The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-13
The State University's
 Rise from the Ashes

and of Pharmacy. These two Iattsr are located at Mobile The scope of tha University has steadily widened. It's academic coarse has stood high through all the years of it's history. It was never higher than today It is said of the big class of 1864 when $40 stu dents were at the University. that per- haps not more than sixteen per cent Of them could enter the University under the requirements of today.
 The trend of modern education. the trend of modern professional endeavor, has been steadily towards specializa- ton. In the fierce competition of mod ern life 1t requires the trained and equipped specialists to win success in the fight.
 In recognizing the demand of the world for specialists the University has developed its general policy to meet this demand and to equip its students for modern conditions in the outer world And at the same time the Uni versity's policy of thoroughness has not been abated one Jot or little. The pro- fessionai courses are no less exacting no less thorough, than the academic coarse.
 Important Department.
 The ambitious student has laid before him an interesting field for profession al equipment. The marvellous develop ment of the mineral resources of Ala bama has received due recognition and appreciation in the establishment of the Department of Mines and Metal iurgy. The University laboratory has been designated by the Legislature as the Official State Testing Laboratory. Here too is located the Geological Sur vey of Alabama headed by the learned and energetic pr. Eugene A. Smith, who has devoted a long life to render ing most valuable service to Alabama.
 The Department Of Engineering at the University has won high and enviable work among the engineering departments of the South.
 In the same way has the Law De- partment of the University assumed high rank. Its instruction is held in the highest esteem, not only in Ala bama, but throughout. the South. The Dean of the Department Is Judge w. S. fThorington. formerly of Montgon1- cry, and formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. > The Departments of Medicine and Pharmacy are located at Mobile. Of these Departments. pr. Abercrombie is President, as he Is President of all the University Departments The Depart ments of Medicine and Pharmacy. 1t might be said, are being drawn into closer relations with the University  past.
 An especially able faculty is the boast and pride of the friends of the Univer- sity. In trained and experienced lead CTS of thought in men who have made their mark in the lines of thought and of instruction in which they have seen fit to equip themselves the University is considered fortunate. If the term may be permitted in this connection, 1t Is a well balanced faculty, that Is a faculty which while it is in harmony with the most modern thought and methods of higher education, yet con- tains veterans of the University's long and useful life who are in harmony with its honorable traditions The equipment of its facultyTs thing alone in which the University may well feel just pride, even as it does
 There are among its instructors pros fessors who have graduated at the Ger man universities of Heidelberg and Munich land graduates of the great American universities of Yale, Harvard and Johns Hopkins.
 Doors Open to Women.