New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-27
AIIrMNI DINE AND SPEAK.
pr7TyION OF CITY UNIVERSITY MEN.
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rrRx1TIBs-wny HE FAvoIs THEM.
r, animal dinner Of the alumni OF the University
~. civ o: NcwYork vas given last evening" at
VI Io,l Brunswick About $50 OF the graduates
, mart In the festivities. The tables were iii the
W" Tile decorations simple bat bcaut
49, FREDERICK Baker. president OF the association.
- .,,asd Al the table OF honor with the pres dent
chancellor MacCrackeG, James Stokes, Elliott +.
1 DR. J. p Mum. Professor NincenzO BOta
- p Elliot A. ;. Freeman. A. c. Foe l.. d. Reed
= ~ putnam Austin Albeit. DR.. Charles Butlcr.
Richards Robert Gordon. Robert Maclay. A V.
q cnr..n " A. Weeks and q. Boxer.
1.,sdent Boxer introduced the first speaker Dr.
Giles Bnter. who at the age OF ninety one years
III, with the f,rvency OF youth and called forth the
~ APPLAUSE OF those WHO listened to him. There
80 muc, OF Interesting "reminiscences in his address
w,s, he announced The fact that for fifty years
haa been intimately a.sodiiei with the la ors OF tho
,.a,rtion the applause deafcning. and many
"a heads of forty five and fifty years seemed in.
.,.,,neousy 10 take OH n new, energetic growth OF
heroic effectiveness
There were no regular toa>ts. Chancellor Mac.
rrseken naturally called upon TO speak and these
r.,e some o. his uttcrances:
GEOGRAPHICALLY NcwYork University is Ike the ancient
,,s Of Israel. 10 the wo,t Of Israel the land OF
ry,,e.on-I mean Of the Phllstnes TO the east the
If COlUnbial should say OF MOaO inc southeast
-. the land YaleI should say the land Of Edom There
.d,vs about the same intercourse among these four
s.,s wo, in the lime OF David. i suppose II was
Al instance Of errancy IN David when h. sad In
:. n his Palms THAI his neighbcrs were not anxious
rr Israel 70 great nation. We trust that our
h,ss oder sisters oil anxious to see Us grow up a.
onpcuous university in the midst OF them and 10 have
ne on them making big four a; football or at alumni
t,on.rs Npplausc) When we begin cur buildings at
,y,s,v Heights expect that the great telescope on
In Of rs hill Will be
a o., way eNpectanty well the ,eesC ope on tic
Nm At Princeton and on the al Yale. CRenewed
spplsuse)
The p,sNent OF Chicago University took occasion In
recent oddres> which has been published to state his
affections to existence Of Greek college societies In
~. University at Chicago. Not long ago the eNpresi'
aopt Of Cornell Andrew D. White. in an extended article
o.d AZ length all the objections advanced against these
h,iie. and the ARGUMENTS in their favor. He more
,h,, anticipated the objections OF President Harper
T., mvseu l am unwilling to say whether Greek
letter fraernes will be good for Chicago or whether
,.v have been good for Yale or Harvard, but now that
have for nearly nine years observed thef WORKING IN he
y.rYo,k University record my vote in their favor as
.nt or us here The objections which President Harper
names have not proved serious in our experience Ills
ohections are three NUMBER Secrecy, rigid exclusive
n.s and non democratc spirit may soy' however Ust
altar urging these objections President Harper closes by
announcing that frateines will be admitted TO the Uni
v.,sltv O, Chicago under certain regulations
me secrecy OF the sensible fraternity mind little
mare than the secrecy which the family enoins upon "hat
said a, the family table the family hresde Fraterni-
t.s do involve rigid cxcusiveness but this Is Incidental
10 strict classdcotons 0ways Every species must
fiedy exclude every other species. l don't see now
ever that anybody hgdly excluded by fra'entcs As
whole ANY student Is at liberty n form fraternity
q hi. own 81 he chooses. hear that q new chapter
has been founded in college very recently.
hardly know what DR.. Harper means by the non'
democracy Of faterntes perhaps he refers to these
societies choosing members often the ground Of ae-
cdena characteristics OF students But democracy uoes
not mean dead level but only equal rights OF czens III
the State Men always will divide themselves socially
upon some point which they emphasize
There real such arguments a. President White
urges that ambition Of students to maintain the reputa
ton for their Fraternity makes them watehfu as TO their
behavior that this also leads older members % look otter
the hayward That older and younger students and also
graduate members and students brought into contact
Ike the follows students of English universities that
the propretorhp Of chapter houses cutvates sense OF
bushes responsibility and habits Of care and neatncs that
conventions help to bind together the widely sep
srated universities and colleges through the country that
mutual eourses between fraternites broaden the lives OF
the studenA
But / Join both the eminent college presidents whom
have famed that in believing that the university should
icndly understanding with the irateiniues oush
their representatives. and especially tmousn usl'
graduate members No university should rein-
1uish its right to forbid its undergraduate stu,
dent, maintaining connection with vicious and
G'1P a nine yea IN oil the Serious dscp
which L have had 10 dO iOunu
hat the student was vicious In spite Of friendly
Forts on behalf OF his fraternity, when IL so chanced
ieaf hs w wai our Ff Eaesn,"e
ference with representatives OF various fatefntcs WIN
yse N hcr subsituting permanent chapterhous at
University ehts their various rented quarters III
seems 10 me quito possible that the fraeres may hcp
themselves greatly and at the same time help their anna
other speeches informal In their character, were
delivered by Professor W. Il. Russell. A. 5; Freeman
George D. Baker James Stokes, DIR. /. Z. Person,
Cenh9s Brainrrd and William Kingsley In the
progress of the dinner many college sonss were sung
the dining room the lights being thoughfuny lowered
during their march.