Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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THE PHOENIX Published by THE STUDENTS of CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY 1927 VOLUME XXXI I

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FRED C. ENQLAND y Edilor in Chief W g q. D. RObison, JR. g Q Business ITlanager Q

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IZZ ' y s A GREATER CUMBERLAND IHOSE Cumberlanders who have been so intensely interested in the history, growth, and development of our University have probably gone so far as to delve into the dark and dusty archives of her past achievements, and have doubtless discovered some rather startling facts. In order to have a deeper and more profound appreciation of Cum- berland, it is very necessary that we become acquainted with her remark- able advancement. Any student with a vivid imagination is able to picture in his mind the commanding figure of an early visionist and the grayed-old self-effacing building of tender memories which stand watch, like twin sen- tinels, watching the uncounted days and numberless throngs of students hurry onward to the day of the greater school of their dreams. Out of the small material beginnings of a tiny Cumberland there has slowly grown the mighty and all-powerful institution that we know to-day. Through the melting years, inspired and guided by the far-reaching minds of our first fathers, splendid accomplishments and achievements have been attained and have followed one another in rather close succession. Into the ambient campus and the OLD, but newer, structures there has been builded the skeleton and framework of a high tradition, of a huge zeal, of a never-ceasing will to accomplish greater and even greater things for Cumberland. Through the long period of constant development there has been created and breathed into the mind of the University a strong desire to end advance and development only at the never-to-be-attained summit and pinnacle of perfection. Even so has it been with the great master builders of all history. Springing from their unfaltering quest of goals, perched high in the glistening mountains of ambition, has come their most precious contribution — the lesson of a stern spiritualism and a better phase of moral and social life admixed with a firm will to attain. Of such a leg- acy was born the Cumberland University that is to-day ; from that same source will be derived the material to make possible our newer dream — The Greater Cumberland. A Greater Cumberland ! Greater in distinction of faculty, greater in facilities for work, greater in service — to a portrayal of that ideal, the aim and purpose fostered and advocated by Cumberland since the time of her inception by those strong minds and stanch hearts and souls of our fathers, we must now and forever dedicate and consecrate our lives and work. Many elements must enter into the composition of a truly greater school. Material surroundings play a vital and very important part in the efficiency of a school, but the fact must never be forgotten that they are 4 . . y ik f f ..