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Excerpt from Anniversary Addresses
Perhaps it was with something of both these thoughts in mind that the trustees of the University have deemed it wise. In the midst of all the other important activities that mark this Commencement, not to overlook the fact that at this time Doctor Davis completes the twenty-fifth year of his service to the Institution as its president; and, I assure you, I esteem it no minor honor that I have been selected to represent the Trustees on this occasion. The candid truth compels me to say, however, that, while the selection of myself may have been mathematically logical, it was by the process of elimina tion that such selection was made. It was upon this wise that it so happened; namely, that it has been my good fortune personally to be acquainted with President Davis longer than has any other trustee, or than has any member of the faculty.
Born of a common ancestry, we both hail from that geological freak of the world known as the Hills of West Virginia. The blood and other relationships of our respective families naturally made us visitors in each other's homes, and gave us ties of common interest. His father was my pastor for many years, and that, too, accentuated the other relation ships that we sustained. While in those days we were never schoolmates, the fact remains that our early education was obtained in a common atmosphere - an atmosphere created largely by a graduate of Alfred University, Preston F. Ran dolph, by name - who, near the close of the Civil War re turned from Alfred to his home near Salem, West Virginia.
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