Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-05
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dial MGlCOlhC 'NN0
+bo alumni and students of th(
.1obama Polytechnic Institute to Mr.
n D shipp, of Americus, Ca, when
3, delivered his mastery and thought
s,1 address on THE Ten Thousand
DoIlar Man" before large concourse
of neople in the auditorium here.
large number of Mr.. Shipp's class
mates we're present to greet him and
LOYALTY of the members of the class
of 1879 to the orator of the occasion
zyos unmistakable. Mr.. Shipp was
Greeted most cordially when he ap-
cared before the large assembly, one
of the largest ever known at COM
nancement exercises here, and he
hold the attention of all present
throughout the time he spoke. The
strong applause which he received
when he concluded, showed the gen
nfnp interest and enthusiasm which
his address had aroused.
The complete text of the address
delivered by Mr.. Shipp is as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen
As a faithful and humble alumnus,
I am anxious that in discharging the
honorable trust you have assigned me,
that the hour which we pass together
should be exclusively occupied with
reflections which belong to us as af-
sectionate children of our common
mother. My embarrassment would
be greater did l not feel that your
thoughts would naturally flow in SYM
pathetic unison, as may be presumed
at all times to be habitual and famll-
lar with men of liberal attainments.
This solicitude arising from a cons
cious inability to be equal to the
academic custom which draws us to-
gether is, | trust, not merely per-
sonal feeling. This anniversary is
not one to be embraced unworthily
by me to attempt from the selfish de-
sire of winning your applause, a cold
disquisition, however erudite or in
genious. This is the Yule-tide COM
ing to our cherished home, endeared
to us by all the pleasant associations
of collegiate life and intellectual fell
lowship.
The utility of these literary festi-
walls is rather to cement the bonds OF
brotherly love; to breathe hope and
inspiration to best endeavors; to keep
alice and foster love of learning in
ourselves and others. We lay aside
our work and cares, our offices and
studies, We leave the fields and TO-
runs and repair in peace to this, our
pleasant Olympia. We renew here
our attachments formed in the bright
morning of life with our long parted
associates, and as we pay our homage
10 the yenerated fathers, we make the
acquaintance of the enthusiastic
young, who are to follow after us.
When we leave our college halls the
one question uppermost in our minds.
IS now we may make the most of
his only one life we have to live.
How can we make our efforts accom-
pIlsh the greatest ends. Duty is not
81 clear, nor is our work so we'll de-
nhed as in the quiet college sur
'oundlngs. Life is larger and harder
10 handle than we anticipated. I'M
oI0ed youthful theories fail before
'"e has had positive experience
enough to know where the difficulties
ne The timid, unframed and ineffi-
'leht fall into the common herd,
7i'Her because of want of persistent
purpose or because their we'll devised
pI'hS are not fought out as hard as
'Hey We're thought out.
Let us contemplate for a moment
me vast undeveloped resources of
'nIS young commonwealth. oh! State
Vi Alabama! Land of tomorrow, to
'e nrlce blessed by the Panama ca
''l' Here nature has lavished her
arrest gifts and distributed her
'"' CESS with so generous a hand that
are prone to wonder what
p'ehCitude of unused wealth, wha
great mines of iron and coal in Close
proximity, now almost untouched
~ ""l'ing for the master mind to leaC
v ." 'nelr handling! What tremendous
"d'erpower no more utilized by ou
eH civilization than when owned b,
|hoctaws or Muscogulees! How
'''n Jolly and madness the create
."'' OF our population competin
'"uly only with themselves in tn
" single industry of growing cot
"" IN such abundance as to be re
lucrative in price, and with all tn
'N,'''les here for erecting manufaC
,''ieS' how this cotton is shippe
-, 1'' oad to be spun and woven an
s" brought back to us in the shap
-, 'Hdnufactured goods to be marke