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strong; he wrestled with mighty corpora tions and giant monopolies. He rather en- joyed the fray of these Titanic battles. but he never allowed the excitement to upset his caution. In form he was exceptionally handsome, commanding, symmetrical; III habits, temperate; to drunkenness and de- bauchery, a stranger.
 Bishop McTyeire was acquainted with things and men. Educated at Randolph Macon College, a Christian school, he rightly estimated both this world and the next, and devoted his life to the best in-
 terests of both. His early manhood was given to the pulpit, and later he was called
 to the editorial tripod. In both these helds he reached a high mark. and attained To e1ninence in the councils of the church. Few so largely shaped public opinion and determined the legislation of the church! In his i4aaturer years he was selected fof episcopal functions. Here he displayed rare administrative powers, and became distinguished as an expert in parliamentary and ecclesiastical law. As bishop and pre- siding officer he was conciliatory but hrm! commanding but kind, painstaking but prompt deliberate yet expeditions. Ills words were well chosen-few, expressive, decisive, strong. Born to rule. he was man among men. His maturest years were given pre-eminently to the cause of Chris tian education. Here the labors of his fruitful life received their crown. Here he
  ment In the lives of the cultured young of successive generations he touches the springs of power at the most sensitive and resilient points. Christian education goes hand in hand with tle Gospel, and the two combined conserve the largest inter- ests of time and eternity.
 "Landon C. Garland. LLD., the first chancellor, had been an educator from early life. Graduating at Hampden Sid ney in 1894 he was president of Randolph Macon College from 1886 to 1916, and Of the University of Alabama from 1853 until IL was destroyed by the Federal troops; ani he was professor in the University Of Mississippi when he was selected to be- come chancellor of Vanderbilt University His learning was extensive and varied IL was this wide range of his studies that made him the rounded scholar that he was. He determined in early life that whatever he could confer as an educator should inure to the good of the church and the glory of God. He left more lucrative po- sition to go to Randolph Macon His was a religion of the conscience and the higher reason, and it was as a Christian educator that his grandest work was done. Let 1t be remembered that thirty years ago. when the idea was by no means popular in the church, he was one of the first and ablest advocat tes of distinctive theological schools before the General Conference of 1@0. It was no mere sentiment that caused Blshop McTyeire to plan and the present manage- ment to insist, when he died at the ripe age of S4 years in 1895, that his mortal re- mains, along with those of the first presi- dent, be deposited in these grounds, part of the permanent treasury of the univer- sity.
 The exercises will continue tomorrow, ad- dresses by Chancellor Fulton of the Board University of Mississippi and Senator Sul- livan of Mississippi being on the pro- gramme for the morning.
 A football game between the Vanderbilt team and that from the University ot Ten nessee in the afternoon and an address by Prof E. F. Bernard of Yerkes Observatory at night.