Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-15

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the Arlington last night as her alumni In their
annual feast in commemoration Of the days
when they studied under her care. They were
.,ro,s ,,or and tbev ranrasented the hast ola
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ments Oh "asnine'ons ci'liZauoh' anu 'hen
success and value to the community were the
best testimony of the worth of that institution.
There ware more than a hundred persons rres-
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"~ LOT =" No-- van,
board Dy their presence as aiumne ana seemed
to enjoy the dinner and the exercises as much
as the men,
Tho dinner did not beo;n until .hont 8
o,clocL and tha aluron; rt;l;1od tha t,r,a rb;,o
waiting for the march 10 beoin in renewing old
acoro;3tances and teIl;ng aRont tbings that h. n
banrenad drr;no tba ve.r tbat had nassad sirce
tbair last renn;o1 f'''
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IL WAS apout s'oo ciocA "nen INC ice
cream was served and President b. H. Warner,
who occupied the chair Of state at the head OF
tho table arosa and axcpsed b;msolf for hahn,
ahsod ~ t;mo ON tba e,ronnd tbat he ,rontad 70
oct evervbody home in good season His adj.
Srass 90 shcr, hn+ ;rtarest;no ha;no d.,o.od
ioroalv 20 tbe ,,,o,xtb 81 tbs nn;yar.;t1 n 1907
be al .haro e. ia, s.,dort +, a. ;,st;t.;O,,
orI ,o,r thara mn roc nm ;rcraa,a - fo,r xaa 40
of over 50 nor cent The oraJuates nnwhar
, aka ., vbp,, Ss5 20 daaa 80 Az .5SrosSoa
~ yai ars n;ss;n1 Tba aJdrassas =, 400 a.e
Inonn Tr.,t - 5;ad d,r;ss a. 80 W..
yea i,c,nd;na Snroao, Gonorai Rsxtar RTho
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1ss9. Andrew NcCsiiu,o Law 1SfS. EiwarJ
TYLER law IsfG. r Mclean medical 1897.
DR. John " Dnnn medical ISs0 Jobn Crancb
colleoa 1905 an artist Of ooma note The tvro
Oldest living graduates sent greetinrs. These
were FJwa9d pone C-anch @ mer2er NJ the
class ~ Isoe sigb+v.t,o yoors Old WI sent
word frono Cincinnat; that he conld not attend
because he coIebrates his Golden wedding on
the 18th. DR. Lose FweII Of Hickory Grove
u of tba conc class a,ad met vas tbo
first student to enter the medical school The
l.4OO graduates whose addresses are known are
IN ever! STATE OF ,nls country anu IN Germany
drad 80 anu ano ,bSain;ans soo lawvars
100 are in business. Mr. Warner then went on
to sneak of tine advantages of Washington as a n
educational center. saving that there is no
place in the country where there are such
social. Intellectual and moral adyantares as
here. The yerv rovcrnmental departments are
bureaus of INSTRUCTION and will continue to
grow more valuable. The advance of the city
itself is vet in its infancy. and as tho munich
pality grows into an ideaIfor the world its edu-
cationai advantages will increase into wonder
ful propnrtious. Columbian University has no
great endowment. but her graduates who are
young and ambitious for her will push the in
stitution into A position where She will be
recognized As the first in the land.
Justice Harlan was the first speaker. taking
the place of Justice Brewer, who is ill with the
grip. He said that he was not present to take
his brothers place. but merely to testify by his
presence his great interest i'm Columbia. where
he spends the pleasantest evening of his week
in addressing the Young men of the law school
In his opinion there ia no reason WHY this uni
had said it should be-a great center for edu-
eating the country. and the best road toward
the Establishment of a national university is
throngb the fonndation already laid in CoInm-
bian.
PRESIDENT wE1LINa's GREETING.
The toast Of 1.-The University was responded
to by President yelling. who brought the
greetings Of the Alma Mater to her children.
He spoke of the beginning, seventy years ago,
on the hills to the north of the city, and told of
a conversation he once had with Longfellow on
porch at Cambridge, in which the poet
pointed out how a famous pear tree on the
lawn produced fruit each year though over n
hundred years old. 1t was by making new
wood each season, and this was what the
university is now doing, making new wood
with which to carry the sap through its whole
system and enlarge itself. He then went on to
tell of the manner of new wood that is being
made. For instance, the university had
recently annexed large part Of the Supreme
Cortland here he looked down at
the Gvoirdupois of Justice Harian-and
he hoped that it would annex more
Of IT in the future. He spoke Of other new
wood in the shape Of literature of a value to
the world that had been produced by the pro-
fessors OF the institution, and be predicted that
II his colleagues could be emancipated from
the drill of the class room routine and daily in
struction they would be able to give forth much
more for the enlightenment of the world. He
looks forward, he said, to the time when with
larger endowments the university can give her
professors more opportunities Tor original
work.
REV. DIR. aRAMMER's ELOQUENT REMARKS.
Rev DR. Grammar Of the Fnisconal Cbnrcb of
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Dai'iliore .nen niaoe an eioquen' anu scholarly
speech on the theme OF Learning and Iheoi-
ogy,' which held the rapt attention of every
ear tbrorqb the fifteen minntes mr. mora that
II occupied. He dealt largely with the moral
results of a university education. In the case
~ Colnmb;an he said tbnt tboncb its heo;n.
nings were small the end must certainly be
very great. He then went on to show how
theoioSy Is one OF the learned PROFESSIONS OF
.ne "oa' q. ~ % al! 81. oi.Men VI
training. He gave a beautiful definition Of
nhilosoDbv "a SHE vast void Of bnman CON-
factnre abont which men have been heat;nc
for oes in s.arcb ~ trutb " Every man Ia in
soms sanse a tbeoIoo;an and no must baya
.ome religion Tbere is NO RANGE Of bnman
sxner;ence that Ia NOT touched NV tbeoIogy
The vaIne Of n trne THEOLOGY IL enricbed
bv a sound learning. II Ia a yalnable
sign of the times that rich men