The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-21
PROF. ]. B. RYDER
 LEAVES HOPKINS Resigns After Nearly Forty Years Service as Mathe-
 matics Teacher. ANNUAL EXERCISES. New Dormitory Will be Ready for Occupancy
 by September.
ANNUAL EXERCISES.

Hopkins grammar school held yester- day afternoon at Lampson lyceum, Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. one of the board of trustees of the school announced the retirement of James Bradford Ryder who has since January, 1868, been professor of mathematics at the school. Mir, Ryder took an M A. degree from Yale in 1893. He will remain with the school as a professor emeritus. Judge Baldwin in speaking of him said that the success of the work with the younger boys was largely due to his efforts and that the board of trustees had unanimously voted to ask him to remain with the school and keep up in some degree the work he had commenced.
 Judge Baldwin also announced the acquirement of a dormitory for the boys attending Hopkins who live out of town, and said that the home will be ready for occupancy by September 1.
 Dr. James M. Whiton who was rector of the school from 1S54-1S64, addressed the graduating class. Dr. Whiton graduated from Yale in 1853. He said that when he came here there were five students in the school and that within a month 20 per cent of them had died. Within a few years the enroll rnent of the school had increased to thirty-four, Tn 1855, said Dr. Whiton, a junior department was added to the school. There was but one finished room at that time, the rest of the pres ent building being used by the rector for the storage of apples. In the ten years he was there the attendance in- creased so that the average for the whole period was 56 1-2 During the first three years of the civil war the attendance was very small, but ever since then the school has flourished. The late Dr. Robert Ives was one of the most industrious of lis pupils.
 The grind of nine to eleven recita- tions which he had to personally su- perintend drove Dr. Whiton to resign. but his successors have carried out his ideas until now the school has broad ened and enlarged. In closing pr. Whiton said:
 II find in Yale charm which can not find in Michigan or any of the newer colleges. Many generations look down here, affording inspiration, an inspiration of history which can never be createdsby the gifts of mtlionaires
 Leland Stanford went to Harvard inquired the value of it's buildings and said he would duplicate them in the far west. Such an assertion reminds one of the question: Can God make two year old colt in half an hour"
 Hopkins grammar school is in the same class with Winchester, Eton, Harrow and Rugby. Membership in, the families which rescued the country from barbarians is worth something now that the country has been flooded with the influx of foreigners. In the same way Is membership in Hopkins valuable, Hopkins the forerunner and hamburger of the university close at hand
 There Is one inestimable disadvan- tage in the nearness of Yale. That is that teh large institutions crowd and swallows up the small ones'
 George Ray Nettleton, a member of the graduating class, read his English prize essay on "The Sources of Na- poleon's Power" He was followed by James Dowd Lester, who delivered the salutatory address In his address he gave brief history of the school and of the activities of the past four years. He said:
 The enrolment is larger than for twenty years. Sufficient money has been raised for an athletic house at Pratt field. he.Trustees have procur- ed a dormitory. The advance has been due largely to the efforts of our new rector, Arthur B. Woodford.
 ''Our school Hays at Hopkins have formed an epoch of our lives. Besides what we have learned from books there and the pleasant associations, we can defy circumstances to make our ties of affection for each other and for our alma mater"
 Spencer Frank Moore of Schenectady, IN. r., who was valedictorian said Education awakens in a man a sense of responsibility for his fellowmen. He decides to become an important factor in the worlds progress The person who is continually following the rut of his forefa thers will never win in the race for life. To know nothing, to have nothing and to do nothing is to be nothing. We owe a great deal to the progress of the last century. We should not forget moral education, for unless the heart is right we will fail in what ever we undertake.
 Your trustees, who have been sup porting the school faithfully, moving toward prosperity you now enter upon a greater trust. We wish you every success. To the faculty and our rec tor: we begin to appreciate more than ever your work and your influence. In the past year there has been a rare de- gree of harmony existing between the faculty and the school, we hope that your memory of us will be as pleasant as our memory is of you
 For us, classmates, I can think of nothing better than to go through our lives with our duty well performed, whatever suffering we encounter cheer fully endured. and the works of our careers finally will be accomplished"
 During the exercises the Glee club sang Dear Old Hopkins,' and Friendship and the school sang "Vale" and the "Pilgrim's Chorus" Seated with Dr. Whlton and Professor Woodford on the platform were Judge Baldwin, Dean Andrew Phillips, Dean Henry P. Wright and Professor Hora> tion Seymour
 The announcement of prize winners for the year were: Greek prize, first, Stanley A. Goldsmith of New London;