Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-29
Uhe University Of Nashville As lt Is
The Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees.
In corporations of charitable and edu-
cational character, the functions of the
trustees who, as rule, work gratuitously,
being satisfied with the honor always in
| intelligent communities gratefully and cor
| daily conceded them, are limited to two
| fold Office, each essential to the well bel q
of the school or charity confided to their
care. First, their work is to carefully hold
and increase the real and personal property,
or funds, the foundation, Of their charge;
Secondly, to select proper persons to carly
out the object of the institution, be it
school or asylum. When both these OBJ
jects are accomplished, the Board is sue
cess.
Upon scanning closely the composition
of the Board above named, we cannot for
bear the reflection that if Board thus
made up fails to make both these points adj
mirably well, then it is in vain to look any
where for suitable Trustees. Commencing
with the last name on the list, we find it to
be Hon. E. II. East, who has represented
our county in the Legislature, served as
Secretary of S ate, and was elected under
most honorable circumst noes Chancellor
of this district. n x6 is Hon. Fl. 81. Har-
rison, who has been Clerk of the Federal
Court, Chancellor, Supreme Judge, and now
is our representative in Congress. Then
Hon. W. F. Cooper, the present Chancellor,
formerly Supreme Judge elect, whose name
is synonym for law and learning. S. Wat
son, Esq, is widely known as one of the
most enterprisiDg manufacturers in Tennes-
see, and for having been entrusted with the
winding up the Bank of Tennessee by sew
eral Legislatures. He is also member of
the Peabody Fund Trust, President of the
State Teachers Association, and a most
active worke' in behalf Of porular educa-
ton. John NJ. Bass is well known as for
merly Mayor of Nashville, Bank President,
Treasurer of the Eoard of Trustees of the |
University Of the South, and Receiver of |
the Corporation of Nashville-an office IN |
ike that ever held before or since in Amer |
lea. James Woods, the great iron manu- |
facturer and whole-souled philanthropist, |
from whose counting room, in the palmy |
days Of cd, no begg2r, great or small, ever |
turned away without being made |
doubiy happy by the gift and
the manner of the giving. |
A. L. p. Greeu, d. D., the onlyj representa- |
tive of the clergy, among the most promin- |
ent writer's aud speakers in the Methodist |
Episcopal Church South, and a member of |
several other Boards of Trust. w. I. |
Berry, the great book merchant, who has |
done IS much to promote the intellectual |
development of Nashville as any man in it; |
g. K. Winston, NJ. D., the only member of |
the medical profession in the Board, one of |
the founders of it, medical school, widely |
known in professional, political and relig- |
ious circles as ready aud effective orator, |
and as a progressive, public spirited man.
Then we have the Hon. John Trimble who |
has been sent time and again by the voice
of the sovereign people to The General As
sembly, who has been on the bench and in 1
Congress. OF the Hon. Charles
Ready, and the Hon. Edwin II.
Ewing, very much the same may be said,
for these three names have been very prom
inent in the political history Of the State
during the last thirty years. We next find
a name which stands pre-eminent in Ten
Dessee as the representative both of the in-
dustrial and mercantile callings, to-wit,
Samuel d. Morgan, whose history is identi-
fed with that of the Capitol, the great cot
ton Factory, aud the University. Jacob
McGsvock aud Francis B. Fogg are the Sc
niors Of the Board, men who came to this
city when it was small Viilage-the former
for thirty years or more clerk of the Fed
eral Court; the latter for half a CEN
tury one of the brightest ornaments of
the bsr and most devoted friend
Of education in all its aspects, Then as
actiOg for the people Of whole State,
there IS John g. Brown, the Governor, who
is by the charter ex-officio member of the
Board, thus forming a connection between
the State and the University. The other
two points of connection being that the
Legislature has the power to veto the cleo
ton of the members, who are chosen by
the Board itself; and that the Board is re-
CURED to make full report of its doiDgs to
each biennial session. The Trustees who
are officers Of the Board, are A. V. s.
Lindsey, Secretary and Treasurer, for the
past thirty years or more, who has been
Postmaster of Nashville, State Senator, and
member of many public corporations dur
ing an active law and business career; and
the Hon. John NJ. Lea, President
of the Board, who has been Mayor
of the city, Judge of the Circuit
Court, aud declined more than once the
urgent solicitations of the psOple to take
high political offices. ANY of our readers
by reviewing this list will at once perceive
that it embraces representatives of all pro-
fessiOns, callings, and creeds, political and
and that all the names in it are
well known and hoDored for integrity,
ability, and faithful discharge of duty in all
public and private. The Univer-
sity is now and always has been, remark
ably fortunate in is Board of Trustees.
The great results produced by its skillful
handling of the comparatively limited
means in its control, and the faithful care
exhibited in its oversight of the Institution
is conspicuous y manifest in the eventful
history of the past score Of years which in
our next we propose to glance at.
An Eventful Life.
L. NAV he fr1llv said that Anna Dickirn |