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Page 11 text:
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ditions of the College is the ovation with which the students received Bishop Galloway ' s announcement that Dr. Murrah had consented, at the urgent request of the Board of Trustees, to give up this highest educational honor in his church in order to continue his work at Millsaps College. There are no better judges of character in the world than college students. They are quick to see merit and to penetrate sham and cant. It would be hard to find a college president who commands a more genuine respect and confidence than Dr. Murrah. Hav- ing had peculiar opportunities for knowing the students and their real opinions, I cannot recall a single instance of a student who has not implicitly accepted the justice of Dr. Murrah ' s position, even when he announces that some pet diversion cannot be tolerated. Perhaps the greatest benefit that a college student gets from his course is the new ideals he forms and the inspiration he receives from his instructors. One would not go far wrong in ascribing a large part of the phenomenal success that has crowned the course of Millsaps boys at home and abroad to the inspiration of a college president, who is a strong executive, a Christian scholar, a polished orator, and a manly gentleman. In his relations with his faculty Dr. Murrah has the quality without which all other good qualilnes are worse than useless — tact. I know of absolutely no other college in which for over fourteen vears there has not been a single case of friction between execu- tive and faculty. Every member of the Millsaps Faculty feels that Dr. Murrah is a per- sonal friend and a svmpathic adviser in the work of his department. Dr. Murrah is still in the prime of life, and in the bright future that is now opening before the College its friends love to think of his firm hand and wise direction as leading on to opportunities of still greater usefulness. — . E. W .
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WILLIAM BELTON MURRAH. A few years since, when I was speaking to a school man of much experience in a neigh- boring State in regard to accepting a position in Millsaps College, he said : Accept it by all means; much of your success as a teacher depends on your president. Tl ere is no bet- ter college president in the South than Dr. Murrah. From this point of view I purpose saying something of our president as an executive and as a worthy model for voung men. A native of Alabama, and a graduate of the Southern University, at Greensboro, Ala- bama, he early became indentified with Mississippi, and there is to-day no native Mississip- pian who is more ardently devoted to his State than Dr. Murrah. His closest friends are surprised at times at the intimate knowledge he has of men and measures not simply in the educational and ecclesiastic fields, but also in business and politics. Those who know him best have found that under a very placid exterior he conceals an ability, like that of Secretary Taft, of accomplishing a vast amount of work without appearing to be bjsy, and of forming estimates of things while apparently hearing nothing. He dis- poses of immense quantities of work with an air of beneficent leisure. Soon after graduating from the Southern University he joined the North Mississippi Conference, and was stat ' cned successivfly at Oxfcid, Wircra end Atcidttn. In igg6 he entered upon educational work, and connected himself with Whitworth College. From the position of vice-president of this institution he was called to take full charge of the work at Millsaps College when the College was organized. He is the only member of the Faculty who was with the College at its inception, and in a peculiar sense is entitled to feel that its marvelous success is his life work. Dr. Murrah is one of those men whom the king delights to honor. In 1887 the degree of D.D. was conferred on him b}- Centenary College, and in 1897 he was made an LL.D. by Wofford College. His own Conference has conferred on him every honor in its power, and he is now representing it for the sixth time in the General Conference of his church. In 1891 he was one of the representatives for his denomination to the Ecumeni- cal Conference held in Washington, D. C, and in 1901 he represented his church when the same body met in London. In 1892 he was the fraternal messenger from his church to the Methodist Church of Canada, and in 1898 he was elected General Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. One of the bright tra- 6
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