ADJUNCTS OF A GREAT UNIVERSITY


because he would be the most handsome man to alight from


the train. Accordingly, I selected the handsomest m
introduced myself to Dr. Murphree.
 "That was the beginning of a friendship which I
cherished. Dr. Murphree took me to his office and
just want to say to you that the most important work
campus is what you are going to try to do. And it


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one of the most difficult. But I am heart and soul for you'."
 Mr. Johnson began a policy of expansion in the "Y" work
during his first year on the campus. In the spring of 1925,
nineteen Florida students were sent to the Y. M. C. A. sum-
mer instruction camp at Blue Ridge, Virginia.
 In the fall of 1925, Mr. R. C. Beaty, a man well fitted by


trammg
Johnson
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and experience for "Y" work, came to assist I
in the "Y" activities. Splendid support was gi'
work by the Association of City Y. M. C. A. Sec
Florida. Miss Elizabeth Skinner, a woman of spl
onality and boundless enthusiasm, was added to
November, 1925. Miss Skinner served as dean
during the summer terms of 1926 and 1927.
lurmhree niaced the work of the Y. M. C. A. ui


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University support beginning with the biennium of 1927, se-
curing an appropriation for that purpose.
 "Dr. Murphree had the religious training of students very
much at heart," said Mr. Johnson. "'Many times I have gone
into his office to find it full of faculty members and students
waiting to see him. I would start to go out, but he would call
me back and find time to talk over the problems at hand.
 "My last conversation with him was in regard to a course
of lectures on religion which he planned to be given annually."