The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-11
Sixty Members in New
 York City.
Love of old studenss for Polytechnic Institute Has Done Much for Its Success in Form
 CT Years.
BY WILL n. STEPHAN.


 Auburn has sounded a bugle and sent message to her sons. They are far-fung lot--these alumni of Au- burn. No less than sixty of them are members of the Auburn Alumni Soct- ety of New York City.
 Some are in Mexico, some are about the big works on the Panama Canal, some are North, some are East and some are West. but by far the great est number are In the South and of Alabama. The call that goes to them Is a call for closer relationship, q call for closer bonds of affection. It is long call and a far message that Au-
 burn is sending out.
 This age has been called the age of the engineer and the engineer has been called the man of the future. In the past twenty years. with the growth of the profession of the engineer, techni- cal and industrial education has as- sumed an importance undreamed of in the older days. The engineer, unlike tho lawyer, the minister or the doctor, is not held down by his environment t. nor is work so closely an association with environment. The call for his service may come from across the con- tinent or it may harken from a far Auburn's new call and her new word to her sons has been a word of affec- tion, a plea that the bonds between her sons and their alma mater shall be more closely knit. The commence nnent just closed was celebrated by the largest attendance of alumni that ever gathered in Auburn. They came with out special effort. They came because they wanted to come, voluntarily and without urging. So many came and so fine a spirit was shown that the purpose was formed among the alumni present of having the next commence
 ment the scene of the greatest col
 lege reunion in the history of the in
 stitution. It Is planned to have at least dozen class reunions and more if sufficient interest can be aroused. But the reunion movement has already been launched and systematically it will be carried forward until next June. the campus will be filled with old graduates as 1t has never been filled before.
 Next Alumni Day.
 The generous and affectionate inter- est felt by the old boys for their alma mater and manifested in their pres ence and good words at the commence ment just closed has inspired the hope that the alumni day of next year can
 be made day to be marked with white stone in Auburns history. At least that much will be striven for. The famous pluck of Yale has been the pluck of Auburn. For grit and nerve Auburn has been called the Yale of the South. Auburn's pluckiness, her aggressiveness on hundred athletic fields, has given her peculiar fame. The mysterious way in which the un- dergraduate athlete at Auburn is im- bued with pluck and nerve he never knew before the mysterious way in which he can summon undreamed or | powers of pluck and endurance when | he is making his first, has puzzled oth- CT colleges and the Auburn spirit" has won a jealous regard and jealous consideration.
 l A glimpse of this spirit. sudden but | tangible view of the Auburn spirit was given in splendid little after dinner address by Reynolds Tichenor at the Alumni banquet. Tichenor. in his college days, was a great athlete. slim, wiry, undersized, active chap,
 as hard as nails. He is in the neigh borheod of thirty years old now and eveM now he wouldn't weigh 150 pounds But he was one of the great est of the many football players Au-