The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-12
R. c. B. GLENN'S BIBLE CLASS

| teachers in the public schools enroll ment; what with visiting the various schools and with the hardest sort of work his visiting list constantly in work ing order, try as he may, he only gets around to each school once every two months with his "at homes'' for his teachers every afternoon. when they tura tables and visit him, surely none could find a more busy life than that led by this beloved teacher.
 And the reason 1 can turn out so much work is because 1 love to teach.' Dr. Glenn told me the other day after one of his strenuous ''full-up" days when he hadn't had one moment to himself ex- cept the lunch hour, from o'clock un- til B. T miss the school room; 1 just naturally love to teach; 1 will never be- come quite use to the position I occupy, for the actual teaching is what I really like. l often, in my visiting of tle schools, take the teachers place for a Few minutes, and get back to my old position-just because l dearly love to teach.
 T hadn't the slightest idea of ever be- in a teacher either when 1 was grow ing up, Dr. Glenn continued. T went to Auburn where my father for 50 years was connected with the Alabama Poly college boys study. Dr. William Leroy Brown was then president of Auburn and to my way of thinking he was one of the most brilliant educators the south has ever known, and when I graduated he did me the honor of making me his secretary"
 q am making this little prelude so you can understand the accident which led me to my vocation, pr. Glenn said. "Dr. Brown was ill, and went away, went up to French Lick for a brief respite from work; he left me in charge of the af- fairs of the president of Auburn while he was away. In the meantime agri- cultural colleges were being established in Alabama-nine of them-and I re- ceiyed from Col. Nick Stallworth of Evergreen, where the newest school was about to be opened, a communication for Dr. Broun, asking him to be present at a meeting of the board of the new CO., lege the president of Auburn at the time being aa ex-officio member
 "To make a long story short" Dr. Glenn Dr. Broun in his absence at the con- ference of the board, and to my amaze ment during the conference I was hon ored with the presidency of the Agricul- tural College. Afterward I went back to my hotel and began to think about the tremendous responsibility l had assumed was so burdened with it that l went back the next day and told the board frankly that l knew nothing whatever about agriculture, and felt entirely un- fit for the position. 1 shall never forget one of the trustees asking me the ques- ton: Well. didn't you go to colege? Yes, I replied, but I didn't study ag- riculture; 1 studied Latin and Greek and mathematics and. You don't mean to tell us that you don't know which end of a horse goes toward the blow, do you2 he questioned. l frankly confessed that
 
 cause of my very frankness-they insist ed upon my accepting the presidency of the Agricultural College. which I did" Later went to Harvard, Dr. Glenn said, and I shall never forget the feel ing that I had in that big eastern col lege where the only person I ever heard of was William Garrott Brown, who was librarian there at the time. He was very kind to me, by the way, and l en- joyed his friendship more than I can say"
 Then I went back to the Agricultural College at Evergreen Dr. Green con- tinued. where 1 remained for one year and Dr. Phillips invited me to come to Birmingham. accepted the invitation