Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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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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' ' The session of 1905-1906 has been prosperous, notwithstanding a rather unpropitious beginning. The opening had to be postponed six weeks because of quarantines, but the lost time has been made up, and good work has been done. The College has also made a marked advance in its material equipment. Last Commencement the Trustees decided to add $100,000 to the endowment fund, and, through the work of Bishop Galloway and Dr. Murrah, the whole of this amount is now in sight. In March, Mr. Carnegie offered to g ve the, College ?i 5,000 for a library building on condition that an endowment of the same amount for the library should be secured. Major Millsaps at once gave the $15,000; and it is expected to have the building completed by the opening of the next session. The Board of Editors has endeavored to make this the second volume of Bobashela a fit souvenir of a prosperous session, and if it proves to be such it will accomplish all we hope for it. We have done our best, and we present this volume just as it is, without apologizing for its shortcomings or asking praise for its virtues. We take this opportunity to thank those who have so kindly helped us. First, we wish to acknowledge our obligations to Professors Kern and Walmsley, who have aided us with contributions and with valuable suggestions and kindly advice. Our thanks are also due to Misses Laura Ray and Bonnie Moore and to Mr. L. K. Carlton for contribu- tions to the Art Department. We are indebted to Mr. J. B. Huddleston for some excellent kodak views of the campus. We cordially thank all those who have aided us, whether with contributions or otherwise, and we wish to express our appreciation of the courtesies shown us by the Faculty and student-body.