Mercer University Presidents

• While president of Mercer, almost nominated as governor of Georgia because of his fight against liquor.  He had not yet lived in Georgia for the required six years.
• Began a department of pedagogy for training teachers
• Initiated an informal "preachers' school"
• Offered class "electives" for the first time in the catalog of 1895
• Openly supported the policy of co-education at the University, noting that seventy-five percent of teachers in the state were women
• Quick bio: (1841-1921); D.D., LL.D.; editor, clergyman; spouse: Mary T. Corbell (1864)

Gambrell's "Words with Friends," requesting donations for Mercer (c1893-1896):

"As to the endowment, realizing the magnitude of the undertaking, nevertheless, it seems clear to me, that, by anything like the right effort, with co-operation, we can raise it. The Methodists have raised a like amount and we can do anything in Georgia the Methodists can do."