The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-07
WHAT AUBURN STANDS FOR
 ANSWERED AT COMMENCEMENT

the members of the faculty who for
 four years had directed their footsteps | along the way of knowledge. They 1, stood there. the central figures of a beautiful scene to hear the final words | or counsel and advice. And that final word was an inspiring evidence of Au- burns love for her old students. an inspiring evidence of the closen ess with which she holds her communion with
 her sons, though they may have gone for many years out into the world. Hark Back To Auburn.
 The final word to the graduating | class of 1906. from the president of | the institution was: Remember, if you fall into need. if you want assis- | tance, harken your voice back to Au- burn and the call will be needed and
 We will give you a helping hand" President Thach had given them Aut burns message to her departing sons. Keep your lives clean" he had said. Do your work cherfuliy and do it thoroughly. There are some of You now equipped to go out and take a place in your profession. When you are engaged In the duties of your pro- fession never sacrifice yourselves to your work to the exclusion of all else | should be in your life some leisure time. some time for noble thought some time for development of mind and character. Do not throw away your books nor do not neglect the i'm portant duty of reading. If you do this In your profession you become stagna- ted and paralyzed in your profession ''
 The commencement address was de- livered by Prof Francis H. Smith, one of the oldest and the most distin- guished educators in the South. For fifty-two years he has been professor nf ph at AA T,{x nf Vir- ginia- Professor Smith was a contem- porary and close personal friend Of that other distinguished educator Will liam Leroy Broun, who was Auburn s first president and who more than any other one man shaped its policy. in which there has been so large train of success.
 Professor smiths Address. A large audience assembled to hear Professor Smith. Many of his old stu dents, men who went from Alabama to study physics under him at the Univer- sity of Virginia made the trip to Au- burn today to see their old preceptor and to hear his address. These and the other Auburn visitors filled the large auditorium at the morning exer- cises.
 The winter of old age upon the vet eran college professor has been frosty but kindly. His head is white but he large physique is still strong and viE- orous The full, strong face is still ruddy and still expressive.
 Professor Smith elected to speak upon what he and what other leading thinkers of the country consider a menace to American life and American citizenship, the American characteristic of rush and hustle. His subject, dou- ble one, he named, Hurry and Worry" " In beginning, however. he took oe- casion to lay a wreath of the eloquence upon the memory of his dead friend. William Leroy Broun. whose later years had been spent in the upbuilding | of that institution which is yet a mon- l ument to him. He spoke of the schol- arly attainments of Auburn's first President, of his ripe mind, his splendid executive ability and especially of those amiable and companionable qualities which had endeared him above other men to his friends. 'He was the soul of every company in which he sat-" declared Professor Smith, and no one was ever within his presence without falling a vietin of his charms of man. ner and conversation"
 Professor Smith spoke with appreci- ation and approval of the high stand ard and the high value the world had come to put upon technical educatio1 I. | The present age was an engineering | age. The institutions which were turn
 ing out trained and skilled engineers
 to meet the remarkable demand for l men Of technical education and train
 inS were supplying the needs of the | age and repairing a reward of rapid growth and development
 Professor Smith favored a more wide | spread distribution of institutions wherein technical education might be
 had. Now that its value had come to | be appreciated at it's full worth he fa- vored the establishment of local insti- tutions for giving educational training. that Its benefits might be more general
 and more widespread It was a great
 system of education which was brought
 to bear upon the problem of engineer | ing.
 Hurry and Worry.
 | There are, however" said Professor
 smith. two great giants that walk
 stealthily by the side of every Ameri- | can man with uplifted axes ready to | destroy. They are the giants of Hurry
 and Worry. the twin evils of American
 life" The tendency to rush through every | thing to hurry and to worry. a ten- | dency only to pronounced in American | life was greatly deplored by Professor | Smith. Hurry, he declared was incon- | sistent with any sort of excellence This tendency of rushing through col- | lege and school life In America, this
 
 manifest He quoted figures illustrat-
 ing the better way education was got | ten in European universities where
 there was no attempt at hurry and
 where the student had time to study
 and to assimilate. He quoted figures
 to show that in some American col | leges the time a student spent in the | securing of his education was barely
 more than year and a half while con-
 tinental universities 1t was not uncom-
 mon that the students should spend ten
 years there. In others 1t was quite the 1 ordinary thing that a student should | remain at least seven years
 Time for leisure. for reflection. for | growth, for development was required l He pointed to two distinguished citi- zens of Alabama as Illustrating the l splendid development that would come | of this system, John T. Morgan and | Edmund w. Pettus.
 Alabama stands in an admirable and enviable light before the whole coun- try" said Professor Smith For