The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1901-03-23
Communicated.
TULANE.UNIVERSITY.

President Alderman: The right
man in the right place.
Every person in Louisiana, hav-
ing any interest in the burning
question of education, should read
and carefully consider the address
delivered by President Alderman
on the occasion of his Inauguration
as President OF Tulane University.
The whole address is Inspired
by the loftiest sense OF the neces-
sity Of education, from the COM
mon school to the highest educa-
ton demanded by our civilization,
Read it, and you will intensity
your appreciation of the vast bene-
fit of education.
The Professor proelaims the aims
of his administration. He says;
At the outset OF nv administration. |
extend to every eoltge and school in this
state anl section the assurance of iu-
lanes friendship and good will We are
bound together by the ties Of scholarship
and noble endeavor Tuere IS room for
all and work for all Let us have done
with the gross conception OF college as
rivals, dwelling chariishly IN hos'ile..I
camps ans. seeking numerical advantages
the one over the other. The cnrse ol
education in the South Is II false indi9i-
Cal 1n ~ in
aud failure t. perceive
the unity Of the educational process and
the necessity FOR some acknowi edged
headship above false standards, materiaf-
istic clamor. or petty cnvyings There is
too much grand-stand playing and moi
enough teamwork in our educational
systsm Education eXists to make men
The public schools constitute one step IN
that process the secondary schools con-
stitute another: the colleges st'l. another
but they are not independent republics
If letters The process is one, and hurt
ful anlagonism can no mere exist betweeu
hem than it can exist in the shining of
Two lighthouses set at different angles
,long a bleak aud stormy shore. Tulane
University wishes to unite with its sisters
in an effort to establish a true coffaation
of educational forces in 1ouisiana and
the South; 1t proposes especially 10 fos-
ter the secondary schools. public and nFl-
vate which are ut once the Oldest educa-
tional forms aud those mos, necessary to-
universities, eventually it hopes to see
the path clear from its doors TO the pub
lie schools of the stale.
In every community, in our State
more than almost any where else,
there are poor boys who are most !
anxious to acquire a.good, thorough |
education. To them the great
Southern University proffers every
encouragement.
Again the President speaks:
Civilization made distinct gain when II
perceived that education is worth sacil-
fiee I hope TO see at Tulane an increas-
ing number Of men who have made sacri-
fees to get there and who will continue
to make sacrifices to STAY there Poor
men. struggling for educhtion, spiritual
iZe and idealiza the whole atmosphere OF
universities Just as mothers and fathers.
who are willing 10 work little harder
and deny themselves little more Tor
their children's sake spiritnalize and
idealize communities. We hope to or
ganize system here by which student
NAV work his way through college hy
honest labor If he si,allss desire. 8 81
ready many STUDENTS are working al the.
printers case, and ia offices and shops,
and there is no reason why scores Of
Others should not do likewise Let US
thank God HAT poverty nolonger keeps
man from education. If there be a Wer'
ihy poor boy in Louisiana from#Gaddo
to Orleans, who wants an education, |
send him word in the name OF the aimn-
istrators that he can get il at Tulane, and
that boys of his tnettle Shall never be
turned away from lis doors
These excerpts seem sufficient
to suggest the spirit that anlnates
the worthy president OF luiane,
and which will permeate every de-
partment of the greatsdJ diversity
teachers ard students, will lmblbe
III. iiists as the soldier imbibes the
conquering spirit OF the General
that leads the assault, that knows