Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-14
THE UNIVERSITY.

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as president of the University OF Vir-
ginia, yesterday, was the banquet given
last night by the General Alumni AS
ISOLATION to the distinguish guests oil the
university. This was held in the ro-
tunda. where Lafayette was twice dlned.
In the absence. OF DR.. Thomas Nelson
Page. president of the association, who
is quite Ill, James p Harrison, OF Dan
vile, vice president, acted as toastmas-
ter. On Mr.. Harrison's right sat Dr.
Alderman, Hon. G. p. Jones, rector OF
the univers ty, with DIR. James b.
Angel, of the University of Michigan;
Senator Daniel and Henry t. Kent.
Other guests we're Governor Montague,
DR.. Ia Remsen, of Johns Hopkins
University; Senator Martin, DIR. Il. II.
McKim, l'r. Alphonso smith, ct the
University of North Carolina, and Hon.
Blewett Lee, of Chicago.
The following toasls were respond
ed to:
"Alma Mater" Senator John w.
Daniel.
"Our President" DIR. Alderman.
"Onr Alumni" Henry =. Kent, of
st. Louis.
"The Jefferson Memorial, Endow =
ment Fund" Rev. Dr. Randolph IA.
McKim, Of Washington.
"Our Sister Institutions" President
James B. ANGEL, OF tAe University of
Michigan. .-s.
letter." DIR. Charles Alphonso
Smith, of the University of North Caro-
lima.
Science" President Ira Remsen, Of
the Johns Hopkins University.
Thomas Jefferson" Hon. Blewelt
Lee, Of Chicago.
The speech of the evening was made
by President Alderman who simply car
ried away his hearers and took their
hearts by storm. His illusions to the
members of the faculty was as tender
and gentle as a woman and he held the
attention of every person present during
every second of his speech. In conclu-
sion, he said; al have the honor of an
nouncing that ! have received the fol
loving donations to the University OF
Virginia: Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge
of Boston, $50, 900; Mr.. Thomas Mel
son Page, $4,000; Mr.. James G. Carter,
of New York, 10000; Mr.. Charles
Broadway ROuss, 80, 900; Hon. Elihu
Root, 81, 900; Mr. George FostGr Pea
body, $40, 900; Mr.. Francis Bartlett, 81
500; Mr.. Joseph Bryan. so, 900; Mr..
Samuel Spencer, $4,000; Mr.. Humph-
reys, of st. Louis, 81, GOO; small dona-
tions, 81, 500, and Mr.. John d. Rookie
Teller, 800, 600, making total of S2lS,-
600 and, with Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's
$500, 900, $4,000.
DIR. Alderman said that The million
dollars was in sight, and that be was
going after another million. His speech
was greeted with cheers and college yells.
Before the speaking began Mr.. Harrison,
POSTMASTER, asked all to rise and drink
the health of President Roosevelt, who,
he said, was President of North, South,
East and West. 1t was drunk with
honor.
At the banquet announcement was
made that John ID. Rockefeller had
given 800, 900 to the university as a
memorial to the late DIR. j. l.. NJ. Curry
The torchlight procession last night
was ma snifcent affair.
President Alderman's inaugural adj
dress delivered yesterday afternoon was
eloquent, forceiul, scholarly. Tracing the
foundation of the university ''inspired
by the genius of Thomas Jefferson, guild
ed by the patient good sense Of Joseph
Cabel and heartened by the encourage
ment of James Madison and James Mon
roe" he said they had dedicated it
consciously to freedom for mind and soul
to desire for knowledge and truth and to
solemn faith in the justice and slow pro-
gressiveness of democratic society.
'To this university" he said, "Thos.
Jefferson is something more than a phi
osopher or figure in pantheon. He
is friend, founder, father. No uni
versity in the world not Bologna, or FL
Ashar, or Oxford or Prague lis so init
mately associated with so immortal a
name. To us he inhabits his high hill
forever, an unwearied, versatile, myriad
minded old man, acquainted with glory
and high station, smile of faith forever
on his lips, a passion for freedom forever
at his heart, knowing men deeply and
yet believing in them and havingpatien
with them subjecting everything, with
thoughtful radicalsm, to the test of their
advancement watching with patient
eyes the slow rising walls of this univer-
sity for their training, and counting that
foundation the greatest in the sum of his
vast achievement.