The Sweet Water Hotel and its famous lithia spring water were so popular that Mark Twain, members of the Vanderbilt family, and Presidents Cleveland, Taft, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt all enjoyed the many amenities of the resort which included the world famous Lithia Vapor Baths.

Vanderbilt was a sportsman, and he particularly enjoyed fox hunting and coaching.

He enjoyed yachting with his friend, William K. Vanderbilt.

Gee enjoyed a relatively calm tenure at Vanderbilt compared to Brown.

William Kissam Vanderbilt enjoyed fishing on the river so much that he had a private fishing lodge built, hiring the famous New York City architect Stanford White to design and oversee construction of the property called Kedgwick Lodge and fuelling the love affair of corporate America with the Restigouche.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

Particularly significant in this respect were two groups of critics and writers who were associated with Vanderbilt University in the early twentieth century: the Fugitives and the Agrarians.

The method of growing Rickettsia in chicken embryos was invented by Ernest William Goodpasture and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University in the early 1930s.

" William K. Vanderbilt II bought land around the lake in the early 19th Century for a home.

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ( born February 20, 1924 ) is an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans.

Vanderbilt severed its ties with the denomination in the early 1900s.

The pinnacle of the early days of CU football was the 1903 season that began with a 6-0 win over Vanderbilt then a 6-0 loss to Sewanee and continued with a five day road trip that finished with victories over Tennessee ( 86-0 ), Tulane ( 28-0 ), LSU ( 41-0 ), Alabama ( 44-0 ), and Grant of Chattanooga ( 92-0 ).

The neighborhood was the site of the farm where Cornelius Vanderbilt grew up, at the location of the present-day Paramount Theater building on Bay Street ( the theater itself having closed in the early 1980s ).

Oilers ' owner Bud Adams was so disgusted that he ripped up the Memphis agreement a year early in favor of playing at Vanderbilt in 1998.

In its early history, much of the surrounding land was owned by the Vanderbilt family.

In the early years Vanderbilt often slept in the barns, overseeing the breeding and training of his stable.

Contrary to previous estate publications, Vanderbilt was an early and ardent driver ; documents show he " upgraded " to the ' 13 Duryea ( from the previous year's model ) because the newer car featured electric lamps ( as opposed to oils ).

In early 1881, William Henry Vanderbilt could have had the Nickel Plate for one million dollars, equal to $ today.

It usually sold out, especially for conference games, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s Vanderbilt was consistently in the top ten for attendance in all of college basketball, a remarkable achievement for a middle-sized private institution.

In the early 1970s Peabody students became eligible to participate on Vanderbilt athletic teams.

An early source for the story identifies Vanderbilt as a regular customer, but not as the unintentional co-originator of the famous snack.

From Yale he moved to Lansing, Michigan to work for motoring pioneer Ransom E. Olds at Oldsmobile, where he was employed as a race mechanic during the early Vanderbilt cup races.

On the other hand, Vanderbilt Professor Kathy L. Gaca ( The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, University of California Press, 2003 ) promotes a view of Epiphanes as one of the voices in early Christianity who held a positive and liberationist view of sexual pleasure, and who was among those like him who were ultimately silenced by the victorious sex-negative leadership represented by Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine.

Influenced by reports from private detectives as well as family servants and Laura Morgan ( who appears by all published accounts to have been somewhat emotionally and mentally unbalanced and who testified on Mrs. Whitney's side at the trial ), members of the Vanderbilt family came to believe that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was a bad influence and neglectful of her daughter.

Also, Torrance ’ s influence can be seen in the thinking of Matthew Baker of Fordham University ; Elmer Colyer of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, one of the founding Directors of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance ; Gary Deddo, Senior Editor at InterVarsity Press and founding President of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance ; George Dion Dragas, Professor of Patrology and Patristics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts ; Eric Flett of Eastern University, St. David ’ s, Pennsylvania and author of a book on the Theology of Culture as understood through the thinking of Torrance ; Michael Gibson of Vanderbilt University ; Myk Habets of Carey Baptist College, Auckland, New Zealand, author of a number of works on Torrance, including a book on Torrance and Theosis ; George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of a number of works on Torrance as well as an important book on the Eucharist, influenced by Torrance ; Christian Kettler of Friends University, Kansas, the current President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of books that demonstrate Torrance ’ s influence ; Paul D. Molnar, Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John ’ s University in Queens, New York, past President of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and author of a number of works on Torrance including a book on Torrance ’ s trinitarian theology ; and Andrew Purves, Chair in Reformed Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

After starting at Vanderbilt University Law School, he joined the Arkansas National Guard during the height of the Vietnam War.

His son Tom ( 1933 – 2006 ), helped build U. S. Route 127 heading north out of town as it rises up the mountain near the county line, during a summer job between semesters at Vanderbilt.

After a lengthy trial ( during which time the lawyer died ) Vanderbilt won and was awarded nearly $ 1. 7 million, but the money was never recovered, though she was also awarded $ 300, 000 by the New York Bar Association from its Victims of Fraud fund.

The Vanderbilt family is an American family of railroad notability who became socially prominent during the first half of the nineteenth-century.

Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at age 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, made him one of the wealthiest men in the world.

Cornelius Vanderbilt had been awarded a gold medal by the United States government during the American Civil War for donating his steamer S. S. Vanderbilt to the Union forces.

Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and " Commodore " Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the most influential industrialists during the Gilded Age.

He first became a national celebrity when he ad libbed for a half-hour during the rain-delayed Vanderbilt Cup from an airplane.

As the previous mansion on the property owned by Pierre Lorillard IV burned during 1892, Cornelius Vanderbilt II insisted that the building be made as fireproof as possible and as such, the structure of the building used steel trusses and no wooden parts.

Vanderbilt died from a cerebral hemorrhage caused from a second stroke during 1899 at the age of 55, leaving The Breakers to his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt.

The discrepancy was discovered upon an examination of the Morgan twins ' childhood passports and their birth certificates during the Vanderbilt custody trial in 1934.

Neily Vanderbilt was an inveterate tinkerer with all things mechanical and during his lifetime he patented more than thirty inventions for improving locomotives and freight cars, including several which brought him a significant royalty income.

On the one hand, he defended his choice of Thomas to his superiors at Vanderbilt and to Hopkins colleagues, and he insisted that Thomas accompany him in the operating room during the first series of tetralogy operations.

The Fugitives made Vanderbilt a fountainhead of the New Criticism, the dominant mode of textual analysis in English during the first half of the twentieth century.

Unfortunately, Blalock had frequent bouts of tuberculosis during his Vanderbilt years.

He served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II, and subsequently graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Law.

At Heaven's Gate can be definitely linked to Warren's residence in Nashville, Tennessee during his time at Vanderbilt University.

Trevecca and Vanderbilt also have a joint program allowing students interested in marching band to participate in the Vandy band during Vanderbilt's football season.

However, it was during these university years that his interest in photography took root: a friend at Vanderbilt gave Eggleston a Leica camera.

Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, he studied at Vanderbilt University's engineering school for one year before joining in the Army during World War I.

Miss Jennings, also a graduate of Vanderbilt University, was elected " Miss Vanderbilt " during her senior year.