University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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biaiiw'il .1 t f h ..3ruvl.f13 .7 DR. EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN

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TO Gifttnitt gmhergnn gvlfmrman FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA THIS THE EIGHTEENTH VOLUME OF CORKS AND CURLS IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED i ! 1

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4s CORKS AND CURLS 'VOLXVIII Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman , l A Summary Study Of Educational Evolution. N a fast train from Atlanta, I was homeward bound a year ago last January, with several traveling companions who had been attende ing an educational conference in that city, On the car Hon. Wm. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, beckoned me to a seat opposite him, and soon we were deep in converSation. In time the talk fell upon the proposed Presidency of the University of Virginia. Finally Dr. Harris asked with intelligent interest, ii Well. what do you want a president for? ii At some length I dwelt upon the main advantages as I saw them; wise and enthusiastic leadership of the students, coordinationiand conservation of the faculty forces, consistent primacy in plans and policies for the University's good, the democratization of the Uni- versity without loss of its birthright of aristocratic origin and history, the identifi- , , L cation of the University with other educational movements, the representation of f the University away from home, and possibly the attraction of comely beneficences. L He heard me with flattering patience, and with surprising promptness ejaculated; Ll All that you have said points with both hands t1 recall his phrasel to one man. Astonished at the readiness with which he reached a conclusion that then seemed so far away from our Board of Visitors, I asked with expectancy. LL Who? ii ti Dr. Alderman of Tulane? It was then his time to speak and in me he found a willing and appreciative listener as he discoursed with freedom and personal satisfaction of his avowed candidate. He told how some years before in the very city from which we were returning he had heard Dr. Alderman for the first time and how while listening to the speech he had drawn from his pocket a postal card and hurriedly scratched a note to Dr. Butler, the editor of the leading educational review in America, words to thiseffect: ll Write at once to Dr. Alderman for the speech he is now delivering. It should by all means appear in your next number? Then he spoke of the grow- ing appreciation with which he had followed Dr. Alderman's career, noting his charm of speech and under it his sound educational philosophy, his catholic zeal v for the education of all the peopleiand his dominant tact that assured success. 4 Now that the hands that then metaphorically pointed to Dr. Alderman have been in fact extended, as those of all the Universityis friends. to welcome him to L v L l 3, l W. -...-,..-.l':;.:.' sTQ-rv-z-4Tr wwe 9.5m . .a.