Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
SONS OF "OLD NASSAU"
Have an Enjoyable Time at
the New Willard.
BANQUET OF ALUMNI
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
MAKES AN ADDRESS.
Tells of the Functions Of the Univers-
ity of Today-A Distinguish
ed Company.

night. To Woodrow Wilson, the new presi-
dent of the university, was paid the par
ticular honors Of the occasion, and Presi-
dent Wilson's speech on the university
ideal was the feature Of the banquet. In
contrast to it's setting of rollicking song
and joke, it weighted the balance with
the freshest thought in a vivid picture of
the advancing university, abreast Of the
rapid human progress Of the world.
( A huge tiger skin hung from the ball
cony wall at the foot Of the table. This
lent inspiration to those in whose minds
the songs Of the campus are most fresh'
and who monopolized this end of the hail.
The table spread out on either side Of
bed of potted palms and ferns and was
fringed nearest the green with bountlful
supplies Of cut flowers. At the head. as
background to the president, General James
M. Johnston, and the honored guests, was
draped a huge flag of orange and black
Princeton's colors.
There were college songs interspersed
with the toast responses. A new song to
President Wilson was the fayorite It was
ended with the familiar words. {" tbs Will
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is ALL
The faculty song, in which the peculiar
characteristics. Of each professor is dis
cussed, brought back happy memories
When the hour was getting late Bum
Brownlee jumped into the oratorical ring,
threw off his coat and all restraint. ana ana
sketehed ora5Gry on e ase
Toastmaster Henry E. Davis. or plain
Harry" as he was called last night as
signed his speakers most happily Judge
J. K Richards formerly solicitor general,
was put on his mettle to defend Har-
ward, after the Introduction or Mr. laws
Yale was represented by Frazier u. Heaa,
introduced as the best Chocktaw orator IN
the hall. Prof. G. J.. Raymond OF the
Princeton faculty was heard, and Jack
Gibbon, also of the faculty. was welcomed
with a song. Blair Lee, In happg VEN
of cordiality, welcomed President wilson
on behalf of the association, as the head
of the university. When the last coliege
yell had been given, in both the OLD ana
the new way, and the last of many Three
Cheers for Old Nassau sung. the hour was
late.
President Wilson's Address.
After commenting somewhat disappoint-
ed1v on the Interpretation which he de-
clared the yellow journals" had given
some of his public utterances, President
Wilson made himself at home with the
alumni with the. remark I am going to De
INV own delightful self" He had spent
4. wear in his efforts to really find out what
the university was, he continued anu
promised to come to washington at some
future time and tell what ne hao iouhu
out.
"And still harder is 1t to tell what am
going to do" he continued. suppose
don't do it. No, 1t is great deal better
for me to stick to generalfties Iney are
easy to stick to. and men are now taking
generalities They have talked general
tiles SO much about education that we
are in the field to inuire what education
amounts to? What the university means!
And why are university men apologize
about the older kind OF training ?-allow
men to get them on the run and assume
that a university man must be put upon
his proofs?
1nroof of the pudding Is in the eating there
of and that university men have proved
themselves to be serviceable to the world.
The difficulty is that we have not SUM-
GENTLY disseminated the kind Of service
the university man is expected to render
to the world. In recent years we have been
trying to make our universities suitable
places for every kind Of man to go to- II
is not the place for everybody, but for the
man who expects to play particular part
in life.
a man tool for specially restricted teen
meal task. There are schools for that pur'
nose which should be maintained and bet
tered. But they are not the university, and
it's task is not their task.
The Rivalry Of Imitation.
President Wilson said there was all sorts
Of rivalry among the greater universities
Of this country But 1t was rivalry
which was the result Of imitation.
But" said he, when you have got $50
years back Of you, you know what your
character is, and 1t Is our business to de-
velop Princeton In the characteristic
Princeton way and not initiate anybody
else.
.One of the things which we have to
contend against in this democratic country
is similarity-those' processes that tend to
make all Of US alike We have got TO
no Of mo,
and making them all after the same pat
tern The university which contributes to
variety, Is contributing to moro power |
believe that the thing the university ought
to do for the man is to furnish him with
a little world of thought, observation and
action. which will fit him for the big
world of achievement into which he is
going out.
Man for working out this ideal to a
greater extent, for making students and
professors more nearly comrades.
.sBut," he said, Yin the severe applica-
tton of. the mind you cannot make an I'M
Ser-eraduate a scholar in four years. 1t
ia TOO short Forty years are too short to
make man a scholar. You can only put
into him the spirit of scholarship"
80 The Object Of Reading.
,rouchins on the object of reading, Presi-
dent Wilson said: -
.aThe object Of reading is to give yourself
travelled mind You know how travelled
mind a man has to- have in these days to
tackle any affair. t99r know that the whole
world has become the field for every kind
of undertaking, and man whose minds
Imagination has not gone the grand tour
cannot be the right man
ga man who has n6trseen the conditions or
foibles of life does not know how to sell his
goods or to manufacture them. But it is
the man whose mind has gone abroad over
the vast areas. of Me world that is fit. The
obseryant eye and the. capacity to see what
you observe andr TO discriminate the rela-
tionships of what yAp see Is what makes
the modern man Of Business"
university Is the.paaca to invite the man to
enlarge on the whole map Of life." e,
Annual Election.
Previous to the banquet the annual cleo
ton of officers wassAsId. with the following
result: President Jehnston and Secretary
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