Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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z IT tUlt BE l MB ZL X PROF. ERNEST LOONEY STOCKTON Cumberland University has been exceedingly fortunate this year in having as her leader Acting President Ernest Looney Stockton. Stock, as he is familiarly known about the cam- pus, took over the reigns of the administration, a hard job, at a critical time, and he has shown his remarkable ability as an exec- utive in the success he has achieved in that capacity. Faced at the outset with the loss of President Harris, Professor Stockton has carried on the policies formulated by his predecessor with precision and smoothness and without disruption. Acting President Stockton comes to us from the ranks as a student, a professor, and a Dean, endowed with a blazing spirit to promote the welfare of his Alma Mater. Few universities can boast a President so universally popular both among the faculty and the students of the institution. Due to his long and varied experience in the University, Professor Stockton is well qualified to understand and appreciate the problems and difficulties that face each of its members. His policy of impartiality and fair- mindedness has won the confidence and admiration of all depart- ments. During his short service in the capacity of Acting President many new plans for the expansion of the University have been adopted, and scholastic requirements have been raised to a plane that will bring recognition throughout the educational world. Sincerity of purpose and the welfare of his Alma Mater have characterized his every effort, and Cumberland University has enjoyed rapid progress under his direction. He has proved that no person is more deserving of that rich old American title, A Gefitleman and a Scholar. IR , a TTpMiiMM

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z- ■ :s DR. JOHN ROYAL HARRIS We were deeply shocked and saddened upon our return to school last fall by the announcement of the death of our Presi- dent, Dr. John Royal Harris. During the administration of Dr. Harris, Cumberland University achieved its greatest growth and advancement. Though he was a man of national importance, one of the most prominent figures connected with prohibition work, a brilliant educator, and a great preacher, we feel that in his loss, as one of his contemporaries remarked when speaking at the time of his death, We have lost a friend. Busy as he was with the important problems of University administration and attending to various educational and religious activities, he would always take time to lend a sympathetic ear to the troubles and problems of the student. His interest in the University centered not only in it as an institution as a whole, but in each individual student. When darkness and gloom encompassed the school, when fire had destroyed one of our buildings, and other problems appeared which threatened complete destruction and disaster, he quoted the famous motto of his Alma Mater, E Cineribus Resurgo — from the ashes I arise — and immediately started on a campaign of rebuilding and reorganization that has placed us to-day at the threshold of the greatest era of development and expansion Cum- berland has ever known. A great leader, an able executive, a wise adviser, a true Chris- tian gentleman, firm in his convictions, never side-tracking, never flinching. Dr. Harris fought for the right regardless of criticism or other obstacles. His indomitable spirit will ever be an inspiration to those who follow him in the work he has begun. 20 t i - - . .