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anniversary. This at first was to in-
clude some eight or ten modest vol-
umes, but presently the offers of topics
already in preparation were so many
and so tempting, as to promise a series
three times as large. It will be drawn
from all Faculties and include many
of the best known names in them, with
a wide range of subjects. Naturally,
many of the works in this series are o
a technical or scientific character, lagi
would appeal but to a small body o
‘readers. There must be a publisher's
guaranty therefore, and the question of
the series is a question of ways and
means. In view of this remarkable and
unsolicited outpouring of labor and of
enthusiasm; in view of this proof to
the world of the intellectual activities
of our teaching force; in view of the
quality of the work and of the names
involved, the Bicentennial Committee
commends the raising of this guaranty
fund, considerable though it is, to the
great body of graduates, with confi-
dence.
A CHANCE FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE.
“Besides the collections alluded to,
two others are in contemplation under
separate Committees. One, an Educa-
tional Exhibit, is to show Yale’s text-
books curriculum and methods of in-
struction, at stated intervals, from the
beginning to the present day.
“The other will be historical in char-
acter, to illustrate in every possible way
the history of the University and of its
sons.
“The out-of-door spectacles in which
student help is wanted, will be the illu-
mination of the Campus and build-
ings, and a torchlight procession with
floats historical and legendary, where
all the imagination and wit of the un-
dergraduate body can have expression,
We hope too, to revive the street sing-
ing of the past, to make a real feature
of this and to use it for the welcoming
and gratification of our guests.
“There will also be an afternoon
available for college sports. It must
have already occurred to you, gentle-
men, that the success of very much of
this programme, the reception, the ad-
dresses, the luncheon, the music, de-
pends largely upon having an audience
room big enough and suitable for the
purpose, in other words a new Alumni
Hall. This is needed too for our Com-
mencement and other uses and might
also be a center for the choral music
of the State. Such a building should be
erected and by the general contribution
of the graduates, as the Gymnasium
was, not conflicting with those larger
individual offerings of buildings or pro-
fessorships or fellowships or other en-
dowments, which may reasonably be
expected to signalize such an occasion.
“If we could realize this need, we
might truthfully echo those words of
old President Stiles, when he climbed
up on the corner-stone of South Col-
lege in 1793 and addressed the waiting
crowd. ‘Peace be within thy walls, O
Yale, and prosperity within they
palaces,”
Then came one of the pleasantest
numbers on the list of toasts, ‘“Music.”
Every Yale man for the last fifteen or
twenty years knows of Eric Bushnell,
and his greeting could not have been
heartier. He. sang by request, Drink-
ing, drinking, drinking,’ and Rocked
in the Cradle of the Deep,” with splen-
did effect, and only at the interposition
of President Percy, who promised more
songs later, was he allowed to stop.
GOVERNOR SMITH’S RESPONSE.
Gov. E. C. Smith of Vermont spoke
on college athletics, calling on all the
alumni to help in strengthening the
Yale spirit, which now seemed to be
declining, and swggesting two things to
bear in mind in the future—that the
men chosen on athletic teams ought to
be older and that more of them ought
to come from the country.
Mr. Bushnell was then called upon
to make good the President’s promise,
and sang “The Two Grenadiers,” and
“A Friar of Orders Grey.” The first
fairly electrified his audience with its
ringing patriotism, and it was not Mr.
Bushnell’s fault that he was not kept
singing all the evening.
COL. ADAMS FOR DARTMOUTH.
About every other Yale man one
meets in Boston is a lawyer, and every
lawyer knows “Mel” Adams; so when
Col. M. O. Adams was called upon to
speak for Dartmouth, he did not have
to speak as a stranger. He could not
resist the temptation to guy
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“Sam”
Elder, ’73, and Sherman Whipple, SI,
the first on football, and the latter on |
a newspaper caricature labelled a por-
trait, that appeared during a recent trial.
He said it was pleasant to be present at
a Yale dinner when the Governor of
Massachusetts and the Governor of Ver-
mont, the two States that had given such
large majorities, were present. It was
good to hear the Governor of Massa-
chusetts say to the Governor of Ver-
mont, “It is a long while between—vic-
tories.”
Vermont say to the Governor of Massa-
chusetts, ‘“‘We’ve had a pleasant time.
Hope we'll meet again soon.” Col.
Adams wittily alluded to Dartmouth’s
President, whom he said, was shipped
to Europe with his address concealed
as soon as it was known that Presi-
dent Dwight had resigned.
“Dartmouth loves Yale for her great
spirit of democracy; and admires her
‘sand,’ the ballast of character and
achievement.” In conclusion he toasted
Yale in the Dartmouth refrain by Rich-
ard Hovey, beginning “For we’re all
frank and twenty.”
The last speaker was James K.
Leach of Brown ’74, one of the wittiest
of the evening.
Among those present,. not already
mentioned, were the following: Gen.
H. B. Corrington, ’45; Frank A. David-
son; Joseph Warren, ’53; Chas. I. Gal-.
lagher (Dartmouth); N. W. Bum-
stead; 55: Hon. ©:, FP. stetson, 55; Ww.
H. Savary, S73 H.-S. Maentington, 77:
H. B. Carlyle; Alfred Hemenway, ’61;
Horace Bumstead, ’63; R. Parish, 64;
Albert H: Rafe, “645 5-5" Weare
redge, 65; A. C. Walmarth, ’66; Mar-
ton Dexter, ’67; Theodore Prudden, ’69;
F.2D Allen, 73: Samuel -J. Elder; 43:
FE. Mendell, ’74; George Rollins, ’76;
EP 3 Howe, ¢ 96% isaac’ Jackson, = 70;
Wm. T. Strong, 776; W. E. Whitney,
77; Chas, WO Cartier, ye: A: LL Ripley,
9832 BOM Noyes: 279°° Co Ls Merriam:
‘90; Sami: Kimball 76; A: 71. Hatha-
way; 70>" W. M. Atwater, ’70 Si; I.
Ordway, ’80; P. Richardson, ’82;
W. I. Badger, ’82; Marcus Marton, ’83;
D. S. Knowlton, ’83; F. W. Rogers,
‘S3, E. Me Chapman, ‘G42... “Poster,
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Thompson, ’85; A. C. Townley, ’86S.;
S. Thorne, ’96; G. W. Niles, ’89S.; R.
J. McClary.
———_—.§- 4
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI DINE.
Prof. Phelps Speaks on Culture and
Americanism at Yale.
The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni Association of Philadel-
phia was held at the Hotel Bellevue,
Friday evening, Feb. 10. About 100
persons were present, including repre-
sentatives of Harvard, Princeton and
the University of Pennsylvania, and a
quartette from the Yale Glee Club.
The decorations were very handsome
and the menu, with the four college
colors, was very tasteful. The speeches
began about 9 o’clock and the first to
speak was the President of the Associa-
tion, William H. Ingham, Yale ’67.
Mr. Ingham urged that a room in the
city be rented for the alumni; and he
made a strong plea for the raising of
funds for asuitable celebration of the
College bi-centennial in 1901.
The toastmaster was Leoni Melick,
Yale ’74, and he prefaced each toast
with a humorous introduction that was
greatly enjoyed by all present. Profes-
sor William Lyon Phelps, ’87, re-
sponded to the toast “Yale.” He began
by paying his respects to the Colonial
Express for not bringing him to the
dinner on time and described a previ-
Ous catastrophe on the same train. Af-
ter a few good stories, Prof. Phelps paid
a warm tribute to President Dwight,
speaking of the success of his admin-
istration and more especially of the ad-
mirable and lovable qualities in the
President’s personality; of his kindness -
toward the younger men on the Faculty
and of his undying enthusiasm for Yale.
Remarking on the democratic. spirit at
Yale, he declared that if there is in the
United States one place where true
tlemocracy of feeling is to be found, it
is on the Yale Campus in 1809.
GROWTH OF CULTURE.
“During the last ten years,” said Prof.
Phelps, “great changes have occurred in
the growth of culture, and appreciation
And to hear the Governor of
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of art and literature among the students.
In my time at College, the typical un-
dergraduate was a self-satisfied, ignor-
ant Philistine. He had the same practi-
cal qualities that Yale men have always
had, but he lacked culture. To-day the
Yale man is coming to recognize that a
love for letters is essentially manly.”
Prof. Phelps then spoke of the growth
of the English Department; of the in-
crease in the number of instructors; of
the wide variety of courses and of the
large number of men pursuing these
studies at Yale. He then attacked the
custom prevalent among some mem-
bers of the alumni, of airing their griev-
ances against the College in newspaper
controversies, stating that while ad-
verse criticism was always welcome, it
should be regarded as a family matter
and as utterly out of place in the
columns of the metropolitan journals.
The Yale man should have the same
attitude toward the present College ad-
ministration that everv patriotic Ameri-
can should have toward the administra- —
tion at Washington. As the toastmas-
ter had requested Professor Phelps to
explain whcther there was such a thing
as Americanism at Yale, Prof. Phelps
remarked tuat although there was a
wide difference of opinion among the
Faculty and undergraduates as to the
wisdom of certain features in the policy
of the present national administration,
th.t true patriotism and real American-
ism flourished at Yale in the highest de-
a7 ee.
“As for my own personal opinion,”
said Prof. Phelps, “I believe that Mr.
McKinley has given us the wisest and
best administration that the country has
enjoyed since the days of Lincoln; but
even if I did not at all approve of Presi-
dent McKinley’s ideas, I should still
feel that it was my duty not to criticise,
not to attack, and not to ridicule the
President, as a certain gentleman in
Brooklyn: recently did; but in serious
times like the present to give the cordial
support that is due the government from
every patriotic citizen. And this atti-
tude toward the men whom we have
chosen to lead us at Washington, is the
attitude that alumni should take toward
their alma mater.” 2
PHILADELPHIA’S ENTHUSIASM.
Prof. Phelps then spoke of the in-
tense enthusiasm that had always char-
acterized the Philadelphia alumni and
gave as a reason for it the hostile at-
mosphere in which they had to live.
“While the ill-feeling between Old
Penn and Yale is foolish and nonsensi-
cal in some respects,” said he, “it never-
theless exists and every Yale man in
Philadelphia has to fight not only for
his college, but for his own existence.
ins unites all Philadelphia alumni in
a spirit of devotion to Yale that might
well be imitated elsewhere.”’
In conclusion, Prof. Phelps remarked
that the great aim of college education
should, in the last analysis, be a moral
one; that learning should be made sub-
ordinate to character; that the teach-
ing should be directed at life rather than
at books; that the aim of the college
teacher should be to send into the world
men pure in _ heart, intellectually
equipped for the struggle of life, full of
appreciation of the beautiful in art, and
full of sand.
“HARVARD INDIFFERENCE.”
* Judge Charles B. McMichael re-
sponded for Harvard and with a grace-
ful compliment for Yale, he said that
the rivalry of the colleges operated for
the good of the country at large. He
believed that the teaching of true Ameri-
canism flourished at Harvard and that
the best specimen of “Harvard indiffer-
ence’ was Colonel Roosevelt’s indif-
ference to death at the San Juan charge.
C. C. Cuyler of New York spoke for
Princeton and said that every true
Princeton man looked upon Yale as a
mother; that the Yale spirit was some-
thing to be admired wherever met with,
and that Yale and Princeton were knit
together in bonds of peculiar atrection.
Mr. Cuyler spoke as, enthusiastically of
Yale as if he were an alumnus himself,
and was loudly cheered.
The University of Pennsylvania was
_ represented by Judge William W. Por-
ter of the Superior Court. He pointed
out that the cohesion among graduates
of Yale should extend to the graduates
of every respectable college in the
United States. “We have to-day,” he
said, “three classes of citizens, the
ignorant, the educated and the partly
educated, and it behooves the educated
to do their part in the instruction of the
less favored in their duty to the govern-
ment, that the full benefits of free insti-
tutions may prevail.”
Thomas Thacher, Yale ’71, of New
York, spoke to the toast, “The Yale
Brotherhood,” and made a most im-
pressive address. He said that if the
more influential of the alumni were at
times consulted by the authorities at
New Haven when. special matters of
policy were coming up, it would be to
the advantage of both parties. He also
urged all Yale alumni to keep up an
active interest in and an intense loyalty
to Yale.
EK. T. Noble, ’99, of the Glee Club
quartette, was the last regular speaker.
He spoke of athletics, of Yale democ-
racy, and in conclusion nominated for
the next President, Professor Arthur
T. Hadley, as representing the unani-
mous choice of the undergraduates.
After the regular toast list was fin-
ished, Ralph D. Paine, Yale ’94, gave
a most amusing and delightful account
of his recent experiences in and around
Cuba. The regular meeting then ad-
journed, but many remained and sang
songs and told stories until a late hour.
The meeting was in every way enjoy-
able, and the executive committee are
to be congratulated on the complete suc-
cess of their work. The committee is
composed of F. S. Dickson; Shars-
wood Brinton, ’86; George S. Wood-
ward, 87; Edward Brooks, Jr., ’90, and
G. Clymer Brooke, ’97.
THE GUESTS.
Amono those present were:
‘4I—John Curwen, E. B. Leaf.
*45—Leonard E. Wales.
’46—Charles P. Turner, W. Boyd
Jacobs.
"48—Samuel C. Perkins.
’55—Josiah W. Harmar,
Woodward.
’57—George B. Thomas, Benjamin F.
Barge, Edward W. Hitchcock.
*58—George M. Franklin,
Neide.
’61—Heber S. Thompson, Winthrop
D. Sheldon, George Delp.
°63—George W. Atherton.
’65—J. D. Kirkhuff, Malcolm Mac-
Farlan. 7
66 Hon.—H. Clay Trumbull.
69 S—Horace F. Whitman.
"71—James H. Hoffecker, Joseph F.
' Page.
"72 S.—Joseph R. Gawthrop.
°73 S.—H. T. Gause.
"75 S.—Francis T. Chambers, Richard
Sharpe.
’77—A. U. Bannard, John F. Keator.
*80—Conrad Berens.
’°80 Hon.—Joseph S. Shortlidge.
’°81—J. Hampton Barnes.
’°82—Harry R. Baltz, Ferree Brinton.
82 Hon.—William E. Barr.
84 S.—Albert Lucas.
’*85—H. R. Green.
85 S—D. L. Hough, John Rice.
’°86—Herbert A. Jaggard.
’87—C. Percy Willcox.
"87 S.—W. T. Rainey.
*°88—Alfred Hand, .Jr
"89 S.—George Petry,
Bailey.
*89—J. W. Lucas.
*9o1—Clement G. Smith, T. Nelson
Lillagore, John Barnes Townsend.
92 S.—Edward V. Wurts.
’92 Hon.—Tryon H. Edwards.
’93—Louis B. Runk, Charles G.
Trumbull. ;
Arthur G.
’94— Ralph D. Paine,
Dixon, Robert E. Brooke.
95 S.—George M. Howard.
’96—Day Pardee. 7
°96 S.—Henry S. Grove, Jr.
’97 S.— Francis F. North, H. M.
North, Jr., Howard M. Ingham, Paul
D. Mills. |
’97 L.S.—H. S. Darlington.
’°97 Hon.—Theodore N. Ely.
Besides the above there were: Harry
Rogers; E. F. Kinsgley; C. Emory
McMichael; W. H. Smith; Charles S.
Welles; Michael H. Runk; James H.
Penman: .. 43. Patterson: FE. H.
Hunter; F. H. Hoffecker; John A.
Clark; H. L. Oeth; L.-M. Porter.
ee
Mr. Bayne’s Gift.
The library of the Law School has
received from Mr. T. L. Bayne, Yale
ex-'87, of New Orleans, in the name of
the Class of Eighty-Seven, a copy of
the famous Spanish Code “Las Siete
Partidas” of Alfonso the Wise, King
of Leon and Castile. The Code is in
Se volumes, published at Madrid in
1807.
Stanley
Horace
James B.
