Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Edward E. Weil Robert W. Kceton

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Nathan Green, LLD. Dean of Law School Judge Nathan Green was born at Winchester, Tenn., February 9, 1827. He entered Cumberland University in 1843 and was g-raduated in 1847. In the same year he entered the law department and was graduated from there two years later. For quite a while he practiced law with eininent success, uniil 1856, when he was called to fill a chair in the law depart- ment of his alma mater. The degree of I L.D. was conferred upon him by Center College, Kentucky. He was elected to the Chancellorship of the University in 1873, and held that position until his resignation in 1899. Few people know how much Cumberland University and the church at large are indebted to this man. Just at the close of the war, when the whole South had been reduced to a desert waste, it became a problem to find a man who cou d direct successfully the fortunes of a great school like Cumberland. Judge Green was the man selected. He took an unendowed school which had lost its buildings during the war and made of it one of the greatest factors in the building up of the New South. During his half century of teaching many hundreds of lawyers have been instructed by him, the majority of whom have become eminently successful, some being senators, some supreme judges, and many being in the congressional halls. W. C. Caldwell, LL.B., Constitutional Law Walter C. Caldwell is a son of Tennessee. Cumberland University conferred upon him the degrees of A.B. in 1873 and LL.B. in 1874. Immediately after graduation he formed a partnership with Maj. Robert Caldwell, of Trenton, Tenn. Mr. Caldwell became one of the leading lawyers at the bar of West Tennessee, enjoying a lucrative practice. From almost the beginning of his career he was engaged hy large corporations, and is now the attorney for the largest land corpora- tion in the South. Since beginning his practice his success in chancery work has been remarkable. Early in the eighties he was appointed to a Tennessee judgeship, and was elected in 1886 to the Supreme bench of Tennessee. Judge Caldwell is a son-in-law of Chancellor Nathan Green, having profited much by his intimate connection with that man who has moulded so many famous lawyers. He was called to the Professorship of Constitutional Law in Cumberland University in the fall of 1902. His eminent qualifications as a jurist, together with his wide-spread reputation gained from his long services on the bench, make him a valuable accession to the Law School.

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E. E. Weir, A.M.. Ph.D.. Philosophy Edward E. Weir was born in Kentucky in 1854. He graduated from Cumberland University-, taking- the degrees of A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. After graduation he taught history and mathematics at Branham High School, Hopkinsville, Ky., and later was principal of Huntington High School. In 1880 he was called to the chair of Philosophy in Cumberland University, which position he now holds. He is also secretary of the college faculty. Dr. Weir is the founder of the College for Young Ladies, situated in Lebanon, which has done so much to bless the young womanhood of the South. Although he has not been principal of the school during all the twenty years of its life, yet it owes its standing as a school to him. His courses in philosophy have always been very popular, especially among those students preparing themselves for theological work. During the past few years Dr. Weir has made original research in the study known as the New Psycholog} ' , and is fitting up a new library and laboratory for that department. R. W. Keeton, A.B., Assistant in Biology Robert W. Keeton hails from the State of Mississippi. After four year ' s hard work in Webb ' s School Mr. Keeton entered Cumberland University, where he has prosecuted his studies for three years. His vacations are spent m the University of Chicago, where he is making special study in the subjects of botany and zoology. Mr. Keeton has been teaching natural sciences in the Lebanon College for Young Ladies, where his work has proved him eminently fitted for the posi- tion. His classes are the largest in that institution. The new life in athletics which Cumberland University is feeling of late is due in a large extent to the great interest taken by Mr. Keeton since his connection with the school.