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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
GREAT BANQUET BY
 ALABAMA ALUMNI
Hugh Morrow to Be Toast master at Big University
 Affair Tomorrow

The annual banquet of the alumni of the university to be held Tuesday is to be in keeping with the general bigness of the commencement this year Hugh Morrow of Birmingham has been selected as toastmaster and his reputa- tion as a speaker and wit, known to every a1umnus of the university, as sures brilliant affair.
 The array of speakers is among the ablest ever presented at an alumni banquet of the institution, including Judge Henry D. Clayton of the federal district court who speaks on "The Past" Judge Thomas Mcclellan of the Alabama supreme court, whose subject Is ''rhe University and the Bar" Presi- dent Denny, '"The University; Its: Ideals;'' Dr. T. H. Frazier, dean of the medical department, "The Medical School;" Congressman elect William B. Bankhead. "The Amelia Gorgas Li- brary."
 No less than 500 alumni of the uni versity are expected to attend the ban- quet and like number of visitors who are not alumni will doubtless be pres ent. Every visitor to the centennial or commencement this year is invited to the banquet, it being held that on an occasion of this kind the attendance should not be restricted merely to those who are members of the alumni of the institution. The banquet is all ways one of the big commencement features, but the indications. based on the list of speakers for the occasion, point to an affair which will long live in the history of the institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
ANNUAL REPORT OF PRESIDENT DENNY
 TELLS OF PROGRESS
 DURING PAST YEAR
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way through the university property through the cooperation of the county and the street railway company. The most important improvement in material way made during the past year was the con- struction of modern gymnasium, which is one of the best buildings of the kind possessed by any university.
 The work on the plans for the Gorgas Memorial library, to be named in honor of Mrs. Amelia Gorgas, is progressing satisfactorily, according to the report of the president The building, when finally completed, is to cost $1OO0O0, but the first wing, which is to be constructed at once, will cost $40,000. Dr. George G. Brownell of the faculty has been placed in charge of the work of raising $20,OO0 of this sum, the balance to be given by the uni versity The people of Tuscaloosa have contributed sSo00, reports President Denny and the alumni over the state have sub- scribed $7000, leaving $10.000 yet to be raised.
 Attention is called to the construction now under way on the University Free Dispensary building in Birmingham, and to the new athletic field, which is now in use at the university here. The plans of the different fraternities looking to- ward the erection of homes on the campus are reported by President Denny. who explains the reasons for the extension of the time limit previously set for the com pletion of this work.
 President Denny's annual report fol- lows:
 To the Board of Trustees of the Uni
 vcrsity of Alabama.
 Gentlemen: I have the honor to sub- init to you the following report for the session of 1s15-l6. which is the eighty-fifth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
NEW ENTRY IN
 GASOLINE FIELD

The G. T. Wofford Oil company is a new entry into the gasoline field in Birmingham, and has established four filling stations at convenient points for motorists, announcing that it is prepared to sell better gasoline for less money than has prevailed in recent months in Birmingham.
 G. T. Wofford is president of the new concern, which is 8 home corporation, and MT. Wofford says his company will sell gasoline cheaper than many of their competitors. and that the quality will be higher.
 Some of our competitors have found fault with the odor of our gasoline" said Mir. Wofford, "but motorists buy gasoline for its economic value, rather than as a perfume. and the lightness and the freedom with which it mixes with air make it better fuel for mo- tor cars than ordinary gasoline.
 Exhaustive tests have been made for carbon from our gasoline and in every case the percentage of carbon has been found to be practically nil. Unlike other gasoline, our product sends off the carbon in the exhaust, keeping the motor clean and efficient
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
DIR. OGDEN BREACHES MASTERFUL SERMON
 AT MORGAN HALL
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founded upon our present day fad re- ligions, and whose failure in the build ing of life is writ so large in India. Over against all of these is the great Christian truth of the personal, ever present, just, holy and loving Father.
 WRONG IDEA OF GOD
 "A false idea of God results in broken moral standards, he cannot say there is not a lie in my right hand in the per version of life a deceived heart hath turned him aside;' in sunsatisfied hunger of spirit he feedeth on ashes,' in help lessness he cannot deliver his soul.'
 lover against the idolater's life of fail- ure and moral degradation we find the supreme fulfillment It was in the will derness of Judeah that David cried, Oh, God, thou art my God Religion Is the vital heart grasp of the eternal. Here we find life's true foundation An African king once said to Dan Craw- ford, TO be better off is not always to be better Despite our splendid mate rial civilization we shall find life shat tered if we do not know God. Life is like the Prince Rupert drop with which you young men in your laboratory have experimented. That fig-shape globe of glass has one sensitive point Break it at the tip of the stem and the whole structure falls into tiny fragments There is one point in life at which all other values center. If we lose God, we lose all."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
'OLD GRADS AWED
 BY NEW BUILDINGS
Old-Timers on Visit to Campus Note Many
 Improvements

University, May 2S.-(Special )-Scores of old graduates who have flocked to the university attendant upon Alabama S big alumni homecoming, opened their eyes in utter astonishment as they gazed for the first time in several years upon the campus of their alma mater. They wandered over the old quadrangle, once the heart of university activities, they rambled through the three staid old buildings which but eight short years ago represented part and parcel the equipment of the University of Alabama, they sought in vain the choice hooks and corners of favored haunts of by gone days-but the order of things had changed. The old paths that led through the campus had given way to symmet- rical cement walks, the old buildings were all but lost amid the imposing structures whose construction has marked the birth of the greater univer- sty. There was something almost pa- thetic about the homecoming at first. Not that the old grads felt that they did not belong. The cordial welcome of hundreds of students proved a cure for that. But for the first time they real ized that the old order changeth and that they were the men of yesterday. It was the same old university in heart and spirit, but it was not the college home which they had painted upon mem- ory's pages since they had left it's halls. Everything had changed, save only the hearty shand-shake of an old classma te who greeted them with an old nick name.
 In the spring of 1908 the principal buildings of the university consisted of Clark, Woods and Manly halls, a chem istry building and a small gymnasium. Since that time something over $500 GOO has been expended upon buildings alone, according to figures compiled by Pres- ident Denny Since that time, also the university proper has spread from an area of one-quarter of a mile square to something over one mile square. With the completion of the new gymnasium the following structures have been added here since 1908: Conner hall (s175,- 0Oo), Morgan hall (s1oe, ,o0O), Smith hall (s1O0000, girls dormitory ($45,0O0), gym nasium (s45,oOo). In addition s40,0OO has been expended in repairing and beauti- flying the university grounds. And these figures do not include two fraternity houses erected upon the campus at an approximate cost of s10,O0O each
 The attitude of the old grads was right. If things go by contrast, it's no wonder they were rather nettled upon visiting the old institution after an ab- sence of from eight to b years.
 WY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
NEWSY NOTES FROM
 THE COMMENCEMENT
By c. w. GREER

university campus Already the Sigma Alpha Episolon and Phi Gamma Delta fraternities have built homes, and three other fraternities, the Kappa Sigma, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the SfKna Nu, will build this summer. None of these homes will cost under $100O0, and all will be of colonial architecture. A strip of campus about one-quarter of a mile long
 has been set apart for the purpose. On Tuesday. morning alumni of the Kappa Sigma fraternity will formally lay the cornerstone of their home, which Is now under construction When all of the fraternities have built, the homes will represent an outlay of approximately
 s100,00O, not including the value of the real estate.
 ] REAL CLASS REUNIONS Real class reunions are one of the biz features of commencement this spring, Heretofore each class graduating pledged itself to return five years from date aud renew college acquaintances, but until last year no organized effort to get the various graduates to attend these re. unions was ever put on foot. Last spring, headed by O. G. Gresham and T. W.
 Palmer of Birmingham, the class of 10
 swooped down upon the university en-
 masse and so successful was their re-
 union that their plan was immediately
 borrowed by those having reunion in
 charge this season, and with the result
 that every class ending in '06 or Il was
 represented at the present homecoming.
 Each class continues with the organi- zation effected in it's senior year. The various presidents working in co-opera- ton with the university authorities have managed to get them away from the cares of worldly strife and the campus is alive with old graduates bearing the in
 signia of their classes. Costumes have
 been adopted and many novelties ar- ranged, which will make the homecoming different from anything of it's kind ever
 held here. Many of them flock to the old university mess hall as in the days of old and shout and push with all the vim and vigor of freshmen and sopho- mores in frantic effort to obtain their share of the bull" and widow" as meat and syrup are commonly called n mess hall lingo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29

caloosa will christen the corner stone with a bottle of grape juice, in deference to the prohibition laws.
 The guests of honor invited to attend are: Secretary of the Treasury w. c. McAdoo, who will not be able to come to Tuscaloosa but has prepared greeting to be read during the exercises; J. T. Stokely, Robert H. Baugh, president of the Southern league; Ben Davis, Dr. L.. G. Woodson pr. W. Lawson Thornton, A. H. Witt, T. A. Murphree, Prof. R. F.. Tidwell, Judge c. B. Smith, Judge Hugh A. Locke. Dr. B. s. Lester, Paul Cook, of The Age-Herald; D. B. Lightner, Col. L. c. Leadbeater, H. M. Robertson, Carl D. Coker, John V. Coe, Hamilton Will kins all of Birmingham John w. Varda- man, George w. Thompson, pr. T. Bran non Hubbard of Montgomery, J. M. Tucker of Prattville, Col. G. M. Robert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29

An interesting feature of the commence ment exercises at the University of Ala bama this year will be the laying of the corner stone of the new Kappa Sigma fraternity house. located on the campus, near the astronomical observatory, the only original building of the university that survived the civil war, except a small vault.
 The exercises will take place Tues day, May 30. E. K. Staggers, grand mas ter of Beta chapter, will preside Ad- dresses will be made by Judge Hugh A Locke of Birmingham, James N. Granade pr. George H. Denny, president of the university; Herbert NJ. Martin, worthy grand scribe of Kappa Sigma, and Bob Blake, worthy grand master of cere- monies. Mrs. Mims P. Jemison of Tus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
Kappa Sigma fraternity University

son of Deerfield, Miss, Maj. D. M. Scott Congressman J. w. Craig and Law Lamar of Selma, W. A. Lett of Mobile, Allen Crenshaw of Andalusia, pr. Jesse Pugh Chapman of Florence, Prof. Thomas B Ward of the university, Ed c. Bates of Huntsville, R. l.. Lodge of South Pitts burg, Tenn, and Ellison H. Bingham of Tuscaloosa.
 At the conclusion of the corner stone laying a barbecue will be served on the grounds of the uptown chapter house in Tuscaloosa. James N. Granade, O. G. Gresham, Saul Smith, E. A. Robertson and w. V. M. Robertson, Jr., compose the alumni committee of Beta chapter.
 The new house will be one of the hand somest structures of its kind in the coun- try, and will be finished in elaborate style, providing accommodations for 20 students. President Denny plans eventu- ally to have all the fraternity houses on the university campus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
Treasury Statement

Washington, May 28.-The condition of the United States at the close of busi- ness Saturday was:
 Net balance in general fund, s13o,96 .sSL Total receipts, $2,533.955.
 Total payments, $1.6So,413.
 The deficit this fiscal year is $49,528, = 243 against a deficit of $107, ,26S, ,128 last year, exclusive of Panama canal and public debt transactions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

to the state, county and city health a thorities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29

University, May 2s-(Special)-The end of the present collegiate session brings into operation two new athletic rulings recently enacted by the S. I. A. A. in New Orleans which will have a far reaching effect on Alabama athletes.
 The first is the new summer baseball rue Under this measure any college athlete is allowed the privilege of playing summer baseball anywhere for his ex- penses, provided the team with which he plays is not recognized by the national primarily due to the agitation raised by several members of the s. I. A. A. against the old rule that debarred an athlete who played outside of his home county during the summer months. A fight against this stringent regulation was inaugurated several years ago, but owing to the persistent efforts of the late President Dudley of the S. I. A. A. in support of the rule, it was never changed during his regime.
 Another regulation which goes into op- eration next fall provides that any ath- lete shall be allowed to travel with more than two major athletic teams. The ma jor sports at the university are baseball. football and basketball. 1t will be re- membered by those wk0 have followed sports at the university this spring that Dink Hagan, veteran outfielder of the Crimson, was prevented from taking baseball trips, due to the fact that he al- ready had accompanied the football and basketball teams. The rule is purely local, having been passed by the faculty with the view of having athletics inter- fere as little as possible with scholastic requirements. Its repeal has met with universal approval among the students
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
MEMORIALS

The approaching commencement will enrich the university through the acqui- sition of three memorials, which will still further sti engthen the tie that binds us to the past. Dr. B. l.. Wyman of the class of 1876 is presenting a DOT trait in oil of his distinguished father, William Stokes Wyman, who for nearly 70 years twas identified with this institu- tion as student, as teacher, and as execu- tive. He entered the University of Ala bama as student in the year 184S. He was elected tutor in 1852 and professor in 1S56 He served as president at va rious times when exigencies demanded He never failed to answer the call of his alma mater. The position always sought him. Had he consulted his own wishes, he would have shifted the responsibility But his sense of loyalty to duty and his devotion to the university found repeated expression in his yielding to the wishes Of the authorities in great crises in our institutional life. All honor to his mem ory! He was great in mind. great in heart, and great in the dominating pur- pose of his life
 The United Daughters of the Confeder- acy are again making us their debtor by presenting to the university bronze tablet of that remarkable woman. Mrs. Amelia Gayle Gorgas, whose influence uTon men during the last half century  has been so potent and so inspiring. No man can estimate the power of the life 1T this wonderful woman. No name stirs the sentiment of our alumni in exactly the same way as does her name We welcome this gift as a rich contribution to our life.
 Two years ago we accepted, with grati- tude and appreciation, a bronze tablet memorializing one of the two 'cadet companies. I refer to the company named in honor of Capt Bascomb T. Shockley That was a great and inspir- ing function Now, we are to unveil tablet in honor of the cadet company which bore the name of Capt Charles Paddock Storrs. This company served in Forests cavalry. It acted as escort to that gallant Confederate officer. Gen. E. w. Fucker, who is still living. This memorial will find an appropriate place in close proximity to the Shockley tab
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
NEW ATHLETIC FIELD

The erection Of the new grandstand has practically added the finishing touch to the finest athletic field in the south, and one of the finest in the country. For many years it has been recognized that the use of the campus for athletic games not only detracted from the in terest in such contests, but at the same time marred the beauty of the campus itself. The location of the new field is ideal It supplies real need in the life of the institution. Nothing that has been done within recent years has evoked more genuine appreciation on the part of the student body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
THE SUMMER SCHOOL

The summer school continues to de- velop with remarkable rapidity. It's growth has been phenomenal Three years ago there were only 243 students enrolled. Last summer we registered 735. The content of the curriculum has been greatly enlarged and enriched. The school has taken rank among the great schools of the country. It has contributed largely to the growing ef- hciency of the entire public school sys- tenn of the commonwealth.
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ing to watch the careers of the gradu- ates whom we are sending out each year. The demand for these graduates
 is far greater than the supply. Their success is a hopeful sign in the life of Alabama. It has long been recog- nized that the graduates of the college of arts and sciences, the school of law and the school of medicine take high rank in their several callings. There has, however, been too little emphas sis placed on the remarkable success of the graduates of the school of education and of the college of engineering.
 I have more than once stated in my reports to the trustees that, in spite of the rapidly increasing growth of the school of education, we are unable to supply the demand for our graduates in filling important vacancies in our high school system and in executive work in the field of education. Precisely the same situation obtains in the college of engineering. It is not necessary even to mention the well understood fact that the great electric establishments of the country are anxious to secure promising men from all the engineering schools. That has been the situation for nearly generation. The best engineering schools have ceased talking about it. Such schools are, however, greatly in- terested in producing industrial leaders That is precisely what our college of engineering is doing. And it is doing it out of all proportion to the number of men who are being trained in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
NEW FRAT HOUSES

Not to be outdone by the rapid strides being made by the university itself the various Greek letter fraternities here are actively engaged in construction worR
 Under the plan adopted by President Denny sometime ago fraternities desiring to build houses will be given lots on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
BIBLE COURSES

It is especially gratifying to report that the coming of Dr. Bonner will enable us to organize systematic instruction in the English Bible. It is our plan to of fer three hours of elective work in Bible study each year. While the courses are to be elective, they may be counted for a degree. It is my judgment that this is a great forward step in the progress of the University of Alabama I am profoundly convinced that an over- whelming majority of the students who come to us will welcome this fine op- portunity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
REGISTRATION OF STUDENTS

year of the life of the University of Ala hama:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
CRIMSON.WHITE EDITION

Commencement editions of the Grim son. White, the University of Alabama weekly, have put in their appearance. The issue is of 12 pages and contains a summary of all activities at the univer- slty during the session just passed along both scholastic and athletic lines. The editions will be offered to homecoming alumni as emblems of the progress of the university during the past year. In addition to its news value the publica- ton offers valuable hints to visitors who have seen little of the university during the past few years instructing them as to the ins and outs of the institution.
 Plans for the construction of a new library at the university to cost. eventually upwards of $100,0O0 are so far matured that only $10,000 is now needed to complete the donation neces- sary for the first section to be con- structed. Dr. George c. Brownell, chair man of the faculty library committee. is in charge of the project. The first sec- ton of the building will cost s40,0O0 Of this sum $3O00 has been raised in Tus- caloosa and donations from alumni from various portions of the state have swelled the total to $10,00O. Another like amount is needed. The university is to contrib yta thA her S20 0O0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The addition of Profs. Andrew Bonner and E. Hudson Strode to the department of English means a vast strengthening of that department. Professor Bonner for several years served as professor of English in Southern university, where he achieved distinction both as teacher and as scholar. His subsequent career in Missouri as college president has greatly enlarged his experience. He is a doctor of philosophy, a minister of high stand ing in the Methodist church, and man of many sided interests Professor Strode lis a university graduate of the class of I912 a native of Alabama who has sub sequently done graduate work in Eng fish at Columbia university. For two years he has taught English at Syracuse university He comes back to us highly recommended. There is no question that the department of English, under the leadership of Dr. Barnwell, assisted by Professors Stickney, Bonner, Strode and one or two instructors to be named, Is far stronger than it has ever been h. deed, it is one of the strongest depart ments of English maintained in any southern college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-29
NEW GYMNASIUM

The fiscal year which is just closing has brought to us new gymnasium This building is believed to be the largest and by far the most beautiful structure of it's kind in the lower south. It Is CO., lonial in architecture and modern in every detail. It is being furnished in appro- priate fashion and will undoubtedly serve as a stimulus to a higher standard of physical education under the expert ad- ministration of Professors Kelly and Noo- jin, who are devoting their best efforts to the development of this phase of our student life.