The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-08-13
LITTLE MOUNTAIN REUNION,
"A PLEASANT OCCASION-NUMHEH or
PKOMINENT SPE.AISEKS
Crowd Estimated to DO ths Largcst In tho
History OF those Annual GatherIpgs

| hIbtOTy OF thCSP Annual uthCrlDEa,
Probably tho largest crowd which has
| over been present at one Of these an
nual reunions attended the NCwbcrry
| College reunion on last Friday. Two
| special trains wore run over the G. , N.
x l.. from Ncwbcrry and one from Pros
pcrity, and all the cars were crowded
SO there was hardly Standing room.
But the people who attcrdctkfrom New
berry and Prosperity made only u very
small part OF the crowd. From far and
near the people came in buggcs aud
oil kinds Of vehicles aud Il conservative
estimate places the crowd at three
| thousand.
All seemed to be happy and enjoying
| themselves. Like at the State Fair, at
the Little Mountain reunion one can
meet nearly every one whom he knows,
and there you can run upon old friends
and acNuaintances whom you would
probably ncvc" sec anywhere else
| On Friday the weather was slightly
warm, even on tho highest point of
| this, tho highest mountain in all Of
! Newberry and Lexington Counties, but
| the day was beautiful one and the
| heat did not in the least interfere with
the pleasure OF the crowd. The people
went there 10 meet their friends and to
! enjoy themselves, and tAcy did it.
, And Then any kind Of meeting in the
interest of Newbcrry College always
draws q crowd, for Ncwocrry College is
tho pride of the I.uthcrans of South
Carolina and OF all the people OF all dc.
nominations in Nowbcrry and Lcxinr-
ton Counties.
| a number OF addresses were made hy
prominent gentlemen in the intercs:
of the college, and every one who
heard these addresses was OF the
opinion that they were of n high order.
! 1t is most difficult thing for speaker
| 10 get attention from large crowd in
| the open air, where there is every on.
porcunity for the people to move around
! and to talk, yet all these addresses
were listened TO with closoattcntiona
| excellent order prevailed. This is tho
| only reunion ever held 1T this place
when all the speakers on the program
were present and prepared.
THE SPEECHES.
MIR. J. T.. Boland called the meeting
to order, and introduced Mr.. G. ID.
Epting, OF the class OF 1901, who made
the welcome address.
a business meeting OF the Little
Mountain Reunion Association was then
held and the following officers of the
| association elected for the ensuing
year:
Presidcnt-Pro'. w. a. Counts: vice
presidcnt--C. d. rpting: sccrctory--
]. e. Boland.
Immediately after the business of
the association was finished MIR. Boland
introduced Prof. w. II. Sigh as the
first speaker. Prof. Sigh discussed :hc
practical valuc to Il man OF a collegiate
education, and gave figures to prove
that in proportion the vast ma iorty OF
the men who succeed in the affairs OF
life arc college mon. Out Of 2l men
who have reached the Office of prcsi-
dent OF the United States 15 were col
lege mon and only three without what
may be called academic training. In
the present cabinet OF President Mc-
kinlcy there are eight members, six of
whom arc college graduates, one Of the
others was q professor in COLLEGE
when chosen, and the remaining
eighth man finished his education at
an academy. The presidents Of eigb-
teen OF the largest railroads in tho
world today are college mon.
The next speaker on the nrorram
was ). B. Hunter, ESQ. He discussed
the greatness Of mind and the impor-
tancc of educating and developing it.,
and 1t should not only be educated and
developed, but it should be trained in
the right way. Mr.. Hunter male q
good speech and received good atten-
tion.
Col. f.. II. Aull spoke of the rapid
| progress the world is making and
amid all this progress the demand for
| high motives, the demand for an cI2-
vatcd manhood, manhood that can be
trusted, manhood tha1 can be dcDcnd-
ed upon, u manhood that is actuatcd
| by high motives, u manhood that looks
! beyond and ont OF self, . manhood that
has heart and is willing to help his
fcllow-man. lie spoke of the greatness
of mind, and of the need of an cduca-
ton both OF head and hcart-an cduca
tion which will enable man CLEARLY
to understand the great social problems
now demanding solution, land also an
education which will teach q man to
love and to honor his family, his coun-
| try and his God.
| Col. j. Brooks Wingard wanted to
impress the idea that this generation
owes great debt to succeeding gcncr-
ations. He said there were three
things necessary to make a good and
true citizcn-blood, environment and
education. Borrowing from DR..
| CrOmer, Won can't mt q 81 n0O o1,oo