The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1910 Page: 1 of 4
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JUNIOR EDITION.
THE MEGAPHONE.
PUBLISHED EVfcRY FRIDAY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR BY THE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Volume 3.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909.
Number 17.
Comic Coons
From Brazos Bottom
Choruses, Quartettes, Duets, Solos,
Speeches, Sunts and Beardless Jokes
University Auditorium, Benefit Athletic Association
A Prize to Those Who Recognize Boys
SATURDAY, FEB. 12th, at 8 O'clock
Admission, 50c; under 12, 25c
DR. KNICKER-
BOCKER LECTURES
SAM HOUSTON INTER-
MEDIATE DEBATE
STRANGE SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND
SMELLS
LARGE CROWD HEARS DEBATE
BY SAM HOUSTON LITERARY
SOCIETY.
The Speaker Came Up to Hia Usual
Standard.
Monday evening at 8 o'clock
Dr. H. D. Knickerbocker of
Fort Worth, delivered his lecture
on 'Strange Sights, Sounds and
Smells all Over the World" at
the University Auditorium, he
Doctor said he was going to
make his lecture a series of
laughable stories and beautiful
word pictures, which he did.
though throughouh the entire
lecture there was an undercur-
rent of profound seriousness.
The speaker at will swept his
audience from laugter to tears
from the time he left New York
City till he made his dinner on
crawfish at a swell cafe in
Paris. After Dr. Knickerbock-
er gave his bearers a very vivid i
impression of seasickness, he
carried them to the ancient city
of Alexandria. The descrip-
tion necessarily had to be con-
fined to a few places, so the
next stop was at the cosmopoli-
tan city of Cairo, in Egypt.
Here the impressions must have
been gotten mainly by smell, as
part of the picture was too
dusky for the natural eye from
the orator' description, surely
Cairo is seat of fashion. From
Cairo to Jerusalem the trans-
formation was instantaneous
and one could almost hear the
sighs and groans of the suffer-
ing, inert population of Jerusa-
lem, and the lecturer said that
"his faith in God was tremend-
ously shaken^d when he stopped
to consider that Christ arose
from such environments but
finally concluded that only one
who was divine could rise to
such heights from such sur-
roundings." After dining are
crawfish and mashi'oned pota-
toes in Cafe de in Paris,
the speaker bade good night to
his anxious listeners from the
battle field of Waterloo. Here
the strange sights were hor-
rible, the sounds were groans
of the dying, and the smells
were of human blood.
The Boys Debate on Live Question
Last Saturday night the Sam
Houston Literary Society held
it3 annual intermediate debate
before a large crowd.
After a few well chosen words
of the President. Mr. Kemp de-
livered an oration on 'The True
Foundation.'' His subject was
well handled and held the in
terest of the audience, through-
out.
The Secretary then read the
subject for debate: "Resolved,
That the U. S. should adopt a
Graduated Income Tax. Consti-
tutionality Conceded."
Mr. Rippy, first speaker for
the affirmative, spoke with a
strong enthusiastic voice, pro-
ducing good argument in sup-
port of his proposition. Mr.
Rippy was especially good at
making his points clear.
Mr. Craven, leader of the
negative was slightly weak in
argument and delivery. The
last two speakers (Mr. Lee for
A GOOD TIME
IS COMING
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT COME
TO THE ANNEX NEXT MON-
DAY EVENING.
PROSPECTS OF THI PRESENT ATHLETIC
10 SOU'WESTER OUTLOOK AT S. U.
Clios and Aletheans are Getting Ready
Come up and the C'ios and
Aletheans will show you what
St. Valentine really means.
Everybody please remember
that "the more the merrier."
If you don't think you would
enjoy it just come with the in-
tention of making others have
a good time ai.d the Societies
will see that you do.
the affirmative and Mr. Vinson
for the negative) are especially
to be congratulated for their
style in debate. They produced
an entire absence of that strain-
ed stiff', unpleasant feeling that
usually accompanies debates, at
the same time putting enthusi-
asm into their work and pro-
ducing good argument, making
no attempt at display, but po-
litely entertaining the audience
at the expense of the opponent.
The subject itself was a live
one, and wa3 thoroughly dis
cussed. The "Preps' are to be
congratulated on the ease and
freedom of the debate. Old
timers say it is the least stilted
ever heard from the Rostrum.
GOOD STORIES, JOKES, GRINDS,
ETC, ETC., WILL BE VERY
ACCEPTABLE.
"Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears
the Editorial Crown "
OUR PROSPECTS UPON THE DIA-
MOND AND THE TRACK
If it be true—and so it is—that
"In the spring time a young
man's fancy lightly turn to
thoughts of love," how much
more true is it, that along about
the middle of the school year
the fancies of the editor of an
annual heavily turn to thoughts
of pictures that are not drawn,
jokes that are not told and
poems that are not sung. It is
about this time of the year that
those who have promised to do
something for the Annual are
very preoccupied when they see
the editor approaching, and
when the editor is seen occasion-
ally talking to some one it does
not take a mind reader to divine
the purport of his conversation.
Rut away with such trifles and
[et us to a more serious consid-
eration of "the question before
us."
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A Summer Trip to Kansas
MUSIC
"He that hath not music in his soul
Is fit for treason, strategems and spoil."
Some make $50; some $100;
some more per week
If you want the trip, the experience, the' money and are willing to work,
we want you. We will have 16 men, all under personal supervision of an ex-
perienced man and friend.
The number
is limited.
See C. H. DEAL at once
Old and New Men are Turning Out
Regularly for Practice
The prospects for Southwes-
tern's putting out strong teams
this spring are bright. Last
season the track team was good
mainly because of the efforts of
very particular stars. This
year there are lacking two of
the stars, but there are more
good men, and thos^ who did
not shine last year havedevelop-
ed into fast track men. This
year there will be strong men
in all even's while last season
some events went to our oppo-
nents because there were no mc n
to enter them. Coach Arbiwkle
has the squad out every after-
noon now and they are working
hard. If they continue this
regular work until spring we
will again win the championship
of Texas.
In baseball the outlook is the
best it has ever been. Practice
has already begun and the men
are hitting every afternoon.
The old men are still there with
the goods and some of the new
material seems to be in the
same class, for they are swat-
ting the horsehide around like
leaguers.
Capt. Avers is here to lead
the pitching stall', while Han-
son, Stevens and Stone are
showing up as assistants on the
slab.
McHenry, Crosby and Bobo
are working for a place behind
the bat. Griffin, Word, Shel-
burne, Crozier and Alexander
are doing good work on the in-
field, while Story. Snipes. Mc-
Laughlin, Mitchell, and others
are in the outfield. Moore and
Vaughan are still at their old
positions of second and third.
A strong schedule is being
arranged at home, while a trip
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Tunnell, T. A. The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1910, newspaper, February 11, 1910; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400942/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.