Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Miss Clara Earle, A.B., Modern Languages Miss Clara Earle was born in Washing-ton county, Arkansas. Her father, the Rev. F. R. Earle, was for many years President of the Cane Hill College. After graduating- from this college she went to the University of Arkansas. On the completion of her course here she was elected an instructor in the department of Modern Eanguages. During the time of her professorship here she spent her summers in the University of Chicago. This position she held for four years and then resigned in order to do some work abroad. The most of her work was done at the Sorbonne and College de France. In addition to this she spent some time in traveling in Italy and Spain. On her return she taught one year in Arkansas Cumberland College, and was then elected Professor of Modern Languages in, Cumberland Univer- sity. Although Miss Earle has held this position only a short time yet she has become universally admired and is one of the most popular teachers in the University. Miss Nellie James Childress, Assistant Librarian Miss Nellie Childress claims Kentucky as her home. After taking her regular high school work she entered Auburn Seminary, completing the classical course in June of 1900 with honors. She entered Cumberland University in September, 1901, and was immediately elected Assistant Librarian in the Mitchell Library. Throughout her entire course her work has been of the superior kind, and there are not a few among her friends who believe that she will be graduated in June, 1903, with highest honors.

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C. H. Bell, A.M., D.D., Missions and Apologetics CtAiBORXE H. Bell is a native of Mississippi. His education was received principally at Cumberland University, from which he graduated in 1853, receiving- the A.B. degree. Later he took his Master ' s and Doctor ' s degrees from the same institution. Immediately after the war he became president of the Union Female Seminary, at Oxford, Miss. He remained in this position until 1873, leaving the school in a flourishing condition. Dr. Bell ' s father was a missionary to the Indians, so that the doctor grew up in an atmosphere which stamped itself indelibly upon his character. This environment gave tone and color to his entire after life. For many years he was president of the Board of Missions of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Since 1884 he has been filling the Chair of Missions and Apologetics in Cumberland University. Through all. these years Dr. Bell has been sowing silently, but surely, those seed which were destined to give birth to the renewed interest in missions of to-day. To him is due that fine spirit which alone made the recent college missionary movement a success. To Dr. and Mrs. Bell the Semi- nary is indebted for the splendid museum of missions with its valuable collections. R. V. Foster, D.D., Systematic Theology Robert v. Foster is a Tennessean and a characteristic product of Lebanon. He received from Cumberland University the degrees of A.B. and D.D., and also took the reg-ular course in Union Theological Seminary, New York. His early life was spent as a teacher of mathematics in Cooper Institute. Under him studied some of the most prominent men of our church to-day. He afterwards taught in Waynesburg- College, Pennsylvania, and was for twenty years editor of the Sunday school literature of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. During the last twenty-six years he has been a teacher in the Theological Department of Cumberland University, and now holds the Chair of Systematic Theology. As a profound writer and scholar he has no equal in our church. His Systematic Theology has been pronounced by those who are competent to judge, a remarkable book. Aside from its theological and philosophical merits, the book has high literary worth. Among his shorter publications his exposition of the Lord ' s Prayer is per- haps best known. No one could sit under the teaching ' s of this man without feeling- that he was in the presence of one of earth ' s great.