Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Equipment. — Libraries. — The equipment of the University is first-class, consisting of libraries (general and de- partmental), laboratories (chemical, physical and biological), and a museum of natural history. The Hale Reference Library was established for the exclusive use of the Theological Department, through the liberality of Mrs. E. J. Hale, of Morristown, Tenn., in memory of her husband. Dr. E. B. Hale, recently deceased. The Mitchell Library, most elegantly furnished with cabinet mantel, sectional bookcases, and other furniture to match, is a gift of Pres. D. E. Mitchell to the Academic Department. It occupies a room on the first floor of Me- morial Hall. It is especially adapted to the work of students in the Academic Department. The Law Library has been recently established by the Board of Trustees. It already contains several thousand volumes, and occupies a room in Caruthers Hall, where is found also the general repository. Laboratories. — The Chemical Department has at its command a number of rooms in the University building, being modern in equipment. In addition to the general lecture room, there are laboratories for general and analytic work, well equipped desks and apparatus for students, ample enough for the courses offered. A gift of two thousand five hundred dollars has been made recently to the Chemical Laboratory. The Department of Physics has at its command a suite of rooms on the first floor of the University building. This department has apparatus worth many hundreds of dollars, and as are the other laboratories, is adding to its stock every year. Biological Laboratory. — It is with very great pleasure that the University announces the acquisition of a thor- oughly first-class biological laboratory. It is the gift of Mr. Frank W. Nisbet, of St. Louis, Mo. It will be sup- plied with all the apparatus required in a college laboratory, and will occupy rooms on the second floor of Memorial Hall. Departments Theological Department. — The faculty consists of nine professors und instructors. Special courses in Eng- lish Bible study and evangelistic work are given, also careful training in Oratory. Special courses of lectures on Sunday school work ; exceptional opportunities for training in vocal music. Our Theological School is the third largest among Presbyterians in the United States. Princeton leads, Mc- Cormick is second, and Cumberland University is third. Engineering School. — The faculty consists of six specialists. A four years ' course leads to the degree of Civil Engineering. The course of instruction in this school embraces the following : i. Civil Engineering. 2. Mining Engineering. 3. Architecture and Design. 4. Geodesy and Topography.

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Cumberland University- For more than half a century Cumberland University has occupied a prominent place in the higher education of the South. Location. — Cumberland University is located at Lebanon, Tenn., thirtv miles east of Nashville. Lebanon is a beautiful little town of the highest culture and refinement. Railroad facilities are the very best. Between Lebanon and Nashville there are fourteen trains daily, and between Lebanon and Knoxville four daily. Our lo- cation gives all the advantages of small towns in moderate expense and minimum of temptation, while our proximitv to Nashville, and very splendid railroad facilities, give us all the advantages of the city. Buildings. — The buildings are large and commodious. Memorial Hall, the main building of the University, is occupied by the Literary, Engineering School, Theological Seminary and School of Oratory. It is situated on a beautiful elevation and in the center of a beautiful campus of fifty acres. This building contains more than fifty rooms, especially designed and adapted for college and university work. Caruthers Hall, the gift of Gov. Robert L. Caruthers, situated on West Main St., contains the law lecture rooms, the general repository and law library, and a large auditorium for the general meetings for students and for the LTni- versity exercises. Divinity Hall, situated on West Main St., and once the home of the Theological School, has been thoroughlv renovated, and is now used as the University dormitory and refectory. The New Dormitory, situated on the Campus of the University, is a most magnificent building. It was erected at an expense of fifty thousand dollars, and is furnished with every modern convenience. It accommodates about one hundred students. Several members of the faculty have suites in the building. The Dormitory is found to fill a long felt want among the student body, for some centralized home on the Campus and within easy reach of the main building, libraries, laboratories and gymnasium. Castle Heights, the best equipped boys ' school in the South, and articulated with the University as a training school, is situated on West Main St., one mile from the public square. The Lebanon College for Young Ladies is a large three story stone and brick structure, situated on North Cum- berland St. The building has been enlarged and remodelled throughout, and is thoroughlv modern and convenient.

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A very thorough course is given. Professor Buchanan, Dean of this department, is a man of national repu- tation as a mathematician, having been connected for twenty years with the United States Coast and Geodetic service. We have perfected arrangements with one of the best Technical Schools of the North, in accordance with which they will take all our graduates of this department and give them employment in the line they have chosen, paying them wages for their work, thus giving unusual opportunities to such young men to more thoroughlv prepare them- selves by actual experience for their life ' s work. College Department. — The faculty consists of ten members. Four years ' courses lead to the degrees of B.S. and A.B. Graduate courses lead to the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. No university in the South has a higher standard for admission. Written examinations are required where cer- tificates from accredited schools are not presented. However, we offer special accommodations to students prepared for college in most of their studies, but deficient in a few things. A student can enter the University conditioned on anything which he can make up in Castle Heights, while the regular college work is being done. This involves no extra expense. Law School. — Courses leading to the degrees of LL.B. and IX. M. are offered. This department has been an acknowledged success for nearly sixty years. The best text-books of the most famous authors only are used. These books are actually read by the students of the school under the immedi- ate direction of the faculty. There are daily recitations and moot courts. Graduates of this school are thorough- ly prepared for practice. School of Oratory. — Faculty consists of seven instructors. A three vears ' course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Oratory. Sixteen courses of instruction offered here afford a training for breadth, thoroughness and artistic finish which is not excelled by the best professional schools of the East. This school gives the student a thorough preparation for the public profession, as well as developing his art as an orator. Conservatory of Music. — The Faculty consists of ten instructors. A four years ' course is planned leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music, and including a thorough work in harmonv, plaving, theorv, history, etc. The director, Herr Eugene Feuchtinger, of Hiram, Ohio, is known as one of the most successful German-American mu- sic teachers of this country. Credit for Conservatory work will be given in the University. The most modern and improved methods will be followed, as the Leschetizsky for piano, the Italian for voice, and the Mason and Vergil methods where applicable. The success of the first year ' s work has been most flattering.