The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-16
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J President Roosevelt has not yet detel
mined upon his Southern tour. PEI
slstently. however. the word goes dow
the line that al least and tirst Tuskege
is the objective point of the as "
prospective visit 10 the South. ths
alien section of a once united country
The well-woTded. withal well-iI
tended and timely-tendered invitation
of the great cities of the South. Rich
mond. Atlanta. Nashville. Chatta
nooga. Savannah. Montgomery
Mobile. New Orleans. ETC.. have so fal
made no mark ON the mind or itiueral
OF the President. Tuskegee alone h;
the black mark of approval opposlt,
its line in the list. No other of IT.,
many institutions of learning IN tn,
South appeals TO him who should bs
President of the whole country.
The University OF Virginia. founded
by Jefferson. and so much Jefferson q
pride that he directed that his only
epitaph be. Thomas Jefferson,
Founder of the University of ViI-
gina. an institution the renown of
which has been maintained for a
hundred years. whose sons have filled
with credit the highest places in the
land and which every patriot and
scholar IN America revers; the Uni
verslty of Virginia. with all Its homo.
able roll, is way station III the
fanatIcal fervor for Tuskegee.
Vanderbilt, founded by that great
captain of industry. who did so much
tor the country at large. who said
and the citizens of Nashville put him
and his word in everlasting bronze
IF Vanderbilt University shall,
through its influence, contribute to
the ties that should exist
between al sections of our common
l shall feel that 1t has &C.
one of the objects that led
me TO take interest IN Vanderbilt,
sending as it does and has yearly for
thirty years, to all the ends of the
,arth, men of the law, OF the church,
If medicine. of all professions and pur
uits rejecting credit and honor upon |
he name and the whole country, Van
Ierbllt has no mention in the itinerary. |
The Wesleyan Female College, the
'ldest chartered female college in the
World, first and best of it's class. where
women who have swayed the desti-
les of the whole American Republic
we're taught; where to their H. DO
race the added charm of superior
ducation was given that made them
ueens wherever they reigned, yet no
hlvalric spirit prompts Macon by
1e way OF calls malt to tread these
,cred halls. The dusky maids of
uskegee alone allure. ia
Washington and Lee, that famous
Dllege of old Virginia, linking as it
As for forty years the name of the {
ther of his country with that one g
ter and greater, though more unfor- r
nate, son of Virginia whom even :.
Oosevelt condescends to praise above K
s fellows; Washington and Lee, a
it'll all its fame and power, whose Z.
nite light lines the way to its col :,
ye halls for most zetetics, is not to :
noticed by the color blind traveller W
Tuskegee. p'
Oxford. an institution of learning, as
King and holding rank with the B.
emost and oldest, here where states
IN were born and masters made,
lere the silver tongue of after
ais first learned the keynote of COM nj
, supremacy and power. Oxford til
IS not appear on the list, even va
,ugh further back than fifty years tn
, the largest telescope ever made K,
s the order for the observatory of
s great Mississippi university. As
looks through the big end Of the ~
nous instrument stolen during the vii
I and set in a, Northern site, only
skegee comes In the focus of Mr..
osevelt s beclouded eye.
Tulane, foremost among all the
1thern institutions of literary lore, uo
IN Southern city so full of &c
ntlc, poetical. religious ana his.
ical interest, named for one to
ON all the country bows in respect.
lous in science and letters. Tulane Ap
lot an objective point. are
The University of Tennessee. the TeI
ie of the statesman end the Off phi,
ng and work Of both the State and the
eral Government, creator of TIL tha
ohs in scientific husbandry as auI
as literary advancements, fos- pre-
d by all political parties, patron - :
by all the creeds, and the pride of a
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