SOUTH, UNIVERSITY OF THE. An institution of learning at Sewanee, Tenn.. founded in 1857 by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the South. A tract of nearly 10.000 acres was secured as a site, $500.000 was subscribed for an endowment fund, and the cornerstone of the central building was laid when the Civil War broke out. At the end of the war the pledges of an endowment could not be realized. Funds were secured to be gin the institution on a small scale, largely through the efforts of Bishop C. T. Quintard of Tennessee, and it was opened in 186S with a grammar school and an academic department. A theological department was opened about 1878, a medical department in 1892, and a law depart ment in 1893. The college domain, mostly cov ered with original forest, is situated on a plateau of the Cumberland :Mountains. about 1000 feet above the surrounding valleys. The permanent buildings, eight in number, stand in a domain of 1000 acres, and are valued at $350,000. The college year is divided into three terms—Trinity, Advent, and Lent. The vacation is taken from December to March. The academic department
embraces 15 schools, a certificate and diploma being given in each school. The degrees con ferred are B.A. (60 courses), M.A. and M.S. (15 courses of an advanced character), and C.E. The work Is mostly prescribed. In theology the degrees of B.D. and Graduate in Divinity are given; in law, LL.B.; iu medicine, M.D. A school of pharmacy, with the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy, and a training school for nurses are connected with the medical school. All members of the professional schools and such academic students as have passed a certain number of university examinations and have suf ficient maturity in age and character are formed by the governing board into an order of Gowns men. These are distinguished by the academic dress (the Oxford cap and gown) and enjoy cer tain privileges and immunities. In 1903 the faculties numbered 41. and the student body 556, divided as follows: theological. 26; medical, 227; law, 17; academic, 122; preparatory, 164. The library contained 41.000 volumes.