Tennessee Technological University - Eagle Yearbook (Cookeville, TN)

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Practically all student activities at Dixie Col- lege centered on the literary and debating societies, the Philomathean and the Apollonian. The socie- ties stressed speaking ability, confidence and self-con- trol. In 1914, the debate topic Was: Resolved: That environment has more to do with the forming of A-: LITERARY OCIETIE HOLD SPOTLIGHT IN STUDE K, , . , , f f orifi- :Qfc1'V'1: , . , .41-1.g.g.::.g:f:Q:f, Q:f:Q:1:3:35:::5.- ' ,S -- . . N--J-g-:-,f - ' F. ..... .,.. . , ' e -.-L-I ,-.-I-.-,- 'I'P?F321PM-1'I-I-'-fm',1.1s'q'.' ' .. .-I'f.4'i fi FW! 44 '-'-T-'MI-'-'C ' . f . It... ,I1was-1:-:,E1Ifi-15:'elifgiiiliiifiif fT'5fE55i5 ' 1-I i5:'fi5:f1?E52:1n....X . :-,A-..5Ag3' 4g character than heredity. The best debaters from the , fQ,.gQQ,Q,Q' 'i5?gag5g5g1 fs, f'f'j5.ag.f:gaf' two SOC16t1CS faced 1'CpI'CSC11t2lt1VCS Of Baxter Scmlnafy. I Qiiigfjf 'E':ff5,i5i5 gf if - - - - - 1 15211253 '1E2Ef2'1i 2:1152-,',2, 'EE 55513. 'iii :I,?IEfEf?5f5 1g.t2s5E32i't s35i'fff:I ' 3?'f ':'fTl!:L. DIXIC, SUTPTISIUSIY, represented the negatlve, and the I -' . . . . . ,,,A .- P-ggiggsga w y Judges, safely, decided it was a tie. D L: it ss: 5 . . . . . . . . s .nf e't' Discipline at Dixie 1S stated rather clearly in the Q ,- 1, ff - - 1' -.r., 'f1f1?5i55ii3:z:1r:i3E51f:feaEii+'-'i.E 1913-14 catalogue: A Brin but kind hand will rest Q5-' C - i s t' upon every student. Among the cardinal and fun- I s -, - - - sniff. ?2 .: :522f13:3252E?i:2-:. 'Ii-I '-'i 1iZi1if2i1f12E25121,-'iiiewezszti'2?e2:2:::1?fi damental school virtues which we shall exact might i W - - - 'w-'-'2:f:f.1 :1:z' .- - - be 1'I1Cl'1t1OI1CCl PTOITIPL ObCC1161'1CC, COLIITCOLIS bCll21V1OI', ' . ifiiiiiygzr 2255355 punetuallty, metal and gentlemanly conduct, and H ' ' Cheerful and dlgmied YCSPCG for every feqPe?t 9f the facultl' ---- The SuPfeme Oblect ef H11 dlsclphne 15 ' E ' fo enable the Student to become the elmfe master 0 I ...,., 1 himself- Dixie College was composed of one building. The building stood where Derryberry Hall stands today. Dixie's coed basketball team: Row 1-Myrtle Elrod, Gertie White, Mary Dudney. Row 2-Constance Gregory, Doris Dukes, Mabel Hamilton, Mabel Wooten, Grethen Boyd and Coach Earl Fry.

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Jere Whitson was the originator and promoter of Dixie College and led the tight to establish Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. 1 I. X tg, f' mm. MRS. DAISIE REGAN BENNETTE Directress School of Music Piano WllilllIalT'.i-I IlllllgllllHlllwizir 1 M1 1, . ily I iii Dfmlilwl'-Hn. rr in-N -,.l I , '- -yr: -H I ,pl1.fEf,fll wi. M, M. I I 'Www I 1- y I llllllllll .I 'I I I, I I y Y I U I I lmllllllllllllll' , I IM . , I ,ff irrrm fgwW1r,,j an ,klllrlm y Wgg Ili I lglul,,'ll,,u . - rr,,!1,.i :ww ii if Yi WJ 'Y ll M ll ll I Ill will U ,Ll llHlllIllx'llll.l'II'' ' W ylllll. Mllllllvlvi JOHN EVAN DUNN President School of the Bible History and Moral Philosophy MISS BERTHA ENSOR Piano I r William Baxter Boyd was the first president of Dixie College from l9l2-I4. He taught English and sciences. MISS MAMIE LOU MORGAN Kindergarten, Harmony DIX IE FACULTY r .. . MISS ALINE GUTHRIE HANNA Latin, French and German The President's morning lecture always contained a coal lesson in s cholo 9 P Y 'JY- e + P ,X my X au Ii m WX WS, 5 'Q , 5 v ' ,NJ-'-'Q ,C ,V . ,f . ra Asif! 'i 2 ff Q' .- av I, MISS MAMIE GERTRUDE ALCORN Piano MISS FANNIE KUYKENDALL Directress School of Art SAMUEL NICHOLS JARED Treasurer Mathematics, Physical Sciences ...1

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school of art, under the instruction of Miss Fannie Kuykendall lex- rightl, offered courses in drawing from the flat and from ob- sketching from nature: work in crayon or charcoal, landscape, figure and portrait work: painting in water color, pastel and oil. Philomathean Literary and Debat- ing Society was one of such groups at Dixie: Row 1-Clark Dunn, Mar- shall Pickett, Rouss Dunn, John Dow, Fred Gibbs. Row Z-Alvin Wid, Lewis Botts, D. O. Griffith, Frank Dunn, George Hill. Row 3- John Anderson, B. C. Goodpasture, B. H. Murphy, Walter Cooper. Paae 21