Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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PRESIDENT WILLIAM JOSEPH MARTIN A.B.. M.A. (Davidson): M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins): LL.D. (University of Virginia

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P! 1 P Tne Faculty N PACiP; 12=, lit the I)a i(isoii College catalogue will be found the fol- lowing: It is not too much to say that the student body at Davidson is iiniiiuc among riie institutions of learning. The paragraph then goes on to say tliat the student body is representative of the best to be had in culture, sobriety, ami purity. Of course credit must be given to home training and hereditary instincts, but we believe that the staunch character maintained by the student body is due primarily to the influence of the Davidson College faculty. This group of men is certainly representative of the criteria of purity, sobriety, and above all. Christian character. Every man on the faculty is a professed Christian, and a practical one. If there is a sermon to be delivered, a prayer to be offered, an appeal to be raised in the n:ime of the Master, any member of the faculty can be relied on to do his part. Not only are these men staunch Christians, but they are the one college group that has not allowed the extreme views of the so-called modernists to undermine the more sane ideas that they have. Do not make the mistake that a great number of people do and think that the facu lty is narrow and too conservative. It is only sane. The students are given the same broad views at Davidson that an other students are given, but in a more sane manner and in smaller doses that do not tend to cause any up- settings of a man ' s ideals or his religious convictions. Rather, they will be greatly strengthened and clarified by the influence of this sane teaching. Seven of the members of the faculty did their graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University, three at ' ale, three at University of Virginia, one at Maryland, one at Leipsic; several have done work at Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, Michigan, Prmce- ton, and other large institutions. Fifteen of them received their undergraduate work at Davidson. Every man is fitted admirably to attend to the duties of his department, for as the fruit is always the test of any plan or institution, a glance over the history of the men who have studied at Davidson will show that the training received at Davidson under this well prepared faculty has brought success in a full measure. It is not only in the classroom that the faculty is interested, but in every move- ment undertaken by the students. All the organizations on the campus have their faculty advisers and counsellors. Athletic policies are made a success through the men of the faculty. Fraternities and literary societies have their being through the faculty.

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Manh 2, liIU4 — (©rtnlirr 22. 1924 Memoriam Likf piririil slrciuiii that Jill a lake And rest, thoiu li sens he nigh: Liie peaks thai rear their tuii hty heads, Yet jail to t ' lueh the sky. Like laen nho win the laurel iireath. Ere all the rare he run : Like CJirist. too early dead are they Who die ere life is done. Nuonubrr 2D. 1UU4 — Ularrlt 6. 1925