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Vanderbilt University,

An educational institution in Nashville, Tenn.; an outgrowth of a movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for higher education in that denomination. It was known as the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, until the elder Cornelius Vanderbilt gave it $500,000, when its name was changed to that of the donor. Later Mr. Vanderbilt increased his donation to $1,000,000, and at various times his son, William Henry, made gifts amounting to $450,000. The university has departments of theology, medicine, law, dentistry, engineering, and pharmacy. In 1900 it reported: Professors and instructors, ninety; students, 777; volumes in the library, 30,000; productive funds, $1,250,000; grounds and buildings valued at $600,000; income, $125,000; number of graduates, 3,600; president, J. H. Kirkland, Ll.D., Ph.D.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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