New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-11
STEVENS MEN WARNED
Of REFORM DANGERS
President Tells Graduates That
They Shouldn't Spell 1t
with Big R.
HIGHER TUITION OEPL0RED
Falling Off in Enrolment at
Technical Institution AS
cribed to Greater Cost
to Students.

| The forty-frst commencement Of Ste
vens Institute Of Technology took place
| at the institute, in Hoboken, yesterday.
when sixty-fve men were graduated. AL
I exander g Humphreys, president of the
| board Of trustees and faculty, reviewed
the development Of the institute last
year and said he regretted the decrease
in enrolment, which he ascribed to the
higher rate OF tuition which it had been
found necessary to establish. He criti-
cised Hoboken for taxing the institutes
/ property.
The salutatory was delivered by Peter
| Rudolph Aronson. of Hoboken. Profess
sor Charles f. Kroen secretary of the
| faculty. conferred the degree OF Mechan-
ical Engineer on the graduates. The val
edictory address was delivered by jerome
Straus. OF Brooklyn. and William Wilson
Finley. president Of the Southern Rail
way Company. made the address to the
graduating class.
James Mapes Dodge. former president
Of the American Society Of Mechanical
Engineers. received the degree of Doctor
OF Engineering Following the commence
ment the college grounds were thrown
open for the inspection OF the visitors.
The annual baseball game between SteF-
ems and Rutgers was played in the after
noon and at night a farewell reception
was held.
President Humphreys In addressing the
graduating class said.
beware Of tn professional reformer
and investigator. who is ready to reform
anything and everything except himself
ana the things IN which he is interested.
Be always on the side Of true reform, but
do not spell reform with a capital II and
do not use your activities IN this regard
as do many Of the magazine writer's ana
politicians
In other words. Try % be an unselh'h
worker for the bettermeut Of the condi-
lions around YOU. and therefore begin
with those Immediately under your IN
iiucuCe and control
well earned credit for yourselves, and so
bring credit 90 your alma mater-thla l'
my earnest prayer iu your behalf
The members Of the graduating class
were as follows
Henry John Appcrt. Peter Rudolph
Arousou, John Alexander Austin, Gerald
Lee Bdssett. Kenneth Harding BcdeI'
Harold Philip Bender. Charles William
Bcrghoru, JT. John Mark Blrkcnstock.
Robert culver Blaksl'o. John WinsloW
BOgert. Ralph knudscn BoneN. Thomas
Icics BIausuaW, Jacob Herbert braun
gam. Robert Cooper campbell. John col
Inns jr. Frank Stevens Darkr. John Ja-
cob EhrhaTdt. Theodore Rudolph Ellen
urrg, Henry Gustave Fallerius. Alexander
Forbes. Dr., Arthur william truudt. Hen
IS Friedrich GrcmmeL Ernest Marcus
Hammcrschlag. Vernon Seton Henry.
Walter oscar Hoermanu.
Russell GarrcfSou humphreys. Herbert
Spencer Hunt, William Lewis lin. Arthur
Edwin Jones, Walter Morton Kelley.
Chester Lyman Lawrence klugsbury.
Fr derrick Charles Ripper. Robert Han
Lsnsdou. John Leicester McGuiuness.
Thomas James Mcloughlin. .jr.. Harry
Winchester McQuaid, Nichol Harding
Memory. Harry liawn Merwin, Kenneth
Rcnwick Millspaugh. Arthur Montgomery
Morgan. Edwin Kelley Mosier. Waldemar
Gardner Nichols Robert Maxwell Dram,
Raymond Palmer Pcnnoyer. George Guth-
RE Fotterton, Robert Henry Roescn, Wal
ter Conrad Russ.
Elias SchlauK. Henry Pred Schorliug.
Nils TuTc Srllman, Ernest Frederick Sick
,ulcrgcr. ir.. Samuel Joseph : bort. John
David Lloyd Smith. Carleton Kencdou
Stems. Jerome Strauss. Charles Sydney
1rcwin. John Tucker Ir.. John Henry
Wander NccV. Carleton Wandcl, German
Julius Frank Weber Theodore William
Weigclc. Robert Lyon Wcliman, Edward
Van DYKE Wctmore. Ralph Hamilton VIII
Jams Nelson August Zcigcr