The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-01-03
MEN AND WOMEN FROM ALL
PA7fY II 544 I9rAts 4Ys4@-
BLED FOR THE OCCASION
RAlNiIN THeIEARLYt RART( Of
F49]430auRF0 P4lfF( lN
BEGINNING OF EXERClSES-lM'
PREsslvE SERVICES CONDUCT
Ed IBT-IREV.a MM.l HAYNES
PROF. SALES MAKES PLAIN
TALK. OO.& a.

According to predictions and previ-
oUs announcements, Roger Williams
University was, forpally opened We'd
nesday, JANUARY l. = The opening ex-
eroises were ggrapd and imposing.
Prominent citizens of Nashville and
other parts of the state of Tennessee
participated in these exercises. The
program was 5schedul9d To- begin at
1G30 a. M, but the distance of the in
stitution from the car line, and the in
reference of old Jupiter Pluvius, who
seemed to get in!his work early in the
day, prevented the punctuality that
was expected to characterize the open
ing. Notwithstanding this interfer
ence. ta,(niasnidcehts ! audi6pSeS vas on
hand t6IthAs part an theJ program
which finally iPegaaPP At Ct nn9990pI n9990pI
The board of directors, the pastors
of the<city land dther proEnihtnt { Wis
4tors; were seated upon, the platform.
Promptly at twelve Q'el0fk uthel presi-
( dent of the board Of directors, Rev.
VIM. Haynes, in a very neat and be-
coming speech, introduced the presi-
dent-elect of the faculty, Prof. ]. w,
Johnson After some Introductory re-
marks as to the probable. future of
the school, the struggle to reopen it,
the rearn&st odesirenons the lpaGt of the
facility electedl President johnson Qn-
troduced Prof. Geo. w. Scales, of New
York, .$uperintendentl Of Educhtidn for
The American Baptist Home Mission
Society, who was asked to speak on
the future policy of the Society. Prof,
Scales introduced The subject in the
straightrforNard plains practical man
per,. which characterizes the man. He
asstfred the audience, the directors and
faculty that the American O Baptist
Home Mission Society had lost none OF
its past, interest, in the, educational
work of the tolored people of 'the
South, but admitted that circum
stanSes rather Than desifes, had Itc
some extent changed the future policy
of tHd Homie Mission Society I'M u!
educationall work. He said that the
Society would be in position in future
to keep in operation all of its regular
founded schools in the South. bu
would not De In POSITION W lndhe III
Pprovements to expand its work, not
! withstanding the fact that the entire
= board and each official of the Societ!
we're deeply desirous of doing so. Prof
Sales said, in part, that the Societ!
fully attended, EafteP the two dsas
I trous, Areg MhiEb Ae5tfoysd thel olC
! Roger Williams, to rebuild on tn
same ground, ,bht ioW'as' finally though
y best to purchase a new site, whicl
they did, but after considerable coun
Z selling it was thought best to max
! the proposition to the COLI ed Bar
3 lists of Tennessee to take charge of tn
school inltheig own name. N,rr,,
4 Prof. Sales said that the authoritie
cf the Home Mission Society, used n
ne NsthgF \and made no breach IF
thromise or contract when They sold til
bid Roger WiiliFmBfsite.. He said tha
neither of the bqildihgs, nor any o
the property Supposed to ibslongO
Roger Williapse YereoevfE. decided t
that institution; that the, propGrty be
longed exclusively to- the. America
Baptist Home Mission Society Of Ne'
York, and it was their privilege to dis