The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-08

education was finished. In 1896 he en- ! tered the famous Webb school at Bell. i buckle, Tenn. claimed to be most
 unique school in America. the founder
 being known throughout the south as | "Old Sawney." After graduating from 1 the Webb school in 1900 Tigert en-
 tered Vanderbilt university. hay.
 ing won the Greek and Latin entrance
 prize of fifty dollars He was an honor
 graduate and was elected a member
 of the honorary scholarship fraternity
 of Phi Beta Kappa. and made the ad.
 dress on the occasion of his gradua. tion as a representative for the facul- 1 ty He was on the varsity football
 team for three years; was an all south
 ern full-back; captain.elect of the
 football team in 1904, and served three
 years on the varsity basketball team,
 making the captaincy in 1903.
 FIRST RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
 The first Rhodes scholarship from
 Tennessee was won by Tigert in 1904.
 In 1907 he took second class in the Honor School of Jurisprudence at OK | ford. receiving the M. A. degree in 1915. During his Oxford days he rep resented his college, Pembroke. in row { ing. tennis and cricket and was a member of the AllRhodes Scholar baseball team.
 From 1907 to 1909 he held the chair of philosophy and psychology in Cen. tral college, Fayette, Missouri From there he went to the presidency of the Kentucky Wesleyan college at Win chester. Ky. at the youthful age of twenty.seven. He was one of the in corporators of the association of uni versailles and colleges of Kentucky, later serving as president
 In 1911 he was nominated by the bishops of the southern Methodist church and served as delegate to the ecumenical Methodist conference at Toronto. Canada. During the same year he accepted the professorship of philosophy and psychology at the Uni yersity of Kentucky, located at Lexing- ton In 1917 the department was di- vided and he was offered his choice of the chairs of philosophy and psy- chology. He accepted the latter posi- tion which he held until his appoint | ment to his present post by President Harding.
 In June. 1918. Mir Tigert went over seas In connection with educational work of the Y. NJ C. A For two months he was stationed in the north | of Scotland in the vicinity of the naval bases from which the mine barrage l was being laid across the North sea between Scotland and Norway, He or ganized the educational work and taught in naval bases r and IS. Later he was transferred to take charge Of the educational work of the American soldiers attached to three aerO-dromes in the immediate vicinity of Oxford, England, where he remained for two months. when he was transferred to France. with headquarters at Paris, serving as a lecturer in various parts't of the A. F. F. Tn April. 1919, the army corps was formed and IT. z gerr was transferred to the army as q member of this corps, which was under the command of General Rees. During tfe ensuing five months het Tertured with the army of occupation in all Of the divisions with the excep' rton of the forty second. One month was spent in the school center Of the first division at Arxbach. Germany.
 Tigert is the fortunate possessor Of fl wife. q boy of efeht and a daughters