Title

Pages from February 1912 Howard Payne Exponent

Subject

Classic Hall, Howard Payne College

Description

Page 3 - Memorial service held in Classic Hall for Miss Cardwell and Mrs. Williams.
Page 12- Program of Senior Recitals Held in Classic Hall

Source

Central Methodist University Archives

Date

19120201

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution License

Format

PDF

Language

English

Text

THE EXPONENT
OF
HOWARD-PAYNE COLLEGE
Published Every Month During School Year
FOR TERMS APPLY TO
Helen Gardner or Ella Vail
Business Managers

Contents For February Exponent
LITERARY- PAGE
Memorial Service ........................ 3
EDITORIAL ............................... 12
ALUMNAE ................................. -
EXCHANGES ............................... 15
Y. W. C. A .............................. 16
ATHLETIC ................................ 17
LOCALS .................................. -


HOWARD-PAYNE EXPONENT
Vol. 23 FAYETTE, MISSOURI, FEBRUARY 1912 No. 5

Memorial Service
On Sunday, January 28, 1912, a Memorial Service
was held in Classic Hall at Howard-Payne for Miss Cardwell
and Mrs. Williams, wife of Professor Williams, who
just this year became a member of our faculty. We feel
very deeply the loss of these friends and in Miss Cardwell
we have lost much more than a friend, for she was
a second mother to all the girls of Howard-Payne. We
are unable to fully express our sorrow. The following
talks given at the Memorial Service will show how much
these two women were honored and loved by us of Howard
Payne and by all who knew them:

MRS. WILLIAMS
Mrs. Nannie Lewis Williams, the wife of Prof. S. M.
Williams, was born and reared at Curryville in Pike
county, Missouri. Here she received her early education;
later she attended Stephens College at Columbia, Mo.,
but because of failing health had to leave school six
months before her graduation.
Again in 1902 when her husband entered Central
College she also took the same work and they pursued
their studies together until the Sophomore year was
reached, when again she was compelled to give up her
work in school because of serious trouble with her eyes.
She had a thirst for knowledge and it was a source of
sorrow to her that her studies could not be continued.
In early life her conscience was touched by the Holy
Spirit and she yielded herself to the Great Shepherd, to
whose guidance she ever afterward remained especially
susceptible and obedient. Different ones of her most in-


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Howard-Payne Exponent
Editorial Staff 1911--12
NELL SEVIER, Editor-in-Chief
MARGARET TRESCOTT, Associate Editor
NINA STALLINGS, } Literary Editors
ALMA MYERS,
RENA YOUNGER, } Local Editors
FANNIE MARIE SCHUTE,
JUNE SHAW, Y. W. C. A. Editor
SALLIE DOUGLAS Exchange Editor
MARY DIMMITT Alumnae Editor
HELEN GARDNER, } Business Managers
ELLA VAIL,

The exponent is published monthly during the college year by the
Automathean and Philomathean Literary Socities of Howard-Payne College,
Fayette, Missouri.
All business communications and orders for subscriptions for The
Exponent should be addressed to the Business Managers.
TERMS:-One Copy, One Year, to any Address, 75 cents.

EDITORIAL
On Monday evening, February 12th, and on Wednesday
evening, February 14th, the Senior Recitals were
held in Classic Hall. The following programs were rendered:
SENIOR RECITAL.
Classic Hall, Howard-Payne College, Monday Evening,
February the 12th, 8 O'clock.
Concerto .............................. Chopin
Romanze
Miss Combs
a. Mi Teresita ........................ Carreno
b. Novelette ...................... Marc Dowell
Miss Northrop.
One of Bob's Tramps ........ F. Hopkinson Smith
Miss Hocker


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a. Song Without Words ................. Sinding
b. La Livry ......................... Chaminade
Miss Fray
a. Polonaise ............................. Lack
b. Mazurka ...................... Meyer Helmund
Miss Brown
The Spelling Lesson from "Emmy Lou" .... Marten
Miss Hocker
a. Gavotte ........................ Gluck-Brahms
b. On the Holy Mount .................... Dvorak
Miss Vail
a. Dialogue Without Words ............... Preyer
b. Humoresque ..................... Tschaikowsky
c. Prelude ........................ Rachmaninoff
Miss Tistadt
a. My Ships ........................... Kingsley
b. If- ................................. Kipling
Miss Hocker
Concerto ................................ Pierne
Final
Miss Fray

SENIOR RECITAL
Classic Hall, Howard-Payne College, Wednesday Evening,
February 14th, 8:15 O'clock.
Concerto ............................ Mendelssohn
Molto Allegro con fuoco
Miss Maupin
Song of a Shirt ............. Mary Stuart Cutting
Miss Hogan
a. Prelude ............................... Chopin
b. Romance in E flat ................. Rubinstein
Miss Tarleton
La Fileuse ................................. Raff
Miss Kelley
Love Among the Ruins ................... Browning
Miss Hogan


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To a Water Lily ...................... Mac Dowell
Miss Maupin.
a. Aufschwung .......................... Schumann
b. Air de ballet ...................... Chaminade
Miss Sevier.
End of the Task ................... Bruno Lessing
Miss Hogan.
Concerto ............................ Mendelssohn
Capriccio Brilliant.
Miss Kelley.

On Friday evening, February the 16th, the girls of
Central College entertained in honor of the Missouri
Weslyan and Howard-Payne basket ball teams in the
society halls in Central. They showed themselves proficient
in the art of entertaining and the evening was a
very delightful one. In spite of the fact that the two
preceding games afforded such unhappy results, everyone
was in high spirits and the time seemed excedingly short.
Punch was served.

February the 7th was the anniversary of the birth
of Charles Dickens. In view of this fact our chapel exercises
of that week were devoted to this famous novelist.
Each morning a paper on some phase of Dickens'
life or works was read by one of the girls and the oratory
pupils gave readings from some of his most noted works.
Dickens is one of the greatest of English authors and
the time we devoted to him was very instructive and
enjoyable.

What is life? Is it something so disagreeable, then,
that we rush through it as if driven by a whirlwind?
Each day finds us hurrying faster and faster through
youth and middle age, then as we come to old age, pausing
for a moment perhaps, before leaving it forever.
Why not stop once in awhile in the midst of life and


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enjoy it, especially in this age when we have so many
real pleasures and blessings. Each age is better than the
preceding one, yet each age finds us in a bigger hurry to
get through with it. We have so many advantages now
over the people of other days. We are endowed with so
much beautiful poetry and elevating truths which we
have received as an heritage from our forefathers. what
a sad thing it must have been to have lived in those times
when the people had no sure belief in immortality. Life
must then have been dreary indeed, but we have had
that idea worked out for us. Man is never satisfied with
his lot, but is always searching for some higher, nobler
truths. So we have left to us such gems as the following
by an obscure poet, but nevertheless a beautiful thought:
"Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me's a secret yet.
"Life! we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me good moring."

EXCHANGE
Among some of the good college papers we have received
are the Drury Mirror Normal Student, William
Jewell Student and the Central Wesleyan Star. There
are many commendable things found in the various papers
and are worthy of mention. We believe however that
the best way to improve our college papers since we are
more or less judged by our publications is to have the
best possible material. We are compelled to have some