The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-17
LIVELIEST WILLIAMS DINNER
MORE THiN 2OO orr 10 CUEER
President GiRFTEID.
tits brother One of the speakers \ Gift
Of an Organ From \ifrcd Z. Chapin
<nnOunced Two hay te,cbra lion for
u stories h, the REV. u. 4. ItOl,bins.

| NuuOtinceu TWO PlenrNttOn or
II stories h, the Rev. u. 4. Wobbins.
| At 1880 o'clock last night the Rev.
ii s. Zeie, toastmaster of the annual
dinner of the Williams College Alumni
| Association. act fire to a fresh cigar and
announced that in all probability tn"
| Williams dinner had broken record
So far a. he knew it was the first dinner
! where exhausted bsnuueters hadn't
headed home in the middle of somebody
speech. That was the KIND oil dIhner
il was
| Possibly the fact that few Of the speak
ers had any great problems to hammer
ont and that none Of them seemed to be
taking life heavily had something to do
with making last nights banquet OF the
alumni the most cheerful entertainment
Williams ever had In this city.
The 250 men present sat at class tables
bra ggng about how much more fun they
used to have than the kids Of 1911, who sat
by special invitation in far corner Of the
room. At the main table. with the Rev.
Mr.. Zele. we're President Harry A.
Garfield of Williams. Supreme Court
Justice Page. DR.. Hamilton W. Mabie.
Francis Lynde Stetson. F. B. Jennings.
Gov. Augustus Z. Wilson Of Kentucky.
| Eugene Delano and the Rev. Howard c.
Robbins. who commended himself to the
Williams men bv josh Of Williams and
Harvard Mr.. Robbins happens to come
from Yale.
Down on the floor table 3 attracted
lot of attention because there were the
veterans of the association Abbott h.
Kit,redge. 81; W. p. Prentice, IS; Charles
+. Poor, '8i; A. e. Brown, 81. and Edwin
Stewart, '82. Three. J. d. Rushmor",
A. +. Schauf''er and W. c. Speman,
represented 81 at table 4. At table you
saw e. r. Leake of ~. Frank b. Car
penter and Walter Geer of - and VI. L..
Foster and c. NJ. De Mond of 81. Near
by, at 2. were J. Maus Schermerhorn, so
William S. Gould and Melville Egles-
ton. 20: William Benjamin Wood, "a
John II: Corwin, rs; Charles Gilbert a.
! and c. b. Hubbell. "a.
Table 9. where the class Of 1855 held
out furnished one Of the speakers Of
the evening in the person Of the brother
Of the president OF the college. James
r. Garfield former Secretary Of h, the ",,Ln In
mates and spoke from the class table.
The classes that had the best repre-
sentation at the dinner were Double o.
Naughty Two and Ten. Also they took
firm hold of the cheering from the first
and never let go of il. II anybody needed
a veil TO start something properly mes
senger was despatched to one of the three
, tables and very soon after the bangles
, on the chandeliers began - shlke
The toastmaster lot them LONG AZ the
outset Much of his religious aGvice was
lost he feared. in the tornado of barks
/, that swept over the assemblage of Young
, men After telling them that although
Williams had been licked 10y Amherst and
Dartmouth and nearly everybody else
last football season there was still hope,
1 he warned the speakers against the temp
taticn to suCcumb to their art and promptly
, applied the warning To himself.
President Garfield. noisily welcomed,
glanced at the special guests. the kids
of 1911. and warned them that he knew
r who put the water wagon in his front
> yard last Halloween He saw u man
, hitching a team of portly horses to the
vehicle about O'Clock the following
morning and II gave him lot of fun later
that day To observe the students in chapel
aud on the campus trying Ia figure ont
. what he was going TO do about il. But
he didn't do ANYTHING. because he realized
that young gentlemen will be young
gentlemen and that they wouldn't de-
liberately hurt anvbody's feelings just
for the sake of doing IL
\ trlp 10 California had shown him. he
said. how widely Nilliams's fam" -
rnnnnr in IA" No'ld. PERHAPS ono oI
ne reasons WIS Ildt Iir collage 'Fleu TO
l." helpful not me:slv Ia ts students but
| to az. whole Berkshire region. Of which it
j. the intellectual centre. II" 3nDounCcd
that Alfred &. thauiu of Broolihn. who
, gave ia" college its handsom" auditorium
Ia. supplemented tn" gl't with an organ
: which President Garfield descrip-d as on.
that j. fine and almost a. hE a. the
organ 10 he installed III the Cathedral Of
ST. John IN" bvln" mp ON NorninEside
keights.
. when the organ u installed al Williams
, The department of English will pgoduCe
. a play in which members Of the faculty
and Williamstown folks will have parts
a. weil as the students. President Gar
field wanted all the New York alumni
} thar could find the time 10 come ul, and
have part in the celebration
. IN. Rev. Howard {. Robbins who
pea hes nov and .lhen IN The college
chapel, sad the students seemed to have
, The wh9opinC cough the last time he .N-
pounu"d scripture up there. Then he
= began 10 talk about how Williams may
hope sorne day TO be as good as Yale
/. He said there was IA boy one time who
| wouldn't take his sewing lesson and the
teacher said Billy. George Washington
, wasn't ashamed to learn To sew. Are yon
1 better thsn George Was hington?" Billy
; said quickly. Well / don't know vel
bus tim. will tell. 50 maybe IN mil
! l"nnium o. i've" Williams might catch
, He was minded u discuss what he
, termed Harrard's most II liking chrric-
. leri-tIr I"emendous and per- st.nt in
quisiiiyeness Harvard would certainly
, hay" given Victor Hugo degree for
; saying that when he got to Heaven he was
I going TO get the Almighty into u corner
. and ask for answers to problems that had
been puzzling him all his life. He re-
, called the dominic who alwavs prayed
in the morning "for Harvard and all in
ferior institutions Of learning" andlmen-
toned the old lady who explained how to
, pronounce Boston short o. but with
certain reverent stress on the syllable
Former Secretary James r. Garfield
rose NJ from 's5s table after that and
joshed his brother Harry about the water
wagon story. But Mr. Gar field was
minded To say few things about the
function of college men in politics stand
! lng ont against special privilege The
Nesl said he, needed men OF the sort
hat Williams and other New England
. colleges are turning out
George W Perkins, coming in late, said
he hhd inst excused himself from a pri-
vale dinner. His hostess had said. TN.
last tim" YOU left one Of my dinners Won
wer" TO meet President Hadlev Uf Val,
, believe. How many more colleges will
Mrs. Perkins accept es an excuse" MIR
Perkins expounded his notion. A. TO