The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-28
CLASS DAY
AT UNIVERSITY
Quaint Customs Of
Students.
IVY FOR 1907 IS PLANTED
Many Old Students Have Returned
For Reunion.
Five silver Haired Members of Conn
pany That Left Institution For
Battlefield. Are Notable
Figures ON Campus.
BY WILL T. sHEEHAN.

By WILL T. sHEEHAN.
Tuscaloosa, May 27--(SpeciaD THE
Seniors today took the stage at the
State University and filled 1t with the
interest which clings in that indefin-
able way about the youth who is put
ting away the things of his boyhood
and assuming the place of man In
a mans world.
1t was class day and the day was
crowded with interest from the warm
contest for the Trustees prize to the
stately march of the graduating class
to plant the class Ivy, custom now
only two years old, but which
has become honored in Uni
yersity life. And 1t may be
of interest to the young men
and young women of Alabama who
were members of the class of 1906 and
1905 that the ivy which they planted
on the day they finished their college
life is green and thriving. And above
each bit of ivy slowly climbing the
walls of Clark Hall there is cut in the
stone the figures of 1905 and 1906.
- In cap and gown, the Seniors of 1907
marched out and planted the sprig of
ivy which is to be a memorial for the
class which today begins the real work
of life.
Many Old Grads Present.
The undergraduates are away and at
their homes. and while their neces-
sary absence robs the commencement
Of one of its most picturesque features
the crowds at commencement are
hardly diminished Old graduates.
some gray. some bald. some with sons
of their own in the places they once
filed, are crowding into Tuscaloosa
avery train. The McLester Hotel lob
by and sidewalk are filed with the re-
turned students. gathered to meet and
greet the friends of their youth and
keen for the revived JOY of those
great days at college--that wonderful
period which grows In memory larger
and more distinct than any other OF
their entire life.
The cadet company, that remarkable
company OF boy students which hur-
ried from the University to have a
part In the greatest and b1Oodiest war
of modern times. The march of years
has left but few of them. 1t has been
long. long time since these eager,
enthusiastic boys marched away and
fought with Forrest and death has
been busy.
There were this morning four mem
bers of this cadet company Captain
c. p. Storrs, who commanded ana
Messrs. Robert Hudson, of Uniontown,
B F. Hatch, of Gallon, and j. B.
Whitfield, of Demopolis. A. p. Ty-
son, of Montgomery, and others who
fought with. the company in the
company with Forrest are expected to
come to the reunion--Dut there are
not many of them left.
Mr. Prude Wins Medal.
William wellington Prude was the
winner of the handsome medal anpn-
ally offered by the Trustees for the
best speaker. Mr.. Prude spoke on
Liberty, the Priceless Gift of Patriot
ism" There were two others who en-
tered the contest. Coma Emmett Gar
Modern Education" and Travis Jesse
Bedside. who spoke OH Forces That
Aim" The judges who made the
awards were Lawrence H. Lee, of
Montgomery; Judge Milo B. Aber-
crombie, of Tuskegee, and Holmes
Powell. of Tuskegee. The award was
pleasing to the audience.
The class day exercises followed, In
which the Seniors bade farewell to COL
lege life. The program OF this inter-
esting occasion follows.
Roll Call and Responses.
Origins and Explanations-PaulH ar-
die Anderson.
Glass History-Thomas Herbert Pat
ton.
Glass statistics-John William John
son. -
Music
Glass song-Lillian John Walker.
Delights of MISUNDERSTANDING
Franklin Smith.
Glass POEM Bessie Hall Merrill.
Funeral oration-Charles Cleveland
Brannen.
Glass Prophecy-wildie Churchill
Hibbler.
Music.
Planting Glass Ivy.
Ivy Poem-Seaborn Thornton What.
ley.
The Bishops Address.
The college talks of the message of
Bishop Davis Sessums in his commence
ment sermon as one of the great efforts
of it's kind heard at the University in
recent years The Louisiana Bishop
in his eloquence, in his marshalled ar
guments in his lofty thought aroused
to a remarkable degree, the admlra-
tion of his hearers. They went away
with minds busy with what he said.
The Bishops sermon is even now re-
garded as one of the dominating Incl
dents of the commencement
He spoke on no new subjects. Per-
haps there are no new subjects But
it was his mastery handling of an old
subject which co charmed the interest
and stirred the admiration Il his Uni
versity hearers. 1t was tlM old, in
spring subject of the i'd i against
the real, the spiritual against the ma
terial
He used as base for his eloquence
and convincing argument, THE Sword
of the Spirit Is Bathed in Heaven"
His sermon was forcaful argument
for higher ideals In modern life,' for
thought and aspirations which lift
above the dross and dead weight of
material things. He appealed for spir
itualism in the privileged ones who
were about to go out into the world
from college walls. a spiritualism
which would govern material things
and which woul bear upon the settle-
ment of every earthly question.
NO question is settled, and settled
right, unless 1t is bathed in. heaven"
he declared.
He attacked those insidious forms
of skepticism which are based on ma
terial things and en- combating them.
perhaps his greatest power as a preach
er was exercised.
Alter Mess Hall SYSTEM
A movement is on foot to alter the
nresent mess hall system at the Uni