New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-15
PRINCETON SENDS OUT 2OS.
Dean West Presents Six Candi-
dates for Honorary Degrees.
PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTIONS
President Wilson Warns Alumni
That Graduate College Will
Change University.

morning. The attendance at the exercises
was the largest in years and one of the
| most enthusiastic.
The procession of trustees members of
the faculty and the graduating class formed
IN front of Nassau Hall at 10 o'clock, and
from there proceeded to Alexander Hall
President Wilson presided at the exercises.
Gustave A. Harrer, of Briarcliff Manor n
J., delivered the Latin salutatory and
Fhlip Sydney Waters. of Yonkers, N Y
'he Vaiedictory. Six honorary degrees were
AWARDED and the usual number of fellow
! SHIPS and prizes were announced
Inc closing festivities took place tonight
When the class of 10 gave up the steps of
Nassau Hall to the members Of IL While
this ceremony has no official significance,
1t is the one event of every commencement
that the Princeton graduate remembers
before everything else, and will not quickly
De forgotten by those fortunate enough to
near and witness the ceremonies, for here
seniors become graduates in stern reality
ana juniors assume the first of those privi-
leges granted TO the seniors only.
Although the singing of the seniors on
the steps was not to begin until 7:30 o'clock
the campus in front of Nassau Hall was
filled early with those anxious to get good
places by the time the leader started the
old song, we Are the Gents of the Senior
Class" For almost two hours the seniors
held the steps, singing all the old songs
and many new ones which they introduced
this year. They sang as they never sang
before. and all the class soloists and the
quartet were called on repeatedly.
Finally came "Old Nassau" and the
class of 10 had sung its last college glees
on Nassau Halls steps and had actually
gone out from its alma mater. The class
of II then took the steps and held its
first senior singing, while 10 solemnly
marched around Nassau Hall singing,
Where, oh. Where the Grave Old SEN
iors''
President Wilson was the principal speak
er at the annual alumni luncheon in the
gymnasium. He warned the alumni that
with the new graduate school they must
expect changes and must reconcile them
selves to the fact that they were for the
best interests of Princeton. In part, he
spoke follows:
We have been experiencing in recent
months very sharp differences Of opinion.
/ think it is wisest to look upon these as
in the nature of growing pains. for GER
a aah rapdftT which %ouId justify grow
ing pains. And now we find ourselves fac
ing problem new to Princeton. Hitherto
we have thought as a college; henceforth
we must think as a university. We have
very little experience TO contribute to the
undertakings which lie Immediately before
US in the development of a great graduate
school, and the attendant graduate college
of residence. Our contribution will be
chiefly that of developed academic Ideals
And yet II must be very serious ques-
ton for every Princeton man what the eff
feet is to be upon the Princeton we nave
hitherto known of the life now about to be
imported Into her, the life of a great body
of mature and serious men brought here
for the purposes of advanced study: 1t is
certain that we cannot keep the old Prince
ton that We have known. We must make
new one. The old Princeton will not be
HANGED in dignity and vitality But 1t Will
be modified. College and university must
They must be unified, and yet they must
be individually developed
hands. is within the wise choice Of those
who are responsible for her administrator
and those who sustain her by opinion.
am sure that Princeton men everyD here
will recognize this and will give to their !
alma mater that support and that freedom
which are the conditions of her greatness.
After the new seniors had left the steps
the old seniors gathered on the front
campus in a great circle to hold the time |
honored loving cup ceremony. A great Sill
yer loving cup obtained for the occasion
was passed from man to man, and as each |
one drank his classmates sang the ola
drinking song known to all Princeton grad
yates ana SUuS blllE vi tiiAS OSN"-iO>''
Then came the bonfire of the old posses
s,one of the seniors Old books, the
benches which the seniors had used around
the campus and many other things with
which thew had been associated were
burned AT the cannon at the rear of Nassau
Hall Late at night the class went TO the
Princeton Inn for the last dinner. at whlch
all the members of '10 were present
Dean Andrew F. West presented the can
didates for honorary degrees as follows;
For Doctor of Science, Edward Weston |
who made possible the precise measurement
.of Fundamental electrical quantities by IN
venting and perfecting accurate ouiaple
and transportable Instruments
For Doctor of Letters, Ralph Adams i
Cram. whose devotion to architecture ana
literature has been alert, intense anu Whoie-
eo,,,ed. Colonel Hugh Gordon Lennox
s,,nerintendent of the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point
For Doctor of Laws, William MefShon
7 aiming. who was appointed United States
Judge for the District of New Jersey by
president Roosevelt, and advanced last
wear by President Taft to be United States
iudge for the Sd judicial District; William
Henry welch. professor Of pathology and
ers+ 5ean of the medical school of Johns
1ron,,ins University and president of the
A American Medical Association; Cyrus Fogg
Brackett. professor emeritus of physics at
Princeton.
Master of Arts, William Langley Gran
barry of the class of IS in Princeton Uni
,,areitv. a lawyer and business man. who
is commencing the name and fame or THIS
university throughout the South.
The elections of members from the
graduating class of Princeton University to
rbe Phi Beta Kappa fraternity were an
to-day, nineteen men receiving the
higbes+ honors in scholarship for their
Course of the last four years. It was de-
c;dad at the meeting of the Princeton chap
.ar to-day to change the time of election of
reu, members in the future TO February in
stead Of at commencement time. The fol-
loving were those who received the right
~ wear the Phi Beta Kappa key:
Isnoes w Alexander, I'd. Of New York
C-,.,,. Tohn L. Carter, of Montclair, n. J.;
rTso,; r. Ferger, of Chattanooga. Tenn;
rJslsav A. Frederick. of Oberlin, Ohio
r-nk Fritts, of Chester. n. j.: r. w
[.;hhs of Norwalk. Ohio; D. Percy Gilmore,
- ,ey York City: Gustave A. Harrer. of
pr;.rclirf Manor, n. Y; Walter B. Hatfield.
50 c.pwenkyille, Penn; Jesse Hermann. Of
-.:-u,s n J.: Clinton w. Keyes of Mon
-. Mass: Walter E. Kirby, of New
v-iI CIV. Charles E. Mcdowell, of Los
, n,.1es. Frederick II. Osborn, Of CARR
.on n 7; Stanley G. Sinner, of Middle
.ou,, n. Y; Charles r. Small. of Harris