Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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The Phoenix Staff E. M. Beyaxt Editor in Cliief C. V. Beowx Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS W. C. Holland Assistant Editor W. F. Davis Assistant Manager M. M. MoRELocK Athletics E. T. BozEXHAEi) Literary Department G. W. Newbill Law Department J. J. Smith Philomathean G. F. BURXS Y. M. C. A. J. C. Flaxiken Amasagassean Roy Fkte Art Miss Mary Lixcolx Music Jesse Overall K 2 Fraternity Bex Wilkes 2 A E Fraternity

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Editorial ANOTHER volume of the Phoenix is offered to the students, to the alumni, and to the friends of Cumberland University. The current num- ber is the third to appear within the last ten years of the school ' s history. The Phcenix has been published only in the more prosperous years of Cumberland ' s life to voice the institution ' s spirit of hope and to esti- mate her ever-increasing glory. To a cherished herit- age of a long-honored life, to the splendid attainments of a passing year, and to the boundless hopes of a life to come, these pages are dedicated. Here one may read the records, the vanities, the dreams, the loves and hopes of student life — rec- ords true, deserved, we trust; vanities one may for- give, since they will be forgotten ; dreams we pray may come true; loves and hopes that speed the college year. To portray the communicable life of the year 1910- 1 1 ; to gather up the unseen threads and weave them into a perfect fabric; to give the reader the opportu- nity to interpret the whole in its unified form ; to pre- serve and cherish memories that should not fade ; to feed the fires of enthusiasm and loyalty and love for our Alma Mater; to rejoice in the unbounded promise of honor yet to come; to add one more brick to this invincible structure which has withstood the storms of civil strife; to ort ' er a parting word of gratitude to those who have enriched our lives; to bond our hearts in stronger ties of student sentiment — this has been the chastened hope and the earnest endeavor of the editors of the Phcenix.

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A Reminiscence ?ID you ask me whence I came and what is my ll%91) mission here? Not so fast, dear scholar, and I shall try to answer you ; but you must let me do so in my own fashion. I first came into being in the year 1826. Folks say that I was born sixteen years later, but that is not true ; for what they call a birth was merely a change of residence on my part. I was, as I have said, born eighty-five years ago at Princeton, Ky. I was brought into being by the Cumberland Presbj ' terian denomina- tion, at that time a youthful institution, and given the name of Cumberland College. A few facts about my outward appearance at that time may interest you. My campus was a farm of five hundred acres ; my recitation hall, a big, two-story, log house, with wide, old-fashioned fireplaces, and a roof of clapboards; my dormitories, single rooms, most of them built of logs. Every student who lodged under my maternal roof must perforce work two days a week on my farm. I had been founded upon the faith of sundry prom- ises, and the Trustees had borrowed the money to make the first payment for the land and buildings which con- stituted my corporal self, and had given mortgages for the remainder. In my infancy I was never strong, and I soon in- volved the Trustees in financial troubles; so that in 1842 the General Assembly resolved to move me from Princeton, and, accordingly, invited subscriptions from towns desiring to have me take up my abode in their midst. Lebanon made the largest bid, and so I was moved to this place — a change that benefited me greatly, for my buildings at Princeton were in poor condition and my health during my last years there was not of the best. The change revived me imme- diately. I started the first year in my new location with forty-five students and four professors ; and, un- der the solicitous care of the good people of Lebanon, my condition steadily improved. They soon built for me a fine new building, and in 1844 changed my name to Cumberland University. The number of students who flocked to my halls rapidly grew, until in 1885 it totaled four hundred and seventy. Everything that I needed came to me — students, endowment, prestige, sti ' ong men as professors, and, above all, the love of the people of Lebanon. In 1847 the Law School was established, at first with only one professor — the Hon. Abraham Caruthers. The following year two more were added to the Fac- ulty — Hon. Nathan Green and Hon. B. L. Ridley —