The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
MANY HOWARD MEN AT B|G UNIVERSITIES
Representation at Larger Col Ieges Shown in Special
 Article

Howard colleges representation In the student body of the graduate de- partments of the largo American uni- versailles and the policy of the col- lege administration to encourage its graduates to do higher educational work, either at the Baptist seminaries or at the more famous graduate schools. is the idea brought out in an article prepared yesterday for the Howard Crimson. weekly student pa per. by Dr. J. c. Dawson. president of the college, and Prof. Percy Pratt Burns, dean of upper classmen. The article gives number of former students now working for the higher degrees and also a number of prom inent alumni of the state Baptist in- stitution, as follows;
 "The following Howard men are candidates for the degree of doctor of theology at the Southern Baptist seminary at Louisville: J. O. Will Hams, of Athens; A. H. Reid. of Es- till Fork; F. B. Pearson. Motion, aud T. B. Gibson, Lineville. Howard men who will receive the masters degree there in 1922 are: w ". Adams, Col lis Cunningham and A. D. zbinden, all of Birmingham; L. ". Dockery, Tuscaloosa; H. H. McGinty, River View, and Earl Parker, Lineville. Other Howard men studying for this degree are: J. b. Berkstresser Ross Dillon, J. D. Pickens, c. R. Plttard, s. A. Taylor. H. G. Williams, J. L.. Move, V. M. Gardner, I. N. Patterson and P, P. Swan. W. W. Adams Is president of the student body.
 Graduate Work
 Among the Howard men listed as doing graduate work for the Ph. D.. degree are: J. J. Milford, Chicago university; J. D. Jackson. Columbia university; A. c. Cornell. also at Co., lumbia; J. R. Hendrix. Chicago uni versity; J. B. Trant and Roger ". Allan, now at Howard, will begin work for this degree next year. Re- cent graduates now studying for the masters degree include; Seymon Newfield. Clay Shaw, Bennie Spinks, Dyer Farley and I. l.. Connell
 Howard has many graduates who have done advanced study and are now prominent physicians, of whom the following live in Birmingham: Dr. E. P. Hogan, superintendent of the Hillman hospital, and Doctors@J. D. Heacock, J. A. Ward, T. ID. Hand. George Hogan, W. T. Berry, J. F. Hogan, E. w. Rucker and H. P. Shugerman W. P. McAdory, head of the A1CAuOTy SdiCJ NAS- Cord, head of the Conservance lab oratories at Cincinnati; s. W. Welch, state health officer. and R. A. Lam bert, recently professor of medicine in Columbia university, are all grad uates of Howard college.
 "In stating that Howard trains men for leadership. Professor Burns names the following men who are alumni of the college: John T. Moore. famous poet of Nashville; William G. Brown, historian; J. B. Hawthorne, declared the south's most famed pull pit orator; J. L. N. Currey. educator; Noel K. Davis, pioneer psychologist at the University of Virginia; Lee Cross, vice president of the City Ma tional bank of New York city, and D. c. Lyon, head of the Semitic lan- guage department at Howard uni versity.
 According to Professor Burns, Towards representatives in the field of law include: Charles Henderson. former governor of Alabama; Leon Bradley. president of the exchange club and head of the Auburn alumni drive; J. Howard Perdue. T. E. Huey. W. J. waldrop, Ray Ruston of Mont gomery. F. G. Caffey, district attor- ney in New York city, and J. R. Lyon, Alabama supreme court judge In the field of education the insti- tuition is represented by: J. c. Daw- son, F. F. Burns and J. A. Hendrix, ali of Howard; H. J. Willingham. pres ident of the Florence Normal school; pr. M. B. Garrett, historian; E. P. Puckett, associate president of Ward Belmont college, and a long list, ln- cluding college professors. school superintendents and principals"