Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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STEPHEN H. MOORE, A.M. Professor of History Vanderbilt University. A.B., 18 ( 4; Co- lumbia University, A.M., 1905 ; Graduate Student Harvard University, summer 1 ( K)4 ; University of Chicago, Summers 1896-97-98-99-1900-03-05 ; Principal of Southwestern University Fitting- School, 1894-1904; Professor of History, South- western University, since 1904 ; Member of American Historical Association ; Member Executive Committee Texas Historical As- sociation. LIBERAL ARTS FACULTY WESLEY CARROLL VADEN, A.M. Professor of Latin and Greek Randolph-Macon College, A. IT, 18 ( ' 0; A.M., 1890; Associate Professor Latin and Greek. Randolph-Macon College ; Graduate Student Cornell University, 1901 ; Graduate Student, Yals University, 1905 ; Professor of Latin and Greek, Southwestern Univer- sity, since 1803. RANDOLPH W. TIXSLEY, B.S. Professor of Biology and Geology University of Virginia, Graduate in Sci- ence, 1803; B.S., 1898; Graduate Student University of Chicago. Summer 1907 ; As- sistant Professor of Science, Washington College, Md., 1893 ; Professor of Science, University of New Mexico, 1896-97; Pro- fessor of Science, Pennsylvania State Nor- mal, 1892-1902 ; Acting Professor of Chem- istry and Biology, Southwestern Univer- sity, 1903-04; Professor of Biology and Geology, 1904; Secretary of Faculty, ' 1913 ; President T. I. A. A., 1916-17. Page Ten

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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

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CLAUDE A. NICHOLS, A.M., Ph.D. Professor of Education Southwestern University, A.B., 1898; Graduate Student and Fellow Vanderbilt University, 1898-99 ; University of Havana, Ph.D., 1905 ; Graduate Student, University of Chicago, Summers of 1907-08-09 ; Teachers ' College, Columbia University, 1913-14; Member of the Society of College Teachers of Education, the American So- ciological Society, and the General Sunday School Board of the Methodist Church, South ; President of the Association of Texas Colleges, 1917 ; Professor of Educa- tion, Southwestern University, since 1908. HERBERT LEE GRAY, A.B. Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Systematic Theology Emory College, A.B., 1887; Professor in Anglo-Chinese College, Shanghai, China, 1890-91 ; Professor in Buffington Institute, Soochow, China, 1893-95 ; Principal, Cen- tral Institute, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1899-1901 ; Professor in Missionary Train- ing School, Nashville, Tenn., 1907-10; Pro- fessor of Biblical Interpretation and Sys- tematic Theology, Southwestern Univer- sity, since 1910. FREDERICK C. LEHMBERG, A.M. Assistant Professor of German and French Southwestern University, A.B., 1900; A.M., 1912; Graduate Student, University of Chicago. Summers 1907-12; Graduate Student, University of Texas, Summer 1910 ; Teacher of German, John Tarleton College, 1906-09 ; Instructor in German and French, Southwestern University Fit- ting School, 1909-11; Assistant Professor of German and French, Southwestern Uni- versity, since 191 1 . Page Eleven