Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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For the warm cooperation accorded us by the Student Body, the ' 16 Sou ' Wester Staff wishes to express its thanks. We have tried to give you a book worthy of Southwestern and a book that would truly reflect the happenings of the good year 1915 and 1916 at our Alma Mater. The measure of our success in this task is for you to judge.

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J9r, QLlaube (Hurt (ttoMr XT RARELY falls to the lot of a man to practically finish his great life task and then live on to enjoy the fruit of it, to witness its continuous expansion and to hear grateful and generous expressions of appreciation from those who have been the beneficiaries of his great work. Such is the great privilege of Dr. C. C. Cody. When he came to Southwestern University, nearly forty years ago, he at once displayed those qualities and qualifications, which, persisted in, have made him the most conspicuous and best loved man in the College life of Texas. Coming to Texas at that time, he had innumerable and tempting opportunities to eng age in lucrative business, and, such was his native financial skill, that he could easily have amassed a fortune. But the dominating passion of his life was not to make money but to make men. Nature made him a gentleman, the grace of God made him a christian, education and wide reading gave him culture, and Southwestern University gave him a congenial and fruitful field in which to pursue his high ambitions. He endorsed, heartily, the ideas and ideals originally set up for Southwestern by her noble founder, and so persistently set himself to the task of having these ideals exhibited in the life of each student, that he himself became their complete embodiment ; so that when anyone saw Dr. Cody, in the class room, crossing the campus, walking the street, speaking from the platform, or dispensing gracious hospitality in his home, he saw Southwestern University incarnate. In pursuance of his ideals, — the making of men — he never wavered and never seemed to weary. The six hours a day spent in the class room were but a small part of his labor. Of the ten thousand students who passed through Southwestern during bis active connection with it he knew every one by name, and so won and held their confidence and esteem that none ever hesitated to come to him for help in any diffi- cult or perplexing situation. And no one ever found him too busy or too tired to give an interested and sympathetic hearing. He was constantly striving to find an easy passage to some boy ' s heart that he might influence him for good. Of this intense intelligent and unselfish service there are today living monuments all over Texas. From Galveston to Dalhart, from Texarkana to El Paso are honorable men and charming women who were boys or girls at old South western and all of them have words of love and appreciation for this some time teacher and all time friend, Dr. Cody. JOHN M. BARCUS.

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