The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-28
Alumni F1ocking to|
 Tuscaloosa Town.
A.ru.r sermon Was Delivered to Im- mense Audience in Clark Hall by President Faunce of
 Brown University.
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i. By VIII IT, Snecnnns
 spondence. )-The University of Ala bana today enters upon the celebra- tion of it's seventy fifth anniversary, the last and the greatest in its long and iIlustrious history.
 Nor was it to be thought that this, the Diamond Jubilee of Aiabama's old est educational institution. should pass without unusual note and without m usual honor. So the four days which began with this mornings solemn ser vices in the chapel are beyond doubt the most important that have been held in the historic environments of the University of Alabama, now finishing seventy-fve years of activity and of tenefcence.
 A splendid array of distinguished ed- ucators from the North and the East lave gathered to say word of the great work Of the University, to speak of the purity of public men of the South in of1cial life and of the future infiu- ence of the South and Southern men upon the affairs of the common coun- try. for these are subjects with Whicn Northern thinkers are now busy.
 Perhaps such a company of famous teachers never before assembled at Ala tama's University. They include the famous pr. W. Fl. Faunee. President or Brown University and who has been prominently mentioned as successor of the late pr. Harper, President or Chicago University. Governor w. D: Jelks of Alabama, State Superintendent I. W. Hill, Dean J. H. Penniman or the University of Pennsylvania, Pres- jdent Brown Ayres of the Universisy of tennessee, President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois Prof. Thomas W. Page of the Univer- stty of California, President c. .. Alah pnlVfechn1C stitute, Gen. Rufus N. Rhodes Of Birm- inrham. the Hon. Charles A. Towne Of New York, and President Francis F. venable of the University Of North Carolina.
 Alumni are Gathering.
 Nor Is this all that makes these com mencement exercises greater than any That have zone before. The alumni will gather here as they have never gathered hefore If there is one thing more than another that characterizes the graou- ates of the University of Alabama It IS his love and loyalty to the old tnsn- tuition wherein his learning was ac- quired, and where he acquired tne friendship which he values perhaps as ynuch as he values his University train ing. giving proof of their love for their alma mater as they never gave it before IL is the seventy-fffth anhtversary--tne time to stop and look back over the accomplishments of the past; over ene achievements of this great three quar- ters of a century. It is time to stop and renew youth and enthusiasm with the friend and comrade of college days. Manhood has it's struggles, its dimcui- ties and its victories, but no matter what be its accomplishments it IS not so happy as the golden period when all the world was young.
 The college man Is hard and satur- ated indeed with business cares who does not want to lose himself TOT moment and summon up that youth that he was in other years--to summon up not only that youth that was nlmseit but to summon up those choice spitits that surrounded that youth III enoee halcyon days.
 So the alumni are coming back to Ahe old scenes so well remembered and so we'll loved, that splendid stretch or lawn, perhaps the most beautifui m Alabama. the stately old oaks and there is none more beautiful, the brick build Ines with the Quadrangle of grass girded in by barracks. with the old familiar slender stairways of iron run- ming from stoop to stoop.
 All this the old grad wants to see and he wants to see the boys who were with him and and who are part of college memories and college scenes
 The town now is filling with alumni The hotel was full today. The old grads are coming in on every train There is talk of this class reunion and that class reunion. Of this assembly of alumni and that assembly of alumni
 They are going to have joint de- bate between four of the alumni, whose graduation stretched over wide ex- oanse of time. The alumni are to rep resent the two rival literary societies of the college, the Philomathic and the Eroeophic. The subject chosen has its own interest and is full of meat for