Edwin Aldine Pound

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Edwin Aldine Pound


EDWIN ALDINE POUND
GAS been associating himself with the rapidly flowing current of American life for the past several years.  Highly educated in college and university, as well as in the heroic school of experience, while yet a young man, his life has outgrown the limits of mere routine school-room duties.  This fact has caused him to give up his position at the head of that splendid Public School System at Waycross, Ga., which he has held for the past seventeen years, and which he could have held for life, and join the militant and constructive forces of the Alkahest Lyceum System.

It has been generally known for the past decade or more that Aldine Pound was the orator pre-eminent among the teachers of the South.  He is one of those wonderful thinkers, orators and educators which the South is so famous for producing every few years.  His services have been in demand on all occasions, large or small, where the orator's magic charm was needed.  Chautauquas, lyceums and other platform voices have been calling to him for years.  He has an answer ready now and will give it to the people wherever he may be engaged during the coming lyceum and Chautauqua seasons.

Mr. Pound will divide his time between platform work and the likewise important and patriotic endeavor of building lyceum courses, organizing Chautauquas, etc., in the field.  Those desiring his services in either capacity will please communicate with the
ALKAHEST LYCEUM SYSTEM



Pound's Lecture Subjects

The Americanization of the World
The Passion Play at Oberammergau
Robert Edward Lee
Ideals and Aspirations
The Glory of the Commonplace
Idealism, Democracy and the Public Schools
The Splendors of the Bible (For Sunday meetings)
Beneath the Blue Italian Skies
The Renaissance of the South




Personal and Press Appreciations
N. P. BRYAN U. S. Senator from Florida

UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.

I am interested in the fact that you have taken to the lecture platform, where I have no doubt you will make a great reputation for yourself.  I remember you as a good speaker in college, and through the years since have followed your career with much interest, and know you will entertain and instruct audiences where-ever you go.

CHAS. G. EDWARDS Congressmen First (Ga.) District

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.

It has recenty come to my attention that Hon. E. A. Pound has severed his connection with the educational work in the public schools of Waycross, Georgia, and is going to enter the lecture field.

It has been my pleasure to hear Prof.  Pound in two or three of his lectures.  I have known him for many years.  I regard him as one of the ablest speakers in the country.  He is thoroughly educated, highly polished, and has a manner that eminently fits him for the lecture platform.  He possesses a degree of magnetism that literally charms his audience.  I regard him as one of the most profound thinkers and lecturers in the United States.

HOKE SMITH

UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.

I have had the pleasure of hearing Prof.  Aldine Pound on a number of occasions, and am gratified to learn that he is to do some regular work on the lyceum platform.  His thoughts are entertaining and instructive, his language clear and ornate.  Those who hear him will be fully repaid.

HON. THOS. G. HUDSON Commissioner of Agriculture

I have known Prof. E. A. Pound for a number of years, and it gives me pleasure to testify to his ability as an orator and lecturer.  He is a splended gentleman and very able in his profession.  I consider that any one would be fortunate in securing his services.

DR. WYMAN W. PILCHER President Medical Association of Georgia

It gives me pleasure to commend Prof.  Aldine Pound as a speaker and lecturer.  We have been fortunate enough here, through various lyceum courses, to hear the best that could be procured, but certainly none charmed our people more than did he.  His lecture was a gem of oratory, chaste and beautiful.  We will at any time give him a cordial welcome and be delighted at his return.

HON. M. L. BRITTAIN State School Superintendent of Georgia

I take pleasure in testifying to the high character and splendid ability of Mr. E. A. Pound.  For nearly twenty years he has been Superintendent of the Waycross, Georgia, schools and no man in his section of the State stands higher in the estimation of the people.  I have known him for twenty years, and as scholar, gentleman and Christian I have rarely found his equal.

WM. G. BRANTLEY Member Congress Eleventh (Ga.) District

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Prof. E. A. Pound, of Waycross, Georgia, has been personally known to me for many years.  He is a thinker and a scholar, and has the rare gift of expression.  As a lecturer he is eloquent, entertaining and instructive, and it is always a treat to listen to him.  In addition to all his gifts, he is a charming gentleman, a true patriot and a splendid citizen.  I cheerfully commend him to the good graces of all with whom he may come in contact.

HON. THOS. W. HARDWICK Congressman Tenth District of Georgia

I am very glad indeed to hear that you are going on the lecture platform, and I am sure from long acquaintance with you that you are certain to succeed in your new field. I feel quite certain that your high attainments, splendid character, and eminent adaptability to the work, assure your success, and promise that the public will be a great gainer by your decision to enter the lecture field.

DR. CHAS. R. JENKINS Vice-Pres. Wesleyan Female College

I have had the pleasure of hearing Prof. E. A. Pound several times in lectures, and I regard him as one of the most brilliant and eloquent men in the South to-day.  He has not only attained to enviable distinction in the the work of the school-room, but he has kept abreast of the times in literature as well as political science.  There is no public question of the day with which his mind and heart are not filled, and he has the fire of an orator as well as the gifts of a great literary man in the power of which to discuss any of the great issues of our time.  He will be a marvelous success in devoting his life to the lecture platform.  Everybody ought to hear him.



ALKAHEST LYCEUM GAINS A LEADER
Prof. Edwin Aldine Pound, for the past seventeen years superintendent of the public schools of Waycross, has just resigned his position and has accepted a position with the Alkahest Lyceum System of this city as traveling representative.

This announcement is one of the most important that could be made for the advancement of the lyceum and Chautauqua work in Georgia and the South.  Edwin Aldine Pound is himself a most successful platform speaker and a live wire in managing and promoting anything that he undertakes.  He has been a leader in the educational circles of Georgia for years and his new work will only give him a broader field in this line.  For the past dozen years Waycross has conducted one of the most successful lyceum courses in the state, giving from ten to twelve first-class attractions each season, and has always been self-sustaining.  This was because Prof. Pound was at the helm there.  He knows the work thoroughly and believes in it.  It is safe to say that no man ever came into the business or into the lyceum better prepared to make a success of the field work in organizing lyceums and Chautauquas, than Prof. Pound.

Waycross is planning now to hold a big Chautauqua this summer under the auspices of the Board of Trade, which is the culmination of Prof. Pound's work in that city.  He is a brother of Hon. Jerry M. Pound of Barnesville, the former State School Commissioner.  The Alkahest Lyceum System is to be congratulated on securing such a strong addition to their forces.—Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.




Personal and Press Appreciations

TIFTON GAZETTE
Prof. E. A. Pound's lecture before the Twentieth Century Library Club was given the close attention and hearty applause it deserved.  His subject was Idealism, Democracy and the Public Schools, and for an hour he held the audience with an address that was a masterpiece of logic combined with wit, poetry and story.


CORDELE DISPATCH
Pound arose in an ovation and for fifty minutes held the spellbound attention of his auditors, who were charmed with his easy flow of eloquence and his timely, apt and forceful application of the many beautiful similes used, and he closed amidst a demonstration of wild enthusiasm.  Indeed, it was a gem, a masterly address, eloquent in the extreme, yet possibly stronger in the advice and the suggestions it contained, wherein he elevated his hearers to higher planes of idealism and inspired them to more useful lives.

SECY. ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Before Waycross Board of Trade

At the outset let me tell you about one of your townsmen.  I have not the honor of his acquaintance and only know him through his works.  Eight years ago it was my fortune to be a member of the committee which awarded a prize for the best essay written by any Georgia teacher on the development of the resources of Georgia.  There was one paper which in general excellence of form and in richness of thought so far surpassed all the others that the committee quickly and unanimously awarded the prize of fifty dollars.  There was no name on the paper, but when the company offering the prize announced the author, it was Mr. Pound, the superintendent of your public schools.

MR. J. N. HARRIS South-eastern Tariff Association Jacksonville, Fla.

I was so charmed, entertained, acquiring information by your exquisite address to the Georgia Society on the occasion of their banquet at the Windsor, this city, on the 19th inst.  In fact, in all sincerity I have not listened to such a mental treat since the death of my life-long friend, Henry W. Grady, of Georgia.  I am a Georgian, Atlanta being my home until I came here seventeen months ago.  If you can do so, please let me have at least three copies of this address, which I assure you I appreciated most highly.


WAYCROSS JOURNAL THE CHANCELLORSHIP
In writing of the Chancellorship of the University, John Temple Graves says: There is Pound at Waycross, eloquent and inspiring, and a genius in and out of the school-room, and a gentleman everywhere.  There are ten thousand people in Waycross and a hundred thousand elsewhere that will say to these words of Graves, Yea, verily.  There is no finer human fiber than is woven into the form of Aldine Pound and no more sweetly tempered soul than vibrates through his being.  Yes, good enough for Chancellor or any other high-class position, but how would Waycross do without him?

THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS RAISED To Send Prof. Pound to Jerusalem, by Ware Sunday-School Association

Prof. Pound handled his subject The Christian Ideal in such a masterly manner that he held his audience spellbound for more than an hour.  When he had finished, Mr. R. B. Reppard of Savannah arose and moved that Prof. Pound be sent to Jerusalem as delegate to the World's Sunday-school Convention.  Such was the impression made by the address, that there was no trouble in raising three thousand dollars within a very few minutes.  It is hoped that Prof. Pound will accept the the beautiful compliment thus paid him.


FLAG DAY AT WAYCROSS
It is said that a prophet is not without appreciation save in his own country; but such I am sure is not the case in regard to our own Prof. Pound, for he always holds a Waycross audience spellbound when he talks.  His beautiful flow of eloquence in making the response yesterday to the presentation speech was indeed great and appreciated by every one of the great crowd present.


VALDOSTA TIMES
He is one of the most gifted and brilliant orators in Georgia.  Those who heard his address agree that it was a masterpiece.

HON. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

He is unmistakably one of the forceful and magnetic personalities of the State of Georgia, eloquent, convincing and inspiring.  His splendid gifts are reinforced by the ever-present suggestion that there is a man behind the words, and in this equipment he is a power on the platform—a power that not only carries its grace and charm upon the current of eloquent speech, but leaves behind it the benediction of noble purposes and uplifting thought.

BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER

He is a man of marked gifts and excellent scholarship.  His speech is chaste, forcible and entertaining; his thoughts elevating and inspiring.


ATLANTA GEORGIAN
He is an educator of inspiring methods, an orator of more than ordinary eloquence, tact and commanding power, and taken altogether, one of the shining lights of literature in the Southern section of the commonwealth.


FITZGERALD NEWS
As an orator he takes first rank among the new school of forensic scholars.  Pound, the polished rhetorician, gathers like a bee the honey from a thousand blossoms of fragrance and beauty, stores up until the day of his delivery, hordes hundreds of the choicest sweets, and then with a profligate generosity, opens his store-house and invites the multitude to partake freely from his royal table of intellect.


MACON (Ga.) TELEGRAPH
He held the audience under a spell of enchantment by the sparks of oratory which fell from his lips.

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