Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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jjy j ANDREW H. BUCHANAN, LL.D. Professor of Mathematics, Dean of College Professor Buchanan {las taught regularly in Cumberland University since 1870. Immedi- ately after receiving his A.B. and C.E. degrees he was called to assist Gen. A. P. Stewart in the Department of Mathematics. ' He served twenty years in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and has been honored with a number Of governmental appointments to positions of trust. w. D. Mclaughlin, a.m., ph.d. Professor of Ancient Languages Dr. McLaughlin was born on March 11, 1847. His boyhood until 1863 was spent in alternately working on the farm and attending country school. He then fought for the Confederate cause until May, 1865. Entering the Collegiate Department of Cumberland University in 1S67, he received his A.B. degree In 1868, and in 1870 was elected Adjunct Professor of Ancient Lan- guages. In 1872 he was promoted to full pro- fessorship. In 1873 he married Miss Rena Buchanan. His A.M. and Ph.D. degrees vrere both conferred by Cuna ' berlaiicl Uuiviersity. By his tuiybn Dr. McLau lUin. has won the hearts of th ji;sa4.ds. (2-

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R. V. FOSTER, D.D. Peofessor of Philosophy akd Ethics Dr. Foster was born in 1845 in Wilson County, Tenn. He lias been teaching about forty years. He received the A.B.. A.M., and B.D. degrees from Cumberland University; his D.D., from Trinity University; and his LL.D., from Washington and Jefterson College. He is a graduate from the Union Theological Semi- nary, New York. He taught Matheinatics four years at Cooper Institute, Miss., and was quite successful in building up that branch of study in that institution. He was for seventeen years Professor of Hebrew and Greek in the Theolog- ical Department of Cumberland University, and for an equal time Professor of Systematic The- ology. He is now in charge of the Philosophy and Ethics Department. He is the author of six or eight books and many newspaper and magazine articles. His chief book is a massive work on Systematic Theology. CHARLES H. KIMBROUGH, A.M. Professok of English Professor Kimbrough has studied in the Texas State University, in Cumberland Uni- versity, and in the University of Chicago. He has received both the Bachelor ' s and Master ' s degrees in Arts. In 1904, while an instructor in the Lebanon College for Young Ladies, he was called to the chair of English in Cumber- land University. Cumberland boasts of having in Professor Kimbrough one of the deepest stu- dents of literature in the South.