The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-16
The Important Thing of
 the Community.
DeveIoppaent of Splendid School CramD- cd snd Ct1camscribed by Lack
 of Money
By VIII T. sheehan.

Monteyallo, May 14.-(Special core spondence. )--The life of Montevallo and no mountain village of Alabama is fairer to the eye. centers about the college. The college is the center Of the social, the intellectual and the re- aigious life of Montevalo.
 The college has no rival in Monte vallo. It Is the big thing. the impor- tant thing of the community. and this is well for the college, in the opinion nna, of leaders in modern educational thought. The quiet. the beauty anc the healthful restfulness of country town is held to be far better surround ings for school or college than the turmoil and excitement of city. The mental stimulus in natures outspread charms Is an excellent substitute TOT the temptation of excitement that would draw the student mind from re- f1ection and study in d city.
 Nature was in a kindly mood when the hills and valleys about Montevalio were shaped and dressed in verdure. The name means 'The valley in the mountain" Around about 1t are hills hills and valleys. The hills in these commencement times are green. beau tiful and useful. The trees wear their richest, greenest dress, and in the slop- ing hillside or by the rim of the clear running brook, every flower blossoms to the sun and pays the tribute Of its fragrance to the passing breeze.
 The red roads that run the noun tains and split the grassey banks of the valley streams are lined with rose gar dens. odorous and fragrant. in their massage through the mountain town or Montevallo.
 nf afI stands the brick structures which give shelter and learning to the four hum dred daughters of Alabama. A splen- did green slope falls gracefully for a full hundred yards to the doors of the homes of Montevallo. There are some terraces on it, but the whole is not terraced. The college would have terraced the whole of this splendid slope and saved it from any unsightly wash or ditch. but the money gave out.
 Not only in terracing. but in doing many other things, the money has given out. Some 200 students are not find dng quarters in the dormitory because the money gave out before the build ing was completed. Here and there again the field of the colleges ende- avor has been limited by this patent ircumscription--the lack of money.
 There are four hundred girls to care  has acknowledged the power, the influ- ence and the good that can come from an educated, refined and trained wo- manhood It has undertaken to pro- vide the means of such comsumma- tion. But the growth of the Alabama Girls Industrial School has out run the means the State has pro- vided. The school like all Alabama in stitutions, has grown rapidly, it has grown faster than many others of the States institutions in these recent years of wonderful advance and 1t has touched the limits of it's present pos sibility of growth and, the State faces the necessity of widening its field o' activity.
 But in Montevallo today. there are n, cares and warrier. The years worl .. ia behind, the joyous vacation sum mer is beginning. The halls. the yards and the tree crowned terraces ar bright with white and gray grasses The building overflows with happ. and contention feminity and laugnte is the only music. There is only her and there a black coat or spring suit. Men are few in Montevallo. evei at commencement. There are a fev fathers, proud and affectionate. fev brothers, a few who are not brother and the trustees who represent tn state of Alabama in the general man agcment of the institution.
 In the commencement days the!