The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-28
AL ABAMA UNIVERSITY BEGINS
 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

discussion. It Is Resolved, That the
 Old Times were Better Than the New"
 The Erosophic takes the affirmative
 through It's representatives. Charles E.
 Mccall of the class of 1885. and W. c.
 Richardson of the class of 1S43. For the Philomathic the negative side will
 be taken by Russell P. Coleman 1902.
 and Chappell Cory 1878. The joint de-
 bate is to take place Tuesday night.
 On the same day the annual banquet
 of the alumni will be served in the big
 mess hall.
 The alumnus of the University of
 Alabama. all in all has more to draw
 him back to the University this year
 than ever before.
 Social Activities Pronounced.
 The social activities of this celebra-
 tion of the seventy fifth anniversary
 of the University of Alabama are more
 pronounced and more numerous than
 those which accompanied any previous
 year.
 The town is gay with beautiful
 dresses and even more beautiful faces.
 A college town somehow seems to have more girls and more pretty girls than its share and certainly this is true of
 Tuscaloosa.
 But to augment Tuscaloosa's quota of beauties, girls from Montgomery, from Birmingham, from every section of the State are visiting the college city for the commencement. And cer-
 tain1y a splendid program of social
 gayety has been arranged. The Sigma Nus, a strong Greek Let ter Fraternity. gave a German last night and great crowd was in at- tendance. It was said that never be- fore at commencement had there been so Anany visiting young women. This dance was the third of the commence ment series. Moreover. there are four more before the curtain will be rung down.
 In the social line. and in addition to these dances. there is to be given
 Monday night by President Abercrom- bic at the presidents mansion and the university reception in Woods Hall. Therefore. the Alabama bellies who have assembled in Tuscaloosa will no doubt have their expectations of social diver sion met to the fullest
 A splendid and inspiring audience greeted President Faunce at the chapel this morning when he rose to deliver the celebration sermon. The student body attended in full. Prominent places were occupied by the faculty and dis tir guished visitors to the celebration exercises.
 The dummy" the little train. which Is the CnleE HIEdHc VA tA0A1RNH tation between Tuscaloosa and the uni- yersity, was crowded to the door on every trip. The town people attended in great numbers and the audience was brfghtened and beautified with the presence of many girls, in spring ap- parel and commencement finery. NO speaker should want finer audience. Music was furnished by the universi. ty Giee Club, under the direction or rom Garner. and there was music Of splendid order. The musical program included Holy, Holy, Holy" shout the Clad Tidines" and the "Hallelujah Cho- rus" HandePs Lays" was rendered by John Calman and "A Song of Great Joy' was contributed by "Hill Fergu- son, president of the Alumni Associa- ton.
 For his text, on this important occas- ion. President Faunce chose the words: "Iengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes" r.,s4 Tn nresentinx Dr. Faunce, President 1 Ahercronbie recalled, the peculiar his | torical chain which connected the Uni yersity of Alabama with Brown Uni yersity. When the University of Ala bama was founded in 1881. pr. Ava Woods was elected president. and he ! had been a professor in Brown Uni- varsity, This added interest to the ap- l nearance at Tuscaloosa of pr. Faunce, whom Dr. Abercrombie called one or | the religious and educational leaders | of the world.
 Greetings From Brown. Tn bringing his greetings from Brown, Dr. Faunce recalled that when 1 President Woods resigned from the 1 University of Alabama he returned to Brown and for more than thirty years was an officer of that institution. while his son was for many years trustee and that his son was now treasurer of the University pr. Faunce :" especial force upon education as unifying force. In speaking of the | friendship existing between the | southern and Northern college, he re- | called that in the Baptist churches Of 1 Alabama and Georgia before the war 1 collections were regularly taken up for the benefit of Brown University. | 'If I had my way" declared pr. | Faunce, "every Northern boy and ev- ery Northern girl should spend part Of | their school and college days in the South and every Southern boy and ev- cry Southern girl should spend part Of | their school days North.
 "There Is no force of unity like the force of education. The text books | in the University of Alabama are the same text boks that are used in the University of Oregon and the Uni- yersity of Maine. Our students go from one college to another. The