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amusement from the quotation asso-
ciated with the name upon the toast
list-—II Timothy iv, 7, ‘I have fought
a good fight, I have finished my
course.” He suggested that some care-
ful reader of English Literature and
of the Scriptures had been employed to
furnish quotations for this toast list,
but he had been slightly infelicitous,
particularly in connection with the
Scriptures (laughter) for in this quo-
tation he made ‘Second Timothy” say
certain things of himself, “which you
will surely remember, sir, were not
said by Second Timothy, but by St.
Paul. We are left in the dark as to
how Second ‘t.mothy was brought in.
I infer that St. Paul advised him, as a
friend, to finish his course.” Continu-
ing, Dr. Dwight said that he himself
might, perhaps, have lived a respect-
able life (laughter.) “You need not
audibly smile when I say this, for I
have the authority of your townsman,
Mr. George G. Sill, who in writing me
recently mentioned the fact that he
had been in College with me during
one year—he being a Freshman and I
a Senior—and that during that period
he did not remember anything dis-
reputable in connection with me.
But, then,’ added the speaker, “what
Freshman would ever say anything
disrepectful of a Senior?”
“Whether I have had a honorable
life or not, I have at least not had to
fight. I have experienced only loving
kindness from the friends and graduates
and young men of Yale. What could
be more delightful than the friendship
of all the Yale brotherhood? And
they have treated me with the utmost
kindly consideration from the day when
I first met the Class of Fifty-Three
to this day of 1899, and I shall always
remember this kindly feeling during the
rest of this life, and in the years that
come after that, if I have any memories
at all of the life that is past. I do not
lay down my office because I am old.
Seventy is not old; but it is the end of
the Summer term, it is the time of
vacation; and what Yale student is
there who at the close of the Summer
term is not ready to take his vacation?
My theory is that life was made just
as much for the mature_years as for
the early, for the late afternoon as for
the morning. I believe that every man
should prepare himself for the later
years, and, if he does so, that life will
grow happier as the years go on. The
golden life is in the afternoon, not in
the morning.”
“Now, at the opening of the new
century, we are at the verge of a new
period of the growth of Yale. May we
not hope that the Yale of the future
will be greater, grander, better in every
way than the Yale of the past? Shall
not the future generations have a better
education and a brighter life than those
that have gone before?”
GOVERNOR GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY.
In introducing the next speaker,
Governor Lounsbury, ’63, Mr. Hyde
said that he was particularly glad to
speak of him not only as Governor, but
as a Yale man. As the Governor arose
to respond, the orchestra played “Hail
to the Chief,’ and those present got
to their feet, cheering and waving their
napkins. The Governor’s speech was
one of the best of the evening. After
alluding to his assumption, when he
first received the invitation to the din-
ner, that he would not have to speak,
with a.
gentle and witty sarcasm, on the Hart-.
ford citizens’ thorough-going belief in’
he proceeded to expatiate,
all things connected with MHartford.
He himself had imbibed this love of
Hartford in his earlier years. “I
learned better from some Ichabod
Crane whom, more than fifty years ago,
you had sent out into the wild woods
of the state, to prepare the way to
Hartford.” The rest of his remarks
were in part, as follows:
“We are fortunate if much of the
fond superstition of our childhood re-
mains with our later years. It adds to
our happiness, and I believe that it re-
flects to us from the future a truth and
a beauty which could not come to us in
any other way. This feeling ot long-
standing awe of which I have spoken
was increased by a remark which a col-
lege professor made to me the other
day. He said that there is ability
enough in the Yale alumni of the city
of Hartford to run our national govern-
ment from one end to the other, enough
YALH ALUMNI
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to fill the highest office in the nation, to
adorn the supreme bench, to furnish a
king for the Philippines, (laughter), to
fill every foreign mission with honor,
and still leave Dr. Twichell at home to
preach to the sinners and to the elect
of Hartford the gospel of repentance
and peace (renewed laughter.) What
wonder that I was congratulating my-
self on my invitation to dine with so
illustrious a company, and that to pay
the price I was not even asked to break
the golden coin of silence!”
When he found that after all he had
to speak, the Governor said that, in
order to meet the occasion, he ‘‘in-
voked the shades of Elihu Yale, but
between him and me rolls the river
Styx, and over its dark waters no re-
porter has ever presumed to cross to
bring back some weird story to shake
and shock our faith. And yet, if 1 pos-
sessed them I would give all the wealth
and all the honors which this world be-
stows if I could only know what views
Elihu Yale holds to-night concerning
what we call ‘higher education.’
“I congratulate you upon the fact
that you are graduates of Yale. You
do well, on at least one night of the
year, to sing again the old songs, and
to bring back with all the tenderness
of bygone days your loving memory of
alma mater. But you must not forget
that the alumni of any one, or of all
colleges, are only a scattered few—that
the great mass of our people must look
to the State of Connecticut for their
alma mater, and we thank God to-night
that through her common schools she
has been the ‘dear mother’ to hundreds
of thousands of children. Would that
you and all of her favored sons could
strengthen her hands so that she could
throw them around every poor neg-
lected child and hold it in fond em-
brace until she could send it out into
the world with the blessing of a good
education to cheer and to guide.
“This is the relation of the state to
all higher education, to lay b-oad and
deep .the foundation of the public
school, and upon this strong base to
build a structure that shall be of like
beneficence to all. Let the State take
wise care of its common schools and
then, in this age of opportunity, all
higher education, which is worthy the
name, will take care of itself.”
HARRISON B. FREEMAN, JR.
When the cheering and applause that
followed Governor Lounsbury’s speech
had ceased, Mr. Hyde introduced Har-
rison B. Freeman, Jr., ’92, as ‘a second
edition of the man who made last
year’s dinner a success.”” Mr. Freeman
has recently been elected one of the
Hartford members of the State House
of Representatives. His subject was
“Young Yale,” and most of his speech
concerned the young college man in
politics—a pursuit which he likened to
the game of golf—“you soon find out
how little you really know about it.”
“Politics,” he said, “is the best post-
graduate course a man can take.”
BISHOP BREWSTER.
Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster, ’68,
next spoke upon the subject of ‘Yale
Influence.” Speaking of his invitation
to the dinner, he said he appreciated the
spirit in which it was sent, “as the
minister said in thanking the parish-
ioners who had sent him some brandied
peaches.” Yale influence, he said, was
an influence not so much of grace and
beauty, as of a certain robust strength.
“And I believe she is destined to go on
from strength to strength. Less sec-
tional, more national than many other
institutions, she apepals to men devoted
to the nation at large.” Other points
the speaker made were the following:
“The chief advantage of a college edu-
cation is that it takes the conceit out
of a man—or most of it. It humbles,
and at the same time broadens him.”
“The University stands for a perpetual
witness for those finer qualities of truth
and life which so many men neglect.”
“In an epoch of expansion, the Uni-
versity stands for a development of life
on other than a purely material scale.”
CAPTAIN GOODRICH.
When, after Mr. Hyde’s introduction,
Captain Goodrich stood up and the
orchestra played the opening bars of
“Three Cheers for the Red, White and
Blue,’ the applause and cheers were
deafening. For a few seconds the
music was drowned in the tumult, and
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rectly gloved.
sell them,
then the crowd took up the song and
sang the chorus through. Even after
this it was several moments before
Captain Goodrich could begin. His
subject was “The Army and Navy,”
and when he'was at last allowed to
speak, he began by refering to the
splendid services in the Spanish war of
the marine corps, a body of men whom
he characterized as the connecting link
between the army and the navy. He
eulogized their gallant conduct at
Guantanamo, their remarkable disci-
pline and their wonderful health
through the trying days of work and
fighting. The speaker was proud to
be connected even remotely with
such a body of men, and was especi-
ally proud that their commander (Col.
Huntington, father of the Secretary of
the Hartford Association) was a Hart-
ford man. “Perhaps you know him?”
Senter and applause.) “I see you
O.
Captain Goodrich then described in
a remarkably vivid and intensely inter-
esting way the landing of General
Shafter’s Fifth Army Corps on the
south shore of Cuba. He had per-
sonal charge of the operation and suc-
ceeded in landing the army at the rate
of 600 United States soldiers an hour—
not to speak of Cuban allies. European
nations have been experimenting re-
cently in manoevers of this kind, and
their highest record was that of the
Russians, who couldn’t land more than
5,000 men in a week. The sailors were
not always considerate of the manner
of getting the men ashore—“They only
aimed at results, not methods’—and
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