The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-24
GREAT PLANS ARE SHAPING
FOR SCHOOL AT MONTEVALL0
President 7. w. Palmer Begins Administration
With Spirit Of Progress and Physical and
Mental Advancement on Many Lines. 4

town are his environment and the IN
tellectual life where men teach ana
learn is his element The stri1e. the
uncongenial labor over business detalis
ere repellant to MIN
Mans great complaint against MOD
ern business life is that its demands
upon those who do it's work are too
great. The complaint is that modern
life is insistent in new demands-in
the requirement of new qualities and
new characteristics. generation ago
scholar and a-student was looked
upon as an ideal college president. But
the world has moved. A college Pres
ident must be more than that now.
The student and the scholar has
congenial and natural place In the
professors chair but the executive
head of an institution must be -ome-
thing of a diplomat. something or
scholar and something of man OF
affairs. He must be these or his in
stitution can not meet the competition
that modern life has brought and made
SO insistent.
The Board knows this Professor
Palmer was the man for whom the
trustees were looking. The first thing
man who knows Professor Palmer
says of him, You see, he has so much
common sense" He has been inval-
liable to the University of Alabama.
He has helped that institution and
helped it greatly because of that same
common sense. They have relied on
his advice and leaned on his assist
ance at Tuscaloosa and on account of
this same common sense he was made
Dean of the Faculty, and he was re-
garded as one of the best assets OF the
University.
Incident to his teaching. Professor
Palmer prepared a register of the stu
dents of the University. 1t has been
called the most complete and compre-
hensive work of its kind ever sent out
by Southern college. 1t had to be
built from the ground up. Professor
Palmer had to collect assimilate ant
set down the information which fills
the volume. The commencement, which
opens at the University in a few days
is the seventy sixth of its kind in the
life of the University For more than
three quarters of century the Uni
versity has done it's work and the la
Dor of Professor Palmer was to cata-
1ogue and table the results of that
work.
Was Good Teacher.
For more than twenty years he has
been of the University faculty. He
has been recognized as an able, jealous
and efficient teacher, no less than sue
cessful man of affairs. No professor
has stood higher. They will miss him
at the University. His going will be
loss to the University and at Tusca-
loosa they know it.
Now he comes to Montevallo to do
the big work of his life. The work
has begun. 1t began when he went out
of the room in which the Board meet
ing was held, and in which he for
mally notified the trustees of his ac-
ceptance of the honor and the RESPONSE
bility which they had conferred upon
him. He went at once to familiarizing
himself with the affairs of the school.
its details, it's books. its resources. He
will spend several weeks in this and in
planning for the school. There is
handsome residence for the President
on the grounds and he and Mrs. Palmer
will move into it about the first of
July.
Professor Palmer will go to the in
dustrial schools of other States during
the summer. He will visit the best of
these schools and familarize himself
with methods which may help him in
the great work he has undertaken.