Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-13
INDICTED INTO OFFICE
DIR. ALDERMAN TO BE INSTALLED
AT CHARLOTTESVILLE TODAY.
Unusual Interest in Ceremonies at the
University Of Virginia Late
This Afternoon.

CHARLoTTESvILLE, Va, April 13.-Dr.
Edward Anderson Alderman will be in
stalled president of the University OF VIZ
gipia late this afternoon. Unusual inter-
est attaches to the event as marking the
first change in the governmental policy OF
the institution established by Thomas JET
ferson eighty years ago, and to which that
famous statesman enthusiastically devoted
the latter period of his life. Jeffersonian
simplicity of government for the institution
did not contemplate a president. Jefferson
wrote into its charter that government
should be administered by a board of re-
gents, a chairman for which should be an
nually elected from among the professors
Along these lines the University of Vir-
ginfa grew to it's place as potent factor
among the higher institutions of learning
of the SOUTH The recent development OF
the university has rendered its efficient ad"
ministration impracticable under the old
methods and the change is made 20 meet
the larger demands.
The First President.
DR.. Alderman is a native of Wilmington,
N. c. He has devoted his life to educa-
ticnal work and was at the head of the
university of his state when he left to take
the same place in the Tulane Q.a.) Uni
yersity. which institution he left for his
new post of duty.
The program of the ceremonies, eElprac-
ing as it does addresses by the leading edu-
Gators of the nation and the governor OF
the state, will be carried out IN the as
sembly hall of the institution beginning at
o'clock this afternoon. Many persons are
here to witness the ceremonies. Inc CEN
ter of attraction is the historic university
Enclosure, with its terraced mall of green
chi embraced
on either side by pavilions designed py
jefferson from the structures which made
Rome famous, and at either end by the
domed structures of the university proper.
The Program.
The program contemplates an invocation
by the Rev DIR. Richard Smart. DID, OF
Norfolk DIR. Alderman will be indicted
into office by the rector of the university,
the Rev. Charles Pinckney Jones of Mon
terey A short response by DR.. Alderman
follows On behalf of the state Gov. Mon
tague will deliver the first address. For the
faculty Prof. H. Smith will be heard.
Senator Thomas S. Martin will speak for
the alumni With Sister Universities as
his text Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge of
Harvard will be heard. Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University Will speak
for the universities of the north; Walter
Barnard Hill of the University of Georgia
for the south; President Richard Henry
Jesse of the University of Missouri for the
west. President Alderman will conclude
the program with his inaugural address
Banquet and Toasts.
The banquet will take place in the classic
at 8 o'clock tonight. Every avail
able foot of space has been utilized. and
covers are laid for $40 guests. All the BAN
uuet tickets were exhausted days ago and
cannot now be obtained for love or money.
DR. James Harrison will act as toastmas-
ter, and the speakers and toasts are as fol-
lows:
alma Mater"-Senator John w. Daniel
Our President'-Dr. Edwin A. Alderman.
"Our Alumni''-Dr. Henry T. Kent of st.
Louis, Mo.
Our Sister Institutions James Bur-
rll Angel, president of University of Micihi-
gan.
''Letters"-Dr. Charles Alphonso Smith of
of North Carolina.
"Science"-Dr. Ira Remsen, president Of
Johns Hopkins University.
'Law'-Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller
of United States Supreme Court.
Thomas Jefferson''-Blewitt Lee of Chi
cago.
A Charming Personality.
DR.. Alderman is one of the most eloquent
and scholarly orators in America once re-
marked the head of a great Baltimore uni
versity, speaking of the new president of
the University of Virginia.
Another noted scholar remarked at an
other time He has about him more of the
evidences of culture than any other man
know.
DR.. Alderman has about him something
OF the atmosphere of the ancient Greeks.
modern, a man who enjoys life
and whose pulse beats in unison with his
time, yet somehow reminds you of Peri
cles, and you know he would have been no
mean citizen of the Athens that built the
Parthenon and gave the world a priceless
of eloQuence and poetry, phil
osophy and art.
Eloquent and polished he does not sacri-
fee matter to manner, and has very prac-
teal way of carrying out his ideals.
Life Devoted to Education.
Born at Wilmington, N. c., May Is, 1861,
ton which had no part in the war between
the states. Trained for college at a Virginia
school, he went to the University of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and graduated
there in 1892 as a bachelor of philosophy.
AS soon as he got his diploma he began
teaching school and was soon superintend-
ent of public schools of the town of Colds
boro, n. c. He became inspired with the
idea that education was the salvation of
the south. With his intimate friend. DR..
Charles d. McIver, he went through the
state holding teachers institutes.
In a few years DIR. Alderman was called
to the University of North Carolina as pro-
fessor of the history and philosophy of ed
ucaton. Two years later, in 1896, he was
elected president of the University of North
Carolina, to succeed DR.. George T. Win
ston. He made notable record as pres
ident and won a national reputation as an
orator and educator.
When Col. William Preston Johnston died
DR.. Alderman was elected to the place
left vacant by Col. Johnston's death-pres-
ident of Tulane University at New Or
leans. That institution was rich and had
fine possibilities. He infused into it the
university spirit and made 1t an active,
vital force in the life of New Orleans.