YALE ALUMN ee wWePery
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only for recitation rooms, but also for
the clubs that are being formed in such
large numbers among the students
for research and study. The increase
in numbers makes a constant demand.
If one new dormitory, like those of the
old Brick Row, were added every year,
theaccommedations would nomore than
keep pace with this increase. To hold
the entire collegiate family we need a
hall seating three thousand. We do not
expect that this appetite will ever be
fully satisfied, and it is not desirable
that it should be; one of Yale’s charac-
teristics is that it has never been fully
at peaee, and this constant struggle
has developed the manly and vigorous
nature of the College, and its students
and alumni.
“IT congratulate this Association on
the success it has achieved; I believe
these reuniens of the alumni associa-
tions develop a spirit of loyalty and en-
thusiasm among the graduates and
bring encouragement to those who have
the active management of the Univer-
sity.”’
THE TOAST TO HARVARD.
Camillus G. Kidder replied to the
toast: “Fair Harvard.’’ After alluding
to the cordial relations now existing be-
tween the two universities, as shown
by the hearty cheers given to Yale at
the recent dinner of the Harvard alum-
ni in New York, Mr. Kidder spoke of
the great changes in material ‘sur-
roundings during the past sixty years,
changes so marked that the “environ-
ment’’ of to-day differs more radically
from the year 1837 than this did from
the days of Queen Elizabeth. The
speaker instanced railways, illuminat-
ing gas, the various uses of electricity,
the telegraph, telephone and phono-
graph, electric lighting, the typewrit-
er, the trolley car, etc., etc., dwelling
especially upon the enormous gain to
civilization by the introduction of kero-
sene oil, which cheap and useful illu-
minant, distributed throughout the
farm houses of the world, has added
from three to six hours to the available
day of mankind. :
NoT THE BEST GAIN.
“And now, in the second half of the
last decade of the century,’’ said the
speaker, ‘“‘we find ourselves rich in
material development and surrounded
by material comforts, of which our
grandfathers did not even dream. Yet
we have not shown the like progress in
the development of character. Within
a year nearly one-half of our country-
men have shown a readiness to debase
the currency and to embark upon an
unknown sea of financial and social
heresies. Our common schools train the
eye, the hand and the perceptive facul-
ties; they do not ripen the judgment
nor do they seem to educate the con-
science. Our system of government has
failed in the management of cities, and
it seems that the critical times fore-
told by De Tocqueville have come upon
us.”
The speaker next alluded to a letter
by Macaulay to his Philadelphia friend,
written in the fifties, in which Macau-
lay characterized our Constitution as
“ell sail and no rudder,’ and foretold
that “when the westward-moving
fringe of your advancing civilization
shall have reached the furthest margin
of your empire, on the shores of the
Pacific, and shall flow back upon itself,
then will your institutions be in peril
from the Goth and the Vandal, and not
from the Goth and the Hun and the
Vandal from a foreign country, -but
those engendered by your own civil-
ization.”’
“And, if it be true,” the speaker con-
tinued, “that 40 per cent. of the un-
skilled labor of the country is now out
of employment, as is averred by some
authorities on the subject, it will be
necessary shortly either to make some
concession directly to this element in
the way of public works or by special
agrarian legislation, or else to change
our present system of universal suf-
frage, either of which course may in-
volve revolution.”
Mr. Kidder thought that a partial
remedy for these evils might be found
in the united action of men of univer-
sity training. “The college,’ he said,
“sg an institution, in the words of Low~
ell, ‘for the inculcation of useless learn-
ing;’ that is, for learning with no direct
utilitarian object in view. The noble
examples of the classic days, coming
to a young man at the most plastic and
receptive period of his life, tend to
form and develop his character, and to
give him higher ideals. The search for
the Holy Grail, being in itself a noble
quest, ennobled the seeker, although
not to every one did it fall out to at-
tain the goal, and a university train-
ing, while it can not be said to make a
man incorruptible, yet, to use the
words of old Dr. Peabody, ‘it raises his
price.’ ”
The speaker closed with an earnest
appeal, in view of the perils of the time,
for a solidarity in feeling among all
men who have enjoyed a university ed-
ucation.
LS
DR. FRAYER FOR ‘‘ PRINCETON,”
The toast of ‘Princeton’ was re-
sponded to by the Rev. David R. Fray-
er, of Newark, a graduate and trustee
of that College. Dr. Frayer said that
he had been led to believe, when asked
to speak at this dinner, that the Asso-
ciation was looking for a Princeton
man who would not “put Yale to
sleep,”’ but perhaps he had a further
right to address a Yale audience, for
the pulpit of his church, the First
Presbyterian of Newark, had former-
ly been occupied by Rev. Abraham
Pierson, the first President of Yale.
Prior to the Revolution there were nine
colleges in this country, three of which
were prominent; he would not say that
Princeton excelled all the others, as it
would be neither modest nor true.
“Princeton does not want the earth,’’
he said; ‘“‘she is willing to take what
she can get, and let Yale and Harvard
fight for the rest.
“The modern life of Princeton dates
from the presidency of Dr. McCosh,
whose policy enhanced loyalty to the
old traditions, combined with a right
progress in a fuller equipment fortrain-
ing in philosophy, science and the lib-
eral arts. The outcome of this policy
stands embodied in the fact that we
have now 1,100 students, instead of 268,
who greeted Dr. McCosh on his com-
ing; in the elegant buildings reared and
being reared on our campus, and found
its true culmination in our late susque-
centennial, which was fully up to any
academic function this country has
seen. In the torchlight procession a
company of gentlemen, wearing cap
and gown, bearing aloft blue lanterns,
and crying ‘Yale, Yale,” received as
much attention, consideration, applause
and appreciation as any other one fea-
ture in the line. It was a sweet and
thoughtful thing for Yale to do, and
Princeton will reciprocate with equal
good feeling whenever Yale’s history
affords the chance.”’
Respecting athletics the speaker said
that Princeton had been floored too
often to do much shouting, but that
she hoped by a new system of train-
ing, which the speaker described, to
render Princeton invincible for the fu-
ture.
COLONEL OSBORN’S RESPONSE.
Col. Osborn’s response was in an
optimistic vein and was full of good
things. He gave a crisp definition of the
Yale spirit and pitched upon that bun-
dle of virtues as the necessary equip-
ment for men in public life. Col. Os=4
born insisted that if men only carried
this spirit into. public life, the difficul-
ties of the present political situation :
would be removed like mist before the
morning sun.
PROF. BELLOC’S SPEECH.
Prof. Hilaire Belloc of Balliol College,
Oxford, was introduced as the repre-
sentative of the English Universities,
from which all American college men
claim descent and to whose many centu-
ries of development we owe in large
measure the richness of our college life.
Prof. Belloc said that he could not
reply to the subject which had been asS-
signed to him on the toast list, ‘“‘Uni-
versity Extension,” for he did not know
anything about it, but that he would
glady respond for the English universi-
ties, particularly his own, Oxford; and
if he might imitate the fashion. of
American college men to extol their
own institution above all others, he
would say that Oxford was immeas-
urably superior to its great rival. “Cons
sider the magnificent buildings at Ox-
ford in comparison with the houses or
rather huts making up the University
of Cambridge. Some things, however,
you have in America that we have
not; Oxford for instance has no college
ery; the nearest approach to such a
thing I know of is when three stu-
dents stand outside the college gates
and disperse an unruly crowd of
fifteen hundred townspeople by reading
to them the riot act. I am nota fellow
of Balliol College as has been stated;
to hold such a position it is necessary
either to have ample means for. high
living or to have aristocratic blood. I
have neither the means nor the blood.
“T beg however, to state that I was
throughout my course President of the
Republican Club, an organization of
four members whose qualifications were
that they should hold radical ideas
and “have been fined for misconduct.
The ideals of this Club were derived
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