Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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BACKLOG OF [957 home was used as a girls’ dormitory. The school remained the Nashville Bible School until April, 1918; then its name was changed to David Lipscomb College in honor of its dec -ased founder. ‘There are now sixteen buildings, and several more are soon to be erected in connection with the Lipscomb Expansion Program. Lipscomb is now fully ac- credited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and offers sixteen major programs of academic study leading to B.A. or B.S. degrees. In addition, the college maintains a state- approved teacher education veeicion: oper ating demonstration elementary and high schools in hic connection. “Today approximately 900 students are enrolled in the college, and more than 600 in the elementary and high schools. This is the largest enrollment in the “history of the college, and in- dications are that it will continue to increase in years to come.

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David Lipscomb College originated in the desire of David Lipscomb and J. A. Harding for a school in which young people, while obtaining a general education, might study the Bible daily as the only source of faith and practice in religion. In Oc- tober, 1891, the first session of the Nashville Bible School began in a rented house on Fillmore Street, with a final attendance of thirty-two. By the open- ing of the third session in 1893, lots on South Spruce Street had been purchased and buildings had been erected. The enrollment for this session was fifty- two. The following summer a men’s dormitory was erected; and the enrollment of the school grad- ually increased while the school remained at this location for ten years. In the summer of 1903, David Lipscomb deeded his farm of sixty-five acres on Granny White Road to the school. ‘Two large brick buildings were erected; and the old Lipscomb

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