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n ANNIVinSAK f NUTIHEn /V m, /■T' -JJ ]-* , u/f Ik 1 nCr '— J| (library) IN . THE STATgJ? VOL UM L. TWO. KUMVL R ONE. NINE HUNtim COLLEGE VOIS I 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 r 1.-' ' *■ I 8- < / I•\ is •' 13r*. V- M‘ Bi. ar -» tSi .at v j! yl I! PIS ■ A u "WWJ? Mg.Uf" Main "Building Mississippi ft. & M. College. 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 (Continued on page 5). LWO DOLLARS A YEAR. FIVE CENTS A COPY. 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