Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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CHARLES McTYEIRE BISHOP, A. M., D. D. President of Southwestern University GHARLES MCTYEIRE BISHOP, is a native Virginian, in which State he received his elementary education. In 1 884, he received the M. A. degree from Emory and Henry College, in which institution he was adjunct Professor of Latin and Greek during two years, dating from 1885. Entering the active ministry in 1887, he served two years in Ashville, N. C, being transferred to the Southwest Mission Conference in 1 889, as pastor of Melrose Church, Kansas City, where he remained four years. From this time forward Dr. Bishop rose rapidly to a position of pre-emi- nence in his conference, holding in succession the most prominent charges in Missouri, besides the presidency of Missouri Preachers ' Institute, chairman of Board of Missions, Missouri Conference, and innumerable Conference offices. In the summer of 1 900, Dr. Bishop traveled in Europe, after which he made a tour of the principal cities of the Eastern States, where he made an especial study of church architecture. In 1 899, the honorary degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Central College, Fayetteville, Missouri; he was a member of the Inter- Church Conference on Federation, New York, in 1905; amember of the General Conference in 1 906, in which assembly his name was prominently mentioned for the college of bishops. Dr. Bishop has been a lecturer on the poetical books of the bible at Scarrit Bible School, at the Missionary Training Institute of Nashville, Tenn., and at the School of Theology, Southwestern University, and has been writer of the Senior and Intermediate Quarterlies of the Sunday School literature of the Methodist Church. In 1909, he delivered the Cole lectures at Vanderbilt University, which have since been published in book form. In 1910, Dr. Bishop was transferred to Texas, being stationed at Wichita Falls, which charge he resigned to assume the presidency of Southwestern University in June, 1911. But one year has passed since Dr. Bishop assumed the presidency of Southwestern University, yet the grasp of his administrative ability has already been felt, and his magnetic personality and force of character is exerting a mighty influence upon the student body. Charles McTyeire Bishop ' s life has already been a noble success, but his greatest work lies in the future, and Southwestern University entrusts herself to his leadership with a firm faith that the most glorious epoch in her career is but just beginning. 1 9