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University of Nashville was a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was established in 1806 as Cumberland College . It existed as a distinct entity until 1909; operating at various times a medical school, a four-year military college, a literary arts (liberal arts) college, and a boys preparatory school.
Walker married Ethel Mathews on December 17, 1903, the daughter of publisher Andrew Francis Mathews of Nashville. They had two children: Bradley Walker Jr., who died in infancy, and Ethel Walker. [1] Ethel Walker became a pediatrician and was one of the notable alumni of the Peabody Demonstration School (later University School of Nashville). [40]
William Everett Derryberry, St. John's College, BA 1932 MA 1940; had a 34-year academic career as president of Tennessee Technological University, where he oversaw the transformation of the school from a campus of a few acres and a few buildings with 700 students and 31 faculty members to a university comprising six colleges and schools on 235 ...
The combined school offered university and high school instruction to young men, the latter continuing to operate under the name Western Military Institute, though the controlling organization in the merger was the University of Nashville. Sam Davis, "Boy Hero of the Confederacy", attended the Western Military Institute from 1860 to 1861. [3]
Stearns died on April 11, 1887, in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] [5] His funeral was held by an Episcopal pastor in Nashville, [6] and he was buried in Bedford, Massachusetts. [7] Meanwhile, he was replaced as Chancellor of the University of Nashville and President of the Peabody Normal School by William H. Payne. [8]
From 1870 to 1875, former Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith was the chancellor of the University of Nashville, which comprised both a two-year college operating as the University of Nashville, and MBA, the preparatory high school and grammar school. In 1875, a financial crisis and a donation from the Peabody Fund caused an organizational ...
University of Florida Emerson Alumni Hall. An alumni association or alumnae association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students ().In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organization.