Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 60

              bethlehem pa tuesday june 6 1916 bishop anderson addresses seniors alumni day a success president drinker delivers alumni address at the semicentennial commencement 1916 exercises over 3000 alumni and friends gather at time oif fiftieth anniversary president's lawn scene of class day festivities yesterday afternoon baccalaureate held in packer memorial chapel sunday morning special music interesting review of the history of the university given by the president new officers graduating class numbering ninety four honorary degrees conferred t edgar shields directs choir of nativity during service the alumni association elects officers at meeting in drown hall enjoyable program mechanicals lead henry sturgis drinker presi dent of the university delivered the alumni address at the semi centennial celebration of lehigh this morning in the university chapel a large audience which included the ninety members of the present graduating class and rela tives were in attendance and heard an interesting account of the prog ress and history of the university during the fifty years of its exist ence the address follows : we celebrate this year the semi-centennial of our university and the exercises today close the gathering that we have had of le high s sons — a great gathering ex the 1916 class day exercises were held yesterday afternoon on president drinker's lawn the program rendered delighted the many friends of the graduates who were present to enjoy the festivi ties the salutatory address was given by d t wynne president of the senior class who wasi like wise the ivy orator the class prophecy by m w kresge and d c brewster was humorous and was accompanied with considerable laughter w volkhardt was the tablet orator and e s johnston gave the class poem graduating class the salutatory address of presi dent wynne was : dr drinker mrs drinker and guests : ' ' it is my pleasure as well as my duty on behalf of the graduating class of 1916 to extend to you dr drinker and mrs drinker our hearty thanks for your hospitality and to you our guests the wish that the festivities of this occasion may prove in some degree enjoy able after four long years of hard work fraught with toil and tribu lation to many of us we are at last actually engaged in the formalities preceding the exercises at which we will receive our much-sought-for degrees this is the last time that we can hope to have the entire class together and we must make use of the opportunity continued on eighth page : most of you are closely con nected either by kinship or friend ship with some members of the class we are the class today and god grant that it may be so many times in the future like one big family we feel therefore that each and everyone of you must take what could be regarded as one of the largest gatherings of lehigli alumni in her history was that of last saturday fully three thous and persons including alumni their wives and friends journeyed to south mountain to join in the grand jubilee registration began friday morning and continued all through the next day it was a jolly crowd that assembled in drown hall saturday morning to meet friends and classmates in the mammoth reunion at eleven o clock the alumni association was called to order by president r s perry 88 on the second floor while the ladies held an informal meeting on the first floor greet ings from alumni from all parts of the earth were read including greetings from the chinese alumni club the reunion cup presented by the class of 91 to strengthen loyalty and revive friendship was not awarded awaiting reports from the reunion classes prof richards on behalf of the class of 86 presented a painting of dr b w frazier professor of metallurgy 1871-1905 the officers elected for the year 1916-17 were president h , h c anderson 94 john j gibson scovil 00 vice-presidents ; w 95 ; honorary alumnus trustee for term ending june 1900 r s perry 88 ; secretary and treas urer for two year term p a lam bert 83 and archivist for three year term howard eckfeldt 95 the meeting adjourned to par take of a lunch served in the com mons and drown hall opposite the commons the speeches of the day were delivered ■ here bishop talbot c m schwaß w d b ainey 87 ; r s perry 88 ; h h scovil 00 f e meaker 75 c l taylor 76 and d t wynne 16 gave short and spirited speeches then came the parade to the field the class of 96 made the best showing while the 07 chi nese and the devils of 1906 were conspicuous the day came to a close with the defeat of lafa yette among the alumni who were present were 1886 h g reist c h veeder g j harwi m a howe e s stackhouse h toulmin w h sayre g h cobb 1887 — f s smith e l bevan f s smith c f zimmele p f enright 1888 w l wilson o c burk hart f w pile h s miner l p gaston a t bruggel 1889 j c cornelius e a wright j m morrow s e lam bert a long j j lincoln h woodall a m smyth e die bitsch w butterworth c walker w a cornelius s e berger h t throop 1890 d t williams e j prindle j w demoyer m b tate h j sherman 1891 h kemmerling j f hersh w forstall h e atkins w t patterson f d ermentrout continued on fifth page continued on fourth page pressive of the love and devotion that is so deeply felt by them for the alma mater a mother to whom they may well pay heartfelt devo tion and reverence for her accom plishments in these fifty years in education and in leadership in all things that are true that are just that are pure that are lovely and of good report and if there be praise due to her let us think on these things — and how in lehigh s record of her fifty years of life she has ever stood for the highest and the best and that her deserved reputation rests on the fact that at the beginning she set high her standards and has never lowered them ; that from the first she estab lished them on a firm foundation of honesty of teaching straight living and christian principles owing to our location in this valley teem ing with metallurgical and other industries we have naturally al ways attracted a large clientage of men desiring to prepare for tech nical pursuits and to study where the surroundings afford an atmos phere conducive to and sympathetic with such studv — but from le college of the city of new york elwood aristides grissinger e.e lehigh university g e m jauncey b.s university of ade laide . bachelor of arts ellis brod stein edwin archdall clare charles henry cope harold ir vine fair joseph arthur meredith mark nelson owen moses alfred strausburg donald thomas wynne bachelor of science : donald cameron brewster james michael burke harry siegfried carlson paul scott hallowell hanway everitt sommerville johnston caleb temple murphy marshall robinson preston continued on fifth page civil engineer leslie allen william anthony cannon edward jesse clement arthur charles eberhard paul jerome ganey eugene willard garges herbert deans keiser ellison lawrence kirkhuff louis maurice levin william barth miller charles el mer paules evan holmes reisler elmer frederick sehmoll stuart briscoe scruggs frederick wil 1 this morning degrees were awarded to ninety men who have completed courses of study at the university the course graduating the largest number of men was the mechanical aside from these de grees honorary degrees were awarded to m a dewolfe howe 86 j b barrell 92 w d b ainey 87 and h r price 70 master of arts william allen lambert b.a lehigh univer sity jacob tarshish a.b uni versity of cincinnati master of science : ezra bowen iv b.s lehigh university george jantzen buchner b.s in the crowde d packer memorial chapel on the morning of the first sunday after ascension june 4 the rt rev charles palmerton anderson d.d ll.d bishop of chicago preached his baccalaure ate sermon it was a sermon pray ing for more individuality in people and showing the need for men and women to do real work and it was drawn from two seem ingly contradictory passages of the bible bear ye each other's bur dens ' ' and ' ' every man must bear his own burdens rev anderson quoted from rus kin who said that there were three ways of making a living viz : by stealing by begging and by work ing he continued by saying that no one listening would have to be told that stealing was wrong neither would they want to beg so working was the only thing left indeed there is no road leading to success except a road of work back of beautiful painting he said back of exquisite architec ture back of green fields back of busy commerce and industry and back of everything that is really worth while there is good steady honest toil he then pointed out that the animals that work and fight for thei rliving like the lion are beautiful while the others snakes and lizard's are repulsive it is exactly the same with man he said that there is so much to do in this world and that there are so few who are morally physically and mentally able to do it there is injustice to be fought against there are railroads to be built books to be written and hungry stomachs to be filled ; college gradu ates are among the best equipped to do these things but they don't do it he declared that there was not a graduate from any college in the united states of america that has paid back to his church or his country what he owes through the college again he said that responsibili ties are two-fold those that rest upon us as individuals and those that rest upon us as classes no two people out of the millions of humans are exactly alike no two animols no two birds out of their millions are exactly alike yet there is nothing more wonderful than each single soul instead of trying to be alike and trying to do things that other sdo we should be natural and then individuality would be ours we belong to so many societies and clubs and cliques that we do things because others do them how many good things do we do on our own indi vidual responsibility and how many because others do he saidi that lie knew hundreds of boys who never read a good hook who would gather in the morning to relate with delight the wrong they did the previous night he said that he knew hundreds of college boys with an infinite num ber of opportunities won't god charge the college boys with more than the others won't he expect continued on fifth page lehigh university vol xxiii no 60