The Penn's Grove record., 1917-06-15
SI0te College Commencement
South Jersey Had Several Grad
yates With Honors, Gov
ernor Included

The 151st Commencement exercises of
Rutgers College and the State Scienti-
lic School was held in the second Re
formed Church in New Brunswick on
Tuesday. Because of the war with
Germany the attendance was smaller
than usual. Several students nave en-
listed and many others went To work
at different trades before the college
year closed.
The Glass of 1917 consists of sew
enty-seven men. Those from South
Jersey are as follows: Paul NJ Bow
en-. shiloh; Herman Eisenberg. Norma;
Marvin Leeds. Atlantic City; Alan b..
Miller. Merchantville; John L. Pitt.
Bridgeton; Walter ii. Seward and Ben
Jamin Shanefeld. Vineland: Louis
rrunnell, Newfield; Robert Test. Mer-
chantville; Frederick tSummerill, Penns
Grove.
Mr.. Summerill stood at the head of his
class in biology and was one of the best
eleven men in scholarship who were elect
ed to the Phi Beta Kappa. This is a dis
ringuished Greek letter society composed
of the men of high scholastic honors in
all colleges.
Under President William II. :. Dem
arest's wise administration Rutgers is
becoming the foremost educational in
stitution in the State. The State Ag-
ricultural College affiliated with Rut-
gers is making great strides to spread
scientific knowledge among the farmers
Throughout the State and is attracting
many young farmer students. The
summer school held there is the best in
he State because of the college a%ssocia-
ions and facilities.
Dir. Demarest made "A happy hit by
having present Maior-General George
W. Cocktails. builder of the Panama
ANAL. State engineer in charge of road
construction of New Jersey. and presi-
lent of the L. S. Emergency Fleet Cor
loration. lie is a graduate of West
Point. Rutgers trustees conferred upon
him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Science. Governor Walter +. Edge was
also present and had the honorary title
If LID. Doctor of Laws, conferred
upon him. Among others who received
honorary degree WAS I.eonar f. Iaree.
president of the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad. a graduate of and trustee of
The college. He put Rutgers on the
football map by securing George f.
Sanford as coach.
As captain of the gymnasium team
Fred Summerill kept Rutgers on the
map by winning the club swinging con-
est with all Eastern colleges.
As athletics are given a prominent
place in college notoriety many are led
TO believe it takes precedent over schol-
arship. That is not so at Rutgers.
Dean Louis Revier compiled figures re-
cently which showed that the general
scholastic average of all men engaged
n athletics was 73S as against 73 for
non-athletics. Among the athletes the
gymnasium team stood highest with their
books with an average of 1855. Base
ball men showed that the national game
IS a good brain developer. having 75.5.
The football men. however. fumbled
considerably more in the classroom than
IN the gridiron last fall. and were the
all enders. with CSC. though they had
a good margin above the passing grade
Of 60.
Some of the scholastic men could not
see the appropriateness of comforting
the degree. Doctor of Laws. on Cover
nor Edge. because he attended only the
common school at Pleasantville and
graduated from a printing office in At
lantic City, Few bear in mind that a
lose student in printing office has the
greatest opportunity to learn of the
many practical affairs of life. As a
member of the Legislature for many
years Governor Edge has had more ex-
p~erience in doctoring laws than all the
earned men bearing the honorary degree
If LID. whose greatest task is to
earn what those laws mean.
Undoubtedly President Demarest had
in mind when Governor Edge was given
the title of LID. the fact that
Legislators, great debaters Educated
men.
Have arisen from the prison of the
printers den,