Former Southern professor Dale Moody recalled a tense moment from his days as a student in Hersey Davis's second year Greek class:
"I got Dr. Davis to let me take second year Greek first year I was here because I could sight read the Greek New Testament at that time and I didn't want to go through baby Greek again. It was quite an interesting thing which accounted for the relationship between me and some--me and particularly Dr. McDowell. Dr. Davis, you had to know his personality. He was a big, booming fellow. He didn't want me to take junior Greek.
One of the first days--it was the first week of school, and he stood me up and had me sight--More or less if you've had baby Greek you ought to be able to sight read the Greek New Testament on some level. So he stood me up--I'll never forget the third chapter of Philippians. You know it's a passage that has a lot of words that Paul doesn't use a lot because he's talking, you know he starts off, "Beware the dogs." And all that. So he stood me up and I read the entire third chapter of Philippians in Greek for him, translated it. But I didn't dare tell him that I had committed that chapter to memory before I had come to seminary."
--From "An Oral History Interview of Dale Moody"
