Excerpt from A History of Cumberland University: 1842-1935 The writing of this narrative has been a very pleasant task. The work has been done with one object only in View, that the good may live on. In reciting this history and telling something of its heroes, there is no disposition to abide or even linger in the past. The account here given is written purely for the people of to-day and for the generation that follows. A leading educator, Dr. J. H. Snowden, says: The present is always an outgrowth of the past, and we must always go back to understand and decide present issues. Life has deep roots, and we are what we are to-day because of what we did yesterday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.