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379:, Canada, where he was vacationing. Old Main, Vanderbilt's administration building, was renamed Kirkland Hall in his honor. Kirkland's papers are kept at Vanderbilt University Archives and Special Collections.
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veteran who also received a PhD from the
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Academic Ambitions Meet German Scholarship: The Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University's James H. Kirkland in the Late Nineteenth Century".
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Kirkland was appointed
Professor of Latin at Vanderbilt University in 1886. Two of his colleagues were Baskervill and Smith, his former professors at Wofford. Another colleague was
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Garnett, James M. (1886). "Reviewed Work: A Study of the Anglo-Saxon Poem, the
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Meanwhile, Kirkland was appointed as chancellor in 1893. He was only thirty-three years old. According to
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Volunteer State During the Depression".
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