The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-05-28
PROF. ANDERSON SPEAKS.
He Tells the Club Meeting of Tyler
Campbell's First School Days.

He Tells the Club Meeting of Tyler
CampbelPs First School Days.
An interesting feature of the Milli-
gan College commencement was a
speech by Prof. F. r. Anderson, of
Hancock county, in which he relates
the history OF Attorney General Camp
bells entering school at Milligan.
Prof. Anderson is an outspoken man
and says what he thinks His speech
was occasioned by a call for him at
the meeting of the club He began by
commenting on the occasion, and in
his charming manner pointed out the
significance of such reunions He
said that he had had the pleasure of
visiting most of the colleges in East
Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia,
and he had yet to find the place that
offered better training than Milligan,
that there is no place that offers better
moral and intellectual culture He
said that all he is and all he claimed
to be, he owes to the training received
under the care of the president and
faculty of Milligan College next to his
mother. He most eloquently referred
to the home of the famous Taylor ora
tors and to the inspiring scenes that
aided them in the development Of
their oratorial powers. Referring to
the men who owe their intellectual
training to Milligan College, he
spoke of the big-hearted, brainy Tyler
Campbell, who is now States attorney
for the first judicial district He said
that when Tyler first contemplated en-
teringl college, he was big, green,
awkwark boy, beardless and tanned by
sunshine. There was none more aWk-
ward. He had never seen a train or
heard whistle, but he had that fine
native sense that always gets there
even if it has to make Il chance. Tyler
left Sneedville for college on a horse
so very thin that its RIB bones could be
counted two hundred yards away He
had two pair of pants, the ones he
wore and pair of Kentucky jean,
wrapped up in an old newspaper with
three or four other garments He
wore a wool hat, weighing from a
pound and a half to two pounds.
When he reached the college he was
much fatigued and sore. His neck
was bent under the weight of his hat
He pledged his old horse for $40 to
carry him through the years schooling.
He was always a good eater, and the
man who took it upon himself to get
Tvler's $40 for board, got the worst
end of the bargain. 1t wasn't but a
little while until he was on the college
hill among the students. He pulled
off his shoes, which were red for the
want of grease and much run down at
the heels, and exposed his feet, which
showed the scars received from re-
moving briers while he was toiling on
the hills Of his native country, Like
all boys of his age and temperament,
he would not be imposed on, and the
least imposition was readily resented.
His first day on the grounds, he got
into fight with some of the girls,
and was boxing them around with his
big, rude fists, when the president inc
terfered Tyler paid the little penalty
of his fight, begged the confidence OF
his professor, and started out to be-
come an able scholar and q great man.
He learned rapidly, wore out his old
shoes, got lighter hat and soon be-
came master among the boys. 1t
was not long until the girls were viii
ling to forgive him and even love him.
Rapidly he climbed until he Is now
among the foremost men in East Ten
neessee. Thus spoke Prof. Anderson
of him. and the Professor, who Is his
neighbor, ought to know whereof he
speaks. 1t would be an amusing
spectacle to see the Tylor who entered
school and the Tyler of today, place q
side by side.