The South~ ~A~...... Alumni M~~g: · VOL. V ~lARCH, 1933 [ o. 1 ,_fHE SOUTHWESTERN ALUMNI MAGAZINE Member of the American Alumni Council Published four times during the college year by the Southwestern Alumni Association. Concerned wholly with the affairs of the College and the alumni. Combined membership in the Southwestern Alumni Association and subscription to the Alumni Magazine, contingent upon annual gift of r.ny size to the Southwestern Alumni Fund. All communications should be addressed to t he Editor, Southwestern Alumni Magazine, So uth­ western, l'v1emphis, Tennessee. M. L. MAcQUEEN, '19 OLIVE wALKER, '3 0 Editor Assistant Edito1' CLARK PoRTEous, '34 }Ol-IN FARLEY, '36 Athletics R epo1'ter Student R epo1'ter In This Issue Palmer Hall . Cover Thomas Watt Gregory Dies . Getting Acquainted with Our Graduates-by Degrees . 2 Memories of a Freshman of 1899, by J. W. Marshall . After-College Reading, by Samuel Holt Monk . 4 The Alumni Round Table . 6 The Truth About Our Sophomores . 7 By the Post . 8 On the Campus . 10 With the Classes. 12 THE SOUTHWESTERN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Southwestern Alumni Association is an organization of alumni, graduates and non-gradu­ ates, of Southwestern, the object of which is to promote the welfare of Southwes tern and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between the College and the alumni. The officers of the Associa­ tion are: R. A. BoLLING, ' 1 0, President, W. V. GARDNER, '2 5, Vice-President, C leveland, Miss. Tuscumbia, Ala. W. L. WILH OITE, '96, Vice-President, SHIELDS MclLWAINE, '24, R ec. Sec'y, 1 545 Vinton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn. A. C. GLASSELL, '08, Vice-President, M. L. MAcQ UEEN, '19, Ahmmi Sec'y, Shreveport, La. Southwestern, Memphis, Tenn. THE SOUTHWESTERN ALUMNI MAGAZINE Official Publication of More Than 3,000 Southwesterners VoL. V MARCH, 1933 No.1 Thomas Watt Gregory Dies HOMAS Watt Gregory, dis- attorney general of Texas m T tinguished statesman and 1892 and as district judge in prominent alumnus of South- 1896. He formed a partner- western, died in New York ship in 1900 with Robert L. City on February 26 after a Batts, who also was to become brief illness of bronchial pneu- one of the prominent lawyers monia. Mr. Gregory, who was of T exas. This firm was later Attorney General of the United employed in some of the out- States during the Wilson ad- standing litigation in the legal ministration, was in New York history of the state. Soon after at the request of President the Wilson administration went Roosevelt and had conferred into effect Mr. Gregory was with him on February 18. At appointed as special assistant that time he was suffering from. attorney general of the United a severe cold which later de- States in charge of the investi- veloped into pneumonia. Col- gation and prosecution of the onel Edward M. House, adviser THoMAs WATT GRE GoRY, :s3 New York, New Haven, and to President Wilson and a friend of Mr. Hartford Railroad on charges of violation Gregory, notified his family in Houston, of the Sherman Act. In 1914 when Texas, of his illness, and his wife, son, and President Wilson appointed Attorney Gen- daughter were at his bedside when he died. eral McReynolds to the Supreme Court Funeral services were held on February 2 8 bench, Mr. Gregory was chosen to fill at his home in Houston, Texas, and on the the Cabinet vacancy. At all times a following day he was buried in Austin. position of great responsibility, the at- Mr. Gregory was born in Crawfordsville, torney-generalship took on greater signifi- Miss., November 6, 1861, the son of Francis cance during the period of the World War. Robert and Mary Cornelia Watt Gregory. Mr. Gregory served as Attorney General of He entered Southwestern in the fall of 188 1 the United States from August, 1914, to and while a student there was StewJ.rt Final March, 1919. He sat with President Wilson Orator and winner of the Speaker's Medal. w hen the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fra- and was a member of Wilson's Second Indus- ternity. After graduating with the degree trial Conference in 1919 and 1920. After of bachelor of arts in 18 8 3 he devoted a 1 ear leaving the Cabinet Mr. Gregory practiced to special studies at the University of Vir- law for a short time in Washington and then ginia. He then went to the University of returned to Texas, making Houston his home. Texas where he graduated with the degree of A piece of history which has not been gen­ bachelor of laws in 18 8 5, a member of the erally known is the fact that President Wil­ first graduating class of that institution. son offered Mr. Gregory a place on the bench Settling in Austin, Texas, Mr. Gregory of the Supreme Court of the United States, began the practice of law. He served as a place left vacant by the resignation of assistant city attorney of Austin from 1891 Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. Gregory, who to 1894, during which time he m arried Julia was afflicted with a slight deafness at the alle. He declined appointments as assist ant (Conrinued on page 5) Getting Acquainted with Our Graduates­ by Degrees HE spirit of inquiry and research which theology, 1. Of the 260 graduates who have T characterizes every department of life in done advanced work in other institutions, 57 the present age is responsible for this study per cent have earned a total of 162 degrees. of the academic history of our graduates. The fields in which the graduate work was In ari effort to find out just how learned our done in other institutions and the number graduates are and to what extent their un­ entering each field ·are: theology, 96; liberal dergraduate work has spurred them on to arts, 7 i ; medicine, 3 8; law, 2 7; science, 12; greater endeavor, the figures which follow library science, 8; business administration, 3; have been compiled from the records which physical education, 3; and journalism, 2. are available. The number of institutions is 68, of which Southwestern has, since its beginning as 14 are foreign. Those enrolling the greatest Montgomery Masonic College in 1 8 4 8, con­ number are given in the order of the number fer red degrees upon 8 3 3 of its 4,60 0 students. of students attending: Louisville Presbyterian Since 1875, when the present charter was Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, Uni­ issued, 811 students have been granted de­ versity of Tennessee, George Peabody College grees. Although a divinity school was con­ for Teachers, Vanderbilt University, Colum­ ducted from 1885 until 1917 and graduate bia University, Princeton Theological Semi­ work was offered until 1922, most of the nary, Princeton University, University of degrees have been conferred upon the com­ Chicago, Columbia Theological Seminary, pletion of undergraduate work. Those who University of Virginia, Tulane University, have received the degree of bachelor of arts and Harvard University. number 69 0; bachelor of science, 56; bache­ A study has also been made of the honor­ lor of philosophy, 2 0; master of arts, 4 5; and ary degrees which Southwestern has con­ bachelor of divinity, 22. Students continu­ ferred and which other institutions have ing their work in the graduate and. divinity given our graduates. The College has grant­ schools bring the total number of degrees ed, since 1879, 173 honorary degrees, as fol­ awarded to 973, with the following distribu­ lows: doctor of divinity, 118; doctor of tion: bachelor of arts, 69 0; bachelor of laws, 3 8; master of arts, 8; doctor of litera­ science, 57; bachelor of philosophy, 2 6; mas­ ture, 4; doctor of science, 3; doctor of edu­ ter of arts, 8 5; master of science, 3 ; and cation, 1; and master of fine arts, 1. Sixty­ bachelor of divinity, 112. one of this number have been given to Of the 833 students who have received alumni, forty-one of whom were graduates. degrees, 723 are now living, and 707 com­ Sixteen institutions · have honored graduates pleted their undergraduate work at South­ with forty-four honorary degrees. Because western. Investigation shows that 51 per some are not now living, and some have re­ cent of those included in this last figure have ceived more than one degree, the total number done work beyond the bachelor's degree in of living graduates with honorary degrees is graduate and professional schools, and that seventy-three and these possess eighty-one a total of 3 5 per cent have earned advanced degrees, classified as follows: doctor of di­ degrees, numbering 3 0 3 and vinity, 66; doctor of laws, classified as follows: bache­ 7; master of arts, 3; doctor lor of divinity, 13 5; master of literature, 2; doctor of of arts, 9 8; doctor of medi­ science, 2; and doctor of cine, 23; bachelor of laws, education, 1. 17; doctor of philosophy, Within the last three years 14; bachelor of arts in library sixty students · have entered science, 5 ; master of science, graduate and professional 4; master of theology, 4; schools, and fifty-four are master of business adminis­ now pursuing work toward tration, 2; and bachelor of advanced degrees. Memories of a Freshman of 1899 By REV. ]AMES w. MARSHALL Chattahoochee, Florida HEN I made a pass at going to This bright remark fell from Sid Shaw's lips. W Southwestern, I was so far distant And that was not the only bright thing he from a railroad that I tried the intermittent ever said; for it fell to his fame to tack to promptness of a steamboat to take me from "Beaver" Hill and myself the names that Perdue Hill, Alabama, to Mobile.