The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-26
THE UNIVERSITY BOYS.
Their Annual Meeting and Fourth An
nual Dinner at the De Soto.

Letters of Regret From Some of the
Professors of the University-The
Toasts of the Evening.
The University Club held its annual
meeting in the gentlemen parlor Of the
De Soto last night, thirty-two members
attending
The meeting was called to order at $50
by the president, Col John Screven, who
announced that it was the annual meet
| ing for the purpose Of electing officers and
| receiving the usual reports
The treasurer's report was examined
by special committee, which reported it
satisfactory and correct The
treasurer made statement in
regard to the student who
is now at the university being educated
at the expense of the club, which showed
that he had been appreciative of its eff
forts IN his behalf, and that his reports
were always excellent Catalogues and
announcements of the university were
distributed.
All the old officers were reelected.
They are Col John Screven, president;
Maj. Z. w. Meldrim, vice president and
Mr.. Davis Freeman secretary and treas
urer. The report on new members shows
that Hon. Pope Barrow, MessrS. Edgar
Denmark, f. f. Lowell, Jr, and j. F.
Lewis had been duly elected members of
the club during the past year.
AT THE BANQUET.
Some little time was spent in talking
over old times and the club adjourned to
the banquet room, where an elegant menu
had aeen prepared for the clubs fourth
annual dinner. There were twelve courses,
all served to music by the orchestra.
During the course of the dinner Mr..
Davis Freeman read letters from DR.. w. e.
BOggS, chancellor of the university; Prof
L. II. Charbonnier and Prof II. c. White,
thanking the club for extending them in
vitatiOns to be present, and regretting
their inability to do so just at this time
They all stated that their sympathies
were with the club in its work, and they
hoped much good to the university would
arise from its existence.
MAI. MELDRMs TOAST.
1t was past II O'Clock when President
Screven called the club to order, and
said:
Gentlemen, now that he have disposed
of the substantial part of the evening. we
Will proceed to the feast of reason and
the flow of soul. l call attention to the
first toast, University of Georgia. by
Hon. p. w. Meldrim."
Maj. Meldrim said he hardly knew how
to respond to the toast. Georgia and the
university have grown together, he said.
and were one and inseparabc. He spoke
of the men from the university who had
taken rank in the very front of
their profession. In the halls of con
greSS, in military circles, at the bar in
journalistic fields and in the front rank
of every profession in Georgia, YOU find
university men. He alluded in beauti-
ful and touching manner, to the closing
of the university during the old war
period, and the entering of the conflict by
many of the old university boys So in
later years they entered the conflict of
life with a strong determination to win,
which they have done. They are ever
ready to defend their alma mater.
The strength of the university
is in the union of her sons. May her
future be as proud as her past and her
sons ever be loyal to her interests.
MR.. EDGAR DENMARK's SPEECH.
university men as citizens" was the
second toast, responded to by Mr.. Edgar
Denmark a graduate of the class of i92.
who was recently elected a member of the
club. Mr.. Denmark spoke of the making
of citizen through the agency of the uni
vcrsity. NObly, said he, do the university
men perform their work as citizens. All
luuob ltNOElllAC III university men Jflelr
benefactors. In business they are alert,
intelligent and progressive. They are
broad-minded and spirited in all the rela-
lions of life. The mention of the names of
John Temple Graves as n lecturer, joseph
LeConte as a geologist, and How
ell Cobb as statesman brought
prolonged applause from the university
boys He referred in beautiful manner
to the life and work of Judge Pratt Ad-
apH l.;
CANT tribute to the late esteemed and ad-
mired Judge.
THE sOUTH's EMPIRE STATE.
Mr.. w. w. Gordon Jr.'s. toast on
Georgia" was one of the gems of the
evening. He spoke humorously of the
early history of the state and the early
troubles of Georgia first colonists. Geor-
gia soil, he said supplied their strength,
and Georgia's electric influence stirred
and famed it into a flame
Oglethorpe's brilliant career reached was
beautifully touched upon by Mr. Gordon,
and from the early history he went to the
commercial Importance in which Georgia
had taken leading stand among
her southern sisters The inven-
ton of the cotton gin by Eli
Whitney upon Georgia soil was an event
of which the state might well be proud.
He then spoke of the present and the
uppIudCu VI Jllt WOIlu s lar season. he
thought model of the first steamer
which sailed out from Savannah should
be exhibited at the worlds fair. Our
people, said he, ARE not like particles of
sand fixed by fate to an immovable strata
unchanged and unchanging as the years
roll by but like a drop of water in the
depth of the ocean each man by the buoy
ancy of his ambition may rise to the sur
face and rest upon the crest of boundless
success"
THE UNITED STATES.
Hon Pope Barrow, who was one of the
recently elected members of the club, re-
sponded to the toast Tho United States. ~
He said he never turned a deaf ear to the
calls of the varsity boys as
they had never turned
deaf ear to him. He said when he saw
nothing but the university BOYS around
him he could think OF nothing but the
university, and the United States sank
into perfect oblivion.
There is one point which has been
touched upon by all the speakers that
wherever man was found in the front
rank in Georgia it was university man.
That is emphatically true 1t is true in
the case of Grady, Hill, Toombs, Steph-
ems, Cobb, LeConte and many others. 1t
was true when our beautiful southland
was visited with the devastations Of
war"
He told several good stories of the
university boys and their conduct in the