SPECIAL ALUMNI EDITION 'VOL. XXVI. Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Friday, April 1 i1904. Price 5 Cents ^ New York Alumni Association's Annual Dinner & The annual dinner of the New York and scientific schools. Second, the necessity particularly annoying to have him constantly debt to the grand institution and to the Alumni Association of Phillips Academy of limiting the size of the divisions in various interrupt us in our midnight rambles on grand corps of teachers that have trained'us was held a the University Club in New subjects in order that the best results might School or Main street, or drop down on us, in the way we should go. We, Sons :of . York on the evening of March 30th.-"The be secured. The great problem of the as from the skies, in the midst of our little Phillips in Washington, have-recently fol- meeting was-by far the best both in point of -school today, Mr. Stearns said, is to give excitements on the campus. One of these lowed your good example in this regard. enthusiasm and numbers that the Associa. our boys satisfactory preparation in an ever occasions I have a very vivid recollection of. We have formed ourselves into an associa- tion has yet held. President Horace E. increasing number of subjects to enable It was in the Commencement week of 881, tion, and though the number may be small, Deming was toastmaster, and one hundred them to meet the requirements of the col- and I think our fellow alumnus, Mr. Hub- it lacks no zeal in its interest for the welfare and fifty men sat down to the tables. The leges, without losing sight of that'sound bard, will remember that. The Docior was that pertains to the dear old Alma Mater of ,peakers of the evening were Principal mental discipline and training which was giving his annual eveniag reception to the us all. (Continued applause.) Steams, P. A. '90o, Sir Chentung Liang the keynote of our earlier American training members of the graduating class to which President Thwing was the next speaker. Cheng. P. A. '82, the Chinese Minister to and the loss of which would be a most the graduating class of the female seminary ,he United States, Rev. Charles F. Thwing, serious calamity. While he appreciated to was also invited. It was the custom inADDRESS OF PRESIDENT THING. I'. A. '71, President of the Western Reserve the full the great advances which had been those daDs not-to admit to the -Doctor's LUniversity, Camillus G. Kidder, President - made along educational lines in modern reception the members of the other classes. A-r. President ad Fellows:- I often of the Phillips Exeter Alumni Association times, and the many benefits resulting there- On that occasion referred to the other mem- think of the clause in the constitution of of New York City, and Hugh A. Bayne, P. from, Mr. Stearns said -that he felt strongly bers were effectually barred out, but, never- our Academy which reads somewhat as -. '89. Music was furnished throughout . that an adequate substitute had not yet been theless, we managed to have our presence, follows: "The purpose of this Academy the evening by an Alumni Glee Club, under provided for the splendid discipline and as well as our displeasure at thus being shall be to teach the great aim and the real the leadership of Frank H. Simmons, P. A. mental training which had been the basis of slighted, felt. All the tin horns and every business of living." I often think of that 94- the work of such great teachers as Dr. available- noise-making instrument- were clause, because it expresses so well the President Deming in his opening remarks Taylor. -called into requisition. A constnt racket great principles of all education. A clause called attention to the growth of the Asso- Inlosing, Mr. Steams spoke strongly of as kept up that night to make it as hideous tself wrtten almost the same time that as possible, to spoil the enjoyment of those.. Jefferson wrote the great Declaration. A Jiation during the past -two years. He' the most pressing needs of the Academy as possible, o spoil e ejoyment of tose Jeerson wrote the great Declaration A atedthat two years ago the organizatio - -*todav. The old Commons, he said, could members who were favored with the' society clause that came into the constitution of the Ihad a membership of barely two hundred .not possibly be used more than a year or two _ of the fair sex, but it was found that noise chool and became itself embodied as a rule men, while today this number had grown to longer at best, an'd a building or buildings alone did not produce e esired amount of and purpose at a time when our nation was A five hundred and forty-three active mem- must be provided to take- their place, while israction so nally, re was resrted to struggling in its darkest hor for birth. bers. These figures Mr. Deming thought the lack ,f an Assembly Hall was a most I had a room with Mr. McCurdy, which was clause written probably, or at least idspired, were a fair-indication of te increasing serious handicap to the work of the school. in the house next to Dr. Bancroft's. Being by one who was himsel an associate of interest and loyalty with which old Andover- The alumni should see to it, Mr. Steas so near to headquarters, I had to be on my perhaps te greatest collegepresident of men everywhere are coming to regard their thought, that these two pressing'wants were good behavior most of the time (laughter). that tim, Wheelock of Dartmouth. A But there was too much going on that even- clause which we can make the true principle old Alma Mater. The president also called supplied, and that at the earliest date. But theie was too much going on that even- cause whlich we can make the true principle ttentoldAlma Mater. e planof the Asidentalsociationlled supplied, and that at the earliest ateing for me to keep quiet. I could noresist of our school for every decade and- for Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, P. A."82, the t ia every century to teach the geat aim nd raisecaise an annual fund to be devotedto to the Chinese-Minister to the United States, was, o joss thun. It asy teretempaion Bilyussell, interests of the Academy, and- he further the next speaker. The Minister was intro- schooLwas,out,a beautiful moonlight and ou night. know whatThe awhole bon- the man who is always called "Billy" Rus- announced that the first contributions re- -duced- by President Deming by the name Governor of Massa- the year for-this purpose had which he had borne during his school ays fire onthe campus is. Some members were sell, after he became the Governor of Massa- :eived during.eived h-e fearduring forthis purpose had which he had borne during his Y~hool das d etailedas s entinels.There was ransacked chusetts or any time ".Billy" Russell once 'been devoted to erecting a suitable bronze at Andover, Pi Yuk, and as one of the said at Harvard -FellRs,shere is a tablet in the school chapel, in memory of the Academy's most famous sons. Sir Chen- every nook and corner for combustibles to feed tle flame. The octor was consid- great difference between making a living late principal, Cecil F. P. Bancroft. Mr. tung was greeted with enthusiastic applause, and making a life." To ake a life, to make' lemingeming then spoke feelingly of thettle great the entirebppas -gathering rising and joining in erate enough to allow us to enjoy a few a character, to make a manhood was, is, theie work w hi Phillipsc ork hAcademy cademywhich Phillips badhad donedone in ththe old P. A. ceer,cheer, while thete Glee-ClubGlee lub minutes of'fun; but before long the dreaded a character, -poeto raadeny-.toma the past, of its present prosperity, and of its struck up "Here's to Pi Yuk, hers wius- -upren- a - epurpaeteet-aen to mae, opes and ambitions for the future. The wheard through the--field_(laugh__I and ap- - alia cleainntellec,-strong in will, . a aba itions for tpie fusture._opes The tonight ",-ending ihplause).-I a e who place was right and sensitive in conscience, in heart -,nost valuableasset the institution- could goad-fe#6W- - - -- -- P 1" s^ ^ ^ d~ takeresponsive, is much. To make a man great iossess, he leclare-dwas the loyal and-iuonen- g* - clear., I for one did not take long to make espoiv is muc. To make a man great thusiastic support of its alumni Attention myself scarce. Over the fence I jumped without being big, pure without being d tivitoREMARKSOF SIR CHENT UNG LANCG HENG.. and into acellar of a barn I stumbled. y severe, tender without being soft (applause). ~~~wasactivity called on eto the increaslng And that fellows, that was, and is, the real oart of the alumni in the organizing of new Mr. Preside and Fe Alu i- only thought was to make as long a space of And s r ,nd vigorous a'~ociations in various cities I am very, very glad to be able to be with mother earth between him and' me as I purpose of our school. And we ask.our- could. Inever knew my sprinting powers selves how we shall make it. And the ,lroughout the'country. Mr. Deming then you tonight. It makes me feel like a boy do makesthen. e feelHad.I lie thought a ~I~ until is a very simple answer.