University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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Q 9 9 Q Q Q 5 - :ps 1-vw-L Y I n:Il: y-4. Q Illvl 1 f N lille I ,--f.-nl-Ill 'ti , 2 ' A A 1 f Louvuv, . 1 5- I n l L ' , 1' 0' 1 - . P . f . f t.Ha I . f , H. . af 55,1 , f ' 1 1 f' , f Although dedicated to service in the field of teacher education, the improvement in the general stand- ards of the college led to expansion in many divisions. In 1934 the Board of Trustees authorized the college to grant the degree of Bachelor of Music, and in 1938 the Bachelor of Arts degree was added. Thus, a new period of growth was undertaken, and in 1940 the college became known as Mississippi Southern College. The final decade of growth has been the greatest period of development, not only in the divisions, but in the physical structure as well. In 1946 the college received permission to grant Master of Arts degrees, and in 1949 had a graduate enrollment of 200. Today the graduate division is fully accredited and grants the M.A. degree in Education with emphasis in many fields. Among the new structures added to the cam- pus during this period include a fourteen apartment building for faculty members: a new brick dormitory for men housing 120 students: a better than 3000 capacity sports arena: and a new Women's Physical Edu- cation Building. Hidden between the lines of this forty year history lies the unwritten story of the efforts of five presi- dents, many faculty members and countless students, all of whom contributed in some manner to the progress that has made Mississippi Southern the gre at school that it is today. This edition of the 1950 SOUTHERNER, published during a great school year, hopes to be recorded in future history as a part of a progressive administration, a learned faculty, and a great student body.