The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29


 the State. For the Angio-saxon would never consent to be governed by an inferior race The education of the ne- gro should be of that kind that would
 best fit him for the station he was to occupy.
 President Brown Ayres of the Uni- versity of Tennessee, in his short ad- dress spoke of the true university, the University of Greatness. It should be
 democratic institution and should he for all classes. There was no room in modern Ideas of education for class prejudices. The true university was one where every boy of every station should have the opportunity of secur- ing a higher education. The great university was the university of all people, the common people as we'll as any other. Prof. Thomas w. Page Of the University of California spoke of the great material development of the country and he feiicitated his hearers especially upon the great material ad- vancement of the South.
 A southern born man he declared was proud of hIs southern preiudices. The | South just now was taking the advanc-
 ed steps in the march of progress ana ! the entire country was looking to the | South for leadership out of the dif- ! faculties that surrounded the commer- | cial growth of the country.
 l President c. C. Thach of Auburn, de-
 iivered a happy address speaking for l the sister educational institutions of l the State The Alabama Polytechnic | Institute took a pride in the history of the University of Alabama and re- foiced in It's growth. Young men rep resenting the two institutions had fre- duently met on the athletic field in intense rivalry but the relation be-
 tween the two colleges had always taa Asata AnI
 a pride in the exercises which ceie- brated the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the University.
 Rhodes Praised Auburn.
 For the press of Alabama General
 Rufus N. Rhodes of Birmingham, de- livered a stirring address. In 1t he reviewed the diffieueties of pioneer civilization in Alabama. in the way of education and how those dificulties
 had been surmounted in the work of l the University of Alabama. The splendid progress of the University till the dark cloud of war rose, he pictured and then he portrayed the darker dangers that came with reconstruction | for Alabamas educational interests. | Through all these distressing condi- tions the University had survived. The occurrences of the years in history of the University were recalled by Gen. | eral Rhodes who said. T have done | this in order to accentuate the glo- | rious part that the alumni of the Uni | versity have played In all kinds of
 weather in prosperity and in poverty, | in happiness and in sorrow, in war | and in peace. The alumni of the Uni | versity of Alabama have always H. | lustrated the genuine mapliness which makes the southern gentleman the highest type of civilized man. The | retrospect of the University is selo- ouent with accomplishments and the | present is golden with promise.
 Brief words of greeting were spoken by Major c. R. Fairbanks, one of the | founders of the University of the South and Brigadier General Duval of | inc United States army. General Duval
 was in full dress uniform and repre- sented West Point at the exercises. He | will be remembered as the officer whose | name had some connection with the march ot Father Tom Sherman over Sherman's route to the sea.
 After these brief addresses Presi- dent Abercrombie introduced to the large audience Major C. R. Elliott, rep resenting Grant University and the | University of Michigan, pr. J. H. Phil lips, representing the City Schools of | Birmingham and the Marietta College.
 Dr. w. S. Chapman, representing wash | ington University, Dr. F. M. Martin representing Mount Hollyoke College, pr. J. c. Baillaird. representing Johns Hopkins University. pr. Proswell, rep resenting the University of South Car olina, pr. J. N. E. Metcalf. represent ing Oberlin College. Dr. w. E. Hall, representing University Of the South' Sewanee, pr. II. L. Blaney, represent ing Central College of Kentucky. Prof.
 J. H. Foster of the city schools of Tus- caloosa and Prof J. A. Moore of Mon tevaIlo, Colonel J. T. Murfee, H. O. Murfee and Professor E. R. Anderson