YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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(Continued from fifth page.)
from Thomas Jefferson, whose birth-
day we celebrated as the principal feast
day of the year, though we observed
with almost as great enthusiasm the
anniversaries of the beheading of
Charles the First, the one good act of
Cromwell, and of Louis the 16th of
France.”
SOCIAL DISCONTENT.
Speaking more seriously, Prof. Belloc
took up the question already touched
upon by preceding speakers—the social
discontent now prevalent in this coun-
try. He thought he was in a position
to view the question without local
prejudice, for he was himself a French-
man by birth, he had received his edu-
cation in England, he had travelled all
over this country and had married a
wife from one of the western states. The
social situation presents many prob-
lems that he did not pretend to have
solved, but he desired to call attention
to one fact that is often overlooked—
it is not the foreign immigration that
is the present source of danger. Lord
Macaulay long ago predicted that when
the tide of progress had reached the
Pacific coast it would turn back, and
that when this tide, receding from the
West, met the tide still advancing
from the East, there would be commo-
tion and trouble. This prophecy is be-
ing fulfilled; these tides are now meet-
ing, notably in Kansas, and that state,
although it has the smallest propor-
tion of foreign inhabitants, is the lead-
er in the extravagancies of Populism.
MR. COLGATE’S RESPONSE.
The response of Austen Colgate, ’86,
to the toast of “Ourselves,” was as fol-
lows:
“Mr. President and fellow members
of Essex County Alumni Asociation:—
I speak to you with a feeling of bold-
ness to-night because I know that if 1
make a failure it will take away ten
years off my life and bring me back
to the time when I used to do the same
in Prof. Phillips’ recitation room, in
dear old Yale. The only way in which
we can see ourselves is by reflection,
so if I cast reflections upon you, you
must not mind it.
‘When one revisits old Yale, as I did
at my decennial last year, he tries to
obliterate the years that have swept
over him in the interim and become
a student once more, and do as he did
then. So the spirit in my feet led me
on entering the College Campus to the
Chapel and as I entered I heard Pres-
ident Dwight addressing the outgoing
class. The first sentence was: ‘Young
gentlemen, you are what you are on
account of the possibilities of your
personality.’ This sentence staggered
me. I couldn’t digest it. Like a man
who has eaten a Welsh rarebit after an
abstinence from such fruit for many
months and wonders what has become
of his quondam digestive organs my
logical powers were dulled by the som-
niferous whirl of business for the last
few years. I analyzed the sentence,
‘You, the object you, the predicate you,
the subject,’ a useful sentence. I will
preach from this text for a_ short
while.
“TI first, as I do always when TI hear
a good thing in church, applied it to
myself. I knew right away that sen-
tence wasn’t meant for fat men, be-
cause in my own case I am as a varia-
ble, which is approaching its limit.
Now we will let the difference between
me and my limit be represented by the
Greek letter zs. So my possibilities are
represented by 7, therefore my inner
ego or the I myself must be pie, a hu-
miliating thought. So I worked on
this sentence for nine months and find
it applies to this ‘Association.
“The possibilities of this association
are very great, therefore this associa-
tion is very great Its _ possibilities
are greater than of any other associa-
tion, therefore it is the greatest
association, and being the greatest
Yale association it is the greatest
association in the world. President
Dwight knew this and knew what he
was talking about. He had been here.
He came down a few years azo to tell
us how to appropriate the alumni
fund we had raised and when he got
here and found it was forty-five dollars,
he forgot to say just where he wanted
the dormitory erected. So we founded
with this sum ‘The J. O. Heald free
beer fund for indigent college stu-
dents,’ which has done more to pro-
mote the democratic spirit in Yale
than any other fund. * * * * «#
THE AIM OF THE ASSOCIATION.
“But we don’t differ from other
alumni associations. It is the duty of
every association to uphold the honor
of Yale, and whatever she does is right
to the outside world whatver we may
think of it in the hosom of our own
family. And now we’re in the bosom
of our own family. It has been pretty
hard work to uphold all Yale has done
in the last few years, but we have
done it. When Yale wrote the insult-
ing letter to Harvard that caused the
recent unpleasantness and then ad-
mitted she had done wrong but failed
to apologize for it, it came hard to up-
hold her, but we did. When the stu-
dents sent the flag to Corbett we went
around and said, ‘that shows the true
Yale spirit,’ and when we saw the next
day in the great moral organ of col-
lege life (The Yale Alumni Weekly)
that it was a naughty thing to do, we
looked up those friends and said ‘we
made a mistake about that flag yes-
terday, it was a very bad thing for
Yale to so demean herself.’
“And now we uphold the Faculty
when they have adopted the double
standard, two twenty-five for athletes,
and two for bums and_e grinds. It
comes hard at times, but we never
complain and will always be loyal to
the: pie," -e.* See ee
At the conclusion of the set toasts
informal speeches were made by Rev.
William R. Richards, of Plainfield,
and Messrs. Julian Curtiss, Hamilton
Wallis, Sydney Colgate and Emile
Schultze. Mr. Schultze, by request,
gave ‘Ninety Miles to Buffalo.”? Some
of the guests from other colleges had
never heard it. Songs were interspers-
ed between the speeches, and during
the last hour and a half of the even~
ing the quintette from the Glee Club
took proceedings into their own hands
and gave the best musical programme
that has been heard at a Yale dinner
in Orange. Mr. Lapham’s rendering
of the “Old Homestead’ and_ the
‘“RBanker’s Daughter,’ was highly ap~
preciated. About twenty joined in the
closing chorus at quarter of two.
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Intercollegiate Golf Regu-
: lations,
The Executive Committee of the In-
tercollegiate Golf Association met in
New York Saturday, March 20, and de-
cided that the tournament this Spring
should be held Thursday, May 13, and
Friday, May 14. The teams are to con-
sist of six men, and entries are open
to any college in the United States and
Canada.
Ardsley Casino will offer a cup to be
played for each year, and to be award-
ed to the club which wins three tour-
naments. Until one club has won three
times it will be kept by the club which
has won most recently.
The following are the members Of
the Executive Committee: J. H. Choate,
jr:, Harvard:.. Rs Terrycar: -Yale: a Fy
Bayard, Princeton; S. F. Morris, jr.,
Columbia; T. J. Orbison, University of
Pennsylvania.
At the meeting of the New Haven
Golf Club, April 1, the proposition of
the Yale Golf Club, that its members
be permitted to use the New Haven
Club links during the university year
at reduced rates, will be considered.
If this permission can be obtained the
interest in Golf at Yale will be greatly
stimulated.
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New Commencement for Divin-
ity School.
At a recent meeting of the Faculty
of the Yale Theological Seminary, ac-
tion was taken on the petition recently
sent to the Faculty by the Senior
class, suggesting that in the graduat-
ing exercises in the future the short
speeches by members of the graduat-
ing class be abolished and that the lit-
erary feature of the occasion be a for-
mal address upon some weighty sub-
ject of theology or religion by a mem-
ber of the Faculty or by some othér
distinguished theologian. It was voted
to make no changes in the anniversary
exercises, except that the number of
addresses by members of the graduat-
ing class should be diminished to four,
and the length proportionately in-
creased. The speaking by the students
will be followed by a brief address
either by a member of the Faculty or _
by some other minister of distinction.
This change is not exactly what was
requested by the Senior class, but is
nevertheless received by its members as
a great improvement over the old pro-
gram.
The four speakers selected by the Di-
vinity School Faculty to Speak at
Commencement are: Shepherd Knapp
of New York City, whose subject is
“The Portrayal of Sin in Modern Mit-
erature;” C. C. Merrill of Newbury,
“A Plea for Revivals;’ H. Frank Rall
of Des Moines, Iowa, ‘‘The Theorv of
Evolution in its Bearing on the Chris-
tian Doctrine of Sin;” and Austin Rice
of Danvers. Mass.. who will speak on
“The Minister as a Patriot.”
The annual concert of the University
Glee and Banjo Clubs in New York
City, for the benefit of the University
crew, will be held in Carnegie Hall,
April 30.
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