The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-25

son, Emerson, Lowell and Lanier. How pleasing it was to hear The Marches of Glynn," The Symphony and My Too Springs Uanier's beautiful ode to his wife's eyes) so beautifully rendered and So well received by an Immense cosmopolitan audience, suitably en- vironed by whispering leaves and lisp ing waves.
 At the banquet to the graduating class, Mir. Clifford Lanier responded to the toast. The South, the Land of the Mockingbird. MT. Lanier said that when he was asked--nay, commanded to respond to this toast, his mip6 sought comfort in another class motto: So run that ye may obtain; which he had intended to reverse into: So obtain that ye may run But that the angel of his household--an angel un-pinioned. but not n-opinioned--had vetoed his ignominious resolve. After some witti- cisms and few references to recent political events in Alabama, MT. Lanier ended by reading his brothers beauti- full little poem on 'NThe Mockingbird |" , Alabama received musical mention during this evening replete with bril- liant after dinner speeches. One speak l CT referred to the nations loss in Sem ator Morgan. conspicuous for his en- cycIopaedic knowledge and dignified de- | livery: and pr. Buckley, editor of The | Christian Advocate. told of tramping 1 through Alabama on z health search in | 70. when he heard the Indian legend of "Here We Rest so impressiveiy told that he afterward named his summer home In the Berkshire Hills, Ala | hama.
 On Wednesday, August IA. over one l hundred members of the class of 1907 passed through the Golden Gate and
 received their diplomas in token of having completed the four-years' study of the c. l.. s. C. course. All over the l world however. men and women turned their thoughts toward the ceremonies taking place at the parent Chautauqua, | for this class, as those of previous years, has members in Japan. Burma, | Korea and South Africa. In fact. the | attendance here is cosmopolitan, almost
 every country in the world being rep l resented. The weather was ideal | throughout Recognition Day and per | mitted all the exercises to take place under unusually favorable circnm- l stances The parade was the usual | characteristic and imposing spectacle representative of the numerous branch l es of Chautauqua interest and strong lily suggestive of the commencement pro cesss1ons of the larger universities
 There were only two graduates from Alabama. but in the procession were many alumni and several undergrad | mates. MT James Weisel. of Birm- ingham, and Miss Anna NJ. Vincent, oi Mobile. are the two Alabamians who were graduates. Mrs. Henry B. Gray Miss Hannah Elliott and Miss Mamie McMillan. have entered the c. L. s. C. course and will finish with the class
 of 1911.
 The general impression that this
 course of study is only for those who
 lacked early opportunities of education
 is not correct. 1t Is the best opportu-
 nnity to remedy such defects by those
 who have entered life's treadmill, but Il
 is also studied by those who wish tc
 continue such work after they leave
 college or university and by students | whose devotion to a special line hal
 made general culture impossible. Dr
 George D. Kellogg. president of this
 years graduating class, is an alumnu'
 of Yale. has studied in Munich ant
 Rome, and Is an assistant professor a | Princeton.
 But the majority of the c. l.. s. C.
 students are men and women who fee the need of rejuvenating their menta , | powers after the heat and burden O life's day, after the children are reared
 and gone. Consequently the procession of Sweet girl graduates" presents som
 incongruities as last Wednesday, whel , a youngster called out: Hello, grand
 ma" And one of the men In line said My son will carry the banner"
 But all honor to tLe sensible men ant } women who realize that the secret o youth is keeping every faculty in us