The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-11
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1922

DAl OhDA / INV ENID
heaven upon earth TO have a mans
mind move in charity, rest in provi-
dence and turn upon poles OF truth.
He again says that the smallest
actual good is better than the most
magnificent promises of impossible
Titles.
"The way Of fortune is like the
milky way in the sky, which Is
meeting of q number of small stars.
not seen asunder but giving light
together. Gentlemen of this faculty.
It is your function TO go into this
milky way and take the individual
microcosms that constitute this won
derful assembly and out of it make
splendid planets Yes, even fixed
stars that viii make systems of
their own. In other words. by some
educational process, simple and
natural, even surprising to all
parties concerned, that you arouse
them consciousness OF a higher life
than any of you could suspect; con-
vince them that n true life should
bear no comparison whatever to a
soap bubble.
wisdom of Great Roman
Marcus Aurelius says Doth thou
not sec the little plants, the little
birds, the ants, the spA%Ns, the bees
working together to ia in order
their several parts OF tnS universe,
and are thou willing to do the work
of a human being and doth thou not
| make haste to do that which is ac-
cording to thy nature 1t is the
idea of education that the evolution
of the good in the universe where bee
I and bird, flower and fruit, men and
women, are vehicles of the universal
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universal goodness and eternal i'm
! provement and he iikens our work
! TO that of the grapevine, which
bears its fruit and then without
| stopping for praise or blame, pre-
j pares for new bearing, the natural
/ object and reward of existence.
! The highest possible efficiency
for man is that efficiency which
| the Methodist church ascribes to its
/ members, that 1t is the duty of every
one to give to the support CT every
benevolenee, and that like first
class strain of a COW, the more they
| blesses them that way.
A Generous Benefactor
Brock Musgrove, already known
for many generous deeds in Who's
Who, your $4,000 was beautifully
given and all that you lack is a
wife who could have Joined you in
giving another $4,000 and we hope
YOU will get her.
My friend the Tallapeosa Hill
Billy-Ben Russell. man who from
sheer pluck, sCme people would say
luck, but not so, but from possibili-
ties which we all believe are car
ried in the hearts of men, fructified
fortune from the hardest condi-
tons. in contributing $4,000 to the
upbuilding of the universitys future
welfare, the future educational prob
lens of Alabama. has demonstrated
Just what a bareft OF boy from the
Alabama hills can grow into.
There are many others in their
contributions to the university build
ing fund, in amounts running from
dollars into thousands and possibly
many of the dollars like the Widows
mite, who deserve especial cemmen-
dalton, but all who contribute to this
great fund, who are in sympathy and
help with the upbuilding of this.
one of the greatest institutions of
the state deserve credit in having
realized the university's need of
universal help and we trust in max
ing all OF them Who's Who that their
kind viii multiply and become as
the seed pre- missed Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob.
Great Committee
The alumni committee carried the
nniversity's just claim to every sec
ton, to every citizen. 1t is true.
that laurel crowns are no longer in
vogue, but you deserve the thanks
not only of this generation but of
generations to come and certainly
you are eligible to Alabama's Blue
Book.
Footballs Contribution
Last but not least, that great team
from Your midst who have Pennsyl-
vania's scalp on the topmost staff
OF your athletic field, you have
brought great joy not only to the
university but to every a1umnus and
10 every citizen Of the state. 1t un-
questionably required greater prac-
tice. hardening of the muscles and
quickening of the mind. We are
glad to place the Olympic wreath on
your brow Speaking for ALL of us
faculty and state, let me. with ref
erence to the great work to be done
here by everybody. warn you that no
citizen of Alabama ever should have
right to say as the vessel OF CLAY
said to the potter, why hast thou
made me thus?'
Education and thu bible,
Gentle men of the university: 1t
has been more than ihtimated that in
recent decades the general tendency
OF university teaching has been athe-
istic. All my life / have cen strong
believer In the Bible. not pretending
to understand all OF II just like I do
not understand all the things that
science Is developing, and neither
does the scientist. But | wish to
go on record that those things which
tn, Bible. Christian RI igion st ma for.
are far before antiquity--that is
eternity, that II g God himself.
Christ in -nn's Life
Bishop Wilmer in quoting a per-