The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-02-25
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Doodle into the dining hall, where, after
grace was said by Rev. J. Macnaugh-
tan, D. D., an elaborate luncheon was
served by Caterer Day of Morristown.
At the conclusion of the luncheon the
doors were opened into Lafayette Hall,
whittier all repaired to listen to the ora
ton of the day by Austin Scott, LII. D.,
president of Rutgers College, on the
theme "Washington's Unwon Battle. -
The address was spirited and intensely
interesting, and was well received and
applauded earnestly throughout and is
given in full below.
The list of the members al d guests
p present is as follows so far as they regis
tered:
Jonathan w. Roberts, Fitz John Por-
ter, John R. Emery, Henry q. Pit
ney, VIM. j. Magic, Austin Scott,
W. W. Cutler, Henry N. Dodge,
Albert Erdman. Robert J. Turn
bull, Landreth H. King, VIM. w. Wood
ward, JohnC, Howell, James F. Maury,
Samuel V. Hoffman, E. W. Coggeshall,
T.
Peck, j. Alderman Coles, F. M. Tiche-
nor, Amos Clark, J.W. Hays,I. E. Gates,
VIM. G. Allison, Geo. w. Sickle, Jas.
W. Miller, Henry J. Misel, John A.
Chambers, Jerome Taylor, Fred H. Nish-
WITT, II. NJ. Dalrymple, Geo. R. Howe,
James Nelson. S. H. Little, Geo. G. Kip,
W. D. Vanderpool, Wynant Vanderpool,
James Clark, Fred H. Beach, J. e.
G0hr Do
coe Lyon, Frank Turnbull, A. L. Revere,
Samuel S. Childs, Edwin A. L. Lewis,
Henry Hayes, Chas. S. Stockton, Albridge
c. Smith, Phil. B. Pierson, George E.
Voorhees,, Nathaniel Niles, Andrew
Reasoner, Joseph R. Ames, J. E.
Howell, Franklin B. Dwight, John
Macnaughtan, Alfred Elmer Mills,
Alexander Bennell, Charles e. Rock
wood, James G. Barnet, Joseph H. Van
Doren, D. Farrand Sturgis, j. L.
Cobb, James W. Cromwell, Eugene S.
Burke, James R. Voorhees,, Joseph F.
Randolph, ]. Frank Lindsey. F. S.
Bradford, c. P. Buckley, H. G. Emmell,
S. B. Patterson, Hobart Garfield, John
#. Boylan, J. E. Currier. Henry P.
Jones, S. G. Halsey, Matthias Plum,
Charles Hooker Baldwin, S. H. Plum,
1. N. Van De Water, A. L. Reynolds,
Edwin Greble Dreer, George R. Gray.
Isaac g. Arnold, W. M. Hughes, VIM.
Morris Franklin, Augustus T. Libby,
Stephen S. Day, VIM. c. Renwick. John
H. Lidgerwood, T. G. Bushnell, A. q.
Downing, Jr., L. o. Stiles.
GUESTS.
Charles S. Bird. Edward Morgan,
VIM. q. Morton, VIM. Halsey Peck,
Trysinger Evans, VIM. G. hamburg,
King Sickle Dram, Peter M. Hall,
Lewis F. Sturgis, VIM. G. Van Doren,
John Voorhees,, John G. F. Randolph,
Thomas B. Ironside, Roy Nelson Berry,
Justin Frank Lindsey, Albert B.
Forsythe, H. M. Smith, N. H.
Martin, II. Percy Jones, w. T.
Magic, E. B. Hazeltine, A. H.
Baldwin, Madison Alling, NJ. G. Will
kins. James H. Barker, Jr., Stuart H.
Reed, G. E. Young, O. w. Jackson,
Richard B. Lyon, VIM. Childs, Jr.,
James D. voorhees,, Ludwig Schu-
macher. Arson Amman Carter, Ken
needy Newell, E. W. Kimball, Her
bert B. Howe, A. L. Crossman, A. M
Young, w. G. Duyckinck, w. L. Cur
rier, Charles E. Thomas, j. Landlord
Reeves, Leonard B. Lampman, Frank P.
Hill, Frank Waller Perkins, Lewis F.
Corwin.
The full text of DR.. SCOTS Grafton is
as follows:
Washington's Unwon Battle
why! Whoever thought of finding fault
with Hercules?'' cried the Spartan to him,
who proposed to eulogize the Strong God.
With like cry might he be met. who would
offer to add one drop to the brimming cup of
the praises of Washington. But on the other
hand the familiar words of Lord Brougham
caught my eye the other day, printed in the
current issue of one of our magazines 1T
will be the duty of the historian and the sage
in all ages to omit no occasion of commemorate
ing this illustrious man; and until time shall
be no more will a test of the progress which
our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be
derived from the veneration paid the i'm
mortal name of Washington" This Associa-
ton is not made up of professed historians
and sages, but its purpose is no less exalted
than theirs. From the various callings and
walks of everyday life we gather in annual
reunion to acknowledge that the respon-
sibility rests on every man to test his con-
duct and ideals citizen by the unchang-
ing standard given him in Washington.
shall De quite content IL may D0 sure ludI
any word of mine in telling an old story in
the next half hour, has prompted or renewed
a suggestion, which in the ensuing months
shall expand into larger and finer concep-
ton of the duties of citizenship, into more
fervent gratitude for the privileges granted us
and greater zeal in the pursuit of civic right
In small book of 800 pages, printed five
years ago. giving for the benefit of his English
eIlow-subjects an outline of the political
history of the United States, Professor Gold
win Smith says of Washington that he never
won a battle.'' Others besides Professor
Smith have refused Ito number among the
greatest captains general who acted on so
small scale,'' and Carlyle was for taking
George down peg or two" The answer is
ready; Greatness; is not always bgness alone;
it may be manifest though the scale and the
means be small. and in a remote well as in
an immediate result. If battle must mean the
precise marshalling and handling In open
field conflict of, say, $500 men at least, Wash
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