Tennessee (Nashville, 1891); Caldwell, Studies in the Constitutional History of Tennessee (Cincinnati, 1895); Allison, Dropped Stitches in Tennessee History (Nashville, 1897); McGee, History of Tennessee (New York, 1899); Temple, East Tennessee and the Civil War (Cincinnati, 1899); Fertig, Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee (University of Chicago Press, 1898); Tennessee Historical Society Papers.
TENNESSEE, The. A formidable Confederate ram crippled by the Hartford of Admiral Farragut's fleet, and taken in Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
TENNESSEE, University of. A coeducational State institution at Knoxville, Tenn., founded in 1794 as Blount College. Its title was changed in 1807 to East Tennessee College, in 1840 to East Tennessee University, and in 1879 to its present name. The institution comprises the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and the university proper. The college has an agricultural department with a four years' course and a short course for farmers; an engineering department with four years' courses in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering and chemistry; a literary department; and an industrial department for colored students (Knoxville College). The university consists of an academic department with courses for the graduate degrees of M.A. and M.S. and professional courses in engineering, law, medicine, and dentistry, the medical and dental departments being situated in Nashville. University extension work is carried on by means of teachers' institutes, farmers' institutes and conventions, and conferences on education. A summer school and a department of education have also been established. The university has a liberal system of accredited scholars whose certificates are accepted in place of the entrance examinations. The State has established 275 free scholarships in the academic department, and one free scholarship is given to each accredited school outside the State. The attendance in 1903 was 756 and the faculty numbered 120. The library contained about 20,000 volumes. The endowment in that year was $425,000 and the income about $103,716.29. The grounds and buildings were valued at $491,929.98.
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. An exposition held in Nashville, Tenn., May 1 to October 30, 1897, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State into the Union. The site covered about 200 acres, and a characteristic feature of the landscape plan was the sward planted with the famous blue grass of the region. The buildings, of which there were over a hundred, included those devoted to agriculture, commerce, education, fine arts, history, machinery, minerals and forestry, and transportation, as well as those in which the special exhibits pertaining to children, negroes, the United States Government, and women were shown. The total attendance was 1,786,714, of which the total paid attendance was 1,166,692. The total receipts were $1,101,285, and the disbursements $1,101,246. Consult Justi, Official History of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition (Nashville, 1898).
TENNESSEE RIVER. The largest tributary of the Ohio. It is formed by the union of the Holston and the North Fork, which rise in the Alleghany Mountains of southwestern Virginia, and unite near Kingsport in the northeastern part of Tennessee (Map: Kentucky, C 4). According to some authorities the Holston extends to the junction with the French Broad River at Knoxville, and according to others even to the Clinch River at Kingston. The river flows first southwest between the Alleghany ridges, and then makes a great waving curve through northern Alabama from its northeastern to its northwestern corner. Reëntering Tennessee, it flows northward across the State, then northwest across Kentucky to its confluence with the Ohio at Paducah. Its length, including the Holston, is 1200 miles. Its chief affluents are the French Broad, the Clinch, Hiawassee, Sequatchie, Elk, and Duck. Except at the Muscle Shoals in Alabama, navigation is unobstructed from the mouth of the river to Chattanooga, a distance of 450 miles. The Muscle Shoals are a series of rapids, where the river flows over limestone rocks from Florence to Decatur, a distance of 23 miles, but navigation around them has been effected by means of a canal and locks, completed by the United States Government in 1889. Above the Shoals small steamers may ascend the river to Knoxville. Besides Knoxville, the chief cities along its banks are Florence and Decatur in Alabama, and Chattanooga in Tennessee.
TENNIEL, tĕn-nēl′, Sir John (1820—). An English painter and illustrator, born in London. He was practically self-taught. In 1845 he won a prize in the competition for the decoration of Westminster Palace, with a cartoon, “Allegory of Justice,” the success of which also secured for him the commission to paint a fresco, Dryden's “Saint Cecelia,” in the House of Lords. His most successful work, however, has been in black-and-white. From 1852 to 1901 he was cartoonist for Punch, executing over 2000 cartoons. His reputation rests chiefly upon his book illustrations. Among the principal are his drawings for Æsop's Fables (1848); Moore's Lalla Rookh (1861); Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1866), and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass (1870); the Ingoldsby Legends; and his classical illustrations to the Legendary Ballads. In the statuesque and ideal character of the figures, his work recalls the German influence prevalent at the middle of the nineteenth century.
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TENNIS (of uncertain
derivation; possibly
from OF. tenez, impv. of
tenir, to seize, take, i.e.
the ball). A game played
with racquet and ball in
a covered court. It has
been well described as the mother of lawn tennis
(q.v.). It is usually played by two players, a
four-handed game being rarely met with in mod-
