The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-09
Vice Chancellor of South's
University Speaks to
Large Congregation at
Christ Church.
NOTABLE HISTORY
COLLEGE RELATED
Brilliant Minds in National
Affairs Are Pointed to AS
Product of Sewanee Uni
versity. !

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The congregations of Christ Church
and St. Katherine's parish were ad-
dressed by Bishop A. w. Knight. at
II o'clock Sunday, when union Sch
vice drew together members of both
parishes. to hear the vice chancellor
of the University of the south, Sewa-
nee, Tenn, who spoke of education in
general an dthe needs of the church
school in particular.
Bishop knight has been vice chan
cc1Ior of the University of the South
| for the past five years, during which
time the attendance has been almost
doubied. and the percentage of sons
fro.u church families greatly increased.
He wao in Pensacola in the interest
of tho church drive. to raise fund of
one million dollars.
The University at Sewanee is one
of three colleges administered under
the direction of the Episcopal church,
and ranks in scholarship with Oxford
| University. in England. which it's
founders in the United States took as
their pattern, when in 1858 they un-
dertook to found a great American
university on the Cumberland plateau.
According to the university charter
not only the college but the town, is
| under the management of the uni
versity. which has municipal and po-
I lice control of the university town, the
| history of which is unique in college
| annals.
! At the time that the college had it's
| inception nearly five million dollars
had been raised as an endowment fund.
But the civil war swept away the vast
| amount of money and put an end to
plans for the university for the time
being. In 1858 the men whose hearts
were still in this work, and whose
/ ideals pointed TO a school of high
| Christian, as well as scholastic stan
dards, once more bent their efforts to
the building up OF this great school,
! md it was opened on the Cumberland
1 plateau, without a single building and
! less than a dozen students. several of
| whom were from Pensacola.
| The spirit of these pioneers in church
education had survived the stress of
war, and the college has grown until
the property now has a monetary val
|
! it's standard is such as to rank the
| men who are graduated from the uni
versity with those of Oxford and Cam
bridge, Harvard and Yale, and other
great eastern universities.
| In calling attention to the many men
| who have gone out from Sewanee as
leaders in the worlds work. Bishop
knight cited a number of men whose
achievements have been notable and
who are standard bearers in all lines
of endeavor.
Bishop Knight spends his summers
in the Berkshires, and told of an in
stance some years ago when he met
two men, one a graduate OF Harvard
and the other from Yale, who referred
to Sewanee as provincial.
Bishop Knight said: Il replied to
them. Yes. Sewanee may be provir1-
cial. But did II ever occur to you to
consider the number OF men who are
leaders of thought in the east who are
Sewanee men?
The two newspapers which are most
/ quoted in New England are the Bos-
ton Transcript and the Springfield Re-
publican. The editor of the Boston
Transcript at that time was an alum
nus of the University of the South,
field Republican was also from Sewa
nee. The editor of the New York Eve
ming Post was a Sewanee man; Past
Surgeon General Gorgas. who has TAX
en- the fangs from yellow fever, is
graduate OF Sewanee and Kirby Smith
whose work in Serbia in controlling
typhus, and whose discoveries and
methods have revolutionized the treat
ment of that disease, is from Sewanee.' -
Bishop knight also called attention
to the fact that Archie Butt, who was
for so long private secretary to Roose-
welt. and who was lost the Titanic.
| and Grayson, secretary to Taft and
Wilson, were both Sewanee men, and
referred to many others whose work
has shown them to be especially fitted
to cope with large problems, because
of their well-rounded training at the
university.
He spoke Of the wonderful work of
the men Of Sewanee during the great
war, and particularly OF the unit of 36
just returned from France, and dec
GRATED by the French and American
| governments