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Rev. Thomas S. Clyce, D. D  Rev. Thomas S. Clyce, D. D., president of Austin College, is a young man, a Tennessean by birth, and a graduate of King College, East Tennessee. Deciding to enter the ministry, he took his theological course at Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia, S.C., and post graduate work in the Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. After
engaging in the work of the ministry for a
period, he was called in
1896, to take charge of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College then
being established at Jackson, Alabama. Being
a man of wide scholarship,
fine executive ability, and indomitable
energy, combined with a
remarkable power of coming into personal
contact with people, Dr. Clyce
soon showed himself as much at home at the
head of an institution of
learning as in a pastorate. After four years
of faithful service at
Jackson, he was urged to come to Texas and
preside over the destinies
of Austin College. Although so recently
installed in his new office, he
has taken hold of matters to such a way to
give evidence that he
understands the situation and is alive to
the exigencies of his work.
In full harmony with his faculty as a
scholarly, tactful, consecrated
leader, already ingratiated into the
affection of the community in
which he labors; already commanding the
esteem and confidence of his
board of trustees, and possessed of the good
will of the church at
large; it is easy to predict that with his
administration begins a new
era for Austin College. The policy that he
has outlined, together with
the means purposed to carry it into
operation is evidence to those
concerned that the old institution is in the
commendation and patronage
of the public.
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