The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-15
THE INAUGURATION (.
OF DR.. ALDERMAN
On This Anniversary OF the Birth of Jefferson Its
IIustrious Founder, virginia's University IN
stalls Its First President.

traditions and the purposes for
which it was fonded. The father OF
the university contributed more
fully than any statesman of his
day to the educational needs of a re-
public. He devised this school not for
the subjects of a king but for citizens
of republic. offering them opportun-
tiles and bringing to them response
bilities f. Accordingly he appealed to
the people for this university and by
their authority and resource were form
and substance given this undertaking.
This school lives on 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 leader
ship in our commonwealth, she should
do SO in affectionote cooperation with
all other educational institutions pub
lie and private, thus strengthening and
ennobling the spirit of culture and
unifying the forces of education. For
only in so far as this university renders
itself necessary to the people and sup
plementsal to all educational interests
of the State will it fulfill the ampler
purposes of its founder"
Other speakers who were limited
to ten minutes each including Prof.
Henry Smoth, of the University of Vir-
ginia: United States Senator Martin;
Prof. Archibald Carey Coolidge, of
Harvard; President Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Harvard Chancellor Walter
Bernard Hill, University of Georgia,
and President Richard Henry Jesse,
University of Missouri.
President Alderman was then listen
ed to at length in the delivery of his
inaugural address.
CDR Aldermans Address is printed
on page three.)
Banquet and Toasts.
The alumni and students took en-
tire charge of matters at the conclu-
sion of the installation exercises. All
day preparations for the banquet had
been going forward in the rotunda.
A round center table seated the guests
of honor and POSTMASTER James F..
Harrison, of Danville, who officiated
in the absence of Thomas Nelson
Page. president of the alumni. Other
tables were placed in the room and in
the alcoves. The program of toasts
was carried out with zest. United
States Senator John w. Daniel touch
ed the first chords of the evening re-
spending to the toast alma Mater"
President Alderman followed, discuss
ing "Our President" "Our Alumni
was the SUBJECT Oh remarks Dy Henry
Thompson Kent, of st. Louis. James
Burrell Angel, president of the Uni
versity of Michigan, spoke for "Our
Sister Institutions" Letters" was
the subject treated most entertainingly
by Charles FL. Smith, Phi. ID. of the
University of North Carolina. Presi-
dent Ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins,
talked of Science and made it enter
tanning for the diners. Rev. Ran
dolph FL. 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 Blewitt 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 to head the Tulane, La, Uni
versity from which he resigned to &C
cept his new post.