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

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C. C. CODY, A. M., PH. D., DEAN Professor of Mathematics GLAUD CARR CODY, a true representative of the beloved Southern Gentlemen of the Old School, is a Georgian by birth and education. He was graduated from Emory College in 1875, and received the degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1 78. After several years of very successful teaching, his Alma Mater, in recognition of his learning and ability, honored him with the Ph. D. degree. In 1879, he was elected Professor of Mathematics in Southwestern University, then a newly established, obscure and struggling college; and here he has remained ever since, standing loyally by Southwestern in her days of adversity, making her advancement the one great purpose of his life, and exerting with his lovable Christian character and magnetic personality a tremendous influence for good upon the lives of all her students. His great love for Southwestern and his loyal and self-sacrificing spirit may be best illustrated by the willingness with which he has always placed his services at the disposal of the University. Besides being actively engaged in the Department of Mathematics, of which he is the head, he has held the offices of Secretary of the Faculty, Chairman of the Faculty, President of the Ladies ' Annex, Manager of Giddings Hall, Dean of the Summer Schools, and is now the Secretary of the Executive Com- mittee and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He is also the author of several books, among which are a biography of Dr. Mood, the founder of Southwestern University, and a text-book of plane geometry. Dr. Cody is now the senior member of the faculty and is believed to be the senior college professor in Texas. The biography of Claud Carr Cody and the history of the development of Southwestern University are one and the same. For the past three and thirty years he has served her faithfully and well; and while his prospects for further usefulness are as yet undimmed, he is living to see the gratifying results of his early labors. One of the greatest tributes that can be paid to him is the men- tion of the fact that no one is held in greater esteem by the old students of Southwestern University nor has more fully enjoyed the confidence and love of her student body — as a token of which he is generally known as The Friend of the Boys. sw2 1