The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-04
Alabama Polytechnic h. stitute Commence
 rnent.
n,sbou ,. J. Tisert, the Preacher. and Maxniacent Discourse Is Heard py Audience which Crowds
 Langdon HalI-
By VIII T. sheehnn.

{ lere having a greater enrolment than any white Institution of learning in Ala barua ever had. The enrolment at Au- burn this year reached the splendid total of 5S0 students.
 This number Is too big for Auburn's singIs sHulRmsh class room or T laboratory in the entire college that is not over-crowded The town of Auburn is but beautiful and nsstnen nge naus trial education and in this. particular year of the great enrolment its board Ing facilities were stretched to their limit.
 The college must continue to grow Even as this years matriculation IS so much greater than last years, so VII next years be greater than that or this year--if there are accommodations, if there are facilities. To this task, to the task of widening the field of the college President Thach and his as- sistants have zealously set themselves to work. new building is going up. It is to cost sl5,ooo. This s. useful ss ea. been made possible without an appeal to the Legislature. The. money was was gathered from college savings here ana to do the work. The new building VIII probably be large enough to apsoro the present over growth of the college ture development That is another problem that the future will nave 70 work out.
 fIan9 TOT COHe&e Futufcs
 But plans for widening and develop ing the college have already peen worked out by President Thach: There viii beyond sosb, at the e9mins sns mees es- tablished some new departments and some new professors. will be added to Auburns faculty already noted s,ons for lds ments, Some important steps forward. are looked for during this commence ment.
 1t had beautiful and suspicious be- ginning, the commencement, on this rare day in June. A great preacher, to Auburn to deliver the commence ment sermon. Fresh from his arduous ment sermon. Fresh from his arduous the Methodist church which mad given him the highest honor within it's gift, Bishop John J. Tigert brought its mes.
 e of strength to the students or was @ t.fff a forcefui message spiendidly con; ceived and clothed in beautiful and impressive English - eousness and for God wherever a mans lot may be cast--such was the sermon building and renunciation. Bishop IT. gert chose to speak upon that great ffs ns in ha the life tss of ssn MSses of wnfn n mothers people preferring. that rather than the throne ,s,n Of Egyg phae es inc history of the world and modern civilization with the exception of the
 Moses. Bishop Tigert declared. was the greatest human being that ever trod on Gods created earth
 Certain tendencies of modern civin- yation Bishop Tigert viewed with nm gled alarm and scorn
 Patriot of Patriots.
 q am patriot of patrlots said gishop Tiger soil fro Sye Mairs sxeFy to05 to ca may 9,ia beiieve hS when r H you hear what am about wbo to ssS But on of say an hs of learning into the world or goes out next year and calmly accepts tne Wori9 as 1t is saying that all is as 1t should be is making a serious mistake. 9 grave mistake Who can calmly contemplate the great insurance frauds. who can at who can think upon how our senators are selected, those members of the highest law making bedy y,th in tbs the orlS w1Iid Who can look upon the corruption in the 400 of New York. and say there Is no work for righteousness to do? viilanies of New York's 400 make themselves felt in the. most obscure pi1Ies The audience which Bishop Tigert addressed was well worthy Of the splendid sermon. Perhaps thousand persons were crowded into Langdon today there were no vacant places in it. while some stood up about i the door OpeIika sent down strong ueI egation to hear the famous preacher. Scores or people drove to Auburn froIa the country fer the services. Der eeth the shade of Auburn's many trees fne streets were crowded with bugsles' wagons and carriages.
 Into Langdon Hall the cadet corps made up of alert. bright-eyed and viz orous boys. marched into the audito- rum to fill the seats of honor in the auditorium. Flowers and ferns, green and refreshing to the eye, decorated the
 Bishop Tigert. in his personal ap- pearance shows the strength and ment' ality which has made him leader in Bishop. He is tall. but so squarely, so strongly built that his stature appears to lose it's height With shoulders intellectual strength he shows himself as he is. a leader of men.
 An Impressive Speaker.
 His mouth Is cut on generous lines and his eyes are alert and searching. He is an impressive speaker. but as good as his delivery is, 1t is not so re- markablc as the choice and purity of his language. He has a neat turn of humor, which he brings out to be seen only now and then.
 His introductory remarks were an eloquent appreciation of the splendid lives and works of William Leroy Broun and Nathaniel T. Lupton, men who had been identified with the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute and whose good deeds live after them.
 For his chapter of Scripture Bishop Tigert read part of the life of Moses, taking as the verse upon which to speak that which told that Moses when he came to his years refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daugh- ter"
 In speaking of Moses's natural love for his mothers unfortunate people, Bishop Tigert dwelt briefly upon fam tly traits and influences recalling tho two Adams. father and son. who be- came in turn President of the United States. and in nearly every generation some member of that family had been prominent enough to be nominated for the Presidency. He spoke nf the remarkable family of that Cougrega- tIonal minister at Hartford. ConnecAi cut which produced Henry ward Reehcer. Americas greatest preacher. and Harriett Beecher Stowe. who wrote a piece of fiction which rightly or wrongly influenced more people than any novel ever written by an American.
 Returning to his text Bishop Tlgert said all the great services to mankind . had been rendered through renuncia- tion. In this way had Christ saved humanity, Socrates had given it his philosophy and Moses had laid the foundation of its power and Its civili- gation.
 "Accidental" Timid and False.
 Flow timid and false is that word Accidental" declared Bishop Tigert Tt must be stricken from the Christian