The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

always enjoy the banquets of the Vanderbilt alumni held in Birmingham, for there is fine bunch of "Yandy" graduates living here in the city or scat tered in the district.
 The only thing dislike about them is have to own up that I was student at the great Nashville in 1SS6 and to admit that B years ago I was old enough to leave home and enter a university makes me rather more aged than I care to advertise.
 My father, while a physician and a graduate of the famous Jefferson Medi- cal college of Pennsylvania, located at Philadelphia, having made the journey from Washington, Wilkes county, Ga-, acted during a part of the war as the local Methodist preacher at Genville.
 It was quite natural however that l should look toward Vanderbilt as it was when a Methodist institution. I remem- Der that my being son of the parson- age did not keep me from paying the tui- tion fees, as the authorities very properly held that father not being a member of any conference it would be in good or der for me to enter merely as a pay student.
 I can well remember the first time ever saw old Bishop McTyre walk across the campus. He seemed to me to be the living representative of the Old Testa- ment prophets. I had only one or two and picturesque figure in the gallery of my memory. He was strong man in many ways
 The Vanderbilt of my day is hardly recognizable in the expanded one of to- day, and it is hard to recognize the sur roundings Broad street leading into Nashville has been transformed into a business street, and the old athletic field is covered with handsome residences and attractive churches or club houses. sss
 It seems bit strange that I went to | Nashville 10 years later at the call of I the lamented James B. Hawthorne whose health was failing to become his associate as pastor of the First Baptist l church, and remained there for about nine months during the celebration oi 1 Tennessee's centennial by great indus trial exposition under the guiding hand l of John w. Thomas.
 1
 l The centennial grounds had trans | formed park near Vanderbilt into g veritable hive of beautiful buildings The reproduction of the Parthenon was a thing of exquisite beauty in the rar,
 summer moonlight nights. The musica programme was feature of the enter tainments and brought south the great est bands in America
 |
 I had 8 rather interesting experienc,
 in the old fair grounds, which hat
 been a place for popular shows for man, years. During my student days I recal
 how Buffalo Bilrs outfit spent some
 time in it giving daily exhibitions. h
 the afternoons I used to loaf around tn grounds and watch the various scenes o | activity.
 l On one of my rounds I was startle,
 by pistol report and saw crowd rush , ing toward tent where the Indians wer camped I got to see a marvellous per , formance in the way of watching an in . furiated, weather beaten scout with gul . ! ir ho oil l.
 cussed out the whole creation, for an son of gun to step forward and ow
 up to having lent given. or laid a pistt in the way of his half-breed son of ten
 der years.
 It seemed to me that murder wa
 about to be done The throng stood ia.
 cinated but inactive. Then I witnesse something out of the unusual, for u
 strolled Buck Taylor, the noted bronch
 buster. and, taking in the situation, i , a leisurely drawl, asked what was tt
 matter. This set the old scout to doin
 a war dance. Buck sympathized an quietly intimated that whoever had bee guilty of such an imprudent act d, 
 os
 Then he told the outraged father r !'pitch the pistol out in the grass and da, the guilty man to pick 1t up and theret confess to his wrongdoing. It was D happy idea for the old man. immediate he threw the gun out into an open spac and Buck walked over and got hold X it and in a most insinuating but unmi takable way told the irate father to 2 y in his tent or he would shoot him fl of holes, and it worked like a charm. s Now, Vanderbilt has at it's very doc
 one of the most attractive play groun, g in the country in Centennial park. 4 f through the buildings I realized that t has been several years since I ha, . visited the university, but at the time . last looked on the grounds and walk, + was not only a college with a past, b. j. with future, and I was proud to ha d once studied within its halls. = It was worthy cause preached at u
 banquet on Tuesday evening, the bull
 ing of a memorial hall to cost $250. .oOO 2 movement started by the alumni. Mas J. vile has already contributed $110ooo. a, n the rest of the country is asked to raj
 the remainder. It is to be built in hon ', of the 2500 Vanderbilt men who saw ser IS ice in the world war. and many of who
 died to perpetuate the things for whi ,r | their bel0ved alma mater stoc<1s