Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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to remain on her Faculty, is surely closing, and the friends of the institution cannot bring that day to an end too soon. The mission of the old University among the cedars is not yet accom- plished, it is but well begun ; and if her future be as full of honor as her past, it will always be a thing to say with pride, I am a son of Cumberland University. ' ' Y

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SEC. io. If any student shall ring the College bell, except by order of the President, a Professor or a Tutor, he shall be punished at the discretion of the Faculty. SEC. 26. No student shall, without permission, go to a greater distance than two miles from the College, at any time during the continuance of the session. SEC. 27. No student shall keep, for his use or pleasure, any horse, car- riage, dog or servant ; except when his parents or guardians shall, with the approbation of the Faculty, allow him a horse for the purpose of healthful exercise. Chapter XIV. — Of Religious Exercises and the Sabbath. — Sec- tion 8 : Every student boarding within the town corporation, or within three- quarters of a mile of the College building, shall attend morning prayers in the College chapel at sunrising. ' ' Yet, on page 13 of the yellow old pamphlet one may read, Whereas, the laws of the College are few and general. ' ' The students found time, when not engaged in perusing the rules, to start several literary societies. The Amasagassean, founded at Princeton in 1837, was revived, and the Heurethelian, begun in 1844, cannot have long preceded the Philomathian (so they spelt it in those days), for both are mentioned in the report of the 1847 commencement. The rivalry among these societies was sharp, and the interest of their members was correspondingly great. No doubt they played in the life of the University even a larger part than now. In 1854 the first fraternity chapter appeared on the scene, and was soon followed by others. Of all of these, now living or defunct, a list may be found elsewhere in this volume. The Civil War, when it came, swept away all the endowment of the Univer- sity, and all its material possessions except the campus. But it could not rob it of its hold upon the hearts of its friends. Not six months after the end of the war the University was again in operation ; the Law Class numbered twenty, and every man of them had been a soldier on one side or the other. The friends of old Cumberland came nobly to her aid ; the professors, or all of them who were left, returned from the battlefield to the class room ; and the story since then may be told in few words — hard work, slow, sure growth. The University, now as ever, occupies a position where it need not fear comparison, nor ask allowance if comparison be made ; but it has needs, urgent, pressing. Memorial Hall, which is to be the home of College and Theological School, must be finished and furnished, and the endowment of both College and Seminary must be raised to the point where it will properly support a sufficient number of worthy men, qualified to do the work that a college to-day demands of its faculty. The day of small things is past ; the day when men, for the love they bear for Cumberland, must sacrifice position and honor and competency 16

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Graduate Students Shigehlde Arakawa . Philosophy . . . Tokio, Japan A.M., University of Michigan ; LL.B., Cumberland University Worcester Allen Bryan . A.M. . . Watertown, Tenn. A.B., Cumberland University William A. Caldwell . Philology . . Lebanon, Tenn. A.B., Cumberland Universit) ' A. D. Derrick . . . Law . . Greenville, S. C. LL.B., Cumberland University J. B. Eskridge . . • Philosophy . Shelbyville, Tenn. A.M., Peabody Normal College ClEBURN L. Hayes . . Chemistry A.M., Peabody Normal College A. B. Humphreys . . . Law LL.B., Cumberland University John L. Kell Philosophy A.B., Trinity University George Washington Neal . Philology A.B., Cumberland L niversity H. A. Schoenwetter . Law LL.B., Cumberland University R. Newell Turner . Ph.D., Mathematics B.S., Cumberland University Wilbur Carl Wyatt . Philosophy A.M., National Normal University Lebanon, Tenn. Lebanon, Tenn. Tehuacana, Texas Bowie, Texas Holden, Mo. Helena, Ark. Newbern, Tenn. i 8