University of Tennessee Chattanooga - Moccasin Yearbook (Chattanooga, TN)

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sind, 15 6 1, i WMGMXIV QMQ QQASIN O -' -Y L4 41vp N 0 on with full consciousness that the City lies amid the scenes of one of the most stupendous military struggles the world has ever witnessed. The Department of Classical Literature has for two years co-operated with the Woman's Clubs of the City in studies of the Greek Civilization and its mean- ing to the modern world, by giving lectures and performances of classical plays. The Alliance Francaise, organized this year, is composed of both citizens and College faculty and students. A summer session of the Univer- sity is conducted annually for the especial benefit of the teachers of the City, County and State. No stone is left unturned to relate the college studies to the real life of the world. The University of Chattanooga owes its birth and nurture to the noble Christian men, ministers and laymen alike, of the Holston Conference. Its debt to these sacrificing heroes of the early days the University can never repay. But it can and must do the work for which it was created. It can give intellectual impulse of a high order, colored by the beneficent light of the Christian faith, to every young man and woman committed to its care. The University is intended to be a beacon light and its rays are to shine brightly over the entire Conference in benediction on the children of the fathers who founded it. The site of the University is the envy of all other Southern Colleges. The campus is strategically situated between the business and residential por- tions of the City and on the principal avenue. The chief street car lines pass through the campus, conveniently for busy students. The buildings are in full view from every part of the City, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The erection of fine new buildings to replace those that have done long and honorable service is one of the most important pieces of work before our Board of Trustees. The new structures will each be built according to a comprehensive plan that will embrace every building that the future will require. The site of the University and its place in the intellectual life of the South demand one of the finest of college quadrangles, suitable in size, worthy in material, artistic in construction, for every visitor to this historic City passes through or along the campus on his visits to the sacred and glorious scenes of the sixties. Few colleges have more distinguished visitors from ea distance daily passing by its doors than does the University of Chattanooga. . ' ' . The University of Chattanooga cherishes a high confidence in her own future of dignified service and greets affectionately every sister college doing honorable and scholarly work, and wishes to each, in highest esteem, a hearty God-speed. aaa W .fi

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-V-7 ,, , v'W'3 SWr ,xv-1. i?17i2MCMXIV , MOCQASIN 'J The Future of the University F t Arg lt? liU'l'URE o I' the University is assured, President John L .,eA FN- ' I. haue made that a certainty. The financial independence T QJ6, ol the University is his monument. Strongly backed by J QP' v . i ., 5 , , the men ol' wealth of the Church and the City and State, his , .. ...Q . - hx, N - -W lin-inci-11 leadership easily enlisted the su ort of hundreds hs.. .c A Us ot' men of means and vision. Hundredgpalso of those of meager resources showed their faith in him and in the enterprise. The result in 1912 was a new additional endowment of Sf-300,000 and a guaranteed fund of t5200,000 for new buildings. The subscriptions have been paid with great readiness and in accordance with contracts. Within two years more, all will be paid and we shall see the Half Million Dollar hope of President Race metamorphosed by the generosity of the citizens of Tennessee into new buildings and a strong faculty of instruction. For in education, as in war, money is the sinews. Uhr, 1514 glllnrfggin gi recognition of his herculean task and significant success salutes President ace. Our Board of Trustees is a second guarantee for the future of the University. Fortunate indeed is that University which can show a roll of names of Trustees of equal strength, energy and vision with that of ours. The future success, the good name, the distinction of the University are theirs to foster. With our Board of Trustees, Whether it be a matter of construction of laboratories or of courses of instruction, the utmost confi- dence may be felt that the most recent and approved ideas alone will find expression. ' A A third guarantee for the future of the University is the close relation of our faculty to the civic and social life of the City and the Conference. The University is making itself a part of the City's daily life. Chattanooga is a manufacturing city, and therefore, the Department of Chemistry has its laboratory always at the service of local scientific investigators. Many a YOL1I1g man is supporting a mother and family at his desk in a down-town skyscraper, but he is also a college student, for the University provides for his special needs, classes in the late afternoon that he may acquire a thor- ough English education or, if the needs of his business require, a working knowledge of Commercial Spanishf Some of our graduates will teach in the City or vicinity. For this reason, courses in pedagogy are given that they may master the best modern methods. The Department of Oratory and Public Speaking of the College works in public programs frequently under the patronage of civic organizations. The study of History is carried

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