The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-14
-. WILMINGTON N c., April. L. 1905

sSfFice Win gladneSS, Whatever
strength | have. All this | shall seek
to do. By Gods help | will
Not an opportunity had been lost to
applaud DR.. Alderman, and when he
concluded his words of acceptance.
cheer upon cheer rang out from the
students in the galleries, while those IN
the Dit of the large hall applauded
long.
Governor Montague followed and
spoke for the s,ate and her institu-
tions. He said:
In the stir of expectancy which We
look in the future, we cannot forget
the deeds and traditions and the pur-
poses for which it was founded. The
father of the university contributed
more fully than any statesman of his
day to the educational needs of :e-
public. He devised this school not for
the subjects Of king but for citizens
of a republic, offering them opportuni-
ties and bringing to them responsible
Iities. Accordingly he appealed to the
people for this university and by their
authority and resource were formed
and substance given this undertaking.
This school lives of the state, but it
also lives for the state; and while we
must be careful of what we get from
the people, we must be more eager
about that which we give back to the
people
Assuming as of right the leadership
in our commonwealth, she should do
SO in affectionate cooperation with all
other educational institutions, public
and private, thus strengthening and
ennobling the spirit of culture and uni
flying the forces of education. For
only in SO far as this university rem
ders itself necessary to the people and
supplemental to all educational inter
ests of the state will it fulfil the am
pier purposes of it's founders"
Other speakers who were limited to
ten minutes each included Professor
Henry Smith of University of Virginia:
United States Senator Martin, Profes-
sor Archibald Cary Coolidge, of Har-
ward; President Nicholas Murray But
ler, of Columbia; Chancellor Walter
Barnard Hill, University of Georgia,
and President Richard Henry Jesse,
University of Missouri. President AL
derman was then listened to at length
in the delivery OF his inaugural ad-
dress.
The alumni and students took entire
charge of matters at the conclusion
of the installation exercises. All day
preparations for the banquet had been
going forward in the rotunda. Around
the center table seated the guests OF
honor and Toastmaster James P. Har-
rison, of Danville, who off1ciated in the
absence of Thomas Nelson Page, pres
ident of the alumni.
Other tables were placed in the room
and in the alcoves. The programme
of toasts was carried out with zest.
United States Senator John w. Dan
iel touched the first chords of the even
ing, responding to the toast, Alma Ma
ter" President Alderman followed,
discussing 'Our President" "OurAlum-
ni," was the subject of the remarks
by Henry Thompson Kent, of St.
Louis James Burrell Angel, president
of the University of Michigan spoke
for "Our Sister Institutions" Letters
was the subject treated most entertain
ingly by Charles A. Smith, Phi. d., or
the University of North Carolina.
President Ira Remsen, of Johns Hop
kins, talked of science, and made it
entertaining for the diners. Rev Ran
dolph H. McKim, of Washington, d.
c., spoke as to the Jefferson Memorial
endowment fund. The last toast was
reserved for the founder Of the Uni
versity Thomas Jefferson" and was
responded to by Blewett Lee, OF Chi
cago.
President Alderman is a native OF
North Carolina. He is in the prime
of life and left the presidency of his
state university to head the Tulane,
Louisiana University, from which he
resigned to accept his new post.
SfO0.GOO Gift From Rockefeller.
Charlottesville, Va, April 13.-A1-
nouncement was made at the banque.
that John D. Rockefeller had given
one hundred thousand dollars to the
university Ito found school of edu-
cation, to be called the Curry Memo
rial School of Education of the Uni
versity of Virginia, in commemoratlon
of the great and disinterested services
of Dr. Curry in behalf of popular edu-
cation in the south"