The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-03

after he is twenty-five. He Is in the world and the world hardens him. The world makes him suspicious and dis- trustful. The world makes him sell fish. By that time many of his illu- sions are dead and one by one he has attended the funeral of many of his hopes. He comes to live more within ! himself and the outer shell of himself is hard and all but impenetrable. The word Is a teacher whose lessons are | most unpeasant.
 Not that a man does not make friends after he Is twenty five but they are different from those boyhood friends made when Each maid was a heroine, each man a friend" The with hooks of steel are the friends of his youth. They last a lifetime, and worthy or unworthy. when they call. the call reaches his heart.
 The best gifts of a college training to a man is its friendships. The best things which come from college life are the results which come from a un- ion of opportunity for friendship and capacity for friendship. Education can be had outside of college walls. Learn ing Is not exclusively a piece of coll ega property. Informa tion. trained | habits of mind. intellectual develop ment, aspiring ambition may live with in college wills. but they hve other 6odes. The college man has the bet ter chance for them all. but tho man who has not the privilege of college life may find and know them
 But the college man gets in friend ship and In association what the other man can never get. The college man has three hundred of his kind daily about him. three hundred with the same interests. the same dreams, the same hopes, the same loves and the same ambitions. Among all of these of his kind he finds his the congenial circle The golden days he walks with of his dead youth are lived again his friends are known and seen again. And it Is all a rare pleasure unknown to the man whose youth was not priv ileged with a college training.
 Happy Hearts on Campus.
 So on Alumni Day the campus of Alabama held as full a quota of happy hearts as 1t ever held In It's seventy five years and many a man walked it's green sward with his heart so thrilled with emotion so thrilled that he would not care for his neighbor to know it's depth. For that day many a man felt his years slip, fall away from him like a garment.
 Tn the big dining hall when Ed and his bugle had vanished the alumni gathered, the old boys and the young boys. Tho ripping college yells were given. by this class and by that class. The Glee Club came forth and sang the vaulting college songs. And then when quiet had heen restored tho cor~ nal speech making began, but much less formal than ordinary banquet ora tory General W. W. Brandon, one of the University's eloquent orators had the presiding officers place and called 10 talk this alumnus nd that alumnus whose name had been honored in col lege history.
 Thomas NJ. Owen. who has done more for Alabama history than any othe~ man who aver lived Tn tho State, and an alumnus of Alabama. told of the rise. the splendid history and the greatness of the University; a beauti- full and touching talk was made upon the University as 1t was fifty years ago by Judge Henderson M. Somer- vile, Dr. H. A Moody tolc of the Medical Department at Mobile. and the things 1t had accomplished Hon. Rob- ert F. Clark of the University of Georgia brought greetings from the University of the sister State Jimmy Forman so lately an athletic hero of college life made a rattling good speech for a young man; and Kenneth McKellar. twelve years out of college and now a leading member of the Mem phis bar. told of the splendid influence of the girl students at the University of Alabama.
 Nothing would do the boys Of other days but that they should have a ball game played by stars of other days. heroes of athletic times that are gone but not forgotten.
 So they lined up against the Varsi- ty team with Burr Ferguson catch