Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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16 TCornel. tilijfol of a college amnml t«• eulogize its institution nor to pass panegyrics upon tin U«Mnl qualities ut its at«'llit ‘s. Observation lias shown that tin former lias always lieen adequately performed hy tin catalogue of that institution, while experience tenches that the good ileeils of men neeil no artificial promulgation. If. therefore, the contents of this t’oiiKT seem at times to glance upon the other siile of things, we hu|ie that it will not he thought that the aim of a college annual has l»eeii misconceived. With these lew Words we siihuut our work t« the criticism, we hope, of indulgent friends It is our wish that the expectation of those who have honored us by entrusting this performance to our hands shall lie fully realized. It this be accomplished we shall fed that our work has not been in vain, and that the trials and inconveniences attending it have heen amply atoned for

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8 The Comeh ( mpro'eerrjent of ‘JSS 'SS. l UK improvement» mid changes tlint have been g......... on since tiio last issuo i Tiik (I comet, we think, deserve mention. Thongli they may not i .- interesting to the general reader, yet to tin- friends of Vanderbilt such news must he weleoiue, inns- much as it tends to show a healthy and rapid progress of an institution of learning whose influence is being felt and must continue to be felt in every vicinity of the South. Ten thousand dollars have been recent I appropriated and are now being expended b the Librarian in valuable additions to the library. The library-room itself is being enlarged to twice its former size, and the student of ’ss- Sfi will have access to a variety of matter and be surrounded by advantages that his predecessor scarcely thought of. The Department of Pharmacy has adopted ipialitications for matriculants, whieh, if strictly adhered to. will deprive many hay-seeders from rolling pills until the hay seed has been effectually raked from aboard their cranium. A course of nine months has. been adopted instead oi one of live months, and this, with other changes, makes the Vanderbilt Pharmacy rank with the best of the country. The Law Seliool, we are soit to say, will he removed to the heart of the city, where a thirty thousand dollar building is now under construction. Though tills will give the student many advantages whieh he does not have under the existing status of affairs, we believe that the same amount expended in improving the present condition of things would have been attended with more beneficial results to the I niversity. We are de- cidedly averse to such a separation of the dilferent departments. The engineering Department is possibly moving forward with more decided and rapid strides on the way of progress than any other. A large and commodious building is now being erected oil the campus which will he entirely devoted to the School of Tech- nology, which, in the light of the present advancement of the Southern States, will open up for the young men of the South a field of usefulness hitherto denied to them. Numerous minor changes in the Academic and Theological Departments show ad- vancement in the right direction. We could recommend changes which are absolutely essential, we think, to the welfare of the institution, but believing their necessity is visible to the naked eye, and need no light from The Comet, we desist.