Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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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

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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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Charles B Wray. BBS, M.C,S„ C P A Dean SCHOOL OF COMMERCE THE School of Commerce was organized in 1919 and gave its first graduate to the world in 1920. The School has grown in popularity consistently and now ranks in point of enrollment as the leading professional school on the campus. It has for its general purpose the offering of instruction intended to tratn the voung man and woman to better meet present day problems in business and in social life The special purpose of the School of Commerce is to equip the student with a knowledge of the fundamental principles underlying the various branches of modern industry, commerce and finance, and to develop in him those skills neces sary for his proper functioning in these various business activities. T he School assumes that each student enrolled has a serious purpose, and on this assump- tion the curriculum is molded with the idea that each student view's business as a profession and is endeavoring to qualify in at least one field of specialization Emphasis is placed on a program which recognizes that success in business is not instantaneous, but comes as a reward of merit which must be demonstrated. While the School holds to the lofty ideal that it must train for leadership, it recognizes a dual task in accomplishing this objective. The curriculum has been planned with this in mind and recognizes the technical or professional side of the business man's life and at the same time views business m the larger sense in which its motives, aspirations anti social obligations are as broad as life itself. DEANS