Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-10
KNOXVILLE.
Uniye SHY Of TenneSsee-SeVen-
t;-iuh Annual Conn
meneemeut.

at the University OF Tennessee, q
institution whose earlier growth va
intimately connected with the histor
of Tennessee and the mother Stat
North Carolina. Blount Collere wS
chartered in 1874, and its franchise
and property were transferred to Ea'
Tennessee College under an act
Congress passed in 1877. In 1926 tn
college, formerly located elsewher
within the present limits of Knox
vile, was transferred to the splendi,
site ever since occupied. In 1910 tn
name was changed BY act of the Legis
lature to the East Tennessee Universe
ty, aud in 1869 the Legislature gav'
in trust to the University the proceeds
of the sale Of public lands donated
under an act Of Congress passed july
2, 1862, whereby colleges devoted t.
agriculture and the mechanic art:
we're established in various States. In
1879 the nam was changed by the
Legislature TO the University Of Ten
nessee, thus indicating more fully its
broad scope and aims. 1t is, in the
fullest sense, a State Institution, and
has a large attendance from Middle
and West Tennessee. as we'll as
students from various Southern States.
The institution has been continued
with only q few Interruptions since its
foundation, and its Alumni are to be
found occupying high positions in
professional, political and business
life in nearly every Western and
Southwestern or Southern State.
There is a charming social and moral
air about Knoxville. 1t is a solid and
conservative yet very progressive
place where old families are found as
blue blooded as any in Virginia or
New England, where there is an in.
tellectual aristocraey and yet the ut
most simplicity o. manners. 1t is also
a manufacturing PLACE Of growing i'm
portance, where the roar of the forge
is heard and the sound Of the trowel
continually announces that more room
is wanted for the thrifty and %intelli-
gent mechanic. People are going to
Knoxville, not moving away. They
90 to get work and find it, they go to
educate their children and can do so
at a minimum Of cost yet with a maxi.
mum of health, comfort and con-
venience; only one thing seems high
and hat is rent, and there are posi-
lively no vacant residences to rent
just now at any price. The ancient
capital of Tennessee is growing
apace. Perhaps very few people
know that Knoxville was once the
capital Of the State long before it was
removed to Murfreesboro. Ramseys
history tells about it and the whole
book reads more like a romance than
a book Of chronicles. Yet it is a
verified record and its author, the
President Of the Tennessee Historical
Society, DR.. j. G. NJ. Ramsey, EN- US a
green old age and delights occasionally
to receive and entertain a visitor at
his quiet, comfortable home in East
Knoxville. The place has now a
direct railroad connection via Nor
ristown, Warm Springs aud Ashvillc.
With the seaboard, and in a year or
two will have a connection with the
Cincinnati Southern railroad, thus
hanking and gaining some advantages
over Chattanooga, the coming and
acknowledged Pittsburg of the South.
One more road is promised, giving an
outlet to Augusta, Georgia. and when
this is done, Knoxville will be a
railroad center which in proportion to
territory commanded will be second
to zone in thu State. There is a
strong iniu ,iou Of Northern energy
both in the old and the new elemeuts,
and the place takes no steps backward.
No drones are seen in the streets,
the people all seem to have something
to do, and to DO doing that something
well.
A commencement, however, usually
brings out the best of the population
in force, and this weeks was not an
exception. There were also many
visitors from a distance to see the boy
graduates carry off the honors. The
B~accalaureate sermon was preached
to an immense audience. at Staub'.
Operahouse, Sunday night, by Rev. J
Llewellyn Evans, D. D., of Cincinnati
The annual literary address was de.
livered, Monday night, by Colonel w
A. Henderson, Of Knoxville, who mad,
an eloquent, yet very practical, dis
course to young men, which might b,
read with interest and profit by man,
who are older than the students, 70
whom it was intended. 1t was a YER,
happy effort, one of the comparatiyel
few delivered upon such occasion
that are really worth publishing an.
preserving.
Diplomas we're presented to tn
graduating class by Colonel Hender
son. Society diplomas we're awarded
and Colonel Moses White, one Of tb
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