Robert A. McGaw - The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictorial History
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data McGaw, Robert A., 1914 The Vanderbilt campus. Includes index. 1. Vanderbilt University, NashvillePictorial works History. I. Vanderbilt University, Nashville. II. Title. LD5588.M33378.768'5578-9913 ISBN 0-8265-1210-0
Copyright 1978 by Vanderbilt University
Printed in the United States of America
Page 5
Contents
Acknowledgments
7
Poem: "Morning was golden..."
8
The Situation
11
The Founding
13
Main Building, i.e., Kirkland Hall
28
The Old Gym: Victorian Gothic Preserved
36
1880s: "On the city's western border, Reared against the sky"
42
1890s: A place to learn, a place to live, a place to play
48
1902: "A plan providing for all future buildings"
54
1905: The Plan Refined (for a while)
60
South Campus
64
1920s: A New Plan for a Unified University
70
1940s: The Effects of Fire, Depression, and War
76
Postwar Expansion
82
The Campus Extended
98
The Tenth Decade
104
The Centennial Years
112
Growth of Vanderbilt Medical Center
122
The Trees
137
In Memory of
145
Architects
149
Picture Credits
151
Index
155
Page 7
Acknowledgments
This book had its beginning in an exhibit mounted in the corridors of Kirkland Hall April 28, 1974, the day Vanderbilt celebrated the centennial of the campus by observing the hundredth anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of that first building. The exhibit owed its visual appeal to the artistry of Robert A. Baldwin, who designed it, and of J. Clark Thomas, who made most of the newer photographs and copied older ones from the archives. The exhibit is expanded and updated by the book, which contains considerably more text and almost twice as many pictures.
The book would hardly have been possible without the Vanderbilt Photographic Archive, which in four years since its modest start in 1974 gathered many pictures from scattered places and made them secure as well as accessible. I am therefore especially indebted to Kay Russell Beasley and her predecessors in the office, J. Clark Thomas and Beth Tanner.
Grateful am I for having known personally a good many close observers of the Vanderbilt scene. Two who did the most over the longest time to save the pictorial record of the University's history were John T. McGill and Stella Vaughn. Dr. McGill entered Vanderbilt as a student in 1876 and scarcely left the place until he died in 1946, professor emeritus, age 94. Miss Stella came at age ten in 1882, when her father joined the faculty, and lived on the campus or a block away until she died in 1960. Aileen Bishop was another savior of Vanderbilt ephemera while serving from 1915 to 1958 as secretary to Chancellors Kirkland, Carmichael, and Branscomb. Edward Bryan knew every cranny of the campus and saw that the records of the physical plant were kept in good order from the time he was given responsibility for it in 1924 until he retired in 1971.
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