The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14


walking with them to his special train
II was a curious experiment that Mr..
Wilson made, that of attending the com
increment as an alumnus and not as the
President That 1t was successful was
due largely to the atmosphere OF the uni
,ers.ty town. Citizens alumni and I'M
lergraduates entered into the spirit of the
thing While IN. utmost respect was dis
played the fact was always forward that
Mr. Wilson should be treated as one OF the
Old boys. that he should be taken into
the FUN and celebration as much as was
pos BILE.
Hibbcn's the Only Cau.
II was the Presidents desire that there
should b" no formalities. no receptions or
,pcechmaking. and hts wishes were OBJ
served by everybody from tho president
NJ the university, John Grier Hibben,
down to the kids OF the freshman class.
pr Hibbrn merely called on him at his
headquarters In Seventy -nne Hall and
then left him to the class of '7s. When
'nr President Joined in the parades or
appeared ON the campus hats were lifted.
hut tner" was no bowling and scraping.
lie was as free as the youngest alumnus
10 40 exactly as he pleased.
II was 20 naturally that made the most
II aim. and this story must go back
really to a night in 1875, when half a
dozen of the freshman class sat in the
rooms Of Frank Presbrey and talked
about the things they wanted to do when
they went out into the world Cy Nc
Co-mick-it was Cy to-day, Although he
is Cyrus II. Mccormick. president OF the
International Harvester Company when
he is home In Chicago--was there. SO
was Robert Bridges. the editor OF Serb
nerS; Pete Hamilton. now Chief Justice
Peter Hamilton OF Porto Rico: William
b Isham of New York and two or three
others.
There ought to he brains enough in
this class to turn out President of the
United States" said young Prebrey.
who's the most likely man?'
They talked II over. The first man
they picked died some years ago. The
second man was Mahlon Pitney. now Of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Tho third, as one Of the class OF 20 said
today never got very far" but the
fourth was Tommy Wilson
Although Mr.. Wilson WAS fourth choice
10 is proud of Its perspicacity. In those
days nobody at Princeton bothered to call
him Woodrow Wilson. His full name.
everybody knew. was Themes Woodrow
Wilson. but that was too much for the
undergraduates 10 handle. So they made
II Tommy and let 1t go at that.
Pretty Mig Class!
A. things turned out in the busy year
that followed their leaving college II was
pI'''S 'ple CLASS. AZ over the country
"'s 'h' name Oh CLASS .nht mas oone
"'s r,.'.Es. ho' Unly ihui ,r, pu' as
a. ,o..ee,.on VI aIuri,nI imey se. UP o,,
br. McCosh. They erected the famous
~ '"1e trlnee'oi usets "nl.n croucn a.
,a rt"' anu ieI. oi .ne eh''a n ot IN
800 Nv ,,'" 'ossu' 80
~, re'tS ,".he nan, one ol tne 49, nu''u
r hs u" '1e campus anu ,a No..
Wn3 wa. was then president OF prineet on
acre farm near Great Harrington, Mass.
50 That no member or the class or his
children should ever be without Il home
or refuge II want or Illness came.
One hundred and twenty-four or these
men were graduated and ninety-one or
hem were here to-day to greet Tommy
wilson. Just 10 name some or them,
there were Justice Pitney. Adrian Riker
o. Newark, Cleveland II. Dodge OF Phelps,
Dodge n Co, Edward W. sheldon, presi-
dent Of the United States Trust Company;
CHARLES \. Talcot, now Representative
IN Congress: Chief Justice Peter Iamil-
ton or Porto Rico. william X. wilder or
New York, ID. Moreau Barringer OF Phila-
d'lphia, Robert Bridges or ScItbRers,
FRANK Presbrey the advertising man the
Rev DIR. Thomas C. Hall. president OF
No Union Theological Seminary; the Rev.
Or \. Wood iIalsey, secretary OF the
Board OF Missions OF the Presbyterian
Inurch; Parker ID. Handy or Harmon n
Handy, William H. lsham OF New York.
ildncis Iarkin, Jr, Cyrus IL. McCor-
m'ok, president OF the International Har-
N'Si'r Company; Robert II. McCarter' for
NOR Attorney-General OF New Jersey DR..
Hiram Woods Of Baltimore, Col. Edwin
\, stevens Of Hoboken. James +. Waller.
Jr, Of Chicago, and John X, Stilliman,
rni'i recently Consul Mt Saltii.o, Mexico.
Alumni With Much Ginger.