Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-12
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LAFAYETTE GRADS
AT ANNUAL FEAST
Prominent Educators of the
State Make Telling Speeches
Last Evening

Calls for the implanting in the
youth of Pennsylvania and of the
whole nation of that spirit of patriot
ism that leads men to make the su-
preme sacrifice rang through the
speeches delivered last night at the
first annual dinner of the Central
Pennsylvania alumni of Lafayette col
lege. The speeches were indeed diff
ferent from those ordinarily heard at
an alumni dinner. There were, Of
course, "reminiscences by graduates and
greetings from the men of other col
leges, but a serious tone pervaded the
addresses and the sentiments of the
speakers were cheered to the echo.
Governor Brumpaugh, who received
the degree of doctor of literature from
Lafayette last Spring. voiced the spirit
of the hour when he said that the men
! of the nation must be trained to use
their brains as we'll as their Drawn for
the welfare of all. The time has come
when people must prepare against
dangers. These dangers, he held, were
not from within because the people of
this land are being welded together
through knowledge and the spread of
the spirit of American freedom, but
they come from without and he de-
clared that those who furnished the
danger should pay for the defense.
Not Prepared Now
! I'VE are not even prepared to be
prepared" asserted the Governor in
a most earnest manner. He said that
the nation had not worked out
scheme of mobilization of industry
and he brought into the minds of his
hearers the conditions that prevailed
! in the industrial organizations of the
/ two great warning nations. This coun-
| try, he held, should prepare to use its
| brains to develop industrial defense as
we'll as military defense. The Cover
nor made an earnest plea for a mer-
chant marine, declaring that South
America offers untold trade, but that
we have no ships with which to deliv-
er the goods.
In the course of his remarks the
/ Governor dwelt upon the exceptional
educational advantages offered by the
Keystone Commonwealth and took oc-
casion to fay those who hold that
Pennsylvania was settled by people of
low order of intelligence. He point
ed to Penn and those who came with
him and the men who turned Pennsyl-
Vania from province into State and
who have put it forward in the list of
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Strong Speeches Made
President ]. II. MacCracken, of La
fayette, naturally talked about the col
lege and its plans and its hopes, but
he also voiced the senti-
ment that its men should do their
share when called upon. DR.. william
Mann Irvine, headmaster of MERGERS
burg AcaGemy who spoke on Lafay-
cite and Princeton, whence he came,
! lauded the British spirit of patriotism
as developed by the war and de-
clared that sons of England had laid
down life in defense of country in the
most heroic way The same spirit he
said is in this country, but the nation
must know how to use it for the best.
| Deputy Attorney General Emmerson
Collins, of the immortal class of 'S4,
brilliantly closed the speeches in an
address for the alumni in which he
said that men must be ready 20 take
their stand for all they hold dear, not
going about hunting trouble but quiet
| ly prepared to meet it If it arose and
never forget the principles which en-
tered into the foundation of the ma
! tion.
DIR. Becht Presided
| DR.. ]. George Becht, secretary of
| the State Board of Education, presid-
ed and was most delightful toastmas-
! ter, serious and witty by turns,
abounding in love for alma mater and
! in patriotic sentiment. Ex-senator
John r. Fox. one of the trustees, well
coined the guests and William S. Sny-
! der, Dickinson, extended the greetings
of the men of other colleges, while
George Swift Freeman, a senior, who
talked for the "undergrads" made a
speech as different from the generally
made by the representative of the stu
dent body, as were the speeches of
last nights headliners from those or
dinarly droned out from the head
table.
! The committee in charge was COM
| posed of: John L. Fox, 80, chairman;
Frank P. Snodgrass, 80, secretary
treasurer; Casper Dull, II; w. VALLEY
! Davis, SO; j. George Becht 80; Fred
/ eric A. Godcharles, '9S; William II.
Earnest, '97; Charles X. Boas, II.
| The decorations were maroon and
white with numerous flags and pen
nants sent from Easton, the Stars and
Stripes and the State flag fanking a
big college banner. The same color
scheme was followed in the flowers on
the tables and the menus which bore
a facsimile of the portrait of Lafayette
painted when here in 1925 were strip
/ ed with maroon.
In attendance were:
Martin G.. Brumbaugh, DR.. Nathan
! c. Schaffer, DIR. John Price Jackson,
! DR.. William NJ. Irwin, DR.. William r.
, Owen, John +. Dapp, Henderson Gill
bert, Charles A. Kunkel, Prof Arthur
f. Brown, George J.. Reed, John II.
Geyer, Prof. Percy L. Grubb. A. Boyd
Hamilton, George Kunkel, Samuel ].
NJ. McCarrell, Mercer B. Tate, DIR.
John II. MacCracken, Paul G. Smith
Jacob A. Fronheiser Michael +.
Stroup, Samuel Kunl<el, James c.
Deininger. Daniel Dull, Lewis S. Sad
Ter, Thomas L. Montgomery, John S.
Killing, Robert L. Schmidt, John
Kelley, William S. Snyder. ]. G. Becht,
C. X. Boas, Thomas s.. Marsh, w. w.
Davis, Casper Dull, w. r. Downs, John
e. Fox, ID. C. Herr, Arthur e. Lebo, j.
B. Mellicll, the Rev. John A. Miller,
ID. S. Boitz. +. P. Snodgrass Thomas o.
Mitman, w. H. Earnest, r. T. Fox, w.
e. Stott, Kreider e. Kurtz, j. +. Pat
terson, Darwin c. Pomeroy, James J.
Logan. Joseph r. Strawbridge, Henry
r. Douglass, Quinn T. Mickey, David
NJ. Rupp. William G.. Miller, S. S.
Rupp, Frank ]. Reiser, +. A. God
charles, James NJ Maurer. II. A. Mac
key j. Madison Porter, Gideon r.
Kreider, Jr., Charles f. Zimmerman,
John A. Wilson, George Bell, I. c. FL
der, ]. w. Hoke. William j. Patton,
! T. y. Grler, A. Parker McMeen. S. S.
Riddle. Emmerson Collins, McCluney
Radcliff, NJ. D., the Rev. Harvey Klaer,
Warren A. Norris. Charles e. Shope,