The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-17
NEWARK BOYS
AMONG GRADS"
At OLD RUTGERS
College I42 Years Old Sends Out
Large Class Of Young
Men.
PROFESSORS DEFEAT
SENIORS AT BASEBALL
Members of Alumni for Years
Back Hold ReuniOns--Many
0rations.
Especial to the Evening start

lRBNNAaA - tAfN FNhAh AoA-
NEW BRUNSWICK, June 17.-scar-
let and black, the colors of Rutgers
College, are very much in evidence in
this old town, in honor of the 142d
commencement exercises which will be
held in the gymnasium tonight. Old
and m~iddle-aged men of the alumni
displayed the colors of their alma mater
O. their coat lapels, while the gradu-
ates of 1908 and the younger students
had scarlet and black ribbons on their
canes and hats, and the mothers and
sisters wore the colors.
Here is the New Jersey class which
will be graduated at the commence
ment exercises his evening: w. w.
Berdan, Paterson; C~unningston ID.
Black. Port Jervis: Harry f. Brewer,
Elizabeth; Eugene S. Brokaw, Bound
Brook; Charles B. Carman, Railway;
Stockton Cranmer and Philip l.. Dodd,
Somerville; Warren l.. Dubois, Free
hold; Charles Elliot, Scotch Plains;
Harry S. Teller. this city; Douglas
Judson Fisher. Sayreville; Alvin Bar
tholdi -Tox, Perth Amboy; Howard S.
Giles, Newark; Morris j.. Gluck, Perth
Amboy; Max j. Hemmer, jr., and
Thornton M. HOPPER. Newark; Harris
A. Jemison, Kingston; Elmer w. Kent,
this city; Harry Levenson, Woodbine;
Robert Allen Lufburrow, Atlantic High
lands; Alfred j. Mahnken, Union Hill;
Clifford l.. Mason, Trenton; John w.
Moett. Fords; Clarence L.. Pfersch, Ho-
boken; Richard C. Rice. this city; Will
lam Personet Seldom, Paterson; Harold
R. Segoine, Point Pleasant; James H.
Smith, North Plainfield; Martin S.
| Steelman, Ocean City; Frank S. Slim
son, Linden; Arthur c.. Swift. Red
Bank; Charles r. Thompson, Freehold;
Charles M. Warner, Elizabeth; Ripley
Watson, Jersey City; Theodore Wy
man, jr.. ~Somerville..
The twenty-ffth anniversary reunion
of the class of 1883, of which President
w. H. S. Demarest, of the college. is a
member, was held last night at the
home of he president. Other class and
society reunions were held at hotels
and in the fraternity houses. These
juniors and their orations, given in the
gymnasium, follow: L.. J. Shafer,
Schenectady, N. Y, "The Finger of
Destiny f.. NJ. Potter, Metuchen,
"war and It's Importance in the His
tory of the United States;" S. A De
van, of this city, "Commercialism in
History f. l.. Bascom, Bound Brook
"Our National Forests" ]. B. Scott
this city, Are We Worthy of Our In
heritance?" w. C. Sedan, of this city
1.-THE Good and Bad in the Modern
Newspaper"
There was a large crowd at the class
day exercises in the Ballantine gym
nasium in the afternoon, and r. A
Lufburrow presented the class memoria'
to the college. The memorial consists
of brownstone posts in front of the
gymnasium. The presentation of me-
mentoes and the class prophecy took
place in the gymnasium chapel, and or
the campus the pipe grafton was deliv-
cred and the class ivy planted.
The professors beat he seniors in 9
game of baseball in the morning or
Nelson Field by a score of 6 to 4. Pro
fessors Chamberlain, Cox, Hanson
whitman, Quackenbush, Billetdeux
Morris. Prentis and Parratt played
great ball.