Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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INTRODUCTION M A ' ING now attained the dignified age of six j ' ears, I look apon ni} ' - self as being mature and full) ' developed. I did not spring Minerva - like full grown from the brain of an} ' one man, but am the result of a careful and pains- taking system of development. The story of my infancy and youtli is the story of much care, much labf)r and much sacrifice on tlie part of the student body of Tulane. An examination of my paj es will con- vince the reader that I aui the result of the best effort made in tliis direction and that the training received in my earlier days has not gone amiss. JAM BALA YA, l ' H)l.

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made at the Inauguration, IJtli of March, 1901, and with gratifying success. The cere- monies were most impressive, and the speeches were of a high order of merit. The internal . dministration has been equally vigorous. A new curriculum co-ord- inates more perfectly the various courses and introduces a moderate freedom of choice into the upper years. A new adjustment of entrance requirements aligns Tulane with her sisters in the South, while special courses are opened to worthy young men of some maturity and definite purpose, but not quite fitted for the regular classes. Meantime the standards and ideals of the I ' niversity are not to be lowered, but heightened rather. In line with the general policy of popularizing the University tjy rendering it more accessible to the people and making it bulk larger in their consciousness, is the projected erection of dormitories, which shall reduce the cost of living at tlie University and expand greatly the range of its patronage. In this same spirit President Alderman mingles freely in the general life. He acts upon the noble sentiment of Terence: Homo Sum; Ilmnani Nihil a mc Aliciiiiiii f i o. His voice is often heard in public addresses. Thus far he has been chiefly busied in New Orleans, but in the course of the next year he will make a tour of the State and bring Tulane closer than ever before to the hearts and minds of the people at large. It is, and has always been, a chief concern with Dr. Alderman to establish and maintain a lively accord and earnest sympathy among all departments of the University organization, President and Administrators and Faculties and Students. He thinks of the University as of an organism, ail for each and each for all. In its councils he asserts the dominance of reason rather than of will. He is particularly proud of the hearty support of the Faculty, Students, friends and patrons of the institutions he has guided, and he attributes whatever success he has attained thus far to the intelligence and loyalty of his colleagues. President Alderman has received the degrees of D. C. L. from the University of the South (18 ' ' 6), and of LL. D. from Tulane University (1898). He is an honorary memljer of many learned societies, and his influence is especially felt in the National Educational Association, at whose meetings he is a prominent speaker. In every count y of his native State, and widely throughout the .South, for eighteen years the persuasive voice of this great Commoner of Education has been lifted up for wider educational advantages. In literature he is known by his Brikf History oi ' North Carolina, his Life of Wii,i.i. m Hoopkr , and numerous educational pamphlets and addresses. After all, it is not so much achievement as personality, not so much what a man does as what he is, that counts in the final reckoning. The individuality of President Alderman is a striking one. His mien and address are full of grace and dignity and courtliness, suggesting the skilled and masterful diplomat. His acquaintance with both men and things is rich and varied; young ill years, he is old in experience; he has traveled far and wide; he has read extensively, he has seen much, heard much, learned much, endured much; he is clear eyed, keen-eared, alert in every sense and facultv. He is preeminently an komme i ' irffijiirs, an executive, prompt, punctual, efficient, ma.stering details, and swift in the despatch of business. His oratory has a charm of its own, a rare and curious felicity of phrase, fresh, racy, unconventional, always interesting and often captivating. His intercourse with men is marked by uniform suavity, at times relaxing into genial hoiilwiiiic. As might be expected from his rapid career of uninter- rupted success, President Alderman is an optimist of the most cheerful hue, with face and foot always set forward, eagerly, but not impatiently, expectant of the future, and with no great tolerance for Jeremiahs. It would be very strange if the administration of such a man should not mark an era of great development in the history of Tulane University. With one voice New Orleans calls out to him, MACTE VIRTUTE! 10

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Board of Jldmlnistrators Charles Erasmus Fenner, B. L., LL. D., President Tames McConnell. B. L., First Vice President Robert Miller Walmsley, Second Vice President Joseph A. HiNCKS, Secretary and Treasurer Edgar Howard Farrar, M. A. Benjamin Morgan Palmer, D. I)., LL. D. Walter Robinson Staukker Cartwright Eustis Henry Ginder Joseph Chandler Morris George Quintard Whitney John Baptist Levert Valter C. Flower AsHToN Phelps Charles Janvier Walker Brainerd Spencer, A. B., B. L- Beverley Ellison Warner, a. M., D. D. Walter Denis Denegre, a. B., B. L. John Dvmond, Jr., A. B., B. L. William Wright Heard Paul Capdevielle Joseph V. Calhoin ♦ Deceased ex-Officio Governor of Louisiana . Mayor of New )rleans State Superintendent of Public Education 12