{"id":2837,"date":"2020-11-01T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:45:26","slug":"hall-moody-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/hall-moody-1926\/","title":{"rendered":"HALL-MOODY-1926"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Hall-Moody Institute – Students & Faculty 1926.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Memories from the past….<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Predictably rigid decorum was maintained at Hall-Moody. \u201cDesent\u201d dress was required and, as one 1907 almna recalls, \u201cteachers did not allow any sweethearting in school.\u201d Catalogs in the mid-twenties specified that \u201cyoung men and young women are not allowed to waste time by constant association.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Hall-Moody era there wer no paved roads into Martin, and until the twenties, Martin streets were gravel or cinder<\/strong>. In the last years of Hall-Moody Junior College, some of the main streets in Martin were paved.  Few if any students owned automobiles,<\/strong> and the few teachers, like Dr. Barrett, who had them, generally had what one alumnus calls \u201crattletraps.\u201d  Even after Mechanic Street was extended up past Lovelace Hall, there was a big mudhole – between the present Home Economics building and the Woman\u2019s gym – from which domoitory boys would routinely have to extricate motorist.  As late as the twenties, students often drove teams [of horses or mules] to school,<\/strong> parking them in the field across from the Administration building.  Those who didn\u2019t take buggies or wagons often used the train <\/strong>to get in and out of Martin.  The Martin depot, where coaches let off returning students, was a weekend gathering spot.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a Sunday or Monday afternoon, one could walk down Mechanic Street, past homes still standing, passing the Baptist Church on the left and then the Martin Public School on the right, turn up Lindell as far as the Post Office (now the Library), see who was arring, then perhaps drop down by the Railroad Park, a $15,000 investment and the pride of Martin in the twenties,<\/strong> with its \u201csplendid rest room for ladies and children.\u201d   One 1907 alumna recalls getting home, but not often, by riding the caboose on a freight train to Sharon, TN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Academic Program<\/strong><\/em>

At first, given the limited course offerings, everybody at Hall-Moody Institute took more or less the same things, but the variously differentiated degrees — A.B., B.S., B,L., and L.I. — were awarded after 1904.\u00a0 Most early students earned the A.B. or B.S.\u00a0 Business graduates began to be recorded after 1903, as did recipients of diplomas in special areas such as Expression.\u00a0 Expression and Oratory — like the language, classics, and Bible courses — were staples from the first.\u00a0 As one catalog remarked, “The voice can be changed to better, deeper tones and it should be a pleasure to cultivate it.”

The academic program was boosted by Mr. Parker’s $1,000 gift in 1912 for library books.\u00a0 By 1913 there were 4,000 “well-selected” volumes.\u00a0 The 1915 catalog warned that the library was “not a place for social enjoyment or idle pastime, nor our laboratories for useless experiments.”

Promotional literature throughout Hall-Moody’s history, in fact, emphasizes the seriousness of academic pursuits — and the fruitful results that serious application brings.\u00a0 The study of theology was thus offered to the minister to “help him to help himself and thereby help others.”\u00a0 Studying music promised to lead the student “to be able to appreciate fully a part of heaven which God has put on earth.”\u00a0 Band work was said to lead to “remarkable development of the chest and muscles of the neck and face” — and to be better for “weak chests” than athletics.\u00a0 Art had practical significance in “architecture, manufactury, … home decoration.”\u00a0 Particularly until World War One, Hall-Moody programs mirrored Baptist orthodoxy, the work ethic, and the lingering Emersonian belief in the capacity of ordinary people for self-improvement and transcendence.

In 1915-16 the Preparatory Program was sorted out from other courses of study, and received state accreditaion by requiring the 15 Carnegie units (10 prescribed, 5 elective) also mandatory in public high schools.\u00a0 Four years of Latin was a standard feature.\u00a0\u00a0The junior college curriculum after 1917-18,<\/strong>also standardized to lead to the associate degree, offered variety but emphasized basic courses.\u00a0\u00a0Tuition was $25 a term in 1920.<\/strong>

The Hall Moody Faculty<\/strong><\/em>

“THE TEACHERS were in control,” says one 1911 Hall-Moody graduate.\u00a0 Another alumnus, still disgruntled, recalls their “big ‘I’ little ‘you’ ” attitude (and says most came to Hall-Moody because “other schools wouldn’t have them”).\u00a0 But many others remember teachers fondly:\u00a0 Mrs. Burke, for her patience; Miss Hall for her “marvelous stories”; Dean Witherington for his singing in chapel; Miss Skinner for her “inspiring classes”; Miss McColloch for her “unique personality”; Mrs. Davies, who required and “exact” Latin pronunciation, for her “brilliance,” for her ability to inspire “a love for good literature”; Professor Robinson for his “wisdom and gentle nature”; and\u00a0Mr. Barrett, the former New York Giant pitcher<\/strong>, for his “strange commingling of humor, philosophy, pathos, and good morals.”\u00a0 One graduate remembers the spring night in 1910 when Mr. Robinson took his astronomy class up into the bell tower to watch Halley’s Comet.\u00a0 Another says,\u00a0“I can still hear Dr. W. J. Davies call the roll in his long drawn out manner.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hall-Moody Institute – Students & Faculty 1926. . Memories from the past…. Predictably rigid decorum was maintained at Hall-Moody. \u201cDesent\u201d dress was required and, as one 1907 almna recalls, \u201cteachers did not allow any sweethearting in school.\u201d Catalogs in the mid-twenties specified that \u201cyoung men and young women are not allowed to waste time by Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 1, 2020","modified":"Updated on November 1, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 1, 2020 8:30 am","modified":"Updated on November 1, 2020 8:45 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}