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VOLUME TIVE
NUM9EE TW EN7Y FIVE
NEW "STUDENTS HALL” TTEECER UNIVERSITY
Great Prosperity Under President Jameson —Professor and Hrs. Sellers Hake Delightful Campus Home Por Tlercer Hoys.
HE boundinf prosperity of Mercer Uni
versity under the able presidency of Dr.
S. Y. Jameson is a source of wide-spread
enthusiasm among the friends of that
historic institution. The enrollment last
year in all departments —Literary, Law
and Pharmacy—crowded the four-hun
dred mark, the highest in Mercer’s long
and vigorous life.
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The soul of Dr. P. D. Pollock, that kingly spirit
who fell, smiling and triumphant, amid his radiant
dreams and plans for al
Greater Mercer, is still
“marching on” in the win
ning ideals and activities
of that rare “Mercer
spirit” which John Tem
ple Graves so brilliantly
described, and President
Jameson, who is a pow
erful personality—with
business sense enough to
be a railroad president,
and platform power
enough to capture both
the classes and the
masses, has builded, and
is now building grandly
on the foundation of the
past; and the “inner
life” of the institution is
rejoicing in the sanity
and pulsing with the
Christianity for which
Jameson’s commanding
personality stands.
Contributing largely to
this splendid “inner life”
is the magnificent new
student’s hall .where tue
beloved and scholarly
Professor J. F. Sellers
and wife are a sort of
father and mother, and brother and sister —all to
gether, to the two hundred boys who find a campus
home in Students’ Hall.
The College Young Men’s Christian Association
which has its headquarters in Selman Memorial Hall,
represents the organized religious effort of the stu
dents. It has a very large enrollment and does
an excellent work. It conducts the twilight prayer
meeting and a weekly prayer meeting besides some
mission work.
THE CLEM POWERS STEED MEMORIAL FUND.
Partaking of her late husband’s convictions that
a conception of law and its leading principles is a
very important part of any education; and that
every young man should take law as a part of his
general education, Mrs. Eugenia Small Steed has
generously given to the Board of Trustees in honor
and in memory of her late husband Clem Powers
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Steed through whose efforts the Law School was
organized in 1893, the sum of ten thousand dollars,
the income to be devoted to equipping the Law
School, increasing its library and broadening and
extending its work. Mr. Steed had held with con
spicuous ability the chair of common and statute
law from the organization of this department until
his death in 1907.
By the terms of the gift this fund is to be supple
mented by the Board of Trustees, and is thus to
form the nucleus for a permanent endowment of
the Law School.
This will enable the University greatly to in
crease the usefulness and efficiency of the school,
and to place it on a secure and independent basis.
A proper idea of the duties and office of the lawyer
and a just view of professional ethics is of vital
importance. The ideal on this subject can not be
too high, and the school is the place to inspire
and establish it.
Mercer University is stiil feeling the inspiring
thrill of her remarkable record in the field of col
lege oratory and debate —proudly claiming to her
credit ten victories out of fourteen battles.
Mercer’s stirring literary societies, Phi Delta and
Ciceronian, are her forges of ’’light and heat,” where
orators are developed, and debaters are grown, and
the champion “rushers” are now “ champing their
bits” against the gathering of the clans in Septem-
ber, predicting the largest attendance and the I i vest
year in her literary societies which mercer has ever
known.
“The proof of a pudding is in the eating,” and the
highest proof of ability in a college is the character
of graduates she sends out. Mercer stands on a
prominence, secure and self-made, and invites all
seekers after knowledge to investigate the records of
her foster children. Every year a stalwart brigade
musters in the grand old study hall and marches
out to take a man’s place in the big, big world, and
member of the Board of Trustees, and to fill the
professorship on Common Law and Equity is a type
of the “Mercer Loyalty.”
The sterling Christian manhood and indefatigable
energy that coaxed a B. J. W. Graham from the sweet
fellowship and shelter of a local pastorate and plant
ed him at the head of the Georgia denominational
mouthpiece—The Christian Index—is a type of the
“Mercer adaptability.”
Time and space fail us to run the alphabet on the
Mercer roll of honor. Suffice it to say that anybody
who goes there with a head, a heart and a body, will
come away “filled to the muzzle” with the kind of
ammunition that kills wrong and defends right.
“Mercer, Mercer,
Rah! rah! rah!
Send her your boy,
And you’ll be a grand pa.”
-TWO DOLLARS S 9 YEAE.
FIVE CENTS A COPY.
the glory of it is— they
stand like men. The devo
tion that sends an Em
mett Stephens to rescue
China’s perishing, millions
from the horrors of
heathenism, is a type of
the Mercer fidelity. The
poise that enables an
Adel Moncrief to manipu
late the affairs of a mam
moth institutional church
in Raleigh, N. C., and at
the same time charm and
bless the waiting multi
tudes with his chaste pie
ty and matchless elo
quence, is a type of the
“Mercer balance.” The
sagacity that lands a
Claude Gray in the presi
dency of a splendid pre
paratory school like Lo
cust Grove Institute, is a
type of the “Mercer wis
dom.” And the judicial
ability that drives an A.
W. Lane from his briefs,
demurrers, certioraris,
pleadings and appeals,
back to the halls of hia
Alma Mater to act as a
