New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-08
CHESHIRE ALUMNI DINE.
YELL KNOWN MEN SPEAK.
Graduates of old School Do Honor
to Their alma Mater.

Nearly two hundred alumni OF Cheshire School OF
cheshire Conn, dned last night at the Hotel AS
TOT General Joseph Wheeler is president OF the
association and presided at the dinner. Vice-Pres-
ldent J. Pierpont Morgan unable to attend
CYRUS La Rue Munson, class II, acted as toast
master. The speakers were Roland J. Milford, the
mead master; Bishop Edwin S. Lines, of Newark
class Of '6s President F1avel S. Luther of Trinity
College, George Egbert Wright of the class OF H.
and others
That true school spirit still remains in the
hearts of the graduates was made manifest when
horns and rattes were provided in the middle or
the dinner. The din which Immediately began was
deafening. and did subsde until the old school
song rang out. This followed by yeils for
the occasion. The room decorated with Amer
lean flags and the blue pennants Of Cheshire a
feature of the dinner a stereoptcon eXhlDlI
of school scenes.
The school was established military acad-
envy in 1884. It was reorganized by Joseph W.
Hartman in 1894 1t is now run on the Enslish
system.
General Wheeler eulogized the old school which
seven generations have known" Since his school
days, he said. this country has arisen from ap-
parent obscurity to TIE dictatorship of the world
He said:
What has made our country so great? 1t is edq-
cation Russia has double our population, but 1t
where it is to-day because 90 per cent of its popu
other hand. universally educated
MIR. Munson then arose. He renominated the Off
of the association for next year, and declared
them reelected The association agreed enthusiast
cally He then continued
Some Of us have the appearance of age. but none
of ever viii be old. All of US cherish Cheshire
IN our hearts Many of our fellow anGan are are
law, in the clergy, in statecraft in business one
make our school what It is. Cheers for Joseph ".
hartmann You and L shall pass away, but the
graduates OF Cheshire Academy VIII carry a e
56S that Of tRsF h Best ass peeSn c
zens.
HEADMASTvER C,HEERFD
Headmaster milford was next received with
cheers. He said:
Cheshire Academy has changed its educational
ideals many times, but has always stood in the
foremost preparatory institutions The college au-
thoTities and the outside world look TO see IN s 9u
character That the old Cheshire is to be continued
It IS to the alumni that that the School looks Tor its
support While it has made many new friends ~ II
its alumni, and not to strangers.
F J CogsweU then recited oliver Wendell
Holiness poem, 1.-THE Boys" with several appropri-
ate changes. Bishop Lines. of Newark. followed
in short address. He said:
The narrowness and hardness of our Puritan
fathers hundred years ago, inherited from the
English churchmen never affected the Cheshire
Religious tolsraton Bishop Campell the great
mTsi Foot and seeretsTy wells. who managed the
War Department early in the civil war, were llS
graduates. The sons Of Cheshire were arralgned
both sides in that great struggle and we rejoice
in their honor, whether they wore the gray or the
blue. Now, faces turned toward the future
and hearts full of courage and nope i
want to see school keep its doors open through
the possession Of great scholarship funds, so that
people of all financial positions may enjoy its ad-
vantages.
The Rev ]. F Sexton then proposed That the
association have committees In various parts OF
the country to form minor associations, and to
issue a quarterly magazine bearing tho name OF
the Alumni Association. These proposals were
adopted.
PROFESSOR WOODBURY. SPEAKS.
Professor Fri D. Woodbury. was shen called on
He was formerly head Of the school. and song
haviGg his name as the chorus was started up He
spoke of the past and expressed his pleasure in
seeing his former pupils.
After the dinner Mr.. Hartman invited the guests
to step into the big ballroom and witness some ath-
letic contests by students, and the invitation
accepted without exception. The ministers and
professors and of affairs gathered around the
the gallery Mr.. Moriya, of local Japanese paper,
popular misconcepton of ju jitsu in this country.
He said it was am of offence and defence Origi-
mated by the feudal mobiles of Japan, and that its
secrets had been so carefully guarded from genera
ton to generation that not man outside of Japan
to-day knows them and that all asserting TO have
such knowledge and arts in their possession are
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