The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-30
Embrace Million Dollar
 Institution.
Graduates of Historic College Have We'll Defined Scheme To Make GIo- riou. Future For Thcir Alma
 Mater.
nY wrLL T. sHrEHAN.

pondence. )--In the splendid clms and
 oaks of Alabama University, million
 dollar university | i- ba built to the
 honor and glory of Alabama.
 The alumni of Alabama will see that
 1t is built They pitched the plan to-
 day. The future is their time for mak-
 ing the good dream great reality. bu.
 today. meeting in annual session. the
 Alumni presented these plans and they
 were enthusfasrscally adopted.
 The present. University will be nu-
 cleus. What is to be built. will be built
 about Garland Hali. Woods Hall Manly
 Hall and Clark Hall. splendid stretch
 bama's famous quadrangle And all
 will be merged into one harmonious
 whole. There is to be no hap hazard
 architecture, no patch work construct
 ion with a building of this sort one
 year aud a building of that sort an-
 other year. The plan is comprehensive
 and It looks forward full century. This particular building on the plan may not be constructed for twenty-five years, but it's specill riace on tho plan has been selected and set aside. And today it Is known what the style and architecture is to bc. etsf There are 300 acres of the University rossessions in and around tho campus. The University's lands stretch from the AlaDdma N1reat GOutHeFit tHO south, to the Wa. or river on the north. It Is as beautiful piece of lawn, majestic and stately elms and wooded hills and valleys. as there Is In all Alabama.
 University'x Beautiful Campus. A million dollar University could have no more beautiful setting. Nature has been nose kind and beneficent to l the spot and man himself has refrained | f~1 haf ". The alumni in their loyalty to the University in their determination 10 da all that can be done for its uplifting and for the widening of its field or endeavor have conceived this plan for a splendid university me so great that | it will take hundred years In the cor- summation. Upon the zeal and energy of the graduates of the University, not only in Alabama, hut throughout the world, they who drew the plans are depending In the building of the great University, time and increasing labor viii De required, but this the Alumni who prepared the plans are willing to give. and these they are rx> necting from those who'were not pres
 snt af the adoption of the plans and
 who will hear of them at second hano.
 The action of the alumni in the adop-
 ton of these plans meets with the
 hearty sanction. of President Abercrom-
 bic. The committee which prepared the
 tentative plans conferred with him ana
 to their execution President Aoefcrom-
 bic will apply that energy ana execu-
 tive ability which are his distinguish
 ing characteristic. Today. alumni, fac- uity and trustees stand ready to strike hands and go forward with the great endeavor.
 Due to HiIl Fezxuson. The conception of the Great Univer- A,41 txa NnnFrata form is due largely to Hill Ferguson, President of the Alumni Association. To the affairs of the University, to It's well being and growth MT. Ferguson de-
 votes, without price. a great part of his time.
 The plans and perspectives of the
 Greater University of Alabama were
 drawn by a famous New York architect. familiar with the grounds and the to-
 pography of the country about the Uni versity possessions. The buildings will
 stretch from the road in front of the
 University nearly to the Warrior River The cluster of University buildings will
 widen, too, until they reach from the asylum grounds to the road that runs by the well-known Gorgas nome Tn the oaks.
 The principal building and perhaps one of the first to be erected will be built directly in front of Clark Hall at
 the end of the avenue of oaks and elms.
 It would be etsfurther towards the
 round mound which marks the site of
 the old rotunda, which was burned by
 the Federals in 1865, but that 1t would
 necessitate destroying part of the
 splendid grove of oaks and e1nns di-
 rectly in front of the University. The other buildings in one great scheme of harmony and unity, will
 then be set up on every side of the
 present quadrangle
 The new plans embrace the idea of
 stodium or athletic field in the rear of
 the University, near the river and not so far from the dummy line. The spot is already selected in the tentative plans which were today present. ted to the alumni.
 Whatever works for the betterment Of the University; whatever contributes to It's welfare; what ever assists in It's | urbuilding, is certain of enthusiastic assistance from the Alumni of Alabama. Sc today the plans for a greater Uni vcrsity, whatever changes may be made in them by circumstances and exlgen- cies of time and condition, were enthu- Siastically endorsed One thing is cer- tain; one thing Is not to be changed by the exigenctes of time and condi- tions-Alabaam is to have a greater University.
 Fruits of Jubilee.
 And this Is the splendid conception WI ich comes out of the Diamond Jubi- lee of the University of Alabama. Ard in what finer way could the Seventy | Fifth Anniversary of it's founding be celebrated? What, greater emphasis | could be placed upon this period in ner | splendid University?
 The presence here of distinguished educators. from North. Eat West and South-their words of cheer and of greeting, was itself a thing in which the University may feel a just pride. Their presence here was enough to set apart and memoraliZe this commence l mont above and beyond all that has gone before.
 But to make It greater to make it | tn" mark of an epoch, this great plan l k fnaugurated and the Alumni ara pledged to carry it forward. The | Seventy-Fifth Anniversary celebration will go down in It's history as one of | the great occasions in the life of the University and Justly so.
 Nor could 1t have fallen in more har-
 monious times. Education Is closer to | the heart of the State of Alabama than | 1t has ever been before The State has never been so prosperous. And 1t has never been so willing to spend the re- | If that fo,