The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-11
AUBURN SENDS MESSAGE TO
 SONS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

burn has had in the past and there are still extant traditions of his galvanic prowess in fields where football giants contended. Now after ten years ne was back at the college to make an after dinner talk on College Athletics and 1t was a rattling good speech, too. There must be some connection and some relation upon the athletic devel- opment of the bodf and the develop ment of the mind. At Tuscaloosa. the previous week. the committee had, as they did at Auburn, selected gridiron hero to make one of the after dinner talks. The Alabama man was Jimmy Forman. celebrated in University an- nals for athletic prowress. And like Tichenor of Auburn. Forman of Ala bama made one of the very best speech es Of the occasion. Both were short speeches by young men and both were bouyed up with youthful enthusiasm, which would not perhaps be found in the talk of an older man, but the two college athletes, all in all carried off more than their share of oratorical laurels.
 The Auburn Spirit.
 Reynolds Tichenor gave a voice to this Auburn spirit, this spirit of pluck | and gameness, this spirit of love for college. He was telling of the affection
 Auburn's sons had for her and the Sehet thCy WcTc WlttlH8 LO lay up- on tho altar of her welfare. Enthused with his subject. the famous quarter
 back stood at his plate at the alumni banquet saying:
 Tt was love for Auburn that made her alumni last November when her team was going down in defeat gather
 at the side lines and cheer the team again and again as Alabama's line was throwing 1t back, cheering the team in hAfAat if cheered in victory.
 Tt was his love for alma mater. which in the season of '93 made J. w. Brown play the month of November
 with broken hand in a plaster cast. It was college spirit which nerved the
 heart of Billy Williams who though
 his body ached with a raging fever,
 played against Alabama until the game
 was safe. It Is exemplifed in the act
 of l.. E. Byrum. who with three broken
 ribs. held his place in the Georgia game until victory crowned our efforts And ff is glorified In the inspiring
 cry of Walter Shafer who. when
 Stubbs in his vain endeavor to rally
 the Georgia team for a final stand cried out Play for me. fellows" only
 to be answered by Shafer's call, Not
 for ourselves fellows. but for Auburn" The new call goes out to t-ie old Au-
 
 the love of college, to the spirit that
 would stand by and give her a hand in any need They who make the call would knit together closer and closer still the bond between graduate and alma mater. They would unite the alumni In a bond of friendship and of affection as they have never been uni- ted before. And in such a union they would have ready willing power for help to meet the needs of the future. The Great Reunion.
 The Alumni Society of which Cap tan T. D. Sanford Is President, has al- l ready laid the foundation for the great CT reunion of next year. The Alumni Society has moreover prepared to stand behind Auburn's trustees and Auburn's S faculty when they go before the next Legislature and ask that Auburn be given chance and opportunity to grow and to widen. The Alumni will help to show that Auburn is of a right en- titled to the means of growth, that
 she Is fulfilling her destiny and that she is doing and doing we'll the work that Is at hand.
 | The Alumni t,ociety at its recent | meeting provided . committees to look | after the details of the various class ! reunions. So far it would seem that the younger alumni of Auburn are ta- | King more interest Tn the matter or 1 class reunions and in helping the col | lege. For instance the only class re- | union held during the week at Auburn | was the reunion of the class of 1904 with a most satisfactory attendance. | The committees which have been | named cover the more recently grad uated classes of Auburn.
 | The Auburn alumni who will look l after the details of the class reunions are as follows:
 Class of 1881. Professor c. L. Hare,