NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — You've probably seen us celebrating 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry. Well, it turns out, there are other hundred-year anniversaries vital to the story of Nashville. Tuesday marked one of them.

"I started here as a freshman in the 1980s," said Dr. Donald Brady of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "I've worked here off and on for the last 45 years. Vanderbilt is part of me."

Brady delivers a history lesson about Vanderbilt to many joining the team. There's a special importance to giving the lesson now. For that, we'll have to go back. Way back.

"The university started in 1873, and the school of medicine had their first lecture in the fall of 1874," Brady began. "What Vanderbilt wanted to do, which was really unique in America, was to build a school of medicin

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