Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

 - Class of 1910

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RECENT P ROGRESS OF SOUTHWESTERN HE YEAR 1909- ' 10 will ever be remembered as the first year Tof a new era in Southwestern ' s history. It was clearly shown at the joyful Home-Coming of ex-students on San Jacinto Day, 1909, that Southwestern ' s future success was assured. Before the Home-Coming all office and business matters had been systematically centralized, and a summer of hard work was concluded September 21, opening day, with the greatest student body ever assembled in the history of the in- stitution. A student body great because: (1) it is the largest of any institution, of any time, of Southern Methodism; (2) it is the most representative student body of the state; (3) its college spirit has reached a higher level, and stands for greater things than ever before. At present Southwestern University, including the Medical Depart- ment, has property valued at $500,000; her endowment has reached the $250,000 mark; her faculty, instructor s, and other officers number eighty; her matriculates, excluding those of the summer schools, number around one thousand. Following Bishop Seth Ward ' s death— a loss forever irreparable— a campaign to raise a $100,000 endowment for the Theological Depart- ment, to be known as the Ward Memorial Fund, was inaugurated. In one day almost $75,000 was subscribed, and ere this book is ofi the presses the full amount will have been pledged. Twelve years ago when the present University building was erected, the builders congratulated themselves that it would suffice for at least their generation. Today the congestion on account of the lack of room is painful. Faculty and students alike saw this, and it is not say- ing too much to say that the Memorial Hall soon to be built, owes largely its future existence to the present student body. The Y. M. C. A. began the movement by demanding a building. At once each professor, each individual enterprise of the University de- manded recognition. A number of small buildings was out of the ques- tion, so it was planned to build one great building, large enough to meet all needs. The students almost forced the authorities to enlarge their plans, and backed their demands up with a $20,000 subscription. The x lumni who met at Dallas in February pledged $100,000 more. But the building is to cost $250,000; so a state-wide campaign for the other thou- sands is now being carried on with unparalleled success. The building itself is three stories high and has a basement. A gymnasium with all modern attachments, spacious library rooms, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., and literary society halls, a magnificent auditorium, elaborate offices and reception parlors, publication rooms— everything wanted, has been provided for. But the most magnificent thing about this building is its Memorial dome, sixty-five feet square, with wings extending from every side. This dome is not a tinseled plate reflecting only rain-bow colors. It is the Westminster Abbey of Texas Methodism, sacred for whom it shall for- ever memorialize, grand for what it stands, and sublimely beautiful for its architecture and design. There is nothing like it in America. In it the aesthetic and the material are happily blended.

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THE TRUSTEES OF SOUTHV s »TE RN UNI VERSITY OFFICER M. M. Bkooks . . President James Campbell . Vice-President A.J. Weeks , , Secretary C. C. Cody . . , Treasurer TEXAS CONFERENCE Rev. 0. T. HOTCHKISS S. F. Carter Rev. James Kilgoee T. S. Garrison Rev. Nathan Powell Cone Johnson Rev. Ellis Smith William Weiss Rev. E. W. Solomon Robert A. John, A. B., (Alumni Member) NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE Rev. W. F. Bryan M. M . Brooks Rev. C. M. Harless N. P. DOAK Rev. R. G. Wood W. H . Goolsby J. M . Peterson J.J. Russell Rev. 0. S. Thomas R. E. l ROOKS, A. M. (Alumni Member) NORTHWEST TEXAS CONFERENCE ' Rev. Jno. M. Barcits, D. D. A. F. Bentley Rev. Horace Bishop, D. D. M. B LOCKETT Rev. B. R. Bolton J.R. MiLAM Rev. James Campbell, D. D. H. S. Wilson Rev. W. L. Nelms, D. D. R. L. Henry, A. M. (Alumni Member) WEST TEXAS CONFERENCE Rev. Thomas Gregory J. G. Smyth Rev. J. T. King W. H . Hagy Rev. T. F. Sessions B. D. Orgain Rev. A. J. Weeks J. E. Pritchett Rev. F. B. Buchanan M. D. Slator ,A B. (Alumni Member) GERMAN CONFERENCE Rev. C. A. Lehmberg C. H. Grote THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1 R. S . Hyer, a. M., L. L. D. Chairman C. C. Cody, A.M., Ph.D. ' j.R. Allen, . A.B.,D.D. E. G . GiLLETT James Kilgore J. M . Barcits, D. D. S. Thomas . D. W. Wilcox, A. B. B D. Orgain J-

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