Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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Faculty. OFFICERS. WiLUAM Belton Murrah, D.D., LL.D., President. •—James Magruder Sullivan, A.M., Ph.D., Vice-President. Edward Mayes, LL.D., Dean of the Law Department. Robert Scott Ricketts, A.M., Head Master of the Preparatory Department. James Elliott Walmsley, A.B., Ph.D., Secretary. Alfred Allan Kern, A.M., Ph.D., Mrs. M. W. Swartz, Librarians.

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College Faculty. Rev. William Beltcjn Mirrah, D.D., LL-D., Professor of Mciila a)td Mora Philosophy. A.B,, Southern University, 1874; D.D., Centenary College, 1887; LL.D., Wofford College, 1897; Principal Winona High vSchool, 1882-1884; Vice-Presi- dent Whitworth Female College, 1886-1892: member of the North Mississippi Conference since 1874; member Board of Education of M. E. Church, South; elected General Secretary of Board of Education in i8g8, but declined the ]30- sition; delegate to Ecumenical Conferences at Washington in 1891 and London in 1 901; Fraternal Messenger to Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, 1892; six times delegate to General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. J. T. Erwin, A.B., A.M., Professor of Maihemaiics and Aslronomy. A.B., A. I. ( ' anderbilt University); for two years Professor of Mathematics in Rutherford College; for one year after receiving the degree of M. A., Graduate Fellow and Assistant in Mathematics in ' anderbilt University; for two years Principal of the Public Schools of Martinsville, ' a. ; for one year Instructor of Mathematics in the University of Alabama, resigning this last position to accept the invitation to teach Mathematics in Millsaps College. John Magruder Sullivan, A.M., Ph.D. Professor of Geology, Chemistry, and Physics. A.B., Centenary College, 1887; A.M., University of Mississippi, 1890; A.M., Vanderbilt University, 1897; Ph.D., ' anderbilt University, 1900; Professor of Natural Science, Centenary College, 1889-1902; Assistant in Astronomy, Vander- bilt University, 1896-1897; Member of American Chemical Society, of American Society for the Advancement of Science, of the Audubon Society. James Elliot Walmsley, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History and Economics. A.B. and A.M., Randolph-Macon College, 1894; Ph.D., Ilhnois Wesleyan University, 1907; Instructor in English and Greek, Randolph-Macon College, 1893-1895; Instructor in Latin and Greek, Randolph-Macon Academy, 1895- 1897; Professor of Latin and History, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1897-1901; Professor of History and Economics, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1901-1903; • 10