Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Cumberland University A. B. MARTIN, LL.D., President Pkofessor in Law School Lebanon, Tenn. EDWARD EWING BEARD, Treasurer Instkuctoe IX Law School Peesident American National Bank Lebanon, Tenn. AMZI W. HOOKER, Secretary Peesident Lebanon National Bank Lebanon, Tenn. HON. RUPUS PORTER McCLAIN Lawyer Lebanon, Tenn. I Ff B iC - wt IP KL H i MM k Fk. ■ ■ ' I Bi w S ' flVv .i-.wE IT Board of Trustees JAMBS L. WEIR Vice President Lebanon National Bank Lebanon, Tenn. SELDEN R. WILLIAMS Capitalist Lebanon, Tenn. W. M. COSBY Merchant Birmingham, Ala. WARNER E. SETTLE Judge Kentucky Couet or Appeals Frankfort, Ky.

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both of whom occupied high positions on the bench of the State. Within ten years I could truly boast of the largest and most successful law school North or South. Another addition was made to me in 1851 — the En- gineering Department — which was in charge of Pro- fessor (afterwards General) A. P. Stewart. Though never large, its standard has always .been high, its re- quirements rigid. In 1855 I launched another department — the Theo- logical School. The work was placed in charge of the Rev. Richard Beard, D.D., who gave the rest of his life to it, dying, in 1880, full of honors. This department was discontinued in 1910 — not because of any lack of success, but as an indirect result of the trouble be- tween the Cumberland and the United Presbyteiians. The first publication issued in my name was a book of rules, published in 1843. It consisted of twenty-one pages of rules for Faculty, students, admissions, dis- missions, and sundry other matters. You would prob- ably be amused by the quaintness of some of them, so let me quote a few : Chapter VII., Section 7. The President, a Pro- fessor, or a Tutor, shall have the authority to break open and enter any college- chamber or study at all times, at his discretion. Section 10. If any student shall ring the college bell, except by order of the President, a Professor, or a Tutor, he shall be punished at the discretion of the Faculty. Chapter XIV., Section 8. Every student boarding within the town corporation, or within three-quarters of a mile of the college building, shall attend morning prayers in the College Chapel at sunrising. You smile, dear scholar, and no doubt with reason; but those were great and glorious days. When the Civil War came, all my buildings and my endowment were swept away. But I was not dead. My soul still lived in the minds and hearts of my stu- dents, my professors, and my people of Lebanon; and it was not six months after the close of the war that I was again in operation. But I see that you are growing wearied with these reminiscences of a long life. Have I a mission ? Truly, the approval of the public throughout my lifetime points to a mission, and to a mission in some way ful- filled, though not yet fully accomplished. Again you ask, What is that mission ? and I answer : Go forth from my halls, dear scholar, and in the achievements of your own life, whose guiding principles have been instilled into your hearts under my roof, realize that mission within yourself.

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w ID i i€ I€ 3HE 3H HE 3HE 3 R Ml emor lam 1 3HE CLAIBORNE H. BELL. D.D. For twenty-five years teacher of Missions and Apologetics in Cumberland University. Died November 15, 1909. 3HE 31 JAMES SMART WATERHODSE, For nine years teacher of Natural Sciences in Cumberland University. Born December 29, 1874. Died October 31, 1908. A.M.