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achievement —these brave fellows are working like
beavers, and are getting ready to carve and ac
centuate, the com-
mercial and moral
future of Missis
sippi, and even the
regions beyond. It
is by far the larg
es t agricultural
a n d mechanical
college in the
South, and its his
tory reads like
one unfolding pan
orama of common
sense and progress.
The Mississippi
Agricultural an d
Mechanical Co 1-
lege was establish
ed in 1880, with
Gen. Stephen I).
Lee, notv ranking
Confederate Gen
eral of the South
and Commander
in-Chief of the
United Confeder
ate Veterans, as its
preside nt. For
nineteen y ears
this grand old
veteran, w hose
Christian charac
ter gave such em-
phasis to his ability as a leader, stood at the helm,
nursing the institution and developing it through
the troublous days of its formative life. And
then Gov. Jno. Marshall Stone, who was for twelve
years the Chief Executive of Mississippi, succeed
ed General Lee when the latter was called to be
Commissioner of the National Park and Cemetery
at Vicksburg. Governor Stone Jived only eleven
months after becoming President, being succeeded
by Dr. J. C. Hardy, who had been for ten year’s
superintendent of the Public Schools of Jackson,
• Miss.
Ideal President—“A Brother and a Father.”
The term “Ideal President” is easily coined, but
I verily believe that no state institution in America
OOK at the inspiring picture —nine
hundred college boys in one great fam
ily of splendid endeavor! That is what
the •• Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Mississippi offers to, the student
of ££ men and things” who becomes a
visitor to the campus. These young
men —from the new boy at the working
club to the senior in all his pride of
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Stirring, Scenes and Practical Work at Mississippi A. and M. College.
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 21, 19f .5
has a President to whom the expression more fitly
applies, and frankly, in all my wanderings over the
face of the earth I have rarely, if ever, seen his
equal.
He was regarded by many as too young for the
wisest leadership, for he was only thirty-five when
lie came to the President’s chair seven years ago.
But the magic and mastery of his touch soon be
gan to he felt in every department of the institu
tion. His winsome personality —his heart-touch
with the hoys, captured the student body and they
went away the first year declaring that they had
found “a father and a brother in one,” in the
person of President Hardy. He can throw his hat
higher in the air than any boy on the campus when
the A. & M. boys are playing ball with some other
college. His presidential dignity fuses and loses it
self in the ringing cheers that he gives his boys
when they need him, and then in his office and
in every place where authority must assert itself,
he rules his kingdom with “a hand of oak and a
glove of velvet—gentle to the touch, but firm
when pressed.”
Not a preacher, yet in the chapel service some
mornings he becomes a preacher of righteousness,
and by the bedside of a sick boy in the hospital
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.
he carries the benediction that only a Christian
President can carry —backed by a life before the
boys that puts every word he utters into the italics
of the skies. During the recent meeting which I
had the privilege of conducting under the auspices
of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the
College, this busy President with multiform cares
upon him (behind which he might have hidden if
he had wished, saying, ”1 would like to attend the
meetings, but the crowding duties of my office will
not allow”) —this busy main, I tell you (hear it,
College Presidents
more and more
that no man should be allowed to be the head of
an institution who does not make supreme in his
thought and his efforts the moral and spiritual
welfare of his students. President Hardy is an
Alumnus of Mississippi College at Clinton, which
has furnished so many great leaders in the Chris
tian world, and which is now enjoying great pros
perity under the leadership of Dr. W. T. Lowry.
He was a classmate of Rev. M. K. Thornton, now
pastor in Starkville, only a mile away and it is
beautiful to witness the fellowship of “Thornton”
and “Hardy,” as they prove such inspiring yoke
fellows in their work for the good of the boys.
The term “Agricultural and Mechanical Col
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who read the se,
words) never fail
ed to be up for the
sunrise pr a y e r
meeting at 6 :3 0
and in every aft
er-meeting that
followed the reg
ular evening ser
vices, he w a s
there with ready
word, with ear
nest prayer oft
en with his arm
around some pen
itent boy, trying
to lead him to the
Light, or speaking
a word of love
and warning t o
the impenitent,
and then rejoicing
with the glad
handclasp and the
££ God bless you”
when one of ££ his
boys” walked out
of spiritual dark
ness into marvel
ous light. Contact
with such an edu
cator convinces me