The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-10
THINKS S70O A YEAR
ENOUGH FOR STUDENT
President Of Hamilton Says
Those Who Spend More
Should BE Ousted.
ROOT FOR HIGHER IDEALS
Hits "Nulgar Worshippcrs Of
Wealth" in Addressing
Alumni at Savoy.
ROOT FOR HIGHER IDEALS

The alumni ~ Hamilton College. din
ing mt the Hotel Savoy. last night heard
from President Stryker of Hamilton that
boy who spends more than 500 year
ought to he put out of college and from
Senator Elihu Root that young men In
college should not be dreaming Of riches
and motor cars and yachts.
~ man who spends more than $500 n
year" said President Stryl>cr. is SO vast
ing his fathers money aud his own time
that he ought to be made to get out of
college and earn his own living. II
had my way | would put out of college
every boy who spends more than 500 n
year. lie Is doing himself no good and
no 10 "A bad example 10 others"
Prof. A. 4. Saunders of Hamilton said
that the faculty had come to realize that
college education was unnecessarily ex-
pensive. lie produced figures tending To
show that s513 year was ample to take
q boy through college.
Root Urges Higher ideals.
Senator Root said that college boys
should have other ideals than the mere
one of getting rich and owning motor
cars AMI, yachts and Joining the 400. II
would be far more worth while, he said,
" they cmulated the teachers at Hamilton
and aspired to learning and culture.
Tho 100 or more old boys Of Hamilton
who met at the Savoy had for honored
guests Senator Root. II. ii. Benedict
Chester s. Lord. Hamilton b. Tomkins
and Profs. Edward Fitch and a. II.
Saunders OF the faculty. Between cheers
and songs they discussed ways and means
0f "a
education and telling Senator Root how
proud Hamilton is Of him. President
Stryker put II this way:
81 am glad the Naledictorian OF the
class of "a Is with us. Let us tell him
that never In our time have we heard
OF an event more remarkable than his
standing on tNc floor of the Senate and.
speaking In the teeth of an adverse and
cantankerous majority, so convincing
them on matters of truth and equity
that they escorted him to their committee
room. Elihu Root ought to be the next
President of the United States. | an,
ashamed of my countrymen that they
haven't had the gumption to mako him
President"
Senator Root. who was graduated nearly
fifty years ago. told his fellow alumni
that fifty years was n long time for a
man to keep his health and his appendix
"There has been a new trend In educa-
tion," he said. The mere ability to read
and write and cipher is now on "A par with
the ability to handle a pick. The streets
are crowded with young men who are
seeking clerical work. And so education Is
moving on to Il; men to do some particular
thing better than the next man. Noca-
tlonal education is a splendid thing. Blu,
there still remains the higher function
of teaching men how TO pass through the
gateways of life and duty. Of cultivating
their tastes and sentiments and moral
nature That is the place OF Hamilton
College to-day.
Hits Vulgar wOrshippers Of wealth
'"rhc world is already in a condition o.
unrest. There IL a denomination OF ole
questions. There is n condition OF mnt
here and abroad in which everything 81
the past is doubted and everything of th'
present. II II he new, Ii followed by ar
admring crowd. But all progress is b,
evolution.
Are we To lose the experience Of III,
past and begin all over again or are ",
TO hold all that is good and build upon
II? That Is the question that Is beins
decided now. The air resounds with com
plants against wealth. but two-thirds q
them are mere vulgar worship of wealth.
President Stryker announced that tn
board of trustees is considering plar
70 raise a large sum of money, but n,