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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Left: The Chancellor and Chan- cellor-Emeritus with the Board of Trust. Below: Dr. Kirkland. Dr. Car- michael, and President Bow- man, Johns Hopkins University at the inaugural ceremony. Chancellor Carmichael de- livers his inaugural address to an auditorium filled with stu- dents, alumni, and leaders in the educational world, gath- ered to honor him on this oc- casion.