The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-01-09
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The inauguration of Edward Twi-
chell Ware as third presldant OF At
lanta university took place Tuesday ;,
December' thirty-first III Ware Me-
mortal chapel, Atlanta university, At
lanta, Ca. and was An event of UNI
usual Importance. Mr.. ! Ware; Is, q
young man OF thirty-three;,a graduate
of Yale and Of Union Seminary = and
nephew Of the Rey. Joseph m. Twi-
chell Of Hartford. His father, Ed.
mund Asa Ware, was the FOUNDER
and first president of theHAtianta uni
versity, and in some sense too the
FOUNDER OF the public school system
of Georgia both for whites and Ne
groes. Mr.. Ware, the elder, was d
man who devoted tfiimself to the work
OF this institution with singular self
sacrifice and assiduousness. Hts pre-,
mature death at the age of forty
eight called Preident Horace Bum
stead to bear. his heavy burden. 1t.
1t not easy to. realize what the work
OF president of a Southern Negro
school demands. To all the. natural
perplexities andtprnblems: of a. coed.
ucattonal institution with prepara-
tory and college departments comes
the terribly arduous and wearisome
begging for funds. For twentv-tvo
years DR.. Bumstead bore thie hnrder
He collected for hundred thoue.nd
dollars for the Institution saw the
college and high school grow Fro,,~ q
hundred and seventeen 10 thresa ny
dref and forty-one students ~ :,
baud of five bnnfire, s.rad,,ata. ,stond
ing as effective educational ann aacin1
leaders of the South. .,:&Adyanciue aee
and the Increasing demands :of q,
growing work led President Rum-
= stead to present his resi- i9uation last
june, which ( the !, erusteas .s1xasratf fully
accepted Friends ! = and ! Ssa'; aluno1,I
son of the President: |: I az m e3Dr,, R,,,tn!
staad's logfcsa 5a3scc eafsstf . s;nlaca
f,fssFsf wtis mot eSaiuTfn tSsfSntt
man, the salary was frieaRsr hr,d fbe
fight for funds bound to ,ba of An,
creasifg difffculty.@ MIR, Ware hayf
but recently marritd, Yet; he and b1s
wife gladly assumed the fathers man.
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gladly assumed the fathers manila
On Tuesday theaforf1ai inanpura-
ton took place. Ing the morhino
the memory Of the fonnder and the
father was aporopriate1v ce,ahratad
with addresses by DIR. Rumstead.
President Glenn. former state school
commissioners Of Georgia Agricultural
College; Professor CHASE, who Taught
here nearly 40 yeats and retired loet
year on Carnegie pension: Martha
Schofield of the Schoheld- school, AK
en-, S. c.; and President Crogman
Of Clark university, one of the earli-
est graduates. >-~E
The n@6rning exercises ended with
s&pple ceremony of wreathing the
boulder beneath which the firsx
president lies buried on the grounds
Of the institution, while 8 senior stu
dent read the inscription: "The grad.
yates Of Atlanta university have
brought this boulder from the native
town Of President Ware In Massa-
chusetts and placed it here on Geor-
gia soil over the spot where his
earthly remains lie buried, In CRATE
fdl memory of their former teacher
and friend and Of the unselfish life
he lived and the noble work he
wrought, that they, thsir children,
and their chtldren's children might
be blessed - ,.~'.
In the AFTERNOON the inauguration
took place, Or. Charleg Cuthbert Hall
o. Union Seminary, NsV' forb. vice-
presldent ot [hh &b6ard Of trust ees.
presiding.
Academic Procession.
'Chorus-~Ine PROFESSIONAL, "Athal-
1e.'-Mende)ssobn.
ADDRESS and presentation Of the
Keys and charter, by the vice-presi-
dent OF the board OF Trustees Rev.