yALEH ALUMNI
W hE KLY
FOUR ELEMENTS.
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undergraduate could tell us how long
a course that makes.
LUX ET VERITAS ET FORTITUDO ET
FRATERNITAS.
We have now added fortitudo to our
Lux et Veritas. We must add one more
word, “lux et veritas et fortitudo et
fraternitas.”’ This last is after all the
supreme characteristic of Yale. On the
campus brother meets brother and man
meets man. As the sum of, ethics is
found in that combination of love and
justice, the brotherhood of man, so
Yale is stronger than the strongest in
her recognition of worth and nobility
in her men, without criticism of their
antecedents of lineage or wealth, and in
her sons standing together as brothers
in peace and as a phalanx in strife.
Among the latest absurdities of our
rage for societies whose membership.
relates only to the past, I observed a
society whose membership is limited to
Americans who may rightfully claim
for some buried ancestor a coat of
arms. Fraternity needs stronger cords
than that. When a maniac upon that
subject once asked the late President
Pierce what was his coat of arms, the
President replied, “My father’s shirt
sleeves at Bunker Hill.”
Last Fall a football trophy was in
peril and it almost seemed a certainty
that the tradition that Yale is never
beaten twice by the same team would
be broken. This Yale spirit of brother-
hood, which we find added in the quar-
tet to light, and truth, and sand, seized
the bugle and rang an alarm like Robin
Hood’s through Sherwood Forest. And
from the East and the West and the
North and the South the heroes of
many victories, football experts beyond
compare, came in troops to the athletic
field to save the blue flag, and to keep
the old motto from breach. I should
like to name this loyal legion from
Walter Camp, facile princeps! to Cap-
tain Butterworth, honor to him! Yale
enthusiasts all, coming to help as
plucky a captain and plucky a team as
ever honored Yale at football, but
Brother Twichell will do that thing
better than I can. But that spirit of
Yale brotherhod was invincible, and
another victory over brave and stalwart
Princeton was added to the long cata-
logue.
SOME PROFESSORS AND THE YALE SPIRIT.
It is this element of the Yale Spirit
which has led so many of our loved
professors, Brush and Sumner, and
Lounsbury, and Brewer, and Gibbs and,
Chittenden, and others to reject many
an offer to a higher salary and a more
pretentious title. Like Moses of old, in
the language of one of my old deacons
who had a way of mixing scriptural
phrases, “preferring rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God than
to be called the son of Pharaoh’s
daughter.” It was this sense of loyal
brotherhood which led that remarkable
specimen of mathematics, angles, and
learning, our old friend Prof. Loomis,
to give so much of his private fortune
to the University. Recently it has led
that professor, easily first of all Ameri-
cans, perhaps of all living men, in his
special science, Professor Marsh, to
give his valuable private archeological
collection to Peabody museum.
This then in brief, for we have many
voices to hear, is the Yale Spirit—light
and truth and courage and brotherhood.
And why do we rejoice in it? Not
alone nor chiefly because it makes a
fine ideal, but because it adds to the
best resources of individual manhood.
It makes us as lawyers better, as clergy-
men better, as journalists better, as
merchants, farmers, railroad men, all
better and stronger, and braver, and
purer. And more, it makes us better
‘ Americans. And what a privilege, what
a duty to be a true American! What
legacies of honor and bravery and
patriotism! What traditions of free-
dom and independence and minding
our own business is his heritage.
While yielding to no one in admiration
of the English common law and Eng-
lish literature, I pity the man with an
American birthright who is a modern
anglomaniac paying his devotions to
the weaknesses of the English aristo-
cracy, waving palm branches and weav-
ing halo crowns for Charles I. as a
martyr, sending messages of congratu-
lation to that highly respectable woman
tions for his own guidance I should say
who, by the accident of birth, is queen
of England, upon New York’s relations
to her ancestor, George III. You re-
member the lines written or quoted by
Thackeray:
George the Ist was very vile,
George the 2d viler,
And no mortal ever heard
Any good of George the 3d.
When the 4th to hell descended.
Praise to God the Georges ended.
YALE PATRIOTS.
It is often, and truly said that the
life of the scholar is antagonistic to the
life of the soldier. But the scholar has
no antagonism to the patriot, and when
patriotism calls to arms, the scholar’s
ear is quick to catch the sound. In
1774 Yale’s President Stiles said: ‘““We
are to have another Runnymede in
America,” and in 1775 he was busy in
camp. In 1779 old ex-President Naph-
tali Daggett with his fowling piece
blazing at British regulars made one of
the most striking pictures of the Revo-
lution, and a greater man than either of
these presidents, a tutor at College, and
a brigade chaplain in the Army, edu-
cated the youth of Yale, and everybody
else in the reach of his influence, in the
burning lessons of American independ-
ence, Timothy Dwight, grandfather of
our own loved Timothy. Don’t forget
that from her small number of alumni,
less than one thousand in all, Yale sent
234 officers and soldiers to active ser-
vice in the Revolution. What seat of
learning can -tell a better story of
devotion? And when our country again
called to arms in 1861, Yale sent 758 of
her alumni to defend the Union. And
what a catalogue of heroes these earlier
and later wars made for Yale! We
may not name them—let us rather re-
member the “glorious milky way of
their multitude.” But, as to young
Lycidas, dead ere his prime, let us drop
one leaf, be it Judge Finch’s “fame leaf
or angel leaf,’ to that incarnation of
the Yale Spirit, Nathan Hale.
May the breath of the old Simon
Pure triple X Yale Spirit never forsake
the Campus, nor the bosoms of the
alumni, nor the activities of the nation!
May it long live in its purity and power
to make good students in the republic
of letters, good citizens of the republic
of Old Glory and good men in the
brotherhood of humanity!
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Professor Hadley to Mr. Hull.
[From The New Haven Register.]
H. A. Hull of New London, Feb-
ruary 16, asked several questions of
Profi) AS) TL. Hadley = through. the
Register. At that time the latter re-
fused to answer the questions in a news-
paper, but said he would write Mr. Hull
and the latter could give out the letter
if he so desired.
Mr. Hull yesterday sent to the Regis-
ter the following from Prof. Hadley.
In order to better understand the Pro-
fessor’s letter, that portion of Mr. Hull’s
containing the questions propounded is
again published.
Mr. Hull wrote:
_“Suppose a young man, having or de-
siring to have a sound body, a clear
mind and pure heart, should ask these
questions: 7
I. Where should a Christian gentle-
man drink rum?
2. When should a Christian gentle-
man drink rum?
3. How should a Christian gentle-
man drink rum?
4. Why should a Christian gentleman
drink rum?
I_ use the word “rum” generically.
In His name what answers do you think
should be given?” ,
New York City.
March 5, 1808.
My dear sir:
I regret to learn that my letter of the
17th was not mailed to you.
Whether the account of my speech in
the New York Sun was correct or not
I do not know. I have requested the
publishers of the Yate ALUMNI
WEEKLY to send you a correct account.
If a young man asked me those ques-
that the gospels obviously prescribed
no fixed rule; but that he had better not
drink in doubtful cases. If he asked the
question not as a guide for his own ac-
tion, but as a basis for judging others
I should tell him frankly that the gospel
was far more explicit in urging ab-
stinence from sweeping judgments than
abstinence from alcoholic drink.
Sincerely yours,
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