Turner says that as president Jones was "authoritative and decisive, personally considerate but guarded and somewhat distant and aloof." Turner, 134. In a 2012 Bryan College newspaper article, Mercer's son reported that his father was actually fired for "choosing off-campus hospital and doctor attention over medical services provided by the BJU infirmary during his wife’s pregnancy." "T. C. Mercer, from Bob Jones to Bryan," Bryan College Triangle, April 19, 2012.
