The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11


 tUpon that day in the year 1899, she open- ed her doors to receive her first students.
 This institution was founded by Milo P. Jcwett. who became it's first presi- dent. and Gen. E. D. King. whose gifts made its establishment possible. These with the board of managers, were men who planned wisely and largely, and who had A vision of the larger Judsen Of today. They very early provided for it spacious grounds and adequate buildings, and within q very short period saw it's enlargement q necessity. Enlargement has continued to be a necessity. and now a magnificent auditorium is in process of erection. It's growth has been constant. and this year, in spite of almost total failure of crops in the southern states, is the best in the history of the Judson. The present enrolment Is about 240 rep resenting twelve states. Alabama is just ly proud of this magnificent institution for higher education of the young We men of the south.
 January 7--Founders day-is one of the few holidays during the school year at tho Judson, but she then truly puts her holiday attire and celebrates the glad day in manner fitting so great an occasion.
 Ten o'clock on Thursday morning found a large number of friends of the school assembled to witness the ceremonies and to listen to the address to be delivered by President A. P. Montague of Howard college. The decoration of the Founders portraits by the school was this year as previous celebrations. one of the beau- tiful ceremonies. This was followed by a song "For Founders Day" written for these celebrations-after which the Rev. Gross. of Selma, offered prayer.
 One of the most enjoyable features of the programme was the historical sketches of the institution prepared by Miss Kirtley, head of the school of Eng fish, reproduction of which is found elsewhere in these columns
 After a very happy introduction by the Rev. R. G. Patrick, Dr. A. P. Montague. president of Howard college. delivered the address of the day. His subject. 'sWo- man in History" was well chosen. and the address was eminently fitted to the occasion The following is substantially an outline of the address,
 A Woman's Place.
 The speaker referred to the place that woman has reached in England and America in scholarship; of her intellectual labcrs and achievements; of her as- 'ra- tions and triumphs. He then passed to wo- man in history, calling up the names of great leaders among the women of tiquity Semiramls, Zenobia. Lfvia, Agrip- pima, Aria Aspasia, and the large places that they fill in the history of mankind. He compared the end of Augustus Ro- V man Emperor, pagan chief. with the death of Mckinley, Christian President. Speaking of the courage of the Roman woman whose courage saved her hus- band and his army. he said,
 "One soul. stirred by courage, glory-born, Gave courage to ten thousand souls, That, wavering shrani from peril dire. One heart that knew no fear,
 To hearts that craven were,
 Gave resolution stern,
 To stand for right and honor or to die"
 Referring to the courage of the wo- men of the south from 1861 to 1865 he said, Tt was not theirs to thrill with the martial music of fife and drum; to hear buge and trumpet calling to ae- tion it was not theirs to follow the flag, to feel the stern joy that warriors feel in foemen worthy of their steel; nor theirs to have the blood run riot with the rush and roar of battle to see through smoke and dust the genius of war and victory beckoning on to glory. As splen- did as was the valor of our southern heroes, who ragged and hungry and worn, time and again pluckod victory from the jaws of defeat, who, losing won immortal fame, thousands of whom. having fought their last battle, are sleeping their last sleep where the Rappahannock glides on its way to the sea, under the sentinel oaks of Chancelorsville. beneath the shadows of Missionary Ridge and Look out Mountain or in the silent burying ground at the old homestead to whom may well be spoken the words graven on a granite shaft in a distant southern city: A
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 While Fame her records keeps,
 Or honor points the halowed spot,
 Where yolor proudly sleeps. Nor wreck nor change nor winters blight Nor Times Remorseless doom
 Can dim one ray of holy light !, That guards your glorious tomb
 Woman's Courage.
 The courage of the women of the south who sad-eyed and weary with watching yet bore with unmurmuring heroism the suspense of days and months and years the spirit of atahrdluetaoihrdlutao deserves the genius of Homer or the spirit of a Milton that 1t may be en- shrned in immortal song.
 Ip conclusion, he said that the highest functions of woman were round in the, home, in the schoolroom, in the church of God. Home. mother. God-words that by right belong together; the noblest words In any tongue: words dearest to the sunrise of life: dearest to the meridian of splendor of age: dear and precious still: dear and precious still when the evening time is near and night draws on apace" Tn the last place woman's province in the church of God. No nobler work of the Divine hand has ever been seen in all the ages of the world than a consecrated. active, Christian woman, whether in the days when the bloom of youth is her portion or in the maturity of middle life, or when upon her brows crowned with the gray hairs of her head there are fore gIeams of the light akin to the glory of the heavenly morning..
 College boys have no monopoly on col 1ege songs. The Judson girls are quite as fond of them, and after the address the old building fairly echoed with the Judson song-"Our Alma Mater''-which is always sung with much spirit on Founders day.
 Some cncourag gng features of the pres ent condition of the institution and some pressing needs thereof were briefly pre- scented by President Patrick after which the audicene adjourned to the lawn where the commemoration ceremonies around the confederate oak, the king redwood and the sentinel cedars. took place-also the planting of the senior oali.
 A Pretty Scene. Before the young ladies left the chapel a nasty distribution of brightly colored crepe paper bonnets and the gaiety at tending their adjustment over cork-screw curls, made pretty picture fltly intro- ducing the yet brither one to follow on tEe lawn. These quaint maidens, in head drac If .uh fbo