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The Georgia National Bank
Of Athens. Capital $100,000.
Offers to depositors every facility theb
bounces, business and responsibility
warrant.
ATHENS, GA., . WEDNESDAY "MORNING, ^TUNE 17, 1903.
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ESTABLISHED 1832.
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BY HON. W. M. HOWARD
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Ilumni Oration at Chapel One of the Best Ever Heard
4 in Athens. Orator Was Overwhelmed With Con
gratulations. Spoke of Necessity for More
Character in American Civilization.
VX 4 *
Thf crouDing feature' of yrstetday’s
|rx r.;i a* the Uttitewitr of Geor
tia vat tho oration of Hon William M.
Hivmri. <i i gn ni m 'urn thr 8th dis
trict, in It* national house i f rt-preitu-
tati ea, v ho ppoke as the n presentativa
of rhi' Alumni stewy
Mr Howard bail as his sm j ct “Tha
Necessity for Morn Characrrr in the De
velopment of Am* ricau Civilization than
cf Brains ” This is neither t n e ezaut
nor phi o'tirhiosl stati-rn'nt of (he fact,
hn* ,r liioWru niy purpnso if iliis state-
m yiair.pis ihe attention sufficiently
to snpg- st m mt'ihii g or n o irnth it
contains. The d-velopnirnt of ihe in
tellectual nature d e |uot neoesfanly de
velop the moral nature, li-nce wo are
brought to a consideration of the part to
be taken by education as a faotor in the
problem, and more miuctely of the
kinds of education best smted for the
purpose You educate the intellect
you train tbe morals, and strengthened
by enervation. Tbeobserratiou of ants,
bees, the stats, lilies, crystals or mol
lusk, these are not the best means bat
they largely served Aristot'eand Raskin.
For the moral factors yon need no more
than the commandments to the
Jews, or the Sermon on tbe Uonut to
the Gentilrs, these precepts gave tne
world Rebecca and Banyan Bnt if
prejudice rr ject these sources of precept,
go to the prison of Socrate9 and hear
tbe cqllrqoy with Crito and remain till
the jailer with tears in bis eyes, bands
Socrates tbe cap, and if yon have been
dented the blessings of seeing a good
mao live watch a good man die.
The school for this education is open
from pole to pole, tbe books that con
tain it are given away, and for the con
venience of memory it has been com
life nnd say whether or not there
truth in the demand for more chnrrcter
lo -■ me of the relations of life. Go into
a store in onr country and make a pur
chase and when the clerk who serves von
opens the cash drawer to drptsit what
yon have paid him, a bell rings. Get
on a street car and the conductor takes
yonr fare, rings a bell, recording the
amount of fare collected. Receive
check and the amount in flgn-es is usu
ally punal.td iuto the paper. Wa’k into
a bank and men pcrp. through iron bars
at you. No man is sDrp.-isi d by it dci
prote=ts against it. Yet the iron tongne
of the cash drawer bell cries thief, i h
clangor of the car dial cries thief, the
click of the vault lock cries thief, the
challenge is universal to the honesty cf
men. It is one of the many phenomena
tending to show the trend of onr civili
zation and to indicate the application ot
moral remedies for its cure.
Mr. Howard then went into an elabo
rate review cf the many frands in bcBi*
ness life and in government affairs, and
con tend td that tbe only way in which
they might be eradicated was through
the elevation of the character of the
people, Continuing, he said :
“Any government in which character
is developed may confidently hope to
solve any problem that rapidly changing
events may present. National problems
are made by men, they do not originate
beyond the bounds of the head or tbe
heart and they never b< come pressing
until they have been widely adopted
and the intelligence of the country is
alway* nd< qaate to their comprehen
sion ; when comprehended the next step
is action, wise action, and wise action is
right action I am not impractical
ennugh to cintend that right action can
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GEORGIA ALUMNI
MET YESTERDAY
Hon: James H. Eckles, of Chicago, Will be Next Com
mencement Orator. Society Sends Letter of Con
gratulation to Its Oldest Member, Dr. Archelus.
H. Mitchell. Endowment Fund Increases.
HON. WILLIAM M. HOWARD,
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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
QUESTION IS -SETTLED
pressed into a sem tnoe: “Do untootlurs j bp applied always in its entirety. But
ns you would that they do onto you.” | if the first s'ep be rightly taken the next
It is well to remember that the most is easy. It is difti alt to correct error,
to be hoped from a"y system of ednea- hot rot so difficult to follow op right,
lion in any country, is the cultivation of ] Right lias a way of mioo’hiug its own
p.tn as virtue brings its own reward.
The pr**at value of character in the prob
lent of civilization lies in the fact that
it deals with the individual, it devel
ops in the man. is his own, and cannot
he taken from him by any form cr de
famation. O’ intellectual power he
needs only enough to see his own prejo-
bucIi faculty as the man has. We are '
mi t f ice to face with the fact that all
systems can only polish and strengthen
such faculties as it bad. No schcol or
system was ever yet able to define
w.iat a genius is; the world sometimes
knows one when it sees it and some-
times not. It is said that Shakespeare
was not known to bo a genius by bi- , dices, that means to distinguish right
own generation. While they might from wrong in himself, because unless a
have thought at Edinburgh that Borns! man can know when he is himself riRbt
w.is. and Carlyle may have known tbe j ho can never know, with oertainty, that
spark by aflinitv during the short Tiei'' another is He mn“t be able to lift the
ns revenne rolb ctor, it is true that his ! veil of Belt love from his eyes or he will
habits so blinded the eyes of his own I never see another aright. A goad man
ptople that ho was not known at his j needs si mpathy and gives sympathy,
worth. The Athenians pnt Socrates to therein he differs from a selfish one
di nth for thoagbts that have made him 1 The selfish man likes it, bat cannot give
lmmoital One thing we know, genius j it, ion can command the admiration
is it tamable. The fact that they are of men with the Intellect, bnt not their
The board of trustees at their session
yesterday morning settled the matter of
the states of the University PreBs, a
corporation doing business on tbe cam-
pas about which there has been more or
less comment in the past few months
relative to their coming into competition
with other job printing offices in Ath
ens. The trustees took the fallowing
action on this matter;
“That the tender of the Press at par
(which tender Is repeated in a communi
cation banded to the committee and
submitted with this report) be consid
ered at tbe next annual meeting of the
board should the board then have funds
for the purpose and should then regard
the ownership of the Press as desirable.
“That until this purchase a reasonable
rent be charged the Press for the use of
the rooms ocsnptcd.
“That we commend the polioy of not
seeking outside, or commercial, work,
by the managers of the Press and tnink
it expendient that, so far as practicable,
tbe Press avoid competition with other
printing establishments as to snch
work.”
F.-om the above action of the trnstces
it will be seen; that In substance tbe con
tention of The Banner has been sustain
ed.
In the first plaoe the trustees express
their willingness to buy out the Press
asscouaaftratyare on hand for that
purpose. This is oue of the solutions
suggested by jltie Banner.'
In the 8‘oor.dmlace the Press is to be
ohargeifi isnflft Which Is 'manifestly
oorrecc - •’ .
Iu the third place, tbe trances, while
not absolutely prohibiting the Press
from taking commercial work, have
said in mi!d, tievc-rtbelist positive termB,
that they disapprove of such and that
in to far aa it may be practicable it is to
be avoided.
It is the understanding of the trus
tees that only such ontside work as can
not be done iu Athens and will not bring
the Press into competition with the
printing establishments of this city is to
be done by the Press.
The Banner is satisfied with the de
cision of the trustees and so far as this
paper is concerned the matter can rest.
It is to be hoped that nothing in the fu
ture will arrise to reopen this question.
born and not made, u that they obey no
law of century or country, shows that
civilization aud all of its instrnmentali
ties iunst deal with averages, that the
past has prodnoed minds as strong as the
present We should rscognizs the troth
that intellectual power is as nearly a
fixed quantity as physical power, that
tho great possibility of advancing man
in civilization is to raise the level of the
mass in its moral nature.
The advancement will consist in ele-
va'irg the masses of humanity by a
wider distribution of moral leaven, and
maintaining that education In its best
■ease is a means to an end. The nonrish-
mot of the sonl rather than the body, the
preparation of men for their duties to
government, where they are the law
makers, thatthey make wise ones, w here
they obey the laws that they obey wisely
That he is a link in one long chain of
humanity, that be owes to its preserva
tion iu highest dmy and care to strength
en rather than to weaken. Let ns ex
amine some of the conditions of evtry
love. Yonr neighbor, if be is a selfish
man, will not be neighborly unless yon
entice him with sympathy. If yon can
not make yonr neighbor truly neighbor
ly yon will never make the stranger so.
If the pebble cast into the lake does not
wave the water where it enters there
will be no wavelets beyond. Every
man’s heart has th- qnality of vibration
if o ily you can set iu motion, and who
ever touches it with sympathy willcatoh
what melody his soul has. Sympathy
is the voice, the hand of love, and love
is the beatitude of unselfishness Du
not be mi9gnided about these terms,
they aro no - too strong or too weak,
friendship is no substitute for them bnt
is only a relation between two persons
which facilitates the reoeiving and tbe
giving of sympathy.
“Every good man has the opportunity
of the greatest usefulness and herein
lie* tbe hopefulness cf character in onr
civilisation.
“Let mo anote from an Englishman,
the friendliest observer America has
ever had. Mr. James Bryce. Writing
in his American Oommonwealtb, he
says : ‘There is a street in Florence on
which stand stutnes of famous Floren
tines of the fourteenth and fifteenth
csnturies. Dante, Giotto, Petraroh,
Boccoccio, Ghiberti, Machiavelli, Michael
Angelo and others soaroely less illustri
ous. all natives of tbs little oity which
in their days had nerer a population ol
more than 70.000 aonla. Why did the
sacoession of greatness stop with the be
ginning of the sixteenth century and
baa never been resumed? These ques
tions substantially arise in the mind in
reading the history of other oonntries.
Why did Englaod produce no first rate
poet in the two stirring centuries be
tween Obaucer and Shakespeare, and
again in the century and a half between
Milton's birth and Wordsworth? Why
have epochs of comparative sterility
more than once fallen upon France and
Germany ? Why does tho soepter of in
tellectual and artistic leadership pasB
now to one great nation, now to another,
inconstant and unpredictable as are the
shiftiug winds?
“These questions touoh the deepest
and most oomplex problems of history
and neither historian nor physiologist
has yet been able to throw any real
light upon them. Now then to the
young man who stands upon the thresh
old ot life and In the buoyance of his
yontb feels the thrill of mighty endeavor
tingling In his blood. If perohanoe
yours is not the lot of genius should yon
count life a disappointment and your
self a failure? If you are not to be
great you may be useful You cannot
make ycnrself great, you cannot add one
onbit to your height bnt the possibilities
ot usefulness are unlimited in all the
walks of life. Nobody is ever iu any
body else’s way in being good and in
doing good. Do not despise the virtue
Being good in the bud, doing good in
flower, which is put forth from the tree
of character. Water its roots with
truth and the sweet odors of justice will
exbale from the bloom, for justice is
truth in action. Tended with unselfish
ness and the heart will suffuse it with
the richest tints of love, guaid it with
hdelity and it will endure as tho cedars
of Lebanon."
IHE ATHENS GUARDS
WERE INSPECTED
The Athens Guards were inspected
last night by an officer of the United
States vrmy. and the boys passed an ex
cellent inspection, receiving the praise
of the inspecting officer.
On the campuB the Guards had a skir
mish drill that was witnessed by hun
dreds of the citizens and visitors
The firing of blank cartridges was of
snch a thunderous nature that maDy
people uptown thought the town was
being blown np with dynamite.
Count the dot*.
The Alumni society of the University
of Georgia held a large and enthnsias-
tio meeeting yesterday morning in the
Phi Kappa hall on the campus whioh
was presided over by Hon. P. W. Mel-
drim, of Savannah, who for • number
of years has been president of the soci
ety.
The report of Mr. Thomas N. Den
mark, of Savannah, chairman of the
committee on alnmni endowment fund,
was read and reoeived with applanse
Tbe report showed that 478 persons
nave contributed to the fond, that the
total amount subscribed is $18 786, of
whioh amount-' over $23,000 has been
paid in and invested, pending the matu
rity of the entire fund two years henoe.
The committee was ot the opinion that
everything would be in shape d year
hence for the subscribers to determine
what shall be done with the fnnd. The
prevailing sentiment among the alumni
favors the ereotion ot a handsome alum
ni hall on the oampos.
President Meldrim.in a few well-ohoa-
en remarks took occasion to lmform the
society that it would be a nice thing to
increase tbe fund to an even $50,000.
Following Mr. Meldrim’s remarks a $50
subscription was given Mr. Hirsoh, one
of tbe recent alnmni, and then Judge
Logan E. Bleckley took the floor. He
said that the appeal of the president to
the yonth In the meeting fell with great
foroe npon^his mind and that hehad the
impoTse tonspondto-the appeal. . Ha
said that he was a mixture of two ages,
early and late, and that he felt bound
to equal the subscription of his young
friend who had jnst preceded him, and
to go him $60 better therefore he took
pleasure in snbscribing $100. M. M.
Hirsoh then subscribed $50,S. H. Sibley,
of Union Point, $50; F. R. Howard, of
Atlanta, $25; O. H. Brand, of Athens,
$25—making a total of $300 subscribed
at the meeting this morning.
The committee to mamean orator and
two alternates for the next alnmni day,
consisting of Messrs Pleasant A. Sto
vall, Harry Hodgson and J. H. Walker,
reported as follows;
Orator—Hon James. H. Eokles.of Chi-
oago.
1st Altermate—Hon. Wm. H. Flem
ing, Augusta.
2nd Alternate—Hon. W. G. Brantley.
Blackshear.
Dnrirg the course of a few remarks
made by Chancellor Hill he anDoonced
that he had invited Hon. Hamilton
Wright Mabie to deliver the baccalau
reate address at tbe commencement next
year, also that it was probable that there
wonld in the fntnre be no address de
livered before the literary sooieties of the
University on account of the desire 10
shorten the commencement exercises es
much as possible. The report of the
committee, was adopted and the alnmni
orator and alternates for the next com
mencement were named as recommended
by the committee.
A resolution was introduced by Chan
cellor Hill and was carried unanimously
that it is the sense of the sooiety that
class rennioDB be held in the fntnre with
regularity and system ; that each olass
have its first reanion three years after
graduation and at intervals of ten years
thereafter. This plan In tbe judgment
of the ohancellor will bring to Athens
every year at commencement at least
fonr or five of the classes ot the Univer
sity and will be the source of much
pleasure and added enthusiasm.
The following reeolation was intro
duced by Hon. Qhaa. H. Brand of
Athens and was nnanlmonsly carried:
Whereat, Dr. Archelus H. Mitchell,
of Summerfleld, Ala., in this the nine-
sixth year of his life, is the oldest living
member ot this sooiety, and
Whereas, This oommenoement is the
seventy -fifth anniversary of bis gradua
tion from the University of Georgia;
Be it Reeolved, That the greetings
and congratulations ot this, society be,
and they are hereby tendered onr honor
ed and venerable brother in his long and
uaefnl life.
We recall with most pleasing reoolieo
tions his last visit to his alma mater; his
presence bn that occasion imparing to
all an impression of holiness and shed
ding upon all the spirit of a benedic
tion ; . i
Resolved, That the secretary of this
sooiety be requested to forward a oopy
of these resolutions to Dr. Mitchell at
his present address with assurances of
onr high regard and esteem and with
onr best wishes for his 'continued and -•
uninterested happiness.
The sooiety passed a resolution to sa*
ouro a portrait ot Dr. Mitchell to hang
upon the walls of the Phi Kappa hall.
The hoar having arrived for the ora
tion at the chapel the orator of the day
was escorted there and the meeting, pre
sided oyer by President Meldrim, was
opened with prayer by Rev. John D. ~*-Av-
Mell, after which Mr. Howard was In
troduced and made his address under
the most enthusiastic surroundings.
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the chapel the representative of the dif
ferent branch institutions of theUnlver-
sity as well as those of franklin College
and the. Btato ColledT ot Agrionlture,
and Mechanic Arta.&livered their ad-
dresses and essays, whioh were quite
meritorious.
The program was as follows:
J. P. Manley, Franklin College—The
Patriotism of Peace.
T. H. Hudson, State College of Agri
culture—Man’s Appointed Guide to
Truth.
J. B. Gamble, Law School—Trust and
Law.
W. M Fambrough, School of Techno
logy—Wireless Telegraphy.
Miss Isabella C. Jordin, State Nor
mal School—What Will She Do With
It?
Last evening at their home on the
campns Chancellor and Mrs. Walter B,
Hill gave their annnal reception at
which there were present a large num
ber of the citizens and man; distin
guished guests. The affair was one of
the most delightful social functions ever
given in Athens aud the guests were
loud in their praise of the gracious hos
pitality of Chancellor Hill and his obarm-
iog family.
Tots morning the closing exercises of
the University will be beld. Mr. E W.
Martin will deliver the valedictory for
the Senior class and the baccalaureate
address will be delivered by Dr. John
H. Finley, cf New York. Chancellor
Hill will then deliver the diplomas and
the prizes aud the commencement exer
cises for this year will come to a dose.
F.
NAMEDBYTRUSTEE5
Prof. Marion D. DoBose, of thiB oity,
has been elected as Tntor in Tentonlo
Philology and the English Langnage in
the University.
The election of Prof. DnBose to this
position has caused his many friends in
this city mnch pleasnre.
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