New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-18
NEM.JERSEY NEWS.
COMMENCEMENT AT STEVENS.
s1xTY.oNE YOUNG MEN RECEIVE THE DE-
GREE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEER
president MORToNs
HAPPY ADDRESS.

The twenty fifth annual commencement OF Stew
ems Institute OF Technology was held last night
in the Lyric Theatre. Hoboken. Sxty-one young
men received the degree of Mechanical Engineer
After an overture by the orchestra the Rev.
William r. Jenvey, rector Of ST. Pauls Protestant
Episcopal Church. Hoboken. offered prayer.
DIR. Henry Morton president of the institute foi-
lowed with an address, in which he said. IN part
"As you perhaps know. have been samphng
commandments during the last few days. ana
from my inspection Of the classes turned out by
other institutions feel proud Of the class whicn
we are graduating tonight. Ours is not genera'
orchard. raising all sorts OF fruit as is the case
Of the great universities. where they nave crops
Of DOCTORS divnes and bachelors OF all sor's anu
OF both sexes. The sort Of fruit we turn OUT
think U.s. In the colloQuial saying OF the day.
daisies
eve NAV look forward to the future. believe
with the assurance that the succeeding classes
will excel that OF this twenty-ffth year III NUM-
bers and completeness Of preparation as this c'ass
does our first class OF one. -
There is another observation rendered possioe
By the recent anniversary, and that Is the re-
markable revelation, demonstration. which
was made of what graduates OF the past years
have accomplished. The exhibition at our twenty
fifth anniversary Of products. machines and IN
struments devised and manufactured on COM
mercial scale by our students. was one that sur
prised even those Of who had the best means
of knowing what was going There was hardly
a class OF machinery which was not represented
and that by samples turned out on commercial
scale and In commercial quantities by men who
had left the institute to take such positions as
Young men may expect to secure. but who, WITHIN
few years have risen to positions OF responsible
ity and control. What others have done In this
direction before. those who now leaving have
better prospects of doing. by reason OF more thor
ough training"
H. Donald Tieman delivered the salutatory ad-
dress. after which Henry r. Towne. Of Stamford,
Conn., made an interesting address to the gradu-
ating class William Duane Ennis gave the vale
dictory address.
The graduates who received the degree OF Me-
chanicai Engineer were Harold w. Anderson, Jo-
seph NJ Towne a. Baldasano. Willard j. Beacn, J..
o. Ball Gordon l.. Hutchinst A. Beutier, T. !.
Bruno, T. j. Main, Donald Campbell, james r
Hunter Warren w. Chaplin. Char:es X Chrlsty'
Walter Kidde. Jacob f. Cromwell. Warren Davey'
Edwin r. Knapp. Roger Chew. Edgar T. Powers
Dates William d. Doughty. Louis El,eau W ii,iami
d Ennis Charles r. Grady, Leon Is. lept, Wl.iiaEi
A. Kirkland Charles NJ. +. Hidden. OLAF NJ kely.
Frank Koch IT., A. Il. Weichert. Percy Lltch-
field Conrad L. Meister. W. s. Handforth. wilbur
% Mallalieu II. c. Mathey f. G. H. Meyer, IT.
Paul s. Whitman, A. b. Miller A De Los smith.
Charles S. Mott, Frederick Ophdls. W. J. thomson
II. D. Tieman. A. NJ Orr jr.. F. f. SCOT: r. D.
Morton r. l.. Messim ,r Frederick L. Pryor, q +;
Richardson ]. A. Williamson. X. V. Rose, Edward
O. Steinbriggc. jr., Francis II. Sawyer Ihomas H.
Terry John Van Brunt, Edward G. Warren ~, ~
Williamson, Everett N Wood and Henry l. "oCl-