THE ANNIVERSARY DINNER

The Ballantine Gymnasium, 7:30 P. M.

The Celebration Dinner in honor of delegates and guests was given in the Gymnasium, the Trustees and Faculty serving as hosts. At the head table with President Demarest, who presided, were Ambassador W. L. F. C. van Rappard, President W. H. P. Faunce of Brown University, President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, Dr. John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, President Frank J. Goodnow of the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Merrill Edwards Gates, sometime President of Rutgers College, and Mr. Leonor F. Loree, of the class of 1877, President of the Delaware and Hudson Company. During the dinner there was music. After the dinner the speaking was as follows:

President DEMAREST: I wish first to say just a word of very cordial welcome to our guests, the delegates from the colleges and universities. Tomorrow morning I may be permitted, perhaps, to speak at somewhat greater length.

I would like to read certain letters I have received but I shall not stop for that. President Woodrow Wilson has written expressing his extreme regret that he is unable to be here. He had hoped to come. The stress of circumstance at the last moment compels his absence. He sends his heartiest congratulations to Rutgers.

The Ambassador from Great Britain, Sir Cecil SpringRice, and Dr. Henry van Dyke, Minister of the United States to the Netherlands, have also written, expressing their regrets and sending their very cordial congratulations to this College.

The first speaker of the evening represents the university closest to us, a university with which we have had close connection through the many years. Princeton University, then the College of New Jersey, sent, as I said this morning, to Queen's College its first tutor, Frederick Frelinghuysen, and its second tutor, his classmate, John Taylor. There was proposal to unite the

two institutions at one time.

Cordial relation continues

between them and warm personal sympathy between those who preside over their life.

I have very great pleasure in introducing the President of Princeton University, Dr. John Grier Hibben.

SPEECH

JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, Ph.D., LL.D.

President of Princeton University

PRESIDENT DEMAREST, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND MEN OF RUTGERS: I bring to you not only for myself personally, but for the College of New Jersey of the distant past and for Princeton University of the present, my very sincere and happy felicitations upon this occasion-the more so because of the intimate relations between the two institutions to which you have so kindly referred. It has been one of the most delightful experiences of my administration that I have had the cordial and very happy friendship of Dr. Demarest. We feel that we are bound together, Dr. Demarest, not only by the personal ties of the present, which are very delightful to me, but also by those ties that go back to the beginning. For as we follow, in our imagination, lines back to that past, the origin of Rutgers, which we today celebrate, and the origin of the old College of New Jersey, the past is not that of two institutions, but it is one past. We have had the same kind of academic ancestors. The men who founded Rutgers and the men who founded the College of New Jersey were men of the same type of religious convictions. They possessed the same theory of conduct, the same theory of government. Their hearts beat with the same kind of patriotism. And so we feel that our origin has been the same, and as we are here tonight to celebrate these early beginnings, it seems to me that for a few moments I can very fittingly speak of the spirit of the past.

We cannot regard it in the way of a personal memory.

Those men are too far away from us. We have heard of them, we have read of them, and ours is a tradition which we highly prize. The men themselves are strangers to us. They belong to that great choir invisible of the departed dead. But it is not only a tradition, ladies and gentlemen, which we prize. It is more than that for some of us, or for most of us, I dare say. We have today in our blood the inheritance of these ancestors of ours. We are descendants from them and I am disposed to think that the very best that is in us-the striving after the high and the noble and the good that we feel in our lives; any attainment that we may have made or that we may be able to make-in it all, in the very best that is in us, our ancestors are speaking in and through us, are striving in and through us, and in that best of us there is the reincarnation of their spirit.

How amazed they would be if we could summon them tonight from their tombs and point to the electric light and tell them its story; if we could take them, in the light of the day, to this great station that you have in your neighborhood that sends out its wireless messages across this great continent. And could we not tell them the story of the aeroplane, and the submarine, and of all the great progress that the world has made in these one hundred and fifty years? And with what shame, also, we would have to tell them of the great European War; of the engines of destruction tearing down what they and their kinsmen on the other side of the Atlantic have been building up for centuries in faith and in hope. And out of their amazement they would perhaps turn to us, their sons, and they would ask of us at this time the very searching question: "But what of the moral and the spiritual progress of this country? Are you as proud of that as you are of all of these material achievements?" And how would we be able to answer that question? The answer we would have to give is that we are not thoroughly satisfied, to say the least, with our advancement in this regard. We say to our ancestors tonight: "We crave for the present and for the future a double portion