Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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S. H. MOORE, A.B., Principal Fitting School and Professor of History in University. Stephen H. Moore, Professor of History in the University, Principal of the Preparatory School and Manager of Giddings Hall, is a native of Tennessee. McTyeire Institute, in which he afterwards served for a year as an instructor, gave him the training nec- essary to enter Vanderbilt University, where he graduated with the B. A. degree in 1894. Since this date Prof. Moore has been a member of the faculty of Southwestern University. He endeavors to keep abreast with his profession by frequent summer courses in the University of Chicago. A. S. PIGUES, A.M., English. Albert Shipp Pigues is a native of South Carolina. From 1888 to 1S92, he attended Wofford College, graduating with both A. B. and A. M. His first essay as a school teacher was as principal of the Hampton Graded School. In 1893 he was elected one of the teachers in the Preparatory Department of Southwestern, and here he has since taught most successfully. This year, in addition to his preparatory work, he has been made instructor in English in the college. Prof. Pigues spends most of his summer doing graduate work in Cornell or Chicago F. E. BURCHAM, Ph.B., Mathematics in Fitting School. Prof. Frank E. Burcham was prepared for college at the Mayfield-Smith Academy. Entering Central College, Fayette, Mis- souri, he completed the four years ' ourse and graduated in 1895 with the degree of Ph. B. Since graduation he has taught success- fully one year in the Northwest Missouri College, three years in Marvin Collegiate Institute, and five years in the Preparatory Depart- ment of Southwestern University. He holds the Professorship of Mathematics in this last named school. Prof. Burcham has done one summer ' s work in the University of Chicago. 25