The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-12
UNDERWOOD ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF ALUMNI

INV oiu men IN years and honurs,
skilled to sway the council board and
skilled to set the battle In array. like
Nestor OF old. but then the familiar
friends and roommatcs. aye. and tent
mates, too. and comrades III the fore
front of the battle with those yount,
equals Of Diomodc and Achilles. You
were with them when the red battlc
ilags % the Southern Cross swoopcd
down like the eagle on the plains of
Second Manussas: YOU swept with them
over the works Of Chanccllorsyillc.
while stuart rode before you singing
Ike Taillefcr at Scnlac. ana with them
you beat back the enemy, and con-
Hucred cold and hunger and despair
at Pctersburg
Prnisc for Veterans.
cs. you are the remnants Of those
VINO Fought before Troy and Thcbcs.
ana We are the EpiSoni. the after.
born. the men of the second genera.
ti"h' whcn the age OF the heroes has
passed. We were brought up with
your deeds ringing in our ears When
we were boys Ive knew of what Won
ana our fathers had done before wa
could read. ana when we were Young
men we regretted that we had been
born too late.
But We realize that the duty and
the privilege of each generation IS
distinct, although the generations
stream of time in It's now brings mon
inevitably to new duties. even though
IL does not necessarily sweep them
past the old ones. We younger men
speak from the heart, not with tho
Glib service of the lips. when we
pay reverence and honor to your, our
fathers and the friends of our fathers.
who fought through the war and re-
built the shattered South We honor
you Just as you honored your grand
Fathers. who founded the republic. Yet
we nave tasks, too. OF our own, and
II We do not endeavor TO do our best
to deserve respect for ourselves. we
would Ill represent you. And our para
mount duty to you and our common
anna mater is to do our cndeayor
that the Virginia your comrades died
for resume her proper place in the re-
public she did SO much to create"
Professor Chamberlayne then pro-
cecded TO discuss the present South.
confessing with all his love for the old
that the tasks the future sets ou-
Virginia men and women must be
different from those of the past. "Vir-
ginia and the whole South are in pro-
cess OF remakinG," he declared and
mat process has gone so far that we
arc now living in a South that is now.
facing the problems growing out of
the rights OF labor and capital. riches
and poverty, and the presence of the
criminal; out OF new methods OF gov
eminent in city councils and leg'sla-
tures. the weakening OF party align
ment, tho shifting of the social centre
from the church to the school-prob-
lens which have reached us little
later than other parts of the world
and arc drawing us into the magic
currents OF world life.
List of Degrees.
The following is n complete list of
the titled degrees which will be con-
ferrcd tomorrow morning:
Bachelors of Inv.
Robert Brooke .Albertson, Of Ports
mouth; Weldon Murray Bailey, of
Washington. u. C.: Paul CAN'T Bal
lard. of Baltimore, Md; John William
Boyd. Of Richmond; Lyle Repiton
Buskey. OF London Bridge: Charles
Woodland Davis, of Scdley: Frederick
Menkert Divcn, OF Winchester: Hem
~ Rozier Dulany. Jr.. of Upperville;
Michael sidney Gleason, o: Charlottes-
VILE, Page Keen GraveIy, Of Rocky
Mount. " c.; David Alexander Harri-
son. u, OF Disputanta; Samuel Smith
Jcnerics. OF Clarendon. Ark; Felix
Allen Jenkins. of Montciair. y. jill
Louis Arthur Johnson. OF Roanoke;
Alvah Howard Martin. Jr.. OF Norfolk
William Gabriel Maupin. of Ports
mouth; William Frederick May, of
Lead. South Dakota; Roy Caldwell
Moyston. of Memphis, Tenn: Lester
Leroy Oliver. of Buckeystown. Md:
Vincent Luke Parker. ..t Portsmouth,;
c! ril Kelly Richards. OF Trenton, NJ
j.: John Strobe Rixey. OF Charlottes-
vile; Carl oscar Schmidt. of Wheel
Ing, w. Va. William Aloysius Schmitt,
or Yazoo City. Miss; Charles Keen
Seaman. Jr.. of Perth :Amboy. ". j.;
Laurance Simpson. of Avon, Ky; Will
liam Martin Storm, of Frederick. Md;
4 To
y c.; Luther Bradford Waters. of
owings Mills. Md. Frederick ool-
tcrd Conway Webb. OF Vienna, Md:
Lyttleton Waddell Wood. of Char
lottesvilla
Doctors of Medicine
James Lewis Leitch Biob. OF Char
lottesviale: William Edward Bray. of
Winona- Miss; Joseph otterbein crdsr.
OF Harrison3urg: Joseph Stuart Hume /
Of Portsno uth Samuel Sullivan Irwin, !
OF Mt Airy, y. c.; Henry Augustine !
latane, OF Oak Grove: James Burnett
Laughlin. of Huntsville, Ala; James !
Oscar Mundy. Jr.. Of Burnley; Arthur /
Harry Neil. OF Glover, s c.; Char!rys |
Terrell Porter. of Sylacauga, Ala: VIII !
liam Howard Slaughter. OF Tensaw, /
Ala, John Boyd Stone, OF Moyers. W. /
Va.
Civil Engineers.
John Campbell Bennett, of Brandy |
Station: Seth Burnley. of the Un!ver- |
stiy of Nirginia; Robert Hugh Hous- |
ton. OF Batcsville. Miss; Francis Ray |
mond Keys. of Norfolk; Frank Nelson |
Lewis, OF Cismont; Lawrence Fontaine
Tucker. OF LyrchburS; Buz NJ. Walker. |
Jr., of Agricultural College, Miss. |
William Woodruff Wood. OF Charlottes-
Vile.
Electrical Engineers.
Hugh ODOnOYan t,rifnth az IIatnn. |
ton. Va. William Newton Neff, of Chill |
howie. Va.
aIcchnnicnI Engineers.
Joseph Frederick Fa,ber OF Norfolk.