CHAPTER FOUR
 ATTAINMENT IN ORGANIZING AND LEADING

 "The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in
 one direction. He becomes acquainted with the retancea and with
 his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the fav-
 orable moments and favorable accidents. He is his own apprentice,
 and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling
 body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall."
 -EMERSON.

 N 1901, Prof. L. W. Buchholz came up from Tampa
 where he had been a proficient County Superin-
 tendent of Schools to join the faculty of the West
 Florida Seminary, and with him Dr. Murphree
struck up an abiding friendship. It was a friendship marked
by many intimate associations between these two educators.
 It was in the spring of that year that Dr. Murphree estab-
lished a "spring review term," a course especially for teachers
who desired additional courses or higher credits.
 'The genius of Dr. Murphree as an organizer and an edu-
cational leader was demonstrated in the expansion of the West
Florida Seminary about that time," Prof. Buchholz recalls.
"He felt that the Seminary could never expand as it should
unless additional dormitories and other buildings were pro-
vided. Accordingly, with characteristic energy and foresight,
he made plans for two dormitories, and applied to the legisla-
ture for money with which to build them. I recall that even
Col. John A. Henderson, father-in-law of President Murphree,
and President of the Board of Trustees of the Seminary, gave
the energetic young president no assurance that the money
would be forthcoming.
 "But so effectively did Dr. Murphree place his needs be-
fore the proper legislative committee and before the individ-
ual members of the legislature that the appropriation was
granted. The first dormitory was completed the following
fall, in 1901. In February of the following year the other
one was finished.

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