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

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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

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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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College of Arts and Seienees E. D. jENN1NGs EAN IENNINGS is the father of the student body of Southern Methodist University. He is the advisor, the confidant, and the father-Confessor for the students, and his office may be likened to the old smokehouse where the naughty wayward boy was dragged with lagging steps. The students fear to see a notice in the Dean's office, for they know that their sins have found them out, yet when they leave they always feel better, for the Dean is big-hearted and merciful despite his firmness and demand that the rules of the School be observed. Yet, in spite of his taking all the burdens and troubles of the student body on his shoulders, the Dean is genial and jovial and not in the least like the severe disciplinarian one would expect. Perhaps the secret of his youthful buoyancy lies in the fact that he has learned to sympathize with the students and never gives them up as lost. And his intellect is as broad as his mind and his shoulders, for he holds a BA. from Randolph College and a BA., a M. A. and a P'h.D'. from Texas University. Page 26