Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Charles Bina m Wkav, ICIi.S,, C.IUA., MX.S. Dean of I hr School of Commerce The School of Commerce was founded just ten years ago. It aim to bring its advantages as near to all the people as possilitr; to provide a liberal, thorough, and practical education. Special emphasis is placed upon the importance of practical training, the application of scientific principle ; yet the disciplinary value of education i- kept constantly in view. It is recognized that man is most important and in all the work the object is to develop high ideals of manhood, to foster all that makes lor right Iking arid good citizenship. Bark Harris An person, Ph.B., Th.M., D.I . Dean of the School of Christianity Mercer University is a Christian School, being fostered by a large Christian body, in the intrrrst of Christian ideals, work, and citizenship. Men posi- tively Christian in faith and condoct are sought for her faculty, and her work is done in a developing Christian atmosphere. The school of Christianity is ao integral part of the University's work. It is or- ganized primarily for the training of preachers, though its classes are open to alt students on equal terms. The full senior year's work looking to the Bachelor's Degree, may be elected it) the field nl I licology. A full year of graduate work, looking to the Master's Degree, may also be elected in this field.

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Benjamin Ci.ark Hoi.tzclmv, Jr. A.B., B.A., ani M.A. (oxon), Pli.D. Di’tni of the School of f.Uit’idl .1 m Education means not only adapting oneself to the environment, but also niJiMiag the horizons of the environment, so that increasingly more of the world in which we lis t mat have a meaning for us. With- out sitrh a widening oi mental horizons, education becomes a knack or trade and the individual merely a bundle of specialized habits. It is this process of expansion of intellectual interests which it is the peculiar function of the College pi Liberal Arts to inaugurate, and which will therefore always make oi rh.tr School the very cen tre and kernel tit a real educat ion. Joseph Adoi.imu s McClain, Jr., A.B., IX.B. DeaM of the Law School The Mercer University Law School is one of the two standard law schools in Georgia, The Law School is a member of the Association of American Law Schools which has only admitted sixty-three schools, tins association being the standardizing agency for las' schools in America. The Mercer Law School has also been classified as a standard school by the American Bar Association, and lias been placed on the list of approved law schools by such association. I In- Law School is one of the oldest schools at Mercer University, it having been established for approximately seventy-five years, and has at least one thousand alumni.

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Wi.mo.mi: TatMAiiK Smalley, A.B., AM. Dean of 'Eteshmen The purpose or the Freshman Dcanship is to help tin- firs!-year man land himself. At a crucial point in the lives of hundreds of boys—the change front home environment to college life—rl»c Dean of Freshmen stands as a guidepost pointing the way to a safe and worthy destination. He is mure than a guidepost: lie is a sort of good angel directing the young Hercules to an arduous upward climb» at tlie lop of which the prospect is wide and beautiful; sir he is sometimes a good Sa- maritan caring for the beaten and bruised freshman who fell into rough hands just a little way out of Jericho. Peyton Jacob, A.B., AM. Dean of the School of Education The function of a higher institution under Chris- tian auspices is to train for those professions which Constitute most to the purpose of the Church on l iirth. l eaching i ranked with the ministry in op- portunities for service. For that reason the School of Fducation was established in 1920, to take its place along side the other professional schools. Mercer University has. through the years, been engaged in the training of teachers. It has contributed more than its proportion of educational leaders. The establishing of a distinct school has made possible tbr more adequate performance of a task which has been hers from the beginning.