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

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School of Commerce DR. XVILLIAM F. I-lixLr11AR'r ITH the growth of industry and the consequent increase in economic and general business problems, the science of business has become of such importance as to cause the recognition of business as a profession. It is to meet the demands of professional business and to prepare young men for business that the School of Commerce was organized. The students are taught that there is a code of ethics in business, and that to succeed they must be imbued with a spirit of public service and have a thorough knowledge of the basic principles of business, The growth and general popularity ol the School of Commerce are sufficient evidence to attest to the ability of the faculty of the School, under the direction of Dr. I-lauhart, to lit the students to meet the practical problems of business. Page 27

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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

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School of Theology T DR, PAUL B. KERN TNCE Southern Methodist University is a Methodist Institution, the School of Theology was necessarily of prime importance in the founding of S. M. Lf, and has continued to be one of the most important units in the school. As official Theological Seminary for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the territory west of the Mississippi, it has undertaken to train ministers for the great South- west and its graduates are rapidly climbing to the foremost ranks of the ministers of the Southern Methodist Church. For the last two years the expansion of the School has been particularly great due to its removal into a building of its own, Kirby Hall, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Harper Kirby. The School of Theology has always had an able faculty, but the leader of the School in its success has been its Dean, Dr. Paul B. Kern, a man fully competent to teach the young ministers the abiding principles of Christianity and Methodism. Dr. Kern has been a source of inspiration to the entire student body. He is wholly sincere and as the students friend has made himself loved and respected. Page 28