New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-02
SCOTS GATHER At FEAST
st. Andrews Society Dinner
Seasoned with Dialect.
CHEERS FOR KING GEORGE
DR.. John H. Finley, of the City
College, Defines the Land
We Live In.

The s. Andrews Society gathered six
hundred strong last night at the Waldorf
for the annual feast OF hotel fare and
Scotch dialect Scottish pipers. attired in
kits. marched about the grand ballroom
PLAYING Scotch airs. and John Reid and
George A. Fleming sang Scotch songs.
Everywhere futtered the ST. Andrews
cross fanked In some instances by Ameri-
can flags.
A. Barton Hepburn, who presided as
president OF the society, introduced as the
first speaker John Foord, who drew this
comparison between the Scotch and the
Irish:
The Scotch have the reputation OF hav-
ing a great conceit Of themselves DIT
Johnson used to say that the Irish were
an honest people. because they never SAID
any good about one another
The applause which greeted this was al
most as great as that which greeted the
toast to King George V. After drinking
the Kings health the diners sang Justify
God Save the King" They had already
toasted the President Of the United States
without cheering and had sung the Star
Spangled Banner"
Mr.. Hepburn read a letter Of regret at
his absence from Ambassador Bryce and
messages Of greeting from members OF the
ST. Andrews Societies in Montreal Toronto
and Halifax The Montreal message made
a hit with
Scots wha hae share what We hae WI
Scots wha' haen't"
In introducing DR.. John II. Finley presl-
dent OF the City College. Mr.. Hepburn re-
marked that New York City had many
things TO be proud Of, but Of nothing more
than her public school system and us
crowning glory, the City College"
Dr. Finley Immediately established his
right TO a place in the assemblage by say
ing that one Of his ancestors had been exc
cuted in the market place in Edinburgh.
Then he spoke OF his Scotch school teacher
I'm Illinois. who taught him that preposi-
ton was a poor thing Ito end a sentence
with" But he took issue with this par
t!cuar precept OF his old schoolmaster,
contending that the land we live in is in
fnitely more dear 70 US than the land IN
which we live" And he differentiated be-
tween the land we live in and the land
we live on" or the land We live from.
which Yields. he ventured in parenthesis'
two crops of alfalfa in Colorado, half a
/
ing but mountain scenery in New HamP-
shire"
! The land we 1--we in he defined as some
thing nebulous but all embracing. which
| stretched across the Hackensack meadows
| 10 Controller Bay, which linked us with
the poems Of Porto Rico and made the
! Igorrote a neighbor Of the Jersey in
surgent. In this connection he also
/ spoke OF the Panama Canal as the place
| Where Colonel Goethals. God save his
life. IS cutting two continents apart that
he may tie two hemispheres together
! Job L. Hedges who followed Or. Finley,
said he liked a Scotchman because he
doesn't recognize two sides Of a question
There is no question he can't discuss,
Nj Hedges went on, If he speaks first,
and he usually does speak frst-and last
The true Scotchman will die for an alb
stract proposition and insist on collateral
for a $40 loan. The Scotchman lives on
principle-and interest"
| Among those at the speakers table were
William G. McAdoo, Courtenay Walter
Bennett. British Consul General; General
| Frederick Dent Grant, F. Cunlife owen,
Rear Admiral E. Il. c. Leutze, the Rev.
/ DIT. s. Parkes Cadman and Edward La
zansky, Secretary OF State.