Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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Claude A. Nichols, Pb. D. Professor of Science of Education Dean of Summer Schools N TAT1VE of Texas. A. B., Southwestern University, 1898, with first honors; Fel- low at Vanderbilt University, 1898 ' 99; Ph. D., University of Havana, 1905; Tutor in Fitting School of S. U., l897- ' 98; Professor in Candler College, Havana, Cuba, 1901 - ' 07; spends summers at University of Chicago; elected Professor of Science of Education. 1908; Chairman of Board of Advisers of Y. M. C. A.; Member of the National Edu- cational Association. Albert Shipp Pegues, A. M. Head Professor of English BORN in South Carolina. A. B. and A. M., Wofford College, 1892; elected in 1893 to position in Fitting School; in 1903 elected Assistant Professor in English; in 1904 elected Principal of Fitting School; in 1905 elected to Chair of English in S. U.; has done graduate work in Chicago and Cornell Universities. 26

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Herbert Lee Gray Professor of Theology BORN in Newton County, Georgia, near Ox- ford, the seat of Emory College, May 2 1 , 1 868. Graduated at Emory College with B. A. degree June, 1887. Went as missionary to China, October, 1 889; returned from China November, 1895. Took a course in Theo- logical Department, Vanderbilt University, February-June, 1 896. Prevented from return to China by medical advice; took work in North Georgia Conference, 1 896- ' 98. Went to Mexico as missionary, January, 1 899. Went to Cuba, August, 1 906. Accepted position as teacher in Methodist Training School at Nash- ville, September, 1907. Took course at Chicago University under George Adam Smith, summer of 1909. Came to Southwestern, Sept., 1910. Frank Seay, A. M. Professor of Theology, Hebrew, and New Testament Greek A SON of the late Governor Seay of Alabama. A.M. degree from South- ern University in 1 899; spent sessions of 1 900- ' 02 in Biblical Department of Van- derbilt; summer of 02 in University of Chicago; spent sessions of 1902-03 at Harvard; spent one year abroad at Halle, Berlin, and Oxford; has held some of the leading churches in Alabama as pastor; is the author of two books: The Gist of the Old Testament and The Story of Mobile Methodism; elected Professor in S. U. 1909. 25 aL.

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John H. McGinnis, A. B. Assistant Professor of English BORN in Pennsylvania. A. B., Missouri Valley College, 1 904; graduate student, Missouri University, 1905; taught at Charleston, Mo., 1 906; elected instructor in English in S. U. Fitting School in 1907; elected Assistant Professor of English in S. U. in 1909. Mary Shipp Sanders, A. B. Assistant Professor in English T3 ECEIVED early training at Fitting School ■ ■ in Georgetown, and Webb School of Bell Buckle, Tenn.; attended Southwestern University for some time, but took degree in University of Chicago, 1 906; also spending the summer of 1 909 in that institution; taught in Colegio Palmore, Chihuahua, Mexico, for six years; taught English in Corsicana High School 1909- ' 10. 27