St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-25
IN THE BANQUET HALL AT THE
RYAN HOTEL LAST EVEN
ING.
OF Loyalty to Founders and to COun-
try Inspired High Praises of
the Old School.
OLD NASSAU.
Tune ev'ry heart and ev'ry voice,
Bid ev'ry care withdraw;
Lei all with one accord reioice


members of the Princeton university
alumni sat down to a banquet in honor
of President Francis L. Patton, who is
sojourning in this city.
After a very brief business meeting
held in one of the parlors, the mem
bers repaired to the dining room, which
was decorated with the banners and
colors Of old Nassau. Rev. J. P. Eg-
bert president of the association, held
the head of the table, while at his ell
bows were President Patton and Prof.
randy" West. About the festal board
sat graduates, some of them who had
finished their college careers in years
gone by, with here and there a man
more recently from his alma mater.
When the menu had been thoroughly
discussed and the cigars and coffee
reached, DR.. Egbert, in a few words,
introduced to the collegians DR.. Patton,
who spoke as follows,
1T gives me great pleasure to meet the
alumni of the Twin Cities of the new North
west. 1 cannot express to you the delight
my visit has afforded me- Everything is a
surprise to me. And not the least surprise
is the delightfully."- agreeable climate I find
here. L did not expect to meet a Florida
climate in Minnesota l know you want me
to talk about Princeton. Well Princeton is
going to be the Oxford of America. Prince
ton is the best type of the moral university.
For professional schools, for the work of ad-
yanced research in specialties, there are un-
doubted advantages in connection with the
universities located in large cities, and the
city universities is so alive to these ad-
Tantages that it's tendency is to undervalue
the undergraduate department. You can
have great medical schools and great law
schools in cities, but great body of under
graduates, pursuing a course of study for
the four years leading to a bachelors de-
gree, IT is not so easy to have in city. You
can offer courses of study, it is true and
men can ride down to lectures in the cable
cars, ana when they get ready to be ex-
amined they may be sent out as bachelors of
arts. But this, in my judgment is not an
adequate substitute for campus life; for the
TOUR golden years of residence in college
nails; for the undying friendships that are
formed in those four years; for class solidar-
ity; for the tender sentiment and the sweet
memories associated with the thought of
such an alma mater as you have
We are about to celebrate the 15Oth an
nlVersary OF the founding of Princeton COL
iege. we hope, in connection with this
event, TO add substantial amount to our
ehuo"nent' Prof. West will tell you about
that. he is the secretary of the endowment
committee. We hope to celebrate this sesoui
centennial by festival lasting three days
oct. 20. q and %. Prof. West will also tell
you YOU apout mat. He Is secretary of the ses-
lntenu also to assume the name and STYLE
OIL Princeton university. 1 do not stop to
G 9re this by nice lines of demarcation.
Ihere are various kinds of universities
There is the university that consists Of fed.
eratlon OF colleges; the one that consists of
coordination of the great faculties of law
arts medicine and theology; the one that
confines its attention to graduate Studies and
is devoted to advanced research. and fno11N
tnere is the one in which the teaching func
lion is conspicuous, where communication of
truth already known is regarded as being
as much part of its work as the discovers
of new truth. Princeton does NOT intend ~
hegleet graduate work. Nor does she on tb a
othef hand, intend to allow her underoradn
1 aIe work TO drop to subordinate position
we intend to do the best work possihIa viii
the men who come to spend four yaars ~
US prior 10 entering upon professional strdv
princeton aim should be to stand nreemi
.isnt III pure culture, science literature and
philosophy To our already brilliant faonIt,,
we must add strong men as VIC go+ n
tuhlty our excellent curriculum nonst h.
hlaue 10 bear better fruit in orr host st,S
Slts py making more marked the distinction
petween pass men and honor men And ON
Honor men should be expected IN do g..
!lLsher work IN course of congruous studias
Ihah our universities now demand of tben,
I've shaii do our work in obedience tn tho
hidden logic of our organic life. We $3.50
6ow ,i 9noer the conditions imposed upon us
ny ne OF $50 years. We have great howl
tase IN our history; and we do not mean to
De Iaise TO history or faithless to the ereat
81 spust imposed upon us by those whose benee
Do no4 nay nave MADE Princeton what it is. We
uo not exist simply to meet the wants of n
certain locality. We are national in orr in
tt we 90 not belong to any denomina-
d 5,Th Oh christians, though we own our in
ueUteuneSs TO the Presbyterian influences I'm
on which Princeton was founded onS ~ w
winch IL mas been fostered ever since W.
nave mad a large place in the relieious bic
t t Oh TINS land We have made our contri-
lISf Of &c.,
anu philosophy. Princeton has seryed ~
Shrlst and she has served the state One of
ner presidents was a signer of the decIara
eiuu VI independence and member of the
SohIihehtal congress; nine Princeton men sat
IN the convention that met to form fba oon
stltutlon of the United States: the three Mans
out OF which the existing constitution came
were made in large part by three Prinoatnn
men; the Virginia plan by Madison. the Nan,
Jersey plan by Patterson; the Connecticut
plan by Oliver Ellsworth Political science
ana religious philosophy have always been
foremost studies in Princeton They orc -
day Physical science has always been ron
resented in Princeton. We have had Guvot
ana Henry in former days; we have Rrackett
ana Young today. We are widely conserya-
tlVe we think, but we are open-eved and
hospltabie to new ideas when thew come MON
erly accredited. We believe in Christianit
not as something to wear or profess. but ss
sonethlng TO enter into the making of high
mannood- We are devoted to the advance
ment of knowledge. but we hold that the
learning which we print in books is NOT &c
Valuaole as the learning that we build into
u .aIe Inc outcome OF culture should be
noble character, and into the making of This
there should enter deep conviction reverence
for truth, sense of right faith in God a
love OF country, and readiness to spend
ana be spent in the service of Others The
institution that helps to do this for tha NOV
who are trained in it is doing a great work
and deserves well of those who feel as T feel
that IN the conscience of the educated man
ar
t1nu1ng to say that we do not despair of the
republic" ~
The next speaker was Prof. West
who confined his remarks chiefly tc
an outline of the proposed sesoui-cen.
fennlal celebration at Princeton in DC.
tober. 1t was a long way, he said
from st. Paul to Princeton, but the.
ologically speaking, he thought the dis.
tance should be short if there was any
meaning in the names
We are here in the interest of the
sesqui-centennial celebration at Prince.
tom he added. 1--WE have found q
Princeton in Chicago, and another in
madison, in both of which cities we
have been and were entertained by
graduates of Old Nassau. We are go.
Ing to celebrate the 15Oth anniversary
OF the founding of Princeton. The
word sesqui-centennial is a mouth
filling word, and is a filing word any-
now The charter was signed in 1876
and even if there is nothing else to
celebrate there are two of it's provis.
Ions which will we'll bear comment
grafton.
Even in the colonial period it was in
the minds Of the men who drew up the
charter that Princeton should riya.