YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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The Presidency and Colleges.
[New York Sun.]
Among the Presidents of the United
States college graduates and those
who either did not attend college or
did not receive a college degree are
about equally divided. Mr. McKinley
was 17 years old when he enlisted as
a private soldier in the Twenty-third
Ohio Infantry. and about the age
when some other young men are pre-
paring to secure college diplomas he
was fighting at the front. His imme-
diate predecessor as President, Grover
Cleveland * * * was educated in
Onondega county, but never attended
college.
Benjamin Harrison was a graduate
cf Miami University, and the only
graduate of that institution to hold
the office of President. General Ar-
thur was a graduate of Union Col-
lege, in Schenectady, and General
Garfield was a graduate of Williams.
R. B. Hayes attended Kenyon Col-
lege, and General Grant was a grad-
vate of the Military Academy at West
Point, occupying, however, .a place
low on the list of graduates. James
Buchanan was a graduate of Dickin-
son College and Franklin Pierce of
Bowdoin. Though Buchanan succeed-
ed Pierce in office as President, he had
been graduated fifteen years before
Pierce. Polk was a graduate of the
University of North Carolina and
William Henry Harrison of the
Hampden University.
Among the earlier Presidents of the
republic, William and Mary College in
Virginia seemed to be a favorite.
Thomas Jefferson was graduated from
there in 1762, James Monroe in 1776,
the year of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and John Tyler in 1807. The
iwo members of the Adams family,
John, the second President, and John
Quincy, the sixth, were graduates of
Harvard University, twenty-eight
years elapsing between the two. Both
of the Adamses were of the same age
when they were graduated—20 years.
James Madison was a graduate (and
the only one among the Presidents) of
Princeton University, ard Yale, Co-
lumbia, Dartmouth and Trinity are
unrepresented among the Presidents
of the United States, though Samuel
J. Tilden, who gained a clear major-
ity of the popular vote and of the
electoral vote, too, in 1876, attended
Yale College and was a classmate of
William M. Evarts, Chief Justice
Waite, and Edwards Pierrepont. He
was not graduated from Yale College,
however, his failing health and im-
paired eyesight requiring him to re-
tire after a brief term. George Wash-
ington was not a graduate of any col-
lege; neither was Andrew Jackson;
and among the more recent Presidents
neither Abraham Lincoln nor Andrew
Johnson had a college diploma. Van
Buren was not a_ college graduate,
neither was General Tiaylor, and Mil-
lard Fillmore, though an ante-bellum
statesman of varied gifts and erudi-
tion, did not receive from any college
a graduation parchment. His career
as an American politician was some-
what peculiar. He was elected Vice-
President, promoted to the Presidency
to fill a vacancy, and when a candi-
date for that office was defeated.
Preliminary Debate.
The preliminary trials of the Aca-
demic Department for the Princeton
debate were held in Osborn Hall last
Tuesday. Fifty men spoke. The judges
were Prof. A. T. Hadley, Dr. E. V. Ray-
nolds, and C. 8. Macfarland, ’97 T. S.
The following nine men were chosen
to speak in the final competition which
will be held April 12 or 13: E. H. Hume,
"97, N. A. Smyth, ’97, D. Sage, ’97, F. R.
Lehibach, 97, L. M. Bass, 97, H. Bing-
ham, *98, E. E. Garrison, 97, E. L.
Smith, ’97, H. W. Fisher, ’98.
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Yale received on Tuesday, April 6, her
share in the Marett Will Fund, amount-
ing to $19,790.34.
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ch Ap comes
Gold watch charms have been pre-
sented as souvenirs of victory to the
members of the recent Yale Debating
Team: to C. H. Studinski, 97 andc.U.
Clark, ’97 by the Yale Union, and to C. -
S. Macfarland, ’97T.\S., by the Leonard
Bacon Society.
Compulsory Chapel Attendance,
The Christian Intelligencer says:
There has been for sometime a tend.
ency in colleges to make at-
tendance on religious Services
voluntary, and hence the ex-
perience of those institutions which
have tried the experiment is valuabl>.
The contention of those who favor the
continuation of the time-horored cus-
tom of compulsory attendance has
been that with the temptations which
surround the college student and
which lead him to abuse the liberty
exemption from home restraint offers,
the morning chapel and Suniday ser-
vice are certain to be more and more
neglected unless they be made oblig-
atory. This will result less from a
determined intention of absenteeism
than from a thoughtless and gradual
yielding to what seem more pressing
claims. This view has received repeat-
ed confirmation, where the voluntary
Bystem hials been tried. The latest
deliverance on this gubject comes
from President Harper of the Chicago
University. He says: ‘Is it that the re-
ligious serviice has been dull and un-
interesting? Yet it is true that the
men who have conducted it have been
the strongest men on the University
staff and the strongest men in the
pulpits of the city of Chicago. Is it
thait sufficient effort has not been put
forth to induce the students toattend?
Effort after effort has been made wii'th-
out avail. Is it thaitt the chapel ser-
vice is a thing of the past and no
longer needed in a_ university? If
this is true, prayer itself is a farce
and religlon is a delusion. Is it, after
all, that, in student life as in every
other life, there is needed in the per-
formance of many of the higher du-
ties a sense of obligation coming
either from without or within? And
is it possible that tthe policy of re-
quired attendance is perhaps better?
'The Christian Intelligencer has no
hesitancy in saying that it is.”
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LineoIn at the Hospital.
(Prof. H. M. Whitney, ’64, in the Beloit
‘College Magazine.
Acres of hospital, with tents all white,
Yet dark with pain and death, for war
drops here
Its wreck of human forms, torn, wasted,
mere
Ghosts of their former’ selves;—strong
men whom fight
Has robbed of limbs,
pain of light
In face and eye—nurses who haste to
and long-drawn
clear
Bach tent of all disorder:—words of
cheer:
“T hope he won’t miss us;’’ ‘“‘We’re next;”’
SAI visher: .
Through canvas door there stooped one
gaunt and tall,
Sad tte brightened when his sad face
* lent
The radiance of its pity. Glad were all
To grasp the hand of the great President.
Yet one, a lad, with hard face looked
away.
Not glad? Ah, no;—his jacket was of
gray.
From ie to cot quick stepped the Presi-
dent,
With smile and grasp and kindly word for
each.
But at lad he stopped; there was no
reac
Of eager hand to seize his own. He sent
One keen glance, saw the gray, then o’er
it bent
With urgent kindness, joyful thus to teach
Love’s lesson, eager soon to close the
reach
That into warring hosts our land had
rent.
He caught the unwilling ‘hand,
pressed it, spoke:
‘My boy, we shall be better friends some
close
ay,
I hope;’’ then passed. The hard face
quivered, broke;
Tears were the answer of the lad in gray.
Great was our Linciln in the statesman’s
art,
But greater yet in conquest of the heart.
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The Yale Freshman Union has been
unable to arrange an intercollegiate de-
bate with -the Harvard, Princeton or
Columbia Freshmen, owing to Faculty
opposition in the first case and lack
of interest in the last two cases.
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