The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 01, 1899, Image 24

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THE BATTAE ION.
DR. HALSTEAD’S MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE TO GENERAL
LAWRENCE SULLIVAN ROSS.
At the exercises, on the nig-ht of the twenty-second,
at the University auditorium, in honor of Washington and
the heroes of the south, the following superb tribute was
paid General E. S. Ross by Dr. Halstead of the University
faculty:
My theorem is, that George Washington is the ideal
of our south incarnate, an ideal resurgent in Robert E.
Eee, again and nearer to us, is Eawrence Sullivan Ross.
I shall maintain that these peerless sons of our south em
body an ideal, body forth a type, which is of the nature of
a platonic idea, more real than reality itself, formative,
creative.
We are the percipients, the custodians of this divine
idea, this eternal form, capable of molding and vivifying
the matter of mankind.
I shall maintain that this supernal ideal has bloomed
and flowered in a civilization never before attained, sought
for in vain in all the showy pageant of time, in all the
long procession of the centuries.
What are the characteristics of this ideal, of this
civilization?
A specific mark is that here first in the world’s his
tory are wedded and fused the essence of democracy and
the essence of aristocracy.
“Here dwelt fair Freedom’s feerless son.
Great leader of the free.
The father of our native land.
Hero of liberty.”