The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-04-01

The Inauguration of the new Pres
ident of Fisk University was held
last Thursday morning under most
auspicious STYLE There has never
an occasion happened in the city OF
Nashville that brought together
more representative body of people,
Many of the most noted institutions
of learning in this country were rep
resented by either heads or some
prominent member Of the faculty
The exercises were begun in the
chapel of Livingston Hall at 9:15 as
was previously announced, after
which the student body headed the
procession, which formed in Living
ston Hall yard and marched behind
the Science Building, across the cam
pus in the new library building, en-
cling to the northeast gate of the
campus, then south on the sidewalk
toward Memorial Chapel and formed
an open line on either side of the
sidewalk. The president-elect, the
ex-president, and the large number
of distinguished visitors who had
come to participate in the exercises
of the day, marched through the two
lines of students, whose faces showed
that their hearts beat with joy mex
pressible. The arrangements had
been so infinitely planned that only a
few minutes were consumed in as
sembling the great concourse of peo-
pie in the chapel. Everybody moved
with precision, feature that has al
ways been conspicuous on occasions
of this nature at Fisk University.
The exercises in the Memorial
Chapel were opened with an organ
prelude. followed with the doxology
by the congregation DR.. ]. G. Mer-
rill, ex-president of the University,
offered prayer, at the conclusion OF
which the vast audience were, as If
by magic, lifted out of themselves
and transplanted in an imaginary
world. they were carried back to the
dark DAYS of the reconstruction, back
to the days when the nostrils OF TINS
nation were filled with the stencil OF
powder and human blood; to the days
when a cloud hung over four millions
of ignorant and helpless souls so
dense that it appeared to them to be
the blacklist midnight; one imagined
he could see those helpless creatures
when a group of jubilee singers were
heard ascending the stairs of the
vestry. singing in melodious strains
Marching Up the Heavenly Road. -
They were led by that queen of song,
Agnes Haynes Work, whose fame as
Society sang "For the Lord Is a
throughout the world. The Mozart
a singer of Jubilee music is known
Mighty Cod" DR.. Chas. A. Hull in
troduced DR.. Augustus Field Beard,
who spoke on behalf of the American
Missionary Society. Jubilee song, i
Know the Lord Has Laid His HANDS
on Me-" was sung by the Jubilee Club
DIR. James GTiswold Merrill was
then presented and delivered his wei
come to his successor. DIR. Merrill
who is held in high esteem by all the
people of Nashville and the entire
South, received round of applause
Every part of the program was car
ried out to the letter. The speakers
were at their best, and seemed thor.
oughly interested in the exercises OF
the occasion
The programme included the follow
ing list of delegates from institutions
Of learning:
Tuskegee Institute: Principal Book
err T. Washington and his wife,
Mrs. washington; Florida Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, Presi-
dent Nathan Benjamin Young; Johns