Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-25
ALUMNI At BANQUET
Graduates of George Wash
ington University Meet.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Addresses by Charles w. Fairbanks
and J. Adam Bede.
HOLD ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Songs Reminiscent of College Days.
Names of the Association Mem
bers and Guests.
HOLD ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Organized in 1887. the alumni associa-
ton of George Washington University
| assembled at Rauschers last night for it's
twenty-first annual banquet. and the af-
| fair proved one of the most notable in its
| history. Nearly one hundred covers were
spread and songs reminiscent of college
| days properly punctuated the feast of the
| good things of life and the equally sub
stantial feast of wit which followed The
| association entertained Vice President
| Fairbanks and Representative j. Adam
Bede both of whom made addresses
| A brief business meeting was held be-
| fore the dinner, and the following officers
were elected to rule the association for
the ensuing year:
| President, E. c. Brandenburg; vice pres
idents. DR.. D. Olin Leech, c. w. De
| Knight, ]. Wilmer Latimer. Selden M.
| Ely. Lem Towers. DR.. H. H. Donnally:
| secretary. II. L. HOdgkins; treasurer,
John B. Larner.
Introduces Vice President.
President Brandenburg acted as toast
master, and as the diners reached the
stage of cigars and cigarettes he pro-
posed a toast to Vice President Fair
banks which was drunk standing, while
veritable ovation of handclapping and
cheers greeted the accompanying refer
ence to the second officer of thee land.
Mr.. Fairbanks began his remarks by
complimenting the association and the
university. He specified three reasons
why he likes George Washington Uni
versty-frst because of its president. DR..
Charles w. Needham whom he desig-
| mated as the right man in the right place:
second, because of the presence in Its
faculty of a very dear friend. Chief JUS
tice Peelle. and third, because OF the
| name of the institution.
Il think the name George Washington
University very happy selection the
speaker said. 1T is according to the eter-
nal fitness of things that there should be
in this city great university honoring
and being honored by the name of George
Washington" The Vice President spoke
greatness of the Capital city and of the
libraries, labora tories. art galleries
maintained here by the United States
government as of unequaled value
to students. He closed by again COM
plimenting the great work of the univer-
sity, which, he said. is doing its part
toward the equipment and training of the
young men in whom the destinies of the
country will rest.
Representative Bede Speaks.
Representative j. Adam Bede of Mime
sofa was the next speaker, and he jumped
back and forth from the serious to the
mock serious with all the facility for
which he has long been famed, pounding
home good solid truths at one moment
and in the next raising shouts of laughter
as he retailed some of his best stories
with points appropriately illustrating the
various phases of his subject He opened
with a tribute to Mr.. Fairbanks. whom
he characterized as one of the best pre-
siding officers the Senate has ever seen.
But they are mixed crowd over there.
he added. Some are old men with young
wives. others are men with more imam
one wife and others have been indicted by
the grand juries. In fact we have reached
the point where every time we see ina
flag of the Senate at half-mast we i'm
mediately reach the conclusion that an
other senator has gone wrong.
This led Mr.. Bede to remark that
United States senators have been indicted
for crimes that would have gone unnO-
ticed fifty years ago. in the time or Weo-
ster and Clay He drew from this an In
dication that the world is getting better
He thought it was all nonsense In people
uuibbling over the initiative and the refer-
endum. ....
tive from their referendum, he sald.
Defense of Statesmen.
Representative Bede went on to make
a defense of statesmen who come to
Washington and are charged with being
responsible for conditions for which the
people should take the responsibility He
thought il was about time for the puDllc
to stop agitating itself about the country
going to the 'demnition bow-wows.
Evils With Progress.
I'VE have been progressing since was
born. With the progress number OF IT.
tie evils have crept in. Fifty years ago
end of crosscut saw to his hired man,
there was not much difficulty in deter
mining the proper wage for the hlred
man. Today, the day of labor-saVlns de-
vices, things are diferen! EVER o1 ora,
i'm the Golfer of the capitalist has been
put there by the labor-saving machines
introduced since l have been on earth.
THE world is getting better, despite the
labor-saving devices IT Is gong 10 keep
ON getting better When 1t stops the
purpose for which man was created Will
have been completed. and the power that
put us here will tell us to run along
home. When the world no longer pro
eresses when the world no longer gets
better. then the mission of the George
washington University will be finished,
and that will be-never.
president Needham spoke about the
university. and told of it's great growth
in all departments within the past dec
ade. Other speakers were Justice JOSIAH
A. Van Orsdel of the Court OF Appeals
and Dr. Joseph j. kfnyoun or the rae
ulty of the university.
Names of Those Present.
Those present were: Vice President
Fairbanks. President Charles W.. Need
ham Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel. Rep
resentative j. Adam Bede. DR.. Joseph J.
Kinyoun. E. c. Brandenburg, DR.. George
N. Acker, DR.. G. c. zimmerman. Maj.
Frank l.. Averill. George w. Brown. c.
c. Calhoun, Dr. r. B. Carmichael. John
Doyle Carmody, Dr.. j. w. Chappell.
Durant Church. Melville Church. Arthur
M. Churchill. E. E. Clement. F. F. Cola
day. ]. Weed Corey. Allan Davis. Charles
Ray Dean, William A. De Caindry. Clar-
ence W. De knight, DR.. H. H. Donnally.
John Paul Earnest, selden NJ Ely; John
Joy Edison. John c. Fay, DIR. Robert
Fletcher, Norman P. Foster. Percy 8.
Foster DIR. R. A. Foster. DR.. L. L. Fried
rich Horace NJ. Fulton. Arthur B. Green.
Bernard r. Green. Rev. s. H. Greene. DR..
William Hamilton. Justice John NJ. Har-
| Ian Dr. f. A. Hill. r. E. Hinton. Prof.
H. l.. Hodgkins. DIR. A. r. Hooe. Glen E.
Hustled. DIR. V. B. Jackson. Hennen Jen-
| niEgs. William G. Johnson, DR.. Adam
Kemble. Paul v. Keyser. John B.