The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-09

Colonial Danes of Alabama offer
prize of $50 for the best paper on
colonial subject wris es,s by Tn, yog was
Sne Lewis Chapter Of the Daughters Of
American Esyo sor fbe best h,stor
This medal was won BY Miss Bessie Sue
me commencement speaker, DR..
lThompson, is President Of the Associ.
alton of Land-Grant Colleges. of which
and the theme he had chosen was ap-
propriate to his position and TO the oc-
CASTOR. The subject Of the address was
speakers treatment Of the subject was
forceful, logical and original. sy-
nopsis of the address follows:
Tos n al 81 Mem shous
be made to live in harmony with their
environments. In plainest possible
attempt to do for the Individual what
he needs to have done for him.
| Education for education's sake H. not
beyond the processes of education that
Icannot be measured In terms of educa-
| ton. This something beyond is often
process OF training shall be. The true rue
aim and business Of all education is to
| teach individuals how to live Study
! ficiently. 1t stands for the interpreta-
| tion of life and for the study of man,
the highest expression of life.
po ns and e. Ths Hs
/ brews gave us a pure and lofty religion.
The Greek and Hebrew combined. and
then came the revival of learning, the
| science. The names of Bacon. Sir Isaac
Newton, Faraday. were quickly follow
| ed by others. The intellectual interpre-
tatton of man has been supplemented
bv the spiritual; the spiritual interpre-
tation of the world was the advent of
science nan and new direction to educa-
| tifc and classical schools was long and
bitter; but finally science. first pitied,
| then endured, was embraced and took
a fixed q lofty place In education.
With L.oadened scope Of work there
was born and rapidly grew a conviction
that education should be practical. Gull
Is in its way a splendid thing, but can
be ACQUIRED only by selected few.
tured. What then should we demand
OF our schools? First, education should
provide for the development of the
,nSoyse t ~ '1 aoctripe that ali
men are endowed with equal possibili-
| ties. but we can endorse the doctrine
that all men have the same possibili-
In the second place, Education de-
| velops individuality, and therefore
ed dUs with an even 's Greater Variety,
The modern technical school fulfilis
this condition. The movement for So
By yi Senator t Morrill, forty Years ago suc
ceeded in putting into every State of
the. Union one college where without
studies, the leading object shall be to
teach such branches of knowledge as
arc related to agriculture and the me-
r piay IS given to the DEVELOPMENT D Of the
individual talents of each student. Thus
1t differs from the purely classical
school with virtually only one line of
The land grant colleges established
by the Morrill, Act are the greatest ex-
scientific education based on the doc
trine of adaptation.
Only scientific agriculture can de-
velop our soil. only scientific treatment
can adequately exploit the other nat
ural resources Of our land. This type
of education casts no reflection on the
for itself and patiently awaits the re-
cognition that is sure tn come.
At the conclusion of the address the
following distinctions were awarded:
Students who receive a grade above
80 per cent and less than 50 in three
studies In the Freshman class, in four
Junior. and in six in the Senior. are
distinguished for excellence in schol-
arship. and are awarded certificates of
distinction. Those who receive a grade
icates OF highest distinction.
Freshman Chess.
Observation-Disclosures Cleveland EN-
mons. Escambia; William Hardie, Jr.
| Jefferson: George Griffin Hughes. Ma
rion; William Spence Lurton, Florida:
Clifford Bartlett Richardson. Colbert;
| Edmund Augustus Wright. Tennessee.
Highest Observation-Disclosures Nell
Hudson, Lee: Norman Burns Mcleod,
Clarke: Evans Beauchamp Wood, Pike;
James Alto York. Dale.
Sophomore Class.
Distinction-Henry Madison Averyt
Lee; Casper Carl Certain, Madison;