Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-19
SOMETHING ABOUT ODES UNI
VERSHTF
What a Nashville Correspondent A.,
Says. I

S0g8a Il
The Rev. Dr. R. A. Young, Pastor
Elm Street Church of this city, in a recent
letter to the B1ltim0Te Episcopal Metll0-
dist thus refers to our University:
It seems to require a good deal Of ink to
keep the colleges aflOat. We are passing
through the annual commencement season,
and thu Ad00cate family is buIdened with
the weight Of pOnderoGs sdjsotives. As
the VicksDurg landlord would ssy-"We
are an immense people" Il il wise, it is
judicious, it pays vel to advertise.
The Oldest, the wealthiest, the most
fiourishing jnstitUtion Of learning in the
Mississippi Valley is located here; but
have never seen its rams mentioned out
side of the papers published in Nashville.
Davidson Academy IVES chartered by the
Legislature Of North Carolina IL I7S5, ard
went into operation under learned Presby-
telian d,vines, before Tennessee was yet
erected into State. The charter named
nine trustees for its management, and
grant of two hundred and f5riy acres of
Government lard for its support. This
land is now covered by thu southern por-
ton Cf the CITY Of Nashville, and, / sup
pose, has yielded an immense revenue to
the institution. In 1876. the Legislature
Of tennessee raised Davidson Academy to
TIE rank Of Cumberland College, and il
1926 to that of TIE Nashville University.
rs most dis inguished President was Philip
Lindsey, DID the father and grandfather
Of al the Lia5sleys hersEbcuts-a race Of
scholars similar TO the Alexanders and
Doaks. Indeed, the elder Lindsiey declined
Princeton to come here. Our Dr.. Wads-
worth vas Chairman of the Faculty few
wears ago. Gen. E. Kirby Smith is Chan
@. llor now, and Gen. BashrOd r. johnson
The leading Professor.
The Nashville University is within the
CITY limits. Il has q very isIge Campus,
three noble buildings, and several insight
fcaat. Here ara Libraries, apparatus
IGborutory, museum, and al tie old con-
ssrvative things Il is nearly complete.
II you want Bachelors Degree, Masters
Degree, a Doctors Degree, or . Lawyers
Decree, come here. -Four or five hundred
YOUNG men were here last year-a major
iy perhaps in the Medical Department..
The gemphis General Conference might
have established a theological Department
in connection with the school, but we did
not zee fit to do so.
The roll Of ALil9ai would GstOnish you
statesmen, juIists, orators, poets, school
masters. theolOgiGns, and military leaders.
Hitler came, in the olden time, james K
Polk. John Boil, Ephriam Il Foster,
Washington Barrow, and received their
Diplomas. Letter csme TuTley, Cook,
Dickinson, Shields. Ewing, Halsey, Win
chester. McEEsn, Cross, Walker, Pillow,
Stephens, Hume, and LOIS Inst nos las
distirg lished.
''Tne origin of tie great Universities
appears TO have been either literally or
very nearly coeyai will. that of the com
muaities in which they have furnished,
aud whose prosperity and reu0wa they
have SO signally advanced kfhis is true
of Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Harvard. The settlement
at The French Lick"-noW Nashville
wss only six years old when the founds-
lions o. Davidson Academy were laid.
Therefore, we predict, that II the centuries
% come, Nashville University viii rival
| thoss Of the old world. Why notf