The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-12
CHARACTER AND PURPOSES
 OF UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

State University with the courage that characterized his work as superintend. ent of education. He carries forward the task with the same persistence ability. With even temper. with perse. yerance and with no haste nor hurry he plans and iabors for the welfare and the enduring prosperity of the
 His personality alone is one link tha, binds together the various elements of Alabama's educational system.
 tory that lies behind the University Its history has been coequal with the history of the State. The misfor- tunes5of one have been the misfortune. one have been the joys and prosperity
 The plan for State University was ton which made the first organic lazy for the State at Huntsville in 1919. It was declared then that whatever public lands should be donated by Congress ment and maintenance of a State Uni versfty.
 Founding the University.
 Tn the same year the Congress of the sections of land. or 4s,osO acres within the State for the purpose of establish ing a seminary of learning. Two years Board of trustees of the University of Alabama and defining the method by which they should be selected.
 meeting in the town of Tuscaloosa on the 6th day of April 1922.
 The personnel of that first Board of has It's own peculiar interest. Those present at the meeting were Governor Israel Pickens, George W. Owens, Henry Hitchcock. George Phillips, Jack GhankfAfARA TtA1d Ntah hr.fa ae Davis. John Mckinley, Thomas Flam, Henry Minor. c. c. Billingsley and Robert W. Carter.
 During the month of December, 1927, the Board again met in Tuscaloosa This time the business before 1t was the selection of 6 site as authorized by the Legislature for the new University build.
 Tuscaioosa was then the capital of the State. It was moreover the center town of the State had the shadow of a chance against Tuscaloosa.
 Tuscaloosa Selected.
 The Legislature in a resolution form ally passed gave the trustees permis- sion to erect the buildings of the State University, but provided they should be built within fifteen miles of the trustees fell upon level plateau, near what was known as Mans Springs. one ana quarter mile east of the court house of Tuscaloosa County.
 A beautiful site was chosen. Today the green sward with It's crown of elms and oaks is one of the widest and loyelfest campus in the South.
 The dominant educational infuencs%of that day was the University of Virginia, whose early years were reflecting addi- tional honor and renown upon its founder. Thomas Jefferson. It was but natural, therefore, that the University of the young State of Alabama should be modelled after the successful educa- ttonal institution of the older State. The Greek architecture, the tall and graceful rotunda. the quadrangle. which are the features of the University of Virginia were reproduced in the Oni- versity of Alabama. To further im- press upon future generations the in- fluence Virginia had upon the Uniyef- stty of Alabama the barracks hall bore the name of Jefferson and Washington. while a third bespoke the fame and in- fluence of Franklin.
 The old University. The barracks halls with the rotunda | at the south were In the form of a | quadrangle. Today there stands upon the campus hard by the office of the | President little octagon- shaped build- Ing covered with white stucco, and