The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-14

13.-The celebration OF Found
er's Day, which, since the In
~ auguration OF President Edwi
A. Alderman, just three year
ago, has been made the occasion of rnucl
interest In the life OF tha University o
virginia-a unique and appropriate wa,
of preserving and pcrpetuatinE tn
memory OF Thomas jefferson and hi
liberal educational policy-was observ
ed at that institution to-day with NOR
than usual formality.
On such occasions publicists OF In
ternstIonal fame are invited here Il
speak In commemoration OF the event
The speaker for to-day was his Excel
lency the British Ambassador, Righ
Honorable James Bryce.
The distinguished visitor and his ac
complished wife. accompanied by tteil
guests, DR.. ]. B. Bury, reglus professor
OF modern history in Cambridge unive..
sity, and Mrs. Bury. reached Charlottes.
VILE last evening in q private cal
over the Southern Railway, having bssr
escorted down from Washington by Mr.
r. Marshall Price. secretary to. Presi-
dent Alderman. DR.. and Mrs. Bryce
went at once to the home OF Presiden,
Alderman. while DR.. and Mrs. Bury are
being entertained by DIR. and Mrs. AL
bert II. Tuttle.
Mr.. Bryce spent altogether quite a
busy day. He visited the grounds and
buildings of the university In the morn
Ing. and at noon delivered the Founders
Day address before a large audience In
Cabell Hall. After luncheon, in :e.
sponse to an invitation from Mrs. Az
bert II. Tuttle. president OF the Abe.
a pI,t, -.
can Revolution. he journeyed to Month
cello and witnessed the placing of a
laurel wreath on the tomb of Jeffer.
son.
After the placing of the wreath. on
the tomh by Master Thomas Jefferson
randolph. the little son OF DR.. and
Mrs. William Mann Randolph. of Char
lottesville. Ambassador Bryce made -
brief address. In the party were DR..
ana Mrs. Bryce. DR.. and Mrs. Bury,
President and Mrs Alderman, Mrs
Samuel Jamison, of Roanoke. Va, State
regent for Virginia of the Daughters
OF the american Revolution, and DR..
and Mrs. w. NJ. Randolph and son.
In the evening, from $40 to II. the
British ambassador was the guest OF
honor at the first annual reception OF
the Colonnade Club. to which the mem
bers of the Albemarle Chapter of the
Society of Alumni were invited. The
scene Of the reception was Pavilion
VII. West Lawn-the Oldest building In
Tho grounds and the nucleus of the
present group of beautiful structures
lclosins the lawn. The conversions
of this house (as the Central College
of Vlrginia) was laid in 1917 in the
presence Of jefferson, Madison and
Monroe.
The Days ExercIses.
According to custom. all lectures
we're suspended for the day. The
academic procession formed at 1899
l. M.. and at 11:45 entered Cabell Hall
the following order: alumni ami
'raduate students college students. law
medical students and enpi-
leering students. Then followed the
procession of visitors. faculties, prom |
nent alumni and guests of the univcr-
fty
After the singing of two stanzas OF
america" TllI and the invocation by the
tev. Richard Davis Smart, D. Is. ofl
ne Methodist Episcopal Church. South
ne british ambassador was presented
y Dr. Alderman. who said in part:
The other day. upon opening Sir
ieorge TreYelyan's History OF the
american Revolution" my eyes rested
n these introductory lines.
thou that sendest out the men
To rule by land and sea
trong mother of l:Jn line.
e proud of these the sons of thine
vho " wrenched their rights from
The words are Tennyson's. Thc
lought in the lines is the essence Of
conclusions on his great
le'ne. % Ihese conclusions are as fol-
'Ws: About the finest thing n,ens,,o,,o
rhieve'l in the science of human ,,ovp
rnment in this world, and have ,eft
other men for their guidance, is tho
right inheritance of English freedom
rom tlme to time this Inheritance has +
zen . IN danger, and different branches
me great race have fought for it ne
worthy of all sacrifice. mis- K
evolution .'p was no vulgar war Of hos.
70 races, but simply a phase of tbe
~ struEgic among Englshmen for
hgllsh rights. Hanpden and Pitt AMI
urke and Washington and Hamilton.
ie Ie1rerson were patriots in this
'mmon cause. ~. 80 N''''
s arms at Yorktown. ii lis also so"n =
ct that Tarleton soldiers chased Nths
sneral Assembly of Virginia from tha
Wn OF CharlottesYtlle,s and caused M,
fferson himself to leave Monticell, II
l mewhat hastily, bur these facts ara
leresting to Tile antiquarian and The
uueht OF human records. ana belong {
stlnnctly in the category Of
Old unhappy far-off things, 4
And battles long ago" y
To-day, l25 years after the peace.
9 :. ;lnose impressive and powerful facts
the world are the powor ana growth
these two branches OF the same =
sat race, advancing always in sym-
lhy and unity and understandings.
y twenty ", five million people have come :,
ON all quarters of the world ana :
" few OF them have been English =
en- IT ik perhaps fairly accurate to T
that rural hnglana and the South II
y states are the, most English parts
ttr (COQttnued{ on Second Pa gre. ~ II