The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-03
By win T. sAeehan.

By win 1T. sheehan.
 "@when all the world Is young, lad,
 When all the grass is green,
 When every goose is a swan. lad,
 And every lass a queen.
 Then ho. for boot and spur.
 And around the world away,
 For youth must have It's fling
 And each dog must have his day"
 Ed. old Ed, the bugler, the land mark of the University from time immemo- rial stood at his old place in front of the big dining room in Woods Hall and blew for all he was worth. Mess call, reveille. assembly, taps, one after the other the music of the old army calls rang out and fioated in the sunny air above the stately oaks and elme.
 There he stood as ho had stood for more than forty years with that queer old fashioned. short bugle stuck to his lips. Gray headed Is old Ed, where he has hair. for in his old age he grows to be like his celebrated prototye of the song. "O:d Uncle Ned who had no hair"
 great line marched past him. The line stretched from the dining room door across the big quadrangle, past the office of the President. to the elms in front of Clark Hall where the pro- cession had formed and so long was this marching line that its rear had not caught step when the head was passing through the douh< doors of the dining room.
 Five hundred were in line. five hun dred marching. in twos like so many school boys. School boys they were of other days. but of this day they were leaders of thought in Alabama. leaders in the law, in medicine, in politics, in education. The way they walked they knew full well. Across the quadran- gle In the rare days of old they had made the march in times that could not be counted Old Ed and his horn had brought them across. happy, hun gry and coltish. The five hundred thought of this with a queer littlo grip of sentiment as they drilled across the campus.
 Eds Distinguished Audience.
 Tn all his forty odd years at the Uni versity Ed never marshalled across the campus a company so distinguish ed Eds short little bugle never call ed across the quadrangle another such line of Tnarchers as 1t summoned to the banquet of Alumni Society. Head ing the line were two of Alabama S distinguished citizens, William Dorsey Jelks. Alabamas Governor, and John W. Abercrombie, President of Ala bama's State University Behind them there were visitors of distinction, men
  fairs of their country. men who had come to participate in the peculiar pleasures of the occasion. to empha- size It's importance by their presence and to say their word of appreciation of the splendid work of ap institution of like the University of Alabama in a long life of seventy-hve years.
 Nor were there men in that line, among the alumni any the less distin- euished and honored by their com rades There was the Honorable Hem derson M. Somerville, honored by his the State, and honored by the nation. Fifty years ago he was q boy in the rare atmosphere of Alabama's Univer- sity Fifty years ago in cap and gown he had stood up and received his di- ploma.
 At his side there walked boy who stood at his side and received a dip loma with him. In that class of fifty years ago there graduated Col. Robert Cunningham. President of the United Commercial Travellers and one of the best known business men in Alabama
 Oldest AIumnus in Line.
 Tn front of them was a graduate even older than they. a graduate who finished his education in the walls of old Alabama in the far away year of 1s4s. Dr. William Creath Richardson. Here he was sixty-three years from the date of his graduation, still hale and hearty and still able as he bad proved the night before to down his opponents <a joint discussion.