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

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Student Vestry The Rev. Mr. Moultrie Guerrv Cliaflain Thomas Parker Senior Warden David Yates Junior Warden Francis M. Thigpen Treasurer Frank Fortune Secretary Charles H. Barron Edward C. Voss Wayne McConnell William S. Turner Carlisle Ames Jack Walthour Harold F. Bache This organization, composed of two members from each class in the college and two members from the Theological School, plays an active part in the everyday life of the students. For the first time this year it maintained the former home of Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott as a music studio for the choir and Glee Club. In addition it sponsored a program of Lenten speakers, which included such men as Bishops Juhan and Penick, Dr. Charles Jefferson Miller, president of the American College of Surgeons, and Mr. Coleman Jen- nings of Washington, D. C. It also distributed the Lenten and Easter offerings to the mountain missions around Sewanee.

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Thomas Parker Seniors Richard Leroy Sturcis, Jr Seniors Charles C. Chadbourn Juniors Johx M. Ezzell Juniors G. Mallory Buford Sopliomores William Oscar Lindholm Freshmen Francis D. Daley Tlieologs The Honor Council consists of two seniors, two juniors, one sopho- more and one freshman from the college and one member of the Theo- logical School. Before this body all infringements of the honor system are brought, and it passes judgment upon the cases, having the power to acquit or to punish. This year there was considerable agitation concerning the honor system, and a vote was taken of the entire student body to determine whether it should be abolished, modified or kept in its present form. Only two in the entire student body voted to do away with it; the majority voted to retain the system unchanged. m

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OUR men met in Washington, the nation ' s capital. One was the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Turning to Major Archie Butt, his aide, he said: Butt, where were you educated? Sewanee, sir, said Butt. Dr. Cary Grayson, later admiral and personal physician to Presi- dent Wilson, was one of the others. He spoke up: I went there too. Roosevelt turned to the third man — the man without whom the Panama Canal could not have been built — General William C. Gorgas. And where were you educated, Gorgas? the President asked. Sewanee, sir, came the answer. The President was deeply impressed. He made many inquiries about the little university which produced big men. Then he wrote: I know of no university of the same size in any part of our country which has done more for the cause of good citizenship. It is called ' The University of the South, ' but it is much more than that. Its welfare should be dear to all Americans who are both patriotic and farsighted. The University of the South at Sewanee lies midway between Nash- ville and Chattanooga. It is a small, compact institution, situated in the center of a magnificently forested domain of ten thousand acres which the university owns and controls. Within five minutes ' walk of the university campus in any direction is the untouched forest. Here are also deep valleys running off the plateau on which Sewanee stands, val- leys surrounded by huge cliffs of rock and containing in almost every case rapidly running streams. Such a setting is almost unique in Amer- ican educational institutions. The university itself consists of a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Theological School. The corporation also directs its preparatory school, the Sewanee Military Academy. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the heart of the university. It is here that all the dif- ferent courses are given toward the construction of a liberal education in the highest sense of that phrase.