Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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,4- Uct 17h 3. . Group of old-timers eating lunch in the shadow of Kissam Hall. 2. Tennessee attempts a forward pass. 3. Mr. Justice McReY- s. rhairman of the morning program. 4. Charles Cason, who dedicated Alumni Memorial Hall. 5. The captains and oflicials, iossee game. 6. Two of the three members of the Class of 1875. 7. Dr. Mims and a group of alumni. 8. M. Emile Daeschner, ich ainbassador, and Mrs. Harding. 9. The Class of '75 leading tho alumni parade to the stadium. 10. 350 delegates assembled at the 1. C. A. as the guests of the University and the Nashville Vo.nderbil1. Club. 11. Groups of alumni in front of Neely Auditorium.

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Alumni Me- morial H all, e 1' e c t e d in rn e m o 1' y of the forty-four Vanderbilt Alumni w h 0 lost their lives in the Wo1'ld War. As part of the Semi- C e n ti e n n ial program, this beautiful and useful build- was dedicated by C h a. r l e s Cason. land to attempt some larger plans for the future. Within a few weeks these plans took definite forrn in the announcement of a campaign for a Greater Vanderbilt. Four millions were to be raised for the Academic Department to build new buildings, to en- large and strengthen the faculty, to add new equipment and better facilitiesg in short, to place the Academic Department of Vanderbilt once more in the fore-front of institutions of learning in point of endowment, of fculty, of equipment and all things that go to make Distinguished delegates from foreign universities marching' in the procession. In the left foreground may be seen the Japanese delegates. a great university. Such a move on the part of the Chancellor was a challenge to every friend of higher education in America. After thirty-three laborious years at the head of Vanderbilt, after a celebration in which Vanderbilt had taken on heroic proportions in the eyes of the worldg and at an age when most men are withdrawing from active service, he has taken the lead in the hardest fight that the University has yet undertaken for the raising of adequate funds to keep the heart of the University strong and active. The inspiring figure of the Chancellor in this movement is a call that every alumnus of Vanderbilt shall do his full duty in working and giving for the benefit of this campaign. The Medical Department must not live by transfusion of blood from other bodies -the heart of Vanderbilt must be large enough and powerful enough to create its own supply of fresh stu- dent life in its various departmentsg and this means a greatly enlarged Academic Department. President VVhitefoord Cole was widely quoted when he said that Vanderbilt stands not for religion alone, not for science alone, but for science and religion working hand in hand. The Chan- cellor's statement that the answer to

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