Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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AND VANDERBILT INAUGURATES CHANCELLOR CARMICHAEL. versity, it is for all these that we honor James Hampton Kirkland, forty-four years Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. And now as the pages of time are turned it is time for another inaugural ceremony at Vander- bilt. In 1937 the Board of Trust was faced with the problem of naming a man worthy of succeed- ing Dr. Kirkland as Chancellor of the University. Another man who was keen and discerning in in- tellect, and a man who was courageous and de- voted to a given task was found in the person of Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, who came to Vander- bilt in 1935 from the Presidency of Alabama Col- lege to serve as the Dean of the Graduate School and Senior College of Vanderbilt and who was named Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1936. Early in 1937 the Board of Trust concluded that Dr. Carmichael was the man to carry on the work that had been so successfully started by Dr. Kirk- land, and on July 1 he took over the duties of the Chancellor. On February 5, 1938. Dr. Car- michael was formally inaugurated Chancellor of Vanderbilt I Inivcrsity amidst a splendor of pagean- try. Vanderbilt was the scene of a great academic pageant during the inaugural period. I he dis- play of educational figures, the array of colorful academic dress and impressive ceremonies that ac- companied the installation of Dr. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael as Third Chancellor of the I University are all symbolic of one of the greatest single periods of activity in Vanderbilt history. To the educational world as a whole the in- auguration was significant because Vanderbilt has Learned men who have gaihcrc disappear info fho Audiforium ft honor fhe fhird Chancellor o Vandorbilt.

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Ck« c«H«r J« — i H« — p‘o K fU« d p«r o » dxtf f p' t J j t fK« n» »o»| «I ► i i« C«MO» Ot' » C. FORTY-FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE AND CHANCELLOR KIRKLAND RETIRES from thr day inderbdt opened her door on October i, IH'X ihr has hern ungulirlv rtuiimtd In Having Her destinies duped by great men. To two great men, anderbtit I niversitv own Her foundation and mucH of wHat tHe u today. These two men, lundon Cabell Garland, I-test Chancellor of tHe University, and Buhop Holland N Me I veire, First President of tHe Ikurd of I’rust. put into tHe rock and mortar of tHe school a Heart and soul, brimming with love and sympathetic understanding. and a [uuionate longing after the search toe I ruth. Suie by aide, toiling and re- joicing together tor s uftrrn year», these two tin- cere, devoted CHriatun gentlemen originated, pro- moted and developed one of the greateat institu- non a in the country. Dr. Garland aerved aa (.Han crllor of the University until 189) when there was an inaugural ceremony, inaugurating the arc- ond (Chancellor of anderbilt. an uncertain young man about whom the truster and faculty were equally uncertain.' James Hampton Kirkland, thia uncertain young man. faced a two-fold problem when He w-aa named Chancellor of a I Inivemty that waa situated in an improvised region of the New South ; He Had to provide materia! equipment tor a great 1 mversity; and He Had to grapple with the arda THe firm and courageous manner in which Dr Kirkland met and solved these problems is the glory of Vandrrb-.lt today and the South. Dr. Kirkland's auprrb and courageous sera ice of Halt a century Has influenced not only the shaping of education in the South. I le Has brought ander- dcnumtnational school into a position ot recog meed leadership where intellectual and academic standards have been steadily pushed forward and where not a few of the finest things in education are now being carried forward. anderbilt has been fortunate indeed in having a man so keen and discerning in intellect and of such courage and devotion to determine its destinies for so long a time. It is for that courage and devotion to a cause, for what he has meant to anderbilt and the South, for what he has meant to the advance- ment of education, and for what his personality has meant to the faculty and students of the I m-

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:mp pr ALUMNI MEMORIAL BUILDING THE HOME OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES