Commodore City: Vanderbilt and Nashville continue their collegial relationship into the next 150 years
May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 15 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
by Lena Anthony, BS'03
When Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the $1 million gift that founded Vanderbilt University in 1873, he had never visited the Tennessee city that would carry on his legacy. But he did know one of its residents: Holland McTyiere, a newspaper editor turned Southern Methodist bishop who was the leader of a movement within the church to establish "an institution of learnin . . .
by Lena Anthony, BS'03
When Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the $1 million gift that founded Vanderbilt University in 1873, he had never visited the Tennessee city that would carry on his legacy. But he did know one of its residents: Holland McTyiere, a newspaper editor turned Southern Methodist bishop who was the leader of a movement within the church to establish "an institution of learnin . . .