Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-09
PRINCETON KEEPS
166TH CLASS DAY
All Trains Bring Throngs for
Baseball Game with Yale
This Afternoon.
Lrrom q stnn corre-pondent.I

IFrom a stan Correspondent.I
PRINCETON, n. j., June 9.-The
166th class day exercises of Princeton
University were held in Alexander
Hall this morning. A more beautiful
day for the exercises could not have
been chosen and the college campus
presented smost attractive appear
ance. The orange and black OF
Princeton predominated everywhere
and staid professional and business
men romped about the college grounds
like two year-olds, renewing old ac-
quaintances and rehearsing the
scenes of their college days.
Every incoming train brought car
loads of people into Princeton, lured
by the double attraction of the class
day exercises and the Yale-Pripceton
baseball game, which is to be played
on Nassau Field this afternoon.
Phi Beta Kappa Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society was held in Murray
Dodge hall at 9:15 o'clock this morn
ing and inaugurated the celebration
of class day. The Cliosophie and
American Wing societies also met,
and at II O'Clock, just as the class
day exercises began at Alexander
hall, the commencement meeting of
the Board of Trade was held at
Prospect. The cannon exercises,
which were originally scheduled to
be held at $3.50 o'clock, were changed
to 1880 on account of the baseball
game.
The glee club concert will be held
in Alexander hall tonight, and the
sophomore reception will be held in
the gymnasium.
The exercises of the day were
opened by Paul e. Myers, the class
orator.
Strong Men Needed, He SAYS.
Mr.. Myers spoke of the problems
now confronting his classmates and
declared that large profits in busi-
ness were no longer possible without
efficiency. There was a general wave
OF reform sweeping the country from
coast to coast, he said, and strong
men were needed in every COM
munity.
Four years at Princeton should
have crystalized definite, clear and
high ideals in all, he declared, and
he admonisheA his classmates to re-
fleet credit upon Princeton and the
president, DR.. FIibben. The class
poem was read by William Lengle
Barnett, and the ivy Grafton was de-
livered at noon by Earle Douglass.
Thomas r. Armstrong is the pre-
sentation orator, Paul e. Adams the
class prophet, William Hendel the
latin salutarian and Albert S. Rich
ardson the valedictorian. The COM
mencement exercises will be held to-
morrow.
The commencement committee con-
sists of Henry w. Green 81, chair
man. Gilbert F. Close '03, Professor
Covington '92, Henry G. Duffield' 81,
William Dulles rs, James c. Ernst
'7S, Charles w. Tialsey '9S, Charles W..
McAlpin 'SS, Harold G. Murray 93,
Frank C. Roberts 'S3, Albridge c.
Smith '03, George C. Wintringer "a,
and Professor William Libbey II,
marshal.
Calls Apathy Great Sin.
In his baccalaureate sermon yester-
day DR.. John Grier Hibben, president
of Princeton University, warned the
graduating class against the tempta-
ton to ignore the rights of others
in the pursuits of ones own aims
In his sermon DIR. Hibben said:
with the growing complexity OF
life. the pressure of strenuous com
petition the compulsion of ends which
seem to require desperate means for
their realization, there is danger lest
we come to hold all too cheap the
,f.a. N,t ha r0n
oned with in the problem of life. We
lower ourselves so far as we allow
our regard for our fellowmen to be
lowered
IT am profoundly convinced that we
are under a higher compulsion than
the will to live; it is the will to
serve This is the central lesson of
the teaching and the chief character
istics of the life of Him who came
into the world not to be ministered
unto. but to minister 1t is the ideal
which makes Christianity the hope
of salvation for the world.
you have not caught the spirit OF
humanistic culture in your studies
here if you go forth from us at this
time lacking in human interest and
human sympathy. The humanities
are not concerned merely with the
thoughts of men long dead and gone,
but with the living present also, and
with the problems of the hour which
press upon us with their insistent de-
mand that we stretch forth our
hands in the. midst of the evil and
misery about us to help and to save.
This present age is one of a great
awakening as regards the social con-
science of man. Indifference to hu-
man need is today the objectionable
sin. The world is looking for you,
is waiting for you to fall into line