The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-26

had almost set, but there is no need of
massive bronze or pyramid to perpetuate
It's greatness, but it would go down from
century 70 century, an endless, living
song. --e
THE MAID OF ATHENS.
Col. Screven said he had no doubt that
this toast called forth pleasant associa-
IONS IN the breast Of every member Of
Sne university; II not, that member, he
SAID, ought TO be expelled.
hev; A M. Williams, of Wesley Monu-
mental church, responded eloquently and
numerousIy to the toast. He said he
1ldL know why he shOuld have been Sc
Iected TO respond to the particular toast
ana he could account for it in no other
way but through his extremely youthful
ana sentimental appearance. When he
was al Athens, he said. with him the
shortest distance between two points was
not the straight line that led past her but
the curved one that led around the cor
ner. He paid a beautiful tribute to the
MAID OF Athens who had poured inspira-
ZION upon the hearts and lives of the
students at the old university
Among the ennobling influences around
the student, she welded, he said, an alb
solute authority. She held aioft the
torch OF wisdom that lighted ambitions
steps up the path of the student. But
they tell me, he said, that things have
changed now and that the Maid of Athens
herself wants to enter the lists in the
struggle for honor. Soon the university.
he said, will be turning out women as
masters OF arts. She is already
mistress of many arts. When she goes
through the university she will want to
reform all Of our politics, and make up
them crazy quilt.
Mr.. Williams drew a humorous picture
OF matrimonial bureau, which, in the
future he thought would be established
at Washington, from whence women
would dictate the terms of matrimony.
and he proposed toast to the Maid of
Athens as she was, as she is but not, he
said as she expects to be. The speech
was one of the most pleasant and humor-
Gus of the evening.
Mr.. A. Il. Lawton, Jr., when called on,
SAID he didn't see his name on the pro-
gramme, and he had come to the conclu-
sion that the people of Savannah thought
ne knew but one song, and that was
Dixie" but the banquetors insisted, and
he sang Dixie" while his hearers Joined
in the chorus.
HON. POPE BARROW RESPONDS.
The next regular toast was college
education as Commercial Capital"
Judge Speer being absent on account of
an attack of illness. Hon. Pope Barrow
was called upon to respond to the toast.
Mr.. Barrow said he was at dinner in
New York some years ago at which Hon.
wayne McVeigh was to respond to a
toast. He was absent on the occasion on
account OF sudden illness, and Mr.. Joseph
h. Choate, who agreed TO respond to the
am surrounded, he said, by three of
the Oldest members of the university
Here is Maj. p. w. Meldrim on the one
hand Maj. w. A. Wilkins and Mr.. Ed
ward }. Thomas on the other. In re-
spouse to my inquiry about college educa-
tlon as commercial capital, Mai Meldrim
began to talk to me in Latin. When I
asked Mr.. Thomas the same question, he
SAD, 'Ialn't worth a cuss," and Mr.
Wilkins reply was only, Look at me"
Pointing to Maj. w. A. Wilkins, MIR. Pope
Barrow said he showed what college
education would do in the way of com
mercial capital.
MIR. Barrow referred to a very humor-
Gus lawsuit, in which, he had taken issue
with Hoke Smith, the present Secretary
of the Interior He was sorry, he said,
that Mr.. Smith had fallen from his
former high position. The case he re-
ferred to, was that of a lady who was
suing the Richmond and Danville railroad
for damages on account of personal injury.
She alleged that she had been en-
ployed in preparing students for
the sophomore class in the uni
versity. He had asked her a few ques-
tions about Latin and the binomial
theory, and though she had failed to
answer them the jury gave her large ver-
dict. But he said when the case was car
ried to the supreme court that knowledge
of the Dinomial theory which had come
from a college education was worth s.. 900
to the Richmond and Danville railroad as
a new trial was granted.
JUDGE ATKINsoN's SPEECH.
Col John r. Young said there was a
member of the board of trustees present
and called upon him. Judge S. r. At
kinson, of Brunswick, to whom MIR.
Young referred, responded to the call in
a pleasant and eloquent speech. He said
he had hoped to sit In silence during the
feast, but since he had been called on he
would say that while not graduate of
the university, he felt a sense of pride in