Word: kirklander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stirred from his Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
Next day the news overshadowed everything else at Vanderbilt's commencement exercises, even an address by the Bank of England's eminent Economist Sir Josiah Stamp, for not only had James Hampton Kirkland been the "Chance" longer than almost anyone could remember but his 44 years at Vanderbilt had spanned one of the most successful university presidencies...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee...
Chancellor Kirkland has always put Vanderbilt first (current endowment: $28,000,000). But more than any other Southern educator he helped to prime the flow of Northern money that has enriched such schools at Tulane, Atlanta and Tuskegee. And the voice of Southern education is the Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools of Southern States which he founded in 1895 to step up admission requirements, arrange transfers, regulate athletic competition...
Chancellor-Emeritus Kirkland, the Board of Trust announced, would leave Vanderbilt in the capable hands of Graduate Dean Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, who was brought to Vanderbilt two years ago from the presidency of Alabama College to effect Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama...