The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
'. C. DeLeon Writes Gossip
 of SeUanee UniUersity

| The average newspaper correspond
 ent can (and not infrequentiy does)
 hear anything at Sewsnee. If he do
 not pause to sift the gossip of old la l dies. male and female. It will arise on
 the aroma of their afternoon tea and I expand into proportions of the vaprous
 genii. of the Oriental tale. This gos- | sip. when not of death, marriage or bridge. is always certain to turn to lyear the financial talk had a snin of 1'vilIaynous' Wall Street in 1t. So
 most stories sent out are too absurd I and foundationless T to- demand the
 stamping out. Chanceilor Gaflor Is on
 the mountain more than usual this year. and the buriy prelate has his
 hands full following up and refuting
 all these absurd things. Asse
 Last year Bishop was elected Chan
 celior. to replace the SIamented Bishop
 Elfson Capers as Chancellor of the Uni- versity. He was then absent in Eng l land at the Lambeth Conference. Just | after hts return seeard him tell of
 his walk with Woody Cooley. At Lam beth the bishops are paired to enter
 ordination. The African prelate was this year brother of the nowise negro phile prelate of Tennessee; but they
 marched together all that conference.
 Next night, at full table. lady told | me that Bishop Gailor had brought
 over $50.0o0 in cash for the Science Hall. Others vouched for the truth
 and was urged to write ito every pa-
 per you can about it..r Going home.
 called the bishops phone. The Chan cellor Is nothing if not emphatic at
 times. began my query. when he
 cut me off with shout that rattied l The diaphram sEf ss ev1sss.G rl lsrsstJt sfr
 "Who told you any, such absnrdrty2 There's no shadow of foundation for. one word of It.. I never asked for one. dollar, never was offered one, and there's not one grain of truth in the whole story. Don't send out one word of it .'s That was only one of a dozen ex- periences. The home-love and pride of dwellers here force them to believe in
 any story of good cheer. and to reject l the most plain facts that is unpleasant. | So on reaching here this season, many
 urged me to write many things of | high idea. One was that an old alum ! nus had pledged himself to raise, $leo,- 000, and nearly half was already in
 hand. Appeal to the authorities
 promptly stopped any note of that le- gend of hope. =
 II Recently, swift reporter printed
 that Bishop Gaiior, in his commence
 ment address as Chancellor. stated that
 three sums of $10o.o00 each were now
 
 ofs the University said no such thing
 The "hot air" vender must have thought
 he was writing of future football. 2 Very cheery news 1t is.s however, tc all old friends of the University tS
 hear that the sum of $l00.000 Is really
 added to the treasury of the college and that it will be available nex
 month. This is literally true; and have good reason to think that at leas one other such addendum may have t. be- noted during the present schoo year. Thus, the ounce of reality Il worth some pounds of expectancy ! What application will be made of Sc wanees windfall. I have not heard even if that has been really determin ed. It will doubtless be put where < will do the most good" and there ar
 several openings into which 1t can b made to fit snugly. The meeting of the Executive Com mittee of Trustees, which I announce as expected for the current month, ha ! been called for November 9. at Mont gomery. Then. doubtless. will be set tied, finally, the much guessed at ques ton of successor to Dr. Wiggins, f the new vice chancellor.
 The "nine-day wonder" if that ap ! pointment has died away. Nomina 4 tions by the gossips of both sexes hay ceased of late, and the roseate hal that, in some quarters. gloried in tn T mention of Dr. Tom" Page, has set tied into quite neutral tint. A fey weeks ago Prof. ]. s. billiard, lat 9 of the Latin Chair at Tulane. paid visit to sewanee. At once his nam I replaced that of Dr. Page. with tn volunteer place filters, but no one wh H knows asserts that the Red Gown wa 4 offered him, in advance of the commit tees meeting. The well known possi \ bility-who is so potent in the distrib N uties of the fund for negro education in the South-expressed himself a delighted with the place and its peo ple," dictum that is natural but ia 3 from conclusive. Bt. 1t is not a ia cry to Montgomery now, and it is bu
 cold justice to Dr. Hall to say that tn T working of the University progresse with a quiet and smoothness that in dicates no sort of need for his reliei save for his own convenience. Yesterday was one of many and mix $ ed emotions. A commencement da
 always so. but the present event add \ to the parting of many friends wh have worked side by side for year:
 and have become familiar in the walk and halls and stores of the University
 After today, 1t will know them n
 more and the junior classes will seel other schools. Good, sturdy and pop ular fellows, many of these "Meds
 were. There will be an aching void | * the hearts of their friends,s-and in tn 3 tills of the merchants and the board $ ing houses, more materially. when the walk out en masse, to turn their face
 Sewaneeward no more. The commence
 ment of today was held in the old S
 Augustine chapel. With much inter H est surrounding the seventeenth an
 final year of the Sewanee Medical Col ) lege. Proceedings were opened by a address from Dean John s.. Cain. wh
 has held that post since the inagur
 ation of the school Naturally h
 spoke feelingly and sadly. at the Ion