The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-28

sponded to the toast, I'm the Future"
DR.. Denny spoke of the future of the
university its optimistic appearance.
the wonderful growth of the institu-
tion and the necessity of new forms of
college government to conform to the
new conditions. He declared the uni
versity belonged as much to the poor
est boy and girl living on the hill
sides of Alabama, as to the wealthiest
citizens in the state, and closed with
crimson and white and carry 1t to the
mountain tops of educational success
and attainment
Bankhead Responds
William II. Bankhead of Jasper re-
sponded to the toast, THE Alumni $
Voice. and talked but a few minutes,
stating he could hear the voice of his
fellow alumni saying. billie be brief,
Billie be brief" as the baseball game
was then in progress. W. p. G. Harding
of Birmingham spoke from the subject,
THE Old Love-" Mr. Harding dealt
briefly with a few "reminiscences of his
old college days and made an opti-
mistic prophecy for the future of the
institute, closing by stating that he
had never been sorry that Alabama
was the university whose degree he
held
Governors Address
Governor O'Neal's address was as
follows:
MIR. Toastmaster and Gentlemen of the
Alumni Association:
"The surest test of the success and
popularity of any university is found In
the interest, zeal and loyalty of It's
alumni. Applying this test to the Univer-
sity of Alabama, the interest of which
you have manifested by your presence
here today, conclusively shows that your
zeal has not waned, but only become in
tensified. 1t is a source of congratula-
ton that the university is just closing one
of the most prosperous years In it's his
tory. The progress we have made JUS
titles the hope that the day is not far
distant when we will realize the dream
and aspirations of its founders-of that
greater university, the equal of the great
est, the peer of the noblest in science, in
letter and in art.
From the ruin and desolation which
followed in the wake of great civil
war the progress of rehabilitation has
gone steadily forward, and in the face
of poverty and discouragement the trus-
tees. faculty and alumni of this institu-
tion have never faltered in their zeal and
devotion, but year by year, new buildings
have been erected, new equipment Sc
cured and wider fields of usefulness
opened until the university, with a
stronger hold than ever before upon the
affections of the people of Alabama,
faces the future with courage and conf
dence.
"Yet. while much has been accom-
plished it Is idle to console ourselves
with the belief that we have reached the
goal of our ambition. The state is yet
in the infancy of its development, and
when we compare the magnificent endow-
ments of the great institutions of the
east and of the old world, with the small
appropriations and income of our univer-
sty, we can but realize how much yet
remains to be accomplished. Yet with
the gradual growth and population and a
higher and stronger sense of civic duty,
we are justified in expecting that the uni
versty will continue to increase in power
and in usefulness.
IAN elementary education is essential
in a state where the people rule and where
they are possessed of all sovereignty, yet
history tells us that no state has ever