The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-01
TOM WILSON GIVES
DINNER To THE BOYS
President Has a Night Of Fun
With His Princeton
classmates.
MARINE BAND PLAYS

wAsHiNcroN. Nov. so.-The class Of
IS at Princeton had Inc most memoir
able reunion in It's history At the White
House tonight. Also President Wilson
for one night was tom" Wilson OF his
Princeton undergraduate days. The
President threw aside all formalitiee and
| enjoyed an evening with his old college
chums.
college reunions al the white House
are rare functions. A Princeton reunion
there is an entirely new experiences for
one OF Old NassaV's classes and there
was every indication that the occasion
was as full OF Joy and run as one Of the
less dignined gatherings In a tent back
near the Princeton campus.
Stories Of college daysVhs dAss
when Tom" or Tommy a. some
| called him. Wilson was q pretty good
| baseball player-were paased around TINS
big table in the state dining room
everybody had his laugh, some OF thefs
AZ the expense Of the President. ana the
halls OF the White House rang to the
strains OF "Old Nassau and other songs
! that the Precedent and his classmates
used to sins on the spring evenings
! from the steps of Nassau Hall.
Policeman P~erpIexed.
Altogether It was one Of the most
picturesque social functions that have
been held at the White House in a Ions
time. The policemen in front OF the
Executive Mansion who heard the sing
! ing seemed 10 be perplexed whether 10
laugh or he alarmed.
Eorty-nine OF President Wilson'S
ella smates sat down with hin at the big
I horseshoe table IN the State dining room
lust outside the door sat the United
,..-- ..-. rlana Srhtch f,xPniahAA the
music. Ordinarily a Princeton class II
doing pretty well when II returns 10 th'
Jersey college town II II succeeds In
persueding a Newark brass band TO &C
company Il. and naturally tho presencs
OF tho United States Marine Band b,
contrast added to the impressiveness al
the reunion.
President Wilson had Just completed
the task OF writing his address 70 Con
gress and was IN a mood 10 enjoy u
the fullest the com~panionship Of hi
classmates.
What passed al the table in speech
and otherwise was guarded by the mem
hers OF the class as a strict secret
Indeed, they agreed before they left TN
White House that nothing should b,
, given out in regard TO the dinner.
: The White House itself also preferred
to regard the dinner entirely a. a private
matter. MOI even " iet " Inc 0uesu
was made public, but IL Is known that
counting the President. there we're hdI
members OF the class az the reunion
Among them were Cleveland II. Dodg'
OF New York. Associate Justice Pitne.
OF the United States Supreme Court
Cyrus Mccormick OF Chicago and Robsr
Bridges. editor O. the Century Aaoo:fne
SiIliman Abseat.
John V. Sill!man. United States Con
sui at Vera Cruz. was one of the fev
members OF the class OF 1873 who wer
obliged to be absent from this nemorabl
reunion.
When President Taft entered th
White House he entertained his Val
classmates Al a public reception.
President Wilson arranged for tn
80 dinner months ago He told hi
classmates when he invited them TO com
10 the White House for a reunion an
banquet tina he was bound tight I
them by memories ~hloh grew deare
every year. The President did every
,hing In his power to show them that h
meant exactly what he said.