The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-09
Eminent Churchman and Educator Talks of the
 Sewapee Endowment
HAS STUDENT BODY
 OF HIGH INTEGRITY
Many Prominent Men of Birmingham Attend Sewanee Alumni Banquet at the University Club
 Last Night

Expressing an abiding hope that the alumni of Sewanee would see to it that with outside help S5O0,OOo would be raised this year for that institution Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, who has taken upon himself the task of raising that sum, as the guest of honor spoke at a banquet rendered him at the University club last night. He expressed hope. enthusiasm and optimism that in the end the endow- ment fund would be greatly increased, and his work for the year 1912 should not have | been in vain
 When at s o'clock Secretary Albert | Withers of the University club invited the gentlemen present to the banquet board about 40 of the alumni were pres ent.i Headed by Bishop Gailor, Walker Percy, toastmaster, and George T. Wat l 1ins, president of the local alumni, the guests filed into the reception room After being served with tempting menu, the guests were addressed by Walker Percy, who introduced Bishop Gailor. In intro< ducing the distinguished clergyman MT. | Percy recounted some of the well remem- bered incidents of college life, and said all those who came from Sewanee remem- | bered that the bed rock or that institu- tion was manhood. He spoke in his usual l impressive manner of the good being accomplished at Sewanee and presupposed that the endowment that Bishop Gailor sought would he forthcoming. He eulo- 1 gized the guest of honor and then asked the eminent bishop to address the diners
 Bishop Gailor Speaks
 | "I have talked to you so often," said Bishop Gailor, that you all are aecus- toned to it. MT. Percy spoke of the Greek and Latin work that was given him at Sewanee and the regularity with which he attended chapel. I am sure that the study of the two languages is absolutely necessary. A great deal of what Mir. | Percy has accomplished and he has ac- complished much, is due to the study of Latin. The English schools are right about that work. They turn out well 1 equipped men. When the students of the l English schools are through they have d polish and understanding and a well rounded knowledge that is lacking in some of our work.
 At Sewanee, when I went there found that at no other place was there higher sense of manhood and integrity. Where | l came from there was of course man l hood and honesty. However, 1 recall that l one of the brightest men in the school i examinations had his answers writ 1 ten out on his cuffs giving them in to a.
 
 l versity of the South that the student body not only frowned upon that practice but | absolutely would not stand for any ques- tionable methods of attaining desired ends | When that sort of manhood, nobility and character is attained by student body, | it Is place that is sure to attain higher and higher ideals.
 The greatest work of any school is | the formation and upbulding of char acter and manhood.
 'I feel that Sewanee has always per- formed that work and will continue to do it."
 Bishop Gailor then told of his efforts to get money with which to endow sclen- tific building at Sewanee.
 Promises of Money
 | ''I have assurances from MT. Carnegie that he will give $60,0OO J. P. Morgan that he will give $15O0OO, and that H. c. | Prick will give something. While I was l in New York Mir. Morgan told me that he would help us out. He asked me what l wanted and l told him $1O00,0OO as en- dowment but that I would be pleased If could report to the board that l had got ten together $500,000. MT. Morgan then told me that he would give $15O,OO0 and l that the people of the south should give the balance. l think that is fair. I am now engaged in a trip through the south | Oii llldt IllSSlOn. nave m 1 New Orleans, and other cities where I l have hopes of getting this amount"
 Bishop Galor spoke of the commercial ism of the age, saying among other things l that 1t was very regretable to see three | big colleges like Yale, Princeton and Har- yard battling for men and not for ideals. 1 He said that he knew of colleges that would arrange their courses to fit the desires of the students and who would | .l .1t x.t l traditions of the best college founders and college spirits. He said that in Ameri- | ca things were decidedly too commercial. 1 He spoke of the fact that in England l man lille'Lord Nelson was elevated to the peerage or sent to Westminster. Over | here he charged that in the recent war l with Spain all the heros of that conflict | were more less scathed by the ruling i commercialism of the age from Hobson on up and down the line. He said that the only thing America gave man who | led in battle was prize money and his 1 friends usually received that in the end. l In concluding a classical address, re- l plete with wit and wisdom, Bishop Gailor | announced that in his campaign to get money for the endowment of the new build- ing at Sewanee he had approached the Rockefeller endowment fund association "They asured me that they would send I l tionS' concluded Bishop Gailor we all i have faith in Sewanee. We all believe that he will be impressed with the need of that college and the fact that it Is doing a grand good work. We believe that his visit will result in that fund being diverted to service of that institution"
 Mir. VanHoose Speaks
 1 James A VanHoose of this city who in 1876. started out to secure funds for se- vance as Bishop Gailor is now doing. l spoke next. He said that in that year l he visited the home of Colonel Percy in Mississippi and that Walker Percy, the | toastmaster, came later to the college. Mir. VanHoose said that he told Colonel | Percy, with others, that the foundation of that college was manhood and that it was determined to stand for those ideals. Thereupon Colonel Percy said to the agents that if that was their programme only be patient and the money would come forth. Mir. VanHoose dealt in many personal references which were received with great interest by the guests. l Robert Jenison, Jr., H. G. Seibels, Rev. Willoughby N. Claybrook, George Watkins and others made short talks, pledging the interest and activity of the l local association to the work that Bishop Gailor has undertaken.
 i The guest of honor at the University club last. night will be entertained again | at the Country club tomorrow night. l He is one of the most scholarly speak CTS that has been heard here in some time and he will no doubt have num- Der of prominent citizens as auditors at the Country Slub smoker tomorrow. | Thnso pvocanf