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 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA 
 
 MEMORIAL EXERCISES 
 
 IN HONOR OP 
 
 ALUAVNI WHO FELL IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 
 
 Alumni Day, dune 17th, 1919 
 
 Entered at the Post Office at Athens, on., as Second Class Matter, August 31, 1905. 
 under Act or Congress of July 18th. 1901. lssu' 1 Monthly by the University. 
 
 Serial No. 304 
 
ALUMNI MEMORIAL EXERCISES 
 
 READING OF NAMES OF ALUMNI FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR 
 
 By T. W. Reed, '88, Registrar 
 
 The University of Georgia has endeavored to compile a complete 
 and correct roster of her gallant boys who made the supreme sac- 
 rifice, and on this occasion expresses the hope that no name has 
 been omitted from the list of her immortal dead in whose memory 
 the services of today are held, and that upon her service flag it may 
 not be necessary to place a single additional golden star. 
 
 Class of 1880 
 
 Frederick Grady Hodgson. 
 
 Class of 1887 
 
 Rufus Benjamin Clarke. 
 
 Class of 1907 
 
 Henry Lee Jewett Williams 
 
 Class of 1908 
 
 Clarence Hull Dobbs, iS. Guy (Strickland. 
 
 Class of 1910 
 
 James Alpheus Anderson Eralibert Talmadge Miller 
 
 Class of 1912 
 
 James Allan Etheridge Roy Edgar Lanham 
 
 Wilbur Oglesby 
 
 Class of 191S 
 
 Allen Randolph Fleming Joseph N. Neel 
 
 James Thorpe Rayle 
 
 Class of 1914 
 
 Calvin George Walter Hill Levie 
 
 Allen Napoleon Kieffer Macon Caldwell Overton 
 
 Paul Thomas Settle 
 
 Class of 1915 
 
 Chester Price Adair Covington Drane Jenkins 
 
 Carl P. Goldsmith Justus Erwin Owens 
 
 Robert Jenkins Griffith Wilbur Stuart Sewell 
 
 Percival Connally Jones Young Hall Smith 
 
 Class of 1916 
 
 Henry Warren Brown, Edwin David Shaw, Trygve J. Tolnas. 
 
Class of 1917 
 
 Tom Reed Beazley Yoel Lyons Jo»l 
 
 Elliott Muse Braxton Edmund Brewer Tate 
 
 Howell Burnett Cobb Marion Footman Wilson 
 
 Beverly Daniel Evans Hugh Miller Willett 
 
 Class of 1918 
 Robert James 'Cochran John Leon Derrick 
 
 Robert H. Leonard 
 
 Class of 1919 
 
 Paul Bryan Minter. 
 
 Brave sons of Georgia, loyal, true, faithful to every duty, who in 
 the spirit of service and sacrifice exemplified the teachings of their 
 Alma Mater; who measured to the full stature of royal manhood 
 and laid their lives upon the altar of liberty in order that all men 
 might be free indeed; who illustrated upon the ensanguined bat- 
 tlefields of the great war the unsurpassed valor of American man- 
 hood and wove around the khaki uniform of the American soldier 
 the fadeless glories of immortality; in their honor the institution 
 they loved so well holds today these memorial services, with pride 
 in their achievements, gratitude for their services, and in affection- 
 ate memory of those whose blue stars on our service flag have 
 mellowed into gold. 
 
MEMORIAL ADDRESS 
 
 Charles Murphey Candler, Class of 1877 
 
 Gentlemen of the Alumni Society, 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 We are assembled today in this historic temple to do reverence 
 to the memories of heroes who tho' dead still live. 
 
 I wish that one worthier of the occasion and better fitted to give 
 expression to your tribute had been chosen. 
 
 When the torch of war was lighted in the Balkans a little less 
 than five years ago, we of this country reckoned not of the possi- 
 bility of the conflagration involving us. 
 
 iBut for some irritating incidents with an almost irresponsible 
 neighbor upon our southern border, we had no quarrel with any 
 nation and were at peace with the world. 
 
 'Confident in our continental isolation and in our freedom from 
 political entanglements of any character with the nations of the 
 world, for more than a century we had grown great and continued 
 happy in the pursuit of our national purposes and the attainment 
 of our national aspirations. 
 
 We had established the most powerful Democracy the world had 
 ever known and had demonstrated that government of the people, 
 by the people and for the people was both desirable and possible. 
 
 But in our national thought and life we had failed of the realiza- 
 tion of a great truth which was to influence our destiny. It is a 
 divinely enunciated truth that no man liveth unto himself alone. 
 
 We know now that no nation liveth unto Itself alone. 
 
 With the outbreak of the great war our government promptly 
 proclaimed its strict neutrality. 
 
 For more than two and a half years we maintained this declara- 
 tion in spite of multiplying complications and deliberate disregard 
 of our national rights. 
 
 Under the leadership and compulsion of the autocratic and mil- 
 itaristic rulers of Germany, the central powers, in their conduct of 
 the war grew more insolent, day by day, in defiance of international 
 law and in the violation of the most elementary principles of civili- 
 zation and humanity. 
 
 The appeals and protests of an outraged world were alike in vain. 
 
 Peace and right were at stake; selfish and autocratic power the 
 self-appointed executioner. 
 
 On April 2nd, 1917, the President of the United States declared 
 before Congress that "neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable 
 where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its 
 people, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the exist- 
 ence of autocratic governments, backed by organized force which is 
 
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controlled wholly iby their will, not the will of their people. We 
 have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. 
 
 "We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted 
 that the same standards of conduct and responsibility for wrong 
 done shall be observed among nations and their governments that 
 are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states. 
 
 "The world must be made safe for Democracy. 
 
 "Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of polit- 
 ical liberty. 
 
 "We have no selfish ends to serve, we desire no conquest, no 
 dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material com- 
 pensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one 
 of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied 
 when these rights have been made as secure as the faith and the 
 freedom of nations can make them." 
 
 In concluding this great message, he said: 
 
 "It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, 
 into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself 
 seeming to be in the balance. 
 
 "But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight 
 for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — 
 for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to 
 have a voice in their own government, for the rights and liberties 
 of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a con- 
 cert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations 
 and make the world at last free. 
 
 "To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortune, 
 everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride 
 of those who know that the day has come when America is priv- 
 ileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave 
 her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. 
 
 "God helping her, she can do no other." 
 
 iSuch was our cause. 
 
 On April 6, 1917, the Congress declared the existence of a state 
 of war with Germany, and the call went forth, A Nation to Arms. 
 
 The records of all the nations in all the wars of the world's his- 
 tory will be searched in vain for a parallel to the accomplishment 
 of our country in raising, training, and equipping within eighteen 
 months an army of four millions of freemen, with two millions of 
 them safely across three thousand miles of ocean, not merely facing 
 in battle line, but day by day driving back to new positions the 
 seasoned veterans of the most powerful military nation of the old 
 world. 
 
 They said our boys could not fight. The answer was written for 
 all time at Cantigny, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, along the 
 Marne, across the Hindenburg, at St. Mihiel, and thro' the tangled 
 forest of the Argonne, to the very gates of iSedan. They never 
 failed to take an objective, altho' in some instances requiring sev- 
 
eral efforts, nor to hold one finally taken, when ordered so to do. 
 
 Within one hundred and ten days after the first engagement of 
 units of our Army, the tide of battle had turned and the first and 
 last world war had been victoriously ended. 
 
 Excluding students enrolled in the Student Army Training Corps 
 and in special detachments trained upon the University campus, 
 1,663 men who had taken regular courses in the University of Geor- 
 gia answered their country's call and laid their all upon its altar. 
 Of these, forty-two made the supreme sacrifice. 
 
 These brothers of ours were neither mercenaries nor conscripts. 
 
 They loved liberty; they loved their country. They "were patriots 
 by heredity and by inspirational training. 
 
 Their forefathers had helped to implant upon this continent a 
 new nation, and to ibuild here a structure in which liberty might 
 safely dwell forever. 
 
 ■In the halls of this revered institution, chartered by the state 
 almost with its own birth and dedicated to the education of its 
 sons that they might better serve, these young men had been trained 
 in an atmosphere of patriotic service and historic traditions. 
 
 A soldier boy of France lay upon a hospital cot grievously 
 wounded. iHis right arm had been torn and shattered by a German 
 shell. 
 
 As he came to consciousness after its removal, the sympathetic 
 surgeon standing, by, moved to pity as he looked upon his maimed 
 form, said, "My boy, I am sorry you had to lose your arm." 
 
 The spirit of France flashed into the boy's eyes and raising his 
 head he answered, "Doctor, I did not LOSE my arm, I GAVE it — 
 to France," and as his head sank wearily upon the pillow, he whis- 
 pered, "My France." 
 
 These boys of ours whose memories we hold sacred and will 
 honor so long as sacrificial service is counted glorious, did not 
 iLO'SE their lives — they GAVE them — to their country — that right- 
 eousness in the world, through it, might be enthroned for all time. 
 
 It is said that upon a certain occasion in ancient Rome in a gath- 
 ering of noble women at the home of Cornelia, a wealthy com- 
 panion lady made show of her priceless jewels, and finally entreated 
 her hostess that she afford her friends a sight of hers. 
 
 The noble Cornelia sent for her two sons and presenting them to 
 the assembled company, said: "These are my jewels." 
 
 With like pride and love their Alma Mater today presents her 
 patriot sons. They are her jewels. 
 
 Heroism never dies, and their careers of service and sacrifice, 
 illustrating and incarnating the spirit and teachings of this ven- 
 erable institution, will inspire and provoke to higher endeavor the 
 coming generations of students who shall walk this campus and fill 
 these halls. Unless this be true, what we say and do here today 
 would matter little, and their sacrifices have been in vain. 
 
They — each, did a man's part in the great endeavor; they are 
 dead; they rest beyond the sunset's glow. 
 
 They have left to us the high and solemn duty of seeing that 
 since the victory is won, the cause for which they died shall not be 
 betrayed. 
 
 "If ye break faith with us who die 
 We shall not sleep 
 Tho' poppies blow 
 In Flanders' fields." 
 
 In this solemn hour, in this temple dedicated in the name of the 
 Prince of Peace, it is our privilege as it should be our high pur- 
 pose to consecrate ourselves afresh to the cause for which these 
 boys fought and died. 
 
 The battle has ended; the cannon are silent; the fire of rifle and 
 machine gun has ceased — but the contest is still on. 
 
 National greed and selfishness, the lust for territory and the 
 desire for power, are still existent and notwithstanding the cruel 
 suffering and immense sacrifices brought upon the world by their 
 ■past orgies, evidences of their existence and renewed intriguing 
 are seen even at the peace table at Versailles. 
 
 These were the things that moved militaristic Germany to war 
 against the world. 
 
 They are the things which have provoked wars throughout the 
 history of the human race. 
 
 They are the things which trample upon right, violate law, despise 
 liberty and outrage humanity. 
 
 They are the things to defeat which our boys crossed the seas 
 and died. 
 
 To allow them now, after all the bloodshed and suffering and 
 sacrifice of the past five years, to reappear and resume sway in the 
 governments of the world would be a crime, the adequate punish- 
 ment of which would call for the exercise of every power of God 
 Almighty Himself. 
 
 The peoples of the world — the common masses of mankind, are 
 sick of war. They will have no more like that through which we 
 have just passed. 
 
 They purpose to uproot and destroy every seed which can again 
 provoke it. This will be done only when righteousness is recog- 
 nized by governments as a rule of conduct; when a code of laws is 
 provided clearly defining and prescribing righteous rules of conduct 
 between nations, and when there is established by concerted action 
 of the civilized nations of the world a duly empowered interna- 
 tional tribunal, with instrumentalities and methods for compelling 
 the observance of such laws and rules. 
 
 Three years ago I had the honor of delivering the baccalaureate 
 address to the Class of 1916. Some of the young men of that class 
 are in France today. Some are in this audience, at least one of 
 
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whom I know shed his blood on French soil. Three gave their all 
 in the service of country. 
 
 In that address I said: "The problem of the world is the preser- 
 vation of the rights and liberties of independent nations, and the 
 everlasting establishment of righteousness amjong nations, and 
 peace on earth. This great country of ours has and should have a 
 responsibility and a part in the solution of this world problem. 
 
 "I am not unmindful of our ancient policy, adhered to since its 
 first declaration by Washington, of avoiding alliances with other 
 nations, particularly those of the old world. The avoidance of 
 entangling alliances should not, however, lead us into the adoption 
 of a theory of isolation, and monastic separation from all part and 
 interest in world affairs. Such isolation is unwise and inexpedient, 
 if not impossible 
 
 "We must recognize more fully than we do that the United 
 States is a member of the great family of nations, and be pre- 
 pared to meet the demands and the crises arising out of such mem- 
 bership and kinship." 
 
 Within ten months after these words were spoken we were taking 
 part in the great struggle. 
 
 It was a glorious part, made so by the endurance and bravery of 
 our young citizen armies. 
 
 Having gone thus far at such cost, shall we falter now, or aban- 
 don our task? 
 
 To do so would be to betray humanity; would be to make vain 
 the sacrifices and to dishonor the memories of 70,000 American 
 boys who sleep on the glory fields of France. 
 
 A few months ago the French Chamber of Deputies declared in 
 formal resolution, "President Wilson has deserved well of hu- 
 manity." 
 
 The French Chamber spoke the simple truth. 
 
 For six long, weary months we have watched this great American 
 President, this friend of humanity, standing almost alone, con- 
 tending with all the sinister forces of national greed, selfishness, and 
 jealousies, in patient, tireless, skillful effort to write in enduring 
 form the principles for which America fought and to firmly secure 
 for all posterity that peace for which her sons so gloriously died. 
 
 I know not how you feel, but as for me, my very blood boils with 
 indignation when I see the miserable, jealous play of petty politics 
 in our own land and the carping, nagging criticism which seeks, for 
 partisan purposes, to defeat his efforts in behalf of humanity and 
 to destroy that which has been born out of such travail and sac- 
 rifice. 
 
 I know not what the end will be of all this plotting and intrigue, 
 •but I predict woe unto that politician or political party which shall 
 stand in the way and hinder the world's high endeavor to insure 
 forever the freedom of mankind. 
 
 It was for this our fellow alumni gave their all, and as we are 
 
gathered here today to do honor to their memories, let us kindle 
 anew the fires of patriotism and reconsecrate ourselves to the com- 
 pletion of their glorious undertaking. 
 
 We are all familiar with that splendid epic by Col. McCrae, "In 
 Flanders Fields." 
 
 Have you read the eloquent response penned by one of our num- 
 ber, Robert W. 'Lillard of the (Class of 1899? 
 
 "Rest ye in peace, ye Flanders dead; 
 
 The fight that ye so bravely led 
 
 We've taken up. And we will keep 
 
 True faith with you who lie asleep, 
 
 With each a cross to mark his bed, 
 
 And poppies blowing overhead, 
 
 Where once his own life blood ran red; 
 In Flanders Fields. 
 "Fear not that ye have died for naught, 
 
 The torch ye threw to us we caught, 
 
 Ten million hands will hold it high, 
 
 And Freedom's light shall never die! 
 
 We've learned the lesson that ye taught 
 In Flanders Fields." 
 
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