Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-17
DIR. FELL GUEST OF
HONOR AT BANQUET
Delivers Principal Address Before
St. Johns Alumni.
BALTIMORE BRANCH HOST.
Optimism Was Keynote Of Speeches
Old and Young Grads Enjoyed
The Feast.

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John's College were celebrated Satur-
day night by the alumni of Baltimore
in the annual feast at the Hotel Bel
vedere of the Baltimore branch of the
alumIi association.
There was no splitting of the air
with college yells no violating of har-
mony with college songs, for il was a
judicial banquet. The POSTMASTER
was Judge Walter /. Dawkins and
all five of the new presidents
who were elected before the dinner
began, were judges President Fell,
of st Johns, recently elected Pro-
vost of the University of Maryland,
was guest of honor AID made the
principal address.
Philemon H. Tuck was elected pres
ident, to succeed Judge Dawkins. The
vice-presidents were Judges John p.
Rriscoe, james p. Gorter, Henry ID.
Harlan, Walter /. Dawkias and H.
Arthur Stump. J. H. C. Pemp, Jr.,
was elected secretary and Peter B.
Blanchard, treasurer.
Yet their dignity weighed lightly
on the boys" of the eighties and
nineties and on the graduates of the
present century. Before the Last word
of praise for the stanch old Maryland
college was spoken the opinion was
unanimous that the 1913 banquet was
the best in the remembrance of any
OF those present
Besides the outgoing and incoming
presidents. the orators were Presi-
dent Thomas Fell, of the college;
Philemon II. Tuck, Addison e. Null
ikin, member of tina Liquor License
Board, of Baltimore; DR.. Randolph
Winslow and John s. Caces.
Mr.. Tuck, in his speech of acknowl-
edgment of his election as president,
said that as a member of the board of
visitors and governors of st. Johns,
and also Of the board of regent of the
University, he heartily approved of
the appointment of DR.. Fell as pro-
vost of the University of Maryland,
an appointment which had been unan-
imously made by both bodies.
Mr.. Tuck referred to the success
which had characterized the admin
istration of St. Johns College under
the present President and expressed
his beliel that the affiliation of the
two schools had been and will con-
tinue to be of great advantage to both.
DR.. Fell was then introduced.
He said in part:
We are assembled here this even
ing as members of university to
emphasize the fact OF our existence
as such and to offer mutual congra tu-
lation upon the good prospects which
constitute our environment [ am,
therefor, disposed to be optimistic as
to the future
1T is extremely gratifying to me
that the regents of the professional
schools of the University of Mary
land have placed the guiding reins in
my hands and have manifested their
confidence in me by calling me to the
work of deciding its policy. as pro-
vost, position which has previously
been held by most distinguished men
of the State.
I'VE have entered upon a time
when the great problems of higher
education in Maryland have to be
solved. Johns Hopkins University,
Goucher College and the Maryland
Agricultural College are without
presidents and the trustees of the Sc
institutions are struggling with their
financial burdens and endeavoring to
find leaders who will guide them to a
higher plane of usefulness.
AS a university we, also, have
our burdens and problems. st. Johns,
for the time being, is in comfort
able financial condition. In academic
work the trend of the present day
is to return to courses of general
culture, in spite of Efforts to stand
ardize systems in other directions.
IF students of St. Johns College
have any characteristic which distin.
| guishes them from the general mess
of stddsnts, it is vigorous indepen.
dence OF intellect and character
which has in it the potentiality and..ths
promise of high order Of ability.
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