Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
McTyeire's Mind to Methodist College | |
Mr. Aartson's ferry rides: Origins of the Vanderbilt family money | p. 20 |
Cornelius fights a war over Nicaragua: Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Walker duel over a rail route | p. 22 |
Nashville 60; Louisville 57: How Nashville barely got the Southern Methodist Publishing House | p. 26 |
McTyeire the warmonger: The Bishop's career as an antebellum newspaper editor | p. 29 |
The man who slugged Jefferson Davis: Henry Foote, the cantankerous man who used to own Old Central | p. 35 |
The battle of the bishops: The debate between McTyeire and Pierce over the university idea | p. 41 |
The scandalous sisters and the big donation: Victoria Woodhull, Tennie Claflin, and their patron Cornelius Vanderbilt | p. 44 |
The bishop with the bad back: McTyeire's legendary visit to New York | p. 47 |
McTyeire ignores the local rags: Why the bishop picked the West End site | p. 50 |
Cornfield to college: Stories from the school's original construction | p. 52 |
The Bishop's School | |
McTyeire hires and fires the dream team: Vanderbilt's first wave of faculty | p. 60 |
The season of the Austral: Campus life in 1879 | p. 66 |
Barnard and his $250 comet: Vanderbilt's self-taught astronomer | p. 70 |
The black school across the street: The rise and fall of Roger Williams University | p. 75 |
The ghost of Ben King: A cadaver haunts the medical school and impresses a reporter | p. 79 |
Kill the sparrows, save the starlings: Vanderbilt's trees, wildlife, and the cave called "Black Egypt" | p. 82 |
Nashville gets a teaching school: Peabody Normal College becomes George Peabody College for Teachers | p. 87 |
Vanderbilt in 1901: Campus life at the turn of the last century | p. 92 |
A department of tinkers and builders: A history of the engineering school | p. 95 |
A suicide and a castle: The scandalous lawsuit that led to Furman Hall | p. 101 |
Dog breeders and x-ray experiments: Some unforgettable faculty members | p. 105 |
The school without a building: A history of the law school | p. 109 |
The game the way it used to be: Football in its deadly era | p. 112 |
The fundraising campaign that failed: Chancellor Kirkland's disappointing Twentieth Century Fund | p. 119 |
The tramp of the unborn: The lawsuit that split Vanderbilt from the Methodist Church | p. 121 |
Mr. Kirkland's School | |
One campus, many plans: The strange reasons Vanderbilt's buildings are where they are | p. 128 |
Peabody goes its own way: How Kirkland's plans to merge the two schools went awry | p. 136 |
Mr. Flexner changes everything: The friendship that saved the Vanderbilt Medical School | p. 140 |
The abandonment of Galloway Hospital: The medical school moves across town | p. 143 |
Hazing and the Baldheaded Brotherhood: Some half-remembered traditions from early campus years | p. 146 |
Vanderbilt's weird war experience: The army takes over the campus during World War I | p. 152 |
The mayor and chairman declare martial law: A Vanderbilt professor is fired for being a socialist | p. 158 |
Philosophers and poets: The Fugitives meet, drink, talk, and crack corn | p. 161 |
The first of its kind: Dudley Field: The house McGugin built | p. 165 |
The name that won't die: Vanderbilt's many buildings called Wesley | p. 171 |
Buck Green of Vanderbilt: The silent picture Vanderbilt made in 1925 | p. 174 |
They take their stand: The Agrarians make the news and mortify Mims | p. 177 |
The best and worst of times: Campus life at the height of the Great Depression | p. 182 |
A library for four schools: The story behind the Joint University Library | p. 187 |
The other, equally controversial Hustler: Strange and not-so-strange people who have worked for the student newspaper | p. 191 |
Mr. Branscomb's School | |
Cigarettes with lipstick on them: Campus life during World War II | p. 198 |
The man who wrote about what he saw: The life and times of Robert Penn Warren | p. 202 |
Sneaking into the tunnels: More half-remembered traditions: some legal, others not | p. 206 |
The helpful bridge builder: The many contributions of Arthur J. Dyer | p. 211 |
The gym with the benches in the wrong place: Snippets from the history of Vanderbilt basketball | p. 215 |
Harvie versus the football team: How one chancellor tried and failed to reform the SEC | p. 219 |
Lust, repression, and good clean fun: Banned student publications and the great panty raid of 1957 | p. 223 |
The medical school nearly goes away: The Vanderbilt Hospital and its relationship with Nashville | p. 228 |
Visits, bizarre and fortuitous: People who came and didn't stay long: "Bear" Bryant and Steve Martin, for example | p. 234 |
Harvie versus the frat boys: The battle over the Greek system in the 1950s | p. 238 |
Vanderbilt gets in bed with big brother: Urban renewal, part one | p. 245 |
Branscomb decides to stay put: Urban renewal, part two | p. 250 |
The internationalist and revisionist: The ever-controversial Denna Fleming | p. 253 |
James Lawson refuses to quit: Vanderbilt encounters the sit-in movement | p. 256 |
Branscomb gets it from the left: The Divinity School rebels over the Lawson affair | p. 261 |
Breaking with the past | |
The chancellor, the future governor, and the referendum: Lamar Alexander and the race debate of 1962 | p. 268 |
A split-level house for a basset hound: The tale of George the mascot | p. 272 |
Tolerance and Rap from the 11th Floor: Campus life and campus change in the mid-1960s | p. 275 |
Games, tragedies, and embarrassments: Unforgettable and forgettable football games | p. 279 |
A Vanderbilt guest starts a riot: The Stokley Carmichael riot | p. 282 |
Heard gets it from the right: The Stokley Carmichael aftermath | p. 288 |
Dinah, Dickey, and the president of Panama: A few notable alumni | p. 290 |
Changing the game: Perry Wallace integrates the SEC | p. 293 |
Sarratt and the quiet lounge: Vanderbilt's strange but delightful student center | p. 298 |
Protesting everything: Hippies, dissent, and the Vietnam War | p. 304 |
Vanderbilt gets its slum: Urban renewal, part three | p. 315 |
The tire showroom on West Side Row: A freshman disobeys orders and starts the Mayo Tire Co. | p. 321 |
Streakers and coed dorms: The coed dorm controversy of 1974 | p. 323 |
A new century | |
Peabody comes into the fold: How and why Vanderbilt and its neighbor merged | p. 328 |
Typical and atypical coeds: Milestones in a century of Vanderbilt women | p. 335 |
Women's dorm to international house: The legacy of McTyeire Hall | p. 342 |
The tradition that is always ugly: The unhappy fate of the Vanderbilt football coach | p. 344 |
The business school in the funeral home: A history of the Owen School of Management | p. 349 |
Grenada Liberation Day and the return of prohibition: Campus life in the mid-1980s | p. 353 |
Electives, dance class, and sex ed: Students get a choice | p. 357 |
The chancellor who thought about money: The Joe Wyatt era | p. 360 |
Harassment and outlawed insults: Political correctness takes over the campus | p. 370 |
Nobel winners and jungle adventurers: A few more memorable faculty members | p. 374 |
Open campus to Vanderbubble: The campus becomes safe, sober, and comfortable | p. 376 |
Conclusion | p. 383 |
Appendix | p. 389 |
Sources | p. 393 |
Index | p. 417 |
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