Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Yesterday... ... The Past on which to build... “And time still passing .. . Time passing .. . And remembered like the forgotten hoof and wheel. .. .” Thomas Wolfe Time passed, and David Lipscomb, the man whose name was to become the ever present phras- ing on our lips, began to think. Time passed, and the man who envisioned our existence here began to wonder. Time passed, and the man who dared to ponder the possibilities that are now realities began to dream dreams and make plans. Time passed, and the man who thought and won- dered and dreamed became the essence and the generator of what we now know and love.

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-They Planted-- The Nashville Bible School, now David Lipscomb College, is the result of the faith, vision, determination, and sacrifice of two giants, David Lipscomb and James A. Harding. When the cause of restoring New Testa- ment Christianity seemed doomed before the onslaught of digression, they talked together about the needs of the future. As both men were products of Christian educa- tion, it was natural that they should decide to establish a School which young people al be instructed in the pees of Books. FACULTY AND students are assembled for the annual official WENT in cee of the main building on Spruce Street. A. Harding are fourth and fifth from the right on the front row. academic life of the institution after seventy-five years. The Bible School opened on October 5, 1891, in a rented house on Fillmore Street in South Nashville with only nine young men in attendance. During the first year a total of thirty-two students were enrolled, in- cluding the lamented S. P. Pittman, whose life was to span the first entire seventy-five years of the institution’s history. Following the second year of operation in rented quarters on South Cherry Street, property on South Spruce Street was purchased to provide the stability of a permanent campus. Additional buildings were con- structed and the school grew in enrollment and stature during the ten years it remained at this site. It became increasingly apparent to the far-seeing Lipscomb that the long-range future of the school could best be served by its incorporation as a regular academic institution and by its removal to larger and more com- modious quarters. On February 2, 1901, the school was incorporated under the laws of Tennessee and was em- powered to confer degrees and issue diplomas. 20 k This decision, arrived at in 1888 during a meeting held by Harding at the College Street Church where Lipscomb was an elder, was not executed until 1891 be- cause of Harding’s evangelistic commitments. An- nouncements made in the Gospel Advocate, of which Lipscomb was editor, appealed for students a nd funds on the following basis: The supreme purpose of the school shall be to teach the Bible as the revealed will of God to man. This daily instruction in the Bible continues to characterize the David Lipscomb and James Lipscomb decided to provide the campus a perma- nent home by the gift of his own farm of approximately sixty-five acres located on the Granny White Pike. He therefore converted his own home into a girls’ dormi- tory, still to be known as Avalon Home, and raised sufficient funds to construct an administration building and a boys’ dormitory. Although the buildings were not completed, and the boys had to use ladders to reach the second floor of the new Lindsay Hall, the move was completed from Spruce Street to the Granny White | campus in October, 1903. — At about this time, James A. Harding accepted an invitation to move to Bowling Green, Kentucky, to found another school made possible by the generosity of the Potter family. The influence of Lipscomb as the siding genins of the Bible School continued, however, for he and “Aunt Mag” built a new house for thenmelwes and spent the rest of their days in the midst of the school. It was from the neat brick house on the grounds of the school he planted and nurtured that in 1917 he went home for the eternal harvest. A erie