University Military School - Cadet Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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sf 'mf Q If-v leave footprints in keeping with the training in a school such as U. M. S.? i 4 i ' A Looking back over forty years of life since my gradua- tion, I can put my finger on many crucial decisions, vitally affecting my course of action, which were definitely in- fluenced- by U. M. S. training during my formative years. Other graduates cannot but say the same, I know. A U. M. S. graduate leaves that school with a 'g'ood'n8me. and if he is loyal to its training' and tradition, -he holds to that above all else. Today, as in 19QQ, and -as been true through its fifty successful years, are few,-.who sell their U. M. S. birthright for a mess pottage. The Staff wishesivi express its gratitude' to Wallace Par X the Class of 1903 for this tribute to vi S.

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Jzchzevenzenr In ten short years Dr. Julius T. Wright's character and ability had already won for U. M. S., when I graduated in 1903, national recognition for scholarship standards and for the character of its graduates. Wide open doors and -an unquestioning welcome awaited a graduate, not alone in our state universities, but farther afield in such great institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, the Univer- sity of Missouri, and many others. The graduate who chose the business world found the uniform which in school days had opened doors socially into the homes of -all the finest of our old Mobile families still lived in spirit, in the think- ing of Mobile's businessmen, as an emblem of character and sturdiness and ability: they got jobs and were given to understand an extra measure was expected of them. Only on graduation could a student realize fully what Dr, Wright had done to him and for him. He remembered the example Dr. Wright set of highest personal life stand- ards, sternly lived up to: the daily morning talksg the in- sistence on grades in studies and the grind week in and week out, with Saturdays for the making up of 'deficientsf Such memories finally made clear the eternal worthwhile- ness of it all. And the fruit of such years resulted in a loyalty which dies only when the Great Call comes. In my library I have two books given me by Mrs. Wright after Dr. Wright's death. They are his personal copies of the American Revised Bible and the famous essays of Bore- ham, in his Bunch of Everl-astings, on Bible texts which meant most in building the characters of such great his- torical figures as Martin Luther, Sir Walter Scott, Oliver Cromwell, and others. Pencil scoring by Dr. Wright keys the thoughts which appealed to himg and I can picture him a bit after four o'clock in the morning-for that is when he started his work for the day-giving first thought to the preparation of his daily character-building talk, with the Bible and such books as Boreham's before him. Can we wonder that through the years the graduates of such a school have been preponderantly men this community and other communities have found could be trusted to deal squarely, to show above the average intelligence, and to

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