Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Now the fullness of spring and finals . . . Nevermore the Sopho- mores, the old green undergrad- uate days . . . and the red-and- white days of victory ... On to a State University, the big campus, the great Stadium, just a number now . . . e pluribus unum . . . but then — ah! a memory everlast- ing and rich and creative. 11

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The buildings on the Cumberland campus are but worthless hulks and the students are but grop- ing children — without a faculty. True, our world has been the astounded witness to the rise of myriad self-educated men. But these spectacles are now rare indeed. We all feel a need for a guiding hand through our education, and this hand is extended by the faculty. Only as they let the light from their torches of intellectual experience shine forth may we catch a glimpse of the far corners of the luxuriously decorated room of knowledge. However, we need as well those men who are organizers, co-ordinators, administrators men who can plan and map and chart our courses through the sylvan glades of thought. Theirs shall be the astrolabe, the compass, the sextant which will give the direction to our endeavors. It has been said that leaders and teachers only bring out in students that which is already there .... that their purpose is to mold these minds. We at Cumberland cannot see that this diminishes — nay — this is the highest of callings — to administer to the heart, the soul, the mind of Youth. 13