Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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OUR CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT. ♦|K| O institution in the Southern States has made a greater impression or produced more noted men than Cumberland University. They are in the prominent pulpits, presidents and professors in colleges, able lawyers, great judges of Federal and State courts, members of Congress — in the House and Senate— and governors of States. And all this has been done within fifty-five years. To show the world what the Cumberland University is and what it has done, the faculty have secured a space in the Centennial grounds at Nashville in the Education Building. The space allotted is small, the demand from all quarters being so great that the Committee could give us no more. In this space a structure has been erected — nine by sixteen feet. The posts and railing are of cedar — Lebanon ' s specialty as to wood. The floor is carpeted neatly, and the walls and roof draped and festooned with our college colors: the Blue, White and Green. On the walls are great frames containing the photo- graphs of something less than one hundred noted men who have been educated in the University, and also groups of the students in the different departments who were in attendance in May, 1897. The College boys, the Law boys, the Theologians, the Soldiers with their guns, and the sweet girls of the Annex, are all there grouped around the Faculty. Then there are five pictures of the University buildings. One can see the old brick church in which Cumberland University was organized in 1842, as well as the mao-nificent Memorial Hall just erected, also the Preparatory Building, Divinity Hall, Corona Hall, and Caruthers Hall, and the Annex Building. Our exhibit has large paintings of the founders of the different departments — Robert L. Caruthers, Abraham Caruthers, Dr. Richard Beard, President T. C. Anderson, Dr. F. R. Cossett, Dr. S. G. Burney and the elder Judge Nathan Green. Our exhibit will be kept by a bright and pretty Tennessee girl, who will explain it to many thousands.