Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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DR. CHARLES McTYEIRE BISHOP President of Southwestern University Born Jefferson, Ashe Co., N. C, February 2, 1862; son of W. S. Benjamin and Julia Anne ( Goodykoontz) ; A.B., Emory and Henry Col- lege, Emory, Virginia, 1884, A.M., 1886; D.D., Central College, Mo., 1899; married Phoebe El- eanor Jones, of Asheville, N. C, June 3, 1889. Ordained minister of M. E. Church South, 1899; pastor, Asheville, N. C, 1887- ' 89, Kansas City, Mo., 1889- ' 96, Lexington, 1896- ' 98, Nevada, 1889- 1901, St. Joseph, 1901- ' 05, Columbia, 1905- ' 09, Mexico, 1909- ' 10, Wichita Falls, Tex., 1910- ' ll; President Southwestern LTniversity, since June 9, 1911. Member General Conference M. E. Church South, 1906, 1910; member General Board of Mis- sions, same, 1906-10; President Preachers ' In- stitute of Mo., and Southwest, Mo., Conference 1901- ' 10; Member Commission on Church Union and Fraternal Relations of M. E. Church, M. P. Church, and M. E. Church South, 1910-14; Trav- elled in Europe, 1900 ; Cole Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1909; Member Association American Colleges, Southern Educational Association, Sig- ma Alpha Epsilon. Author Testis the Worker. —Who ' s Who in Am. The above, quoted from Who ' s Who, is coldly eloquent of the deeds, things ■done, not promises, of this man. For six years now, President of Southwestern, lie has before him and in the present the greatest task of any he has put his hand to, — the building of a greater Southwestern. There has been no cessation of toil to this end since he came here in 1911. The industry and devoted attention of the man to details are qualities inevitably leading to success. Certainly if the habit of hard, expert headwork is the index of intellectual greatness. Dr. Bishop must be accounted among the celestials. We have named his least qualities first, the better follow. In character, which is the beginning and end in the discussion of a man, there are two qualities whose possession denominates a man to critic and casual, — courage and sincerity. The terms are almost equivalent, but they light two aspects of the same funda- mental quality of nobility. The President of Southwestern University is morally and intellectually courageous and sincere. Although a member of the M. E. Church, South, he refuses to let others do his religion up in a package and deliver, sound condition guaranteed, A.A.A.-l quality Methodism, Wesley mfg., inc. He thinks as keenly on matters of bel ief as the most enthusiastic heretic, and comes to as sound conclusions as the most orthodox defender of the faith, pro- vided the latter is brainy. The combination of scholarship and executive ability is rare and consequently as well as intrinsically valuable. When it is found we have a Woodrow Wilson or a Charles M. Bishop. The crowd seldom notes nor appreciates the finer ele- ments of leadership in a superior. Hence, popularity with the more capably observant would be expected of such a man as Dr. Bishop. College men are notoriously merciless critics, and their approbation is that of the connoisseur. When a faculty head or a faculty member receives the respect and regard from a student body that is accorded Dr. Bishop by the students of Southwestern, he may be called truly popular and possessed of all the attributes of a successful col- lege president. Page Eight

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DR. ALBERT SHIPP PEG LIES Dean of South western University Born Cheraw, S. C, February 19, 1872 ; son of Rev. Wesley Leatherwood and Amanda Olivia ( Dickinson ) ; A.B.. Wofford College, S. C, 1892, A.M., 1895; Student Cornell University, and Uni- versity of Chicago; Litt.D., Wofford College, 1915; married Pearl Irene Lockett, of George- town, Texas, June 6, 1899. Began as instructor 1893, Associate Professor English Literature, 1903- ' 06; professor and head of English Depart- ment, 1906; Dean of the College, 1915, South- western University; Member Executive Board Trustees, same. Progressive Democrat ; Member M. E. Church South; Member Chi Psi. — Who ' s J! ' ho in Am. It may have been the good fortune of some to have encountered somewhere a more pleasing personality than Dr. Pegues, but it has not been ours. To meet him is to be of warm feeling towards him, and to know him well is to love him. There is no more popular man on the faculty with his colleagues and his students alike. Whatever list of the advantages of Southwestern University may be drawn up, the fact that Dr. Pegues is the Dean and Professor of English must head the list. The teaching ability of Dr. Pegues is absolutely unsurpassed. This sounds like hyperbole, but who has seen another professor who can hold spellbound with a discussion of, say, one of the most difficult poems of Milton, a class varying from roughneck to aesthete, and have the former as thoroughly absorbed in atten- tion as the latter ; and then stick up an awesomely comprehensive examination, flunk a student on the difference of a gnat ' s hair, and have lr ' m say, It ' s worth taking the course over to get to listen to Piggy. If the professor could listen to the enthusiastic conversations between the members of his Sophomore English class as they leave after a period in which, as the expression goes, The Doctor was right, we believe it would compensate for many a weary hour of toil. It is the regret of his English students that Dr. Pegues has to take any time from his teaching to give to his executive duties. It is the regret of the admin- istrative officers of the University that he has to take time from the Dean ' s office to teach. The position of Dean of a college exacts rarely found requirements of personality and keen business judgment. To the remarkable characteristics of Dr. Pegues his success in the practical affairs of an executive adds business ability. However, with all this catalogue of virtues, the chiefest and most distin- guished of the attributes of the Dean is his grip on the student body. If ever a man is in trouble, if ever he needs the trusted advice of a friend, he may go to Dr. Pegues and receive inspiration to overcome, hold on, and succeed. Page Nine