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CATALOG NUMBER
MAY, 1927
VOL. 12
NO. 1
CATALOGUE
1927-28
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1927
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THE PRAYER OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY
Father of Wisdom, Master of the Schools of Men, of
Thine all-knowledge grant me this my Prayer: that i
MAY BE WISE IN THEE. SiNK THOU MY FOUNDATIONS DOWN
deep into Thy bosom until they rest upon the vast rock
OF Thy counsel. Lift Thou my walls into the clear em-
pyrean of Thy Truth. Cover me with the wings that
shadow from all harm. Lay my threshold in honor and
MY LINTELS IN LOVE. SET THOU MY FLOORS IN THE CEMENT
OF UNBREAKABLE FRIENDSHIP AND MAY MY WINDOWS BE TRANS-
PARENT WITH HONESTY. LEAD THOU UNTO ME, LORD GOD,
THOSE WHOM THOU HAST APPOINTED TO BE MY CHILDREN, AND
when they shall come who would learn of me the wis-
dom of the years, let the crimson of my windows glow
with the light of the world. let them see, 0 my lord,
Him Whom Thou hast shown me; let them hear Him
Whose voice Has whispered to me and let them reach
out their hands and touch Him Who has gently led me
UNTO this good DAY. ROCK-RIBBED MAY I STAND FOR THY
Truth. Let the storms of evil beat about me in vain.
May I SAFELY shelter those who come unto me FROM THE
winds of Error. Let the lightning that lies in the
CLOUD OF IGNORANCE BREAK UPON MY HEAD IN DESPAIR, MaY
the YOUNG AND THE PURE AND THE CLEAN-HEARTED PUT THEIR
TRUST SECURELY IN ME NOR MAY ANY THAT EVER COME TO MY
HALLS FOR GUIDANCE BE SENT ASTRAY. LeT THE BLUE ASHLARS
OF MY BREAST THRILL TO THE HAPPY SONGS OF THE TRUE-
HEARTED AND MAY THE VERY HEART OF MY CAMPUS SHOUT FOR
JOY AS IT FEELS THE TREAD OF THOSE WHO MARCH FOR GOD.
All this I Pray Thee; and yet this, more: That there
MAY BE NO stain UPON MY STONES, FOREVER, AMEN.
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
1927
June 7 — Tuesday Summer Term Begins
August 19 — Friday Summer Term Ends
September 28 — Wednesday Fall Term Begins
November 5 — Saturday Middle of First Term
November 24 — Thursday Thanksgiving Holiday
December 15 — Thursday ___ Winter Examinations Begin
December 23 — Friday Christmas Holidays Begin
1928
January 4 — Wednesday Winter Term Begins
January 21 — Saturday Founders' Day
February 4 — Saturday Middle of Second Term
March 14 — Wednesday Spring Term Begins
April lA— Saturday ,.. Middle of Third Term
May 7 — Friday Senior Examinations Begin
May 19 — Saturday Meeting of Board of Directors
May 20 — Sunday Commencement
May 21 — Monday Final Examinations Begin
May 26 — Saturday Close of Session
June 5 — Tuesday Summer Term Begins
August 17 — Friday Summer Term Ends
September 26 — Wednesday Fall Term Begins
November 29 — Thursday Thanksgiving Holiday
December 22 — Saturday Christmas Holidays Begin
1929
January 21 — Monday Founders' Day
March 5 — Monday _. Spring Examinations Begin
March 13 — Wednesday Spring Term Begins
May 6 — Friday Senior Examinations Begin
May 25 — Saturday Meeting of Board of Directors
May 26 — Sunday Commencement
May 27 — Monday Final Examinations Begin
June 1 — Saturday Close of Session
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY*
BOARD OF FOUNDERS
The details of the management of Oglethorpe Uni-
versity are handled by an Executive Committee of
twenty-one men. The property is legally kept in trust
by a Board of Trustees of seven men. The General
Board of Directors meets at least once each year, at
commencement time, on the university campus near
Atlanta, to inspect the institution, to review all mat-
ters of large importance in the University, and to
give directions to the Executive Committee which is
elected by them and from their number, and which at-
tends to the details of management of the Institution
between the meetings of the Board of Directors. Each
member of the Board represents a gift of two thou-
sand dollars or more to the University, or an annual
gift of not less than $100.00.
Thus there is no one associated with the ownership
or control of the institution in an important capacity
who is not making a personal sacrifice in its behalf.
In many cases they represent groups, societies,
churches or families who combined their gifts in the
founding of the University.
Prospective students will not fail to note the quality
of these men, representing the thousands of men and
women whose sacrifices and prayers have consum-
mated this fine purpose. As representatives and gov-
ernors of the Institution they will take pleasure in
giving any inquirers information as to the aims and
progress of the Universit}^
The list on the following pages is corrected to March 1, 1927.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
EDGAR WATKINS, President
J. T. LUPTON, First Vice-President
H. P. HERMANCE, Second Vice-President
HAROLD R. BERRY, Third Vice-President
JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Secretary
MILTON W. BELL, Treasurer
John P. Kennedy
L. R. Simpson
W. C. Underwood
ALABAMA
T. M. McMillan*
D. A. Planck
Thos. E. Gray
W. B. Tanner
A. C. Howze
M. F. Allen
F. M. Smith
G. E. Mattison
ARKANSAS
S. E. Orr
C. H. Chenoweth
David A. Gates
*H. H. Foster
John Van Lear
T. A. Brown
H. E. McRae
CONNECTICUTT
Henry K. McHarg
FLORIDA
L. W. Anderson
R. M. Alexander
E. D. Brownlee
F. D. Bryan
D. J. Blackwell
Jacob E. Brecht*
R. R. Baker
C. H. Curry
B. M. Comfort
H. C. DuBose
R. D. Dodge
H. C. Giddens
J. E. Henderson
S. E. Ives
M. D. Johnson
C. L. Nance
W. R. O'Neal
Richard P. Reese
J. W. Purcell
Ernest Quarterman
D. A. Shaw
W. B. Y. Wilkie
W. A. Williams
'Deceased
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Irvin Alexander
R. L. Alexander
R. L. Anderson
Jas. T. Anderson
Barnwell Anderson
A. H. Atkins
W. P. Beman
N. K. Bitting
J. M. Brawner
R. A. Brown
R. L. Caldwell
Chas. A. Campbell
T. Stacy Capers
W. A. Carter
W. L. Cook
J. W. Corley
Claud C. Craig
Julian Cumming
J. C. Daniel
A. W. Farlinger*
Hamlin Ford
Wm. H. Fleming
H. J. Gaertner
Guy Garrard
L. P. Gartner
Geo. R. Bell
B. L. Price
C. A. Weis
A. Wettermark
GEORGIA
C. M. Gibbs
J. T. Gibson
Joseph D. Green
A. J. Griffith
J. W. Hammond
J. G. Herndon
E. L. Hill
S. Holderness
S. Holderness, Jr.
G. M. Howerton
Frank L. Hudson
*B. I. Hughes
C. R. Johnson
M. F. Leary
Claud Little
T. S. Lowry
J. H. Malloy
*L. C. Mandeville
L. C. Mandeville Jr
E. S. McDowell
H. T. Mcintosh
I. S. McElroy
Chas. D. McKinney
J. H. Merrill
W. S. Myrick
KENTUCKY
*B. M. Shive
E. M. Green
LOUISIANA
A. B. Israel
F. M. Milliken
C. O. Martindale
J. E. Patton
A. L. Patterson
R. A. Rogers, Jr.
W. M. Scott
J. R. Sevier
R. A. Simpson
E. P. Simpson
Geo. J. Shultz
H. L. Smith
T. M. Stribling
T. I. Stacy
W. T. Summers
G. G. Sydnor
T. W. Tinsley
D. A. Thompson
J. C. Turner
J. O. Varnedoe
J. B. Way
Fielding Wallace
Thos. L. Wallace
W. W. Ward
James Watt
Wm. A. Watt
Leigh M. White
Jas. E. Woods
A. S. Venable
R. P. Hyams
H. M. McLain
E. H. Gregory
'Deceased
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LOUISIANA— (Continued)
W. S. Payne
T. M. Hunter
J. L. Street
•W. S. Lindamood
T. L. Armistead
J. R. Bridges
*Geo. W. Watts
Geo. W. Ragan
Tho3. W. Watson
R. G. Vaughn
A. A. McLean
A. McL. Martin
B. A. Henry
♦W. P. Jacobs
W. D. Ratchford
F. Murray Mack
C. C. Good
W. A. Zeigler J. A. Salmen
A. B. Smith ♦J. C. Barr
W. B. Gobbert F. Salmen
Sargent Pitcher
MISSISSIPPI
A. J. Evans R. W. Deason
R. F. Simmons W. W. Raworth
J. W. Young
MISSOURI
H. C. Francisco
NEW YORK CITY
Wm. R. Hearst
NORTH CAROLINA
J. W. McLaughlin A. M. Scales
W. C. Brown A. L. Brooks
J. N. H. Summerel L. Richardson
D. C. McNeill Melton Clark
J. M. Bell
PENNSYLVANIA
John E. McKelvey
SOUTH CAROLINA
T. W. Sloan J. B. Green
Henry M. Massey W. P. Anderson
P. S. McChesney F. D. Vaughn
*John W. Ferguson E, E. Gillespie
L. B. McCord L. C. Dove
E. P. Davis
Jos. T. Dendy
'Deceased
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S. C. Appleby
L. W. Buford
*J. W. Bachman
J. D. Blanton
T. C. Black
W. A. Cleveland
J. L. Curtss
*N. B. Dozier
*Wm. Caldwell
R. D. Cage
A. F. Carr
D. C. Campbell
W. S. Campbell
S. T. Hutchinson
Ajrer, C. K.
Ayer, Dr. G. D.
Bachman, James R.
Barnett, Dr. S. T.
Bell, Milton W.
Brandon, G. H.
Brice, John A.
Brooke, A. L.
Bryan, Shepard
Calhoun, Dr. F. P.
Carson, J. Turner
TENNESSEE
H. W. Dick
W. G. Erskine
C. W. Heiskell
C. C. Hounston
M. S. Kennedy
G. W. Killebrew
J. T. Lupton
P. A. Lyon
TEXAS
W. L. Estes
F. E. Fincher
R. M. Hall
David Hannah
S. P. Hulburt
VIRGINIA
Geo. L. Petrie
F. S. Royster
ATLANTA
Carson, S. W.
Coleman, W. D.
Cooney, R. L.
Daniel, Thomas H.
Davis, A. 0.
Dillon, John Robert
Draper, Jesse
Dunlop, William
Edwards, J. Lee
Grant, B. M.
Gray, James R., Jr.
C. L. Lewis
T. S. McCallie
J. B. Milligan
J. E. Napier
O. S. Smith
J. I. Vance
L. R. Walker
W. S. Jacobs
Wm. H. Leavell
A. O. Price
Wm. A. Vinson
A. D. Witten
Hamby, W. B.
Heinz, Henry C.
Hermance, H. P.
Hinman, Dr. T. P.
Hood, B. Mifflin
Hoyt, J. Wallace
Hunter, Joel
Hutchinson, T. N.
Inman, F. M.
Inman, Henry A.
Jacobs, J. Dillard
♦Deceased
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Oglethorpe University
Jacobs, Thornwell
Jacobs, John Lesh
Jones, Rob't H., Jr.
Jones, Harrison
Kay, C. E.
Keough, J. B.
King, George E.
Knight, Dr. L. L.
Manget, John A.
Marshall, C. M.
McBurney, E. P.
McFadden, Haynes
McKinney, C. D.
Minor, H. W.
Montgomery, C. D.
Morrison, J. L.
Moore, Wilmer L.
Murphy, J. R.
Noble, Dr. G. H.
Orr, W. W.
Ottley, J. K.
Faxon, F. J.
Popham, J. W.
Porter, J. Russell
Porter, J. Henry
Powell, Dr. J. H.
Richardson, Hugh
Rivers, E.
Sibley, John A.
Smith, Dr. Archi.
Smith, Hoke
Steele, W. 0.
Strickler, Dr. C. W.
Sutton, Dr. W. A.
Speer, W. A.
Thompson, M. W.
Thornwell, E. A.
Tull, J. M.
■VVachendorff, C. J.
Watkins, Edgar Sr.
Watkins, Edgar Jr.
Wellhouse, Sidney
Weyman, S. M.
White, W. Woods
Willett, H. M.
Willis, G. F.
Williams, James T.
Williamson, J. J.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President, EDGAR WATKINS, Ex-officio
Secretary, JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Ex-officio
Treasurer, MILTON W. BELL, Ex-officio
For Six Years
Thornwell Jacobs
E. P. McBurney
For Five Years
J. R. Porter
J. H. Porter
For Four Years
Joel Hunter
J. R. Bachman
For Three Years
Thos. H. Daniel
Jas. T. Anderson
For Two Years
G. H. Brandon
J. T. Edwards
For One Year
B. M. Hood
Rob't. H. Jones, Jr.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Edgar Watkins Cartter Lupton
Thornwell Jacobs H. P. Hermance
E. P. McBurney
The remaining two vacancies will be filled later.
16 Oglethorpe University
HISTORICAL SKETCH
The historical genesis of Oglethorpe University
takes us back to the middle of the eighteenth century
when, under the leadership of Presbyterian men,
Princeton College was founded in New Jersey and rap-
idly became the institution largely patronized by the
young men from Presbyterian families all over the
world. After a while the long distances which must
be traveled by stage or on horseback, suggested the
building of a similar institution under the auspices of
Presbyterianism in the South. The movement began
with the Spring meeting of Hopewell Presbytery in
the year 1823, and eventuated in the founding of a
manual training school, and this, in turn, became
Oglethorpe College in 1835 when Midway Hill, in the
suburbs of Milledgeville, then the capital of the State
of Georgia, was chosen for the location of the Institu-
tion. Old Oglethorpe College was thus the first de-
nominational college or university between the Atlan-
tic and Pacific Oceans south of the Virginia line, and,
of a right, claimed to be the Alma Mater of all that
brilliant company of institutions which were born
after her in this vast empire.
The facilities of the old Oglethorpe were adequate
for the time. The main building was probably the
handsomest college structure in the Southeast when
it was erected, and "contained the finest college chapel
in the United States not excepting Yale, Harvard or
Princeton."
In the Faculty of the Institution may be found the
names of men who are world-famous. Among these
were Joseph Le Conte, the great geologist; James
Woodrow, the brilliant and devoted Christian and
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scientist; Samuel K. Talmadge, the eminent adminis-
trator, and many others. It is, perhaps, the chief
glory of Old Oglethorpe that after three years of in-
struction she graduated Sidney Lanier in the famous
class of 1860 and that he was a tutor to her sons un-
til the spring of '61 when with the Oglethorpe cadets
he marched away to the wars. Shortly before his
death, Lanier, looking back over his career, remarked
to a friend that the greatest intellectual impulse of his
life had come to him during his college days at Ogle-
thorpe through the influence of Dr. Woodrow. Her
other eminent alumni include governors, justices,
moderators of the General Assembly, discoverers, in-
ventors and a host of honest, industrious and superb
laborers for the highest ideals of humanity.
Oglethorpe "died at Gettysburg," for during the
war her sons were soldiers, her endowment w^as in
Confederate bonds, and her buildings, used as bar-
racks and hospital, were later burned. An effort was
made to revive the institution in the 70's and to lo-
cate it in Atlanta, but the evils of reconstruction days
and financial disaster made the adventure impossible
and unsuccessful, and after a year and a half of strug-
gle the doors were closed for the second time.
Only fifteen years have passed since the present
movement to refound the university began and they
have been years of financial disaster and utter tur-
moil, yet the assets and subscription pledges of the in-
stitution have passed the sum of one and a half mil-
lion dollars as the result of unusual and self-sacrific-
ing liberality on the part of over five thousand peo-
ple.
The corner stone of Oglethorpe University was laid
on January 21, 1915, with her trustful motto engrav-
18 Oglethorpe University
ed upon it: "Manu Dei Resurrexit" (By the Hand
of God She Has Risen from the Dead.)
THE OPENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916
Oglethorpe University opened her doors in the Fall
of 1916. After fifty years of rest beneath the gray
ashes of fratricidal strife she rose to breathe the airs
of a new day. Her first building, constructed of gran-
ite, trimmed v/ith limestone, covered with slate and as
near fireproof as human skill can make it, was ready
for occupancy in the fall of 1916, when her first class
gathered on her beautiful campus on Peachtree Road.
A faculty equal to that of any cognate institution in
the country has been formed. The work of raising
funds and new construction goes steadily on. And all
of this has been done in the midst of financial disas-
ter that darkened the spirit of the whole nation, and
against the evil influences of a colossal war, which
caused the very joints of the world to gape.
THE ROMANCE OF HER RESURRECTION
The story of the resurrection of Oglethorpe reads
like a romance. Beginning only fourteen years ago
with a contribution of $100.00 a year for ten years, it
soon gathered with it a band of great-hearted Atlanta
men who determined to see that their city had a uni-
versity, as well as a band of far-seeing educational
leaders, who wished to erect a certain high type of
institution in this splendid metropolis. The story of
how dollar was added to dollar during a campaign of
four years; of how no less than seventy Atlanta men
gave each $1,000.00 or more to the enterprise ; of how
the story has been told in cities, towns and country
all over the South from Galveston, Tex., to Char-
lottesville, Virginia, and from Marshall, Missouri, to
Bradentown, Florida; the splendid triumph of the At-
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lanta campaigns; all this is well known. Since that
time the same wonderful record has been maintained.
There are now something like five thousand men, wo-
men and children all of whom have contributed or
promised from fifty cents to $400,000.00. They are
the Founders' Club which is carrying the movement
forward so splendidly.
HER ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY
An idea of the quality of construction and design of
the institution may be gained from the accompanying
illustrations. (See Frontispiece.)
It will be seen that the architects and landscape
artist spared no pains to make it one of the really
beautiful universities of America. The architecture
is Collegiate Gothic; the building material is a beau-
tiful blue granite trimmed with limestone. All the
buildings will be covered with heavy variegated
slates. The interior construction is of steel, concrete,
brick and hollow tile. The first building is the one on
the right of the entrance seen in the foreground of
the bird's eye view. The building, given by Dr. and
Mrs. Lupton and their son, our beloved benefactors,
is the one with the tower just opposite on the left of
the entrance. Lowry Hall, stands completed (1927)
at the end of the main axis directly in front of the en-
trance. The total cost of construction of the buildings
shown in the above design with the landscape work
required, will be approximately $3,000,000. The build-
ing plan will be followed out in its entirety.
HER SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL IDEALS
But it is not so much the magnificent exterior of
the institution about which the men who are founding
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Oglethorpe are most concerned, it is the spiritual and
intellectual life of their university. To that end they
have resolved to maintain a faculty and a curricu-
lum that will be of the highest possible quality, their
thought being excellence in every department. They
will take the superb traditions of the old Oglethorpe
and add the best of this present age to them. Doubt-
less Oglethorpe will be a big university some day,
but she is already a great one, and it is greatness
rather than bigness which her founders crave most
for her.
FOUNDERS' BOOK
In the Founders' Room at Oglethorpe there will be
a Book containing the name of every man, woman and
child who aided in the founding of the University,
arranged alphabetically, by states. That Book will
be accessible to every student and visitor who may
want to know who it was from his or her home that
took part in the doing of this, the greatest deed that
has been attempted for our sons and daughters in
this generation. The Book is not yet complete, be-
cause the work is not yet finished, and each month is
adding many to this role of honor, whose names will
thus be preserved in the life and archives of Ogle-
thorpe University forever.
CLOCK AND CHIMES
In the tower of the new building given by Dr. and
Mrs. J. T. Lupton, is installed a clock and chimes,
with two dials and night illumination, the gift of
Mrs. H. Frederick Lesh, of Newton Center, Mass. It
is interesting to note that this is the only tower clock
in Atlanta and the only chimes on any college campus
in Georgia. On the largest of the bells, which weighs
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a ton, is the following inscription.
We were given by
Grace Josephine Lesh
That the hours at Oglethorpe
Might be filled with
Music and Harmony.
THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY
The Board of Directors of Oglethorpe University,
realizing the responsibility upon them of selecting a
faculty whose spiritual and intellectual equipment
should be capable of satisfying the tremendous de-
mand of a really great institution of learning, has
spared no effort or pains in securing a body of men
who would not only possess that first requisite of a
teacher, a great soul, but should also have those two
other requisites of almost equal importance: power
of imparting their ideals and knowledge, and intellec-
tual acquirements adequate for their department.
The most important elem^ent in education is the creat-
ing in the student of an intense yearning for and de-
light in the Good, the True and the Beautiful, and
the first essential for the creation of such a spirit is
the example set before him by the Faculty. The ob-
ject of an Oglethorpe education is to furnish the stu-
dent with deeper thoughts, finer emotions and nobler
purposes to the end that he may more clearly under-
stand, more fully enjoy and more excellentlj^ behave
in the world. The University now has a corps of
teachers unsurpassed in any institution of its size
and age. The names are given in the order of their
election.
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THORNWELL JACOBS
A. B., Presbyterian College of South Carolina, Vale-
dictorian and Medalist; A. M., P. C, of S. C; Grad-
uate of Princeton Theological Seminary; A. M„
Princeton University; LL. D., Ohio Northern Univer-
sity ; Litt. D., Presbyterian College of South Carolina ;
Pastor of Morganton (N. C.) Presbyterian Church;
Vice-President of Thornwell College for Orphans;
Author and Editor; Founder and Editor Westminster
Magazine; engaged in the organization of Oglethorpe
University; Author of The Law of the White Circle
(novel) ; The Midnight Mummer (poems) ; Sinful
Saddy (story for children) ; Life of Wm, Plumer
Jacobs; The New Science and the Old Religion; Mem-
ber Graduate Council of the National Alumni Associa-
tion of Princeton University; President of Oglethorpe
University.
JAMES FREEMAN SELLERS
A. B. and A. M., University of Mississippi; LL. D.,
Mississippi College; Graduate Student, University of
Virginia and University of Chicago; Teaching Fellow,
University of Chicago; Professor of Chemistry, Mis-
sissippi College and Mercer University; Dean of the
Faculty, Mercer University; Professor of Chemistry,
A. E. F. University, Beaune, France ; Y. M. C. A. Edu-
cational Secretary, England; Fellow American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science; President
Georgia Section American Chemical Society; Author
Treatise on Analytical Chemistry; Contributor to
Scientific and Religious Journals; Professor of Chem-
istry and Dean of Faculty, Oglethorpe University.
GEORGE FREDERICK NICOLASSEN
A. B., University of Virginia; A. M., University of
Virginia; Fellow in Greek, Johns Hopkins University,
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two years; Assistant Instructor in Latin and Greek
in Johns Hopkins University, one year; Ph. D., Johns
Hopkins University; Professor of Ancient Languages
in the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarks-
ville, Tenn. ; Vice-Chancellor of the Southwestern
Presbyterian University; Member Classical Associa-
tion of the Middle West and South; Author of Notes
on Latin and Greek; Greek Notes Revised; The Book
of Revelation; Professor of Ancient Languages, Ogle-
thorpe University.
HERMAN JULIUS GAERTNER
A. B., Indiana University; A. M., Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity; Ped. D., Ohio Northern University; Teacher
and Superintendent in the common schools and high
schools of Ohio and Georgia; Professor of Math-
ematics and Astronomy, Wilmington College, Ohio;
Professor of History, Georgia Normal and Industrial
College, Milledgeville, Ga. ; Member of the University
Summer School Faculty, University of Georgia, six
summers; Pi Gamma Mu; Assistant in the organiza-
tion of Oglethorpe University ; Professor of Education
in Oglethorpe University.
JAMES ROUTH
A, B., and Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University ; Tocque-
ville Medalist, Johns Hopkins University; winner
Century Magazine Essay Prize for American College
Graduate of 1900; Phi Beta Kappa; Sub-editor, Cen-
tury Dictionary Supplement, N. Y., 1905; Instructor,
University of Texas and Washington University;
Acting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia;
Assistant and Associate Professor, Tulane Univer-
sity; Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
Summer School, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926; Member, Mod-
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ern Language Association, National Council of Teach-
ers of English and American Dialect Society; Au-
thor, Two Studies on the Ballad Theory of the Beo-
wulf, the Rise of Classical English, Criticism, Contrib-
utor to Modern Language Notes, Publications of the
Modern Language Association, Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, Modern Philology, Englische
Studien, South Atlantic Quarterly, etc. ; Professor of
English in Oglethorpe University.
ARTHUR STEPHEN LIBBY
Ph. B., Eowdoin College; A. B., University of Maine;
A. M., Sorbonne, Paris, (Diplome Inferieure) ; A. M.,
Brown University; Ph. D., University of Paris, (Di-
plome Superieure) ; Student University of Maine Law
School and Columbia University Law School; Prin-
cipal of various High Schools in Maine; Instructor in
Modern Languages, Brown University; Professor of
Modern Languages, Converse College; Acting Pro-
fessor of History, Political Science and International
Law, Wofford College; Member American Historical
Association; American Geographic Society; Phi Kap-
pa Delta, (honorary) ; Head of School of Commerce
and Professor of Political Science and International
Law, Oglethorpe University.
HARDING HUNT
Tufts College, B. S.; Harvard University; Danbury
Normal School; Master in Science, Freyburg Insti-
tute; Principal Torrington High School; Superintend-
ent of Schools, New Hartford; Private Tutor, New
York City; Reynolds Professor of Biology, Davidson
College; Professor of Biology, Southern College; As-
sociate Professor of Biology, Oglethorpe University.
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CORA STEELE LIBBY
A. B., Converse College; Student New York Univer-
sity and Columbia University; Head of the Depart-
ment of Mathematics, Converse College, Spartanburg,
S. C. ; Acting Dean, Converse College; Assistant Pro-
fessor in the School of Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance, Oglethorpe University.
WILLIAM LOUIS RONEY
A. B., University of Pittsburgh; A. M., Oglethorpe
University; LL. B., Atlanta Law School; Assistant
Professor Modern Languages, Emory University;
Professor Modern Languages, Washington College,
Tenn. ; Professor Modern Languages, Marietta Col-
lege, Ohio; Assistant Professor of Romance Lan-
guages, Oglethorpe University.
MARK BURROWS
B. S., Stanberry Normal School; A, B., State Teach-
ers' College, Kirksville, Missouri; A. M., Oglethorpe
University ; Teacher and Superintendent in the Public
and High Schools of Missouri; Director Department
of Commerce State Teachers' College, Kirksville, Mo;
Professor of Rural Education in University of Wyom-
ing and in State Teachers' Colleges at Kirksville, and
Greeley, Colorado; Editor, Rural School Messenger
and The School and The Community, and Author of
Tractates on Education; Member of National Educa-
tional Association and of National Geographic So-
ciety and National Academy of Visual Education;
Professor of History and Social Science, Oglethorpe
University.
JOHN A. ALDRICH
A. B., Albion College; M. S., University of Michigan;
Ph. D., University of Michigan; Member of Society of
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Sigma Xi, of American Astronomical Society, of
American Association of University Professors; Fel-
low of American Association for the Advancement of
Science; Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Olivet
College; Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Wash-
burn College; Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Oglethorpe University.
EARL A. GERHARDT
A. B., University of New Mexico; M. B. A., Harvard
University, Graduate School of Business Administra-
tion; Principal of Schools, Roy, New Mexico; Principal
of Junior High School, Tucumcari, New Mexico; In-
structor in Economics, Alabama Polytechnic Institute ;
Professor of Accounting, Oglethorpe University.
FRANK B. ANDERSON
A. B., University of Georgia; Assistant Professor of
Mathematics and Athletic Director, University School
for Boys; Assistant Professor of Mathematics and
Athletic Director, R. E. Lee Institute; Assistant Pro-
fessor of Mathematics and Athletic Director, Gor-
don Institute; Coach, University of Georgia; Assist-
ant Professor of Mathematics and Athletic Director,
Riverside Military Academy; Athletic Director, Ogle-
thorpe University.
HARRY ROBERTSON
A. B., Syracuse, 1922; End, Football Team, 1918-19-
20-21, Line Coach, Syracuse, 1921-22-23; Football
Coach at Oglethorpe University, 1924-25-26-27.
MYRTA BELLE THOMAS
Graduate Carnegie Library School of Atlanta, Ga.;
Librarian Mitchell College, Statesville, N. C; Libra-
rian, Oglethorpe University.
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LEWIS HAASE
Manager Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta; Dramatic Di-
rector of Oglethorpe University.
DR. T. BLAKE ARMSTRONG
A. B., Emory University; M. D., Emory University;
Associate Surgeon, Grady Hospital; Consulting Sur-
geon, United States Public Health Service; Physician,
Oglethorpe University.
BERNARD S. DEKLE, Assistant in English.
JOSEPH H. WATKINS, A. B., Laboratory Assistant
in Chemistry and Tutor in Mathematics.
W. S. EVANS, Laboratory Assistant in Physics.
E. L. SHEPHERD, Laboratory Assistant in Biology.
H. C. CHESTNUT, Assistant Football Coach.
C. W. CORLESS, Assistant Football Coach.
MRS. R. P. ABRAHAM, Matron.
MISS MARGARET STOVALL, Secretary to the Pres-
ident.
MISS MARY FEEBECK, Registered Nurse, (Presby-
terian Hospital, Atlanta.) In charge of College
Infirmary.
GEORGE MURPHY, Assistant Postmaster.
WILLIAM JOSEPH BARNES, Bursar.
JOHN T. LEE, Director of Music.
J. P. HANSARD, Manager of Printing Office.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY
ABSENCES— Hunt.
ATHLETICS— Anderson, Libby, Gerhardt.
BUILDINGS and EQUIPMENT — Gaertner, Aid-
rich, Libby.
CATALOGUE— Nicolassen, Routh, Sellers.
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CURRICULUM— Sellers, Routh, Libby, Gaertner,
Nicolassen.
ENTRANCE— Libby, Gaertner, Routh, Anderson.
FACULTY SUPPLIES— Gerhardt, Mrs. Libby and
Hunt.
HEALTH and HYGIENE— Mrs. Libby, Dr. Arm-
strong, Hunt.
LIBRARY— Routh, Mrs. Libby, Hunt, Miss Thomas
PUBLIC OCCASIONS— Nicolassen, Gaertner, Lib-
by.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS— Routh.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
0-CLUB— Caruso Hardin, President; Clay Carroll,
Vice-President; Duke Terrell, Secretary and Treas-
urer.
DEBATING COUNCIL— Harry Banister, Presi-
dent; Lovelace Ginn, Manager.
OGLETHORPE PLAYERS— Fred Stewart, Presi-
dent; Charles Willis, Vice-President; Fay Bowman,
Secretary-Treasurer; Cody Laird, Publicity Manager;
Luke Pettit, Business Manager.
STUDENT FACULTY COMMITTEE— George Mur-
phy, Harry Banister, Roy Hancock, Beverly Irwin, Joe
James.
BAND AND ORCHESTRA— John T. Lee, Direc-
tor.
GLEE CLUB— John T. Lee, Director.
THE PETREL is a weekly paper published by the
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students in the interest of Athletics and other stu-
dent activities.
THE YAMACRAW is the name of the student an-
nual. It is edited and financed by the student body,
as is also The Petrel, the college paper.
THE WESTMINSTER MAGAZINE is a quarterly
publication designed to convey to the friends of the
institution, something of the literary life of their uni-
versity. It is under the editorial care of the presi-
dent and Dr. James Routh.
Oglethorpe has held intercollegiate debates with
Mercer University, Auburn Polytechnic, the Univer-
sity of the South at Sewanee, Emory University and
Georgia School of Technology with eminent success.
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IMMEDIATE PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of Oglethorpe University is to offer
courses of study leading to the higher academic and
professional degrees, under a Christian environment,
and thus to train young men who wish to become spe-
cialists in professional and business life ^nd teach-
ers in our High Schools and Colleges, and to supply
the growing demand for specially equipped men in
every department of human activity.
Students who are looking forward to university
work are invited to correspond with the President, in
order that they may be putting themselves in line for
the advanced courses which are to be offered.
Adequate Library and Laboratory facilities are be-
ing provided as the need for them arises. Free use
will be made of the city of Atlanta, in itself a remark-
able laboratory of industrial and scientific life, whose
museums, libraries and municipal plants are at the
disposal of our students for observation, inspection
and investigation.
A glance at the frontispiece of the catalogue, show-
ing Bird's Eye View of the University, gives the stu-
dent an idea of the quality of the buildings and the
lay out of the campus. This campus consists of ap-
proximately one hundred and seventy-five acres of
land, not including an eighty acre lake which adjoins
the northwestern corner of the campus. It is located on
Peachtree Road, and immediately in front of the en-
trance is the terminus of the Oglethorpe University
street car line, and an attractive little stone station of
the Southern Railway main line between Atlanta and
Washington. The first building to be located on the
campus, the Administration Building, contains the
dining room in the basement, chemistry and physics
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lecture rooms and laboratories and the Bursar's of-
fice and private apartments for young women attend-
ing the college on the ground floor; the hospital and
dormitories on the second and third floors. Lupton
Hall consists of three separate structures which, com-
bined, contain the library. President's office, class
rooms. Assembly Hall seating approximately six hun-
dred, equipped also as a school theatre for the presen-
tation of student dramas, and in the basement basket-
ball court, swimming pool, lockers and showers and
quarters for the Oglethorpe University Press. This
latter is equipped with a Babcock optimus press, lino-
type machine and a couple of smaller presses with a
number of type stands and other printing equipment
given by a warm friend of the college. Lowry Hall
houses the Lowry School of Banking and Commerce
and is now ready for occupancy. It is largely a replica
of old Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the alma mater
of James Edward Oglethorpe. It contains class rooms
and dormitories and will stand as a perpetual mem-
orial to the generosity of Colonel R. J. Lowry and Em-
ma Markham Lowry.
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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
In the Schools of Liberal Arts, Science, Business
Administration, Literature and Journalism,
And Education
The requirement for entrance to the Academic
Schools of Oglethorpe University is either a certifi-
cate of qualification from an accredited High School,
or an examination on the equivalent preparation. The
candidates must present at least three units in Eng-
lish and three units in mathematics. In the School
of Liberal Arts, three units of Latin must also be of-
fered; in the School of Science two years of language
work are required. A unit represents a year's study
in any subject in a secondary school, constituting ap-
proximately a quarter of a full year's work.
The authorities of Oglethorpe University are fully
acquainted with the educational situation in the
South and have not lost sight of the frequent insuf-
ficiencies of preparation of prospective students
brought about by inadequate high school facilities. It
is the purpose of the University to make its degrees
represent high attainment, but to furnish such facil-
ities for students that this attainment will be fairly
simple and easy. It is not our purpose by the adop-
tion of specially high entrance requirements to drive
away any students from our institution. Adequate
arrangements will be made for aiding any student
who may be behind in his preparation in so far as
such aid is consistent with the collegiate require-
ments.
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LIST OF ENTRANCE UNITS
The fifteen units may be selected from the following
list:
Composition and Rhetoric IV2
English Literature l^zi
Algebra to Quadratics 1
Algebra through Binomial Theorem y^ or 1
Plane Geometry 1
Solid Geometry l/^
Trigonometry i/^
Latin Grammar and Composition 1
Caesar, 4 books 1
Cicero, 6 orations 1
Vergil, 6 books 1
Greek 1 or 2 or 3
German . 1 or 2
French 1 or 2
Spanish ____ 1
Ancient History 1
Medieval and Modern History 1
English History 1
Am.erican History 1
Civil Government i/^ or 1
Physiography 1/2 ^^ 1
Physiology l/^
Physics 1 -
Chemistry 1
Botany 1/2 or 1
Zoology 1/^ or 1
Agriculture 1 or 2
Manual Training 1 or 2
Commercial Arithmetic i/^
Commercial Geography i/^
Military Training (where given under
officer appointed by the Gov't.) 1
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The President of the University will gladly answer
any inquiries as to further details of entrance re-
quirements, upon request. An application blank will
be found at the close of the catalogue. It is well for
the prospective student to apply as early as possible.
A blank for High School Certificate may be obtained
by writing to the Registrar.
Students who wish credit for college work done
elsewhere must file with the Registrar a certificate
from the institution in which the work was done. The
institution must be one that is recognized by the
Faculty of Oglethorpe University, and the work must
be satisfactory to the professor of that department.
SPECIAL STUDENTS
Students over twenty years of age may be admit-
ted for special study upon satisfying the Faculty as
to their ability to do the work of the classes which
they wish to enter. Such students may become reg-
ular only by absolving all entrance requirements.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION AND REQUIRE-
MENTS FOR DEGREES
In the session of 1927-28 Oglethorpe University will
offer courses in the undergraduate Classes of five
schools leading to the customary academic degrees.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) in the Classics
will be conferred upon those students satisfactorily
completing a four years' course as outlined below,
based largely on the study of the "Humanities." The
degree of Bachelor of Arts in Science will be conferred
upon those students who satisfactorily complete a
four years' course largely in scientific studies. The
degree of Bachelor of Arts in Literature will be given
to those students who complete a course including
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work in languages, literature and journalism. The
degree of Bachelor of Arts in Commerce will be con-
ferred upon those students who satisfactorily com-
plete a full four years' course in studies relating par-
ticularly to business administration and industrial
life. The degree of Bachelor of Arts in Education will
be conferred upon those students who complete the
studies in the School of Education.
By a careful study of the courses outlined below,
the student will be easily able to make a choice most
suitable to his tastes and probable future life.
In general, it may be suggested that those stu-
dents preparing to enter such professions as the min-
istry or law, will choose the B. A. course in Classics;
those looking forward to medicine, dentistry and other
scientific work, the B. A. course in Science; those ex-
pecting to enter the literary and journalistic field,
the B. A. course in Literature, and those who intend
to spend their lives in the business world, the B. A.
course in Commerce; those who expect to teach, the
B. A. course in Education.
While each of these courses is so shaped as to in-
fluence the student towards a certain end, colored
largely by the type of studies, yet each course will
be found "to include such subjects of general culture
as are necessary to the education of a life as distin-
guished from a living.
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in the Classics
The figures after the subjects designate courses.
Those under "hours" designate the number of recita-
tions per week.
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Oglethorpe University
Freshman
Hrs.
Bible 1 2
English 1 3
Mathematics 1 3
Latin 1 3
Physics 1, or Biol-
ogy 1 3
Laboratory, 4 hrs.,
credit 2
Any one of
following :
Greek 1
German 1
French 1
Spanish 1
History 1
Physiology 1
;l
Sophomore
Hrs.
Bible 2 2
English 2 3
Mathematics 2 3
Chemistry 1 3
Laboratory, 4 hrs.
credit 2
Any two of following:
Latin 2
History 1
Greek 2
German 2
French 2
Spanish 2
Mythology
20
Junior
Hrs.
Psychology 3
Four Electives 12
Two other units 2
19
Senior
Hrs.
Ethics, Hist, of Phil.,
Evidences of
Christianity - 3
— Four Electives 12
17 Cosmic History 1
One other unit 1
17
The same language that was begun in the last group
in the Freshman year must be continued in the Soph-
omore. In the Junior and Senior Classes, a majority
of the electives must be from one of the following
groups :
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Group I. Language, English.
Group II. Mathematics, Science.
Group III. History, Economics, Philosophy, Edu-
cation.
If German or French has not been offered for en-
trance, at least one year's study in whichever lan-
guage is lacking will be required for B. A.
A preparatory Greek Class will be provided for
those who are not prepared to enter Greek 1.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in Science
Freshman Sophomore
Hrs. Hrs.
Bible 1 2 Bible 2 2
English 1 3 English 2 3
Mathematics 1 3 Mathematics 2 3
Biology 1 or Phy- Chemistry 1 5
sics 1 5 French 2, or
French 1, or German 2 3
German 1 3 History 2, or
History 1, or Latin 2 3
Latin 1 3 —
Physiology 1 . 19
20
Junior Senior
Hrs. Hrs.
Psychology 3 Ethics 3
Two of following: Two of following:
Biology 2 ^ Biology 2, 3 or 4 „_
Chemistry 2 1 10 Chemistry 2, 3 or 4.. ^ 10
Physics 2 I Physics 2 or 3
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One non-laboratory Cosmic History 1
elective 3 One non-laboratory
— elective 3
16 —
17
One major science must be pursued for at least
three years, and one minor science for at least two
years.
If German or French has not been offered for en-
trance, at least one year's study in whichever lan-
guage is lacking, will be required for B. A. in Science.
SCHOOL OF LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in Literature
(No Latin entrance requirement.)
Freshman Sophomore
Hrs. Hrs.
Bible 1 2 Bible 2 2
English 1 3 English 2 ._3
Mathematics 1 3 Chemistry 1 5
Physics 5 History 3
German 1 3 German 2 3
French 1 3 French 2 3
Physiology 1 —
— 19
20
Two years of Greek or Latin may be substituted
for two years of a modern language.
Biology may be substituted for Physics or Chem-
istry.
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Junior and Senior
Hrs.
Psychology 3
Ethics 3
English 6
Cosmic History 1
Electives in English or
other Elective Courses 18
31
Any required subject already completed in a prepar-
atory school must be replaced by electives.
Students, whose average standing for any year is
90 or more, may take an extra course the following
year. With one such extra course in the second and
third years, and two full summer terms' work of ten
weeks each, the student may obtain a degree at the
end of the third year. Students of lower standing
may graduate with three winters' work, and three
full summer terms of ten weeks each.
THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
COMMERCE AND FINANCE
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in Commerce
Freshman Sophomore
Hrs. Hrs.
Bible 1 2 Bible 2 2
English 1 3 English 2 3
Economics 3 Modern Language
Spanish 1 3 (Continuation of lan-
(or French guage taken in pre-
or German) vious year 3
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Elementary
Accounting 5
One of following:
♦Resources and In-
dustries, and Eco-
nomic Develop-
ment , y 5
fPhysics
Chemistry
Mathematics
History
19
♦Required before graduation. fPhysics and Chem-
istry laboratory, 2 hours additional credit.
Banking (and allied
subjects) 3
Railroad Transporta-
tion 3
Political Science 3
Marketing 3
20
*A11 electives must be
approved by the Head of
the Department.
Junior
Hrs.
Commercial Law 3
(Not open to Freshmen)
Corporation Finance __ .3
♦Advanced Economics _.3
Bus. Correspondence __ 3
Senior
Hrs.
Investments 3
Bus. Problems 3
Bus. Psychology
Advertising
Salesmanship 3
Bus. Management 3 Market Functions
Elective 3
18
♦Required in Junior or
Senior year.
and Structure
Marketing Farm
Products
Marketing of Man-
ufactured Goods
Problems of Mar-
keting
Market Management'
Commercial Science
Cosmic History
19
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Post-Graduate Courses leading to advanced degrees
may be arranged by consulting the Head of the School
of Commerce.
SECRETARIAL PREPARATION
Freshman
Hrs.
___.3
English 1
French, German
or Spanish 3
Accounting 5
General Psychology 3
History 1 or 2 3
Biology 1 1
Bible 1 2
20
Junior
Hrs.
English 3
French, German
or Spanish 3
Bible 2 2
History 4 3
Commercial Law 3
Elective 3
Sophomore
English 2 3
French, German
or Spanish 3
Stenography 3
Typewriting 3
Business Corres-
pondence 3
Elective 5
20
Senior
Hrs.
English 3
French, German
or Spanish 3
Sociology 3
Cosmic History 1
Library Economics 3
Elective 4
17
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in Education
Freshman Sophomore
Hrs. Hrs.
Bible 1 2 Bible 2 2
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English 1 3
Mathematics 1 3
Physics or Biology 5
German
French
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Any one of above 3
Orientation course:
(How to study), fol-
lowed by Psychology -3
Physiology 1
English 2 3
Chemistry or
Biology 5
Continuation of
Freshman
Language 3
Educational Psych-
ology, followed by
School Administra-
tion and Manage-
ment 3
European History 3
20
Junior
Hrs.
Principles of Educa-
tion, followed by Men-
tal Hygiene 3
History of Education,
followed by Tests and
Measurements 3
Electives 11
19
Senior
Hrs.
Ethics, History of
Philosophy, Christ-
ian Evidences 3
Sociology 3
American History 3
Cosmic History 1
Electives 7
17
The above are to be taken
under advice of the
Head of the School of
Education and should be
of such a nature as to
lead toward concentra-
tion along some line.
17
To be taken under ad-
vice of Head of the
School as in Junior
year.
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THE HONORS COURSE AT OGLETHORPE
The Honors Course at Oglethorpe University has
been planned to fill a very definite need of present day
education. With the elective system in operation
everywhere and with the multiplication of schools
and departments and courses in our American uni-
versites, the college student is frequently bewildered
as to what subjects he should choose and what courses
to pursue. Specialization also has gone so far in our
institutions that young men, after studying hard for
four years in one department or another, find that
they have omitted many objects which, among the
best educated, are considered essential to full culture.
The President of the University has, therefore, pre-
pared, and the Faculty and Executive Committee of
the University have approved, the following course of
study to meet this situation and supply the need aris-
ing from it. The courses offered are designed to l^y
a satisfactory foundation for the understanding and
enjoyment of life. While they adequately prepare a
student for any of the professions, in so far as col-
lege work can do so, and for business life as well, yet
they are not exclusively utilitarian. They are intend-
ed to develop and sustain a great soul, to acquaint
him with the fundamental lines of progress of the
human race and place him in position to interpret life
to his fellowmen.
The difficulty of doing this adequately without in-
cluding a larger number of studies and, therefore,
more hours of work than the average student can
successfully carry, is obvious. The course is designed
only for the student whose preparation and ability are
both above the average. In order to insure this con-
dition a passing grade and general average not lower
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than 90 is necessary for its successful prosecution.
Upon those students who complete the entire four
years with a general average for the four years be-
tween 90 and 95, the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Mag-
no Cum Honore, is conferred. Upon any student com-
pleting the course with a general average of 95 or
more, the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Summo Cum
Honore, is conferred.
As the Honors Course requires for its pursuit un-
usual mental ability and moral character, applicants
must present evidence of exceptional preparation and
superior mental tests. To this end, the President will
accept for the course only those students who can
qualify for the prescribed requirements. If at the
end of the first term, any student in the Honors
Course fails to make a grade of 90 or more he will be
required to transfer to another course.
It is well known to those best acquainted with the
progress of education in the South that even the best
of our Southern colleges and universities are approx-
imately one year behind the best schools of the East
and West. It is a regrettable fact that the Southern
student who has finished the freshman work is just
about ready to enter the freshman class in the best
Eastern institutions. This is not the fault of our col-
leges but of insufficient preparation in our high
schools, and while this condition of affairs is being
improved it will be many years before it is completely
remedied. This course, which an earnest and intel-
ligent student may take in five years and a brilliant
student in four years, will offset this difference and
will make it possible for our Southern boys and girls
to acquire the same amount of information and do
the same amount of work at college that is done by
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those graduating from the best institutions of the
East and West.
No substitutions or electives are allowed. The
course must be taken as scheduled and in the order,
by years, as stated. Students may, however, take
some of the courses of the freshman year in the sum-
mer term following the freshman year, and similarly
for the other years' work. The time allowed for the
completion of the work is not less than four years
and not more than five. Failure to successfully com-
plete the course does not in any way disqualify the
student from securing full credits toward other de-
grees oifered for all work successfully completed. He
may then be graduated in any of the departments of
the college as he may elect on the basis of such work
as he has done. The courses themselves are as fol-
lows, beginning with the Freshman year.
Hrs.
English 3 Latin 3
Physics 5 A course in Latin and
History 3 and Greek Myth-
Physiology 1 ology and Etymol-
Bible (a study of the ogy 2
Old Testament) 2 Physical Culture
A modern language 3 —
Mathematics 3 25
The course in freshman mathematics guarantees a
reasonably adequate equipment in that department.
The course in Greek and Latin Etymology is designed
to supply the student with a familiarity with scien-
tific terms which he will need during the remainder
of his college work, not only, but throughout his
whole life. Lists of common scientific terms are
studied and their derivation explained. The course
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of English acquaints the student with the form and
structure of the language that he speaks, and drills
him in the effective use of it. The course in Latin
begins at the beginning. The student is taught to
read Latin as rapidly as possible. Any student who
has already had in a standard high school as many
as two years in Latin may substitute another sub-
ject instead of this course from the list which fol-
lows. The course in physics needs no explanation.
The course in history begins with the first civilization
in the city-states of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley and
is a foundation for other historical studies that fol-
low. The course in physiology is designed to give the
student an adequate idea of the house in which he
lives during the remainder of his days. The course
in the Old Testament runs parallel partly with that
of Freshman history and lays the foundation for his
moral and ethical thinking. In addition to the above,
the student is required to take regular work in phy-
sical culture.
In the Sophomore year, the courses are as follows :
Hrs. New Testament 2
English 3 Bookkeeping 3
Latin 3 Economics 3
Modern Language 3 Physical Culture
Biology 5 —
History 3 25
The study of English is continued and the same
modern language that was elected for the freshman
year must be continued in the sophomore year. The
course in Latin covers Caesar, first term, selections
from Vergil, second term, some of the Odes of Horace
in the third term. The course in Biology makes it
possible for the student to understand the life pro-
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cesses of the earth. The course in history covers the
story of Greece and Rome; The course in the New
Testament is a study of the life and teachings of
Jesus Christ, without a knowledge of which no man
can be considered an educated man. The course in
economics is fundamental to any conception of the
business and political world. To this is added the
work in bookkeeping and elementary accounting
which will enable our student to interpret the statis-
tical part of any enterprise or business with which he
may be connected. To these, also, is added the work
in physical culture.
The courses in the Junior year are as follows :
Hrs. Psychology 3
English 3 Sociology 3
Modern Language 3 Physical Culture
Chemistry 5 —
History 3 26
Commercial Law 3
Geology 3
In the Junior year, the course in English broadens
still further the student's knowledge of literature.
The second modern language is taken up. The work
in chemistry interprets to him the constitution of the
world in which he is living. The course in history
covers the story of continental Europe in its broad
outlines. The work in Commercial Law lays the foun-
dations for intelligent management of his business af-
fairs. A year in geology, including a short review of
paleontology, reveals to him the marvelous story of
the earth on which he is living. A year in Psychology
acquaints him with the processes of his own soul, and
the work in Sociology orientates him with respect to
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society. To these also is added the work in physical
culture.
In the Senior year, the courses are as follows:
Hrs.
English 3 Anthropology 3
History 3 Marketing 3
Mod. Language 3 Cosmic History 1
Political Science 3 Physical Culture 1
Astronomy 3 —
History of Art 3 26
The work for the seniors in English, while it may
vary its subject from time to time, is designed to
widen our student's knowledge of the finest creative
work in his language. The course in history covers
the story of England and America. The second mod-
ern language begun in the junior year is continued.
A year is spent in the study of civics and politics to
prepare our student for an intelligent exercise of his
duty as a citizen. A year in astronomy gives to him
a better grasp of the universe and bestows upon him
a sense of direction and orientation with respect to
his environment. His work in anthropology covers
the whole long story of the development of man. The
work in the history of art includes architecture, sculp-
ture, painting and music, and by acquainting him with
the great works of the past enables him to enjoy and
create art during his life time. The study of market-
ing introduces him to the whole vast field of distri-
buting the products of the world's industry. To this
is added the course in Cosmic History, a sort of in-
troduction to life by the President of the college; and
che work in physical exercise.
The following special courses may be chosen in lieu
of such subjects in the freshman year as the student
The Entrance to Lupton Hall.
Above the doorivay is engraved the following inscription:
"Till this I learned, that he who huildeth well
Is greater than the structure that he rears,
And wiser he who learns that Heaven hears
Than all the wordy wisdoms letters spell."
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may have had in his preparatory work:
Advanced work in Science
Banking and allied subjects
Business Problems
Mathematics
Third year in any language
Ethics
History of Philosophy
Principles and Philosophy of Education.
Students in the Honors Course whose general aver-
age for five successive terms is as high as 93 will re-
ceive the Coat of Arms Sweater, these conditions be-
ing the same as those outlined for ail students at the
college.
The University recognizes the fact that a vast ac-
cumulation of information even though it be organiz-
ed by a well-trained intellect is utterly incomplete and
even dangerous unless the whole is controlled by a fine
moral purpose and utilized in excellent personal con-
duct. It is a tradition of the University that a close
association should be maintained between education
and righteousness, a fixed alliance of morality with
enlightenment. We feel that to furnish the highest
intellectual training to liars, thieves, adulturers, or
crooks would be calamitous to society w^hose leaders
and examples they would be.
All Honor Students at Oglethorpe, therefore, are
required to observe the following laws:
First, the law of personal honesty, forbidding all
cheating on examinations, all thefts, minor and ma-
jor.
The law of personal truthfulness, which forbids all
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deceit of every kind whatsoever and particularly in a
form of misrepresentation or lying.
The lav/ of personal purity which commands perfect
continence.
The law of loyalty which aligns the student Math
all that is best in the traditions of his Alma Mater
and pledges his active support thereto, above any sub-
sidiary college organization such as societies, frater-
nities, clubs and others. This covers also abstention
from all forms of hazing, and a pledge of his support
to the faculty in preventing same.
The law of self-control which, while partly covered
in the law of personal purity, also includes all forms
of drunkenness, gambling, and similar lapses from the
highest ideals of the moral law.
The law of reverence: "Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain."
No student who violates the above laws may con-
tinue as an honor student at Oglethorpe University.
At the close of the student's course, after he has
won either the magno cum honore or the summo cum
honore grade he will also be presented by the Presi-
dent with a medallion of solid gold on which are em-
blazoned the Coat of Arms of the University and her
seal.
GRADUATE SCHOOL
It is the purpose of Oglethorpe University to de-
velop a thoroughly excellent Graduate School, offering
courses in all departments leading to the Master's de-
gree. In supplying this need, which has for a long
while been acutely felt in the South, the management
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of the University will be content with only the very
highest grade of work and facilities.
Courses leading to the Master's degree in certain
departments will be found outlined elsewhere in this
catalogue under the appropriate department heading.
This degree is based on that of Bachelor of Arts of
Oglethorpe University or of some other approved in-
stitution. The candidate must have an aggregate of
twelve hours of graduate work, two terms to be
spent in residence here. But the degree is not guar-
anteed at the end of a fixed period of time. A certain
amount of work must be accomplished, and the qual-
ity of it must be such as to satisfy the Professors
concerned and the whole Faculty. During the past
year the University has established several centers
for study in the city of Atlanta. More than fifty of
the Atlanta teachers have been enrolled in these
courses. At each center as much as six hours' work
per week has been done, this making possible the at-
tainment of an incompleted Bachelor's or Master's
degree. This opportunity will be continued during
the next year.
In this connection, the prospective student will be
interested in learning that all Professors chosen as
the heads of departments in Oglethorpe University
must have obtained the highest academic degree offer-
ed in that department. This fact is mentioned in or-
der to indicate the earnest determination of the
Board of Directors of the University that her Fac-
ulty shall include only men of the highest intellectual
attainment as well as men of great teaching power
and strong personal character.
The President of the University will be pleased to
answer any inquiries as to graduate courses to be of-
fered.
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PRE-PROFESSIONAL COURSES
Students who are contemplating the profession of
law, medicine or dentistry and who do not desire to
study for an academic degree, are allowed to take
such work as will prepare them for entrance to profes-
sional schools. In addition to the required high school
units for college entrance, professional students must
complete one or more years of college work, accord-
ing to the requirements of the institution that they
are planning to enter. The attention of the prospec-
tive student, however, should be called to the fact
that each year finds it more necessary for the profes-
sional man to have a thorough foundation for his pro-
fessional studies, and the professional schools are be-
coming more strict in their requirements for entrance.
Particularly is this the case in medicine where the
best colleges require a diploma from a standard col-
lege for entrance. Having this in mind Oglethorpe
University may discontinue its two year pre-med-
ical course and we strongly advise our students of
medicine to have their college diploma safely in hand
before they begin their professional studies. The
course which we recommend for them is that leading
to Bachelor of Arts in Science, outlined on pages 37
and 38. As a suggestion for those students who plan
to enter law school and dental college, undertaking a
two-year pre-professional course, the following out-
line of studies is recommended:
PRE-LAW
Required subjects: Elective subjects:
Hrs. Hrs.
Political Science 6 Law 3
Economics 6 Bus. Problems 3
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English 6 Business Psychology,
History 6 Advertising,
^ i.' T7,-„««/,^ Q Salesmanship 3
Corporation Finance ..S ^^ . -. a
„ Modern Language 6
Investments 3 -q^^^q 4
Eiectives 8 Bookkeeping and
Accounting 4
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PRE-MEDICAL and PRE-DENTAL
Required subjects: Elective subjects:
Hrs. Hrs.
General Chemistry ____ _-5 Any five of the fol-
General Physics 5 ^^^^^^^^^ 1 ,,, 2;
General Biology 5 French 1 or 2; (or
Organic Chemistry 6 German or Spanish
English Composition i or 2) ; English 2;
and Literature 3 History 1 or 2 ; Psy-
chology, Biology 2 -15
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THE PRESIDENT'S COURSE
Cosmic History by President Jacobs
In the endeavor to give to the graduates of the Uni-
versity a course that will co-ordinate the knowledge
they have obtained of such subjects as Biology, Ge-
ology, Paleontology, etc., with their work in Bible,
Ethics and Philosophy, the President of the Univer-
sity will meet the Senior Class one hour per week,
Tuesday, at 10:30, in a seminar covering a story
of human life following the broad outlines of Astron-
omy, Geology, Paleontology, Embryology, Anthropol-
ogy and Archaeology. The course closes with a study
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of the first ten chapters of Genesis in relation to mod-
ern discoveries. It is especially designed to give the
graduates of Oglethorpe University a conception of
the harmony between religion and modern science and
is required of all Seniors. It is believed that this
work of co-ordination of modern science with relig-
ion can best be done in the senior class, to the end
that in harmonizing the truths learned their faith
may not be unsettled.
ASTRONOMY
Professor Aldrich
I. Descriptive Astronomy: A study of the solar
and stellar systems together with a consideration of
the instruments used and methods employed. Three
hours per week throughout the year. Text: Dun-
can's Astronomy.
II. Laboratory Astronomy: Exercises and ob-
servations involving the fundamentals of the
processes used in practical Astronomy and Astrophy-
sics. One period per week throughout the year.
Prospective students are advised that first year
Mathematics and Physics 1-A will be of great service
to them in these courses.
Stacy-Capers Telescope. — By the generosity of
Thomas Stacy-Capers, the well-known telescope of
Dr. James Stacy has become the property of the Uni-
versity. It is a six-inch refracting instrument with a
focal length of ninety inches. It was formerly the
property of the uncle of the donor who was an alum-
nus of the old Oglethorpe and is named in honor of
them both.
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BIBLE AND PHILOSOPHY
The course in English Bible extends over two years ;
it is required for the B. A. degree in all five depart-
ments, and must be pursued by every under-graduate
student.
The first year is devoted to the Old Testament, the
second to the New Testament, together with the in-
tervening period. The study will include the mastery
of the history contained in the Bible, an analysis of
each book, and such other matters as are required
for the proper understanding of the work. It will
be treated not from a sectarian point of view, nor as
mere history or literature. The aim will be to im-
part such a knowledge of the subject as every intelli-
gent man should possess, enabling him to read his
Bible with pleasure and profit.
The effort will be made to give the students the
proper defense of seeming difliiculties in the Bible,
both for their own benefit, and that they may be able
to meet the objections of unbelievers.
Text-Books — Bible 1. English Bible, Moorehead's
Outline Studies in the Books of the Old Testament.
Bible 2. Vollmer's Life of Christ, Kerr's Introduc-
tion to New Testament Study.
This course will be followed in the Junior and Se-
nior years by Psychology, Ethics, History of Philoso-
phy, and Evidences of Christianity.
Psychology. An elementary course in Theoretical
Psychology, with some collateral study in Philosophy.
Required for all Juniors in the Classical, Scientific,
Literary and Educational Schools. Three hours a
week.
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Text-Books. Pillsbury's Essentials of Psychology;
collateral reading in the library.
Ethics, History of Philosophy, Evidences of Christ-
ianity. Each of these subjects will occupy one term.
Required for all Seniors in the Classical, Scientific,
Literary and Educational Schools. Three hours a
week. Open to Seniors.
Text-Books. Davis's Elements of Ethics, Weber's
History of Philosophy, Wright's Evidences of Christ-
ianity.
BIOLOGY
Associate Professor Hunt E. L. Shepherd
1. Physiology and Hygiene.
Required of all Freshmen. One lecture weekly,
throughout the year. Section A (women) Monday
8 :30 ; Section B (men) Tuesday 8 :30 ; Section C (men)
Wednesday 8:30; Section D (men) Thursday 8:30;
Section E (men) Friday 8:30; Section F (men) Sat-
urday 8:30.
This course is designed to give the student such
knowledge of his own body as to enable him to care
for it properly and develop habits that will bring out
his best possibilities.
2. General Biology.
Open to all students without previous training in
science. Three recitations and four hours of labora-
tory work weekly throughout the year. Monday, Wed-
nesday, Friday 9:30; Laboratory Section A, Monday,
Wednesday, 1 to 3; Section B Laboratory, Monday
and Wednesday, 3 to 5.
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An introductory course in the principles of animal
and plant biology presenting the fundamental facts
of vital structure and function. Some conception of
the evolution of plants and animals is given by the
laboratory study of a series of types beginning with
the unicellular. This is supplemented by lectures that
give a synchronous running account of the underlying
principles and biological theories.
3. Vertebrate Morphology.
Open to students who have completed Biology 1 and
Biology 2. Three recitations and a minimum of six
hours of laboratory work weekly throughout the year.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9:30; Laboratory
Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 5.
A course in the phylogeny of man and mammals.
The laboratory work consists largely of the dissec-
tion of the muscles, nervous system and viscera of
the cat and related mammals. Each organ is studied
with reference to its development, anatomy, and phy-
siology. Instruction is based in so far as possible on
observations made in the laboratory experiments and
on demonstrations. The facts observed are discussed
in lectures and quizzes. In lectures free use is made
of charts, models and microscopic sections. Weekly
oral quizzes are supplemented by written tests given
upon the completion of some general division of the
subject.
4. Theoretical Biology.
Open to students who have completed Biology 1
and Biology 2. Three recitations weekly throughout
the year, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 10:30.
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CHEMISTRY
Professor Sellers Instructor Joseph H. Watkins
1. General Inorganic Chemistry.
Lectures, demonstrations, recitations and labora-
tory exercises. During the year, as the students are
studying the subject, the work of the laboratory is
closely co-ordinated with that of the text. In the
spring term lectures on industrial chemistry are giv-
en, illustrated by inspection of local manufacturing
plants.
Three lectures and recitations, and four laboratory
hours a week, three terms. Credit five hours.
2. Analytical Chemistry
(a) Qualitative Analysis.
A study of the analytical processes, including the
separation and detection of acid and basic ions. Stu-
dents are expected to emphasize the science rather
than the art of qualitative analysis. Hence, the sub-
ject is presented in the light of the laws of mass ac-
tion, the ionic theory, etc.
(b) Quantitative Analysis.
Each student has his course arranged with refer-
ence to his particular requirement in quantitative an-
alysis.
One lecture and eight laboratory hours a week, for
three terms, for combined courses (a) and (b). Credit
five hours. Prerequisite, Chemistry 1.
3. Organic Chemistry.
Lectures, demonstrations and laboratory exercises.
The time devoted to lecture is about equally divided
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between the study of the aliphatic and the aromatic
series. Three lectures and four or six laboratory-
hours a week. Three terms. Credit, five or six hours.
Prerequisite, Chemistry 1.
4. Physiological Chemistry.
A study of the chemical composition of food-stuffs,
of the various tissues, secretions, etc., of the body.
Three lectures and four laboratory hours a week,
two terms. Credit, five hours. Prerequisite, Chem-
istry 1, 2 and 3, and Biology 2.
Graduate work is offered in Chemistry leading to
the M. A. degree. The details of graduate courses are
given to students on application.
ENGLISH
Professor Routh Bernard S. Dekle
The work in English in the first two years is de-
signed to give students a mastery of their own tongue
for speaking and writing, and to familiarize them
with the best English literature. The elective courses,
given mainly for Juniors and Seniors, provide inten-
sive study in special fields. The summer courses,
though not identical with the winter courses, are
planned along similar lines, and give corresponding
credits. This will enable a student to complete a por-
tion of his requirements for a degree in the sum-
mer.
For graduate students work is offered leading to
the degree of M. A.
English 1. Composition. Practice in speaking and
writing, with collateral study of masterpieces of mod-
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ern prose. The chief object of the course is to teach
the student to arrange his thoughts clearly and pre-
sent them with force. He is also encouraged to en-
large his vocabulary and his stock of ideas by the
reading of good essays. All Freshmen. 3 hours.
English 2. English Literature. A study of the
best English poetry and prose, with special attention
to style and to philosophic content and to the histor-
ical development of literature. The course is designed
to complete the student's general study of literature,
and at the same time to introduce him to the special-
ized Junior and Senior Courses. All Sophomores. 3
hours.
English 3-A. The Writing of News. A course
for professional students in writing. Elective for
Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Fall and Winter
terms. 3 hours.
English 3-B. Writing the Special Article. A course
of professional character for aspirants in journalism.
Elective for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Spring
term only. 3 hours.
English 3-C. Writing the Short Story. Elective
for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Spring term
only. 3 hours.
English 3-B and 3-C are not given the same year.
English 4- A. Drama. The reading and writing of
plays. The class each winter supplies the Oglethorpe
Players Club with one-act plays fo rmonthly stage
production. The annual performances are given in
Atlanta before audiences of from one to two thou-
sand, composed of the art lovers of the city. The class
reads modern plays and studies the technique of the
modern play, and also the history of that technique.
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Juniors and Seniors. Fall and Winter terms. 3
hours.
English 4-B. Shakespeare. Juniors and Seniors.
Spring term only. 3 hours.
English 4-C. Modern English Verse. Versifica-
tion and poetic technique. Juniors and Seniors.
Spring term only. 3 hours.
English 4-B and 4-C are not given the same year.
Graduate Coorse in English
Graduate courses have been given in Anglo-Saxon,
Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Metrics and the Theory
of Verse. These or other courses can be arranged
to suit the needs of the students. They will be so
given as to enable the student who has a college de-
gree to obtain the M. A. degree in one year. Supple-
mentary courses in other departments are also re-
quired of the candidate. Some ten thousand volumes
and pamphlets in English Scholarship in the College
library are available for use.
LIBRARY ECONOMICS
Miss Myrta Belle Thomas
The class in Library Economics meets three times
a week. All students who have completed three
terms of Freshman English are eligible. This course
is designed to instruct the student in the elements of
the decimal classification and the use of the card cata-
logue, and to make him familiar with the best known
reference books on every subject.
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FRENCH
Assistant Professor Roney
French 1. A class for beginners, with the purpose
of attaining as quickly as possible a thorough speak-
ing and reading knowledge of the language. All reci-
tations are in French, with special attention given
to pronunciation.
Texts: Morrison and Gautier's French Grammar
or the equivalent, short texts and current French peri-
odicals.
Prerequisite : None.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
French 2. A more advanced course in conversation
and more rapid and extensive reading of French prose.
The customs and life of the French people are studied
with the idea of learning to think in French. No
English is used in the classroom.
Texts: Carnahan — French Review Grammar, nu-
merous standard authors and periodicals.
Prerequisite: French 1 or two years of high school
French.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
French 3-A. This course is a study of the French
novel and short story of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The authors and their works are discussed
in French, without translation.
French 3-A alternates with French 3-B, and will
replace French 3-B in 1928-29. Students completing
French 3-A and wishing to continue French may elect
French 3-B or French 4.
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Prerequisite: French 2, or three years of high
school French.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
French 3-B. In this course the French drama and
poetry are traced through their various stages of de-
velopment, with special emphasis on the poetry and
drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
French prosody is studied in this course. All discus-
sion is in French.
This course alternates with French 3-A, and will
replace French 3-A in 1927-28. Student completing
French 3-B and desiring to continue French may elect
French 3-A or French 4.
Prerequisite: French 2, or three years of high
school French.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
French 4. A course in the history of French lit-
erature, tracing the evolution of the French language
and the development of French literature through
the Middle Ages to the present time. Specimens of
French of the different periods are read and discussed
in French.
Prerequisite: French 3-A or French 3-B.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
Post-graduate work in French may be arranged.
GERMAN
Professor Gaertner
German 1. Elementary German, largely conversa-
tional and oral, developing reasonable fluency in
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speaking. Elective for Freshmen. Fall, Winter and
Spring terms.
German 2. Easy Reading of a number of Novel-
ettes, such as Storm's Immensee, Zillern's Hoeher als
die Kirche, etc., together with critical study of gram-
mar and exercises in composition, letters, etc. Elec-
tive for Sophomores.
Fall, Winter and Spring Terms.
German 3. German Classics, mainly dramatic vi^rit-
ings of Schiller, Goethe and Lessing, together with
the elementary principles of Language, Science and
also composition. Elective for Juniors and Seniors.
Fall, Winter and Spring Terms.
German 4. History of German Literature, accom-
panied by some anthology of the leading poets and
writers, covering the leading authors. Elective.
Fall, Winter and Spring Terms.
German 5. Graduate Courses leading to the degree
of Master of Arts will be arranged upon demand.
GREEK
Professor Nicolassen
Three years of Greek will be offered in the under-
graduate classes, together with a preparatory class
for those who are unprepared for Greek 1.
Preparatory Greek. This class is designed not mere-
ly for those who have no knowledge of the language,
but also for those whose preparation is inadequate.
The most important subjects, both in inflection and
syntax, are presented early in the course, and then,
by a system of weekly reviews, are kept constantly
fresh.
Entrance to Administration Building.
Over this beautiful doorway is engraved the motto of the University:
"A Search is the Thing He Hath Taught You,
For Height and for Depth and for Wideness."
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Text-Books: White's First Greek Book, Xenophon's
Anabasis (Goodwin and White), Three times a week
throughout the year. Elective.
Greek 1. The preparation for entrance into this
class is not so much a matter of time as of thorough-
ness. The student is expected to know the ordinary
Attic inflections and syntax, to have read about one
book of the Anabasis, and to have had considerable
practice in translating English into Greek. The use
of accents is required.
A part of the work of this class consists of the
minute study of the verbs, their principal parts, syn-
opsis of tenses, and the inflection of certain portions.
Written translations of English into Greek are re-
quired once a week. On the other days a short oral
exercise of this kind forms a part of the lesson; so
that in each recitation some practice is had in trans-
lating English into Greek.
Text-Books: Xenophon's Anabasis (Goodwin and
White), Memorabilia, Adams's Lysias, Goodwin's
Greek Grammar, Pearson's Greek Prose Composition,
Myers's Eastern Nations and Greece, Liddell and
Scott's Greek Lexicon, (unabridged). Three times a
week throughout the year. Elective.
Greek 2. In the first term Demosthenes will be
read; in the second, Herodotus; in the third, Homer.
The subject of Phonetics is presented and illustrated
by chart and model of the larynx showing the position
of the vocal organs.
Text-Books: Demosthenes On the Crown (Hum-
phreys), Herodotus (Smith & Laird), Homer's Iliad
(Seymour), Demosthenes and Herodotus (Ancient
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Classics for English Readers), Church's Stories from
Homer, Fowler's Greek Literature. Three times a
week throughout the year. Elective.
Greek 3. The time of this class will be divided
between prose and poetry. After the study of Thucy-
dides and Plato, the reading of Sophocles will be taken
up. The life of the ancient Greeks will also be con-
sidered.
Text-Books. Thucydides (Morris), Plato (For-
man), Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (Earle), Thucy-
dides and Plato (Ancient Classics for English Read-
ers), Church's Stories from the Greek Tragedians,
Gulick's Life of the Ancient Greeks. Three times a
week throughout the year. Elective.
MYTHOLOGY AND ETYMOLOGY
The first term will be devoted to the study of Myth-
ology, that readers of English Literature may be able
to understand allusions to classical stories.
Text-Book: Gayley's Classical Myths.
The second part of this course is designed to show
the origin of English words derived from Greek and
Latin, especially scientific terms. Students looking
forward to Medicine will find this course particularly
helpful. No knowledge of either language is required
for entrance. Three times a week throughout the
year. Elective.
Text-Book: Hoffman's Everyday Greek.
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THE SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP
Professor Mark Burrows Dr. A. S. Libby
Assistant Professor C. S. Libby President Jacobs
I. A History of Civilization. An orienting course
showing the early origins of modern civilization, and
furnishing a background for the present current of
thought and progress of knowledge. Freshman year.
Three times a week.
II. The Modern History of Europe. A study of con-
tinental Europe and Great Britain from the Dark
Ages to the present time. Emphasis will be placed
on such topics as the Renaissance ; the conciliar move-
ment for reform; the Protestant revolution and the
Catholic reformation; the development of political
ideals; the social and industrial revolution; the spirit
of nationalism and some of its later consequences ; the
growth of internationalism. Three times a week
throughout the year.
III. Contemporary History. A course in contemp-
orary American and European history designed to put
students in touch with present trends in scientific, in-
dustrial and international problems. Three times a
week for two terms. Not given 1927-28.
IV. A History of the British People. A course in
English history in which a minimum amount of at-
tention is given to dynastic and military affairs, and
with more than the customary amount to social, re-
ligious, literary and industrial matters. This course
should be taken before the one in American history.
Three times a week throughout the year.
V. American History. An account of the social,
political, and economic development of the American
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people. Such topics will be emphasized as the de-
velopment of the American ideal of democracy, or
self-government in freedom; the westward moving
frontier with its influences on social and economic
problems, such as land tenure, agriculture, manufac-
turing and transportation; the rise of great indus-
tries and trusts; the effort of labor to better condi-
tions; the immigration question; colonial expansion,
and our proper relations to the other nations of the
world. Three times a week throughout the year.
VI. A History of Georgia. A course designed to give
a larger understanding of economic possibilities of the
state and an interpretation of the social and political
life of her people. Three hours a week on alternate
winter terms. Offered 1927-28.
Political Science. See School of Business Adminis-
tration elsewhere in this catalogue.
Economics. See School of Business Administration
elsewhere in this catalogue.
VII. Sociology. A comprehensive outline of the sub-
ject embracing such topics as the evolution of the
more important social ideals and institutions and their
present status; socialism and social control; social
pathology and methods of social investigation, and
an estimation of progress. An examination of the
principles of the subject with some attempt to give
the student a first-hand insight by means of visits to
institutions, exercises, questions for debate, and the
preparation of special studies in social problems. A
required course in the School of Education. Elective
to others. Three times a week throughout the year.
VIII. Cosmic History. A required course for all
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Senior students. See the President's Course else-
where in this catalogue, and also in the Honors
Course.
ITALIAN
Assistant Professor Roney
Italian 1. A practical course in Italian conversa-
tion and grammar, with practice in composition and
the reading of Italian prose. Careful attention is giv-
en to good pronunciation for its value in the study
of music.
Texts: Phelps' Italian Grammar or the equivalent,
short prose texts, current Italian periodicals.
Prerequisite : None.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
LATIN
Professor Nicolassen.
Latin 1. For entrance into this class the student
is expected to have had at least three years of high
school Latin, as set forth under the head of Entrance
Units. He must also be able to translate English into
Latin with some facility. Livy, Cicero de Senectute
and Sallust's Catiline will be studied in this year. A
brief history of Rome will also be included. Prose
composition, both oral and written, will be carried on
throughout the year.
Text-Books: Livy XXI, XXII (Greenough and
Peck), Cicero de Senectute, Sallust's Catiline. Allen
and Greenough's Latin Grammar, Myers's History of
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Rome, Harpers' Latin Dictionary. Three times a week
throughout the year. Students who enter with only
three years of High School Latin and who wish to
take the classical A. B., must take two years of Latin
or Greek. Three times a week throughout the year.
Elective.
Latin 2. The studies of this class will be in Cicero's
Letters, Horace and Plautus. A course in Latin Lit-
erature will also be given; Fowler's Latin Literature.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
Latin 3. This class will begin with Terence, and
then take up Tacitus and Juvenal. Ancient Roman
life will be considered in this part of the course;
Johnson's Private Life of the Romans. Three times
a week throughout the year. Elective.
Teachers' Course. A course of instruction will be
given for teachers in and near Atlanta. The aim will
be to suggest methods for beginners and for classes
in Caesar, Cicero and Vergil. Certain departments
of the grammar will be discussed, e. g., the Subjunc-
tive Mood, the Conditions, Indirect Discourse; scan-
ning will be illustrated, and attention given to topics
which have caused difficulty to teachers. Suggestions
will be made as to the best means of helping pupils
to acquire a good vocabulary in Latin. The mode of
procedure and the subjects treated will depend some-
what on the personnel of the class.
The work will be undertaken if as many as ten per-
sons offer themselves. This class will probably meet
on Saturdays,
Graduate Course for Special Students. Persons
who are teaching or otherwise occupied during the
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week and who would like to do some graduate work
in Latin or Greek by coming on Saturdays, should
communicate with the Professor,
MYTHOLOGY AND ETYMOLOGY— See page 66.
Graduate Course in Latin and Greek
Those who are thinking of taking graduate courses
are advised to write to the President or to the Pro-
fessor, that their preliminary studies may be so guid-
ed as to fit them for the work. The requirements for
entrance into these courses are given elsewhere in
this catalogue, under the head of Graduate School.
In Latin the following course will be offered for the
M. A. degree in the session of 1927-28 : Vergil's com-
plete works; Vergil in the Middle Ages; History of
Classical Scholarship; Textual Criticism.
MATHEMATICS
Professor Aldrich Instructor, Joseph H. Watkins
L A survey course. A review of the essentials of
high school mathematics followed by an intro-
duction to Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry
and the Calculus. The course aims to put the
student in possession of the mathematical tools
most useful in other subjects and to prepare
him for any of the special courses listed under
n. Credit 3 hours.
H. (a) College Algebra and Theory of Equations.
Credit 3 hours.
n. (b) Analytic Geometry and Spherical Trig-
onometry, more advanced topics in Plane An-
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alytic Geometry and an introduction to Solid
Analytic Geometry. Credit 3 hours.
II. (c) Calculus: A standard course. Credit 3
hours.
III. Advanced Calculus and Differential Equations.
Credit 3 hours.
Note: Courses Ila, lib and lie will be offered cycli-
cally.
PHYSICS
Professor Aldrich W. S. Evans
Stanley Pfefferkorn
1-A. Experimental Physics: Laboratory work
with conferences and unifying lectures. Three double
periods per week throughout the year. 3 hours' credit
per year.
1-B. General Physics: Lectures and problems
covering elemental theory. Two hours per week
throughout the year. 2 hours' credit per year. 1-B
must be preceded by or accompanied with Math-
ematics 1 and Physics 1-A.
II- A. Advanced Mechanics and Thermodynamics:
Three hours per week throughout the year. 3 hours'
credit per year. Prerequisites, Elemental Calculus
and Physics I-A and I-B or their equivalent.
II-B Electricity and Electrical Measurements:
Two lectures and one laboratory period per week
throughout the year. 3 hours' credit per year. Pre-
requisites as in II-A and a course in chemistry.
II-C. Light and Modern Physics: Two lectures
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and one laboratory period per week for two terms and
three lecture and conference periods per week for the
third term. Credit 3 hours per year. Prerequisites
as in course II-B.
Courses II-A, II-B and II-C will be offered cyclically
so that a student may cover the entire ground in his
four years' course.
SPANISH
Assistant Professor Roney
Spanish 1. A beginners' class in Spanish, with a
thorough drill in the grammar of the language. Great
stress is placed on acquiring a good pronunciation and
an ability to speak the language readily; only Span-
ish is used in the classroom.
Texts: Marion and Garenne's Introduction a la
lengua castellana or the equivalent, short texts and
current Spanish periodicals.
Prerequisite : None.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
Spanish 2. This is a mxore advanced course in con-
versation, with more rapid reading of the modern
Spanish authors. The life and customs of Spain are
studied and discussed in Spanish.
Texts: Smith's Gramatica practica castellana or
the equivalent, modern Spanish authors and current
Spanish periodicals.
Prerequisite: Spanish 1, or two years of high
school Spanish.
Spanish 3- A. This is a course in the Spanish novel
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and short story of the nineteenth and twentieth cen-
turies. The authors and their works are discussed in
Spanish, and practical Spanish commercial transla-
tion is studied.
This course is given in alternate years, and will
replace Spanish 3-B in 1928-29. Students completing
Spanish 3-A and desiring to continue Spanish may
elect Spanish 3-B.
Prerequisite: Spanish 2, or three years of high
school Spanish.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
Spanish 3-B. A study of the Spanish drama and
poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in-
cluding an introductory course in Spanish prosody.
All classroom discussion is in Spanish.
This course is given in alternate years, and will
replace Spanish 3-A in 1927-28. Students completing
Spanish 3-B and desiring to continue Spanish may
elect Spanish 3-A.
Prerequisite: Spanish 2, or three years of high
school Spanish.
Three times a week throughout the year. Elective.
Post-Graduate work in Spanish may be arranged.
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THE LOWRY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINIS-
TRATION, COMMERCE AND FINANCE
Undergraduate Course Leading to the Degree of Bach-
elor of Arts (B. A.) in Commerce
Professor A. S. Libby Ass't. Prof. C. S. Libey
Prof. E. A. Gerhardt
The school of Business Administration, Commerce
and Finance is an undergraduate-graduate school,
one of the professional divisions of the University. In-
struction is therefore directed toward professional
education rather than narrow technical drill. En-
trance requirements for the undergraduate work are
the same as for the School of Liberal Arts, except
that Ancient Language is not required. Modern
Language, especially Spanish or French, is strongly
advised. Shorthand and typewriting are neither re-
quired nor later counted toward a degree, but are
strongly recommended.
The graduate work is based upon the Bachelor's
Degree from an accredited institution.
Economics — Its laws and principles with special
reference to American conditions. The course pre-
sents a general survey and is designed to serve as an
introduction to later and more intensive study of the
problems of industrial society.
Economic and Commercial Geography — A study of
resources and industries as influenced by geographic
conditions. The geography of the more important
commercial products of the farm, range, forest, mine,
factory and sea ; continental and oceanic trade routes ;
great commercial nations.
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American Government and Politics — Analysis of
the structure and workings of the government in the
United States, local, state, and national ; the organiza-
tion and activities of state and federal administration,
with the fundamental legal and political principles
governing it, (This course alternates with Compara-
tive Government.)
Business Communication — A study of the com-
munication function in business and of the technique
which is common to all forms of business communica-
tion; discussed in its psychological, rhetorical, graphic
and typographical aspects.
Business Psychology— Business problems from the
psychological point of view. (1) Psychological facts
and principles applicable to the conduct of business
operations: (2) possibilities and limitations of psy-
chological method and approach to business problems.
Among the topics discussed are the hiring and in-
structing of employees, vocational adjustment, group
efficiency, advertising and selling.
Financial Organization of Society — A study of the
nature and work of the various types of financial in-
stitutions in the modern business world, the forces
that have led to their development, and their rela-
tion to the organization of industrial society. The
principal forms of financial institutions covered are:
coinage and monetary systems; credit; commercial
banks; savings banks; bondhouses; trust companies;
stock exchanges; the various forms of co-operative
associations; also a brief study of the functions of
the corporation and the insurance company as fin-
ancial institutions.
Labor Conditions and Problems — A general survey
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analytical, causal and historical, of the main forces
and factors which give rise to modern labor conditions
and problems and which, therefore, must be taken in-
to consideration in the attempted solution of specific
labor problems.
Risk and Risk Bearing in Modern Industrial Society
— A detailed study of the speculative character of
modern industry, with analysis of the various sources
and kinds of risks and the various ways of meeting
risk. Special study of insurance.
Marketing 1 — Raw Materials — A survey of the
method and problems connected with the marketing
of raw materials.
Each student is required to select a commodity and
trace it through its entire marketing process.
Marketing 2 — Manufactured Goods — In the prob-
lems and methods of marketing manufactured pro-
ducts, the same general divisions are made: (1) the
commodity; (2) the market; (3) the trade organiza-
tion.
As in Course 1 above, the student is required to
make first-hand investigation and written reports of
the problems, in local establishments.
Marketing 3^ — Foreign Trade — A discussion of the
marketing problems which arise. The point of view
is that of an inland city like Atlanta.
Marketing 4 — Problems of Marketing and Merchan-
dising— A wide range of problems of manufacture
and distribution.
As in courses 1 and 2, each student will select a
single commodity for detail study. The investigation
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will be developed into a term paper dealing with the
selected product in the various foreign markets, with
the effects of the European war, and with the future
possibilities.
Economic Development of the United States — The
rise and evolution of the institutions, the structure
and the organization of industrial society which have
been developed in the effort of the American people
to supply their economic wants.
United States History and its Geographic Condi-
tions— A study of the influence of geographic condi-
tions on the course of American history.
Introduction to Statistics — The elementary prin-
ciples of statistics as a means to scientific study and
interpretation of social and economic life.
Social Control of Business — This course aims to
give understanding of the various means of control
now struggling and their application i n different
fields. Chief emphasis will be laid on the problems
common to trusts, railroads, and public utilities, aris-
ing from fixed capital, untraced expenses, increasing
returns, and the resulting tendencies to monopoly.
Advanced Economics and the Development of In-
dustrial Society — The structure, institutions, and op-
eration of industrial society; medieval industrial so-
ciety and the evolution of modern capitalistic indus-
try.
Conservation of Natural Resources — Natural re-
sources as factors in national development.
Comparative Government — A comparative study of
the leading governments of the world, including
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England, France, Switzerland, the small states of
Europe and of South America. (This course alter-
nates with American Government and Politics.)
Modern Cities — Growth and problems of the mod-
ern city; its home rule, charter, electorate, and va-
rious forms of government.
Ocean Transportation — The history and classifica-
tion of ocean carriers; ocean routes, and terminals;
transportation organization and service, freight, pas-
senger, mail, international express, marine insurance;
relation of ocean carriers with one another and the
public; government aid and regulation, navigation
laws, merchant marine question, etc.
Railroad Transportation — Similar in scope to the
above course.
Commerce of South America — Commerce relations
between the United States and South America.
Industrial Administration 1 — Designed primarily
for those students expecting to enter the manufactur-
ing field.
Industrial Administration 2 — A continuation of In-
dustrial Administration I with similar objectives.
Commercial Law (A three-term course) — A work-
ing knowledge of the rules of the Commercial Law
is of practical value to every citizen, but to the suc-
cessful business man of today it is indispensable.
Successful completing of this course will make
available to the student all substantive law courses
offered in any law school.
The case system of instruction is employed.
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Scientific Management and Labor — The principles
of scientific management and their wide applicability
to various manufacturing activities.
Industrial Combinations — The conditions in modern
industrial society which have led to the growth of
combinations, an analysis of the motives for their for-
mation, the sources of their power and the elements
of their weakness.
Corporation Finance — A study of the corporation,
primarily with reference to its financial management.
Investment — Various types of investment includ-
ing government, state, municipal bonds, securities of
railway, public utility, industrial, and mining com-
panies, and real estate investments.
Bank Management — A technical course in the in-
ternal problems of bank organization and manage-
ment. The work is designed to train not so much
for clerical work as for positions of official responsi-
bility. This course alternates with the Theory of
Banking.
Public Finance — Public expenditure, budgetry-
methods, public revenues, and public debt. The pur-
pose is to give a working knowledge of government
and financial institutions as distinguished from com-
mercial ones.
Business Correspondence — Training in the writing
and dictating of business letters.
Advertising Technique 1 — Mail campaigns, with a
study of the technique of sales letters, letter series,
inserts, mailing cards and folders, booklets, cata-
logues, and other forms of direct advertising.
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Advertising Technique 2 — Display advertising,
writing and printing of same.
Organization of Industrial Scientific Research —
Study of the methods of organizing research work
in connection with large-scale industries.
Office Administration — The principles and methods
underlying efficient and economical office manage-
ment; evolution of the modern office; the office man-
ager; electing and training office employees; office re-
sults; office manual; organization procedure; ob-
stacles and emergencies; standardizing; incentives;
relation between employer and employee; general of-
fice service; order and billing systems; filing systems.
(The department reserves the right to withdraw
any course for which, in the judgment of the Dean,
an insufficient number of students have applied.)
ACCOUNTING
Professor Earl A. Gerhardt
Five hours' credit is given for each year in account-
ing, except as noted, (Auditing, 3 hours and Math-
ematics of Accounting, 2 hours). Courses offered in
1926-27 were conducted on this basis. Two terms of
accounting are required of all students in the School
of Business Administration.
11-12 Elementary Accounting. Fall-Winter, 3 hrs.
Recitation 2-2 hours Laboratory. In the fall term
the student is familiarized through discussion and
practice with the technique of accounts, financial
statements, special and columnar journals, and sub-
sidiary ledgers. In the winter term partnership and
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corporation accounting are stressed and other special
problems studied.
13-14 Elementary Accounting. Winter and Spring,
3 hours. Recitation 2-2 hours Laboratory. Same as
11-12. Given when the schedule permits.
21-22 Intermediate Accounting. Spring and Fall,
3 hours. Recitation 2-2 hours Laboratory. The prob-
lems are more comprehensive and require a thorough
knowledge of elementary accounting. In the Fall
term problems and statements of liquidations are em-
phasized.
23-24 Advanced Accounting. Winter and Spring, 3
hours. Recitation 2-2 hours Laboratory. Emphasis
is placed on problems of balance sheet valuations in
the winter term and preparation of consolidation
statements in the Spring term. Given alternate years.
Not given 1927-28.
27-28 Mathematics of Accounting. Winter - Spring,
3 hours. Recitation 2 hours credit. Simpler subjects
of mathematics of accounting are presented in the
Winter term, the more involved subjects in the Spring
term. Given alternate years. Given 1927-28.
31-32-33 Cost Accounting. Fall, Winter and Spring,
3 hours. Recitation 2-2 hours Laboratory. The the-
ory and practice of cost accounting, dealing mainly
with manufacturing costs, and treating cost account-
ing as an instrument of executive control. Given al-
ternate years. Given 1927-28.
41-42-43 Auditing. Fall, Winter and Spring, 3
hours. Recitation, 3 hours credit. The theory and
practice of auditing are surveyed, together with the
working papers of actual audits. An audit report and
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the solution of special problems form a large part of
the year's work. Given alternate years. Not given
1927-28.
ELECTIVES and GRADUATE COURSES
These are all courses that either have been given,
or will be given if there is sufficient demand for them.
History of Commerce
Business Administration
Labor Conditions and Prob-
lems.
Risk and Risk-Bearing in
modern Industrial Society.
The World's Food Resources.
Foreign Trade.
United States History and
Geographic Conditions.
Introduction to Statistics.
The Manager's Administra-
tion of Finance.
The Manager's Administra-
tion of Labor.
Social Control of Labor.
Comparative Free Govern-
ment.
International Law.
Commerce of South America.
Scientific Management of
Labor.
Industrial Conditions.
Bank Management.
Public Finance (not offered
in 1927-28.)
Advertising Technique.
The Science of Commerce
(Scientific Research of
Business Problems.)
SECRETARIAL COURSES
The secretarial course of study is designed for the
following: (a) Persons who wish to enter the business
world in the capacity of skilled assistants to those in
executive positions; (b) Teachers of commercial sub-
jects in high schools; (c) Office managers and the
like; (d) Young ladies who are preparing for work
of a literary nature, or as social secretaries.
In the work in modern foreign languages, not less
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than two years of work will be accepted for gradua-
tion. In case only a reading knowledge is desired, on
the successful completion of the first two units, a
second language may be taken up.
For those preparing to teach in high schools it is
recommended that from the electives nine hours of
Education be taken, as this will qualify graduates for
the State Professional Teacher's Certificate.
At the close of the first two years of work, provid-
ed a record has been established for scholarship,
character, and reliability, on request a Certificate of
Proficiency will be granted. This is not to encourage
a premature capitalization of ability, but more as an
incentive to complete the four years of work for the
diploma and the degree.
For outline of courses see page 41.
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THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
in Education
Professor Gaertner Professor Burrows
The school of Education is both an undergraduate
and also a graduate school. A number of graduates
from such schools in Oglethorpe University as well
as other colleges have entered the teaching profession.
Much of the work being psychological and humanis-
tic, the discipline of this school is a preparation for
various lines of work besides that of teaching. This
school is a good preparation dealing with all forms
of human contact sides of life work. We especially
recommend the new courses in shorthand and type-
writing to be taken as part of the electives in Junior
or Senior years or earlier by substitution, for secre-
tarial careers, or commercial teaching in high schools.
Orientation Course — In this course the student will
study the best methods of study, the attitudes nec-
essary to be a good college student, the values of the
various subjects of the curriculum, as also other forms
of knowledge to make the student successful at the
outset. Fall term of Freshman year.
General Psychology — A study of Mental States,
Human Action, and Connection of Mental Facts, Feel-
ings of Things, Relationships and Personal Conditions.
The Will; general characteristics, and functions of
mental states. The nervous system, its structure, ac-
tion and connections with mental states. Purpose:
To acquaint the student with the main facts and laws
of mental life and to provide a sound foundation for
the study of allied subjects. Winter and Spring term,
Freshman year.
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Educational Psychology — A study of the Mind in
the Acts of Learning. Its varied Functions, Stimu-
lation, Reactions and Processes, Laws of Mental Ac-
tivity. Purpose of Course: To understand more fully
the application of Psychology to the problem of edu-
cation. Fall and Winter terms. Sophomore year.
School Administration and Management — State,
County, Town, Village and City School Organization
and Control. Duties of School Boards, Superintend-
ents, Supervisors, Principals and Teachers. Course
of study and Promotions. Establishment and use of
Libraries. Selection and Preparation of Schools,
Buildings and Situation. The business side of School
Affairs. Purpose of Course: To equip for Teaching
or Supervision. Spring term, Sophomore year.
Principles of Education — A study of the Funda-
mentals of Human progress. Preparation necessary
for the work of Directing Activity. The aim of Edu-
cation, Content and Formal Studies, The Doctrine of
Discipline, Educational Values, The Curriculum.
Purpose of Course: To establish a basis for rational
thought on Education. Fall and Winter terms. Junior
year.
Mental Hygiene — In this course the student inves-
tigates many causes for mental failures, the problem
of happiness in living, causes of abnormal mentality
and the general way in which the normal mind is
formed. Spring term. Junior year.
History of Education — A study of the most prom-
inent forces that have contributed to the advance-
ment of the races. Family and social customs, ethical
standards, religions, traditions, educational ideals,
biographical sketches of Reformers and Educators,
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Development of Schools and Colleges of the United
States. Purpose of Course: To know the varied
phases of educational thought of the past so as to
be able to appreciate present tendencies and require-
ments. Fall and Winter terms, Junior year.
Educational Tests and Measurements — In this
course the entire new method of mental surveying and
testing, both intelligence tests and also Educational
tests will be studied. The student will be called to
carry on some practical exercises in testing classes
in near-by schools. The modern methods of tabulat-
ing results and interpreting statistical procedure will
also receive attention. Spring term. Junior year.
Sociology — The general study of human society, its
problems, genesis, variations, and other topics in this
fascinating subject. Fall, Winter and Spring terms,
Senior year.
Psychology of the Elementary School Subjects — In
this course the present status of these subjects will
be studied. The course includes an examination of
each type of elementary teaching, supply and demand
in the profession, characteristics that make for suc-
cess in each field, and diagnostic service to enable the
student to cultivate desirable and eliminate undesir-
able traits. Elective in Junior or Senior year.
Principles of Secondary Education — A study of the
historical development of the secondary school with
reference to purposes and curriculum; objectives of
secondary education; relation of the high school to
the community; adaptation of curricula and subject
matter to individual differences; organization and
supervision; school management; school law; educa-
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tion and vocational guidance; extra curricular activ-
ities. Elective in Junior or Senior year.
The Mathematical Group in High Schools — In this
course the basic subjects of Arithmetic, Algebra and
Geometry will be studied for contents as well as for
the best methods of teaching. Elective in Junior or
Senior year.
Graduate Courses — These will vary with the needs
and wishes of the student. In each instance the
course will be planned by the Head of the School. A
total of twelve hours, usually four lines of study, to-
gether, with an approved thesis, is required for the
Master of Arts in Education.
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THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
Perhaps the most remarkable single development
in the modern educational world is the possession by
our colleges and universities of complete control of
the greatest of all sports. American college football
is the most interesting, most exciting, most manly,
most instructive and most profitable game ever play-
ed by men. It, more than any other, furnishes to its
devotees something of the moral equivalent of war,
and such a hold has it taken on the public that they
pour out their tens of thousands of dollars to witness
inter-collegiate games in vast stadia and bowls erect-
ed largely for the purpose at a cost reaching into
the millions. It is a momentous thing for the aca-
demic world to have control of the American equiv-
alent of the Olympic games and the contests of the
Arena, and as we watch the never ceasing enlarge-
ment of interest, finance, equipment and importance
of this part of college work it must be perfectly ap-
parent that the very life of a college depends and will
more and more depend upon its method of handling
this fact which is at once a challenge and an oppor-
tunity.
And, hand in hand with football, go baseball, bas-
ket-ball, boating, track, and indeed the whole physical
well-being of the vast American student-body.
Passing by as somnolent those colleges that side-
step the fact by denying their students the privilege
of intercollegiate sports and those that permissively
decree a Students' Athletic Association which as-
sumes control of coach, games, and often of "Faculty
Directors of Athletics," we come to those institu-
tions that face the situation with wide open eyes.
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The attitude of Oglethorpe University to all ath-
letics is based upon the recognition of the physical
training of the human body as a college study.
It is presumed that a matter of such overwhelm-
ing importance to college life as athletics and of such
transcendent interest to the public that it commands
their time and purses at will, is a matter worth study-
ing seriously and deserving to be ranked with Greek
and Poultry Keeping,
Therefore Oglethorpe University has founded her
School of Physical Culture.
Its purpose is two-fold: To train, protect and de-
velop the bodies of all the students of the University
and to offer a special school where those who deserve
it may receive special training, equipping them for
positions as Physical Directors in Y. M. C. A.'s, in
the Army, and in other schools, colleges and univer-
sities.
As a school for the special preparation of students
for positions as physical directors and coaches in Y.
M. C. A.'s, the Army and other schools and univer-
sities, a regular curriculum has been arranged offer-
ing instruction in the following subjects, the comple-
tion of which will lead to an appropriate certificate or
degree.
1. Physiology — A first-year course in the study
of the human body, one hour per week — Fall, Winter
Spring and Summer Terms. Required of all Fresh-
men. Prerequisite for all courses enumerated below.
Includes studies in Sanitation, Hygiene and First Aid.
Professor Hunt
2. Mass Athletics — A study of methods used in
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the A. E. F., Play Athletics, study of muscles, their
development and health. Study of various develop-
ment systems. Three hours per week. Required of
all students who do not elect courses 3-10.
Mr. Robertson
3. Track — Study and practice of ail track exercise,
running, jumping, vaulting and javelin throwing,
hurdling and relay race. Three hours per week. Elec-
tive.
Mr. Anderson
4. Football— Science and practice of this geatest
of games, study of formations, plays, strategy, man-
agement.
Mr. Robertson
5. Baseball — Science and practice of the most
widely popular of all American games. Spring term
only. Twelve hours per week.
Mr. Anderson
6. Tennis — Study and practice. Fall, Winter,
Spring and Summer Terms. Three hours per week.
Mr. Anderson
7. Aquatic Sports — Study and practice — Svv'im-
ming, rowing, crew work. Fall, Winter, Spring and
Summer Terms.
Mr. Anderson
8. Fencing — Swordsmanship in the foil, sabre and
rapier; also boxing. Fall, Winter and Spring terms.
Two hours per week.
Prof. Roney
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9. History of Play and Games— The genesis and
development of modern games, including Courses 3-
9 ; also of chess, draughts, ten pins, etc. Fall, Winter
and Spring Terms. One hour per week.
Dr. Libby
10. Arts and Science Group — Comprising such
electives from courses offered in the Schools of Arts
and Sciences, Literature, and Commerce as may be
elected to complete requirements of S. I. A. A., for
eligibility in intercollegiate games.
An appropriate letter will be given all students
making the University team in any of the above
classes, 3-9, inclusive.
Every human being should be taught to play with
his fellow-beings. Every student should have daily
exercise. These two simple but fundamental axioms
are the basis for all work in this department.
The munificent gift of fifty thousand dollars by Mr.
and Mrs. Harry P. Hermance to Oglethorpe Univer-
sity for an athletic field has made possible the im-
mediate inauguration of this plan, which is founded
upon the study from a college standpoint of psychol-
ogy, hygiene, sanitation, first-aid work, etc. It fur-
ther emphasizes the necessity of careful medical
supervision of all athletics and the adaptation to each
individual student of special forms of exercise.
One of the most important features is the requiring
of every student to take some form of physical ex-
ercise daily under proper medical or tutorial guid-
ance. In this way those who need it most would be
most advantaged, and the chief failure of the athletic
program of our average American college would be
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obviated, for it is a notorious fact that most of our
institutions develop a small number of trained ath-
letes in football, baseball, basket-ball, etc., while the
great mass of students do little more than sit on the
bleachers and yell.
And the building of the new athletic field given by
Mr. and Mrs. Hermance makes possible the inaugura-
tion at Oglethorpe of a complete system of physical
culture for all students. It will include not only the
great athletic features such as football, baseball, bas-
ket-ball, etc., but also many interesting track exer-
cises, discus and javelin throv/ing, jumping, vaulting
and, in fact, all of the various numbers to be found
at our intercollegiate track meets. It is the purpose
of Oglethorpe University as quickly as circumstances
may permit, to enter, and, in addition, to develop a
strong boating crew on Silver Lake.
The University has been especially fortunate in
enjoying the services of Mr. Frank B. Anderson, one
of the best known coaches in the South, who has had
charge of Athletics at Oglethorpe University and who
has been advanced to the directorship of the depart-
ment of physical culture. Mr. Anderson has merited
and won not only a great reputation as a coach, but
as a clean, fine friend of young men, and there is no
man in the whole of America more loved by his boys.
We are especially fortunate also in being able to
announce that Mr. Harry Robertson, famous all-
American football star, will coach our football team
and teach Courses Nos. 2 and 4. The University, of
course, is proud of his record and happy in the know-
ledge that our boys will have as their coach a man
who is an expert in that department with hardly an
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equal in this country, and those of us who have
charge of the moral and mental life of the University,
feel especially happy in having at the head of this
fascinating department of our work, a splendid out-
standing man whose personal influence with the stu-
dents will mean so much in the building of character
and the enforcing of every moral and religious pre-
cept. It is not going too far to say that the teams
at Oglethorpe will be as well coached next year and
thereafter as any teams on the American continent,
for there are no two finer men at the head of athletics
whether it be as coaches or as men, than the two who
head this department at Oglethorpe.
Other instructors will be added as this work may
require.
UNIVERSITY EXPENSES
Board and Room Rent
The dormitory facilities of Oglethorpe University
are the safest and most comfortable of cognate insti-
tutions in the South. All the permanent buildings of
the University will be like those now finished, which
are believed to be absolutely fireproof, being con-
structed of steel, concrete and granite with parti-
tions of brick and hollow tile.
The prices named below are based upon three
grades of rooms. The first of these comprises a tem-
porary dormitory erected by the Government in 1918 ;
the second, the entire third floor of the Administra-
tion building, the third floor of Lupton Hall, and the
second and third floors of Lowry Hall, divided into
individual rooms, with general toilet and bath room
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on the same floor. Each room contains a lavatory
furnishing hot and cold water. The third grade is
that of the second floor of the Administration build-
ing and is composed of suites of rooms, each suite con-
taining a bedroom, bath and study. The price charged
includes first-class board, steam heat, electric lights,
water and janitor's service, and all rooms are furnish-
ed adequately and substantially. Every room in the
dormitory contains ample closet space. The rooms
are large, airy, safe and comfortable.
The furniture is of oak and is the same for all
rooms, including chiffonier, study-table, single bed,
spring and mattress for each student. *
Room linen and bed clothing will be furnished by
the student. Applications for rooms should be filed
at once. For reservation of room inclose $5.00 reser-
vation fee, to be credited on first payment.
The expenses at Oglethorpe University are made
as low as the quality of instruction, of rooming ac-
commodations and of table fare will permit. No fees
such as matriculation, library, hospital, contingent,
athletic, etc.,, are charged. To Day Students the
only charge made is that of tuition which is $82.50
per term, as covered by the college calendar.
For students boarding in the dormitories of the
University the following charges are made:
* Government Building $165.00 per term.
Administration Building, third floor; Lupton Hall,
third floor; and Lowry Hall third floor — $190.00 per
term.
* The rooms in the Government building have no closets, are
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Lowry Hall, second floor $192.50 per term.
Administration Building, second floor, $210.00 per
term.
All University charges are payable quarterly in ad-
vance except by special arrangement. For absences
no rebate is made on board for less than one week,
nor on room rent and tuition for less than one term. No
rebate is made on absences caused by temporary sus-
pension by action of the faculty. All Freshmen, other
than day students and young women, are required to
room on the campus except upon the written request
of their parents or guardians. It will be observed that
the total cost for the entire year, including tuition,
table board and room rent, heat, light, water and
janitor service and all other college dues range from
$495.00 per year of approximately eight and a half
months, (three terms) upward — according to room-
ing accommodations. The student should bring his
own bedding and personal linen. Books may be pur-
chased from the Student Co-op or in the city of At-
lanta and will cost approximately $10.00 per term.
Upon assuming possession of his room each student
is given a statement showing the general condition
of the room and of the articles of furniture contained
therein. He is required at the end of each term —
or at the end of the college year — upon request of the
Superintendent, to restore the property to the con-
dition in which he received it by paying the actual
cost of replacements and repairs as made or estimated
as necessary to be made by the college officials. When
more simply furnished and as practically no charge is made
for room -rent, light, heat, water and janitor service, the stu-
dents rooming in that building are expected to take care of
their own rooms.
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the room is occupied by more than one student the
cost of repairs is divided in proportion to responsi-
bility.
SELF HELP
Approximately fifteen per cent of the Oglethorpe
student body are "working their way through col-
lege" in whole or in part.
It is the intention of the authorities of the Univer-
sity to see that a way is provided as far as possible
for the assistance of any student who may be in pe-
cuniary need and yet desirous of prosecuting his
studies at Oglethorpe. A special Faculty Committee
will co-operate with students to that end.
As a general rule it is best for the student that he
should be able to devote all of his time to his aca-
demic duties, but where circumstances require it,
many students may undertake various tasks, pay-
ment for which materially aids them in meeting their
expenses.
For further information address the President,
Oglethorpe University.
SPECIAL LOAN FUND
By the generosity of a good friend who does not
wish his name mentioned, the University is able to
lend a limited sum to deserving students who would
otherwise be unable to prosecute their studies at
Oglethorpe. Further details upon application.
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ATHLETICS— HERMANCE FIELD
The munificent generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
P. Hermance in giving to Oglethorpe an Athletic Sta-
dium, to be the finest in the South, makes feasible the
development of all forms of field sports, including not
only the great games of football and baseball, but also
vaulting, jumping, discus and javelin throwing, track
work, etc. Physical culture for all students will be re-
quired.
A sanely encouraging attitude is taken by the Uni-
versity toward intercollegiate athletics, and Ogle-
thorpe University is acquitting herself well in that
sphere of her educational life.
SILVER LAKE
In addition to those sports common to all well
equipped colleges in the South, Oglethorpe University
is the fortunate possessor of a beautiful lake covering
eighty acres located conveniently to the University
campus, with a part of its shore set aside for a univer-
sity boat house. This will enable the institution to
add a crew to its list of athletic sports. The lake
is admirably suited for boating, rowing, swimming
and fishing.
The policy of Oglethorpe University includes the
care of the physical life of our students as a matter
of large importance. Regular instruction, looking to
symmetrical development of the entire man will be
given in the Athletic Department of the University,
under competent medical guidance. Special attention
is at present given to outdoor athletics. Adequate
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provision is being made for football and baseball
grounds, tennis courts, etc. Work has been begun
on the Hermance Stadium.
UNIVERSITY STORE
One of the interesting features of university life at
Oglethorpe is the Petrel Shop operated by a group of
students, under the superintendence of the Faculty.
In the store are kept all the necessary college acces-
sories. Any ordinary purchase may thus be made
most conveniently, as full lines of goods answering
the various college requirements are constantly kept
on hand.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ATMOSPHERE
The ability of a college or university to develop
worthy character in its students depends largely upon
that indefinable quality called "college atmosphere."
As a mother, she breathes her own soul into her boys.
They inherit all she has been through, all of labor
and strength and faith and prayer. If her judgments
have been bought out with money they inherit that;
if with blood they inherit that. Every storm through
which she has passed strengthens them for their own
conflicts in the days that are to come.
Oglethorpe is a daughter of battle and faith and
prayer. God alone built her, touching the hearts of
multitudes of His children at the voice of her call.
Alone of all the prominent ante-bellum universities
she died for her ideals and alone of all the universi-
ties of America, God has raised her from the dead.
By her every battle, her every faith, her every
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triumph, she has learned what things are really worth
while and what hand really to lean upon. She will
tell her children of Him.
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Regular assembly exercises, whic hthe students are
required to attend, are conducted by each of the mem-
bers of the faculty in turn. The student life at Ogle-
thorpe is also blessed by the activities of the Y. M.
C. A., and frequent sermons and addresses by visit-
ing pastors and evangelists. A Sunday School Class
has been started by the students themselves, which
grew to a membership of over eighty.
LIBRARIES
By the generosity of many friends, so great as to
be almost unparalleled, the University received dur-
ing the first year of its life approximately ten thou-
sand volumes for the library. These consist of stand-
ard works in Literature, History and Science, with
many valuable reference works in special depart-
ments. The Private Libraries of Dr. Sellers in
Science, and of Dr. Nicolassen in the Classics, are
both available for the use of the students in these
departments. The policy of the institution is to let
no year go without the enlargement of the library.
A competent librarian is in charge and the rooms
will be open during the year of 1926-27 approximately
ten hours per day. The Public Library is also avail-
able for the use of our students.
KING LIBRARY OF ENGLISH
By the splendid generosity of Dr. Cheston King
the University has been given a Library of English
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incomparably the finest south of Washington. The
volumes for this library, including some seventeen
thousand books and pamphlets, have been received,
and are now available for graduate work.
OGLETHORPE COAT-OF-ARMS
Among the unique honors offered at the University
is the presentation of a sweater with the Coat-of-
Arms blazoned thereon, which will be awarded in the
future under the terms of the following resolution
unanimously adopted by the Faculty of the Univer-
sity, upon recommendation of the President:
"Resolved, that on and after September 1st, 1922,
the Coat-of~Arms of Oglethorpe University shall be
given to those students carrying a minimum of fifteen
hours weekly, of excellent personal character and
conduct, whose general average of all the courses
taken during five preceding consecutive terms shall
have been not less than 93, or who, in lieu of said
general average, shall have so distinguished them-
selves in some intellectual, creative, or constructive
accomplishment as to entitle them thereto in the
judgment of the Faculty."
W. R. Carlisle
J. R, Murphy
1920
E. C. James, Jr. W. C. Johnson
L. N. Turk, Jr. J. R. Terrell, Jr.
M. F. Calmes
L. M. McClung
1921
L. W. Hope
E. E. Moore
D. B. Johnson
J. H. Price
1922
P. H. Gaboon M. M. Copeland A. M. Sellers
T. L. Staton Martha Shover
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1923
Gladys Crisler J. B. Kersey L. G. Pfefferkora
Al. G. Smith J. O. Hightower, III
R. 0. Brown
Christine Gore
J. M. McMekin
1924
F. M. Boswell
R. F. Hardin
J. B. Partridge
R. F. McCormack Jr.
J. D. Chesnut
O. M. Jackson
R. G. Pfefferkorn
1925
N. F. Antilotti E. E. Bentley
Mary Belle Nichols Esther Cooper
W. C. Morrow, Jr. J. K. Ottley, Jr.
B. H. Vincent
W. V. Braddy
Grace Mason
Virginia O'Kelley
E. H. Waldrop, Jr. Joseph H. Watkins
1926
Fay Bowman Leila Elder Nettie Feagin
Marvin Rivers Earl Shepherd Mary Watkins
Evelyn Hollingsworth
1927
Madge Reynolds J. E. Tanksley L. C. Drake
Stanley Pfefferkorn Helen Parish Olive Parish
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THE PHI KAPPA DELTA (Honorary)
The Phi Kappa Delta was organized in 1920. Only-
students of the Junior and Senior class are eligible.
The qualifications are scholarship and character.
THE OGLETHORPE IDEA
Quality is the word that expresses the Oglethorpe
idea — quality in location, in climate, in campus, in
architecture, in student character, in college life, in
athletics and sports, in faculty, in curriculum and in
religion and morals. Every one of these we offer at
Oglethorpe.
Located in the commercial and educational capital
of the South, with an unrivaled climate, on the most
elegant street of that city, on a most beautiful cam-
pus of over one hundred and eighty acres of woodland
and meadow, including an eighty-two acre lake which
belongs to our students for swimming, boating and
fishing, the physical advantages offered by Ogle-
thorpe University are unsurpassed anywhere in the
section.
One by one a splendid body of buildings is being
erected on its campus. Every one of them will be
of granite trimmed with limestone and covered with
variegated slates. All of them will be as fire-proof
as human skill can make them and as commodious
and comfortable as our architects can plan them. They
will be like the first buildings already erected, which
are believed to be the safest, most beautiful and
most efficient college or university buildings in the
Southeast.
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THE OGLETHORPE SITE— ATLANTA
The attractions of the city of Atlanta as an educa-
tional center are fast making it one of the great in-
tellectual dynamos of the nation. Gifted with a soft,
Southern mountain climate, convenient of access to
the entire nation over its many lines of railway,
known everywhere as the center of Southern activ-
ities, she draws to herself as to a magnet the great
minds of the nation and the world. Hither come lec-
turers, musicians, statesmen, evangelists, editors,
teachers and officials of the United States. An in-
tellectual atmosphere created by such conditions and
the frequent opportunity of contact with these lead-
ers in all branches of human activity, offered fre-
quently to our students, give Oglethorpe University
an advantage of position and of opportunity which
she will cultivate to the uttermost. Facilities for
hearing and meeting the great musicians and authors
and public speakers and the leaders in all spheres of
intellectual activity will be offered our students. The
tremendous influence of such contact upon the young
lives committed to us will be felt in increased ambi-
tion and redoubled determination to perform, them-
selves, their duty to their race and their God.
THE SILENT FACULTY AT OGLETHORPE
It is not going too far to say that the aesthetic
tastes and home habits of many young men are ruined
at college by the cheap and unattractive furnishings
of their rooms and the ugly forbidding architecture
of the buildings, whose walls often deface their cam-
pus. The architecture of an institution of learning
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should be a constant source of delight and inspira-
tion to its students, teaching quietly but surely the
highest ideals of life. Indeed all those qualities of
soul we know as honesty, solidity, dignity, durability,
reverence and beauty may be expressed in the face
of a building as surely as in that of a man, and are
so expressed on the Oglethorpe campus.
Not less important are the personal surroundings of
the student's room. Cheap, ugly and ill-equipped
apartments have exactly the same influence on the
soul of a boy that cheap, ugly and ill-equipped hu-
man companions have. That is why the rooms at
Oglethorpe are handsomely furnished. The sons of
the poor are entitled to the information and inspira-
tion such surroundings offer, and the sons of the rich
will deteriorate without them.
In brief the college education that does not teach
a love of beauty and tidiness and what is popularly
called "decency," is essentially and dangerously de-
fective.
This is the special work of the silent faculty at
Oglethorpe.
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THE EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF OUR
PERSONAL ATTENTION
Young men who desire to enjoy the daily personal
contact and instruction of the heads of departments
will note with interest that Oglethorpe offers excep-
tional opportunities of that nature. It is well known
that in all our large institutions only the upper class-
ment come in any close contact with the full Profes-
sors, who as heads of departments occupy their time
in other matters than educating Freshmen.
We believe in giving our Freshmen the best wa
have, and they will be taught by men who have
taught in or had offered them, chairs in the greatest
universities of America. This will be a permanent
policy at Oglethorpe.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
All students of all classes are required to take two
hours a week of Physical Training. This is intended
to keep the body in good condition, and is especially
designed for the benefit of those students who do not
take part in football, baseball, etc., but who need
some stimulus to pay attention to their physical well
being.
INFIRMARY
The University maintains at all times an excellent
infirmary, with a nurse in attendance, for the prompt
treatment of accidents and of such cases of sickness
as may occur. By this means prolonged and serious
illness can often be prevented. During the recent in-
fluenza epidemic vigorous measures were taken at
once, with the result that, while there were a rela-
tively small number of cases there were no fatalities.
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There is a University physician who can be secured
on short notice when his services are needed.
The University makes no charge to the students
for infirmary service which includes also the attend-
ance of the college physician in the infirmary. In
case of special illness requiring operations or the ser-
vices of specialists, while the University frequently
is able to secure reduced charges for our students, yet
we assume no responsibility beyond such services as
our college physician and college infirmary are able
to render.
EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS
Examinations will be held once each term, and re-
ports of the students' standing will be issued four
times per year.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Oglethorpe University has the double advantage of
being located in the suburbs of Atlanta, so far out
as not to be subject to the distractions of city life, yet
so near in as to enjoy all the public utilities of a gi-eat
city. Among these are city water, electric lights,
city trolley line, telephone and telegraph service, and
in addition thereto the University has its own post-
office, express office and railway station, all known as
Oglethorpe University, Georgia.
DIRECTIONS TO NEW STUDENTS
Students coming to Oglethorpe University from a
distance should remember that Oglethorpe University
has its own station on the main line of the Southern
Railway between Atlanta and Washington. Tickets
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may be purchased and baggage checked to Ogle-
thorpe University, Georgia, the station being imme-
diately in front of the campus. Students coming to
Atlanta over other lines may either re-check their
baggage to the University station, or may have it
delivered at a special rate by the Atlanta Baggage
& Cab Company. In using the latter method mention
should always be made of the special students' rate
at the time the order is given.
WOMAN'S BOARD
One of the most remarkable gatherings, even in
this city of remarkable gatherings, was the assemb-
ling of approximately two hundred of the represen-
tative women of the city of Atlanta at the home of
Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, Saturday afternoon, Nov-
ember 25, 1916, to organize a Woman's Board for
Oglethorpe University.
The purpose of the Board is to aid the University
in every wise and efficient way, with counsel of and
guidance by the proper authorities of the Institution.
Already more than four hundred of the finest work-
ers and most representative women of the city have
offered their services and joined the organization.
Their activities are directed toward the support and
development of Oglethorpe in every phase of its
growth and activities. Each of the ladies is assigned
to the committee on which she feels best able to serve.
These committees cover the various departments of
the University, and among them are: Ways and
Means, Finance, Grounds, Press, Entertainment,
Hospital, Music, Library, Arts, Refreshments, Trans-
portation, and such other committees as it may seem
wise to the Board from time to time to appoint.
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The authorities of the University welcome the for-
mation of this organization with the greatest joy.
The mere fact that they have promised a devoted
allegiance to the enterprise has its own genuine val-
ue, but those who know the women of Atlanta, with
their marvelous capacity for earnest and consecrated
work directed by a swift and accurate intelligence,
will realize what must be the results of the efficient
aid which they are giving to the Institution.
The Woman's Board has established a permanent
endowment fund and is being incorporated under the
laws of Georgia in preparation for handling funds
donated or bequeathed to the University through the
Woman's Board.
Officers and Chairmen of the various committees
have been unanimously chosen as follows:
Mrs. E. Rivers, President; Mrs Charles A. Conklin,
First Vice-President; Mrs. Frank Inman, Second Vice-
President; Mrs. J. H. Porter, Third Vice-President;
Mrs. W. A. Speer, Fourth Vice-President; Mrs. Gra-
ham Johnson, Fifth Vice-President ; Mrs. I. R. Carlisle,
Recording Secretary; Mrs. Fred Stewart, Correspond-
ing Secretary; Mrs. B. F. Ulmer, Treasurer; Mrs. J.
K. Ottley, Chairman Executive Committee ; Mrs. Chas.
A. Conklin, Chairman Girls Committee; Mrs. Forrest
Barfield, Chairman Membership Committee; Mrs. G.
H. Brandon, Chairman Decoration Committee; Mrs J.
W. Peacock, Chairman Players' Club Committee; Mrs.
John M. Cooper, Chairman Music Committee; Mrs.
Frank Inman, Chairman Grounds Committee; Mrs J.
T. Williams, Chairman Hospital Committee; Mrs.
Rogers Winter, Chairman Publicity Committee; Mrs.
J. H. Porter, Chairman Library Committee; Mrs. W.
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0. Foote, Chairman Automobiles Committee; Mrs. C.
A. Whittle, Chairman Athletics; Mrs. C. K. Ayer,
Chairm.an Scholarship Committee; Mrs. A. L. Mill-
igan, Chairman Commencement Day; Mrs. H. M.
Nicholes, Chairman Scrap-Book; Mrs. Thomas Brum-
by, Chairman Marietta group; Mrs. Homer V. Jones,
Chairman Norcross Club.
Finance Committee: Mrs. Lee Ashcraft, Chair-
man; Mrs. E. Rivers, Mrs. Katherine H. Connerat,
Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs, Mrs. John K. Ottley, Mrs.
Chas. A. Conklin, Mrs. B. F. Ulmer, Mrs. Haynes Mc-
Fadden.
Directors: Mrs. Katherine H. Connerat, Chairman;
Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr., Mrs. J. M. High, Mrs. Isaac
Schoen, Mrs. G. H. Carnes.
Advisory Board : Mrs. George W. Brine, Chairman ;
Mrs. Haynes McFadden, First Vice-Chairman; Mrs. B.
K. Boyd, Second Vice-Chairman; Mrs. H. G. Carnes,
Mrs. E. P. McBurney, Mrs. Lee Ashcraft, Mrs. E. H.
Phillips.
Honorary Presidents: Mrs. Thornwell Jacobs,
Mrs. J. T. Lupton, Mrs. Harry P. Hermance, Mrs.
James R. Gray, Sr., Mrs. Sam Inman, Mrs. Albert
Thornton, Sr., Mrs. Robert J. Lowry.
Through the liberality of a friend, whose name is
withheld by request, a fine driveway has been con-
structed from the University to Peachtree Road; it
is called "The Maud Jacobs Driveway," in honor of
the first President of the Woman's Board.
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COMMENCEMENT
May 21, 1926.
Class Salutatory — Lamar H. Lindsay.
Class Valedictory — John David Baxter.
Commencement Address — Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D. D., Pas-
tor First Baptist Church of St. Louis.
HONORARY DEGREES
Doctor of Laws — Mr. Benjamin Newton Duke.
Mr. Henry Morrell Atkinson.
Mr. William Adger Law.
Dr. Meredith Ashby Jones.
Doctor of Divinity — Rev. John Fairman Preston.
Rev. Henry William Bloch.
Doctor of Commercial Science — Mr. Harry Putnam Her-
mance.
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration,
Commerce and Finance.
John David Baxter Tyler Bruce Lindsay
Wm. Gibson Broadhurst, Jr. Pete Twitty Mackey
Esther Cooper Adrian Harold Maurer
James Edwin Crabb Harry Walthal Myers
James Peyton Hansard Marvin Alexander Nix
Holmes Dupree Jordan William Hewlett Perkerson
Wakeman Lamar Jarard William Askew Shands
Robert Edward Lee Thomas Edward Walsh
Roy Moncrief Lee William Benton Williamson
William Atkinson Lee Shaffer Burke Wimbish
Lamar Howard Lindsay Calhoun Hunter Young
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Bachelor of Arts in Education
Leila Elder Nelle Martin
Ernest Lee Ficquett Walter Lee Morris
Dixie Merrell McDaniel George Harrison O'Kelley
Alexander Harvey Shuler
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Mary Elliott Bogle Ernest R. Holland
Thelma Elizabeth Doyal Mary Belle Nichols
Nettie Simpson Feagin Elizabeth Louise Ransone
Mary Louise Smith
Bachelor of Arts in Science
Earl Carlton Gay James H. Watkins
Winifred Hugh Kent Harry Clifford Lyon
Robert Franklin McCormack, Jr.
Bachelor of Arts in Classics
Mary Elizabeth Watkins
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■ HONORARY DEGREES
1920
Doctor of Laws — Hon. Woodrow Wilson.
Doctor of Divinity — Rev. C. I. Stacy, Rev. Henry D. Phillips,
Rev. Clarence W. Rouse.
1921
Doctor of Literature — Ccrra May Harris.
Doctor of Civil Engineering — Thomas J. Smull.
Doctor of Laws — Thomas F. Gailor, J. T. Lupton.
1922
Doctor of Divinity — Rev. Chas. A. Campbell.
Doctor of Pedagogy — Miss Nannette Hopkins.
Doctor of Laws — Dr. Michael Hope, Rev. J. W. Bachman.
1923
Doctor of Pedagogy — W. A. Sutton, B. P. Gillard.
Doctor of Commercial Science — Joel Hunter.
Doctor of Music — Charles A. Sheldon, Jr.
Doctor of Laws — N. P. Pratt, Rev. Geo. L. Petrie.
1924
Doctor of Pedagogy — Carlton B. Gibson.
Doctor of Science — Harold R. Berry.
Doctor of Literature — Mary Brent Whiteside.
Doctor of Laws — Gutzon Borglum, John G. Bowman.
1925
Doctor of Science — Willard Newton Holmes.
Doctor of Laws — Charles Edwin Mitchell.
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GRADUATES OF 1920
Bachelor of Arts in the Classics
Newton Thomas Anderson, Jr. Samuel Herbert Gilkeson
Henry Mason Bonney, Jr. Martin Augustine Maddox
Warren Calvin Maddox
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
John Hedges Goff Duncan Campbell McNeil, Jr.
Sidney Holderness, Jr. Thomas Powell Moye
Robert Allen Moore James Render Terrell, Jr.
Charles Speer Tidwell
Bachelor of Arts in Science
William Johnson Boswell William Carlisle Johnson
William Rhodes Carlisle Israel Lefkoft
Nathan Meredith DeJarnette Claudius Chandler Mason
Marion Adolph Gaertner Neill Smith McLeod
Solomon Isaac Golden Morton Turnbull Nicholes
Edward Carroll James, Jr. Robert Gilliland Nicholes
Lucas 'Newton Turk
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance
Albus Durham Joseph Rogers Murphy
Joseph Porter Wilson
GRADUATE DEGREES
Master of Arts
Cheston W. Darrow Sidney Holderness, Jr.
John Hedges GofF Benjamin Franklin Register
GRADUATES OF 1921
Bachelor of Arts in the Classics
Dwight Barb Johnson
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Ernest Everett Moore Harold Calhoun Trimble
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Bachelor of Arts in Science
Sylvester Cain, Jr. Malcolm Mosteller
Marquis Fielding Calmes Carl Ivan Pirkle
Israel Herbert Wender
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance
William Roy Conine Thomas Edward Morgan
Francis Yentzer Fife Joel Hamilton Price
Lueien Wellborn Hope Preston Bander Seanor, A. B.
Lester McCorkle McClung Justin Jesse Trimble
Justus Thomas Trimble
Bachelor of Arts in Education
America Woodberry
GRADUATE DEGREES
Master of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Thomas Pow^ell Moye, A. B.
Master of Arts in Science
Edward Carroll James, A. B. Lucas Newton Turk, A. B.
GRADUATES OF 1922
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Richard Harold Armstrong James Hanun Burns
Bennetta McKinnon Parker Hurlburt Cahoon
Martha Shover
Bachelor of Arts in Science
William Charles Hillhouse, Jr. Elise Caroline Shover
Ferdinand Martinez Walton Bunyan Sinclair
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance
William Lee Nunn Ted Logine Staton
Julius Jackson Price, Jr. Charles Horace Stewart, Jr.
Clifford Sims William Earl Wood
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Bachelor of Arts in Education
Daniel Moore Hayes, Jr. John Randolph Smith
Frank Knight Sims Edith Lyle Swinney
James Edward Waldrop
GRADUATES OF 1923
Bachelor of Arts in the Classics
James Earle Johnson
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Royall Cooke Frazier Edgar Watkins, Jr.
Bert Leslie Hammack Louise Elizabeth McCammon
Sidney Edwin Ives, III
Bachelor of Arts in Science
Murray Marcus Ccpeland Charles Frederick Laurence
John Lesh Jacobs
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance
Nelson Burton James Osgood Hightower, III
Oer McClintic Cobb Joel Buford Kersey
William Conn Forsee George* Ernest Talley
Bachelor of Arts in Education
William Adolph Aleck Jane Leone Tribble
William Penn Selman John Arthur Varnedoe, Jr.
GRADUATE DEGREE
Master of Arts in Commerce
Robert King White, A. B.
GRADUATES OF 1924
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Margaret Elizabeth Ashley Mattie White Kellam
Elizabeth Hawes Broughton Lucy Carlisle Pairo
James David Chesnut Virginia Allen Pairo
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Gladys Fields Crisler Lawrence Gordon Pfefforkora
Dorothy Elizabeth Foster Robert Gillimer Pfefferkorn
Christine Gore Ralph Adair Sinclair
James Varnedoe Hall Henry Quigg Tucker
Bachelor of Arts in Science
Neiie J. Gaertner John Carlton Ivey
Paul Courtney Gaertner Otis Mahlon Jackson
James Henry Hamilton Ralph Augustus Martin
Harry Eugene Teasley
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Com-
merce and Finance
Thomas Arnold Bartenfeld Aaron Monroe Hollingsworth,
Fred Malone Boswell Thomas Brewer Hubbard
Robert Ogden Brown William Dougherty Mallicoat
Herbert Alexander Bryant Luther Thomas Mann
Candler Campbell James Meriwether McMekin
Walter Hugh Cox John Tolliver Morris
Edgar George David Coke Wisdom O'Neal
John Brown Frazier Finch Thomas Scruggs
Walter Fred Gordy Alfred George Smith
Raymond Weathers Stephens
Bachelor of Arts in Education
Oscar Augustus Lunsford
GRADUATE DEGREES
Master of Arts in Literature
John Word West, A. B.
Master of Arts in Education
Mark Burrows, A. B.
Master of Aris in GeriKan
William Louis Roney, A. B.
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GRADUATES OF 1925
Bachelor of Arts in Classics
Weyman Hamilton Tucker
Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Journalism
Marcellus Edwin Ford, Jr. Ralph Franklin Quarles
William Cosby Morrow, Jr. Eva McKee West
John King Ottley, Jr. Samuel Maverick Weyman
Bachelor of Arts in Science
Alfred Newton Adams Thomas Lee Camp
Evelyn Elizabeth Bentley Gibson Kelly Cornwell
Mitchell Charles Bishop William Robert Durham
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration,
Commerce and Finance
Everett Bagwell Hugh Dorsey McMurry
Samuel Preston Boozer Abram Orovitz
Milledge Hendrix Brewer James Bugg Partridge
Peyton Skipwith Coles Benjamin Franklin Pickett, Ji
Wendell Whipple Crowe William Thomas Porter
Charles Elliott Ferguson James Marion Stafford, Jr.
Henry Melvin Hope Erie Houston Waldrop, Jr.
John Ross Kemp Howard Frank Whitehead
Grace Evelyn Mason James Paul Wilkes
William Leonard Willis
Bachelor of Arts in Education
Thomas Lee Aaron Archie Thompson McWhorter
John Wesley Agee Theodore Virgil Morrison
Minton Venner Braddy Samuel Burney Pollock
Miller Augustus Hamrick Rebie Aurora Spears
GRADUATE DEGREES
Master of Arts in Spanish
Herbert Chapman
Master of Arts in French
Paul Douglas West
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ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET OF VIEWS
The Oglethorpe University Press has published a
very beautiful illustrated booklet of views showing
the college buildings, many campus views and various
features of college life. It also carries with it a four-
color reproduction of Audubon's famous picture of
The Stormy Petrels for which the athletic teams of
the college are named. This booklet is sold for $1.00
but we will gladly send a copy of it without charge
to any prospective student with the understanding
that it will be returned to us after inspection.
A postal card addressed to the President will bring
a copy of this literature to you by return mail.
For further information address
PRESIDENT OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY,
Oglethorpe University, Ga.
FORM OF BEQUEST
The proper form for use in making a bequest to
Oglethorpe University is as follows:
''I hereby give and bequeath to Oglethorpe
University, a corporation of DeKalb County,
Georgia, $ - —
Signature
If you desire to leave property, in addition to, or in-
stead of money, describe the property carefully under
the advice of your lawyer. Time and chance work
their will upon us all. Now is the hour to attend to
this matter. Do now for your university what you
would have done.
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REVISED CHARTER OF
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY
PETITION TO AMEND.
GEORGIA— Fulton County.
To the Superior Court of Fulton County:
The petition of Oglethorpe University respectfully shows:
1. That by an order of this honorable court, petitioner
was duly incorporated on the 6th day of May, 1913; to which
proceedings reference is made.
2. That Paragraph 4 of said charter granted as aforesaid,
is sought to be amended by enlarging the scope thereof, by
substituting in lieu of the original Paragraph 4 the follow-
ing:
The corporate functions which shall mean the control of the
property of the corporation, its purchase, sale and other dis-
position shall be by a Board of Trustees of such number as
may be provided in the by-laws; no one is or shall ever be
eligible to membership on such board except a member in
good standing of a Presbyterian or reformed Church. This
Board shall be elected from among those of the Board of
Founders, hereinafter provided for, who shall possess the
requisite qualifications. No mortgage, sale or other disposition
of the real property of the corporation shall ever be made
except by vote of the Board of Trustees in a regular meeting
or in a special meeting called therefor. Notice must be
given of the call for any such special meeting of the purpose
to consider such disposition.
There shall be a Board of Founders of such number as may
be prescribed by the by-laws who shall be persons who have
shown their interest in the purposes of the University by con-
tributing thereto, or in whose behalf there has been contribut-
ed in cash, property or solvent promises not less than one
thousand dollars and who are of such character and with
such interest in promoting religion, morality and education as
fits them for membership. This Board shall have the power
and it shall be its duty to have control and supervision over
the educational functions of the University, of its President,
officers, faculty, and courses of study; to elect from among
its members the Board of Trustees; to borrow money but not
to secure the same by lien on the real property; to elect from
eligible persons successors of the present Board of Founders;
to create an Executive Committee with authority to perform
all its functions when the Board is not in session, as may be
provided for in the by-laws and to perform generally the ad-
ministrative functions of the University. The present Board
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of Trustees-Founders shall constitute the Board of Founders,
whose members and their successors hold for life unless they
are removed or resign.
3. That at a regular meeting of the duly authorized of-
ficers of the corporation held in accordance with the charter
thereof, the aforesaid amendment was authorized as appears
from a copy of the resolutions attached hereto, marked EX-
HIBIT A.
WHEREFORE, petitioner prays an order of this honorable
court amending its charter as aforesaid.
WATKINS, ASBILL & WATKINS,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
403-10 Atl Trust Co. Bldg.
EXHIBIT "A"
Resolved by the Board of Trustees-Founders of Oglethorpe
University that paragraph 4, as it now reads in the original
charter thereof dated May 6, 1913, be stricken and in lieu
thereof, a new paragraph 4 shall be inserted as follows:
The corporate functions which shall mean the control of
the property of the corporation, its purchase, sale and other
disposition shall be by a Board of Trustees of such number
as may be provided in the by-laws; no one is or shall ever
bee eligible to membership in such board except a member
in good standing of a Presbyterian or Reformed Church. This
Board shall be elected from among those of the Board of
Founders, hereinafter provided for, who shall possess the
requisite qualifications. No mortgage, sale or other disposi-
tion of the real property of the corporation shall ever be made
except by vote of the Board of Trustees in a regular meeting
or in a special meeting called therefor. Notice must be giv-
en of the call for any such special meeting of the purpose to
consider such disposition.
There shall be a Board of Founders of such number as may
be prescribed by the by-laws who shall be persons who have
shown their interest in the purposes of the University by
contributing thereto, or in whose behalf there has been con-
tributed in cash, property or solvent promises not less than
one thousand dollars and who are of such character and with
such interest in promoting religion, morality and education as
fits them for membership. This Board shall have the power
and it shall be its duty to have control and supervision over
the educational functions of the University, of its President,
officers, faculty, and courses of study; to elect from among
its members the Board of Trustees; to borrow money but not
to secure the same lien on the real property; to elect from
eligible persons successors of the present Board of Founders;
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to create an Executive Committee with authority to perform
all its functions when the Board is not in session, as may be
provided for in the by-laws and to perform generally the ad-
ministrative functions of the University. The present Board
of Trustees-Founders shall constitute the Board of Founders,
whose membersh and their successors shall hold for life un-
less they are removed or resign.
Resolved further that the President of the Board of Trus-
tees-Founders be authorized and directed to take the necessary
steps to amend the Constitution of Oglethorpe University as
herein before resolved.
I, Joseph R. Murphy, Secretary, Board of Trustees-Foun-
ders, Oglethorpe University, hereby certify that the above
and foregoing resolutions were duly and legally passed at a
legal meeting of the Board of Trustees-Founders of Oglethorpe
University on the twenty first of October, 1926.
JOSEPH R. MURPHY, Secretary.
Filed in office, this 28th day of October, 1926.
T. C. MILLER, Clerk.
STATE OF GEORGIA— County of Fulton.
I, T. C. Miller, Clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton Coun-
ty, Georgia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the application for amendment to charter
in the matter of
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY
as the same appears of file in this office.
Witness my official signature and the seal of said court,
this the 28th day of October, 1926.
T. C. MILLER,
Clerk Superior Court, Fulton County, Ga.
(Seal of the Court) Oct. 28 Nov 4, 11, 18.
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SESSION OF 1926-27
Undergraduate Students
Hi'
Abbott, Maury Norwood Georgia
Agricola, Ann Donahue Georgia
Aldridge, Charles Roy Georgia
Alexander, Jennie Adelia Tennessee
Amstutz, Ruth Evelyn Ohio
Anderson Jeff Turner Georgia
Anderson, Marion Brown Georgia
Andrews, Edgar Odell Georgia
Arnold, Wade Bryant Georgia
Banister, Emii Harry Georgia
Barnes, Osie Jewell Georgia
Bass, Floyd Edward Georgia
Bell, Hoke Smith Georgia
Bell, John Columbus Georgia
Bell, William Theodore Georgia
Bennett, Carolyn Garwood Georgia
Benson, Robert Moore Georgia
Beuchler, Charles Henry, Jr. Florida
Blackwell, Samuel Earl, Jr. Georgia
Blades, Melick West North Carolina
Boehm, Marion Lina Georgia
Bond, Thomas Marion Georgia
Boone, Leroy Jordan Georgia
Boswell, Brantley Jewett Georgia
Bosworth, Katherine Evelyn Georgia
Bowman, Fay Houghton Georgia
Brannen, Mildred Ethleen Georgia
Brantley, Edward Lee Georgia
Brinson, John Ransone Georgia
Brookshire, Jameson Truett Georgia
Brown, A. Rudolph Georgia
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Brown, Violet Antionette South Carolina
Bryson, Hilery Els berry North Carolina
Buchanan, E ugenia Georgia
Buchanan, Hugh F. Georgia
Buchanan, Martha Elizabeth Georgia
Burford, Curry Jeff Georgia
Bush, William Henry Tennessee
Busha, Mary Emily Georgia
Byrd, Horace Mann Alabama
Caesar, Albert Henry, Jr. Georgia
Caldwell, James Reid Tennessee
Callaway, Edward Fred Georgia
Campbell, Kenneth Anderson, Jr. Georgia
Campbell, Thomas Ralph Georgia
Carder, Gerald Calvin Georgia
Carey, Robert Raymond Cuba
Carlton, Frank Alben Maine
Carmichael, Thomas Aldine Georgia
Carroll, W. Eugene Georgia
Carroll, Robert Clayton West Virginia
Carroll, Sarah Clairece Georgia
Carter, James Louis Florida
Cazeau, Floyd Alfred New York
Chambers, Joe Long Georgia
Chastain, Madye Lee Texas
Chestnutt, William Franklin Georgia
Childress, Marion Georgia
Chotas, Daisy E. Georgia
Clarke, Angello Marie Georgia
Clarke, Peter Francis, Jr. Georgia
Clement, Haywood Monk North Carolina
Cobb, Mrs. Richard Georgia
Coffee, William Harold Georgia
Coleman, Norman Lafayette, Jr. Georgia
Collins, Cliff Augustus Georgia
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Cooper, Floyd Childs, Jr. .....Georgia
Cousins, I. W. Georgia
Cowart, Reginald Duane Georgia
Cowart, Spencer Samuel Florida
Crouch, John Will Georgia
Daniel, Louise Florence Georgia
Darnell, Charles Johnson Georgia
Davenport, Luther Marchant South Carolina
Davidson, Hugh Lawson Georgia
Davis, Andrew Jack Georgia
Davis, Mary Laura Georgia
Dekle, Bernard Samuel Georgia
Dekle, Joseph Brayton Georgia
Dempsey, Ralph Longino Georgia
Denmark, Gordon James Georgia
Dodd, Elizabeth Georgia
Dodd, Marion Randolph Georgia
Dodd, Mary Collier . Georgia
Drake, Leonard Chapman Georgia
Dunn, Cecil Harold Georgia
Early, Florence Mary Pennsylvania
Echols, George Douglas Texas
Edens, John Meredith, Jr. Georgia
Edwards, Harrison Griffith Georgia
Ellis, Phoebe Charlotte Georgia
Emery, Robert Wilson New Jersey
Emory, Sherman Page Georgia
Eubanks, Mark Blanford, Jr Georgia
Evans, William Stephens Georgia
Everett, Frank Chappell Georgia
Fain, Jack Georgia
Earner, Hilda Virginia Georgia
Faver, Lem D. Georgia
Feinberg, Harry Georgia
Fine, Joseph Julius Georgia
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Fisch, Joseph Carl Georgia
Fiigg, Jack Carlyle Georgia
Flynn, Margaret Anson Georgia
Foreman, John Bishop Tennessee
Foreman, Marshall Lee Tennessee
Fox, Lyman Bernard Missouri
Frankhn, Hubert Deas Georgia
Fuller, Robert Henry Georgia
Gaissert, Clinton Gilbert Georgia
Gardner, Julia Marie Georgia
Garlington, Edward Allen Georgia
Geathard, Robert W. Wisconsin
Gillman, Louis Georgia
Ginn, Christopher Lovelace Georgia
Godwin, Martha Louise Georgia
Goldsmith, John Fitten Georgia
Goodman, Willie Marion Georgia
Gordy, John Franklin Georgia
Gould, Fred Stewart Georgia
Graham, Elizabeth T. Georgia
Gramling, Homer Thomas Florida
Green, Lowell Hanson Georgia
Gunter, Mary X. Georgia
Guthrie, Betty Tennessee
Guthrie, Maj or Georgia
Hamby, Elmo Randolph Georgia
Hamilton, Dorothy Harris Georgia
Hamilton, Mary Elizabeth Georgia
Hancock, Roy Williams Florida
Hanks, William Laurence Florida
Hardie, Syd K. Georgia
Hardin, George William Georgia
Harris, Mary Georgia
Harwell, Richard Myddleton Georgia
Havis, Julian Stephen Georgia
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Hawes, James Wilson Georgia
Heath, Ralph Talmadge Georgia
Hedges, James Dayton Cuba
Hendrix, Glenn Frank Georgia
Herring, Albert Dozier Georgia
Higginbotham, Clarence Grady Georgia
Hill, Eaton Bass Georgia
Hill, Franklin Chapman Georgia
Hill, Leonard Withington Georgia
Hobgood, Louis Martin, Jr. Georgia
Hoefler, Charles H. Florida
HoIIeman, Ralph Milton Georgia
Hollingsworth, Evelyn Pearce Georgia
Holloway, George Augustus Georgia
Holmes, Alexander Maynard Georgia
Holmes, James Edward Georgia
Hope, Elizabeth Catherine Georgia
Hopkins, Charles Ellett Georgia
Horton, Dorothy Beatrice Georgia
Horton, Dwight Florida
Howell, Robert Spencer Georgia
Humphries, William Franklin Georgia
Hunnicutt, Theodosia Georgia
Hurst, Charles Granville Georgia
Huss, William Wiseman North Carolina
Hutchison, Clarence Louis Alabama
Hutson, Joseph Freeman Florida
Irwin, Robert Beverly Georgia
Jackson, James Fauntleroy Georgia
Jackson, Morris K. Georgia
James, Joseph Hopkins Alabama
Johnson, James Mercer Georgia
Johnson, Julian C. Florida
Johnston, Miriam Georgia
Jones, James Smith Georgia
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Jones, William Marshall Georgia
Josel, Florence Elaine Georgia
Judd, Thomas Murphy North Carolina
Justus, Henry Dewey Georgia
Keeffe, William Heyward Georgia
Keen, George Joseph Florida
Kellner, Abe Hugh Mississippi
Kellogg, Hale Hubbard Georgia
Kelly, John Donald Georgia
Kirkland, John Dekle ^- Georgia
Knight, Frank Jefferson Florida
Knighton, Lynton B. Georgia
Knower, George Donald Missouri
Krauss, Roy Georgia
LaFell, Carle Georgia
Laird, Edmund Cody Georgia
Lawson, Joseph Howard Georgia
Lee, William Asher Georgia
Lester, Daniel Brown Georgia
Lester, James Daniel Georgia
Lewis, James Henry Virginia
Lewman, Idolene Georgia
Libby, Harriet Estelle Maine
Libby, Herbert Morton Maine
Lichter, Mrs. Jane Lempert Georgia
Lindsay, Charles Branan Georgia
Lindsey, James Eugene Georgia
Little, Frank Gunnels Georgia
Lockhart, Eugenia Georgia
Lovett, Heyward Meriwether Georgia
Lowden, Harry Oliver, Jr. Georgia
Lunsford, Emory Georgia
MacLaughlin, Alexander Henry Georgia
MacLaughlin, Charles Phillips Georgia
McCrary, Lewis Lester Georgia
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McDaniel, Thomas Mason Georgia
McDonald, Carlton Parks Georgia
McKey, Clarence Winston Georgia
McKoon, Lee Georgia
McWhorter, Floyd Hamilton Georgia
Madden, Louise Georgia
Madden, Paul Georgia
Mahan, Ralph Alton Georgia
Malsby, Julius Camp, Jr. Georgia
Manley, William Davis Georgia
Mann, Marion Edmond Georgia
Martin, Amos Augustus Georgia
Martin, George Cecil Georgia
Massey, John Edward Georgia
Mayor, Marion Randolph Louisiana
Megahee, Mary Evelyn . Georgia
Meyer, Frank J. Georgia
Milburn, Harold Richard Georgia
Miles, Edward Oscar, Jr. Georgia
Milton, Virgil Winfred Georgia
Mimms, Edward Comer Georgia
Moore, Arthur Douglas Georgia
Moore, William Andrew Georgia
Morris, James Lowell Georgia
Mosley, Louise Georgia
Murphy, George Arthur Georgia
Murphy, Jack Frank Georgia
Nation, Julius Pete Alabama
NeSmith, Marion Wade Georgia
Newton, William D. Georgia
Noel, Nellie Kate Georgia
Nort, Julia Helen Georgia
Nowell, George Lewis Georgia
O'Kelly, Edward Elwood Georgia
O'Kelley, James Liggon Georgia
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O'Kelley, Lucy Virginia Georgia
Oliver, Harold Georgia
Olliff, William A., Jr. Georgia
Parish, Helen Rand Connecticut
Parish, Olivee Slade Connecticut
Parkerson, Thomas J. Georgia
Patterson, Elizabeth Ruth Georgia
Pelot, Reuben Nisbet, Jr. Georgia
Perkins, William Crossby Georgia
Perry, Thyrza Pauline Georgia
Pert, Raleigh Bethal Florida
Pettit, Samuel Luke Georgia
Pfefferkorn, Stanley Gotthoidt -__Georgia
Pittard, Charles C. Georgia
Poole, John Ralph Georgia
Porter, Glenn Washington Georgia
Porter, Margaret Lowry Georgia
Powell, William Moore Georgia
Prater, Elsie Louise Georgia
Price, Mary Lee Georgia
Purvis, Mattox Lafayette Georgia
Radford, Neal Lightner Louisiana
Redfearn, xA.lton Robert Georgia
Rees, Jane Callahan Georgia
Reynolds, Arthur Lester Georgia
Reynolds, Henry Johnson, Jr. Georgia
Re^/nolds, Madge Georgia
Richards, Moore Flinn North Carolina
Richardson, Arthur E. Georgia
Richardson, Robert Frank Georgia
Riggle, J. Field Ohio
Riley, Elizabeth Georgia
Rivers, Luther Marvin Georgia
Roberts, Hortense Georgia
Robinson, Roby Georgia
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Sasser, Joseph Arthur, Jr. Georgia
Semen, Jake Wells Georgia
Sewell, Isaac Georgia
Shaw, John Robert New York
Shepherd, Earl Lenward Georgia
Shepherd, Robert Whitfield Georgia
Shearin, Lucile Lytton ...Georgia
Sheridan, Ernest Lee, Jr. Georgia
Shockley, Harold Harry Georgia
Silverman, Evelyn Cecilia Georgia
Simmons, Sam Swartz Mississippi
Sims, James Hubert Georgia
Sims, Lowry Arnold Georgia
Sims, Thomas Edwin Georgia
Smith, George Walter, Jr. North Carolina
Smith, Harvey Mosley Georgia
Smith, Howard Lankester ... Georgia
Smyly, Charles St. Clair Georgia
Snead, William Felton Georgia
Snook, Fred Richard Georgia
Stacy, Thomas Jefferson Arkansas
Steele, Wyeth Calvin, Jr. North Carolina
Stegall, J. Henderson, Jr. Georgia
Stegall, Mary Elizabeth ^ Georgia
Stewart, Fred Sims Georgia
Stillman, William King, Jr., M. D., Georgia
Stitt, Yeola Brown Georgia
Stow, Cammie Lee Georgia
Stribling, Betty L Georgia
Stribling, Nancy Lynne Georgia
Sutton, Johnson Warde Georgia
Swope, Sidney Macum Florida
Taliaferro, Clarke Georgia
Tanksley, Eloise Chable Georgia
Tanksley, John Edward, Jr. Georgia
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Tapp, Claude Georgia
Taylor, Albert Sondly Georgia
Taylor, Clarence McComb New York
Taylor, Henry Clements Georgia
Taylor, James Pickens Georgia
Taylor, Willie Albert Georgia
Terrell, Royal D. Georgia
Thompson, Carroll Atilia Georgia
Thompson, Erskine Georgia
Thompson, Hayward Martin Georgia
Thompson, Roy Georgia
Thompson, Sarah lone Georgia
Thornton, Henry A., Jr. Alabama
Thrash, Jesse Newton Georgia
Thrash, Robert Brown Georgia
Todd, Ray Upshaw Georgia
Todd, Wesley Mitchell, Jr. Georgia
Tortorella, John Nicholas New Jersey
Townley, James Richard Georgia
Traer, Wayne Sterling Georgia
Tucker, Florence Blanvelt New York
Turner, Edward Marmaduke Georgia
Tye, William Wilson Georgia
Tygart, Silas Thompson Georgia
Tyler, Mrs. Madye Leila F. Georgia
Underwood, William Fleming Georgia
Vaughan, Marion Russell Georgia
Vaughan, Lindsey Columbus South Carolina
Verner, Andrew Marshall, Jr. Georgia
Wagner, Ruth Alice Georgia
Walker, Thomas Georgia
Wall, Asa Patrick Georgia
Walton, Holt Elihu Georgia
Ward, Abner Perrin Georgia
Ward, Fred Georgia
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Wariick, Frances Georgia
Warters, Thomas, Jr. Georgia
Watkins, Allen Georgia
Watkins, Joseph Hood Georgia
Wells, Thompson McConnahaye Georgia
Wells, Walter Clarence Florida
Werner, Elizabeth Cowles Georgia
Wheeler, Frances Georgia
White, Carlton Walter Florida
White, Charles Clifton . Georgia
White, Charles W., Jr. Georgia
White, Mrs. Fitzhugh Georgia
White, Gordon N. Georgia
Whitehead, William Paul Georgia
Whitesell, Henry Clayton Florida
Wilcox, Frances Isham Ohio
Wilkes, Mack Georgia
Williams, David Ellis Georgia
Williams, Will Horton Georgia
Willis, Charles Clarke, Jr. Georgia
Wills, Annie Bell Georgia
Wilson, Donald Winfred, Jr. Georgia
Wilson, James, Jr. South Dakota
Wilson, Walter Jack Louisiana
Winter, Mrs. Roger Georgia
Wood, Louis Moody .Georgia
Woodberry, Stratford Gilman Georgia
Woodward, Charles William Georgia
Woodward, Lennon Marcus North Carolina
Woolford, Guy, Jr. Georgia
Worley, Frederick Ansel South Carolina
Wray, Edwina Mary Georgia
Wright, Luther David Georgia
York, Alfonso Alfred North Carolina
Yoshinuma, Sadajino Georgia
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
Alexander, Thomas L., B.S. Georgia
Amsler, Otto LeRoy, B.S. Georgia
Barksdale, William Anderson, A.B. Georgia
Barlow, Emmett Lee, A.B. Georgia
Betto, Clarence Edward, A.B. Georgia
Bigham, Joseph Lowry, A.B. Georgia
Bolden, Virginia Wade, A.B. Georgia
Booker, Carrie, A.B. Georgia
Boyd, John Franklin, Ph.B. Georgia
Brown, William Salem, B.S. (Education), A.B. Ga.
Bull, William Clifford Georgia
Cheney, Howard Walton, B.S., E.E. Georgia
Cheney, Wylie Owen, A.B., LL.B. Georgia
Collins, Thomas J., A.B. Georgia
Dendy, William Erskine Georgia
Dominick, Raymond Hunter, A.B. Georgia
Ferguson, Lamar, A.B. Georgia
Fletcher, Mary Tennyson, A.B. Georgia
Garnett, Mrs. Frank E. Georgia
Gelissen, Mrs. Wilhelmina Lowe Georgia
Golden, Ward Beecher, B.S. Georgia
Green, Sue, A.B. Georgia
Hammack, Francis R., A.B. Georgia
Hanson, Wesley Turner, A.B Georgia
Hogan, Elsie K. Georgia
Hogan, P. H. Georgia
Horton, Thomas Jefferson, A.B. Georgia
Huson, M;ary Bob, A.B., B.L. Georgia
Icenogle, Karl Luster, B.S., B.E. Georgia
Jones, Buren L., B.S. Georgia
Kantzer, Emily Louise Georgia
Kopf, Frank Alexander, A.B. Georgia
Lea, Hattie S. Georgia
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Lockwood, Joseph Edward, B.S. (Education) -Georgia
Lowe, Jessie Hardeman Georgia
Lunsford, William Parham, A.B. Georgia
Lunsford, Willie Martha, A.B, Georgia
Miller, Simon Peter, A.B., B.D. Georgia
Mitchell, William Edmond, B.S. Georgia
Morrison, Theodore Virgil, LL.B., A.B. Georgia
Poole, Jesse Elgin, A.B. Georgia
Ringsmith, Paul A. Georgia
Savage, Harry Clifton, Jr., B.S. Georgia
Smith, James Harrison, A.B. Georgia
Taylor, Miss Frank Georgia
Teague, India Nowlin, A.B. Georgia
Watkins, Joseph Hood, A.B. Georgia
SPECIAL STUDENTS
Dunn, Mrs. Barbara Georgia
Gottesman, Arthur Georgia
Ward, Kermit Georgia
Undergraduate Students 380
Graduate Students 47
Special Students 3
Total Enrollment 430
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INDEX
Accounting .81
Astronomy 54
Athletics -.89, 98
Bachelor of Arts in Classics 35
Bachelor of Arts in Commerce 39
Bachelor of Arts in Education _41
Bachelor of Arts in Literature 38
Bachelor of Arts in Science _37
Bequest, Form of 119
Bible and Philosophy 55
Biology 56
Board 94
Business Administration 39, 75
Calendar 7
Charter, Revised 120
Chemistry 58
Clock and Chimes 20
Coat-of-Arms .. ._ 101
Commencement 110
Commerce 39, 75
Degrees 35-42
Directions to New Students 107
Directors, Board of . 10
Education, Department of 41, 85
English 38, 59
Entrance Requirements 32
Examinations 107
Exceptional Opportunities 106
Expenses 94-97
Faculty and Officers . 21-28
Faculty Committees -_ 27
Fees c 94-97
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Founders 9
By States 10
Officers 10
Executive Committee 14
Founders' Book 20
French . 62
German 63
Graduate School 50
Greek 64
Hermance Field 98
Historical Sketch 16
History 67
Honorary Degrees 111, 113
Honors Course 43
Infirmary 106
Italian 69
Latin . 69
Libraries 106
Library Course _ 61
Loan Fund 97
Mathematics 71
Mythology and Etymology — 66
Oglethorpe University:
Architectural Beauty 19
Exceptional Opportunities of Personal Attention ...106
Idea 103
Moral and Religious Atmosphere 99
Prayer 6
Purpose and Scope .. 30
Resurrection 18
Silent Faculty li4
Site 104
Spiritual and Intellectual Ideals 19
Opening 18
Pc4ar«gy (See Education) .41, 85
Oglethorpe University 139
Phi Kappa Delta 103
Physical Training 89, 106
Physics 72
Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Course 53
Pre-Legal Course 52
Pre-Professional Work 62
President's Course 53
Psychology 56, 85
Reports 107
School of Business Administration 39, 76
School of Education 41, 85
School of Liberal Arts 35
School of Literature and Journalism 38, 59
School of Physical Culture 89, 106
School of Science 37
Secretarial Preparation 41, 83
Self Help ._._. 97
Silent Faculty at Oglethorpe - 104
Social Sciences ^67
Sociology 68
Spanish , 73
Special Students 34
Special Religious Exercises 10©
Student Actiities 28
Trustees 16
University Store ' 99
Woman's Board 1©8
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