The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-27

ments can be made with that total of
half million dollars.
But the year has meant even more
to the University. Some of her LANDS
have been sold in recent years. The
sales have brought In big returns ana
large sums have been put away for an
Endowment Fund. The Board of Trus
tees will deal with this particular mat
ter at its meeting Wednesday and some
announcement may be made as to the
splendid nucleus for an Endowment
Fund.
These are the circumstances which
set apart this commencement from all
that have gone before. The Greater
University takes definite steps. The
actual visible work begins. What has
gone before was merely preliminary.
The Board will adopt the plans. 1T
will forecast definitely the work that
will be done. 1t will direct the i'm
mediate beginning of that work. And
this is why the commencement of 1907
Is to be marked with a white stone.
All Speakers Secured.
The quality of the speakers who will
appear at the commencement exercises
gives tone. too. to the occasion. The
Alumni have for their speaker Hon.
Champ Clark, of Missouri. who looms
large as a national figure. The COM
hieINGHitnt loudy ny blcHOp
Sessums. was itself. notable effort.
The commencement Grafton Will be
delivered Wednesday at IL o'clock by
DR.. George Fl. Denny. President of
Washington and Lee University, and
one of the educators OF the South who
are in the front rank. The graduating
exercises at this hour. IL o'clock We'd
nesday morning, will complete the Uni
versitys commencement. The annual
reception. however. will be given fol-
lowing the old custom at o'clock d.
M. in Woods Hall
In honor of the auspicious beginning
of the Greater University. there will
be corner stone laying at S o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. This Is under the
direction of President Hill Ferguson
of Alumni Association, who has labor
ed SO long and so earnestly for some
of the good fortune that is coming to
the University. The program of these
exercises has not yet been officially
ANNOUNCED.
The exercises are in commemoration
of the beginning of the University's
ero OF physical development and they
VIII take place before the Board form
ally adopts the plans for the new
buildings.
Reunion of War Glasses.
The chief feature OF the commence
ment exercises to old students, how
ever. will be the reunion of all the
War Classes. The members of the
Cadet Company, which was made up of
University students who volunteered
to go to the front, will hold their first
reunion. The company was the per-
sonal bodyguard of General E. W.
Rucker. who to this day gives 1t high
praise for gallantry and daring
General Rucker. now old In years,
will himself attend the commencement
exercises and meet with the men of
gray hairs. who served with him when
they were impetuous and daring boys
Captain c. p. Storr, who commanded
the company and who now lives al
Talladega Springs, has in charge the
gathering and the reunion of his old
boys.
Hardly less significant will be the
assembling OF the students who were
In college during the four dark years
of the war. They include men who
have a prominent part in the affairs of
the State, Governor b. B. Conner is
one of them and there are others
whose names are well known to Ala
bamians. A large attendance of these
is promised.
Tuesday. which will be Alumni Day,
will be. given over largely to those
who were called from the peace and
quiet of University life to wars din
and horror.
President Ferguson OF the Alumni
has arranged. too. for the reunion OF
classes of later years. The success of
these reunion classes can not yet be
forecasted. 1t is not known now how
large will be the attendance. The
living member of the classes have
written that they will come 'if posi-
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