The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-12
LIVELY DARTMOUTH DINNER.
Dr. Brown IS Rules Ignored TO Greet Bishop
TaIb VI and President Tucker.

Tab VI and President Tucker.
About 200 sons OF Dartmouth gathered
az the Hotel. Savoy last night to sing the
songs of coll ege days and honor the presi-
dent, the Rev. DR.. William j. Tucker.
The Rev. l)r. Francis Brown of the class
of 20, as pre- siding officer OF the New York
Alumni ASS. o~ciafion. announced at the
start that there would be no cheering or
singing until after the dinner had been
serve
Just about that time somebody at a table
in the rear IF the room had been confiding
10 an Interested group the fact that Bishop
Talbot of central Pennsylvania, -the bar
room Bishop sf Idaho, had written a book
about his experiences in the West and
that he had be en- greeted in one place with
the remark. -N0w. where in he'll did I see
you before7"
President Bro vn had hardly concluded
his request whei, this cheer rang out.
wah. VINO, wabi yah, Who. wahi Tigerl Bishop
Talbot.
Where In held ! " you beforei
And the respon pc came from a nearby
table:
wah. Who. wah. T, veri
Out among the Indi ms.
After tina it was all of so far as dinner
conventjonalities we're concerned, n
everybody was cheered from President
Tucker down to the humblest graduate.
President Tucker said that the state
ment had often been made that Dartmouth
will tend naturally in her development
toward a university. he that II
wa. the in IGNITION of the trustees at present
TO keep the institution a college. Personally
he believed that DaTtr louth should remain
a college.
Il believe" said President Tucker, that
il is the significant fact that the college
stands pledged to it's life as a college if it
can he shown that there Is Sufficient reason
for it's taking that stand"
He believed that it was Dartmouth's
function as a college 10 introduce into the
American thought and TO familiariZe the
American people with the idea OF a great
college as distinguished from a university.
The day of the small college, he declared,
was over. They have come 70 be no longer
practical.
THE time has come" said he. -for a great
college as distinguished from the under
graduate bodies in the great universities.
To my mind the college is the core and
heart of higher education. No one hears
to-day the discussion about shortening
the college course. The popular thought
has accepted the decision and has acted
on it,"
Henry c. Ide. late Governor-General of
the Philippines, spoke strongly against
the traffic determinations that had been
made against the people OF tne lSldnuS.
In the matter Of the hemp % alone,
he said, nearly s., 900 600 were trlken out
of the Filipino treasury, away from their
schools and other things for which there
is a crying need. This was lone to enrich
not the United States. but special interests
whose voices had been powerful enough
to put the legislation through at WASH
inRton.
Il believe such a policy as that is an in
famous policy and one the United States
does not believe in said Mr.. 1de.
In regard to the law which is shortly TO
go into effect requiring all exports 10 the
Philippines TO he carried m America bot
toms MIR. Idle declared it Vas tantamount
10 taking money ont of the earnings of the
Filipinos to enrich the great railroads which
will carry stuff 10 the Pacific coast because
there is no shipping on the Atlantic in
American bottoms. Mr.. Ide described the
representatives of the special interests
lowering around Washington as "A flock
OF buZZards.
Are we going to talk about being their
trustees and about having rescued them
from the tyranny of Spain and yet with
all these pretences proceed to exploit them
through the action of one body Of our ma
tional Congress-
The Rev. DR.. Henry van Dyke spoke for
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