What would
be the result if a Brocky should
appear before the young men of the
Senior Class of this institution (and
others) and put these same ques-
tions to them? We think that a
dense fog of ignorance would en-
velope.the Seniors and Brocky would
again be greeted with stony sil-
ence. And how many Senior classes
of the universities would greet him
in the same manner? The question
is: Should a university graduate
know the difference between
Beethoven and Aeschyles; ought
he to have A. B. given him when
he doesn't have at least a faint idea
that Michael Angelo was not a
Trust Buster or that Phidias was
not the founder of a heathen re
ligion?
Now their are a few men who
naturally have a curiosity to find out
something for themselves and for
them of course the problem is al-
ready settled. But how much does
the modern university stimulate
this desire of the disinterested stu-
dent in finding out these things for
himself? How is it possible for
them to interest the student who
measures his education either in
dollars and cents or in social pres-
tige? We are not contending thai
a student should either assimilate
the vast store of human knowledge
in his one little weary brain or
even that he should skim over the
field and acquire a small amount
of information in regard to every
subject and in the end know noth-
ing at all worth while.
We do say that the student does
himself an injustice, who, because
he intends to study medicine, takes
seventeen courses in chemistry; the
prospective business man is not fair
to himself who, assiduously pursues
the study of economics through
four years to the practical exclusion
of everything else possible.
It is very evident that a pre-
scribed course in the history of
music, art, and architecture Would
The time I've lost in making,
In hunting and in taking
The fun that's rife
In college life,
Has been my mind's unmaking,
Tho' profs have often Bought me,
I scorned the lore they taught me,
My only aim
Was football fame,
And flunking is all it's taught
And are these follies going?
AnTi is my grad mind growing
Too wise and sane
To flunk again
Or wild oats be a-sowing?
No, vain, alas denying!
My diploma's gleam
Is still a dream,
This grad may yet be sighing.
me.
The Houston Post has been for
the past four or five months asking
the question: Who will wear the
toga? We^an answer definitely on
June ThirAnth. We don't know
at present.
notjncceed in creating the desixjlid
atmosphere. Moreover; it is equal-
ly clear that an elective course
would fail for it Would J* pursued
only by the student already inteif
ested. Whether this, which Mr.
ick classes Johnson terms, "Intellectual weak-
rtahce bbt "social system"
What a glowing disproportion
between interest in athletics and
interest in Literary Society work!
The athletic teams are not support-
ed we think as they should be but
even then it is all out of proportion
with the support of Literary Socie-
ties. Almost any day we can hear
some man protesting because the
Faculty has cut someone off the
team because of his failure to do
the required work. We heard very
few expressions of regret that we
didn't win first place in the State
Oratorical Contest and none at all
because this year Southwestern
iled to produce a prize winning
essay or poem. We are for athle-
tics first, now, and all the time but
as a means and not as an end. For
two successive years now, the Ala-
mo Literary Society has departed
from its old custom of having one
of its illustrious sons deliver an
address to the student body on
March sixth. Why? Why because
they felt the injustice of having a
speaker come here and address
empty benches. And we haye had no
intercollegiate debates within the
past two years. It seems to us
that the student body is taking a
rest now from these endeavors of
the mind and are feasting upon
dreams of past glory and achieve-
ment.
SENIOR RECITAL
Miss Laura Patrick will give a
piano recital in the Auditorium
Saturday evening May 4 at eight
o'clock. Miss Patrick will be as-
sisted by Miss Pauline Swofford,
Soprano.
At the precinct primaries held
May 4, for election of deleagtes to
the county convention Tuesday the
Democrats of Georgetown without
any opposition whatsoever instruct-
ed for Woodrow Wilson for Presi-
dential nominee.
Despite the rather alarming an-
nouncement that Dr. Bishop made
concerning boys and chaperone, a
lew of the Annex girls ventured
over to Austin Wednesday
the famous Victor Herbert
tra. They report
time, and that rules were
bad after all. Among the
ate ones were Misses Watts,
Williams, Blatton, Bishl
Swpftord, Rijjfeell, Black,"
Miss Neil# Reynolds returned
Thursday after a short visit to her
home in Alvaradoil:# I
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Huffor, Earl. The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1912, newspaper, May 3, 1912; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400853/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Williamson+County+-+Georgetown%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.