The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-09
WILSON TO STEVENS ALUMNI
GOVERNOR TALKS I" THE
MORAL SIDE or ENGINEERING.
More Tnan 800 Graduates Have q .'o>ons
Time In Celebrating the Fortieth An.
n,yersary Of the iiObOken College
Noisy Greeting for the Governor

The alumni of Stevens Institute 81
Technology came over from Hoboken
las, night to celebrate the fortieth ami
versary of ",he opening of the college
for regular instruction" and they brought
New JERSEYS Governor with them. There
we're 3s8 Stevens men in the banquet
hall Of the Hotel Astor and they MADE
noise enough for twice that numher.
The cheers had no Princeton tiger at the
end. but the noise gave Gov wilson a
honey feeling. and he said as much.
"I don't know your faces" said h,,, but
your manners are familiar. feel more
at home in this boisterous company than
have for weeks.
Gov. Wilson had to stop just there while
Stevens cheered some more and when he
went on he praised the profession OF en-
gineering and drew moral from 1t. tie
told the engineers, old and young, that
their profession found its real Significance
in the fact that upon it rested the comfort
Of the world.
"You must work in form that will last,
he said Your work must hold together,
and by the same token your work must be
honest. In your work there is no denying
the evidence; you cant be accidentally
mistaken"
The Governor went on TO say that the
profession of the engineer was associated
| in a way with some of the things that
have made us feel that our age is touched
in an unusual degree with a stain on the
human record" lie explained that the
engineer understood perhaps above all
men that if his work was touched with
d. nT
what you do"
| Gov Wilson drew a parallel between
the work of the engineer and the literary
man. pointing out that in both and IN all
affairs IA great man must b" master ~
men, of opportunity and of clrcum-
stances"
The Governor pronounced his creed
for tho man of affairs when he said;
"In affairs We must not be impatient
Of slow processes and of tradition lhe
leader must look forward to things not
vet done as things done and carry the
thought of his generation forward &c
them The engineer of human aNalrs
and fortunes is the sympathetic inter
prefer of existing affairs and fortunes
In conclusion the Governor said that
, the success Of the engineering profession
, like that Of the man of afairs, lay IN the
determination mot 10 think ot money
but Of service.
Richard II. Rice. S.. Steam Turbine
Rice to the alumni" presided. and Prcsi-
dent Alexander &. Humphreys of tn"
college was first on the list of speakers
He said that he greeted everybody IN
} chldinr that obnoxious class of 1901.
which had sent him a champagne bottle
labelled $40.
Il don't quite approve Of their action.
said President Humphreys. The bottl.
was not only marked III 20, but IL was
HoQ.
DR. Humphreys told the history of the
Castle, which is to become a part Of tn,
college on MAY -. and related the achieve
' ments of the famous Stevens family. II,
reminded the alumni thatthe United State
still owes the college si5. $50 which ough
to be refunded from an inheritance ta'
paid before the civil war. He said tina
senator Aldrich had recently said tina
the college wouldn't get II as long as HI
, was on the Job and added:
But he won't be there long and hi,
sta 'ement that We cant get it is the hes
card we can play. ] never heard tha
senator Aldrich ruled this country al
though he was once, member of tn,
oligarchy that did rule il
President Humphreys's speech had th'
only suggestion of politics that mtrude'
on the college spirit of the dinner anC
Gov Wilson didn't appear to notice it
Other speakers We're Prof William "
Ennis. 81. professor Of mechanical engl
neering at tho Brooklyn Povtachni,
Institute, and J II. Cuntz. 81. Mr. Cunt
with the aid Of moving pictures proved
! 10 the satisfaction of the diners that DIR
Cook did not reach the summit of Noun
Nick nlcy