Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-18
AN ALUMNI BANQUET.

| There was a keen smack of high culture to be
diseerned around the psrlors and tea room at
Wizards last night. Yet there unanimous
love among those people Of both sexes who were
gathered together there for one object, and that
object such worthy one as the University Of
Michigan. the alma mater Of these highly oul-
tnred folks. The occasion Of the gathering of
these half hundred lovers Of the University Of
Michigan was the seventh animal dinner Of the
Washington Alumni Association Of that institu-
fion which WAS . success from the opening So
cial meeting in the parlors, through the ban
qust that was aftsrward spread. 20 tho last Of
| the short dozen Of toasts to which responses
were made.
the university. but also wives OF other gradu-
Ates OF the other sex, had a tendency TO refine
the atmosphere and produce the most enjoy
able results, especially as one Of them took the
hoor ia = brave way in response to toast and
made one Of the best speeches Of the evening
The banquet WAS presided over by Representa-
| tive CutcheOn, the president of the association,
while Secretary Woodward made himself very
useful in seeing that everybody had u good
time 1t was about $50 before the business
meeting was adjourned and the diners hled out
into the tea room, having elected a new set OF
officers for the coming year, rs follows: Presi-
dent, Hon. Edwin Willis. assistant secretary
| of Agriculture; vice presidents, Senator Cush-
man Davis, Judge Henry Strong and Mr Rufus
| II. Thsyer; secretary, Mr.. Irwin F. Smith;
treasurer, Mr.. Duane E. Fox.
THESE WERE FBEsENr.
The members who sat down TO the table were
a. follows: Hon. John NJ. Gregory, Hon. J.
Logan Chapman. Hon. Edwin Willis. Prof.
| Cleveland Able, Hon. Byron NJ. Cutcheon,
Hon. J. H. MCGOWAN, J. II. Mcclure, Hon.
Walter /. Hayes, Hon. J. W. Owens, Senator ].
b Allen Job Barnard, A. ]. Holmes. Hon.
Marriott Brosius, Marcus Baker, ]. Z. Rowland,
Francis ". Jones, Rufus H. Thayer, Hon. NJ. NJ.
$. Woodward, H. W. Austin, Mrs Louise X.
Stowell, Donald Mcpherson, Miss Grace Rob-
erts, Williams Donnally. Duane Z. Fox, @. l..
Spencer, Miss Rose G. Haines, II. H. Haines,
Miss Effie A. Southworth, Arthur H. Whitlark,
Erwin +. Smith, BENZ. f.. Shiveiy, Elmer G.
W. s. Ruckman, Mrs. Chas. II. Cooley, Chester
II. Roweu, Miss Z. NJ. Garrigues, c. h Merry,
Miss Cora II. Rowell.
At about 10 O'Clock the chairman's spoon
made a noise on the table and attention was
diverted to the mental feature of the entertain
ment, for which twelve victims had been pre-
pared. One of these, however, a coed, az they
say mp 1T Ann Arbor, refused TO talk, and 80
the dozen was a short one. Prof. Harris, the
commissioner Of education spoke about the re-
lation of the national government to uni
yersity education, in which he pointed out the
excellence and the superiority Of Michigans
university in being the elimination Of q great
system Of graduation that left no gaps and that
brought education close to the people. He
also mentioned, one of the commendable
features of Ann Arbor, the giving Of fellow
ships.
LETTER FROM PREsIDEyT ANGEL.
The secretary then read q letter from Presi-
dent Angel, in which he regretted that re-
cent accident prevented his attendance and
made certain suggestions as to the raising of
funds for the future that called forth a propo-
sition from the chairman that the new officers
constitute committee to gather funds for the
purposes mentioned by Prof. Angel. Prof.
Cleveland Able then told about the necessity
for some sort Of education that will produce
men and women capable Of mastering the
science OF predicting the weather, in response
TO the toast The weather service.' He came
TO the conclusion that people who noted the
weather predictions and needed them were,
year in and year out, IS per cent better of than
those who did not, and he thought that this
percentage could be increased II there were
only NOSE people trained FOR the work.
Dr.. j. NJ Gregory, who was superintendent
OF public instruction in Michigan between
1883 and 1864, and also civil service commis-
sioner later on, answered to the toast .'Michi-
gan University and education in the north
west, showing this institution to have been
the pioneer in the grand work of dissolving
the bands Of coionial;sm around the educa-
tional centers of the north and west and bring
ing out the value Of the northwest and its
capabilities for work. 1t had wiped out the
prejudice the east had against the west in edu-
cationai matters and was therefore a great
factor. Mr.. J. Sterling Motion, the inventor
Of "Arbor day" gave short history Of the
beginning and growth Of that movement, and
told of the frightful ravages of the prairie fire
and the necessity for doing still more TO re-
plenish the rapidly disappearing forests OF the
SCIENCE AND WOMEN.
Miss Efie A. Southworth made a bright
speech in response to the toast Science and
women" She said that Ann Arbor has proved
that women are not dolls, nor angels, nor blue
stockings. When a woman sees the outside of
anything she immediately wants TO see its in
side, and this trait fits her especially for work
in science, and she has so well shown her apti-
tude for such labor that she in rapidly taking
place with men in this line She came to the
conclusion, after reviewing the work that some
have done, and showing what advanced facili-
ties Ann Arbor offers for woman's education,
that il Q woman has in her any latent desire to
stady science abe has all the opportunity in the
world.
Ex-Representative Jonas H. MCGOWAN made
q bright speech TO the toast The regents"
which, he said, had been assigned to him for
four years past without interruption. He told
about some Of the queer incidents in the life
Of an early Hoosier, such as he happened to be,
and made the table laugh with some funny
stories before he got down TO his subject, when
he gave . series Of interesting facts about the
history of the board of regents OF the univer-
sity. As regent once, he remarked he had
never cast Q vote that gave him more pride
than that which helped to admit women to the
university.
OTHER SPEECHES
Senator Allen of Washington added to the
fun by his quaint Wit, and spoke In an inter
eating manner about the university on the
Pacific slope. Representative Boothman's toast
was the university in the war, and his speech
was a patriotic one that thrilled every nerve.
Representative Brosius was very ardent in his
explanation of the part that the university has
played in the politics Of the country, and gave
| his definition OF q citizen as u man Who could
be honest in the dark and virtuous without q
witness. with conscience in his politics as well
| a. his prayer. The university, he added, has
done worlds TO produce such men, and has also
done more by producing cultivated women who
will leave their imprint upon future genera
tions. Mr. Marcus Maker, in behalf OF the
geological survey, told about the relation that
exist between the scientific work that the gov
erEment Is fostering aud that which il pursued
| at universities. The last toast was that Of Rep
/ ressntetivs Chapman 90 odd times in Nichi-
gan, in which he spoke Of the wonderful
growth OF Michigan. which he had Witnessed
from its first start an the wilderness TO its full
| and complete development as one Of the sister
hood Of empires that today balances the world.
l and all Of this, he said. largely due to the
| influences of the educational institutions that
\ Ind grown IN in the madSt II the comm unity