Evening journal., 1918-04-05
PATRIOTISM HIGH At
DEACON REUNION
Prot. Green, MIR. Carson
and Mr.. Handy Thrill
College Students
HAPPY DANCE
AFTER BANQUET

The Hon. L. irving Handy. former
Congressman from Delaware, the Hon.
Hampton l.. Carson. former Attorney
General OF Pennsylvania. and Or. r. H..
Green, Of the Pennsylvania State
Normal School at West Chester
were the orators at tho lrst annual ban
quet Of the Beacon College Club, held N
the grill room OF the Hotel DUPONT last
night.
Before The dinner Invocation was
made by the Rev. Thomas p. Holloway,
pastor Of The Second Baptist Church
The dinner .tsclf was most success
ful affair and many OF Delaware's proml-
nsnt sons were present 20 DO Il justice
and 60 enjoy the speaking that fol-
lowed The grlll room was decorated
with the national cOlors and With the
Beacon College pennsnts. AZ The con
clus.on OF the dinner the presiding OIL
GER NJ. ID. Fischer secretary OF the
executive committee Or the dupont
Z Powder Company. aud a graduate Of the
college, told of the organization Of the
club on April 80, 1911 AZ that time the
membership. which iF open to both
/ graduates and undcrg aduaies, num-
/ bered Is, but since Is had Increased 20
23J lie said lhat the purpose Of ih s
club wss 90 uulfy in spirit the students
and eX-stuIents. and 20 hold monthly
meetings with The purpose Of promot-
ing mutu7 friendship and soc!ai good
feeling He concluded h!s remarks by
introducing SIR. Handy as POSTMASTER
fof The evening whom he said, no IN
PRODUCTION was needed.
Mr handy said he felt that his present
capacity was an honor which had been
attained by him he knew not how. HIS
remarks were 81 that variety Of humor
which IS Infectious and smiling faces
lfeplied to his ssllles. 70 was Ills pleas
uce, he concluded, in introducing Dr.. F.
II. Green, OF West Chester, who would
be iha first speaker.
Dr. Green had not gone through two
sentences before The audience was cap
Nyated. Ills fund OF anecdotes was
ready and apparently inexhaustible, but
the purpose az his talk, he said was TO
describe the greatest navy IN the
world" This navy. he said. was neither
our gi0rious navy, nor that Of Great
Britain, nor yet, that of our other ally
France He said thar the navy Of which
he spoke consisted Of but five ships, the
n.st cf which was Scholarship This,
he islt was a very htting subject FOR
the evening. lie said that brains must
be mixed with work, snd quoted Greene
epitaph, "He Died Learning" Carlyle
he said, had once made the remark, -
true university is a stack Of books" 81
was his opinion that to be wei-balance
q we must do more than one thing 81
premely well, we must be as a spea
"A which is OF more than one metal or a
n an orchestra which is q blend OF har
is mony."
l. Tne second ship Professor Green sal
was "Friendshlp." lie told Of the grea
IS works of Ioetry. eonsecrated 10 friend
n ship Keats "Adonals' and Tennyson'
y forever immortal IN Memoriam,
dedicated to Arthur Hallam.
n The third ship was citizenship,
Is "and an important vessel it was" h
= said. AT tbs critical time citizenshi
.- was one Of the finest qualities attrih
uted 10 the true American
g. e-WarGship" was the next vessel q
p which Professor Green spoke. He mair
y ts'ned that without hardship few ca
u succeed. "As a kite rises against nc
(, with the wind
~ Last and most important was 'Wo'
"A shin. the flagship OF the Worlds gre''
/, est navy hc said. He told OF an inc
h dent which happened 20 him in ti
A. Mammoth Cave. in Kentucky. The gule
,e ordered the torches extingulshed art
The party had been for some hours
The depths OF the earth. There wi
oomplete darkness and nc announced b
intention OF leaving them where the
were. but you need not fear, q
4 said. for from where you stand, ~
- few hours you may see The sun rise