The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-08

tract of about 10000 acres of land on the Cumberland Mountain. over 2,0oo feet high Cat Sewanee) was given. and q half million dollars subscribed. Thus
 were taken the preliminary steps in . great and noble enterprise. The out
 look was bright. The hopes and plans
 of the founders seemed destined to Q
 glorious fruition.
 But. in the meantime. the dark clouds
 of war were gathering on the national horizon. Soon the storm burst. Our
 country was plunged into a political ana frAtticidal struggle which left the South prostrate and poor. Of course. 1t was utterly impossible to pay the pledges which had been made to the endowment of sewanee. Indeed. it looked as if the Institution might never come into existenc at all. Nothing (literally) was left not even the Uni- yersity tract on the mountain. The original deeds mad been lost and 1t ap- peared they had never been recorded. All the hopes and plans of tn Trustees
 had melted away--dfssolyed like the
 'baseless fabric of c vision" Then.
 too. Bishops Polk. otey and Elliott had been called to their rest. But. one day, when the affaira of the Universi- ty were utterly hopeless, the deeds to the Sewanee tract were foundi Their
 discovery was most opportune. Cour- age and determination replaced de- 'spair which had laid hold on the minds and hearts of the truAtees.
 The history of the finding of these
 is remarkable. They were brought to Montgomery with other important pa pers about 1860. and put in the care of Mir. Charles T. Pollard for security. He placed Q portion of the papers in
 his office safe. But one package, which appeared to contain principally letters.
 was laid on a shelf When Wilson's
 Raid" threatened Montgomery. early
 in 1865. MT. Pollard took what he sup
 posed to be valuable papers and maps of the University and intrusted them to one of his clerks. who went out on
 special train to Opelika, which was captured by Federal cavalry. and the car containing the papers was burned. In October, 1866, MT. Pollard sent to Sewanee a bundle of paper tied up in a newspaper. which he had found on a shelf in his office, and deemed to be of little value. MT. Pollard was him. self a trustee and the Board of Trus- tees was then in session deliberating
 whether 1t were worth while even to try to do anything. Upon examination. it was found that the bundle which Mir. l Pollard had sent contained. the very deeds and title papers which were | thought to be lost. So it transpised | (and it seems almost providential), that l Mir. Pollard's mistake had been the means Of preserving the property of the University. for if he had put into I his safe the insignificant looking bun l de thel title deeds would have been | destroyed when the car was burned. | Their recovery say. kindled new hope
 in the breasts of men who had de- | spairedg
 Of course, the trustees could not. un-
 der the changed conditions. expect to
 do great things. But, prompted by Q l great motive. they set out to do the best they could. A study of the char l ter of the University showed that the | Sewanee land could be retained if only
 a preparatory school were established under the control os the Board of rrus-
 Aees.i' Acoordingly. private school which had beefi locaSed at Winchester
 Ia village fifteAn &iles away in tht
 yalley), was removed to Sewaflee anc
 placed under the direction of the Board
 Common frame buildings were pro.
 vided for the accommodation of !h,
 pupils and teachers. Thus, without
 one dollar of cash and with only few
 rough shanties to work in, the Uni.
 versity of the South entered upon itI
 trying and ventufesome career, Then
 Bishop Quentard of Tennessee, young
 energetic, enthusiastic, went to Eng
 land. where he raised about $50, 900 fol the University. The work of the schoo
 was extended and has gone on witl
 varying fortunes from that time unti now.
 Today, it stands forth in the educa
 tional world as an institution where
 honest work is done; an institution I ef nf tr1 axnd
 Christian character are high; an insti- tuition whose spirit and temper are not l only national but cosmopolitan. Charles Dudley Warner, (the greatest literary | man perhaps this country has pro duced,) said after a visit to Sewanee, that he knew no place where the atmos- phere of learning and the refinement i of culture 90 completely prevailed the whole society. Gildersleeve (the most famous Greek scholar of this country and who taught several years in the Summer School at Sewanee,) Glider sleeve. I say, and many other men of eminence have borne public witness to the same fact and have testified to the high grade of scolorship found in that institution. Warren was not. nor is Gildersleeve, a son of this Church. Hence, their testimony is of peculiar value as being free from the possibf1i
 ty even of prejudice. This. If regard cd as an institution merely for intel lectual culture Sewanee Is a univer- sity of which the church may well be proud. What Is far more, 1t has never for moment narrowed or compromis- ed the broad, Catholic, and utterly non sectarian conception of the church with which 1t was at first projected.) For instance, it has had, and now has. men among It's faculty who are not members of this church at all Alike in theory In practice. Sewanee proclaims and illustrates that union of Faith and Freedom which Is the only sure basis of Catholic unity.
 Now few words only with regard to Christian education. The training of the intellect alone, you must admit, is not sufficient to make good men and women. Popular education Is not Gas many seem to fancy). a papacea for every evil, and a substitute for every virtue. It does very well as far as 1t goes, but it does not and cannot go far enough. Hear President Eliot of Harvard University: Tt cannot be de- nied that there Is serious and general disappointment in the results of pop- ular education up to date" Hear Ar. Herbert Spencer the greatest writer on sociology the world has ever known: '"The fact is that scarcely any connec- tion exists between morality and the discipline of ordinary teaching. Mere culture of the intellect (and education as usually conducted amounts to lit- tie more), fs hardly at all operative upon conduct" Hear Mir Gladstone, lone of the wisest men of modern times). If you educate a man intel and nof nnoraIiv won run ha