Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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0 the Students Would it be too much to say that the law of heredity operates in institutions as well as in animals and human beings? At any rate, something gets into the lifefblood of a college or university that persists in staying there, It may be something high and refined, or something common and gross. Nevertheless, habits of thought, moral attif tudes, and intellectual standards, are handed down from class to class, decade to decade, and even from century to century. Traditions hang about buildings, trees, columns, pictures and grounds. A room at Oxford, a fence at Yale, a flagpole at Columbia, a haystack at Williams, the stump of an old tree at Dartmouth-these tell romantic tales that fire or temper the impetuous blood of each succeeding generation of students. At Southern Methodist University shall it be democracy or snobbishnessg clean athletics or compromiseg reverence for God and religion or flippancy, truth, honor, and integrity, or any careless way to get by? lt is our unique privilege and prerogative to determine what elements shall prevail in the life stream of Southern Methodist University. We can say whether they shall be positive or negative, merely conventional or dominant and personal. Future generf ations of students shall be called upon to remember, preserve, venerate, and transmit, but it is yours to create, to type, to inaugurate. Yours is the charm and romance of beginnings. Despising all secondary appeals, disdaining all compromises, may you be real pioneers. Benjamin Franklin said, If a man would be remembered after he is dead, let him write things Worth reading or do things worth writing. My vision of the greater University of tomorrow rests upon the solid basis of a loyal, sincere, ambitious, industrious student body of today. f 0 Page IQ

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Our Tresidefzt I i DR. CHARLES C. SELECMAN President Southern Methodist University Page IS

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Vice Tresident 1 , sf- M Q DR. Hon.-ics MORELAND VJHALING, JR. H. M. Whaling, Jr., Vice President of Southern Methodist University, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He took his B. A. degree from the University of Texas, and his B. D. degree from Vanderbilt. During the Summer vacations of his theological course, he served as assistant pastor at St. Paul's Methodist Church, and was then appointed pastor of McKee Street Church, both of Houston, Texas. A group of influential business men became interested in a home for vgorking girls, and a permanent building was erected at a cost of S66,000, after a successful campaign under the direction of Mr. Whaling. The fourfyear limit moved him to Woodlarmd Heights at Houston, Texas, where a Church was organized and a building erected. In 1915 Bishop Mouzon appointed him Professor of Church History in the School of Theology at Southern Methodist Unif versity. The Spring semester of 1916 was spent at Columbia. In the Fall of that year he took up his duties as Professor in the School of Theology. During the war the pastorate of Highland Park Methodist Church became vacant, and he took over the pastoral care of that Church in addition to his teaching duties. In 1919 he was elected Vice President of Southern Methodist University. Page 20