The New Student's Reference Work/Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University, a coeducational institution founded in 1872 at Nashville, Tenn., as the Central University of the M. E. Church South, the name being changed to its present one in the following year, in honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt's gift of a million dollars to it, since supplemented by other monetary donations from members of the Vanderbilt family and by contributions from the Nashville citizens. It has a fine equipment in buildings, laboratories etc., besides college-grounds 75 acres in extent. The university prepares for the bachelor's degree in arts, divinity, law, engineering and science; for the M. A. degree in arts, science and pharmacy; and for the doctor's degree in philosophy, science and medical and dental surgery; besides courses with degrees in civil, mechanical and mining engineering. Its teaching staff, with the faculty, numbers 125; while in 1910 it had an attendance of 985 students.