New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
KLSSAN HALL AT VANDERBILT
TWENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
UNIVERSITY MADE THE OCCASION OF
FORMAL PRESENTATION OF W.
K. vANDERBILTs GIFT.

K. VANDERBILTS GIFT
Nashville, Tenn. Oct 23-Interesting exercises in
celebration OF the twenty-fth anniversary Of Van
derbilt University were held to-day in the Gospel
Tabernacle. Members OF the faculty and Board of
Trustees students and graduates OF the university
formed IN procession the grounds and proceeded
TO the tabernacle Representatives Of many other
colleges and universities and friends of Vanderbilt
were present. Addresses were delivered by Presi-
dent Arthur T. Hadley, OF Yale and Chancellor
Kirkland. Of Vanderbilt The presentation Of
Kssam Hall. the gift of W. X. Vanderbilt, fol-
lowed An elaborate musical programme was
rendered
President Hadey's address was entitled The Di-
rection of American University Development He
said in part
Among the many distinctive features Of Amer
tCan + NE Lnere IS none more distinctive than the
that movement which has resulted In the estab-
Ashment Of Cornell and of Johns Hopkins Of Chi
cago and Leland Stanford; that movement which
IN the New South is led by Vanderbilt University.
greatest value to the citizenship Of the country is
Laat the men and women who come under its infiu-
OF character and with different lines Of human
learning alone tends to have narrowing effect on
the intellectual vision.
furnish means of mutual education. their studies
must be so arranged as to attract the kind of stu
and not for idlers It must furnish hard tasks not
only for the effect of those tasks upon the in
dfvidual but still more for their effect in making
the college place for students who are not afraid
Of difficulties. Our course must be sufficiently
modern TO attract living men and women, yet it
that It IS distraction instead of classic htera-
ture Of different nations not simply because Of the
effect Of those classics, whether ancient modern
in forming the judgments Of the students them
body which cares for something wider than the
present in literature; in art and in history. Our
10 prevent the students from feeling that they have
X
clusively practical that it does not teach theory
sty to make its work a mere anticipation of the
teaching OF the office or the shop. The laboratory
should be an auxiliary to the understanding of
principles, rather than preparation for the doing
of details
Chancellor Kirkland said in part:
Twenty-Five years ago a notable gathering as
sembed in the University Chapel on the vanderbilt
of the Board Of Trust delivered to Chancellor Gar
laRd the keys Of the university and indqcted into
and medical departments. Ample grounds had been
had been erected and fair equipment in sciencs
aaa DegR PToyaeG AtSge5heG e5 & IoT 6nldings
an endowment Of 100000 was in hand. The plane
hlgheT than the actual means in hand allowed. The
growth Of the university has been so steady
cost ms s125 606. to trd m a 52S r 0 st5los t5 @ Ie
maj aT,olJ1t t1a{ tirTs @ va W. III IN i 1Igs
costing $40 coo: this has grown ivefold that
amount. Then we owned only one university build
ing for purposes Of instruction; now work IS
a n
expenditure Of nearly S6oo0o0 Our endowment has
increased from 100000 to sf250O00. Our four de-
Of students has Increased threefoid In 1873 only
about twenty courses Of instruction were available
department offers seventy-three whole year courses
ten twenty-eight. There has been an increase in
instructors therefore Of 28O per cent, and in the
Within the last few years there has been added
came from the ,IelnFestnent, OF funds which we
@ were a9le pie 10 - sen ar premium mi The remainder
Vanderbilt and the Donation Of Kissam Hall by
about $4,000. The university has lately been made
the recipient Of some significant benefactions
aside property worth $1,000 for new line Of work
IN Christian sociology in the Biblical department
one of our own trustees, has provided new chair
FOR the Endowment Of the same can ne m r'sfa SEQ
the university have shown their interest by their
deeds. and have on foot movements looking to the
one IN the academic department To these two
Of all we mention with profoundest gratitude the
Nashyei atnoStIg m m & 70 perhaps $1,000 t"o-thirds
and the remainder In endowment
At the conclusion Of Chancellor Kirklands ad-
dress ode written for the twenty-hfth an
niversary by Olin Dantzler Wanamaker and set 70
music by Mrs F. L Ashford, rendered Ly a
chorus Of sixty voices, assisted by large
chestra-
Kissam Hall the gift Of ". K Vanderbilt. grand
son Of the founder, a memorial his mother
Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, was formally
presented 10 the university by Mr.. Vanderbilt.
The hall is in the form Of hollow square. The
basement is Of stone Above it rise three full
stories of pressed brick. with Bedford stone
trimming The fourth floor, though nearly full Is
built with dormer window effect. Ia the middle
front wall IS the memorial tablet Of Tennessee
marble. bearing the of the gIVer's mother in
aflr letters. The basement contains a dining room
which will accommodate three hundred Students
The kitchen and stOrerooms IN one wing and
the bathrooms I'm the other. In the first there
- FFytrF In ,T-
a small hospital The rest OF the building is oc-
cupied by dormitories.
MRS. C. S. BRICE NOT SERIOUSLY I'LL.