Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-25
NASSAU'S SONS DINE
Princeton Alumni Gather at
Chevy Chase Club.
PRESIDENT HIBBEN LAUDED
With Justice Pitney and Others, He
Is Guest Of Honor.
SONGS OF COLLEGE DAYS
scoreboard Shows Evidences Of Uni
ssversity's Prowess on the
Athletic Field.

Here's to Hibben.
They call him Jack
The Whttest man in all the fac
The Princeton spirit he does not lack
Here's to Hibben,
They call him ok"
At the Chevy Chase Club last night,
more than two score of the sons of
Prince. chortled this verse of the
famous Tiger faculty cong, the subject
OF this special verse being DR.. John Greer
Hibben. newly elected president Of the
university, who was q guest Of honor
The friendly reference to him as Jack"
is a memento Of the old days when DR..
Hibben was consi -erably lower down in
the faculty list than he is today. Prince
ton men never In their lives gave q dinner
wheI, music did not run q dead heat
with food and cneer and speeches. and
on last nights occasion. with Wallace
Mclean wi -. his much worn baton.
they ga ; about twenty rambling verses
Of all the Princeton lyrics they could re-
member.
Justice Pitney, the freshman Of the
United States Supreme Court, was at
the head of the table also. His father
was q Princetonian, as were his three
brothers, and he has q son there now
When he spoke he dealt with that most
intangible OF subjects Princeton
Spirit" but as Intangible as it is he
described its effect and usefulness in
a way that brought the alumni present
to their feet with crashing loco
motive cheer"
Princeton dinners always have a
novelty attached to them somewhere,
and this year Frank Fox, secretary Of
the association, had placed a lighted
bulletin board upon the piano, where
Matt Horn was at work most Of the
evening. Between verses the score
board would be Illuminated with the
satisfactory evidences OF Princeton's
prowess on the athletic field. AS an
aftermath to this, Phil King and John
r., Mum, foot ball coach and member
Of the coaching committee, respectively.
had q few words to say about how
Princeton happened to clean up last
year.
!. Praises Progressive Spirit.
After DIR. Hibben had been speaking a
few minutes he swung into a combina-
ton Of politics and foot ball, to bring
out the idea that progressive Is the
one and only term to use with Prince
ton. Sam White. the well known pro-
gressive Of Princeton's foot ball team.
he said, was able to give Walter Camp
VI ! 610 d now 1u00 III 4OOI U0AA-lu6S VI
picking up a ball and progressing with
1t without regard to an attempted recall.
DR.. Hibben said also that he Il not par
ticuiarly in favor OF vocational train
ing in the sense that such training
merely fits man for sing.e job
After the cheers and songs had died
away. Justice Pitney made his clever
references to what the Princeton spirit
is. He echoed DIR. Hibben in the refer
ences to vocational training.
Princeton" he said. lis introducing
educated young men into the civiliza-
ton Of America"
There were laughs OF good-natured
sort when Justice Pitney spoke OF Yale
University.
ST am not the kind who believes that
Yale Is SO frightfully pernicious." said he.
"as notice that Yale IL coming more
readily under the influence Of Princeton
(referring to the athletic scoreboard).
And furthermore a Yale man has honored
me with the most beautiful gift In the
power OF the President"
| Representative White OF Ohio, who In
Princeton Is known as Deacon White
OF '95. told how he and his father had
considerable OF an argument because the
deacon had insisted on leaving Princeton
q democrat.
New oAacers and Guests.
Previous to the dinner the associa-
ton elected officers, as follows:
President. Henry Clay Stewart, jr.,
81: vice president, Edward A. Bal
loch. II; secretary. Frank Boughton