The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 18, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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THE IN DEPEN DEN T*! f>*c>ty» besides making all other neces-
_ , nary additions, including a hardwood
Published Weekly by the Students of Poly- floor for the gymnasium,
technic Col!eire, at Polytechnic Col- ,lut wherc *are wc poing to get the
eg, or or , exas. j #1,000. That’s easy. It was suggested
Entered as Serond-Ctestt Matter. October ». IWB. at the !’,V ."'-'i who is in a position to know
Post office at Port worth, Tcxa», Under the that if the students would raise $500
Act oi March a, KC* j of this amount the other $500 could
. ..... _be raised easily in the citv, and that
iir,’i' : |,c w:oiilii i,,ron|i»e11to ,|0 *hi»-or «*
R. E. Fulton............Business Manager that if was done. Ilut can the students
_ raise $500? Certainly they can, for
REPORTING STAFF. they do raise almost $1,000 every year
Jack Moore__________________________Local for society banquets and receptions.
Robert Dunn-----------------------Athletics The conclusion to the whole matter
Cosctto Faust.........Local and Exchange i aml t|u. rnost feasible plan to adopt in I
■ order that this $500 might be raised
is to persuade the members of the two
Subscription Price, 50c per School Year
SINCE WE CAN, WE MUST.
hoys’ societies to forego the privileges
of the Worth and the Oriental or the ‘
Southland and let everyone who in-J
In last week’s issue of this paper tends to attend the banquets tins year
there appeared, under the heading of subscribe the amount of his banquet
“The Faculty Meeting,” some sugges- fee for the building of a park at Poly*
lions in regard to the home coming to technic.
he held here April 21, 1910. These I Whoa! Hold up there! or you’ll
suggestions were made by members of tread on some fellow’s prejudiced nar-
the faculty and those who are in ait- rowness! What care I for that? !j
thoritv, therefore they were good and make the resolution that the two boys’)
wholesome ones. There is no doubt societies of Polytechnic should do away i
about the value of this event to the with their banquets and subscribe the
College, but there is room for discus- amount of the cost of these banquets
sion about what shall happen on that to the building and improvement of
day and how can it he managed so
that the best good will result there-
from.
Among those suggestions was one
made bv our live and up-to-date busi-
ness manager, which deserves especial
attention. The suggestion was as fol-
lows • That on the day of the home
coming there be pulled ofT here at
Polytechnic a Northern Texas high
•school track meet, in which all
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mas
Gift
fOF ALL SORTS
FOR COLLEGE
FELLOWS jk
Xmas Skoes and Hosiery
For College Girls
WASHER BROS.
our athletic field and park. I take the
affirmative side and challenge anybody
to take the negative through the col-
umns of this paper, and give him until
tile first week after Christmas to an-
swer me. The following is my argu-
ment: all year and then turn him loose and
In the first place, let us look at the him full rein for one night,
history of these bamputs and see if Now ,if it is true that these ban-
they are not or have been superin- (ll,ets ,ir‘ superinduced and do not am
the duced, and do not adequately answer quately answer the purpose for which
neighboring high schools he allowed the purpose for which they were orig- they were originated, it is nothing but
to participate. Medals would be of-1 mated. An investigation will show and wise that they should be
fered to the winners. Resides this, that few organizations in schools much changed. I am sure that these things
and in connection with it, there could 1 larger than Polytechnic carry out so-!"’*•! ke admitted since much sentiment
be arranged a high school oratorical cia 1 features as elaborate as our ban- has developed along these lines in the
contest for the hoys and an essay con- i quets at the Worth and Oriental. When hist few years, both among members
test for the girls of the various high such elaborate banquets do occur in 'he faculty and students,
schools. A scholarship would he I other schools they are participated in Why should these banquets be sac-
awarded the winner of each contest, by the whole school and for the pur-1 rificed this year for the track meet and
Tt can he seen at a glance what this i pose of honoring some person or event "s demanded improvements? In the
would mean for us in the way of ad- that is of much interest and worth first place it would not be a sacrifice
vertisement- The people of the neigh- to the school or for the purpose of ad-! hut a substitute and one for the better
boring cities and towns do not know j vancing some common cause or under-
just exactly what and how great are taking. These banquets of ours were
the improvements that have been ac- inaugurated hv the societies to care for
complished at and in Polytechnic in and train the social side of their mcm-
the last few years. They are not likely bers. as well as the other. They first
to know these things until they see! did this by the means of picnics, etc.,
them with their own eyes, and they j but changed from these to formal ban-
are not likely to see them unless we I quets. Of course, as the rivalry bo-
nder some inducement to get them to j tween the societies grew more intense
come here and participate in some sort it began to show itself in all kinds
of shapes, some reasonable, others not.
The banquets became a means of dis-
playing tiiis rivalry and there became
of such proportions as to receive the
of event as the above. It is a known
fact that within a radius of one hun-
dred miles of Fort Worth there are
enough high schools to furnish Poly-
technic with four or five hundred stu-
dents ready for the college department,
ft is only by drawing them here in
It would be of much greater benefit to
the college. Polytechnic is steadily
moving to the forefront among the
schools of Texas, and every legitimate
way should be employed in accelerat-
ing its speed. In the way of scholar- j
ship it already is among the first The
number of college students is incrcas-j
ing every year. It is now taking the
place of the pioneer among Texas
schools in not only teaching, but in
practicing pure and absolutely clean,
unprofessional athletics. This pro-
posed high school track meet and in.
name of being unreasonable and sup-1 provement of the athletic field would
erinduced. If any of you have ever be the best means of improving all
been on the executive committee of
some common undertaking that we can ! either of these banquets you know
induce those who really belong to us whereof 1 speak. It is a fact that j schools, and we would soon be aide to
to come to us, instead of going else- most of the ;*omp and show of these [have championship teams and thus be
our athletic teams by drawing the best
players from our neighboring high
Smooth and Rich and Velvety
Velva
Breakfast
Syrup
Velva has a full velvety richness en-
tirely different from ordinary syrups.
Velva i* made from the pure quice
of the sugar cane in the P. and F.
quality way—that’s why it’s different.
□ □
Ask Your
Grocer
□ □
Penick & Ford, Ltd.
where, or staying at home.
It is unnecessary to produce further
next ten years. The fact is that the
banquets never attract students to the
college, and never help advance the ma
ferial interests of the school, but really
help to hinder its progress in that they
occasions is caused and indulged in aide to inmunCc and force the ether
simply to outdo the other side, ft schools to adopt the policy of pure ath-
argument to show the great value of is another unreasonable condition of af- letics. This result would be worth far
the above suggestion. Everyone can fairs that most of the members of both more to Polytechnic in a material way
readily see its pertinence. Now the societies will and do withhold their than all the society banquets for the
question is. can we afford it. or are money and support from the undertak-
we equal to the occasion. Of course ings of the students that are of com-
vve are. and every loyal student will mon interest to them and the school in
scofT at the idea of not being able to order that they may spend from $f> to
do it. $10 to attend their society banquets.
If is true that it will require the which arc of interest only to a part of draw the surplus money of the stu
joint action of all the organizations the students, and of very little value dents from its legitimate channels, Ke-
vvithin the school. Rut this can easily to the school itself. member. I am speaking only of pres-
be secured, for of what value to the The next proposition is that these enf conditions, and that circumstances
college is a sub-organization that does banquets do not adequately answer alter cases. ( ircumstances now de-
not lend its everv effort to the further- the purpose for which they were in- mand that we have the track meet, and
mice of the best interests of the school, augurated. It is not my purpose to in order to have the track meet $1,000
or of what value to the whole is the j belittle the value and significance of the must be raised, and to raise this atnouni
part if the part is not in perfect svm- banquet*, but I do not believe they the students must subscribe half of it,
pathv and accord with the whole. Be- are the best means by which we can de- and the best and most feasible plan to
sides the nature of this undertaking velop our members into polished gen- raise this hall would be to spend this
demands that the student body be the tlenien and ladies, and fit them to take year's banquet money that way.
promoters of it. It is such things ns their places in their proper social I liis does not mean that I am argu
inter-high school track meets that the spheres. The majority of those who ing f«»r a permanent discontinuance of
-indent bodies of the large universities attend these banquets have never been the banquets, and that we should go
to a dinner served in courses, or to j wholly unbanqueted this year.
10 per cent Discount
TO FACULTY
and STUDENTS
HORRELL & CRISS
THE CENTER CLOTHIERS
Main and Tenth
urge forward and promote in order
that they may have a part in, and help
carry out, the policies and interests of
their alma maters,
We CAN put this suggestion con-
ceived by our Bursar into practice, and
therefore we must do it. If we do not
it will be a neglected opportunity.
After this has been decided it is
necessary to determine what specific
things must he done, and how best
to do them. The accomplishment of
the track meet demands considerable
improvement on our track and athletic
field. It is estimated that it would take
only about $1,000 to build a park fence
around our field, grade it up level and
build a grandstand of five hundred ca-
anything of this kind and consequently
the elaborateness of the banquet and
the lack of experience throw him in
a bad light. 1 use the masculine pro-
noun because this is not applicable to
the other sex.. When training boys and
girls in all other phases of their edu-
cation they are first taught the rudi-
ments. It should he thus in their so-
cial training. A large number of the
average pupils in Polytechnic do not
know their A, B. Cs socially, yet in
the first year of their college life they
are urged to begin on such an advanced
course as a banquet in the best hotels
in the state, ft is not best in train-j
ing a fellow socially to restrain him i
Let us look for a while at the ex-
ALBERT LOWE
TOR COAL AN!) WOOD
Baggage and Express
Hauling a Specialty
Worth flou
ONE SACK MEANS MORE
Medlin Milling Co.
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The Independent (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 18, 1909, newspaper, December 18, 1909; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth855672/m1/2/?q=%22Education+-+Colleges+and+Universities+-+Texas+Wesleyan+University%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Wesleyan University.