Entering the Chapel the President of the College, the speakers, the candidates for degrees, and Trustees proceeded to the platform. The delegates and the Faculty occupied the body of the Chapel. The remaining seats were filled by guests and by alumni who entered without procession. The exercises were marked by great simplicity and dignity, the speakers and the candidates for degrees were given enthusiastic reception, and the program was not prolonged by interludes. The full program was as follows:

President DEMAREST: Prayer will be offered by the Reverend William Bancroft Hill, D.D., Professor in Vassar College and Trustee of this College.

Rev. W. BANCROFT HILL: O blessed Father of Light and Power, God of our Fathers, Our Father and Our God: In the multitude of Thy mercies we come before Thee this morning; we lift our hearts unto Thee in thanksgiving for all the glorious past of this College and all those who have labored here. We thank Thee for the strong men who have gone forth from these walls trained for Thy service and the service of their fellow men. We thank Thee for the influences which have reached forth to the very ends of the earth, and for the high purposes and noble achievements of those who have called themselves sons of Rutgers. We ask that all the memories of the past and all the rich charities which have come down to us may be blessed and sanctified and made of use to us.

Our prayer is unto Thee, O God, for the future; that as the past has been rich in achievement the future may be even more so; that in power and wisdom and strength those who have the charge of this College and its interests and those who are trained herein may be able to render to their country, to their fellow men, and to Thee the service that the time and the occasion shall demand; that ever and always they shall be a source of power in the world.

Consecrate unto us, O God, this pleasant hour. May we, in the consciousness of Thy high claim upon each one of us, bow before Thee in humility and loyalty, seeking Thy blessing and pledging ourselves to Thy service. We ask it for the sake of Christ, our Saviour. Amen.

President DEMAREST: In the joy of hospitality it seems that a word of welcome to the delegates from other institutions is almost needless. We would like to add to the deed, however, the word-the word of cordial greeting to those who have come to us from institutions far and near, to share with us the joy of this anniversary time. I have particular pleasure in welcoming you within these walls. I like to welcome you as representatives of institutions of learning and institutions of religion, as again and again we remind the young men who gather here daily that religion, the faith of the fathers, is the foundation of all sound wisdom. I am glad to welcome you within these walls on which hang portraits of men who laid the foundations of this institution, who wrought faithfully in their day and generation, and whose works do follow them. They are looking down upon us hereFrelinghuysen and Taylor and DeWitt, and the many whose names I shall not rehearse, but which carry to some of us vivid memories of fine character, of high scholarship, of diligent service.

I welcome you then, the representatives of institutions in fraternity with Rutgers College; representatives of old Colonial colleges in the peculiar fellowship of that early time before the Revolution; representatives of colleges founded afterward-the old classical colleges, as we used to call them and perhaps call them still, founded in the early years of the last century and during all the decades of that century; representatives of the great universities and privately endowed foundations; representatives of technical schools, of great state universities or state colleges; representatives of the universities of foreign lands, of learned societies, and of theological

seminaries, as theology was so closely connected with the origin of this College, its early life, and indeed through all the course of its history.

I give recognition to the delegates present here, bringing by their very presence greeting to this College, by simply reading the names of the institutions.

(At this point the President read the list of institutions, societies, etc., represented by delegates, as printed in the Appendix.)

To each delegate personally here present, representing an institution, I give cordial welcome as I give it to the institution itself.

King's College was founded earlier than Queen's College. It has become Columbia University. I have great pleasure in introducing Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University.

ADDRESS

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Jur.D. President of Columbia University

MR. PRESIDENT, TRUSTEES, FACULTY, ALUMNI AND STUDENTS OF RUTGERS COLLEGE, AND FELLOW GUESTS: In the midst of the many evidences of our nation's youth we are doubly glad to make careful mark of all evidences of age. For a generation past, since we celebrated with pomp and circumstance the centenary of the Declaration of Independence, we have sought one opportunity after another to recognize the passing of the milestones in the history of various institutions in our American life. It is fortunate and it is significant that in almost every case the coming to an age of one hundred years or one hundred and fifty years or two hundred years, and in a few rare cases of two hundred and fifty years, has been on the part of an institution devoted to education or to religion. This fact of itself reflects the conditions under which and the causes out of which our civilization in America was established and by which it has been chiefly made.