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The Grealer University Q BOUT sixty-six years ago the wise men of the State of Mississippi decided to establish an institution. which they hoped would stand for the highest and best in life, and make of its young men and women citizens for the great to-morrow. That they planned wisely and well, the brilliant record of the University in the past, the high standard of schol- arship maintained, and the places of trust and honor her graduates fill, bear ample testimony. From a very small be- ginning, the University has grown until today she is one I of the leading universities in the South. Her faculty, always a brilliant one, noted for culture and scholarship, has also grown both in numbers and fame, until today we have just cause to take pride in their recognized standing in the educational world. When we look back and consider the dark days just after the war, and the hard struggle we had to undergo, and see how OUR UNIVERSITY rose up out of the chaos of those dreary days, to be the guiding star of a Younger Mississippi, holding fast to the grand ideals of the past, we can discover the cause of her greatness. If some of her noble sons who have passed beyond the great river were permitted to return and behold their Alma Mater of today. and see the plans for the future, they would indeed rejoice. 10
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lawyer in the State. ranging from the Supreme Vourt of the United States to the lowest courts in the State, and covering almost every phase of law. He was elected as a delegate from the State at large to the Constitutional Convention of 1890, and though he was the youngest member of that convention on the delegation from the State at large, he was placed on the Judiciary Committee, which was headed by Hon. lViley P. Harris, who was probably the ablest lawyer whom the State ever produced, and he was associated on that committee with many others of the ablest lawyers of the State. At its session in Meridian in the year 1909, he was elected president of the Bar Association of the State of Mississippi without a dissenting vote. During his incumbency of the office he corresponded with every lawyer in the State who did not belong to the Association, calling his attention to the necessity of elevating the profession and the advantages to be gained by becoming a member of the Association, the result of which was that the membership of the Association was nearly doubled during his official connection therewith. Mr. Sexton has been actively identified with school work since his majority. He was a trustee of YVhitworth Female College and of Millsaps College for years, and has been president of the Board of Trustees of the Hazlehurst High School for the last twenty years. VVhen he learned that it was the purpose of the Governor of the State to appoint him as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Higher Educational Institutions of the State, thinking it would be impossible for him to make the sacrifice and give the time necessary to properly fill this important position, he went to the Governor and asked him not to make the nomination, but after he was nominated, notwithstanding this protest, upon reflection, considering that it was the best opportunity which had ever been presented to him to render the State a substantial service, he accepted the place. He was then unanimously elected president of the Board. Since his connection with the same he has been doing all in his power to acquaint himself with the general conditions existing at each of the institu-- tions and also the necessities of the situation. To that end, he has gotten in touch with nearly all of the leading educational institutions of the country, and especially those of the Southern States. It is my purpose, he has said, to do everything in my power to elevate the educational standards of the institutions committed to the charge of the Board of Trustees and to increase their efficiency in every possible respect. The necessity for unifying the educational interests of the State and con- tinuing the same in a comprehensive business way cannot be over-estimated by Mississippians, and to make this effort a success challenges my deepest interest, and shall have the benefit of my best endeavor. 9
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