fathers, she would have men children whom she should send forth to be acknowledged as princes and gentlemen in all lands. Happy the foster son who shall realize in his achieved lady love the ideal of his Alma Mater. Them that honor me I will honor and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." This tribute he sent to the faculty, in a permanent form and handsome frame. The faculty responded to him in an address which he often said he counted the greatest honor of his life: "The Faculty of the University of Virginia, having learned with profound interest that Mr. John L. Williams, of Richmond, Va., has presented to the University a beautiful and artistic tablet in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of his graduation from the school with the degree of Master of Arts, desiring to express to Mr. Williams their grateful appreciation of the spirit of loyalty and generosity which dictated the design and execution of this gift, do hereby adopt the following resolutions and order that they be spread upon the minutes of this Faculty, and that a copy of them be sent by the Secretary to Mr. Williams. "Resolved: "1. That the congratulations of the Faculty be offered to Mr. Williams upon the Heaven-sent blessing of a long and useful life, crowned by rare domestic felicity and adorned by uncounted acts of helpfulness and liberality both public and private. "2. That the lesson of his unswerving loyalty and love to his Alma Mater through all the vicissitudes of her fortunes brings to the Faculty a deepened sense of their own responsibility and privileges as the custodians and transmitters of those noble traditions of scholarship and morality which have bourne fruit in the honored lives of her sons. "3. That it be and hereby is ordered that the tablet presented by Mr. Williams shall be hung in the Library of the University for a perpetual memorial of the fidelity and affection of her graduates." I close with quotations from three writers whom Mr. Williams held in special honor, rising from the Roman poet to the Hebrew seer: "Serus in Caelum redeas, diuque -Horace. "He gave his honors to the world again His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace." "I will make an everlasting covenant with him. "And his seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their offspring among the people; all that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed." -Isaiah. After more than three score years of friendship, I believe that these words might all have been written in recent years of this gracious life. CAROLINIANS HONOR PRESIDENT ALDERMAN. President Alderman was the guest of honor of Governor Craig and the General Assembly of North Carolina when he visited that State in January. Governor Craig gave a reception for him, and he accepted an invitation to address a joint meeting of the two houses of the Legislature. In the course of this address, President Alderman said: "You do me great honor and give me great happiness, gentlemen of the General Assembly, by pausing in your big work to give me opportunity to greet the chosen representatives of the people among whom I was born and bred, and whom I admire and love. The very next best thing to meeting the hundreds of friends whom I count in every section of this dear State is to meet their representatives assembled here to do their bidding. "I have learned to love the great people among whom I live and work, for to know them is to love them, but they, with their intense pride of home and consciousness of State, would be the first to distrust me if I ever failed in pride or reverence for this home spot, which I believe to be one of the finest examples of democracy in any land. The people of Virginia and North Carolina sometimes gibe at each other gently about unessential things, but at bottom they are bound together by the closest of solemn ties, as well as by a multitude of common sense relations; they respect and honor each other, and any third party entering into the game of mild raillery that seems perennial between them would be in the same sort of danger that threatens the witless outsider who rushes in to interfere between man and wife. "There are three reasons why I shall not attempt to make you any formal address: "I am very closely related to certain wise and kindly, but very firm, tyrants, male and female-especially the latter who forbid me to speak at present at any length. "I have been for a long time inured to a discipline of silence, and the dignity and power and privilege of that discipline have become very dear to me. "I am too happy to make a speech. I simply want to watch, look and listen, as they say at railroad crossings, at the fine spirit, the splendid growth, and the note of hope and power in this old home of mine. "This legislative chamber is not an unfamiliar spot to me, my friends. I haunted it for many years. These corridors are to me vocal with eager memories and full of well remembered ghosts and noble presences. I think university presidents are fortunate in having to cut their wisdom teeth on legislatures. A legislature is a sort of university, as well as an unlimited debating society. At least, I learned things from them not included in any known curriculum, and I haven't got my full degree yet. Indeed, I fancy I shall always be taking biennial graduate courses at these democratic universities, while lecturing and teaching the members a bit myself. The members of the Legislature of Virginia shortly assemble. I shall go to see them. They, too, are wise, fair-minded, purposeful men, trying to build an ever greater Commonwealth, and to prove that democracy and efficiency, as well as liberty, may go together in this republic. Legislatures sometimes give us nervous prostration, but they are representative democracy's last word, and power proceeds out of them. Generally speaking, my definition of a legislature would be something like this: 'A large body of sensible, patient, just, honest, kindly men, trying to do the best they can. do with tangled human problems in too much of a hurry generally and with inadequate funds at their disposal.' I remember once sitting up in yonder gallery and hearing a dear colleague of mine and myself alluded to in vivid language as lobbyists (the epithet was not meant to be very affectionate then), but the speaker was right. We were lobbyists, insistent and pungent; but I think I can say with truth that our lobbying contained no thought of self, and that our clients were the boys and girls of North Carolina, away back in the fields and villages of the State, who are the men and women of today. From the looks of some of you legislators, I believe you were in the ranks of that very army of youth for whom we were lobbying, as only youth and inexperience can plead or lobby. We were begging you to provide suitable schools for every child in the State, high and low, white and black, to care for the education of your women, too long neglected, and to build on a broad and enduring basis the State's oldest and noblest intellectual achievement-its State university. And I hereby note three things: "You have pursued policies we pleaded for, with steadfast wisdom and with wonderful results. "The proudest recollection of the legislators of that day is the memory of the vote they cast for these and other similar constructive and permanent institutions. "You have honored yourselves and gratified those who loved him by placing one of those persistent lobbyists for childhood in enduring bronze on your capitol square, among statesmen and soldiers of the common good, among whom he rightly belonged. And now you touch the heart of the other by showing him today in this gracious way that you have not forgotten him. Verily it is good to be a lobbyist when your purpose is high and clear and your heart sound and you are dealing with men who simply want to know the right way to serve their fellows. It was such a body as this that gave me the opportunity, in association with Charles Duncan McIver, a name honored and loved wherever educational striving is going on, to learn the needs of a free people, to get first hand knowledge of democracy in the making, and to perceive the charm and sweetness, as well as the majesty and hopefulness, of plain people reaching upward to fuller and freer life. I am very grateful to God for that experience. It gave me a cause to serve, a social faith to hold, a philosophy of life to live and die by, and I here proudly ascribe to that great experience which sent me roaming over this State, meeting and work ing and sometimes fighting, with its people, the major part of the inspiration and resolve which has enabled me to do whatever I have done or which nerves me to fight on-come good days or ill-in sickness or in health-for the welfare and advancement of my fellowmen. A boy who leaves his home, or a man who quits the region of his birth and rearing, is somehow gifted with a clearer vision to see home or region as they really are. In that clearer sight North Carolina has appeared very admirable and inspiring, as I have watched it during the last decade and a half. Its atmosphere of liberty and freedom, its fine steadfastness, its wholesome humor, its brave and sincere history, its inflexible common sense these are ancient virtues inwrought in the structure of the State. Artemas Ward's eulogy of George Washington always reminded me of North Carolina. 'G. Washington,' said Ward, 'never slopped over.' The dominant note of the new time in North Carolina, as I have seemed to see it, has been first boundless hope mingled with proud self-reliance. "The eyes of North Carolina have been fixed on the future, and her energies directed to the forward march with an intensity seldom equalled in any country. Second, a fine faith in knowledge and training, though somehow hindered from giving as much of either as it desired; third, a democratic concerted purpose to apply science and knowledge to the organization of society and to realize in her social order Louis Pasteur's definition of democracy, as that order in the State wherein every man has a chance to make the most of himself. "During the last thirty years-my period of manhood-all the states of the South have faced the greatest complexity of problems in social adjustment ever presented to self-governing communities. They have all achieved amazing results. I would not claim too much for the State of my birth, but I do doubt if any American state has demeaned herself with greater dignity and power. Six great tasks of almost inconceivable difficulty presented themselves to the men who bore the burden of the State's development. "1. Such dealing with the problems presented by the presence of the African element in large numbers in our population as would mete out justice to the colored man, protect our civiliza |