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

Page 13 text:

We .,,, -M... - t 1915 Entks anti alums 9' To Alma Mater Hour adds to hour, and on time flies- Day fades to day- No memory of our college dies Or sinks away. But every restless minute spent Within those malls has brought content. Beneath the fabric of our life, The building stone In the foundation, is our college strife. There manhoodis sown! t' The youth sees beckoning from above 5 His Alma Matefs hope and love. Oh, mother of our growing years, Who trained our mind, To thee may age be bright, and Fate Be ever kinde Increase thy sons, and write thy name 2'9 , Immortal in the Halls of Fame! L. H. B.

Page 12 text:

8 Qlurks anti Earls 1915 Senate in I908. He quickly forged his way to the front. He was leader of the Democratic party and its candidate for Speaker in the fifty-eighth, fifty- ninth and sixtieth Congresses, and recognized as a man apt to lead and worthy to be followed; In 1907 he received the nomination by popular vote for Senator and was elected January let, I908, by the Legislators of Mississippi to hold the place once occupied by Jefferson Davis, at whose desk in the Senate, it is said, Williams now sits. He is a member of Foreign Relations Committee, and of the Finance Committee which reported the Tariff Bill of 1913. He was temporary Chairn man of the Democratic N ational Convention, I904, and member of the same Convention in 1912 as delegate at large from Mississippi, having previously served in the Convention of I892. He is at present President of the General Alumni Association of the University, and a member of the Virginia Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He has found time amidst his busy political life to write an able volume on The Permanent InHuence of Thomas Jeffer- son on American Institutions. - In the serener atmosphere of the Upper Chamber Senator Williams has had little opportunity to engage in the forensic fray which was his delight in the Lower House, but he has taken the place which naturally belongs to him and is recognized as one of the leaders of Democracy whose talent and ability will carry the great principles of the party to ultimate success. His Alma Mater in ranking him amongst her great sons feels that years of usefulness await him and that she may expect him to increase his fame by future service to his country and thus add laurels to her crown as he adds them to his own. R. T. W. DUKE, JR. g E FALMA'MATER'ALVMNVM'SALVTAT- l g E ; 4.... m . . X. l a x? i ii I J!

Page 14 text:

TH E ROTUNDA IIOLSI NGER