Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

Page 7 text:

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF C R D C L L HULL In early January, 1891, I began my fornnal law education, entering the senior class of the Cumberland Lav School at Lebanon, Tennessee. Cumberland Law School was a famous Institution which had turned out many Senators and Congressmen. . . . There I en- joyed the teaching of three of the finest law Instructors I have ever known at any Institution of learning — Chancellor Nathan Green, Dr. Andrew B. Martin, and Judge Edward E. Beard. Young men came from many states to get the benefit of their instruction. When I went to Congress sixteen years later I found In Washington four or five Senators, one Justice of the Supreme Court and twelve to fifteen Congressmen who were Graduates of Cumberland University. In June I passed the final examination and was graduated. According to custom, we members of the graduating class, the moment we received our diplomas, took them to the court- house, where a district judge awaited us. hie swore us In as members of the bar. I was not twenty years old. According to an Act of an early State Legislature, graduates of the Cum- berland Law School could be admitted to the bar under the age of twenty-one — others could not. I ran into my first law case on my way back from the law school —

Page 6 text:

HOnORflBLE CORDELL HULL

Page 8 text:

CRRUTHERS HRLL