Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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John B. Clark, B S . M.A.. A M.. PhD. Dean COLLEGE OE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ID DUCAT ION means not only adapting oneself to the environment, but also widening II! 0 the horizons of the environment, so that increasingly more of the world in which we live may have a meaning for us. Without such a widening of mental horizons, education be- comes 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 of Liberal Arts to inaugurate. Modern civilization has in no small degree been made possible by college-trained men and women Every present-day tendency seems to enhance the value of such training. T he Liberal Arts College has played, and will continue to play, a most vital role in providing that fundamental training necessary not only for professional specialization, but just as truly for the scholarship and culture requisite ro function most fully in all spheres of life. For those possessed of unusual menial ability, the Graduate School affords an opportunity for continued training in the fundamentals as well as for specialization in the fields of one’s own particular interest. DEANS

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5| nght Dowell, c .c YC., LL D, PRESIDENT

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Joseph A. McClain, Jr., A.B., LL,B. Dean SCHOOL OF LAW CllT HE school year 192910 marks the 52nd anniversary of the Mercer Law School. Dur- lll ing this period the School has contributed some one thousand alumni to the Bench and Bar and to the public life of the State A surprisingly high number of these have attained positions of prominence in tlx State and Nation, It seems peculiarly appropriate that this year should witness the completion at Mercer of one of the finest and most adequate law buildings in the South. Since its organization the School has enjoyed a wide reputation for its high type of work and for the unusually gifted men who have contributed to its success by their service. The Mercer School of Law was one of the first southern schools to adopt the case method of instruction, which is now generally recognized as superior to the text method. It has what is probably the most complete working library in tlx- State of Georgia. T his library, to which an annual addition of some 500 volumes is made, consists of approximately 11,000 volumes. The Mercer Law School has long since met all of the requirements of the standardizing agencies as to faculty, curriculum, library and quarters, and as a consequence it is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, is on the approved list of law schools inspected by the American Bar Association, and its degree is registered with full acceptance by the New York Board of Regents These three bodies constitute the final standardizing agencies for law' schools in America. Truly it would seem that opportunities for legal study, unsurpassed else where in tlx South, are offered to the student in the Mercer University School of Law, DEAN'S