42 Alumni Reunion 



the former collegiate students being present. These 

 included many who had come from a distance, as well as 

 practically all the alumni living in Baltimore. For 

 instance, over two-thirds of the living members of the 

 class of 1884 were present. All the dinners were given at 

 the Hotel Caswell, with the following exceptions : "1889" 

 was entertained at the Stafford by Mr. Waldo Newcomer; 

 "1891" dined at the University Club ; "1892" at Wegner's ; 

 "1893" and "1901" at the New Carrollton. Some of the 

 classes had been meeting annually, but many of them had 

 not met since graduation. Alumni organizations were 

 made or perfected, and arrangements made for class re- 

 unions in the future. In the course of the evening a mes- 

 sage was sent to President Eemsen by each class, signed 

 by every member present, conveying to him their best 

 wishes and expressing confidence in his management of 

 the University and in its future achievements. 



Saturday afternoon, on "Hopkins Field," at Homewood, 

 a football game was played between the Johns Hopkins 

 team and its traditional rival in football, the eleven of St. 

 John's College. The attendance was estimated at six 

 thousand and was entirely unprecedented in the history 

 of the University. The appearance of the classes with 

 their banners, grotesque costumes, and bands, and many 

 of the other features, are not likely to be soon forgotten 

 by those present, and seemed to indicate clearly the inten- 

 tion of the alumni to attend and support athletic events 

 of the Hopkins as never before. At this game many of 

 the alumni saw for the first time the spacious concrete 

 stand and the carefully-constructed athletic field recently 

 completed. 



Saturday evening, at eight o'clock, the President and 

 Board of Trustees received the alumni in McCoy Hall, 

 which had been decorated with class banners and with 

 many relics of historic interest to the alumni. President 

 Remsen, in his speech of welcome, expressed his pleasure 



