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9780972568005

Chancellors, Commodores, and Coeds : A History of Vanderbilt University

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    9780972568005

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    097256800X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-08-30
  • Publisher: Clearbrook Pr
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Summary

In September 2000 Bill Carey released his first book Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken: A Business History of Nashville. It quickly became a local bestseller, reminding people of the fascinating stories behind the companies and industries that put Nashville on the map -- such as Genesco, the National Life and Accident Insurance Co., Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the country music industry. The Tennessee Library Association and Tennessee Historical Commission named the book History Book of the Year. "I was amazed with how much Bill Carey uncovered that even I didn't know," former Tennessee governor Ned McWherter said upon reading it. Now Carey has turned his attention to the most revered institution in Nashville, Vanderbilt University. And, much like with his first book, the author proves there are fascinating stories behind everything -- anecdotes about chancellors and students, buildings and campus plans, schemes that succeeded, and ideas that failed. Most of these tales are long forgotten.

Author Biography

Bill Carey is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a former naval flight officer. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he has worked as a reporter for many news organizations since he moved to Tennessee in 1992. He now lives in Nashville with his wife, stepdaughter, and son.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xiii
Acknowledgementsp. xvii
McTyeire's Mind to Methodist College
Mr. Aartson's ferry rides: Origins of the Vanderbilt family moneyp. 20
Cornelius fights a war over Nicaragua: Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Walker duel over a rail routep. 22
Nashville 60; Louisville 57: How Nashville barely got the Southern Methodist Publishing Housep. 26
McTyeire the warmonger: The Bishop's career as an antebellum newspaper editorp. 29
The man who slugged Jefferson Davis: Henry Foote, the cantankerous man who used to own Old Centralp. 35
The battle of the bishops: The debate between McTyeire and Pierce over the university ideap. 41
The scandalous sisters and the big donation: Victoria Woodhull, Tennie Claflin, and their patron Cornelius Vanderbiltp. 44
The bishop with the bad back: McTyeire's legendary visit to New Yorkp. 47
McTyeire ignores the local rags: Why the bishop picked the West End sitep. 50
Cornfield to college: Stories from the school's original constructionp. 52
The Bishop's School
McTyeire hires and fires the dream team: Vanderbilt's first wave of facultyp. 60
The season of the Austral: Campus life in 1879p. 66
Barnard and his $250 comet: Vanderbilt's self-taught astronomerp. 70
The black school across the street: The rise and fall of Roger Williams Universityp. 75
The ghost of Ben King: A cadaver haunts the medical school and impresses a reporterp. 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 Teachersp. 87
Vanderbilt in 1901: Campus life at the turn of the last centuryp. 92
A department of tinkers and builders: A history of the engineering schoolp. 95
A suicide and a castle: The scandalous lawsuit that led to Furman Hallp. 101
Dog breeders and x-ray experiments: Some unforgettable faculty membersp. 105
The school without a building: A history of the law schoolp. 109
The game the way it used to be: Football in its deadly erap. 112
The fundraising campaign that failed: Chancellor Kirkland's disappointing Twentieth Century Fundp. 119
The tramp of the unborn: The lawsuit that split Vanderbilt from the Methodist Churchp. 121
Mr. Kirkland's School
One campus, many plans: The strange reasons Vanderbilt's buildings are where they arep. 128
Peabody goes its own way: How Kirkland's plans to merge the two schools went awryp. 136
Mr. Flexner changes everything: The friendship that saved the Vanderbilt Medical Schoolp. 140
The abandonment of Galloway Hospital: The medical school moves across townp. 143
Hazing and the Baldheaded Brotherhood: Some half-remembered traditions from early campus yearsp. 146
Vanderbilt's weird war experience: The army takes over the campus during World War Ip. 152
The mayor and chairman declare martial law: A Vanderbilt professor is fired for being a socialistp. 158
Philosophers and poets: The Fugitives meet, drink, talk, and crack cornp. 161
The first of its kind: Dudley Field: The house McGugin builtp. 165
The name that won't die: Vanderbilt's many buildings called Wesleyp. 171
Buck Green of Vanderbilt: The silent picture Vanderbilt made in 1925p. 174
They take their stand: The Agrarians make the news and mortify Mimsp. 177
The best and worst of times: Campus life at the height of the Great Depressionp. 182
A library for four schools: The story behind the Joint University Libraryp. 187
The other, equally controversial Hustler: Strange and not-so-strange people who have worked for the student newspaperp. 191
Mr. Branscomb's School
Cigarettes with lipstick on them: Campus life during World War IIp. 198
The man who wrote about what he saw: The life and times of Robert Penn Warrenp. 202
Sneaking into the tunnels: More half-remembered traditions: some legal, others notp. 206
The helpful bridge builder: The many contributions of Arthur J. Dyerp. 211
The gym with the benches in the wrong place: Snippets from the history of Vanderbilt basketballp. 215
Harvie versus the football team: How one chancellor tried and failed to reform the SECp. 219
Lust, repression, and good clean fun: Banned student publications and the great panty raid of 1957p. 223
The medical school nearly goes away: The Vanderbilt Hospital and its relationship with Nashvillep. 228
Visits, bizarre and fortuitous: People who came and didn't stay long: "Bear" Bryant and Steve Martin, for examplep. 234
Harvie versus the frat boys: The battle over the Greek system in the 1950sp. 238
Vanderbilt gets in bed with big brother: Urban renewal, part onep. 245
Branscomb decides to stay put: Urban renewal, part twop. 250
The internationalist and revisionist: The ever-controversial Denna Flemingp. 253
James Lawson refuses to quit: Vanderbilt encounters the sit-in movementp. 256
Branscomb gets it from the left: The Divinity School rebels over the Lawson affairp. 261
Breaking with the past
The chancellor, the future governor, and the referendum: Lamar Alexander and the race debate of 1962p. 268
A split-level house for a basset hound: The tale of George the mascotp. 272
Tolerance and Rap from the 11th Floor: Campus life and campus change in the mid-1960sp. 275
Games, tragedies, and embarrassments: Unforgettable and forgettable football gamesp. 279
A Vanderbilt guest starts a riot: The Stokley Carmichael riotp. 282
Heard gets it from the right: The Stokley Carmichael aftermathp. 288
Dinah, Dickey, and the president of Panama: A few notable alumnip. 290
Changing the game: Perry Wallace integrates the SECp. 293
Sarratt and the quiet lounge: Vanderbilt's strange but delightful student centerp. 298
Protesting everything: Hippies, dissent, and the Vietnam Warp. 304
Vanderbilt gets its slum: Urban renewal, part threep. 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 1974p. 323
A new century
Peabody comes into the fold: How and why Vanderbilt and its neighbor mergedp. 328
Typical and atypical coeds: Milestones in a century of Vanderbilt womenp. 335
Women's dorm to international house: The legacy of McTyeire Hallp. 342
The tradition that is always ugly: The unhappy fate of the Vanderbilt football coachp. 344
The business school in the funeral home: A history of the Owen School of Managementp. 349
Grenada Liberation Day and the return of prohibition: Campus life in the mid-1980sp. 353
Electives, dance class, and sex ed: Students get a choicep. 357
The chancellor who thought about money: The Joe Wyatt erap. 360
Harassment and outlawed insults: Political correctness takes over the campusp. 370
Nobel winners and jungle adventurers: A few more memorable faculty membersp. 374
Open campus to Vanderbubble: The campus becomes safe, sober, and comfortablep. 376
Conclusionp. 383
Appendixp. 389
Sourcesp. 393
Indexp. 417
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