The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-07

lessor Ii B. Hobdy, Aibertville; Hon. H. H. Reeves. Birmingham; Hon; Aiya Frszes FFsseMbi Mobiie; Hon. T. D. Sanford,
 To-day Today was particularly devoted to honering the memory of baT prot1ssG, thirty-tWo @ years the head of the Department Sl Mathematics of the Alabama Polytecn- mo Institute. and beloved e alike Py suu and young students. professor and asseeSi,- ,,Si- . ates in all his efforts for the Iulnia ment of his life work were representseo sc addressed the large audience assembled In Bas aanfaSe fpreeedins ding these exercises came s the splendid AIump MonaTomery. aGdress The duty of speaking a word Tor ms teiiow alumni of Auburn as to the Work tnsre !, for and obligations to the ans'itpun, pannv and Impressive. He was forceIul ana convincing, too, in his remarks concern ing the commercial tendencies or the
 MT. Fitzpatrick, who Is known as 2 pungent and fluent journalist, proved that he was also a speaker or no mean and self possessed and his every word was heard by every person in the large MT Fitzpatrick was presented tS s,tii the dent of the Society of the Alumni. MT. Samford paid a well-worded tribute to the ability and high character of the 'nSfsa Rfser Osh0 MT. Fitzpatricks address the memorial exercises were begun. Prayer was offered by Rev. NJ. Stanley. Chair dience Professor Bonnet B. Ross of the Chair of Chemistry. q man esteemed alike by the faculty and the student body of the tbs fe of ProfesSer Smith from the faculty. No man. per haps, was better prepared SO to speak than Profesor Ross, ,h who was pa wbo saudenr enr many years was associated with him in the faculty. A review of the life of the distinguished educator, brief outline to education were made by Professor Ross In his address which was given the closest attention.
 MT, sninfOrd's Address.
 For the Alumni Society President Sanford delivered the address. He spoke of the strong, simple llfe Of the veteran educator, life whose innu- ence could be neither weighed nor
 For more than half a century" de: clared MT. Sanford. this str2nS d and tempt to embellish the beauty of this life as 1t Is to try to enhance the His life was to teach the youth of the land As was said from this stand about the late William LeRoy Broun, who coYld have grander vocation
 Mir. Sanford declared that the infiu- ence of the veteran educator was bounded only oy the horizon of eter-
 Fro the members of the Society of tho Alumni it is a sense of gratihca- tion, of pleasure, that we did not wait deep love that we felt for him and that during his life constant messages or affection were sent to him as well as many testimonials of esteem and at-
 Prof. R. D. Webb. speaking for the younger members of the Alumni, al- luded to the great af,nnsi influence nrl sun tor half a century must have had upon the lives of his fellow men.
 'The influence of such a life" rc deo influence of SO good man and of 0 man who has shaped the lives of so many. He has left to this institution speak well within the truth when l say that no teacher in all the years of the institution was ever so well be- felt that 1t was peculiar privilege to have been under his instruction and his influence"
 NJ. Carmichael was to have spoken. but unavoidable business called him to Montgomery. he had, however, prepared the remarks that he proposel to make and he delegated the reading member of the Board.
 Dr. Frazer is himself an alumnus of Auburn and in prefacing the reading of the remarks of Judge Carmichael he took occasion to speak not only or the loveableness of Professor Smith and of his gen ntleness of character but of his ability, his great learning and his great capacity. as those qualities had impressed themselves upon Ss mind as youth entering lnS man-
 In the short address of Judge Car michael attention was called to the s aHd ho w d to o the somn s young man from his New England nome. He had loved ones who, when the great conflict % came or on urged itn hirn the people of his boyhood. Moved by the devotion, by the force. that char acterized his whole career, Professor Smith had replied to these entreatios that he had cast his fortunes n with the people of the South and that he would sink or swim with them. He entered her aPmies and rendered gal lant and distinguished service to her cause
 As Trustee.
 Rut Imore especially did Judge Car michael praise and commend the ser- vices that Prof. Smith rendered to the State of Alabama when he was a menI- Der of the Board of a Trustees Gnts d6 of the recon struction. He was, | firmly be- lievo," said Judge Carmichael, the only leaven that saved the educational interests, of the state; His loss, 1t was declared was a distinct loss to the church, to the State. to the people and to the college.
 Dr. Frazer also presented to the au- dience the set of eloquent resolutions which had been adopted by the Board of Trustees. These resolutions In it. ting words recOunted Lho great sor- vices of Professor Smith and expressed not only the sense of personal loss his death but they voiced the sorrCW for the college at his death and spoke Of the irreparGSle loss the Institution was called upon to bear.
 Rev. J. T. Mangum, of Tallassee. an alumni of Auburn. was called upon to speak for the church upon the death of Prof. Smith. The church. 'saId Mir Mangum. depends most upon those Such man was Professor Smith. His life was deeply religious in all that the term implies. He was member of the Methodist Church and throughout his life he gave honor and loyalty to that church He loved the church with the keenest devotion"
 The speaker said that he had been taught to reverence Professor Smith from his earliest boyhood. Two men he said. had returned from the war when desolatiOn lay over the South and ragged and footsore took up the task with other soldiers of the Confederacy Those two men at the little town of Sa- lem. in the County of Lee, had formed a friendship which now endured beyond the skies, the speaker declared One Of the men was a minister, the father of the speaker, who never failed to speak in the highest words of affection for the other. to pay tribute to him for the nobility of character he displayed oh a11 lea. n.