The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-04-25
MEMORIAL
TO MEADE FR|ERSON
At HIS UNIVERSITY
VANDERBILT MEN ADOPT BEAU
y TiFUL PLAN TO COMMEMOR-
ATE THEIR cOMRADE.
TRIBUTE TO YOUNG HERO
Nashville has Oversubscribed Her
Quota of $4,000 and Maury County
AIumni.an Citizens to Have Part in
Building.
(Friday's Daily Herald. J

Al the IlnHl rally III NdSHVliie to-
night to complete the campaign in
chat city for funds for memorial
building for the Vanderbilt men who
gave their lives in the world war, the
Vanderbilt men and other citizens of
Maury county will ask permission to
contribute fund for special memo
'ial to Capt. Meade Frierson, Jr., who
was Maury county boy and one of
he most honored graduates of the uni
yersity. This action was planned last
light at dinner at the Bethel House
attended by local and visiting Wander
1ilt men.
Such brief notice was given for
the dinner last night that compare
/ lively few local Vanderbilt men were
present but several representative
alumni were there to confer with Dr.
Edwin Mimms, Coach Dan McGugin,
Vance Alexander, Capt Enoch Brown
and Mr.. Leftwich of Nashville and
Jol. William Branham of Spring HILL
who brought the inspiration of the
great campaign that has been made in
Nashville. Columbia men present
we're: Maj. Horace Frierson, Capt
Richard Smith, Norman Dale, Tom
Graham, Gordon Brown and Maj Roy
Erwin. DR.. Minis remained in Column
oia today to confer with other Wander
)it men and friends of the late Capt.
Meade Frierson, Jr., regarding the pro-
which will probably take the form of
room, in the $3.50, 900 memorial build
ing on the campus, for the special use
If student and university publication
boards and stats.
Mr.. Alexander presided at the din
Ter and every man present spoke with
enthusiasm of the proposed memorial
% the Vanderbilt heroes. Coach Dan
NcGugin, although not graduate of
Vanderbilt, said that on recent tour
Of the South for the university he was
amazed at the influence this institu-
ion has had and is having on this sec
lion of the. country, finding every
where that Vanderbilt men occupy the
highest positions of trust and leader
ship. He said that it is TO perpetuate
he memory of the men from Wander
)ilt who sacrificed their lives in the
great war and in that way rendered
the greatest service to mankind that
building for the use of the students
Of the university has been planned.
lie felt confident that the Vanderbilt
spirit would not fail in this great en-
terprise. He paid tribute to Meade
Frierson as one of Vanderbilt's he
roes.
DR.. Minis spoke of the duty of those
who had no part in the struggle across
the seas to establish something more
permanent than words to fulfill the
right of those brave men who gave
their lives to live on in after genera
tons. He said one is apt to fall into
commonplace remarks in speaking of
these heroes and that the only way to
visualize ones emotions is to have a
part in the erection of something use
full to mankind in memory of the men
who fell.
building for the Capitalization of
student activities. gymnasium. audito-
rum, memorial hall and all things that
would bring the students together
more often in a body has long been
the greatest need of Vanderbilt, said
DR.. Minis, and he thought that no fin
er way to extend the usefulness of the
lives of the heroes could be found
than to erect such a building in their
memory. He said that since coming to
Columbia he had received a message
that Nashville had already oversub-
scribed her quota of $4,000 of the
$3.50, 900.
Speaking Of Meade Frierson, DIR.
Minis said that the death of this hero
brought to him the greatest grief of
the war, that their associations as
teacher and student had been intimate
to an unusual degree and that he felt
that in the death of this young man
one of the>1host brilliant careers ever
attained by Vanderbilt man had