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THE CHICAGO DINNER.
Wason’s Memory Honored—
President Cowles’s Report—
The Future.
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The Yale of the future, the Yale
spirit, and loyalty to Yale were the
themes which inspired to the “full
heart” the members of the Yale Alumni
Association of Chicago, at the annual
banquet held at the University Club last
Saturday night. Toasts were also
listened to on “Harvard” and “Prince-
ton,’ and the speakers from Harvard
and Princeton who responded to these
toasts were particular in courteously
defining the “University spirit” as the
“Yale spirit,” a spirit valiant, perhaps
not particularly modest, but a ‘spirit
never arrogant in victory; also a spirit
which in defeat cherished admiration
for the victorious foe.
Nearly every speaker had something
to.say in tespect of the memory of the >
late Edward G. Mason, who typified the
Yale spirit, loyalty to Yale, and the
principles on which the Yale of the
future must rely for the perpetuation
of its general usefulness and good. At
the suggestion of President Cowles a
silent toast was drunk to the memory
of Edward G. Mason. As a fitting
memorial of the practical interest of Mr.
Mason in Yale, and all that pertained
to Yale, it was voted to provide an
annual scholarship fund of $100, which
will be used to send students from IlIli- -
nois to Yale. The proposition that the
Chicago Yale Alumni Association
should do as much as the Yale Asso-
ciation of Colorado, California and
other States, and as much as the Har-
vard Alumni Association of Chicago
does, in the way of sending worthy stu-
dents where they may partake of alma
mater’s privileges, provoked intense en-
thusiasm.
The presidency of Yale was also the
subject of very serious discussion, and
when the Rev. J. G. K. McClure, ’70,
sad that the new president must be a
scholar, financier, administrator, gen-
eral, gentleman, peace-maker and war-
rior all in one, such an ideal one was
the unanimous choice of those present,
though no suggestion was made as to
which one of the numerous candidates
for the presidency will be able to com-
bine all these traits essential to the suc-
cessiul leadership of Yale.
President Alfred Cowles, ’86, was the
first speaker. Mr. Cowles had feeling
allusions to make with reference to the
late Edward G. Mason. He also dis-
cussed the Yale crew, which he com-
pared to an angry cat which had had its
tur rubbed the wrong way. Mr.
Cowles said:
MR. COWLES’S TRIBUTE TO MR. MASON.
“Fellow members of the Yale Asso-
ciation: No word of mine is needed to
remind you of our’ recent loss.
Whether the word be spoken or not,
makes little difference. Every ‘one of
us holds as a treasure the memory ot
him who stood among us preéminently
typical of the gentle manhood, schol-
arly poise, and loving friendship which
we delight to think are best blended
beneath the elm trees of Yale. We all
know how he labored in the spare
moments of his busy life to bring us
together into an organization where we
could enjoy again the spirit of the Cam-
pus, and through which we might be of
service to Mother Yale. Eulogy among
friends is needless. Our friend is gone,
leaving a name that is an honor to his
children; leaving a loving benediction
of fellowship to this Association, which
he helped to found, and over which
he presided for several years. What-
ever providence has in store beyond the
-grave, it is well with him. We know
and feel the immortality of his influence.
May his spirit brood over us to teach
us the highest powers of kindliness, the
strength of absolute integrity, the
genius of loving and being loved.
There is no fitter time or place to speak
his name.
A silent toast to Edward Gay Mason.
“Presidents have a way of making re-
ports; sometimes they dig them out of
cyclopedias, and. sometimes, as in the
latest case, they clip. them out of the
papers. In each and every case they
are exhaustive—and exhausting. I will
divide my report for the sake of brevity
into several heads, which heads you are
at liberty to take home with you if you
so desiré;; in» the morning -you_ will
know you have them: Internal Affairs;
External Affairs; Foreign Relations;
Domestic Relations; the Theological
Department, and the Toast-master. |
“In the matter of Internal Affairs
Yale’s digestion seems to be good.
The Freshman class weighs 49,782 lbs.
in the aggregate and necessarily. shows
quite an amount of good material.
There is a suspicion that the Crew is
like an angry cat, some believing that
it has. been stroked the wrong way.
‘“Concerning External Affairs. It is
of interest to note that Chapel street
has been found to have been gradually
curving to the south, in an effort to
squirm away from the. architecture of
Osborn Hall.
“FOREIGN RELATIONS.”
“In the department of Foreign Rela-
tions it is a pleasure to report that
although our waters within the four-
mile limits, were invaded by a barbarous
tribe from the interior, the invaders
were boldly followed by our fearless
little navy, and the pursuit kept up
until the enemy were driven over the
line. Our football field was also
threatened, but as we still hold the
ground as though hammered into it to
stay, we naturally claim the victory.
Our debaters have proven that they
have longer and more prehensile jaws
than those possessed by any other ag-
eregation. Our domestic relations are
numerous. The Theological Depart-
ment has secured a new Library and is
searching for a Librarian.”
ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT FOR DR. GAL-
LAUDET.
“As to the Crew, a great change has
been made in the management for the
coming Spring. Mr. Cook, who had
charge of the coaching for, so long,
giving all his time for the past two
years, early in the Fall notified Capt.
Allen that it would be impossible for
him to give any attention to the Crew
this year. Dr. Gallaudet, the stroke
oar of the ’92' and ’93 Crews, was then
asked by Capt. Allen to take the posi-
tion of head coach. This arrangement
was finally consummated with the
hearty approval and promises of ener-
getic cooperation on the part of all who
have been in touch with the rowing
situation.
“Nothwithstanding the loss to the
Crew of Mr. Cook’s valuable experi-
ence, much can be expected of Dr. Gal-
laudet, who certainly knows how to
handle an oar and manage men. There
is no question but that Dr. Gallaudet
will have the enthusiastic support and
help of the other graduate coaches.
All seem pretty well agreed as to what
elements went to make the winning
qualities of the stroke of former years.
If Yale can catch the best Yale style,
Yale muscle and Yale ‘sand’ will do the
rest.
THE GUIDANCE OF PRES. DWIGHT.
“President Dwight, full
honors, and with a record of great
achievements, is going to resign. Those
of us who are far away hardly appre-
ciate the great executive ability required
to administer the affairs of such a Uni-
versity as Yale, even if we do vaguely
realize the steady devotion to Yale that
has marked his whole life. While hold-
ing to the great traditions of the old col-
lege ideals, he has built up around it
the walls of the University. Under his
guidance, old Yale is the same old Yale,
a school of character, and new Yale
has opened wide her gates for the deep
and original work of the University.
“Now let me introduce to you the
toastmaster; a man who in college
made a reputation for possessing Yale
‘sand’ beyond this compeers. He
caught in the great Freshman fence
game against Harvard, and when the
last finger went away, he triumphantly
caught the game out with his teeth.
‘Ben’ Lamb could not have done better.
It was his custom to clamber in and
out, about, athwart and across the old
brick row, with the fearlessness of a
fly walking upon the ceiling. The
water-spout had no terrors for him, and
he will not fear the word ‘spout’ He .
is game—is Salmi. Fix that joke to
stut yourselves, I have tried to arrange
it and can’t. Mr. Clarence Morse has
the floor.”
of years,”
- Mr. Morse. introduced: the. Rev..J. G:;
K, MeClure,° ’70, President of Lake
Forest University, as the next speaker.
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THE YALE OF THE FUTURE.
“My words are a. wish rather than a
prophecy. It would be folly for any
man, however much he may have pon-
dered the subject, to attempt to say what
‘The Yale of the Future’ will be. The
founders of Yale never imagined that
- her work would be so vast and so
powerful as it has become.
“What Yale has been and is now, is
more than her annual catalogues
bunched together from the beginning
until to-day, show. These catalogues
tell us how many professors and stu-
dents and buildings Yale has in any
given year and what the courses of
instruction are. The mere study of
those catalogues is suggestive. They
grow in size, in comprehension and in
conciseness.
thought and effort that are most at-
tractive. Not.even her Triennial cata-
logue indicates what Yale has been and
is: Jat. “triennial addS {o. niany
names, initials that represent useful and
honored lives. But if every name in
it should have those initials after it, still
it would be impossible from that cata-
logue to understand Yale’s place in the
making of men, society and the nation. .
“A few years ago I visited Jackson-
ville of this state. It was in early Octo-
ber. I found a city laid out with broad
streets, having two rows of trees, elms
and maples, on either side, a city at
whose center was a college and in whose
every part were other educational in-
stitution, a city whose atmosphere was
thoughtful, earnest, clean. In my ignor-
ance I asked how these beautiful condi-
tions came about. The answer was:
“a band of Yale men came here in 1829
to reproduce the spirit and work of
Yale. They brought her trees, her edu-
cational ideas, her religious thought,
her interest in humanity; and they
made Jacksonville what it is in its in-
ner motive and in its outer influence of
good.’
THE INFLUENCE OF YALE.
“What Yale has done in this concrete
case, Yale has done in thousands of con-
crete cases—in America, China, Japan,
India. She inspired an Historical
Building in Chicago, and she has in-
spired colleges, schools, hospitals,
churches, chambers ‘of commerce, courts
of justice everywhere. She has taken
men in their formative condition, has
given them training or has widened
their horizon, and then has sent them
out to be centers of radiating good—in
all the walks of life. And to-day the
glory of Yale is not the statements that
may be read in her catalogue of 1899,
but those visible and invisible forces. of
blessing that are at work hundreds and
thousands of miles away from New
Haven. :
“The Yale of the Future should be
considered sympathetically. Education
is a foremost force in our civilization.
Yale is now, as she always has been,
at the front in her study of educational
problems. Those problems are great—
and in an institution like Yale, where
there are such diversities of educational
interests, they are very complicated
problems. Each department of study
calls for attention.
oversight or suspicion of oversight if
by any chance all is not done for it
that it needs or thinks it needs. To
know what departments are to be ad-
vanced most rapidly, to keep all the
forces of educational life in happy touch
with one another so that the University
shall be a unity in its spirit and work,
is no small task. | : Nx
“It is easy to understand how any
wise and competent person might well
shrink from taking up the presidency
of Yale at this particular time. The
way will not be smooth for him. He
must be scholar, financier, administra-
tor, general, gentleman, peace-maker,
and warrior all in one. The Corpora-
tion has no slight task before it in find-
ing the right man for the presidency.
That Corporation should have the
kindly remembrance of every Yale
alumnus. We have had a magnificent
line of presiding officers. The périod
covered by my own touch with Yale
has seen splendid men at the head,
Woolsey, Porter, Dwight. Each man
has done superb work, and President
Dwight closses his administration with
our acclamations. The mat who- now
comes to the head will find indeed the
They open avenues for.
It makes known the .
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record of the past pointing in a general
direction for’ Yale’s future, but he will .
also find that some strong man’s per-
sonality, must determine new. features. of
the future, and those features may have
much to do with shaping the Yale of
the future. Whoever is called to the
Presidency of Yale should have the
kindly, generous interest of us all,
“We cannot all have our pet theories
of education carried out to their ful-
ness. The classical, the literary, the
biological specialists are right in their
eagerness, each to make his own work
strong and aggressive. Some of us see,
as we think, one way of advancing Yale,
and some others of us feel that that way
would be destructive of our alma
mater’s best life and therefore we ad-
vocate a different way of developing
the University.
“Let all Yale men realize that we
have an institution that has nourished
us and blessed us, an institution that
we hope and expect will do even better
work in days ahead than in days be-
hind, an institution that may well com-
mand our interest, our affection and
our prayers. Yale is imbedded in the
love of her children. Those children -
send their sons by the hundreds back
to her walls. They wish those that are
dearest to them to know their alma
mater as they know her and to share
with themselves in all her protection
and help. May the Yale of the Future
be even a better, nobler, more benefi-
cent Yale than the Yale of the Past, and
to that end may the blessing of the
God of the fathers ever guide her pur-
pose and inspire her deed!” .
JOHN GREENWAY’S ABILITY.
W. C. Boyden, Harvard ’86, said he
could not understand how Yale could
show such great moderation in victory
and defeat with 60 saloons in a single
New Haven block adjacent to the Cam-
pus. He was glad that Harvard had
solved a serious political problem by
discovering a new ratio, not 16 to I,
but 17 to o, Yale holding the nothing
end of the ratio. All University. men,
he said, would reverence the memory
of Edward G. Mason, who had con-
tributed so generously to the common
University spirit. Regarding President
Dwight, he had shown himself a true
sportsman. Head resigned before the
game with Harvard, in order that he
might bet on Harvard. Mr. Boyden
also spoke of Roosevelt of Harvard, and
Greenway of Yale, how the former had
said that if he should be suddenly taken
away from command of the Rough
Riders, that John Greenway was brave
enough and wise enough to command
the Rough Riders.
T. D. Jones, Princeton, said that his
University had never had the slightest
occasion to feel rancor over defeat by
Vale:
Other speakers were J. L. Hough-
telnet, -7oo.7.Ge Io Bartlett. 765, Dr
eae Webster, ’9o2, and :*R. T.. Crane,
95 5. , :
The attendance of Yale men at the
dinner was fair. The banquet room was
decorated in blue and white. Seated at
the speakers’ table at the dinner were:
Alfred Cowles, ’86, President of the
Association; the Rev. James G. K. Mc-
Clure, ’70, President of Lake Forest
University; Thomas D. Jones, Prince-
ton ’76; William C. Boyden, Harvard
°86;° James Nevins Hyde, ’61; Joseph
H. Andrews, *590; Sherman M. Booth,
"at: David -&.. Lyman,: 64.
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Basketball with Cornell.
A basketball game between the Uni-
versity basketball team and the New
Britain Athletic Club team was played
on Saturday evening last at New
Britain. The game resulted in a close
victory for the Yale team, the final score
being 13 to Ir Two twenty-minute
halves were played. The teams lined
up as follows: Yale—Right forward,
G, Mo Clark, soor:: lett forward... LL.
Beard, ’99; center, A. H. Sharpe, M.S.;
right guard, J. K. Clark, ’99; left guard,
C. D. Lockwood, 1900 S. New Britain—
Right forward, Loomis; left forward,
Gladden; center, O’Donnell; right
guard, Clark and Kron; left guard,
Sperrill.
The date of the Yale-Cornell basket-
ball game has been definitely arranged
for February 25. A game will be played
with the 115th Separate Company of
Poughkeepsie on February 24. Both
these games will be played at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
