The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-17
DR.. ALDERMAN BIDS
FAREWELL TO GRADUATES
Class Of 40 Go Out In World From
Great Institution Founded BY
Thomas jefferson.
MAKES ELOQUENT ADDRESS
Declares Period OF American Leader
ship Has Definitely Arrived in
Worlds History--Period of Isoia-
ton Forever Gone


Worlds History--Pcriod of Isoia-
ton Forever Gone.
Charlottesville, Va. June is.--Pres-
I ident Alderman's farewell to the
graduating class of the University OF
| Virginia today was the feature of the
I final exercises. He said:
! And now ] must say goodbye to
you, men of 1915. Annually / do
! this. and yet there is no triteness In
! the act and no Journalism in my heart,
and | dare say In you. The cere-
mony is periodic and old. but the
individuals and circumstances are
/ forever keen and fresh You are now
/ a part of the changing but immortal
! life of great university. II has
| given you of its best, With trained
minds and trained condolences, and
let us pray. trained Wills, you go out
into a world sadly tumbled down at
! present, but, | believe. undergoing
discipline and developing forces that
will make your period of energy and
work the most thrilling and purpose
| full since the French Revolution. You
remember. perhaps. how Wordsworth
! in that time of social denomination
and anlysis sang, bliss 1t is, in this
dawn, to be alive, but to be young Is
Heaven" To the poet. as to us, the
very suffering and agony OF his lime
meant TO him the beginning of new
era in human history. SO fancy
some such feeling as this is your own
heats, and you have reason to expect.
! in the fifty years that stretch before
| you, an age that will make constant
! and exacting demands upon trained
/ skill high character. and that great
est impulse of the human heart. which
all peoples have not attained. the
/ impulse toward individual freedom
and popular government, and esp"c-
! tally upon such qualities in American
( life.
A Bloody and Brawiing World.
One hundred years ago. this very
week the roar of the guns at Water
loo were being heard and the aspect
of the world was bioodier and more
/ bra wiling than now. But the most
/ constructive and democratic of all hu-
man eras was beginning. So II Will
be when this savagery ends. Your
country was young and weak, then;
1t Is venerable and strong now. Not
only has the period of American so
lation forever passed, / venture 10
say. but, In by judgment, the period
Of American leadership has definitely
culture. If you please, that the ultt-
mate triumph of democracy may de-
mand. At least men of ycnr training
and type will spend your lives In the
thick Of the battle TO prove that
the great processes of self govern
ment are the Anal forms of human
society. wish you in the great
struggle before your country ana IT'S
ideals three great qualities;
not to make mere energy OF will ana
energy Of action the ideal of human
life, but the wish and the will to
understand thoroughly what one has
TO do Is the fundamental necessity
of highly organized life.
Second the cooperative genius
that will impel YOU to lend hand
in all public affairs. and to Illustrate
THAT finest attribute of free people
! generous public spirit.
An Eye for the Unseen.
Third. an eve for the unseen and
eternal. reverence for the things that
are not beholden OF the eye but are
lovely and of good report. Every
honor. every pleasure, every expert
ence OF life is CHASTITY II 1t be not set
lin the framework OF high principles
and stainless character. Whatever
may befau. whether the expectation
of youth shall or shall not be real
ized bv the attainments of age, in
sickness or health. in triumph or dis
aster. your alma mater will not forget
YOU but knowing you one by one,
4 will rejoice or sympathize with you as
life NAV fall out And so / say fare
we'll with the good will of your teach
ers. your friends. your spiritual
mother.
"A noble idealist once described
a University as place which at
tracts the affections of the young by
its fame. wins the Judgment or the
middle age by it's beauty and rivets
the memory of the old .oy aus assos
Citations May this pleasant seat or
lea rning he all this and more to you
as YOU climb the heights and go down
the hill of life"
The following Is a list of the gradu'
ates:
Graduates In Nursing.
billiard. Martha Granville. SCOTS
vile. Va: Maury, Sarah Fontaine
Hickory HILL Va: Perry. Edith Vir'
rinia. Charlottesville. Va: Cakes. Jes-
sic Eugenia, Greensboro. s. c.: NOEL
Emma Louise, Crimora, Va; Maxim
son. Bertha Lillian. Norfolk. Va; Are
hart, VERNE Eleanor. Timberyiile
va: Mckenzie. Jane Clough, Char
lottesville. Va.
Doctors of Medicine.
Anderson. william Duianey, Chat
tanooga, Tenn; Chow. Ming-yu. Ming
20. China: Dale. John Richard, Jr.
1exarkana. Ark. Huntington, john
Hughes, FarmvilIe Va; Ftchett
Marion stevenson. Cape Charles, Va;
Fowlkes, John Winston. Jr., Sun~y'
side, va: Gage. Lucius CASTOR, Ches'
ter, 8. c.; Giddings. Charles Chenille
Jr.. Atlanta, Ga; Gillespie, George
Yancey. Jr., Duck Hill. Miss; Gordin
Archie Ewing, Jackson, Miss; Grant
David Walker, Richmond, Va; Haral-
son. Marion Flint, Forest, Miss.
Harper, Charles Nicholas, Riverton
w. Va; Howard. James Manney. Jr