New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-01
WILLIAMS ALUMNI DINE
ANNUAL ELECTION oE OFFICERS.
a CHEERFUL FINANCIAL srATEMENT-THE
ToAsTs AND SNEAKERS,


The Williams College Alumni Association OF New
York and its vicinity dined at tho Hotel Bruins wick
last night These annual reunions OF tho Williams
q boys.- some OF whom remember the war OF 1917
ara always well attended. The alumni had tins years
fosuAity all TO themselves. The members Oh INC
college faculty would have been welcome guests, pue
owing TO the fact that the Presbyterians appointed
"wednesday and the Congregationaaists ihurSu az inc
day OF prayer for colleges, none or the proiessois
oor,d come IN the banouet The association had an
election before dinner and made unanimous cholce OF
the following officers for the year Fresiuene
Henry f. Anderson, '49 cepresideh's, 'ho NOV pr
,Abbott e. Kittredge, I'd; William X rieh.loe' 90
sscretary Arthur II. Masten, TO- sreasprer' Lillian H.
Inayaus ,7A. executive committee William b. Put
,eo r.arcs n Weeks, 'e4; George W. Van
s,r,r "a. walter d Edmonds, IA; Edward p. Coo,
30 c,irtop palmer, 's5; Henry W. Banks IT,, 's0.
~. Anaerson presided at the dinner Dr. Stod-
- -. aoyvn for a sreech but he volunteered in
esa N read the letters Of regret that had been re-
.ce,vsd from those who could not DO present. DE-
Franslin Carter, president OF the college wrote thst
-. 40 900 necessary 10 the $4,000 promised
~ ColoneI Thompson for<a monument TO DR.. Mark
lHopktns the late president Of Williams. had been
raised The monument viii take the substantial shape
of q college building. This, DR.. Carter suggested,
should DO OF stone; and he added that, besides tho
$4,000 building fund, the college has now S9ooooo
in its treasury financial statement that was received
ceived from Professor Perry. Judge ). NJ Barker Of
the supreme Court of Massachusetts,; Senator j. j..
ingalls,, whitelaw Reid John Bascom, and the Rev.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
Martin 1. Townsend Of Troy, of the class OF 'SS,
responded for alma mater. he is one OF her eldest
sons but he carries his seventy nine years as lightly as
some Of the younger alumni carry their tenderef ages
and he made a rousng speech full of "reminiscences OF
the old college and her progress, and was cheered over
and over again.
Judge william Rumsey responded for g The Bench
and Bar and Charles E Fitch In telling about
scholarship in journalism" spoke good word for
the college bred in the newspaper Office
John c. Goodridge delivered a memorial address
10 Bnl PRATT an eccentric character, who sawed
wood and made beds and speeches for the Williams
youths for many long year. Mr.. Goodrdges witty
sayings about him surely made the shades OF tho
late Mr.. Pratt happy.
Other subjects and speakers were Ihe emaii
College Hamilton W. Mabie Of e7, of The Christian
Unions; Princeton" DE Lancey Nicolli Yale" Dr
George A. Peters, of the University CubI Amherst
d G. Thompson; the Rev. DE. Robert Russell Booth !
,4e: tho Rev. DR.. Charles cuthbert Hall ~ J
CONGRESSMAN Henry W. Seymour, '0oy OF hShIsanl'
and s. b. Griffin, Editor OF The springheld hepuO
HIshov Potter was at late hour expected 70 drop
in' and make few remark ssrt a tSc HE family he
r,iles could be at present truthfuly oescllbeu as
happy one but the new and pressing exlgencies pro
BY the car strike KEPT t s Ss ny Mandolin
Cub led hy D. Tpald made merry music Ior INC Da,-
aneters The ioE a1 md sens treasurer Of
the association Arthur IL Chester, the Secretary Snu
Charles 3. Hubbon. - 80
Goycrnor Hort Of Pennsylvania; Charles A. Dawson,
Francis L Ststson, A. r. schaufier, T. F. thompson,
Tyns, Archibald Hopkins, f. Herr1ck Julius H. sey-
rnour, the Rev.FT A. Niven and W. P. Prentice