Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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ug nu nIIIIIlulmmlllunmlmI lu u n mum I mum! umulun In mummmlm um nlummmnlnlllullnml mllllllummuullllul mu mm l umm unlmumuuulnllf. Commodore, Nineteen Twenty Five The - - EIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIllIIIIIIllIIIIllIIIllIIlllllllllIIIIIllllllIIIIlllIIllllllllllllIIllIlllIllIIllllIIllIllllllllllllllllllllllll IllIllIllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIllllIllllIlIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllIllllllllllf 5. .. .I 1 Q.: VVhen the University comes to celebrate its semi-centennial in October, 1925, it will display a new medical plant and hospital recently completed at a cost of about fE3,000,000. It will also display a newly-erected Alumni lVlemorial Hall, which will serve the student and alumni interests as a union building, erected chiedy out of alumni subscriptions, and it will display a new auditorium erected out of a donation of Mrs. G. M. Neely, and bearing the name of her husband, for many years an honored trustee and treasurer of the University. The total assets of the University will be more than fI3,000,000. The educational development. of Vanderbilt cannot be fully described in a brief article. The old Academic Department has given way to the College of Arts and Science. The number of students has greatly increased and is now limited only by the capacity of the University to handle them. The requirements for admission have been made morersevere from year to year, and the character of Work has greatly GATES LOCKED AT NIGHTFALL To keep the innocent little students away from the gay night life of Nashville. improved. Since its foundation the diploma of Vanderbilt has stood for quality of work, and no effort has been spared to keep this reputation which was secured in the Hrst years of its history. In professional work there is a long story of gradual advancement from a rather low plane of early beginnings. When Vanderbilt was founded there were practically no requirements for admission either to the School of Law, Medicine, or Theology. The Biblical Department was the first to reorganize on an improved basis of profes- sional training. The Departments of Law, Medicine, and Dentistry have changed their requirements from time to time in accord with national movements in each of these professions. At the present moment Vanderbilt can point with pride and satis- faction to its standard of work in every school and department. The recent large gifts for the School of Medicine have put this part of Vanderbilt's work on a plane dis- tinctly higher than was ever possible before this for any institution in the South. The new medical plant represents an expenditure of more than 33,000,000. Nothing has been spared or will be spared in the effort to provide in the new Medical School the most complete facilities for training doctors now known to the world. Vanderbilt IO ,ho i pw . Qi- WWW? zz, lla I T 'U amnsmmwmwmwmxwmmx xxxxxxxxnvnxus J I sxwwswss Wmenuswmwxmwxxmwmwu , hm sm a mms

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The Commodore, Nineteen Twenty-Five - ----' lllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIuIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Illllllllll llllllllllllllllllllll nIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IllIllllIllIIllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIf .Jlsulll IIIIII I IIIIIIIIIIIII IIII I I I IIIIII IIII II III IIIIIIIIIIIII I II IIII I I III IIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I IIIII II I I II I IIIIII I lllllllllllllg .... University expects to make a distinct contribution to medical history and discovery as well as to medical teaching through this great enterprise. - Vanderbilt's development has also been notable in the line of student activities out- side the classroom. Chief attainments have been, of course, in the varied fields of college athletics, football, basketball, baseball, and track. A long story might be told of Vanderbilt's achievements in football, of victorious teams, of defeated rivals, of emi- nent coaches, and of loyal alumni who have given much of their time and thought to this interest. The name of Dr. W. L. Dudley, professor of chemistry for so long a time, will always be remembered as the chief promoter of athletics at Vanderbilt, and also throughout the South. The present director of athletics, Dan E. McGugin, has been connected with Vanderbilt for more than twenty-five years, and is known through- out the country as one of the foremost football coaches. One of the distinct achieve- FIRST VANDERBILT FOOTBALL TEAIXI, ISQO The 1891 Comet lists these as follows: Top row: A. Allen, left end: P. H. Porter, left guardg P. M. Estes, quarterg R. Allen, right end, R. H. Mitchell, halfback. Second rowz' H. E. Bemis, halfbackg XV. H. Hardin, center Rush: E. H. Jones, fullback Ccaptainjg B. Knapp, right guard. Bottom row: J. C. NVall, substitute, C. R. Baskerville, right tackleg W. W. Craig, left tackle. H. H. Ruhm also was a substitute on this team. ments of the Athletic Association has been the erection of the present stadium at a cost of more than fE200,000. The development of the Alumni Association has also been most noteworthy. The alumni ofiice, first efficiently organized by Mr. Charles Cason and later developed by Nlr. Max Souby and Mr. L. B. Smelser, has organized the alumni in helpful work for the University. One of the achievements of alumni spirit may be seen in the erection of Alumni Memorial Hall. No sketch of the history of Vanderbilt University could be complete without some reference to the great outstanding figures influential in the early years of University history. The founder of Vanderbilt University will always be recognized as Com- modore Vanderbilt, but equally important and standing with him was Bishop lVIc- Tyeire, a great leader in the Southern Methodist Church, and the great organizer in the history of Vanderbilt University. He may well be held responsible and given credit I2 a.. 7 ge' f i -Q-mmwwmmmwmnwmxi swarms i 5sQumNxN swxmxm Wm' is M. tems