Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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WILLIAM HAYWARD FORELAND, K A, I A , received the degree of LL. B. from this University in 1907, and afterwards became a prominent member of the Norfolk liar. He was called to the Professorship of Law which he now holds at Washington and Lee University, in 1914, and while occupying this position has still retained his partnership in the law firm in Norfolk, Va.. with which j.e practised before coming to Washington and Lee. He is a member of the Faculty Committee on Public Functions. HOLDEN BOVEE SCHERMERHORN, I K -[ , A I Professor of Law. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania wit It a I ' ll. It. in 1890 and an LL. B., LSD. .. M. L. from Temple University, 1914. Practitioner at the Philadelphia bar for ten years; member of the law faculty of Temple University for six years, teaching Pleading, Torts. Negligence, aiol lnsuiance. Resided for two years in Lausanne, Switzerland, during which time he was preparing a volume on Torts. Author of Essentials to Principal Action in Torts at Common Law, 191:!. CLOVIS MOOMAW. II K A, A B , is in the second year of his service in the Law Faculty of Washington and Lee. lie re- ceived the B. a. and M. A. degrees at the University of Vir- ginia, and an LL. B. from Washington and Lee in 1912. He was called to an Instructorship in the Law School to till the place made vacant by the death of Professor Staples, and this year became Professor of Law. In 1913, he was Assistant Coach of the Wash ington ami Lee football team. lie is a Shrine ' .

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JOHN WILLIAM I-IOBBS POLLAED, G A X, A K K, Professor of Physical Education, and Professor of Biology. B. L., Dart- mouth College, 1895, and M. D. from University of Vermont, 1901. He has studied Physical Culture, Preventative Medicine, Histology and Embryology, and other special subjects at Harvard, and has been Physical Director and Director of Athletics at the following instutions: University School, Chicago, Illinois; Union University, Schenectady, New York; Lehigh University; University of Roches- ter; East Side High School, Rochester; University of Alabama; and Washington and Lee. Member American Microscopical So- cieyt; Society of the Genesee; sometime Member of the American Physical Education Society of College Gymnasium Directors; Former Alabama State Representative; Department of Physical Education, Southern Educational Association; President S. A. I. A. A. FRANKLIN LAFAYETTE RILEY, ! B K, Professor of History, received the degrees of A. B. and M. A. at Mississippi College and later took a Ph. D. degree at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. For some years he taught in the Hillman College for Mississippi, and the University of Mississippi, being called to the chair of History in Washington and Lee in 1914. Fellow in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1895-96; Author of Oolonial Origin of New England Senates, ' ' (Doctor ' s Dissertation); Editor Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, (fourteen volumes), and A Political History of the South (South in the Building of the Nation Series); Literary Editor Library of Southern Literature (fifteen volumes); Associate Editor World ' s Orators (ten volumes); Contributing Editor The Practical History of the World (eight volumes). EDGAR FINLEY SHANNON, A K E, Professor of English. Received an A. B. degree from the Central University of Ken- tucky, and an A. M. and Ph. D. from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he held the Austin Scholarship for Teachers. Taught at the University of Arkansas as Professor of English, and later as Dean of the University. Library Coran ittee at Washington and Lee University. Contributor to various Modern Lanuage journals.

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JOHN EPPES MARTIN, A X P, A K, received his B. A. degree in 1911, arid returned in 1913 for an M. A., which he re- ceived the following June. He has taught at Wakefield (Va.) High School, 1912; Principal of Kenbridge (Va.) High School, 1912-13; Instructor in English at Washington and Lee, 1913-14; Teacher in Norfolk (Va.) Summer Normal School, 1914. He has taught English at Washington and Lee for two years. Master Mason. wSff ttl. 1 WILLIAM MOSELEY BROWN, S B K, A K, Instructor in Germanic Languages. This is the second year which has been occupied y Mr. Brown as German Instructor. He received im A B. degree from this University in 1914, and receives an M. A. degree this year. Secretary of Y. M. C. A. Vincent L. Bradford Scholarship, 1914; Mapleson Scholarship, 1915; Latin Department Scholarship, 1913. LEWIS TYREE, A X P, A A, A 2 P, Instructor in English, reecived the degrees of B. A. and M. A. from the University of Virginia, where he was a men ber of the Raven Society. He will receive the degree of LL. B. from Washington and Lee at the close of this year. He has taught in the following schools: Uni- versity of Virginia Sumirer School, 1912-13; Fork Union Military Academy, 1812-13; Washington and Lee University, 1913-14, 1914-15. Member, Masonic Club.