Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-07
STRAINS OF MELODY
Feature of Program at Prince
ton Alumni Dinner.
SPEECHES At INTERVALS
Greetings From the University
Voiced by n. Taylor Pyne.
TALKS OF FOUR BIG PROBLEMS
Annual Function Of Local Associa-
ton at Chevy Chase Club
Last Night.
TALKS OF FOUR BIG PROBLEMS

Any one passing the Chevy Chase Club
last night might reasonably have guessed
that some one had opened singing
school on the inside. 1t sounded some
thing like one. The strains of melody
were but the outbursta from half a hun
dred Princeton alum i, who tethered a
tiger to the table last night. opened the
piano. told the professor" to roll up
his sleeves and keep on playing and
then went ahead to enjoy the fortieth
annual dinner Of the Princeton Alumni
Association, with NJ. Taylor Pyne Of
Princeton as the guest of honor.
The tethered tiger was a wind-up af-
fair that had been we'll wound, and
whose head and tail nodded and wagsed
during the entire evening. It's nodding
was the one monotony. of the occasion
The rest of 1t was not monotonous. From
the time that Matt Horn, pianist ex-
traordinary. played such a violent chord
that the stuffed eagle on the piano fell
that he should play Flee AS a Bird, -
hight down to the moment when every
Princetonian grasped his neighbours hand
at the close OF the dinner and sang "AuId
ner-which description makes further
comment unnecessary.
Cheers Greet Him.
True, there were some speeches. The
guest Of the evening, NJ. Taylor Pyne,
known to every Princeton man alive,
made the first one. He was introduced
by George Dunlop; another introducer had
most terrific struggle with the boys who
like to toss repartee at q POSTMASTER,
but he finally got there and Mr.. Pyne' s
speech was launched amid cheers.
THE most important thing Princeton
has before 1t now" he said, rs the selec-
ton OF president" He explained that
the trustees had been watching every
possibility all over the country and in
tended to make the right choice.
I'VE hope to select q broad-gauge man
with common sense, whose policies will let
US work as q unit" he said.
Mr.. Pyne presented briefly the four big
problems which he said q new president
would have to face. The first has to do
whether to lean toward the free elective
system or the old-fashiOned hard-and-fast
curriculum. The speaker said the fac
ulty had held at least sixty meetings for
consideration OF the question. The pre-
ceptorial system at Princeton. he said,
presents another problem: the graduate
college Is beginning to be observed by the
entire educational world, according to Mr.
Pyne. and will require the greatest care
and study and work on the part of the
new president.
The fourth problem presented to the
university and It's president, MIR. Pyne de.
clared. Is that which concerns the so.
cieties and clubs. He said that Princeton
had one Of the best systems in the world
but he also believes that there is a chance
, for lettering IL.
Congressional Freshmen" Heard.
Deacon White. '9J, now freshman
in the House Of Representatives, having
just landed there a few days ago from
a dry district in Ohio. was asked to tell
what and why a democrat is. In q col.
lege- spirited speech he made so little
reference to politics that when some ont