The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-14
BRILLIANT DAY
 FOR OLD VIRGINIA
Continued from First Pase.)

kContinued rom fIrSt fagc.1 that makes for popular enlightenment" !"
 Other speakers who were limited to ten minutes each, included Prof. Francis Henry Smith of the University of Vir- ginia: United States Senator Martin, Prof. Archibald Cary Collage of Harvard; Pres ident Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum- bia, Chancellor Walter Barnard Hill. Uni versity of Georgia, and President Richard Henry Jesse, University of Missouri. Pres ident Alderman was then listened to at length in the delivery of his inaugural address.
 Glowing Tribute to Founders.
 President Alderman's address compre- hended a glowing tribute to Thomas Jeff ferson, Joseph Cabel, James Madison and James Monroe, as the founders of the university. He reviewed the prophetic idealsms of Jefferson, and told how the university since had made them realities. He talked earnestly of the purposes of higher education, it's relation to the in- divdual, and the state and nation. He predicted in detail future ideal univer- sity, and appealed to Virginia to rise to its university.
 President Alderman had this to say of Jefferson:
 "fhe illustrious man who inspired this foundation has eternal honor. Here he lived; here they laid his mortal body, and here dwels in ceaseless energy his im- mortal spirit But Thomas Jefferson, like George Washington is a world name, and world force. His phrases on the lips of aspiration, stand everywhere as rebuke and a stumbling block to tyranny and op- pression"
 He continued:
 Born of the union of human enthusiasm and civic impulse, the University of Vir- ginia seems 10 me the first deiberate gift of democratic idealism to the ma ton and century, though three score and seven institutions had preceded 1t in the national life, owing to their origin to the great historic causes of religious zeal. private beneficience. and high community impulses for wisdom and guidance" Jeffersons six purposes to be accom- plished through the university were quoted verbatim:
 Quotes Jeffersons Words. " TO form the statesman, legislator and judge, to expound the principles and structure of government, to harmonze and promote the interests of agriculture. manufactures and commerce, to develop the reasoning faculties of youth; to en- tighten them as to science and art, and to form them to habits of reflection and cor rect action
 "rhe Americans of the southern states are the only Americans who have known | in direct form the discipline of war. and the education of defeat. They alone of this unbeaten land have had intimate experience of revolution and despair. The University of Virginia as their chiefest servant has shared with them this stern self-revealing tutelage.
 'rhe building of national university of modern type in the south, is the great | opportunity to benefit the republic now offered to the wisdom of states and the ina gination of far-seeing men, Money alone cannot make such university. but vast power is necessary. Though 1t bear the image and superscrption of Caesar. there is an alchemy of consecra- ton in our laboratories which can trans mute money into moral force.
 Great states care for their universi- ties, believing such care to be a mark of greatness in states. The university calls to her sons with the confidence of mother for their constructive help, and they will heed her call as they have needed every call of filial love and public duty"
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