Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-09
PRINCETON ALUMNI At DINNER
PROF. WEST SPEAKS ON COL
LEGE CONDITIONS.
Advises Simplification of Method
Now in Vogue-Oficers
Are Elected.

Tiser-like roars that may have fright
tened the rural jewellers In the vicinity ot
the Chevy Chase Club last night die
not emanate from the throat of rea
prince of the jungle. but were the OK
prssions OF enthusiasm from a hundred
or more graduates OF Princeton at the an
nual banquet of the Washington Alumni
Association I'm the club dining rooms
Stern realities of busy struggle for
fame and fortune were laid aside for the
evening by the men of Old Nassau. The
atmosphere of college days was recreated
about the festive banquet board. will
it's decorations of the yellow and
Black"
From the oldest grad present. Harry A.
Mum. If the class of 1S47. down to the
youngest addit ion. fresh from the scene
of the class room and cap and gown.
every man Joined in the Princeton songs
with vim and sounded the praises OF
alma mater.
Henry e Davis - acted as toastmas-
ter ard introduced as the guest and
speaker of the evening, Prof. Andrew
west. -. dean of the graduate schooI
and close personal friend of the late
President Grover Cleveland.
Princeton" was the toast to which the
professor was called upon to respond.
He Contrasted the needs and work of the
college OF today with the educational IN
Stitution of the past The old-faSh1onCd
college he said. with its simple curriculum
has been supplanted by a complex lot of
ramifying courses, wherein there Is often
much confusion as to what they stand for.
For the the past fifteen or twenty years.
ne declared. there has been a confusion in
American colleges. At present there arc
no two alike There must he a change.
he held. or all will suffer in consequence.
Prot West concluded:
Before the civil war less than 1 per
cent of the white male population were
college graduates. Yet from this | per
cent was produced one-half of the Pres-
dents. one-half of the Vice Presidents. 10
per cent OF the senators. and three-tenths
of the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives. every chief justice of the
United States. and seven-eighths of the
associate justices. and this all from the
old-fashioned college with its small
course and meager studies.
rs it any wonder that parents. editors
and others in general are convinced that
ii pays to send a boy to coliege?"
Harry a. Mum. eighty-three years Of
age. the oldest Princeton man in the Dis
trict. recited the history of the Wash
ington Alumni Association. telling of It's
growth from the inception and formation.
thirty-nine years ago. down to the pres
ent. He said the association is the oldest
of its kind in Washington.
Others who responded to toastS were
Civil Service Commissioner Henry .
Green Justice Gould and Justice Daniel T
Wright.
At the short business meeting held be-
fore the dinner officers for the esung
year were elected as follows: President.
A. B. Kelly: secretary. Thomas Dunlop:
vice presidents, DR.. A. f. Bulloch, Henry
F. Green. Charles Henry Butler. Judge
A, r. Hagner, James NJ. Johnston. Victor
Kaufman. jr., II. B. Mum, DR.. w.
Neff and II. c. Stewart.
G. Thomas Dunlop was chosen chairman
of the executive committee, to consist of
Wallace y. Mclean. James L. Norris. jr.,
Walter J. Piling, Andrew E. Duvall F.
B. Fox. F. f. Evans. DR.. W. NJ. Sewers.
Henry V. Tolloch, DR.. John Dunlop and
o. Metzerott.
Among others present were: +. G.
Heald. F.. Brady. Henry +. Green. y. II.
Pierson. F. E. Cox. C. L. Michel w. J.
Pilling. John B. Hanna. DR.. Wallace
Neff. George T. Portor. c. J. Wiehle. II.
Oilphant. F. NJ. Henry, A. B. Kelly A.
B, Hagner. e. A: Bulloch James L.
Norris, jr.. r. f. Anderson. j. w.
Childress. II. E. Davis. DR.. w. NJ. Sewers.
H. c. Stewart o. McCammon. William
Ballantyne. jr., ]. NJ. Johnston and W.
J. Lambert.