Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will delete the word “Confederate” from the stone pediment at the entrance to a student dormitory known as Memorial Hall, becoming the latest in a wave of schools to alter how their campuses display words and images associated with the southern cause in the Civil War. To make the change, the private university in Nashville was required under the terms of a 2005 court ruling to pay $1.2 million to the Tennessee division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. That sum represents the present value of a $50,000 donation the organization made in 1933 for the building’s construction and naming rights. Vanderbilt officials said gifts from anonymous donors will cover the expense of returning the donation.

August 15, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post