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

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Dr. George M. Baker Dean Dr. Baker has spent his entire life in educational work (with the exception of several years during which he was connected with the American expeditionary force in France). He graduated from Yale University in 1900, obtaining his Ph.D. degree from that institution a few years later. For nine years he was an instructor of German at Yale, after which he became head of the German Department at the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. During this period he also studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich. Dr. Baker came to Sewanee in 19 17 as professor of Germanic languages and was appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1920. During the ten years he has held this position the requirements for entrance, classroom work and degrees have been raised considerably, the number of transfer students has been reduced and the general scholastic tone of the college has been improved. During the war Dr. Baker was connected with the General Staff College of the American expeditionary force in France, later seeing general staff duty in Germany with the army of occupation. He is well known as a student of Germanic literature, being the editor of Ger- man Stories and Kleist ' s Prinz von Hotnnurg. He has also contributed articles to the Journal of Germanic Philology, Modern Philology, the Sewanee Re view and Modern Language Notes. Because of his knowledge of international affairs, Dr. Baker was sent to Geneva by the Carnegie Institute for International Peace in 1927 for the purpose of studying the organization of the League of Nations, World Court and other institutions.

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Dr. B. F. Finney I ice-Chan cellar Dr. B. F. Finney was first associated with Sewanee as a student in 1885. After graduating from Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg and engaging in private business for some years, he was made vice-chancellor of the university in 1922. During these eight years as vice-chancellor Dr. Finney, or Uncle Ben, as he is affectionately called by the students, has been able to liquidate the debts of the university and secure an endowment which easily removes the possibility of financial trouble in the future. He has likewise been responsible for much material development on the mountain — three new dormitories, including the new Tuckaway Inn, have been construc ted and improvements have been made in the athletic field house and Sewanee Military Academy. Throughout his entire life Dr. Finney has been interested and active in church and educational work. Before coming to Sewanee he devoted much time to the Brotherhood of St. Andrews, of which organization he has been secretary and vice- president. In 1 9 13 he was elected to the Board of Regents of the University and at the present time is a trustee of St. Katherine ' s, a girls ' school at Bolivar, Term., and also the executive head of the Board of Trustees of Columbia Institute, a girls ' pre- paratory school at Columbia, Term. Both of these institutions are connected with the Episcopal Church. In recognition of his valuable services, he was given the hon- orary degree of LL.D. from Hobart College, Geneva, New York. mg

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ege of Arts and Sciences Brigadier General James Postell Jervey (United States Army. Retired) Professor of Mathematics William Howard MacKellar B.A., M.A., University of the South Professor of Public Speaking Tudor Seymour Long B.A., Cornell Associate Professor of English William Boone Nauts B.A., 31. A.. University of the South Porfessor of Latin and Acting Registrar William Skinkle Knickerbocker BA., 31. A., Ph.D.. Columbia Professor of English Literature The Rev. Moultrie Guerry Virginia Henry Markley Gass B.A., Oxon; M.A., University of the South Professor of Greek Sedley Lynch Ware B.A., Oxon; LL.B.. Columbia; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Professor of History John Mark Scott B.A., Southwestern College: M.S.. Iowa State; Ph.D.. LTniversity of Iowa Assistant Professor of Chemistry Eugene Mark Kayden B.A., University of Colorado; 11. A.. Harvard Professor of Economics George Merrick Baker B.A., Ph.D.. Tale Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Germanic Languages Chaplain of the University and Professor of English Bible Roy Benton Davis B.A.. Earlham College; 31. A.. Missouri Professor of Chemistry Gaston Swindell Bruton B.A., 31. A.. University of North Carolina Associate Professor of Mathematics •On leave. 1929-30.