Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-16

dreams for advancement take
leave again TO bring before you:
First School of Economics and
Commerce: n development Of our pres
cnt School of Economics and Political
Science, so that there shall issue train
ing for business men in southern and
American life, grounding knowledge OF
languages, peoples. governments.
Second. y study OF the ethical as
poets OF business as we'll as it's tech
nipue and administration TO the end
that the business man may come to
enter not war bu, se-vlcA An in =
creasing number Of our young men seek
! TO enter business as a career and The
/ tine must come wher it wil be incum-
! bent upon us 10 produce great business
( man as we'll as great soldiers and great
statesmen.
Third \ magazine solidly based
thoughtfully and wisely managed and
controlled. distinct from our alumni
publications. not seeking TO give news
but TO become great serious publica-
ton wherein shall be focused and set
down the very best thought OF. first
University Of Virginia men. wherever
they are; second. of Southern men
wherever they can he found; third. Of
/ men everywhere in the nation and the
world, on vital questions in the fields
OF economics. politics. ethics. literary
Interpretation, and historical analysis
Yale University has the finest example
think, of such a publication in the
Yale Review. mean something on
that type. but with our own PERSONAL
ity and its own distinction. The South
is fitted for Interpretation. 1t has itself
undergone and triumphed over the most
searching experience OF any country in
the world, and we face an era when
the bases of things will have to be
renewed. democracy reasserted and So
c!ety, in n measure, steadied and trans
formed. I believe this is the academic
spot out OF which should issue publ
cation reflecting the calm thought.
in all these fields. of the best men, and
that If this end can be achieved moth
ing will add more to our Usefulness
and fame.
Fourth. a School Of journalism
seeking to train men to become true
leaders and teachers of democratic pub
lice opinion.
I'm 1919 four years from now, we
shall celebrate the centennial Of our
continuous life. Let us do this with
dignity and reverence. We shall need
the cooperation of our alumni: and
plans are on foot now to be submitted
to them for their criticism and dis
cussion. 49, WyHW
'In these days OF depression and an.
parent eclipse of civilization. I find my
mind recurring again and again to GER
tain sayings of Edmund Burke who
. faced. without pessimism. just such
an uproar and breakdown OF society.
You will recall his noble definition OF
the state as n partnership between
those who are living, those who are
dead. and those who arc yet to be born.
This Is just good a definition of
university Is OF a State. The memory
OF the great dead does indeed guide and
steady us here. The vital array of the
present. whom you see before you, and
whose representative has so we'll ex-
pressed. for whom honor shines and
duty calls, and hope beckons. stimu-
latcs and drives us on. while above all
those who are yet to be born and those
just reaching up into life a majestic
ithrong-absorbs us wholly. II is our
doom to live in the future. and that
necessity gives us vision to plan and
courage to endure. attentive to all
counsel and suggestion. but unswayed
by, opportunism or any fear
MANNING'S ADDRESS
ONE OF best EVER HEARD
Governor Manning modestly STYLED
his address Suggestions" 1t was, i'm
fact. one of the best addresses on an
alumni reunion occasion ever heard at
the university. He had not been back
to the university in thirty-six years He
gave charming account OF the uni
versity and the professors of his stu
dent days, and then took up the discus
sion of some of the Zig problems con-
fronting Southern people to-daS. One
of the most important of these prob
lens. he said, was concerned with
adapting education to the changed con-
ditions, so that all the people may make