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Professor begins distinguished career at Southwestern University
On this day in 1879, Claude Carr Cody became professor of mathematics at
Southwestern University in Georgetown. This Georgia native, born in
1854, taught and served Southwestern for thirty-seven years. He was also
Southwestern's first dean and at various times manager of the
dormitories, secretary and chairman of the faculty, secretary of the
executive committee, treasurer of the university, and librarian. Known
in his later years as the "Grand Old Man of Southwestern," he was "a
leading candidate for the honor of being the most beloved teacher in the
history of the institution" and was twice its acting president. In
1910-11 Cody led the successful fight against a proposal to move the
university to Dallas; Southern Methodist University was founded in
Dallas instead. Cody died in 1923. In 1939 the Cody Memorial Library was
completed and dedicated to his memory.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CODY, CLAUDE CARR
- SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
- METHODIST EDUCATION
- CODY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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