Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Wvasbingtonh' Birthday Oration announcing to the campus in general, C' Baltimore, the burned city, shall rise Phoenix-like from her ashes? Frank tried to illus- trate -the Phoenix rising and they led him away, weeping. By the way, I was requested to announce that immediately after these exercises a debate will occur in the new chamber of Horrors in the rear of Old Northf' The subject will be, The Philosophy of Plato compared to the golden gems of George Adef' William Woodhull I-Iay and Edward Otis Stanley will be the participants. Tickets may be obtained from F. L. Kline, the University major domo, who happens to be in town to-day disguised as a student. In closing, I would like to ask a few questions. ' Why does Fred Cross take a stop-watch when he goes fussing? ' What sort of a dance did Ed. Palmer see in Washington? Why did they make Dick Douglas keep score in that interest- ing game in Trenton? Why does Phil Connell want to go to Doc Boices' when he dies P What caused Tub Waller to shout for a shoe horn one time when he was stranded in the bath-tub? I wish to ask Campbell Brandon if he really had Hfteen dances with one girl last evening at the prom? Now comes my last and most pleasant duty. I congratulate George McCreary, Mac MacKenzie, Buck Stagg, Fred Cossitt, 4' Pop 'i Abbot, and others who are too modest to make known their happiness. I know that Ad. Talbott will willingly give you any advice that you may need. Have a good time, now, for the time is short. My gentle hearers, I pray you to judge the doers of these so- called misdeeds leniently and remember that a greater poet than K. Goodman has said, N To err is humanf' We have only a few months more here at Princeton and in that time I hope that more of the class will try to follow the examples of the illustrious father of our country, George Washington. 16 1

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Salutatory. PAUL s. SEELEY M embers of the Class of 1906 and Friends: It is my honorable though regretful duty to bid you welcome to the exercises this morning whichsever one more bond of the close and united fellowship which it has been our fortune to enjoy during the past four years. Untried, untrained, with but a scarce imprint of individuality an-d with characters but roughly formed, we entered within the walls of this revered place short four years ago. Since then the machinery of a world, great though small, has been wielding its forces upon our minds and bodies. Our muscles havebeen strengthened, our minds trained and broadened by the irresist- able force of men and manners. It is not that we have joined company with a few of our fellows and worked and studied to- gether for the term of a college course. Far more. We have come to a great university, we have become its members, we have breathed of its breath 5 lived of its life and made ourselves as one with its laws and its customs. Words fail to express the sense of deep gratitude, of kindly affection, and unlimited appreciation toward our alma mater which must fill the mind of everyone of us during these last days of sad farewell. The years which must remain dearest to all our memories are past, never to be forgotten. From henceforth we must stand not as undergraduates under the protection of our college flag but as men of the world from whom the world asks something worth while. Princeton has given to us of its very self. The joys, the pleasures, the cares, the sorrows of its sacred walls have all been ours. We came to its shelter as strangers, lacking the bonds of fellowship. Under its roofs and spires we have been united into one body by the kindly spirit of brother- hood and fraternity. Man has met man for his true worth and 18