Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS John Robert Allen, A. B., D. D. Professor of Philosophy and Economics BORN in Iredell County, N. C; A. B. degree from Southern University in 1873; D. D. degree in 1891; ex-member of North Mississippi Conference; at present member of North Texas Conference; held Chairs in Dallas Female College and Mar- vin College; elected to Chair of Philosophy in 1892; once Chairman of the Faculty; several years President of the Annex; Rep- resentative in Who ' s Who, both National and International. W. M. Board, A. B. J NSTRUCTOR in Latin, Allen Academy, 1902-03; Instructor in Latin, Bradshaw Training School, 1903-04; Professor Econ- omics, Martha Washington College, 1 904- 06; Principal Vanderbilt Training School, 1906- ' 07; Principal Woodson Institute, 1907-08; President Central Texas College, 1908-11; elected to Chair of Economics and Sociology, Southwestern University, 1911; native of Kentucky, born in 1877, Grayson County. 2 2

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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

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Robert Jay Eddy, A. M. German BORN in Wisconsin. Educated in the public schools of Wisconsin, and Beloit College Academy; A. B. Beloit College with first honors in 1895; A. M. ibid. 1 898; traveled and studied in England, France, and Germany in 1899; Graduate student University of Wisconsin 1900; Summer School, Oxford University; Supervising Principal of School Systems in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and an Institute Conductor; Vice-Principal Beloit Col- lege Academy; Department of Modern Lan- guages, Beloit College; elected to Chair of German, Southwestern University, 191 1 . V. Cejnar Professor of Bohemian BORN and reared in Bohemia. Giaduate of the Preachers ' School at Menkirchen, Ger- many; student of the Free Chuich College, Glasgow, Scotland; once pastor of the oldest Evangelical Church in Bohemia; leader of the German Alpine Mission at Gratz, and founder of the German paper, Alpenboten; founder and for four years leader of the Free Church Mission among the Bohemians at Vienna; founder of the Gospel Temperance Societies, and of a Gospel Temperance Paper in Austria; for two years engaged in the mission work among the Slavic people in Pennsylvania and Chicago; since 1907 Professor of Bo- hemian in Southwestern University. 23