Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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t V . , I Andrew H. Bucha James S. Watcrhous

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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.

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A. H. Buchanan, LLD., Mathematics. Dean of the College Andrew H. Buchanan was born at Boousboro, June 28, 1S2S. In addition, to hi bachelor ' s degree, Dr. Buchanan took a C.E. at Cumberland University in 1853 under Gen. A. P. Stewart, who was head of the Department of Civil Engineer- ing- at that time. When the war broke out he joined the Southern army as an engineer. Here he won his spurs and obtained wide note among his corps. In fact his surveys and reports were relied upon implicitly, never being ques- tioned. For twenty years he held a position on the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. To him also is due the magnificent geodetic survey of the State of Tennessee. He formed one of the parties which observed the solar eclipse of 1900 from Thomaston, Ga. His particular problem was first to get the length and direction of the streamers of the corona; second, to observe the shadow bands, their direction and velocity ' ; third, to make observations of the darkness, all of which was done accurately and satisfactorily. For the laLt two years he has served as Tennessee ' s representa- tive on the board to settle the dispute over the Tennessee-Virginia line. He was elected to the Chair of Mathematics in Cumberland University in 1870, and Dean of the College in 190O. Jas. S. Waterhousc, A.M., Natural Sciences Jamks S. Waterhouse is a native of Murray county, Georgia. He graduated from Cumberland University in 1S97, taking the A.B. degree. In 1897-98 he was professor of languages and science in Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Ky. In 1899 he returned to Lebanon, accepting a place as Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Cumberland Universit} ' . During this year also he received his Master ' s degree. On the resignation of Dr. Hinds he was elected to the professorship of Natural Sciences. In addition to the work Prof. Waterhouse has taken in Cumberland, he has spent several summers in the University of Chicago. In 1901 he was elected a member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His abilities as a teacher are shown by the fact that his classes are per- haps the largest in the college and his courses are among the most popular. Under him the laboratories have been greatly improved and much new equipment has been added, so that his department stands the best equipped of an) ' in the college.