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The Student Tailgating Lot
The Vanderbilt student body joins the
SEC in one of football's best traditions. That's right - tailgating! There is a part of
Vandyville reserved exclusively for student tailgating during the football season! Do you
love your Commodore football players, your fellow students, and football die-hards? What better
way to show that love than charring some hot dogs with friends, screaming for the Black and
Gold, and showing visiting fans what it means to be a Dore?!
History of
Vanderbilt University :
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was in his 79th year when he
decided to make the gift that founded Vanderbilt University in the spring of 1873. The $1 million that he
gave to endow and build the university was the Commodore's only major philanthropy. Methodist Bishop Holland N.
McTyeire of Nashville, a cousin of the Commodore's young second wife, went to New York for medical treatment
early in 1873 and spent time recovering in the Vanderbilt mansion. He won the Commodore's admiration and
support for the project of building a university in the South that would quot;contribute to strengthening
the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country.quot;
McTyeire chose the site for the campus, supervised the construction of buildings and personally planted many of
the trees that today make Vanderbilt a National Arboretum. At the outset, the university consisted of one Main
Building (now Kirkland Hall), an astronomical observatory and houses for professors. Landon C. Garland was
Vanderbilt's first chancellor, serving from 1875 to 1893. He advised McTyeire in selecting the faculty,
arranged the curriculum and set the policies of the university.
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