Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-26
In HONOR OF PRINCETON.
Annual Dinner of the Alumni Association
The Normal school ut California to Gel.
ebrnte its Twenty-Finh Anniversary

Annual Dinner of the Alumni Association
The Normal school ut California to Gel.
ebrnfe its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
Next Monthly. w. C. A. Buys n House.
Orange and black. countless tapers, candle
labra electric lights whose glare was subdued
by the delicately tinted walls of the handsome
private ban quet room of the Duquesne Club,
were the accessories, which, together with the
thunderous and continuous applause and songs
of upwards of 60 Princeton men, made the an
nual Princeton dinner an event long to be re-
membered.
The large H-shaped table was beautifully
draped with orange and black. and the hand
some orange and black banners on the menu
cards added to the rich and glowing effect. In
the center were former members OF the Uni
versity Glee Club, who led the singing, and the
well-known strains of "Old Nassau" 1.-The Or
ange and the Black" '"The Triangle Song"
and others raised the enthusiasm to high
pitch. The men were for the most part seated
by classes, and all ages from the graduate of
one years standing to the grave and reverend,
whose collegiate days were back in the forties,
tiftes and sixties.
When coffee was served and cigars lighted,
President William Scott. '6S, rose and in a few
we'll chosen words introduced DR.. Francis l..
Patton. President of the University of Prince
ton. DIR. Patton was received with cheers and
degree OF enthusiasm which cannot be de-
scribed. After expressing his pleasure at being
present, he congra tulated Princeton's Alma
Mater upon the loyal devotion of her sons, and
said it would be difficult for any college to show
a more creditable class of graduates than was
represented by those present. In speaking OF
the college the gentleman said:
I'VE need increased facilities; our numbers
are increasing. Our teaching force must cor
respondingly increase. We must have a new
chair of economics as well as one of public law,
and as soon as our department of political
science is fairly on its feet we shall be ready
for our law school. The philosophy of the
The college that is training men to right ideas
on this subject Is rendering service to the
State of priceless value, and should be fur
nished with every facility. We are trying to
do this work. We are broad. We are un-
sectarian. But we rest on Christian founda-
tions"
The following gentlemen were seated at the
tables: John l. Shaw, 81; c. NJ. Des Isets, 49,;
John Miles, '85; W. NJ Hall, 'S5; B. W. Mitch
ell, 'S3; e. II. Scott 6S: s. e. Ewing. '6S James
Laughlin, Jr., '6S: ]. w. Clark, 'S6; William
Scott, '6S; A. w. Wilson, 'S3; G. E. Shea. 'S6;
Keenan,. so; John Barclay 'SS; George A.
20; B. Egbert, 'S6; j. W. Elder, 'S7; H. L.
GoehriDg 'S7; r. L. Sloane 'S6; R. u. Totten, 'S6;
w. L. Jones. 'S7; w. w. Lawrence. '7S; G. r.
Wylie, 'S5; Thomas Sutton, '73; D. Q. Ewing,
'7S; l. S. Van Voorhis, '73 R. W. Patterson,
Jones, 'SS; E. H. Small, ISL; J. H. Pershing, 'SS;
W. R. Patrick, 49,; S. ]. Shaw, 'z3; Thomas A.
Noble, '76; James X. Macfarane, rs: W. A.
Guthrie. 'S6 William B. Negley, '49; Thomas
A. Henry. '79: B. B. Campbell, '73; NJ. F.
Leason, '76: Calvin Rayburn, rs: George c.
III; ]. B. Shea. 'S5; ]. ]. Lawrence,
Jr., 'Se; W. H. Ellis, '7a. and F. K. Alex
ander, 'S7,