Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-07-09

Alumni belong to alike organizations of other
institutions and if these fees are made. together
with other assessments which generally nap
pen in such bodies the burdens would be more
than could be expected to bear
Even among those who claim no other Alma
Mater there would be some VINO would say: II
it costs me two dollars To inscribe my name the
other eX penSeS would be proportionally rs heavy
ana, therefore, for necessity sake must remain
without the Sanctum OF c. H.. Alumni 5 fold
Furthermore, cannot conceive OF any Juticious
reason for having such fees very large. me m
cidental expenses attending such an organlZa-
ton should be very slight. They should not IN
II country village in which the school Is located,
exceed ten dollars. Now, we can certainly boast
of having at least two hundred living graduates
and if we are determine to make the same IL sue
cess We ought truly be pollt" and discreet
enough to enlist one hundred and twenty -lVe.
Fifty cents ination added to the annual fee OF
fifty cents less the incidentalS would make the
little sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars in
the treasury at the end of the first year. Now,
my proposition is not simply to make the same
u al affair and meet annually and feast ana
banquet at the expense of our exhausted or
Overlooking treasury as the case may be anu
after having convened and listened to the ora
Zionist and eSSayiSt etc, then adjourn ana repair
To the sumptuous repast and having listened to
the toasts that may be proposed and having
empted the dishes before us we may leave the
table having our minds satinted with jolity and
our faces glowing with an epicurean smile. No.
we trust | am confident. to come together Tor
nohier motives than those We uust TO unite
the social aspect with that of utility. The sem
mary, which am now attending, combines the
two ana the Professor who occupies the chair of
christian ethics aud evidences OF christianity Is
appointed and paid by the Alumni Association
81. NavierS, in New York, does the same so do
Harvard and Yale and st. Johns. at Annapolis
is beginning the same. Hence, think ii eNped-
lent and wise to have rs large an enrolment AZ
possible and let Us be content to have n Few
segars ordered for those who smoke and some
thing else for those who do not, which VIII cost
very little, yet would tend To give the same
social aspect. Let Us do this, say, two years III
every three and the third year we can have AN
alumni banquet, and request each member 10
bring his tasting apparatus a. well as his laugh
ing cap along with him. W C can. also. 10y a>Se>.-
ing each member two dollars swell the sum in
the treasury to 500 and with economy pay over
To the treasurer the sum of three hundred dol
lars annually. or. we might make the assess
ment 81 and get permission from the trustees to
appoint AN alumni teacher Ii We work with
such motives aS these n the foremost and best in
our hearts and minds can Sc that tho organiza-
ton would then he OF tneSttmahlr value To
Charlotte Hall school. This Is more important
To be considered now than formerly since each
successive Legislature j. more and more disin-
clined Ia advance the cause nf higher education.
| beSsech Won, fellow graduates. and also myself
that We arise from our present state of l"thargy
and let Us awake to the awakening influences
OF the day and Try Ia bee bns independent of
state aid. Let uS protect our breasts with "a
hard. meta lie shield and iusribe upon lis outer
face: - BIOS fu5i gyrtHynHf1H fhdBfS and let
also grid our loius with the old classic buck Ter
with the old Inscription: i)grfriJlI S"f rim pro-
MORT utsfuD RsciiYue rtsiti' I,FC'-Fr rTboTtR =
tfrgHYu~ dsnc,-r EtsFss. isfi.FarfUf 5sJlc R1iu
cuIpue present these a. my views aud wishes
aud would like 10 hear frHm Others on The subject
FRED. J. kEECH.