Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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FOREWORD Eayerly looking forward and an- ticipating the development of a greater CUMBERLAND; observing closely the path that has been tra- versed to see how much progress has been made; drawing as accu- rately as our abilities fit us a cross- section of one year of the transi- tion between the old and the new; pausing for a short time in our pursuit of wisdom, and knowledge to view as a ivhole the many ac- tivities of the cam.pjts — in that list our aim, object, and purpose in the compilation of the 1927 PhcenIX receive the most complete expres- sion.

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Tz: ivr y merely one portion of the whole scheme of the ideal campus and university environment. Faculty and student body are inseparable constituent parts of another requisite phase of our educational advancement. In the faculty there must be vision, sympathy, and the ability to understand, to inspire, and to lead ; in the student body, intellectual curiosity, sincerity, and ear- nestness of purpose. Permeating all these more tangible factors must be a strong belief in service, the leaven necessary to the most fruitful and pro- ductive mixture of concrete materials, if the spiritual apex of the welding which will make ultimately real the Greater Cumberland of our dreams is to be attained. Far in the past that has been so indelibly recorded, more real in memory than in fact, huddles the small Cumberland that was the forerunner and herald of our present University. On in the distant future, dimly outlined behind the misty and almost impenetrable veil that shields us from our fates, rises the towering and commanding Cumberland of the days to come. And we, m idway between the dim past and the equally misty and dim future, strain forward eagerly as we reach for the goal of further at- tainment. We remember the past because of its pulsing wishes which must be lifted high and carried on, because it is the inspirational dare and challenge to continued effort and labor. The future, a volume whose end- less pages of weeks and days glow and are made brilliant with opportunity, is before us ; and at our hand lies in readiness the magic pen of vision, the mighty instrument of construction. It is for us to see that we shall have written and wrought well; that the gleaming outlines of projected struc- tures, real now only to those who dwell in thought beyond the veil of mist, shall to-morrow be our lasting monuments in the quick-receding past. Cumberland gives every one of her sons and daughters a proud heritage. The blood of men and women, famed and renowned in the intellectual world, has been poured forth for us in order that we might enjoy the so great privilege of the glory in the search for knowledge and wisdom. Unto our minds is given some semblance of soothing intelligence ; our souls are fed from the storehouse which harbors the sweetest and most nourishing viands of spiritual sustenance; then to us is given the torch of our fathers, handed down in trust. It is for us to carry on and to uphold the confidence and trust so implicitly placed in us. ..

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CONTENTS UNIVERSITY CLASSES ATHLETICS ORGANIZATIONS MELANGE