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

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School of Commerce 3s at s oooo use a V DR. W1LL1.a1xr F. I'l.XUH.-XRT Director Business is being referred to more and more as a profession. Any calling which lays claim to professional standing must meet the following conditions: It rnust have a well organized body of knowledge upon which its activity is basedg second, it must have arecognized code of ethics as its standard of conductg and, third, it must be im' bued with the spirit of public service. It may be argued that business cannot as yet qualify under the above standards-at least not in all its spheres. And yet these ideals are ever present in the minds of the best business men of today. To assist in the realization of these professional standards is the purpose of our School of Commerce. Page 25

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olle e of Arts and Sciences A 3 C g Q 1.-vc..--., . . . . . , , 'j, E. D. JENNINGS Dean The College of Arts and Sciences of Southern Methodist University represents the undergraduate division of the institution, and thus concentrates the various lines of study in the one college. At the present time the college offers instruction in almost every important cultural field and is rapidly adding courses along practical lines. The most recent expansion has been along lines of correspondence courses and extension classes. The School of Statesmanship was added last year by an endowment of Mrs. Arnold of Houston, amounting to S120,000. Dean E. D. Jennings holds degrees of B. A., Randolph College, 1900, B. A. and M. A., University of Texas, 1915g Ph.D., University of Texas, 1924. He came to S. M. U. from Texas Woman's College at Ft. Worth, where he had been Dean from 1915 to 1918, and Dean and Vice President from 1918 to 1922. Page 24

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39 DR. PAUL B. KERN Dean The School of Theology of Southern Methodist University is the official Theo' logical Seminary for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the territory West of the Mississippi River. The school undertakes to train a ministry for the Church in the spirit of the following ideals: 1. Unwavering loyalty to the vital and abiding doctrines which have given the Methodist evangelical movement its worldfwide power. 2. Acquaintance with and frank discussions of the questions of the day in the field of Bible study and Christian thought, with a view to equipping the ministry to meet the intellectual and spiritual problems of our disturbed and questioning world. 3. To inspire a loyalty to the ideal of service that puts the Kingdom of God lirst and dedicates every capacity to the unselfish service of mankind. 4. To study the task of the minister in connection with the actual work of the Church in the laboratory of actual experience, giving firstfhand observation and expef rience through field work in Dallas and neighboring communities. 5. To deepen the spiritual life of every student until his calling to the ministry shall become a flaming passion to reveal Jesus Christ to the world through his spoken word and the message of his daily life. 6. To keep Jesus Christ and his purpose for the individual and for the world central in every classroom and in every program of work. Pug: 26 School of Theology