The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-09-01
THE COLUMBIA "
M|L|TARY ACADEMY
OPENING, WITH los PUPILS, BEATS
THE RECORD.
Large and Enthusiastic Audience Ad-
dressed by Senator Carmack, Con-
gresham Padgett and Others.
Everything in Readiness and School Begins
Without Hitch or Jar or a Single Discor-
dant Note.--The Most Complete
School Equipment in the South

Columbia dream of glory has come
true. It has the best equipped pIepar
atory school for boys in the South
They have the men of their own choos-
ing to man it. 1t opened Monday under
the most favorable conditions possible,
with the largest enrolment of any first
day of any preparatory school in Ten
nessee.
For first day large enrollmente, Castle
Heights, at Lebanon, had the record IN
til today, Their record was ninety pu-
pills The Columbia Military Academy
now has the record. Their record is los
Barring Castle Heights, no other pre-.
paratory school before ever reached half
of 105 Neither Vanderbilt nor Sewanee
enrolled pupils as the Columbia Military
Academy opened with today.
We make these comparison so that Co.
lumbia may Judge by comparison, and
know what splendid opening this was.
An Expectant Throng.
An hour before the appointed time
people from town and country began
to assemble, and by IL o'clock an ex
pectant throDg crowded into the lovely.
and capacious chapel. Happy almost
as school children we're the parents who
had waited and prayed and hoped so
long for this glad hour, and more joy
Gus crowd never greeted each other
Informal as the proceedings were, and
modest as the principals had been in.
their announcement, the public could
not stay away; and even after the bene-
diction and they we're told they might
leave i"if they wished" they did not
wish in a hurry, but fingered about to
watch the boys enroll their names to
the pledge of.honor.
1t was little after ! when Professor
Hardy raped for silence. He made a
short audress.expressing the deep graft
tude of himself and his associate, Prof. /
Edgerton, at the hearty cooperation
Columbia bad given them; without
that, he said, they could not have
succeeded; with that, he said, they
had succeeded succeeded beyond, al
most, their hopes or dreams; they
had not dared at first to raise
their hopes to more than haf q hun
bred the enrolment Monday will
double that. Columbia has the best
equipped school in the South, he said,
and if Columbia will'continue II the flu
ture the loyal, hearty cooperation they
have given so far, it will have the largest
school in the South. 10 the rush attend /
ant upon getting ready to open at all
he had not had time to make an prep
arations for formal Opening; and be
side preferred to have that later, when
the enrolment would be complete. the
boys uniformed and classified; and he
intended to have that formal opening /
later. But he was glad so many had
come, and hoped they would look the
grounds and buildings over, and come
again to the next opening. The audi
ence, he said, would he' addressed by
Senator Carmack and Congressman !
Padgett, and perhaps others, and he in
troduced first, "a man who needs no
Introduction, Senator Carmack. /"
Senator Carmack Given An
ovation.
Senator CaTmack was seated upon
the platform. When he arose and
stepped to the front, his personal pop
ularity would have been plain to the
verlest stranger; for 1t was full min