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

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ministration and staff of the University that it was capable of continuing its progress on that high plane to which he had raised it. Sewanee had been one of the best schools in the South but its present position owes much to Dr. Guerry ' s efforts. In 1945 Mrs. A. I. duPont became a benefactor of the University; and through the guidance of Bishop Frank A. Juhan, the school received a tremendous boost from her donations. Henry M. Gass, Sewanee Rhodes Scholar and later a professor of Greek, acted as Vice-Chancellor after Dr. Guerry ' s death. Dr. Boylston Green served from 1949 to 1951 when Dr. Edward McCardy returned to Sewanee to serve as Vice-Chancellor. Dr. McCrady had left Sewanee to act as the head of the biology department at Oak Ridge. With his return, Sewa nee entered a second golden age whose progress has far excelled that of the past. During the ten years of the McCrady administration over a million dollars has been raised each year, the record of Sewanee ' s graduates has been unexcelled in the South, and a vigorous building program has been pursued. The first management survey was made of the University and plans were set down for probable future expansion. Sewanee will enlarge following the Oxford tradition. When a new library, a new dining hall, and an addition to Science Hall are provided, the present college unit will be nearly complete. Sewanee ' s 1962 Ford Foundation grant, one of the five maximum grants given to colleges in the United States, will be used to complete the present unit and to enrich its quality. Future plans call for the addition of another college for men, a liberal arts college for women, and a graduate school. Sewanee will provide in the future, as it has in the past, what our Vice-Chancellor calls the kind of education which goes beyond mere memorization or entertainment and requires mutual exchange of ideas. He realizes that this can only be provided by a high faculty-student ratio and the opportunity for personal contacts. In this year of 1963, one hundred and seven years after Leonidas Polk first hoped for a great university of the South, the dream gives all appearances of becoming a reality. The process will undoubtedly be difficult, but events have definitely taken a turn toward the original goal. In the future, we who have been a part of Sewanee will be able to recall that 1963 was a significant year in a great university ' s evolution and that our days here were a part of that effort. The east end of Walsh-Ellet Hall before the building re- sumed in the 1950 ' s. THE RT. REV. CHARLES QUINTARD DR. ALEXANDER GUERRY

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met Charlotte grant, about Vice-Chancellor- 879 to mpson ' s exist were introduced. Sewanee men were [known for their good graces throughout the South, and they prided themselves on {being well-dressed with a coat and tie. The first chaplain, the Rev. William DuBose, gencouraged excellence in studies by organizing the Order of Gownsmen, a unique group in American education. In 1890, the Reverend Thomas F. Gailor, later Bishop of Tennessee and first president of the National Council, succeeded the Reverend Telfair Hodgson, after the latter resigned. During Gailor ' s administration medical, dental, nursing and law studies were instituted. Construction of Walsh Hall, the library, Breslin Tower, and All Saints Chapel was begun during the first golden age, lasting from 1879-1909. In this period the faculty contributed to the major scholarly endeavors of the day, having their works printed in the leading publications, and making a name for the school on both the regional and national levels. The Sewanee Review was founded in 1892. One hundred fourteen degrees were given in 1900, a record not equalled until 1950. Benjamin Lawton Wiggins, succeeding Gailor as Vice-Chancellor in 1893, was the first alumnus to fill the post. During this period Sewanee excelled in sports, with undefeated football teams in 1898 and 1899. They were followed by fine teams in the ensuing years. This was climaxed by winning the championship of the South in 1909. However, the high spirit of the time masked the troubles which lay ahead. Wiggins died in 1909, and soon after his death the University ' s momentum declined sharply. Lacking the dynamic leadership of Wiggins, the Trustees voted to abandon the College of Medicine and Law and concentrate on the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Theology, and the military preparatory school. Dean William B. Hall carried on as Vice-Chancellor for five years. The succeeding Vice-Chancellors Knight and Finney, though distinguished gentlemen, were not able to provide effective adminis- tration. World War I hurt the University so badly that it was unable to capitalize on the prosperity of the 1920 ' s. The depression cast the school into virtual poverty, but the high standards that had been originally instituted survived during the nadir of the University ' s material progress. The year 1938 marked a period of revival and rebirth for the University under the brilliant and effective leadership of Dr. Alexander Guerry, an alumnus of Sewanee. By his untimely death in 1948, Dr. Guerry had so organized and revitalized the ad-

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tiBR M. - Andrew Nelson Lytle: Teacher, Friend, and Gentleman. DEDICATION Mr. Lytle has been here before: he graduated from SMA and has been in the College as instructor in history and editor of The Sewanee Review. Again he is on the Mountain — and we hope that it is for a long time. Mr. Lytle is once more editor of The Review, and teaches Contemporary Fiction and Imaginative Writing. He has been here for two years now. In that span his influence has been remarkable; this is because Andrew Nelson Lytle is in many ways a remarkable man. As teacher, he has produced in those of us who have attended his popular Con- temporary Fiction classes that rare glow of excitement which is the pure joy of learning, of the opening of vistas, of the revelation of things unseen now seen. A man whose students are fairly jumping in their desks with excitement, a man who finds himself still surrounded by half of his class twenty minutes after period has ended — that man is a teacher. As friend, he is equally amazing: the student who finds himself in conversation with Mr. Lytle over a morning cup of coffee in the Union, over desks in a classroom, or across the hearth at his Monteagle home goes away regarding the experience not only as pleasant but profitable. As gentleman, he is perhaps the perfect example of what Sewanee tries to teach its scholars to be. The term gentleman is one all too loosely applied in our age. The appropriate definition is found in Oxford ' s New English Dictionary: a man of chival- rous instincts and fine feeling. This is what Andrew Lytle is — in truth, a paragon of courtesy, chivalry, and all that is gentlemanly — and Sewanee men realize it and hope to emulate this man. Thus, the 1963 Cap and Gown is dedicated to Andrew Lytle, a man superlative, a man dear to us and esteemed by us — teacher, friend, and gentleman.