Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-12
TELLS ALUMNI
COLLEGE COURSE
ISN'T ENOUGH
DR.. Richmond Sees Faults in
~System-Newark Academy
Assn Hears Aids FIayed.


More than 100 alumni Of the Newark
Academy attended the twenty-fourth
anniversary banquet of the Alumni
Association last night at the academy
and heard a number of unusually in
~teresting addresses. Particular inter-
est attached to the remarks of the Rev.
DR.. Charles A. Richmond, president Of
Union College. who presented a strik-
ing word picture of the ideal in college
edueationan liberal culture.
Dr.. Richmond said in part:
Il doubt if we properly estimate the
value of education. A man once said
to me that he would give a million dol
lars. and he had a million. If he were
qualified for membership in the Uni
versity Club of New York. But educa-
ton is something that cannot be
bought.
Some say there is an aristocray of
wealth growing up in America, but the
real aristocracy is not of wealth or
birth or even l~earning-it lies in liberal
culture. The members of this aristoc-
racy are the men in control of affairs
and who make the deepest imprint
upon the times.
The mere acquisition of a college
education is not enough. If you don't
get humanity out of your college course,
you have missed the pearl of untold
price. That is not a note the college
presidents generally are sounding these
days. but it will be my watchword
until my resignation is demanded. If
college heads do not stand for liberal
culture. and if they surrender to popu-
lar practical education, they fail in
their mission
The "untimely and unseemly faunt-
ing of college affiliation'' was severely
criticised by DIR. Richmond. He re-
ferred to Senator Aids, of New York,
and said:
Il sat at one of the hearings the
other day and watched the man who,
if it is not proven really took a bride,
at least stands for all that is vile and
low in politics, n l was overcome
with disgust as he lounged in his chair,
nonchalantly twirling a Phi Beta
Kappa key. And again only last night
two men at Albany, one a Yale and
the other a Harvard alumnus, tried to
turn a d~espicable political trick in or
der to keep the State under the DOM
nation of the interests they serve.
But there is the other side, repre-
scented by college men who stand for
decency and justice. Foremost among
them, excepting the gentleman late OF
Nairobi, is Governor Hughes, than
whom; / believe, no one has done more
in any State to purify politics. And
with him all college men should stand
together, and the colleges should send
out only men who will fight on the side
of common humanity. What we want
in the colleges is more, not less, music
art. literature, justice and decency, for
the incubation of high ideals, more
than anything else, is the real office OF
the college
Wilson Farrand, headmaster of the
academy, spoke on the present condi-
ton of the institution and referred TO
the growing school spirit and owe OF
traditions.
The other speakers were Dean George
w. Kirchweg. of the Columbia Law
School, n Albert c. Wall, of South
Orange. Ralph w. Hyatt, 1890, was
toastmaster.
Before the dinner the annual meet
ing was held, the following officers be-
ing elected: L. Lester Selvage, presi-
dent; Franklin F. Mayo, v~ice-presi-
dent; Harry L. Doolittle, secretary;
Arthur E. Barlow, treasurer: DIR
Frank w. Pinneo. historian. The ex-
ecutive committee for the year was
chosen as follows: Wilson Farrand,
Ralph w. Hyatt, stephen H. Plum,
Fred F. Schuetz, John L. Eisele, Will
lam r. Conlon. James Martin, Harry
F. Twichell, C. V. Bailey.