The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-11
CLOSING DAY OF THE
 A.P.I. COMMENCEMENT
Continued from Page Eight.

| liam Morgan, Sallie Fleming Ordway, l James Porter Paterson, Wallace Powell
 Pruitt, Paul Rigney. William Watson Rutland, Clifford Philip Rutledge Hans
 Schmidt. John Rice SearcS, Julian Cas- l sius Smith, William Bee Stokes, Edward Taylor. Louis Earle Thornton, Holmes Fielding Troutman. Filo Harris Turner, Joseph Dorrah Walker, Henry Matthew | Yonge.
 A vast audience filled Langdon Hall at an early hour Tuesday morning to hear | the address before the Alumni of the | Alabama Polytechnic Institute by Hon. | J. Thomas Heflin, for the fame of this | gifted Alabama orator is cherished with | peculiar pride by the people of Auburn, a son. as he is, of East Alabama. Ms. Hetin spoke on Civic Duties in Alabama. The address was an inspiring appeal to the pride and patriotism of ev- cry citizen of our great State and Vas adorned with wit and story, and with charming eloquence and flights of fancy.
 At the conclusion of MT. Hefin's ad- dress, Hon. Thomas D. Sanford of Ope- lika, presented a portrait of Dr. William LeRoy Broun, late President of the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute. The present ation speech of MT. Sanford was a fine piece of oratory and rose in dignity and eloquence to the theme and the occasion. President C. c. Thach accepted the DOT alt oi lIe part OI the COlleSe, ana ms speech of acceptance was inspired by the tenderest feeling of admiration and ven eration for the memory of his distin- guished kinsman and predecessor.
 The portrait of Dr. Broun is a gift of the Alumni to the college, and was paint ed by Hoffman of Montgomery
 There was a business meeting of the Alumni from 1 to o'clock, at which much important business was transacted The Alumni uSi aSti ha poets of the college during the session just closed, and the splendid possibilities of the future.
 The old officers of the society were re- elected by exclamation. They are as fol- lows: President, Thomas Sanford of Opelika; Vice-President, R. F. Ligon, Montgomery: Treasurer, B. H. Crenshaw Auburn; Secretary, W. O. Scroggs Au- burn. Hon. w. H. Sanford of Troy, was elected to deliver the next annual address before the Alumni
 Had Sumptuous Report.
 At 2:3O o'clock the Alumni Board of Trustees, faculty and other guests, sat down to a sumptuous dinner in Assembly Hall. There were a hundred plates, and the hall was appropriately decorated in the college colors, orange and blue. Hon. Thomas D. Sanford was toastmaster. and he presided with the grace and happy eff
 
 posed were responded to as follows: The Alabama Polytechnic Institute" President c. c. Thach; "The Board of Trustees" Judge J. M. Carmichael; "The Faculty" Dr. George Petrie; ''The Pro- fession of Law" Hon. R, H. Tach: 'The Medical Profession" Dr. T. H. Frazer;
 The Clergy" Rev E. A. Dannelly:
 Ihe Influence of Culture on Life" Dr. A. J. Messing; Woman" Hon. l. Tha with anecdote, reparte and elequence. Ii was joyous and happy occasion ami mated by that fine contagion of entbu- siasm which is the strong bond of eood fellowship and loyalty between college men.
 From to p. m. many visitors in spected the various laboratories. libraries and museums of the college.
 AL o'clock the competitive drill he- tween the four companies of the bat talion of cadets took place for tha band some sword to be presented to tbo ona tain of the best-drillad comnanv CorI. petent judges pronounced Comnan,, ~ captain Rutland the best-drilled co,,o pdhS' ana the sponsor of Comnany ~ presented the sword to Captain RutIord III Langdon Hall last night amid mnnh cheering and rejoicing on the part of bjs numerous friends 0t HIS NTa.. was presented Cadet T IT .Sun ' or Ialladega as the best-drillad man in the battalion. Cadet " itIea e' receiving second prize A' 0Hi
 me senior class orations We're daliveroa Ill Langdon Hall last night Tho faIIn,,. ing young men spoke and their snaaoI,a, were gwen high praise by most coro- i potent judges. They reflected much crodit both on themselves and on their instrra tors: 'e4' Mstfuc- |
 George Fouche Freeman, Cherokee TIullty 1,, Ihe New Industrial South" thomas, thomas Jos fph Dowdell, Montgomery | 1ounty' The New American Navy, William Watson Davis, Mobile Countv Capital and Labor" ''''
 The junior class medal was won h,, Cadet John McDuffie of Monroe ConotI, ana Was delivered to him by Judge ,Tav, loe of Uniontown.
 The medal given by Judge w IT Ihomas of Montgomery for the hest oss,,, written by any student in the college was won by Cadet Louis Warren Duffee of Mobile Of the junior class.
 pr. Smiths Address.
 The address before the Websterior o,,5 Wirt Literary Societies last night in I.,ra ',iaN don Hall by pr. c. Alphonso Smith of the University of North Carolina on southern orators and oratory before 1850 was poth in the charm, it's literary fruit and the beauty and eloquence of the thought notable production.
 pr smith dealt with two groups of Amercan orators or periods of oratory, that Just proceeding and following the war war TOT American independence and that string and vigorous period of American history between 1880 and 1850. These two periods include a majority of the great American orators and most that Is characteristic in our national oratory. He showed by quotation and comparison and criticism of able critics from all parts or the world that Southern orators oc- cupy a preeminent position in the rank of the worlds great orators and that they contributed large share in forming our national government and in shaping and expressing our national ideals
 It was an inspiring occasion and one -elt as he sat under the spell of the elo- luence of this gifted son of the new South nod na I