Excerpt from Bobashela, 1916, Vol. 11 Therefore it is fitting that this Annual of 1916 should be dedicated to the president of Millsaps College, Doctor Alexander Farrar Watkins. The first college generation that has come under his Shaping hand now goes out, their academic work ended. He has wrought long enough as the head of Millsaps College for an estimate to be placed upon his work. It is the Opinion of those that are in a position to judge that he has decidedly made good. Two of the four chief buildings of the college have been rebuilt during his four-year term. The material facilities of the college are far superior to those he found when he began his present work, and his plans, as publicly announced, include the two buildings, a dormitory and a gymnasium, which the college urgently needs. Over half of the present faculty has been chosen on his recommendation. The salaries of the professors have been increased, the curriculum has been revised, and the attendance in the college proper has passed the previous high water mark. The college is coming, under his guidance, to the celebration of its quarter centennial with assured p'osition and great prospects. In his ad ministration it has become a member of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the South, a recognition accorded to only one other institution in Mississippi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.