Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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the war, and it was pasted in the old book. It told of the struggle to renew endowment and to start again the school. The following faculty was given : Dr. McDonald, President ; Dr. Beard, Latin and Greek ; Dr. Buchanan, Mathematics ; Julius Blair, Modern Languages, and N. J. Finney, Teacher. It showed a hundred and twenty- five students, in a rented building. But as I turned, again I saw another two-story building, and under it I read, Corona Hall, Home of Lit- erary Department of Cumberland University, 1877. But I did not stop to read any on this, but hurried on through. Another building caught my eye as I turned. This time it was a very large and handsome brick building, four stories high, with a massive tower in front. It was situated on a prominence overlooking the town. Under the picture I read, Memorial Hall, the Home of the Literary and Theological Departments of Cumberland University, 1896. And here I stopped and looked and wondered at the rapid strides of this school. I closed my eyes and saw pass before me professors who were bent with age and leaning on canes. I saw them as they slowly wended their way towards this grand building. I saw the halls crowded with men on the first floor. I saw a handsome modern library ; I saw departmental apparatus and laboratories. I heard the ringing of electric bells and saw the flashing sunlight playing in the spray of the fountain in front of the building. I heard the clang of a bell as an automobile went whizzing by. I heard hundreds of voices shouting the college yells, and in my reverie I saw the faces of the old professors light up with a happy smile as the crowding mass of students gave way, with hats in hand, to bow and greet with a cheer these brave old men of the Literary Department. I awoke from my reverie with a start, the old book had fallen to the floor, and I arose and went out into the open air, elated and happy, for I knew in my heart that these things are rapidly coming to pass.

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sip ■ ' %W@i0. ' . f --- . r Officers. President D. E. MITCHELL Vice President ALEX. McGLOTHLIN Secretary J. C. FEILD, Jr. Treasurer GEO. L. JOHNSON Orator L. E. WEAR Historian L. J. LEWIS Yell. Egg igg ogglum gigg glogglum, Egg igg ogglura gigg glogglum, Ogg iggle, Ogglum gegg igg, glogglum gigg egg, Gogg giggle! Colors: White and Purple. Flower: Dandelion. Motto : Droit et avant.