Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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PHOENIX PRESIDENT ERNEST L. STOCKTON UMBERLAND UNIVERSITY has made a forward step in the selection of her President, Ernest L. Stock- ton, who has risen from the student ranks to the highest positiiin that his Ahna Mater could ofifer him, and who is now filling that position most creditably. President Stockton ' s outstanding qualities, in addition to his great intellectual capacity, are sincerity of purpose and a great love for Cumberland. He is always a friend to the students, ready to advise and sympathize : and because of this, h§ is popular to a degree which few men have attained. Under the guidance of a modern educator, such as our President, a new day has dawned for Cumberland. He has raised the standards of the Institution, and is creating an atmos])here of culture which is felt 1i} ' all who enter the jiortals of (inr Alma Mater. oc L K rp Avsmm mM M m ' 16

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q: HOENIX nniwiiiiu! ii ' .ninnniiiniii!i!fii!Mn ' f! ' i ' ! ihhiiiiii wm r A PROPHECY ONCEIVED ill I ' aith. but Ijorn in povertj ' and nurtured in turmoil, Cumberland has to-day reached that virile maturity which is the prize of those who have labored to live. Truly she hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good ' out of infinite pain. Long lias she wandered in the wilderness, and often has she known fame and famine and fire and the sword, but never has she strayed far from the Cloud or the Pillar. And even now the Ark of her spirit, the repository of her memories and dreams, is being borne to the edge of the Jordan. The waters recede at the touch of the devoted feet of those who bear Cumberland ' s burden, and beyond the parted stream we sec our Promised Land. And slowly the Ark is carried on. The Ark is moving, but the people have yet to pass — and tliis is the march of students, alumni, and friends. We must look toward the leaders who carry the Ark, and under their wise guidance we must discern the Cloud and the Pillar of Fire wdiich will lead us across into Canaan. The ideals of the present administration and faculty are old ones — ideals which arc eternal Ijecause they are true. They look to a Cumberland devoted solely to education, and primarily to cultural education. They look to graduates who go into the world in- spired to live, and to live nobly. The next decade will witness a metamorphosis both material and spiritual. Xew build- ings will grace the campus — a dormitory for women, a library, a conservatory of music, a science hall, and a gymnasium. Sufficient endowment will drive from the door the wolf that has so often hindered progress, and we will see modern laboratories and libraries ample for genuine research. We will see a Cumberland who has taken a place among the great institutions of the South — a Cumberland whose scholastic standards have been elevated and whose whole existence has been vivified. The visitor will feel the academic atmosphere which will pervade the campus — an atmosphere wliich will be the effervescence from our traditions and our toil. To that day ! The march through Jordan goes on; the Divine Power holds back tlie unfriendly waters, because those who bear the Ark stand firm; the Cloud and the Pillar mark our goal, and even now the angnard has planted the standard of Cumberland upon tlie shore of her Promised Land. Mkmi iimtMimimisii 1 I m- - mmm m 18