New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
GUEST OF BROWN ALUMNI
Governor Hughes attends Their
Dinner at Boston.

Boston March 1a-The thrty-ffth annual re-
union and dinner of the Sons of Brown University
in Boston and vicinity held at the American
House tonight More than six hundred and fifty
alumni and guests were present Governor Charles
f Hughes Of New York. of the class of 81 was
the guest of honor. Browns cheers and songs, led
by c. w. Townsend. 81 enlivened the gathering,
and the speakers of the evening were greeted with
great enthusiasm.
Charles r. Adams, So president of the alumni
association, presided at the dinner The speakers,
besides Governor Hughes. were President w. II. P.
Faunce, so. of Drown University: ex-Congress-
Samuel l.. Powers. Dartmouth. ~. of Bos-
ton; Borden D. Whiting, 'es, Of Newark, n. j.:
the Rev. Dr.. o. P. Clifford, "a. of Brookline Mass
DR. Frederick L. Gamasei, Of Providence. r. L.,
and Lewis F. Parkhurst Dartmouth rs. of Bos-
At business meeting preceding the dinner the
following officers of the alumni association were
elected: President. the Rev. DR.. J. NJ. English TO-
of Newton Centre; vice president, George F. Bean,
81, Of Boston, secretary, Charles E. Gift 's7. of
Boston, and treasurer. F. w. Woodcock 81, of
Boston.
Governor hughes spoke as follows
1 am not here tonight as a New Yorker still less
the Governor of New York am here simply as
alunnus of brown to testify to my loyalty TO
my alma mater and to have good time with the
old boys 1t was worth the long journey to find
ton is concerned, L will say that am melted by
A great deal has been said about my experiences
al Brown / remarked the other day that il had
who talked about them. I am told by some. not
in that language, but with very adequate descrip-
ton. that was a little prig am told by others
that / did not study, and that. somehow or other,
L got through reading fiction Still others in
sist that l immersed in science until my beard
had
Now, proud of the Brown OF to-day.
think il is better Brown than il has ever been.
glad be here to welcome great president,
Tor ne is ii great president. and every Brown man
should recognize that and support him Loyalty.
They expect good deal of in New York
some things rightly. some things wrongly. There
who think the Governor ought to be the
whole thing-Legslature. courts and all. There are
others who do not want him to be quite as much
as he ought to be. and in doing his duty according
the constitution and the statutes and keeping
within his sphere and exerting his proper influence
and more he has almost much to do ten
men ought to try to do
Ny friends, the influence of the executive in our
different commonwealths is a great influence and
it be unfailingly eXerted. far as II can be
with human failibility and our errors of JucG-
ment. and for the purpose of getting anything
himself, for the purpose of in way real
izing a supposed personal wrong. but simply that
the people may have public rights safeguarded may
feel that every question that may emerge for
executive action it will be taken in accordance with
honest Judgment and with true desire to serve
the people that placed him in that responsibility
Governor Hughes left for Albany at 1:3o tonight
by way of the Boston & Maine Railroad.