The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-13
PRESIDENT ALDERMAN
SPEAKS IN FAREWELL
At Finals of University of Virginia
Bids Graduating Glass Fond
Good Bye"
TELLS or NEMORIAM.
Many students From Charlottesville
school Have Paid Supreme Sacrt-
fee On European Battlefield
Reads List of Names.

| hed0S LIST OF NAMES.
| Charlottesville. Va. June IL
! President Alderman's farewell state
ment 70 the graduating class of the
! University OF Virginia was as fol-
| lows;
There came to me the other day,
| as president of the university, beau
tiful marble tablet. bearing this In
scription:
The University Of Paris to Ser
gent Aviator James Mcconnell. Born
i4th Of March, 1887. An alumnus Of
the University of Virginia. volun-
teer in the army Of France. Decor
ated with the Cross of war. Died
in battle, March ~, 19t7"
We shall cherish this tablet here
as new bond. forged by devotion
and valor, binding together forever
the land or Lafayette and the home
OF jefferson our imperfect files
show today over 1900 sons OF this
university in the military service OF
the republic, Al the end OF the first
year of war: $50 Of these are students
who have left their studies here to
join the colors, ] salute their young
courage and regret that our service
to duty. cannot be unfurled here to-
day.
Twelve Of these young men have
| sealed their devotion with their lives.
l call Of their names. and acclaim
each one as among those ''unafraid
! for the friends of his heart or the
| cause OF his country to die
! Andrew Courtney Campbell G914
lCD.
| Leroy H Clapp t912 c..
| John Hayes Collette G9l7 NJ.
| Mortimer Crane G917 E..
| John Dunn, " G91s c..
| +. c. Eichelherger ti916 CO.
Lieutenant W. A Fleet (l904 r. A.
! NJ. A..
Alexander p. Humphrey, Jr. f1so7
| &. L..
| James NJ. Mcconnell G910 LIZ.
Hawley 3. Olmstead G416 c..
| Corporal Elmer II. Van Fleet G9l4
iCD.
Lieutenant Eugene B. Wheauey
| tl917 Z. and c..
| We have here in academic work. in
| one teaching rank or another, l04
| men. Forty-seve of them are serv-
| ing the nation in some form OF war
| work. and when the history Of the
I
| they, too, should find a place beside
the students and alumni of the insti-
| tuition. The university, therefore, has
/ done, and shall continue to do, Its
| duty in sending its sons to way BY
. maintaining its academic integrity
! and its academic staff. 1t shall en-
dure on to train for war or peace
/ the youth whom war should spare
until they are made ready and those
who can best be used in the pursuits
Of science. For the very reason that
we are threatened by relentless, un-
moral, but severely trained power We
should highly resolve to keep burning
the pure fame of learning which
must eventually save the world.
} And now young men of 1918,
come to the benediction which it IL
always mine 10 pronounce. The mooc
| of the nation Is now a mood OF &C,
ton, rather than of speech. and
shall be brief. You have acted manly
= parts here. and your Alma Mater re
= spects and loves and cherishes you
You are unique in our annals in tint
respect. Your whole college life ha
been bounded and encompassed b!
] war, Millions of the best youth o
q the world have spent these years II
= the university OF battles and suffer
} ing, | think see In your characte
r some OF the finer dsciplines OF tn,
g harshest of human tests. You stei
= from this platform today to offer you
= lives II need be, to your country, ant
t to the defense of all the best thing
men have been striving for for on
I thousand years. You shall fight, per
t chance. for the hills and meadows AM
cities and monuments and homes ant
= hearthstones of your native land, 70
your laws and customs and manner
and all your moral heritages, for tn
genius of your country which frs
pointed the way to self government
on great scale to freedom LOVING
peoples, your country, so recently
. 1aring symbol Of peace and pros
. perity, stands at last by the logic o
destiny where ii must win this wa
for civilization-must win it glorious
ly, and must set the pace in realign
ing human institutions and reconsti
tuting the human spirit on a basis o
and M