New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
COLUMBIA GRADS DINE
ALUMNI HONOR TO DEAN.
Fire Hundred at Birthday Dinner
for John Hozcard Vdn 4mringe

The Early Eighties sound ga91,i their c q D,
And for theme they offer 10 night
@sEs 3 Us TSnda.s Sa9 "a. .6and anf % aG5 iPtS a art
Fit honor a great and noble heart.
ath Ao9m nun fa EGI knoisdss Ns' Of al Eedse
s6Ssd 2an e zi4 saa Il = unso@ 2s%R1
Yet II ne be less known than Father zeus is
John Kendrick Bangs
These words Of John Kendrick Bangs expressed
the feelings of five hundred Columbia graduates
who gathered at the Waldorf last night for the
dinner arranged by the Society of the Early
Eighties in honor Of Dean John Howard Van Am
ringe, go, who has just completed fifty years as
teacher in the university.
Ge. A drink to his health let us finish the bowl ,
And wish him the top o the morning.
Dean Van Amringe sat half concealed behind
massive loving cup of silver presented by his boys
and listened to nearly five hundred Of them chant
this and other Speeches laudatory of him
by some of the best known men who have played
part in the life of the city had preceded the pres
entation of the cup but 1t remained for Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of the university, to pay
what was perhaps the most graceful tribute of the
evening to the venerable and venerated dean May
our beloved friend live thousand years. he said,
"and may live thousand years myself-less one
day-for I would not want to live single day and
know that Dean Van Amringe had passed away.
Ex-Mayor Low said that two stood out pre-
eminenty in his life. and of them was Dean
Van Amringe. He touched the close relations
which had existed between the dean and those who
came before him. Nothing, he said did the dean
like better than to pluck some brand from the our
Ing turn back into the right path some young fel-
low who had gone astray
Charles P SAWYER set the keyrots when he closed
his brief Introductory speech by quoting Oliver
Wendell Holiness Boys. We're Twenty Tonight
and then introduced James Duans Livingston. 80.
with the simple words. Boys, here's Jim
Dean Van Amrtnge had birthday yesterday but
what one 1t is guarded mystery. Mr. sawyer
IL, nfh
the estimate eighty but last night the dean was
twenty. with the rest of Them
Julien T Davies, SIS, ended his remarks by pre-
senting TO the venerable dean a $50 silver loving
cup as a gift from all the diners. and Mr.. Sawyer
handed the guest Of honor parchment scroll on
an ebony mounting with the signature OF every
of the $50 alumni on II.
Professor Charles F. Chandler told Of the inf1u-
ence of the School Of Mines. and how its graduates
had set a standard all over the world-ln the
Western States in Africa, in Burmah' india ana IN
Europe Everywhere one went he said, the Anleri-
can engineer found, and chief among 'nen
always the Columbia man
Dean Van Amringe. when his turn came TO speak
Just before Mr.. Davies presented the cup to him.
said:
There is no music so melodious to my ear, SO
satisfying and uplifting my heart, as that wh1ch
proceeds from the tuneful lips Of the alumni OF
me. the courage. not TO say the hardihood 20 sns
most embarrassing OF my academio no psbiII
nothing could
ties Of college or university proIessor as ne ne so
will Of such men as you, who were once ms MS SUI @
barassment is great tnasmuch as. in looking PACK
my term Of service. / cannot md, tnough !, l
have sought long and anxiously. reasonable
ground OF this. TO me, amazing. touching anu eA-
As I listened to the kind. the more than kind
and too apprecative references to days that are
By the % rhytbnic 18th cadences Of Brother Bangs
-Bangs's ravin which entities him to a place in
the Hail OF Fame by the side OF roe 4i oecanns
somewhat confused. and am now a little uncertain
q wake, l9 ON pinchine myseIf. however fnd that
sti tes that am am not % really es dead II but only On IN
Mondsy mSr3ng 0s5 able I f0 % & S2 on best Se Of
I have been told that mild interest has been
created among you concerning the number OF years
I have so far consumed in making my pilgrimage
from the cradle TO the grave. shall pluck the
heart out Of that qninportant ana trivial
enamoured Of formulas, and will give you an easy
20a Es pePaps & add Ss s a
divide by two make coTrectio9 for i0T , atisuqs de- ano
suit exact TO within a few minutes So fades the
darkening cloud away.
James Duane Livingston. president OF the society.
presided Seated with him at the speakers table
were the guest Of the evening DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler. 50; Charles F. Chandler. John w
Burgess. Frederick A. Goetze. William H Burr.
Seth Low. 10; Julien T. Davies. s.; George Wad-
dington, so: John B. Pine. II: f Henry Iacombe.
SO: Justice P Henry Dugro, rs; Isaac N Seligman
IS: Rudolph Tombo. jr. 'sS William Felowes
Morgan 80: Charles 2. Sawyer, 81; William Curtis
Demorest 81 Robert Arrowsmith. 81: Charles
Buxton Going. 50: Girard Romaine, 81; George H
Barnes So Justus A z. Cowles. IS: Georges Re
naut 50: John Kendrick Bangs. 49, Herbert Liv-
insston Satteree 'SS Daniel E Moran. "a; J.
Foster Jenkins. 81; Charles Tabor, "a, and Ed
mund A. Hurry. 40
Julien T Davies. discussing Alumni Repre-
sentatOn,' said
Nor will alma fail greatly to profit by this
new relation. Reciprocity IS the law Of life. and
the act OF giving leads instantly TO the act Of
ceving -
Alumni representation in the board will quicken
the interest OF the alumni generally in the univer
sitv and results will be quickly accomplished In
many material ways Even alma mater. divine be
ing that she is. must have bread and meat with
which TO sustain Iife and the more she becomes an
object Of thought and interest to her many thou
sand alumni the will they realize and minis
ter many needs.
Not the least important result TO be sought Is
that our alumni Will consider II obligation TO
send their sons and grandsons TO Columbias halls,
and with the increase Of dormitories and athletic
facilities the inclination toward other universities
of those who belong to US may be happily and natu-
rally checked.
John Kendrick Bangs thcn read his birthday
poem in honor OF Dean Van Amringe. The last
stanza of the twenty-odd thus:
But bring no letters vain
deck autograph
/ 10 gaudy Phi. d
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