Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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Dr. Bradford Knapp, President

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The Board of Trustees His Excellency Governor Bibb Graves, President, Ex-officio Hon. R. E. Tidwell, State Superintendent of Education, Ex-officio Hon. C. S. McDowell............................................................Eufaula Dr. Victor Hanson ... . Birmingham Dr. W. H. Oates.................................................................Mobile Colonel T. I). Sam ford........................................................Opelika Hon. P. S. Haley............................................................ Oak man Judce H. D. Mbrrili...........................................................Anniston Hon. Harry Herzfeld . . . Alexander City Hon. Oliver R. Hood............................................................Gadsden Governor Charles Henderson........................................................Troy Hon. J. A. Rogers..........................................................Gainesville Hon. C. W. Ashcraft...........................................................Florence Mr. B. L. Shi, secretary........................................................Auburn The Executive Council Dr. Bradford Knapp Dean George Petrie Dean B. B. Ross Dean J. J. Wilmore Mr. L. N. Duncan Dean J. W. Scott Mr. J. V. Brown-Prof. M. T. Fullan Dean C. A. Cary Dean Zebulon Judd Prof. B. R. Siiowalter Dean M. J. Funchkss Dean Zoe Dobbs Prof. B. I.. Shi Major J. T. Kennedy Miss Louise Glanton Dean F. C. Biggin 3i

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w'Aub urn. The Cornerstone NSTITl TIONS are created for high purposes; they have a subtle, an almost intangible influence upon the lives of the State. To Auburn have come men who have struggled up life’s pathway to the very highest and most honorable positions. Auburn is partly the product of the lives of those who have lived and wrought here, its faculties, its students. In the Alma Mater song we sing these words: Adding laurels to thy fame Enshrined so dear” and then these others: ''Thy sacred trust we’ll bear with us The ages through The laurels we are adding and the trust we bear are surely not just because of our education and the added earning capacity we have developed in college. Arc they not tied up with ideals, with devotion to things which we love, with the finer, higher, better sentiments which rightfully are the products of real education and real refinement? Whether we go out with a training in engineering or agriculture, in science or art, in business, in education or a profession, we must carry away something more than that which we get from classroom and laboratory. May these not be the three thoughts uppermost in our adding “laurels” and “bearing that sacred trust”? To build here lives of moral and spiritual worth, dependable lives intent upon adding to the sum total of good there is in the world; To bear to the world trained, useful, industrious lives fitted to perform worthwhile tasks in a busy world ; To make those lives serve the world well, not selfishly, but broadly, courageously, worthily. If these standards represent “Auburn,” the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, our Alma Mater, the laurels will be there and the sacred trust will be preserved. “Auburn” must be a producer of producers but a producer of spirit as well, the “Cornerstone” of a greater Alabama and therefore a greater America. 33