Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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CHANCELLOR JAMES HAMPTON KIRKLAND OF TODAY As Chancellor, Dr. Kirkland laced a two-fold problem; he had to provide the material equipment for a great university situated in a region too impoverished to offer anything but modest assistance from its own resources; and he had to grapple with the elusive problem ol creating high academic standards at a time when the social confusions and enthusiasms of the 'New South too often encouraged makeshift. How firmly and courageously Chancellor Kirkland met and solved these two problems is the glory of Vanderbilt today—and of the South. Others had founded. Chancellor Kirkland raised the structure upon the foundation, enlisting, in the long years of vision and struggle, the aid of an able and loyal faculty, of generations of students drawn from the rising South, of philanthropic alumni and friends. 1 he Vanderbilt of today, the composite work of churchmen, of two great chancellors, oi faculty, alumni, and friends, is a noble building. It remains for us to use it nobly and to remember it well, as one thing that abides whi e generations come and go. TPTWJUWW

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✓ It is difficult to present clearly in these few pages the forward strides taken by the Uni- versity during 1935-1936. To name those honored by other seats of learning, to describe the advances in the building program, to list the notables who have visited the campus must still leave an incomplete picture of the great work being done. The stall of the 1936 Commodore knows that the list of achievements that follows will sketch only faintly the lines of the magnificent portrait that is our Alma Mater. I he Academic year opened with the largest enrollment in University history. New- comers to Vanderbilt this year included Ray Morrison, new football coach; I)r. Oliver C. Carmichael, as Dean of the newly-organized Graduate School and Senior College of Arts and Sciences; Professor William A. 1 lunter, who succeeded the late Dr. H. B. Schcr- merhorn :n the Law School, and Dr. Thomas Marc Parrott, who filled the position left vacant by the leave of absence granted to Dr. Edwin Mims, who was visiting Carnegie professor during the year at universities in the British Isles. A new step in education was inaugurate ! with the division of the College of Arts and Science into a Junior College and a Senior College. In the Junior College are grouped the fundamental and survey courses and in the Senior College are grouped the advanced and specialized courses.