The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
AUBURN INSTITUTE
 FORMALLY OPENED
Entire Faculty Joins In Extend ing Welcome to Hundreds
 of Students

Auburn, September Especial )-For- Institute took place yesterday when 6o or 700 students filled Langdon hall to ca- pacity to hear themselves welcomed to Auburn in a most effective manner by the entire faculty of the institution grouped upon the platform and headed by President Spright Dowell.
 It was a most suspicious opening, and the address of the new President filled with inspiration, enthusiasm and good sense, was warmly received. A strong note of optimism and confidence in the future was dominant throughout as he urged ths students to 'open their hearts to the ~A1--sS @sirit.'
 'No one can define just what that spirit is-intangible. indescribable, but we know that it exists; you have felt it; you have seen the results of it's work in sports, in class room and in student relations" he said. It is the sum total Of all that has gone before, the best thought, the noblest ideals, the highest aspirations of presi- dents, faculties and all who have labored to make this college great in the past. It
  bodying the prayers of women, the aspi- rations of men and the ideals of youth a spirit that will take the institution forward to still greater heights than ever before.
 And this spirit charges you students with solemn obligation also. The trus- tees cannot run this institution success fully unaided. Neither can the faculty the alumni nor the student body. It takes the united cooperation of all these forceS. with a fine determination to make The good better and the better best. We do not want to lord it over you, and we propose to be your friends. and we also propose that you shall be our friend. We will meet you at all times half way, in an effort to make this an example to in. stitutions everywhere. And so in the name of the faculty, the alumni, the trus- tees and the state of Alabama l bid you welcome today and through all the days to come"
 Mike Donahue the popular coach, was next on the programme, following a song and some college yells led by AL bert Thomas.
 'I've just returned from a trip through the east and back with my family, one that fills the big car to overflowing, and all the way the pennant Auburn has flung its challenge to the country side. The Auburn spirit of which the president I there and back. As an Illustration, on one of those narrow roads in the Ale- ghanies, with mountain on one side and sheer drop of three or four miles on the other, met another car filled with men, mine with children and lock- ing more like a callaboose. I know l wasn't going back, and they saId the same. There wasn't room, to pass or turn. and so I looked them straight in the eye and said, I'm coming on; you wait your selves' and leaned down and turned on the gas When I glanced up they were nearly out of sight.
 Tn athletics, like all other things, you get out what you put in. Here all will be treated alike. Our athletic system is on the student body, not on past records made somewhere else. Auburn spirit means hard fighting and clean play. The athletic men in the college are expected to be spertsmanlike in all their other re-