Darlington School - Jabberwock Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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JAMES ROSS MCCAIN half of each year and Mr J N Kung was the ummeduate pount of contact between the trustees and the school Thus the heavy responsubulutues of guudung the new enterpruse through rts Hrst year of exustence rested largely upon the shoulders of the young pruncupal The thorough and scholarly manner un whuch he laud the foundatuons of the new school hrs forthrught Chrustuan udeals and hugh standards of personal conduct and hus unturung energy and enterpruse un the performance of hrs dauly tasks all worked together to assure a favorable and effectuve begunnung for the new school And so long as Darlungton School shall contunue to luve and work un behalf of young manhood the abudung unfluence of James Ross McCaun shall contunue to be felt Dur ng uts furst year of exustence Mr McCaun was the only officer or teacher of the school However quotung Mr McCaun I was ably assusted by Shem Thomas the uanutor un keepung up the morale of the school Durung thus furst year there were some twenty students enrolled and takung courses un about seven dufferent grades THIS sutuatuon presented a real problem to the sungle teacher whuch he solved by conduct ung the dauly sessuons un two duvusuons the grammar grades un the mornung and the hugh school work un the afternoon Agaun quotung Mr McCaun It was umpossuble to hear all the classes every day but the pupuls seemed not to mund that In addutuon to hus teachung dutues durung the furst year Mr McCaun managed to fund tume to coach Darlungton's flrst football team The first year of the school convunced all concerned that there was a place for such work wuth boys and so for the second year the buuldung was consuderably enlarged and two addutuonal teachers were secured However even durung the summer of l906 Mr McCaun returned to the unuversuty for study leavung to Mr and Mrs Cooper the recruutung of students and the completuon ofthe buuldung It was not untul the summer of l907 that the pruncupal began to arrange for the enrollment of students and for the handlung of school detauls Ulf McCaun was pruncupal of Darlungton School for ten years beung absent on leave for the term l9Il I9l2 durung whuch tume Col W M Kemper was actung pruncupal Durung hus tenure he labored unceasungly to buuld the curruculum on sound but progres suve educatuonal pruncuples and to mauntaun throughout every phase of school lufe , . . . 1 1 1 1 1 I i , . . . .. . ' I ' I I . . , . ur . . . , . . . . u. ' 1 . . . . ,, , . . . , . . .. . . , . , . I I . , , . 1 - - . 1 - , . . . . 1 1 1

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JAMES ROSS MCCAIN the hughest standards ot Chrrstuan character Known tamlllarly to has students as Fesser Mc he kept rn close touch nndrvndually wrth the boys and although he was regarded by them a a somewhat struct dlsclplrnanan admrnnsterrng penaltnes promptly for lntractnons ot' rules he gained their lastrng devotion and admlratuon through has unquestnoned srncerlty talrness and the engaging srmplnclty ot has demeanor Workrng In close contact with Mr Cooper James Ross McCann carefully lard the 'foundatlons of the schools curriculum and tradrtrons He was much rnterested In havmg Darlington graduates go to college and accordingly the standards of scholar ship and academic achrevement were devlsed to meet the most exacting requrrements of rnstntutrons ot hrgher educatron Consequently through the years Darlrngton has malntauned a notable record rn thus treld a large majornty ot her graduates gorng on to complete college and unrversuty courses wrth marked success However study was not over emphasrzed to the neglect ot more Important matters Dr McCann by example and nntelllgent dlrectaon labored to establish tradntrons ot honor rntegrrty lndustry and the attarnment ot Christian character Whale prrnclpal ot Darlrngton School Mr McCann completed the work tor the M A degree whnch he received from the Unrverslty otCh1cago un I9Il and also the work tor the Ph D degree which he received from Columbra Unlversrty In I9l4 In I9l5 he resrgned as prrncupal of Darlington School to accept the posrtnon as Regxstrar of Agnes Scott College At Agnes Scott College he was made vlce president In I92I and presrdent ln I923 whrch posntlon he now holds Under has able leadership thrs great southern college tor women has made notable progress ln sprte ot hrs characterustrc modesty Dr James Ross McCann has become an Important factor rn the realm ot Amerrcan education He rs actively engaged In the Southern Assocnatnon ot Colleges and Secondary Schools the Southern Unlversrty Conference and IS at the present time presrdent ot the Assocratlon ot Amerrcan Colleges One ot the relatnons whrch he prrzes most according to has own statement rs membershrp on the Board ot Trustees of Darlington School ,, ,, . . .. . I J 1 5 1 I I ' - 1 . , . .. . . 1 1 ' ' I I 1 - 1 ' . . , 1 1 1 , . , . ' ' 1 1 . . , . I . I ' I ' I I I I I