Baccalaureate Address, Pronounced On the Seventh Anniversary Commencement of the University of Nashville, October 3, 1832 by Lindsley, Philip - 1832

Nashville: Printed by Hunt, Tardiff and Co, 1832. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. 20 pages. Moderate toning to the paper. The last leave is detached and a few pages are starting to loosen. Period ink gift inscription top of the title page reads - "John Hinton, Esq with respects of I Hamilton." The author was the President of the University. He states in the opening on page 3, "Have not some, at desperate fraternal discord, already visible? Have not some, at least, of our wise and learned and honorable men begun to calculate the value of our National Union, and even to threaten its dissolution? Is then the fair fame of our infant republic to be tarnished, and the hopes of mankind to be blasted, by the very class of citizens who should have died to prevent a catastrophe so humiliating and disastrous? Whence is it that such men should thus be induced to jeopard national blessings and national glory, actually possessed or certainly within our reach, which have never yet been paralleled in our world? I am willing to believe that there is more delusion than knavery in the case that it is a momentary phrensy which will soon pass away; and that the gathering cloud will disappear long before the tempest shall burst upon our still peaceful habitations." 12 copies held in OCLC.

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The University of Nashville was an educational institution that existed as a distinct entity from 1826 until 1909. During its history, it operated at various times a medical school, a four-year military college, a literary arts (liberal arts) college, and a boys preparatory school. Educational institutions in operation today that can trace their roots to the University of Nashville include Montgomery Bell Academy, an all-male preparatory school; the Vanderbilt University Medical School; Peabody College at Vanderbilt University; and the University School of Nashville, a co-educational preparatory school. The predecessor to the University of Nashville, Davidson Academy, was founded as a preparatory school for boys in Nashville, Tennessee in 1785.[1][2] In 1802 this institution moved to a building in downtown Nashville. The facility, named Cumberland Hall, was located at 300 Peabody St., on the corner of what is now Peabody St. and Third Avenue.[3] The building no longer stands, but a Tennessee State Historical Marker was erected on the site. In 1806, Davidson Academy changed its name to Cumberland College.[1][2] United States President Andrew Jackson served on the board of trustees for many years during this time.[3] Meanwhile, Reverend Philip Lindsley (1786-1855) was named the chancellor of Cumberland College in 1824.[4].