The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-13
WASHINGTON & LEE. PRESIDENT SPENDS DAY IN THIS CITY
Dr. Smith Touring South In h. tereSt of Lee Memorial Fund. Greater Endowment for Fa-
 nous University Sought

Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, president of Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va, spent yesterday in Birmingham visiting the alumni and friends of the institution and in awakening interest for the Lee Me morial fund for the university.
 He is making an extended visit through the southern states from Virginia to Texas. Another purpose of his visit is to secure two professors for the depart ment of engineering pr. Smith came to Birmingham from Atlanta. where he held conference with the Daughters of the Confederacy in the interest of the Lee memorial fund.
 Dr. smith stated that Birmingham was one of the main Washington and Lee centers of the south, and that there were about F students from Birmingham in the college at the present time. He left Birmingham last night for New Orleans, where he will spend Monday Then he will go to Houston, Tex, and will prob ably complete his trip in that state dur ing the next few days.
 SPEAKS OF FUND
 In speaking of the memorial fund, Dr. Smith said;
 "The general purpose of the Lee me- n.orial is to perpetuate through all fu- ture generations the name and influence and ideals of General Lee, who. after giv- ing five years of his life and becoming one of the greatest soldiers in the world, gave himself to Washington university and thus enriched it forever.
 "The first object of the memorial fund is to enable the university to meet it's enlarging opportunities and become more and more worthy of it's great name and lofty lineage. Northern admirers have all ready contributed $l00000 as their tribute to his matchless character, and have promised $30O000 more if the south will do it's part.
 The second object of the memorial fund is the sacred task of enlarging ana dignifying the Lee chapel and mausoleum and furnishing it for all time with a suitable custodian, that the stream or reverent pilgrims to the souths most sacred shrine, already numbering over 900 each month, may be suitably wei comed and instructed
 ",The third object of the Lee memorial fund is the endowment and equipment of the Lee memorial school of civil and highway engineering. This was founded by General Lee himself an accomplished engineer. that his institution might do its part i'll rebuilding the devastated south.
 RE-ESTABLISHES CHAIR
 "The fourth object of the memorial fund is the re-establishment and endow- ment of the Lee memorial chair of jour nalism As all students of the history of journalism know, the first recogni- tion of Journalism as learned profess sion originated with General Lee and the first school of journalism was founded by him and his trustees in 1869. almost 5U years ahead of the times.
 ''It is planned to re-establish and endow the Robert F. Lee chair of Journalism to honor it's journalism as one of the learned professions, that from his home and tomb and institution there may issue a stream of trained journalists to lead the public opinion of the south and Of the nation along the lofty paths of his own broad-minded and unselfish patriot ism ''