HE HOWARD
BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA. MARCH 29 1917
Dawson Chosen as
New Howard Dean
Philips to Deliver
Graduating Sermon
Profeesor of Modern ; Languages Will
Take Up New Duties at Close of
Preeent Senion.
Pastor of Firet Baptist Church of Mo:
bile. Accepts Invitation to Speak
< at Comencement Exercises.
HE SUCCEEDS DR. A. J. MOON
CHOICE PLEASES SENIORS
Prof. John C. Dawson, Head of the
Department ot Modern Languages, is
to become Dean of I Howard College
with the close of thf present session,
succeeding Dr. Allen, J. Moon, resign¬
ed. The Executive Commttee of the
Board of Trustees has voted unani¬
mously to make this rcommndatlon to
the Board when it meets in annual
session May 23, and it is regards as
certain that the recommendation will
he accepted without a dissenting voice.
Professor Dawson came to Howard
College in 1903 as Head of the Mod¬
em Languages Department, and, next
to Dean Moon, whom he is to suc¬
ceed, is the senior member of the
faculty; He Is a graduate of George¬
town College, Kentucky, and ever
since his coming to the Howard
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,ulty he has had assignments on im¬
portant faculty committees.
The Dean of the College servos as
chairman of the faculty, as the direct¬
ing head of matters of scholarship,
entrance and curriculum, and is act¬
ing president in the absence ol the
President of the College.
Dr. J. W. Phillips, Pastor of the
First Baptist Church, of Mobile, is to
deliver the commencement sermon at
Howard College May 20, according to
announcement made by President
James M. Shelburne. It is expected
that the Sunday morning service will
be held in the auditorium of Academic
Hall at 10:30 o’clock, following out
a custom established within the last
three years.
Dr. Phillips is regarded by his
friends as an unusually strong pulpit
speaker, and the announcement of his
coming has met with expressed favor
by the members of the Senior Class,
ft is not announced
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yet whether
Dr. Phillips or some other will deliv¬
er the sermon at the Sunday night
service.
f With the naming of Dr. Phillips to
deliver the sermon, two commence¬
ment speakers have been made known.
The other is Mrs. G. H. Mathis, the
woman'" "lecturer
ла.
economics who
has so recently attracted nation-wide
attention by her propaganda for hot¬
ter farming In the South. Mrs. Ma¬
this is to be the first woman ever to
speak before a graduating class at
Howard.
The fact that the commencement
period is to be used
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a time for cele¬
brating the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the founding of Howard College,
it is expected that President Shelburne
will have further announcements of
interest to make within the next few
weeks.
IS <51 ORGETOWN ALUMNUS
rot, I?, i. Pulliam, a gradna«e oi
Iral C< liege, Kentucky, and for
bet fo ir years Acting Professor
a tin at the University of Alabama
accept d the chair of Greek and
n at 1 ioward College, succeed-
Dr. At
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J. Moon, who has re-
College,
feed to ;o to
exits. Pr >feseor Pulliam will begin
te work n Howard August 1.
Profess©! Pulliam was graduated
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Cent al College with the class
1 1886. * 4 woe given the degree of
[aster of ate at Central in 1888.. He
name hit motor in Greek and Latin
1 Georget wn College, Kentuejsy, in
BO, and i irved as instructor and la¬
ir as a« stant professor of Greek
Bd Latin in’ that institution until
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I. wten he came to Alabama. In
113 he wt i made assistant professor
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Latin at the University of Alabama
ith the n nk.of acting professor.
President Denny and Dean
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H.
arnwell, it the University of Ala-
ima, g&vi Professor Pulliam strong
■commune itions, and it was a brisk
in test be ween Howard and Burle-
m Collen i, of Texas, as to which
ould be ; ble to retain the services
! Profess»
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Pulliam. Administration
ithorities at Howard feel that they
ire bten able to fill in a most ac-
iptable w ty the place made vacant
f the res, {nation of Dr. Moon.
Preaid en Shelburne and Prof. John
.ftifraon. Head of the Department of
PROF. S. J. PULLIAM
He is To Be Head
о
fthe Department
of Latin and Greek Next Session.
Caffey is Made
District Attorney
the games with A. and M., which will
be played Thursday, the team is sche¬
duled to play two games with the
University of Alabama at Tuecaloosa
Friday and Saturday before returning
to Birmingham.
“We are going to fight hard for the
games and win them if possible,” said
Richard Griffin, Captain. “In spite of
the fact that the weather has prohib¬
ited steady practice, the playere are
in good condition and are determined
to win a majority of the games to be
played.”
A. and M. College took all of the
games played against the Howard
team last year and her team, is con¬
sidered to be stronger than that of
the Baptists. However, the team rep¬
resenting Howard this year is thought
to be a more formidable fighting squad
than the one of last year.
SECRETARY TELL8 8TUDENT8
OF WORK ON FORJEIGN FIELD
Howard Alumnus to Be Appointed to
the New York 8ection by
President Wilson.
Torrence Hopes to 8ee Ten Howard
Men at Summer Conference.
HE IS GRADUATE OF 87 CLASS
Francis G. Caffey, a graduate of Members of the Y. M. C. A. were ad-
Howard College of the Class of 1887, dressed by J. E. Torrence, Student
is to be made District Attorney for secretary of the International Y. M.
the District of New York, according c A committee, in the form of an 11-
to announcement made in Birmlng- luBtrated lecture on th Y M C A
ham. President Wilson has already rh** n r
signified his intention of naming Mr. ^««terence
аам м
Blae R,d*e- N- c '
Caffey to the position. He is at pres- la8t year Mr- Torrence showed views
ent Solicitor in the Department of of the conference grounde consisting
.Agriculture, at Washington, and has of the Robert E. Lee Hall, where the
made a notable record in that post men stay while at the conference, also
tion. ' of the swimming pool, the baseball
Mr. Caffey is a native of Alabama diamond .tennis courts, and other
and has relatives to thls State. He placee near conference grounds,
is an uncle of Hugh W. Caffey, who h . D_
was graduated from Howard in 1908. Howard at Rina pm <
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“I an# not surprised one bit that Mr. ^ Howard at Blue Ridge next sum-
Caffey should be elevated to the post -mer> eald Mr Torrence. "If yon have
tion," said Dr. George W. Macon, Pro- 160 boys you can have a table to your-
fessor ot Biology. “He was a stud- selves. It seems that a school as large
ent at Howard when I first became as Howard ought to send at least ten
connected with the faculty and I found delegates.”
out then that he has a splendid mind, .Mr. Torrence proceeded his illus-
and I felt that he would rise to what- trated lecture ^ a few
геш|гк| ^
ever profession be might choose „emin* the scone of the Y M r. a
RESERVES TO OPEN BASEBALL
8 EASON HERE THIS AFTERNOON
irgqiowi College to the early years
Professi r Pulliam's service as a
eher in that institution, and the
вопа1
fiiendship existing among
men he 1 much to do witty, the com-
of th.. University professor to
Team Has Good Chance to Win Pen¬
nant, Says Martin.
Opening game of the Howard Col¬
lege Reserve Baseball teaiji is to be
played this afternoon on the Howard
Athletic Field with the Jefferson Coun¬
ty High School. This marks the open¬
ing of baseball at Howard for the
second team. "A close game is ex¬
pected
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reports have been made that
the High School is putting out a win¬
ning team this season.
. Howard's team probably will be us
follows: Ashton, catcher; PriCfc^Far-
ley and Simmons, . pitchers; Arthur
Duke, first base; Barber, second base;
Martin and Cross, short .stop; Daw¬
son and James, third base; Froheln,
Newman, Attaway, Brock, Boykin and
Nichols, fielders.
“With the
“ред>”
showing as it
should,' said Fred Martin, . Captain of
the team,” we will make a good record
this year, and will have a good chance
to win the pennant to the Institutional
League."
THREE HOWARD MEMBER8
' TO ATTEND A. E. A. MEETING
Professo: Pulliam is a Baptist and
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latimately jonnected with the woyk in
fte cougrt gallon of Dr. L. O. Daw-
•on, Paetoi of the Tuscaloosa Baptist
Church, ai d an alumnus of Howard
College. ’ro feasor Pulliam also is
thoroughly acquainted with the prob¬
lems and Advantages- to be met in
work In d mamtaational colleges. He
to underetc od to be deeply In. sympa¬
thy, with lae further development of
(lenominatl mal colleges, and it is be
Ueved ton his experience to both
church an l State schools will make
him the mi re valuable to the teaching
ton* at 1 Ioward.
Professo ■ Pulliam is said to have a
Wrong per tonality, with democratic
tcmlecles I aat serve to make him pop-
•br amon j students and . partons ' of
P Inatitut on. He is also declared to
lbs an uns tally strong teacher in the
MARTIN ELECTEO CAPTAIN
OF RE8ERVE BASEBALL TEAM
Arthur Puke Is Chosen Manager of
8econd Howard Squad.
Fred Martin, a Freshman, was elect¬
ed Captain, and Arthur Duke, a Sopho¬
more, was elected Manager of the re¬
serve players last Monday in the re¬
ception room of Renfroe Hall. The
reserve team has its schedule made
out.
Members of the University of Texas
Glee Club gave a concert fa the chapel
of Baylor University Monday, March
19. This s the sixteenth annual trip
for this Glee Club.
CLUB SINGS AT WE8T END
BAPTIST 8UNDAY 8CHOOL
Members Give Second Local
of the Series.
Concert
His Call May Come at any Time , but
Says He i$ Ready the Minute it Arrives
"Mobilise,” to its general meaning, any other reservists who are to re-
is a simple word. To EUie A. Barber, turn.
a Freshman in Howard College, it has Mr. Barber has his mobilisation pa-
full and positive meaning. He Is ex- pers and is ready for transportation
pecting to get that single word by at the firet call,
telegram at any time, and when he “And I am ready to go," said Mr.
does, here is the way he will trans- Barber. “It looks like trouble with
late it: , , the Germans, and I am •frilling to do
Members of Howard’s Glee Club
sang to one of their largest audiences
when they gave a concert Sunday-
night at the West End Baptist
Church. This concert was the second
local engagement of the series which
the Club is giving around Birmlng-
the club sang: "Stare and. Stripes,"
Sousa;; “Mammy’B Lnllaby,” Jemlson;
“Sweetheart," Thomas; “Good Night,"
“A Song of the Mato." Hann; “Come
Unto Me,” Bridgemani “Now the Day
Is Over,” Barnsby, and “Love’s Old
Sweet Song,” Molloy.
Aelde from these numbers. Robert
Lawrence, Director of the Club, sang
a boIo. The program also consisted
of a twenty minute song service, which
was led by the Glee Club.
NUMBER 29
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Head of Latin and Greek at Howard
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Baseball Squad
Leaves for Trip
Twelve Men Go to Mississippi A. and
M. College for a Three Game
Series With Rivals.
PROSPECTS. CONSIDERED POOR.
Stark vi lie, Mlqs., March 29. — Spe¬
cial. — Howard lost the first game of
the series to Mississippi A. and M.
here Tuesday 6 to 0. Blackwelder re-
ceived an Injury fn this game. The
Baptists could hot be headed Wednes¬
day after McNaron knocked out a trip,
pie with the bases full. Martin pitch¬
ed ahd Lindsay caught In Wednes¬
day's battle. 8core: Howard, 7; A. and
M. 4.
Howard’s 1917 baseball squad of
twelve men with Dr. J. B. Longwell,
Director of Athletics, left Birmingham
Monday morning for Mississippi . A.
and M. College where the team opens
the season Tuesday with the first of
a seWes of three gaipes with ,the Ag¬
gies.
The players making the trip were:
Griffin, Captain, 2b; Clayton, ss; H.
Clayton, c; Lindsay, c; Swann, p;
Martin, p; Jackson, cf; Blackwelder,
If; McNaron, 3b; Duffey, p; Hilliard,
lb; Strickland, rf. -After the last of
Professor Dawson to Represent How¬
ard at Association of Colleges.
Colleges.
Dean Allen J. Moon, Professor John
C. Dawson and probably one other
member of the Howard College faculty
will attend the annual meeting of the
Alabama Educational Association, in
Montgomery April 5 to 7. Professor
Dawson probably will represent the
college at the annual meeting of the
Association of Alabama Colleges, to
be held at the same time.
Howard College is taking a more
active part to the meetings of the
Educational Association since the ad¬
dition of a Department of Education
and the granting to Howard gradu¬
ates certificates to teach in public
schools of Alabama.
Student body election of officers will
take place at l&ylor University, May
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any other reservists who are
turn.
Mr. Barber has bis mobilisation pa¬
pers and Is ready for transportation
at the first call.
“And I am ready to go," said Mr.
Barber. “It looks like trouble with
the Germans, and I am frilling to do
my part."
Mr. Barber resigned from the Navy
last summer to enter college,
a brother in Birmingham, ho c
and entered the Freshman Class. He
was & member of tin
and played at guard on
ball five.
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