Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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19 2 5 a DOCTOR JOHN ROYALL HARRIS, B.D., D.D., President of Cumberland Vni ' versily 25

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PHOENIX 19 2 5 j[ Doctor John Royall Harris OCTOR JOHN ROYALL HARRIS, B.D., D.D., President of Cum- berland University, is without doubt one of the greatest men which our institution has ever had as its chief executive. His love for Cumberland, his Alma Mater, is not an empty sentimsnt, but has always manifested itself in work for everything which would be of advantage to his Alma Mater. His term as president, which began in 1922, has been one of able action, progress, and prosperity. President Harris is a man of the highest ideals, and his ideals are more than day- dreams. He is a man of action. High ideals and action are combined within his char- acter in a remarkable degree. His talent for creating original plans for the advance- ment of Cumberland has done much toward making him famous. For instance, his scheme of the Equivalent Endowment Bond — a bond which the buyer does not pay for in capital, but only pays the interest on the amount of the bond. This idea is only one of the many which he has promoted for Cumberland ' s benefit. As for President Harris ' relation to the faculty and to the student body, he has the love, the respect, and the admiration of all. He always has a pleasant word and a gentlemanly greeting; he is always ready to help, and he makes friends by the score. Tennessee is proud to claim President Harris for a son, and Cumberland University is proud to claim him as an alumnus. He received his B.D. degree here, and was an outstanding figure throughout his college days. He received his D.D. degree from Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania, in which state he is especially well known, and where he has a great number of friends. In 1894 he was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and at Lewisburg, Tennessee, he started a ministry which has given him the highest credit and honor. He served with all his natural zeal and ability at Lewis- burg until 1903, at which time he went to Pennsylvania, and became minister of the Shady Avenue Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg, where he served for fourteen years, rendering a service which made his church successful and endeared him to the hearts of his whole congregation. In his work for the Dry Federation of Pennsylvania he became one of the best known lecturers of the country, speaking in all the large cities throughout the land, and making himself famous as a reformer. He was director of the industrial depart- ment of the National Reform Association, which did much toward putting the eight- eenth amendment into the Constitution. He also showed his organizing ability when he established reform headquarters at Nashville. He was also president of the Ten- nessee Anti-Saloon League, where he proved himself a fearless fighter. True to his character. President Harris ' patriotism is real in every sense of the word. He has been in the army, and was color sergeant of Company C, Third Regiment, Pennsylvania, P. R. M. He has been in several other positions, among them being the position of Chaplain-General, Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is a Mason, a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, and he belongs to the Com- mercial and the Automobile Clubs of Nashville and the Exchange Club of Lebanon. Doctor Harris has an exceptionally good space in Who ' s Who in America. 2+

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PHOENIX 19 2 5 J[ Ernest Looney Stockton, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Dean of the Colleye of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Enylish. A.B. Cumberland University, 1914; A.M. and LL.B; Cumberland; Postgraduate Work in the University of Chicago; Instructor in English, Cumberland Prep School, 1916; Chairman Educational Committee of Leb- anon Rotary Club; in 1924 edition of Who ' s Who in America. William R. Chamrers, A.B., LL.B. Dean of La w School A.B. Cumberland; LL.B. Vanderbilt Uni- versity; Served in General Assembly of Ten- nessee; Member of House, 1897; Chairman of Judiciary Committee in Senate in 1899; served as Special Judge of Court of Appeals, 1899; Professor of Law in Cumberland Uni- versity since 1920. 26