Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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DR. One of the finest things that can be said of a teacher is that he compels his students to think. Such a man was Dr. Cayley, who died on May 17, 195d. Tough-minded and keen of speech, he approached each class as a kind of combat in which the weapons were intelligence and information, the field w'as the accumulated experience of mankind, and the victory was Truth. His students remember how it feels to be hemmed in, driven to the wall, and forced to examine ideas in the light of evidence. Thus was built a select and devoted following which is a living monument to his career. Dr. Cayley was broadly educated at the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba, and at the University of Chicago where he received the Ph D. A member of the Jacksonville faculty since 193 4, he was, at the time of his death, head of the political science department and chairman of the social science division. His special pleasure was the preparation of pre-law students, a field in which he earned notable recognition. The college can pay him no f;ner tribute than to preserve his veneration for “scholarship,” which was to him the greatest word in the English language. ji 15

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Memorial MRS. CAROLINE EDWARDS The paintings of Caroline Edwards arc a key to the character of the woman. Full of quiet beauty and dignity, tasteful and deeply genuine, they express her own graceful adjustment to life. It is significant that her best known work was in portraiture, for in this medium she revealed her abiding interest in human individuality. So was she also as a teacher of art—personally interested in her students, eager that each should discover his or her own creativity, and quick to offer expert and gentle guidance. Trained at Sophie Newcomb College and the Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. Edwards had been associated with the Jacksonville faculty for four years before her untimely death on July 25, 195T The college mourns her loss with gratitude for that part of her which still remains with us.

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DEDICATION In Jacksonville's greatest single year of building expansion, it is appropriate that the MIMOSA be dedicated to the men who are chiefly responsible. Dr. Cole, our president, Solon Glover, our business manager, and John Duncan, our superintendent of buildings, have commenced or finished eight new buildings and additions, including a science building, two new dormitories, a home economics laboratory, an all-purpose building, and an expanded elementary school. As further tokens of their astute guidance — and Jacksonville’s rapid g been projected fc rth — five more buildings have