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

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nu 8 CORKS AND CURLS VOL.XVHI W both House of Representatives and Senate, knows the University of Virginia by her sons within these legislative halls. Every arm of the Government service counts University of Virginia men by scores. The process of nationalization moves apace. How rapidly? The answer rests in part with the students, who by loyal and loving honor to their University and her President may aid her and him to realize the dream we cherish. For the student who thinks of some humble pllCS in the seho-olroom next 1 session, is there no encouragement in the rapid strides the young teacher made go toward the professoris Chair? Does the aspirant for executive duties not see clearly the steps by which the superintendent of a small City becomes the president in rapid succession of a State, a sectional, and a national institution? The achievements of a manis past when he approaches the meridian become the promise of his later attainments. We can but Cherish the hope that the future progress of our President will not be in some promotion to some other place but in the enlarged opportunities and unending growth of the University of Virginia. CHARLES W. KENT. i j i g, ?'g ' ae t ri- i

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M 1905 CORKS AND CURLS 7 mm his life that he was called from the presidency of the University of N orth Car- olina to that Of Tulane. N 0 disparagement Of our nearest sister University is intended, when this is spoken of as a promotion. Counting it by emolument it was, but this is not the strongest attraction for a president. North Carolina University is one of the most successful and powerful of our Southern State universities, but it is a State uni- versity. Its patronage is overwhelmingly from one State, and its revenues as well as its services are largely due this State. Tulane is a municipal university by location, a private institution by endowment, and an aspirant for the patronage of a large section of our far Southern country. Over this institution Dr. Alderman presided from 1900 to 1904, adding to- its endowment, increasing its hold upon the cityis affections, and widening its sphere of influence. But his own influence was still wider. His close personal contact with the Southern Educational Board gave him the opportunity to. pay practical attention to the problems of the whole South. From this section his written reports were read with great conhdence and his advice in the councils of this Board was counted of immense import. Thus he had risen step by step from the schoolroom of a small town to! the council-room in which large matters for a large section were broadly considered. In each room he was a dominant figure. In 1904, he was elected to. the Presidency of the University of Virginia. The honor was enhanced by the fact that he was the first occupant of this newly created office. It was a promotion too, though not in honorarium. The Uni- versity of Virginia is a State university but unlike that Of North Carolina, its student-body is, by nearly one-half, from outside of the State. It is commonly re- ferred to as the leading Southern institution, and is thus identihed with that large area over which Dr. Alderman, as president of Tulane, exerted so strong an in- fluence. North Carolina University owes all to the State, Tulane all to private endowment, the University Of Virginia while aided annually by the State has re- ceived in all nearly two million from private sources. In this sense it partakes 0f the nature of both of the other institutions. But there is still a larger View. North Carolina University belongs to the State, Tulane to a section, the University of Virginia to the whole country. This is partly true in fact for its student-body in- cludes students from nearly every State in the Union. It is true too in the sense that our large donations have been from the N orth, though the South has given much. But it is more true in ideal. Nineteen hundred and seven will emphasize that the origin of our nationality was in Virginia, and that institutions that are Southern may still be national. By that good anniversary year our new President may Clemonstrate that the University of Virginia, in which University work in Amerlca had its origin, has her large and forceful place in the nation. Congress, . .Agxua um salvz'w i, 12.7w n;w 3V V

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