Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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MISS CLARA EARLE, A.B., A.M. Modern Languages Miss Earle taught Modern Languages in Ar- kansas University after taking an A.B. degree in tlie same institution. Since, she has spent several summers studying in the University ot Chicago. She has also studied at the Sorbonne and College de France. After spending some time traveling in Italy and Spain, she taught one year in Arkansas Cumberland College. In 1902 she was elected Professor of Modern Lan- guages in Cumberland University. r MISS KATE ADELLE HINDS, A.B.. A.M. Professor of Science Miss Hinds entered Cumberland University in September, 1900. at the age of fourteen, and received her A.B. degree in 1904 and her A.M. degree in 1906. She continued postgraduate work for two years along the lines of Sciences, Languages, and Mathematics. In the fall of 1908 she succeeded Prof. J. S. Waterhouse as Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science. She was initiated into Chi Omega Fraternity at the Lexington Convention, June, 1910. In addition to ability. Miss Hinds is one of the most popular young ladies in this section of Tennessee.

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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.

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VELBAR LEROY MINEHART, B.E., A.B. PiiOFESsoR OF Sciences Professor Minehart was born in California, Pa., March 13, 1877; was graduated from the State Normal School at California, Pa., in 1897, and from Washington and ,Jefterson College in 1902. He has studied a year each at .Johns Hopkins University and Heidelberg, Germany. For four years he taught Biology and Paleon- tology at the Philippine Normal School at Ma- nila. For two years and a half he has been director of a special geological survey in Ken- tucky. He began his professorship in Cumber- land University at the beginning of the present year. E. T. BOZENHARD AssisT. NT IN Science Born on July 2, 1886, at Dayton, O.; graduate of Steele High School, Dayton, 0., 1903; gradu- ate of the Institute and Training School, Chi- cago and Lake Geneva, 1909; Director of Phys- ical Training, Castle Heights School, 1908-11; Instructor in Physiology, Cumberland Univer- sity, 1911; the Lake Geneva Summer School, 1909.