The age-herald., 1901-06-28

fond of pleasure and company but for tunate in its business affairs. If female. her husband will not be fortunk kte man."
 Great Old pr. Wymsh.
 "The venerable. and venerated William. Stokes Wyman, who happily has been chosen as the official head of the Ala bama University, Is perhaps the most accomplished philologer in the south. and in the wider sense of general scholarship he Is one of the first of southerners," said a man who has long reverenced that be- loved teacher of thousands of good men.
 For thirty years pr. Wyman has held the chair of Latin in the States unlvcr- sity, and what he has taught has been well taught. But the riches of his learn ing have not been devoted entirely to that living-dead tongue in which three hun dred millions of Christians to some extent worship. His influence for wider learning and for general good has embraced well nigh every student of the university for three decades
 "Of greater value still has been the ef feet of pr. Wyman's personal and private life upon young men of Alabama. He is an exemplar of sound morals, sound soul, sound ideals, and by his simple presence he has taught more men. better how to live as men should live than a hundred theorists who teach by mere preaching alone. His unassuming and unpretentious light has so shone that others seeing 1t have been made worthier to walk the ways of honest manhood.
 "Dr. Wyman's life is very nearly ideal in all it's relations; some of us believe 1t to be absolutely blameless, even in little things, and that faith in the noble old man is not likely now to ever be shaken.
 ''The influence of such character upon the minds and morals of boys must in the nature of things work incalculable good, and good that will survive to some extent all the vicissitudes of the after life.
 Boys are natural doubters of men; they are prone to suspect, and especially do they accept with suspicion and reluc- tance all men set over them as masters in any relation whatever, outside of re- ligion. All boys for whom there Is any hope in the world even in this day of pe- dantic blasphemy, still respect the preach CTS. Yet there is about the healthy boy sort of instinct that enables him to detect sham, just as there is an instinct that guards his sister against danger to her soul Whatever of sham there may be :n the character of teacher is plain to every boy under him or her; and most of us boys and girls of larger growth have observed the deplorable influences of i'm competent and unworthy teachers.
 "It Is saying perhaps the highest good that could be said of great old Dr. Wy man when 1t is held as an established truth that no honest boy ever entered the university who did not at once give his love and his confidence to 'P'fessor Wy man Ask any university man or boy you meet and he will corroborate this; and he will phrase thousand times used before: T just love "P'fessor Wy man.
 "Thus it is doubly happy fact that the Board of Trustees had the wisdom to choose Dr. Wyman as president of the university and Dr. Wyman had the spir- 1t of self-denial to take up what has been since President Lewis time a thankless burden The university, which had drift ed almost to destruction, and which week ago was demoralized and disorgan- ized, is now re-created and strong by the magic of one good and strong old mans intellect and heart What would have been to stranger or weak man an al- most impossible task will be to Dr. Wy man a pleasing pastme. Last years students will return and with them many other boys and young men. and the uni versity will resume that calm and repose, and that practical work which character ized it in years that are past.
 "Happiest of all the extra conditions of Dr. Wymans election Is that 1t has no connection whatever with politics. He has never beep, involved in any one of the many political 'cabals, brawls, tricks and schemes which have disgraced the uni versity, and which more than once have brought it almost to ruin He is no mans man. he is Dr. Wyman! And 1t is pleas ing that he is a native Alabamian, con nected from his boyhood with the univer- sity. One of the most pleasing studies of his leisure. by the way, has to do with the aboriginal Indian place-names in Ala bama, most of which are so beautiful and full of meaning. His knowledge in this direction is believed to be unsurpassed He loves his Alabama and he knows his Alabama full well''
 A Teachers Passion and His Fate.
 About the only noticeable failing of practical concern in school teachers in in- firmity of temper, according to my ob- servation," said an old public school boy
 "The most peinful spectacle possible for civilized children, outside of unhappy