The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04


commodities. They shut themselves up
them better than other people. They con-
fine themselves in great castles built af-
ter the manner of feudal architecture,
and seldom allow themselves to be seen
by their less fortunate fellow citizens.
Sometimes it requires whole train to
convey one of these persons over the
country. They appear to desire to asso-
citae only with other persons OF great
wealth To be sure. the only difference
betwixt them and other people is that
they have money. IT is often an acct
dental wealth, for which they are III no
| wise responsible. They affect all manner
of superiority and, strange to say, there
are thousands always ready to concede
| their claims. Our universities and col
leges can do nothing more serviceable
| than to put their seal of condemnation
upon this spurious aristocracy.
Let US not be misunderstood. Nobody
is contending that the honest acquire
nent of wealth is wrong. The new cen
fury will pass no law which takes from
the rich and gives to the poor, nor VIII
it place by law any limitation
upon the amount of wealth any man may
acquire. But while there is ignorance
and poverty on every hand, while the
children of men are being reared in an
atmosphere of crime and death within
| the shadow of castles and palaces, these
great institutions of culture and NOR
atty should only place the crown of
| true aristocracy upon the brow OF the
! man who, for the sake of his fellow
man, declines to i.acome too rich.
| My friends, this great institution is
the University of all the people 1t be-
longs to no particular class. The tax
| payers of this State will always sustain
it. 1t is strong; it can afford to be
strong. 1t is the exponent of righteous
ness. 1t is one of the beacon lights OF
the republic when illumines the path
way of man as he struggles onward and
upward even to the end Of time. 1t cam
| not be charged that the great men who
| have shaped its destinieS have ever been
| tempted away from the path of honor in
| the administration of it's policy. Thank
| God, there is no reason why this should
| not be so! You. Mr.. President of the
| University, and your cabinet OF educa-
| tors are but the servants of the people.
With perfect confidence i'm your ability.
! your integrity AMI your patriotism the
| people, all the people, whose servants
| you are. are willing to trust the train
| ing of their young men in all that tends
| to purity in government to you and your
associates. They have observed no evil
dence of failure on your part
But these remarks shall not conclude
without one word more. Whatever may
be the future of the University; whatever
success it may hay, heretofore attained; ;
whatever glory; whatever fame: what
| ever renown may await it in the future,
| the people of this State will not fail
| to attribute mucn of it all to him who
watched by the cradle of it's new birth,
guided it through the peril of its second
| infancy watched over it, plead for it in
| it's poverty until it became a giant in
cur State. We cannot forget him, my
/ friends. He taught no false philosophy:
he promulgated no impure morals, but
| his highest effort as president of this
University was to make gentlemen of us
all. Venerable friend, illustrious as are
your merits. far reaching as is your in
fuence, "far o, very far distant be the
day. when any inscription shall bear your
name, or any tongue pronounce its
eulogy!"
And now, brethren of the Alumni As
sociation, the task which has been re-
quired of me is done. 1t was undertaken
with reluctance, because of many mis-
givings, and yet the love of our State, of
which every one of us becomes more con-
scious as the years go by, warned that
duty requires every son of the University
| to lay at her feet such offering as he
might be able to bring. We pass today
/ mil OF
by the way-side since we passed the
one just behind us. Others will fall ere
we reach the next, but let us pass Sc
renely on, Sinking no responsibility and
remembering always that
mo life
/ Can be pure in it's purpose and strong in
it's strife
And all life not be purer and stronger
thereby,
The spirits of just men made perfect on
high,
The army of martyrs who stand by the
| the Throne
And gaze into the Face that makes
glorious their own,
Know this, surely. at least. Honest love,
honest sorrow,
Honest work for the day, honest hope
| lot the morrow,
Are these worth nothing more than the
hand they make weary,
| The heart they have saddened, the life
| they leave dreary?
| Hush! the sevenfold heavens to the
voice of the Spirit
Echo: He that o'ercometh shall all
things inherit"
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
At is DIN Commons Hall the alumni
luncheon was served. Col Kenan, Pres
ident of the Alumni Association, presided
over the splendid luncheon and was
toast master. Governor Aycock. Hon
Hilary Herbert and other distinguishec
guests were present There was no
formality ard no set toasts, but IN re-
lsponsc to calls brief eloquent and witty
lreplies came from Governor Aycock
Hon. Hillary Herbert, Congressman
Pou, NJ s. Robbins. ]. ]. KillebreW, OF
Tennessee; Rev. S. M. Frost, Julian >
Carr, w. A. Graham, John w. Graham
Turner Morehead, DR.. McIver. DR.. DemI
Battle, S. M. Gattis. j. A. Ramsay, w
Ia Guthrie, Charles McNamee, V S