VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

a seat of learning situated in Nashville, Tenn., chartered in 1872 as the Central University. It was practically the creation of Cornel i us Vanderbilt of New York (after whom it is named) who endowed it in 1873 with $500,000 and increased the sum to $1,000,000. Its departments include law, medicine, theology, arts, dentistry and pharmacy. The Vanderbilt family aided the institution with frequent gifts and Andrew Carnegie contributed $1,000,000 to the School of Medicine. It was originally affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, but is now undenominational. In 1922 there were 1245 students and a teaching staff of 198 under the presi-