The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 8, 1927 Page: 2 of 6
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Message From President
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Entered Stptember 1U, 1902, at Georgetown, Texas, as Second-Class Matter, uu
der Act of Congress .Inly 1(5, 1893.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1 103, Act
of October 3, 1017, authorized August 20, lit IS.
WELDON B. TEAGUE..
JAMES E. ^)W........
J. V. GATES...........
MAN MNG CLEM ENTS.
JOE WILSON.........
FRANCES HUNTER____
ISSUE STAFF
............Editor
.Business Manager
...........Ed it or
.Business Manager
..Assistant Editor
. . . . Society Editor
THE SOPHOMORE CLASS AND A GREATER SOUTHWESTERN
Every individual, every organization, every institution, no matter vvliat i
their nature, has a natural and instinctive desire to be remembered by posterity.'
We like to leave behind us memorials so that people will not soon forget that we!
lived in the world. The motives behind shell desires are often varied, and fre-!
(juently not as laudable as they might be. Sometimes they are selfish. But,l
whatever the motive, the desire to do something that people will not soon for-
get remains.
The Sophomore class of 192(5-27, prompted by this same desire (and it is not i
selfish, we think) intends to leave behind it a monument which Southwestern stu- ■
dents in the future will remember. Last year the Sophomore class set the ex-
ample when they made provision for abolishing the famous "Muck Mire” in front]
of Mood Hall. The fruits of their worthy efforts are just beginning to be seen, j
They have indeed set a noble example by doing a notable work for the school,
and one which will make their class hard for the future to forget.
In lint* with flit' work thus so ambitiously begun, the Sophomores of the pres-
ent year have appointed a committee whose duty it is to determine just what thej
class can do toward a Greater Southwestern. This committee has been at work)
for some time, and its findings may soon be expected to appear. Working withj
the able assistance and guidance of I)r. Godbey, the class sponsor, they will in all I
probability devise plans whereby the present Sophomore class can contribute!
something of a permanent nature to this institution.
We think that the policy adopted by the Sophs last year and being continued
by the present class is one which every class and every organization in South-
western could well afford to copy, Who can predict the results should every or-
ganization on tin* campus contribute each year something to the making of a
Greater Southwestern/ Who can predict the result should every organization
do something each year for the .beautification of the campus or the buildings ?
They don’t have to be big things. It’s the constant doing and creation of little
things which have worked revolutions in society—"little, nameless, unremem-
bered acts of kindness and of love.”
But, we have wandered astray. Beginning with the Sophomore class of 1926-
27 we have finally worked around to the Greater Southwestern. But, shouldn’t
this ever be the case/ Shouldn’t every class and every organization on the cam-
pus work forward toward the higher and greater aim—a better college?
Just what the Sophomores of this year will do has not yet been determined.
But, rest assured they will do something. The Sophomore class of 1926-27, we
hope, will not soon be forgotten.
We have our ideals as any id her class
might have them We see in the near
future our possibilitv of receiving the
diploma which entitles us to full con-
sideration from others who will have,
been as fortunate as we. Just to glance
back a fewr vears, or even one year,
brings recollections that many Sopho-j
mores cannot realize. The one year]
that flies away so swiftly seems to mean1
to us something more than it might to
another class. We are no longer the!
freshmen. We have entered the
realms of collegiate work and sinceley '
■ hope to profit thereby. We sire supposed
to have an ideal, one which will inspire!
us to highei* planes of civilization and
one which helps us to bring about the!
advancement of the standards'of soci-j
etv. Now that we realize just what j
our position is, we may see the necessi- j
ties that will have to come about. The]
“Soph” is not only supposed to exist in
name, but in action and spirit.
As we Were bequeathed certain be-
longings by the Sophomores of last
year, ho do we bequeath the present
Freshmen the same. We sincerely ded-
icate to their use the chapel seats which
we now occupy and do hope that the
same may be treated with consideration.
We give them the right, at the end of
the year, to cast off the name “fresh-,
man” and to assume a little more digni-
ty at their appearance in school next
year. We hope that their experience
received from their first year in college
may be as advantageous or more so than
ours. We desire that the Freshmen have
instilled in them the true Southwestern
spirit, which means advancement to-
ward the higher goal.
JOE H. WILSON,
President Sophs.
Official Notices
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MEMORANDUM TO THE FACULTY
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HOW GOES IT WITH SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS?
Tt seems to We the popular pastime at present for people t.o spend a great deal
of breath decrying the deficiencies of the present generation. As if the youth of
all generations had not had heaped upon them the scorn of their elders. What-
ever the reason, it is a fact that it has always been the custom for older people
to make much of the natural and inescapable excesses of youth.
One professor in Southwestern has been heard to remark in classroom that
he was convinced*that more than fifty per cent of the boys in this school indulged
in intoxicating liquor. He did not state his reasons for so believing, and, if we
are informed correctly, he did not differentiate between those students who are
regular drinkers and those who only indulge occasionally. He did not state
whether his figures represented the number of students who regularlarly patron-
ize bootleggers, or those who only drink at times to be sociable.
Undoubtedly there is some drinking going on among the boys in Southwes-
tern. Just what per cent of the students are guilty it would be hard to estimate.
Offhand, however, we are inclined to agree with the professor if the figures are
to be taken to include those students who only drink occasionally. We may be
mistaken in this. There may be more and there may be less. We can only form-
ulate a kind of faulty judgment from observation. And personal observation
may at times be mistaken. Wo are inclined to pay more attention to the person
who is habitually under the influence of liquor, and to forget the great number
of boys whom we have never seen drunk or whom we have never seen take a
drink. As to the number who buy liquor and drink regularly, we should say that
not more than fifteen per cent of the boys are guilty. Again our imperfect ob-
servation may be at fault.
As far as drunkenness goes, we have seen less this year than we have ever
seen before, and older students report that is noticeably on the decline. This is
an encouraging symptom. If we are getting better as the years pass, perhaps
the time will even come when our elders will cease to censure us for conduct at
which their generation was infinitely more lax than our own.
The thing which young people hate to see, however, is not the just criticism
of their generation by their elders, but the manifestly unjust censure which takes
the unlawful acts of the few to be an index to the whole generation. We do not
rebel at criticism. We know that there are many things for which we can be
justly censured. We know that in some matters we fall deplorably below the
standard set by those who have preceded us on the field of action.
But, back to the liquor question. The question we ask is this: is there as
much drinking among college students today as there was, say, fifteen or twenty
years ago, or before prohibition closed the doors of the saloons? We have some
very capable authorities who say no. Mr. Irving Fisher of the Economics De-
partment of Yale testified before the Senate investigating committee that con-
ditions today are infinitely better than they were before prohibition. And older
men within our own acquaintance verify this testimony. It would seem, there-
fore, that, even though there is some drinking going on among the students, as a
whole the campus is much more wholesome than it used to be.
So let the censors of the present rave on. They have the whole of history
to back them up. It was ever thus. Solomon even deplored conditions among
the youth of his day. And it is well known that Solomon was not himself a saint.
A report on the standing of those stu-
dents in your classes who are on scholas-
tic probation is due in the Registrar’s
office by nine a. in., Tuesday, February
l.r>th. The report should cover the peri-
1 od January 4th through February 12th.
Pearl A. Neas, Registrar.
MEMORANDUM TO STUDENTS ON
SCHOLASTIC PROBATION
The members of the Faculty have
been requested to report to the office
the standing of all students who are
registered on probation. The report
will cover the period January 4th thru
February 12th. The regulations pro-
vide that a student who is registered
om scholastic probation nzpy be dropped
from the roll of the University at the
i mod-term if his work does not show
j substantial improvement. It is earnest-
j ly hoped that all such students are do-
ing a full measure of work, and will be
able to remain in college throughout
the term. Pearl A. Neas, Registrar. .
Layton Kincannon visited his 8. U.
friends last week. He is a former Pi-
rate baseball player. He is teaching
school this year.
Orlee Norman went to Killeen.
National Officer Inspects
National Collegiate Players
**The local chapter of National Col-
legiate Players was recently honored
by the visit of the national inspect-
ing officer, Miss- Gertrude E. John-
son, a professor in the department of
speech at the University of Wisconsin.
It. is very unusual for a national hon-
orary fraternity to be visited by a na-
tional officer, and Miss Johnson, in her
talk to the local group, stressed many
phases of the organization which were
of special interest to the actors.
Professor and Mrs. Wentz gave an
informal tea to the Mask and Wig
Players and the National Collegiato
Players in honor of Miss Johnson.
A Bored Younger Generation
(A. D. Carlson in Harper’s Magazine.)
To me the saddest thing about me
generation that is now growing up,is its
ennui. It has wept out the old sentimen-
talities; m the political and social ideal-
ism which animated a previous gener-
ation it has detected a degree of cant,
and it will not tolerate cant; the wealth
amassed bv its fathers keeps it from sur
render to an absorbing struggle for ex-
istence; machinery has denied it the joy
of craftsmanship.
It has nothing except a search for
pleasure, to which it can give itself free-
ly and fully. And human life always
nas and always will go flat unless it can
find something to claim its loyal and
eager devotion.
I have talked to co many of these
young persons with their beautifully
clothed, thoroughly scrubbed bodies and
their listless, rudderless minds, that 1
hitye come to feel that never probably was
civilization more harsh to a generation.
The Anore intelligent of them under-
stand their situation and, after a period
of posing' as cynic and misanthrope,
scramble aboRt until they find some in-
terest. The i’fst of them never clearly
understand wlntt is the trouble and go
(>n vainly trying to put some zest in life
by amusements of one kind or another.
College Career of Browning
(From the New York Times.)
Not much is known of Robert Brown-
ing’s academic career beyond the fact
that it was very brief. An addition to
this knowledge has just been made in a
communication to the London Times tel 1 -
big of the finding of two letters written
by Browning's father to officials of Uni-
versity college, London.
Tn the Spring of 1828, before the in-
stitution was opened, he wrote to inquire
about placing his son there.
I hare an only Son—now in his six-
teenth year,—and have brought him up
in strict conformity with every requisite
mentioned in page 23 of the Prospectus;
—and can add, moreover (with the most,
grateful feeling of a Parent) this Test,
of his Moral character—that I never
knew him from his earliest infancy,
guilty of the slightest deviation from
Truth.”
He entered for Geiman, Greek and
Latin. At the end of a week he had for-
saken the German class, and at the end
of a year made up his mind to forsake
the college. His father therefore wrote
again .expressing sorrow at his son’s de-
termination, and at the same time giving
assurance of his satisfaction with “the
kind and affectionate treatment with
which you have always behaved to him.”
T
Gwyn Littlefield spent the week-end
in San Antonio.
Sandwiches, Gandies, and Cold Drinks
at the University Store.
Evelyn Shepherd spent the week-end
John Bnrcus, who is teaching school j jn Austin,
this year, visited in Georgetown overi ___________
THE SANITARY BAKERY
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The Besti and Freshest Bread and
Cakes in Georgetown
the week-end.
Margaret Barnett visited in Austin
last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Regan visited Mary Vir-
ginia and Bill last week. —---------
Bruce Duncan went to Llano.
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