University of the South - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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The Alumni Association OFFICERS FOR 1895-96 REV. J. A. VAN HOOSE, B.I r Alabama President REV. A. V. KNIGHT Georgia First Vice President H. H. HODGSON Louisiana Second Vice President Rev. W. N. GUTHRIE, M.A Ohio Third Vice President Hon. H. M. GARWOOD, B.S Texas Fourth Vice President Dr. J. H. P. HODGSON New York Fifth Vice President W. H. McKELLAR, M.A Alabama Recording Secretary W. B. NAUTS, M.A Tennessee Corresponding Secretary W. B. HALL, M.A., M.D Alabama Treasurer B. LAWTON WIGGINS, M.A Tennessee Historian EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE B. L. WIGGINS, M.A. REV. J. A. VAN HOOSE, B.LT., Chairman W. H. McKELLAR, M. A. W. B. HALL. M.A., M.D W. B. NAUTS, M. A. Rev. A. W. KNIGHT Georgia AI UMNI TRUSTEES SILAS McBEE North Carolina JOHN D. SHAFFER Louisiana 18

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4 m % Academic Department joke. The Medicos? HE Academic Department considers itself par excellence the flower of the University. That it is the bulwark of the University ' s existence, owing to precedence in years and consequent preponderance of students, it would be hard to deny. But the conceit of the Academs is far from allowing that their supe riority is based on mere strength of numbers. To say that they are the leaders socially, athletically, and intellectually would be much more in accordance with the opinion popularly prevailing. Theologues are patronizingly looked upon as compulsatory boners. The Law Department is good-naturedly tolerated, but is regarded as a huge Well, says the Academ, I suppose every flock has its black sheep. Such are the opinions which the Academic student expresses, secure in the preeminence of his position. Two classifications may be made of the Academic students. The first and more important con- tains the regular scholastic divisions, under which the students of all colleges are grouped, and differing from these only in its irregularity. The second is an internal product, and owes its origin to differing individual inclinations. The founders of the University, firmly believing that a day would come when the educational light of other Southern colleges would pale before the incandescent brilliancy of that of Sewanee, thought that in such an event our superior dignity ought to be marked by a more enlightened system of class-division. With this object in view, the student body was divided into two classes only — the Junior and Gownsman.