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the undying faith of Bishop Charles Todd Quintard this feeble be-
ginning was to grow slowly but surely, and the fond hopes of its
founders were to be realised, decade by decade, a grammar school
expanded into a University until now we have reached the be
-ginning of its thirty sixth year of work. Its thirteen students have grown
to number over five hundred and its four frame buildings to eight
massive stone structures worthy of its great name and others in pro-
cess of erection. Probably since the thirteen matriculated in this
Chapel in 1868 at least four thousand have been registered

One no longer needs to ask what is Sewanee and where
is Sewanee. In every walk in life, the pulpit the bar in medicine
in business Sewanee men are found leaders in public and private
life. The Trustees named as incorporators in its Charter of 1858, the
Bishops, the Clerical and Laymen have all passed away with pos
-ibly the exception of one other besides the one who now addresses
you, and to whom it has graciously been granted to live to see the
University of the South first begun with flattering hopes, then borne
down under the heel of relentless war, again revived by the labors
of one faithful man now gone form us, and now to see it brought to
a position where growth and permanence seem well assured.