Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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The evolutionary process through which Millsaps College has passed during the first ten years of its history has developed an ever-increasing demand for better dormitory and dining-hall facilities. This need was supplied in the gift of Maj. Millsaps of the property formerly known as Jackson College. The splendid brick structure thus secured, together with other buildings admirably adapted to college uses, enables the institution to adequately meet the demands made upon it. With an endowment of more than Sioo.ooo, and buildings and grounds worth approx- imately $100,000 more, it rests on a foundation which guaranteees its perpetuity. It has the support of a great religious denomination, vet it is not sectarian in its policv, but numbers among its patrons representatives of all the Christian Churches. (3ne of the purposes the College keeps constantly in view is indicated by the follow- ing section of the Charter: The cost of education shall, as far as practicable, be reduced to the lowest point consistent with efficient operation of said College; and every reasonable effort shall be made to bring a collegiate education within the ability of the poorer classes of the State

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Department to enter on the work of regular pastorate. In reorganizing the depart- ment, it was made more distinctively a training school with independent jurisdic- tion, and Prof. R. vS. Ricketts was elected Head Master, with Pro ' . E. h- Bailev as Assistant Master. The formal establishment of the Department of Modern Languages and His- tory was effected by action of the Board of Trustees in June, 1897, and Prof. J. P. Hanner was elcted to fill the chair thus created. Work, however, had been offered in these subjects prior to this Lme. The organization indicated bv this review represents the status of affairs ex- isting up to that t,me; but the peisoiuiel of the Faculty has been changed in sev- eral departments. Dr. J. A. Moore was elected Professor in Mathematics in June, 1894, to succeed Prof. N. A. Patilo, which chair he has held since. In June, 1900, Prof. D. H. Bishop was elected to the chair of English to succeed Prof. Weber. Prof. Bishop held this chair, where he won the highest regard and respect of the Faculty, Board of Trustees, and especially the student-body, until 1904, when he was elected to the chair of Enghsh in the State Uuiversitv at Oxford, Mississippi. In I goo Prof. B. E. Young was elected to the chair of Modern Languages and His- tory, which place he held unt.l 1904, when he was elected Adjunct Professor in Romance Language in Vanderbilt Un.vers.ty. In 1903 Prof. J. E. A ' almslev was elected Acting Professor of Modern Languages and History, as Prof. Young was away in Europe studying. In 1904 Prof. Walmsley was elected Professor m His- tory, which was made separate from the Modern Languages. Professor OLn H. Moore was elected to the chair of Modern Languages. To the chair of English, made vacant by the resignation of Prof. Bishop, Dr. A. A. Kern was elected. In 1900 Prof. E. L. Ba.lev resigned as AsSj.stant Master ,n the Preparatory Depart- ment, and Prof. G. ' . Huddleston was elected in his place. Dr. J. M. SulLvan was elected to the chair of Physics and Chemistry in 1902 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Prof. Muckenfuss. The remarkable facilities for conducting a law school in Jackson led to the establishment in 1896 of a Law Department. The Hon. Edward Mayes, ex-Chan- cellor of the iMississippi State University, and for over fourteen years a professor of law in that institution, was engaged to take active control of this department. Dr. Mayes has associated with him as active professors Judge A. H. Whitfield, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, and Judge Wm. R. Harper, a dis- tinguished member of the Jackson bar. In addition to the buildings first provided, consisting of the main college build- ing, the President ' s house and houses for the accommodation of students, the facil- ities of the institution were greatly enlarged during the session of 1895-96 by the generosity of Maj. M.llsaps in the gJt of the Webster Science Hall, at a cost of $10,- 000. In 190 1 Mr. Dan. A. James, of Yazoo City, built an observatory for the col lege in honor of the memory of his father, Mr. Peter James, and of his brother, I Ir. Samuel James, and furnished it with a magnificent telescope, thus enabling us to offer the finest advantages in the study of Astronomv. 21

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