The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-04
Luncheon at Tutwiler Last Night Attended by Noted Men From Many South ern States
BISHOP GAILOR IS GUEST OF HONOR AND
 PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Sewanee Is a National As set, He Says, a Legacy of the South-John Howe PeytOn Speaks
sewanee must be preserved.

l SeWanee must De preserved.
 | The University of the South, an in
 stitution which for more than half a century has stood for education in it's
 broadest sense, for physical, mental,
 moral and spiritual development of it's students, an institution which had with | jealous care maintained through all these years it's high ideals and stan- dards, must be preserved. The handl- | cap of debt must be removed
 1 Half a hundred alumni of Sewanee
 and an equal number of prominent
 members of the Episcopal church and local citizens attended the banquet at
 the Tutwiler last night given by the
 alumni, at which able and distinguished
 speakers told the story of the Univer-
 sity of the South. No subscriptions for
 the debt fund were asked, and no eff l fort was made to raise any money.
 The meeting was simply one to ac-
 quaint the people with the work and
 the history of the institution.
 BISHOP GAILOR HONOR GUEST i The Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, bish 1 op of Tennessee, and one of the ablest
 churchmen in the south, was the guest |
 the evening. The Rt. Rev A. W Knight, chancellor of the university; George F. Milton, editor and publisher l of the Chattanooga News, and John
 Howe Peyton, president of the Nash vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail- road were the visiting speakers. Dr. Morris Newfield and the Rev. M. $. BarnWell were among the speakers | and H. G. Seibels was toastmaster. | ic 1 America owned and controlled by the Episcopal church." said MT. Seibels. Several other large educational 1nst1- | tutions formerly controlled by the l church gave up their denominatlonat connections in order to secure endow- ments from the Carnegie fund. Se- vance refused these offers.
 The Rev. MT Barnwell declared that | he was highly gratified on the occa-
 sion of his first visit to Sewanee at l the splendid property owned pY the f institution. q did not attend Sewanee and had always heard that the schooI 1 was poor I naturally expected to 11nd | it a rather run down and loosely oper ated institution. However, l was most birhIy pleased to find it magnifi- cent institution not only in so far as
 the physical properties were concerned, | hui in the manner in which it was con- ducted and the ideals of education to which it has clung so tenaclously. we will not fail in this work or raising l the money needed to relieve this great l institution and we shall soon see the
 urivars;tv become an even greater fac | tor in the development of the manhood of the south" he said.
 STIRRED BY BISHOP
 Bishop Gailor, an exceptionally pleas | ing speaker, stirred the enthusiasm or firth n | for her strict adherence to the high 1 est ideals of education. T have just observed that the Latin words, 'Fortes | fortuna juvat.' are worked into the ! tablecloth in front of me- said Bishop Gailor. "'Fortune helps the brave l l think that sentence especially 11tt1ng at this time and I am confident that | the movement in which we are now engaged will be crowned with splen- | did success We propose to raise for | the University of the South $300,O00. We must bear in mind that by doing ! this we increase the income of Se- vance at least $15,000 annually, which 1 is the amount we are now paying out | in interest on this debt
 | "SeWanee is national asset. The | institution stands now and has always l strictly adhered to the highest ideals 1 of liberal education. That idea of many which gained considerable as- tendency some years ago that clas- l sical education was waste of time | has been proved to be incorrect. A lib- l eral education consists largely in the | training of the mind of the student as 1 well as in his moral and spiritual up- lift. Such work is Sewanee doing. "Sewanee is a legacy and heritage I of the south. At the close of the civil war only the University of Virginia and Sewanee took up the work of higher education and our institution has done her full share in the highest development of this section. Many of the greatest leaders in the south and even of the nation have received their education and their inspiration at the university in the mountains
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