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REMINISCENCES He was a tall, erect, white-haired man. And the only time that I knew him was a single hour one evening when he was visiting in our home, having been an old school teacher of my mother’s. As we sat by the firelight 1 leaned forward with my face on my hands, and listened eagerly to him as he told incidents that happened to him in the civil war and also tales of my mother’s school girl life. He suddenly changed the conversation by asking me where I was attending school this year. When I told him that I was attending the University of Tennessee, he grasped my hand and said: “We arc fellow-students, for I was there a few years after the war—in ’68.” And so he began telling of the University at that time and a few incidents that happened then. When he began telling about them it seemed so real that I felt as though I was living in a time that did not belong to me. “Well, I remember,” he said “the five old buildings! There was Old College, East Col- lege and West College. Then I believe the other two buildings were residences of the pro- fessors. There was a small tower on Old College and I know that there was a man in town who thought it such an extravagant structure.When we went first to see the president he would assign us to either West College or East College. West College represented the Philo Society and East College the Chi Delta Society. I was assigned to Philo and how soon I learned to not like the Chi Delts! They hated us, too! “Let’s see—Andy Nave was my room mate. Yes, I can see Andy now pacing our room back and forth long after midnight. He was studying to go to West Point and I would often wake up in the night and sec Andy tall and stiff walking the floor and studying. There was another fellow I remember well. His name was A. Wood. We fellows nick- named him Asa for short One May Day he got a brand new buggy and took his girl for a ride. I have forgotten her name. O, yes, it was old man Hoss’s daughter. Well, I wrote a poem on ‘Asa and his Hoss and published it in the Star and Crescent, as I was editor then. But I shall never forget the night that Asa ran me all over that Hill with a big shot gun. One night we had a big speaking at the old Court House. That was where we held our debates. I was one of the representatives for Philo. I wanted to make a very good impres- sion on the town folks who would come to hear the debate, so I grew some burnsidcs. I thought that I must have made quite an impressin on the audience, when one girl ruined it all. She told some one that she would send a big white cake to that fellow who wore the burnsides if he would cut them off. As soon as the program was over one of the fellows told me what she had said. By the next day those burnsides were gone. Girls were truthful then and so in a day or so she sent me the largest white cake that I have ever seen. I guess that it was the best cake that I ever ate, too. I wonder what ever became of that girl—” Just then some one came into the room and I came from the past to the present.
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OFFICERS J. W. Caldwell, B. A., M. A., Knoxville, Tenn., President. E. T. Sanford, M. A., LL. B., Knoxville, Tenn., Vice-President for East Tennessee. Harris Brown, B. S., Gallatin, Tenn., Vice-President for Middle Tennessee. Thos. B. Collier, B. A., Memphis, Tenn., Vice-President for West Tennessee. James D. Hoskins, A. M., LL. B., Knoxville, Tenn., Secretary. J. Pike Powers, Jr., B. A., LL. B., Knoxville, Tenn., Treasurer. Alumni Orator, June 1, 1908, Major Paul E. Divine, Class 1888, Johnson City, Tenn.
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