Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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Business Manager MR. LAYTON XY. BAILEY OR the two years that Mr. Bailey has been Business Manager of Southern Methodist University, he has successfully employed his two big sticks, efficiency and economy, although he is known to speak softly. Under his direction the kitchens of the men's and WO11l61l'S dining halls have been combined and a separate purchasing department has been instituted to care for the buying for all departments of the University. But Mr. Baileyis popularity and success do not rest solely on his competent management of the S. M. U.'s business, for he has won a place in the hearts of the student body because of his kind and firm geniality and his sympathy with student interests. Page 24

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Vice President H. M. VVI-IALING, IR., BA., BD. R. VVHALING first came to S. M. U. as Professor of Church History in the School of Theology, where he was not only efficient as a teacher, but used his spare time to form acquaintances among the business men of Dallas and, during the War, filled the pulpit of Highland Park Methodist Church. His ability as a builder and stimulator of interest in whatever he was building led to his election as Vice President in 1919. He immediately began to try to get the business men of Dallas interested in S. M. U. in order that he might wield some influence on the Dallas students who were going away to College. The best proof of Dr. Whaling's ability is found in the fact that S. M. U. now gets the majority of the graduates from the Dallas high schools and has almost the unanimous sup- port of the business men of Dallas. To Dr. Whaling we extend our appreciation for this latest evidence of his ability as a builder, an organizer and a go-getter. Page 23

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Graduate School DR. ELLIS VV. SHULER Dean LTI-TOUGH graduate work has been offered in Southern Methodist Univer- sity since the opening of the school, no definite organization was effected until the spring of 1920. The Graduate Committee, consisting of the President, the Chairman of the Graduate School and five professors, exercises the adminis- trative functions of the faculty. Graduate work leading to the Master's degree is now offered in eighteen departments: Biology, Commerce, Economics, Education, English, French, General Literature, Geology, Government, History, Latin, Mathematics, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy and Psychology, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology, and Spanish. Other departments will in all probability offer graduates courses in 1926-27. The total number of graduate courses offered in S. M. U. is comparatively small, but it is confidently believed that the quality of Work is excellent and that the Master's degree as given at S. M. U. measures fully to the standards set by the larger universities in the country. Page 25