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surely called for mutual congratulations
of equal dimensions. Let us hope that
the Bi-centennial Celebration will result
in fostering that highest measure of
that moral support, with which the
University may boldly enter upon her
third century and face the great prob-
lems of the future.
Mr. Chauncey G. Parker responded
for Harvard. The sentiment was from
Kipling:
“Deeper than speech our love, stronger
than life our tether,
But we do not fall on the neck nor kiss
when we come together.”
Mr. Parker dwelt at length on the
reconciliation and close mutual inter-
ests of Yale and Harvard.
Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff of Princeton
responded to the toast to that Univer-
sity to the sentiment from Longfellow:
“Thus I wag through the world, half
time on foot and the other half walk-
ing.’ His speech was a very graceful
statement of Princeton’s position in the
intercollegiate world.
The toast for Mr. Yandell Henderson,
Yale ’95, was “Chasing the Dons.” Mr.
Henderson sketched briefly and graphi-
cally the cruise of the “Yale” and the
pleasant and interesting experiences
connected with it. He paid a very
handsome compliment to Captain Wise,
whose presence was expected at the
supper, but who was detained by illness.
To the toast “Ourselves” and to the
sentiment “As for him that bloweth
not his own horn, his horn shall not be
blown,’ Mr: Sidney M. Colgate, ’85,
spoke as follows:
Mr. Colgate’s Response.
Since the Secretary of our Associa-
tion informed me that I was expected
to reply to this toast this evening, it is
fortunate for me, and also for any who
may have a kindly interest in me, that
I have not seen a sign, such as an enter-
prising undertaker in London hung in
his window, which read as follows:
“Why walk around in misery when you
can be decently buried for thirty shil-
lings?’ And yet there is a brighter
side to my lot this evening, in that I am
privileged to represent an Association
which has stood during its long history
for all the bést objects which an Asso-
ciation can represent. An Alumni
Association, it seems to me, should at
least stand for three things:
First: For the cultivation of gener-
osity toward the University.
Second: For the crystallization of
opinion concerning the policy of the
University, and,
Third: For the preservation and per-
petuation of the Yale spirit.
Among our own immediate members
it is well known that our Association
has taken a very active interest in stim-
ulating the generosity of its members
toward their alma mater. (Mr. Col-
gate recited here the humorous record
of the Association in this line in the
past and then continued in a serious
vein), ;
Since 1890 there has been no effort
on the part of our Association to raise
a fund for the College, but now, with
the return of general prosperity, there is
no reason why another effort should
not be made.
Nay, more, it seems to me very desir-
able that there should be made, with the
incoming of a new administration, a
united effort on the part of all the
alumni associations throughout the
country, give liberally to their alma
mater. There is now an_ excellent
system for the collection of gifts
through class organizations, but, it
seems to me, the Alumni Associations
could accomplish this work in the
more thickly populated sections of the
country, more thoroughly and efficiently
than by means of any class machinery.
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THE EXPRESSION OF ALUMNI SENTIMENT,
Second. An Association should stand
for the crystallization of the opinion of
the alumni concerning the policy of the
University.
This Association, formed in 1884,
was quick to realize its duties and
responsibilities, for, when but two years
old, in 1886, a crisis was impending in
the affairs of the University similar to
that which must be faced this year, we
rose to the occasion, as the following
minute will testify.
“After the annual meeting in 1886, a
discussion arose as to the policy of the
University, in which all took part, and
YATE ALUMNI WHREKBEY
Messrs. Heald, Dryden and Fowler
were appointed a Committee with
power to decide upon the advisability of
holding a general meeting, to discuss
the selection of a College President and
the general policy of the University.”
To some of you, this may seem rather
presumptuous, to attempt to dictate to
the members of the Corporation whom
they should select; in fact it may seem
to you, as Kipling has remarked, “like
tapping with your cane on the deck of
a troop ship, to stop the engines be-
cause you are seasick.” President
Dwight was chosen.
WHAT ASSOCIATIONS HAVE DONE.
Following in the wake of his popular
Presidency and the example of our
own Association, associations through-
out the country have rapidly multiplied.
In these associations during the past
thirteen years, and recently aided by
that indefatigable and indispensable
ally, the ALUMNI WEEKLY, the opinions
of the graduates have become crys-
talized, not only by discussing the
affairs of the University among them-
selves, but also by meeting in an in-
‘formal and social way with the Presi-
dent and members of the Faculty.
From their own lips we have learned
concerning the inner life of the Univer-
sity, its difficulties, its encouragements,
its purpose and its hopes, and from this
more personal contact has grown up a
greater trust and confidence in the Uni-
versity and in those who are responsible
for its direction, so that to-day, when
we are approaching another crisis like
that of 1886 I have not heard of any
such meeting being proposed by this
Association as formerly, to give points
to the Corporation as to whom they
should choose for President.
Third. An Association should stand
for the preservation and perpetuation of
the Yale spirit. betas
A GLORIOUS RECORD.
Our record: during the past has been
glorious, and there is every promise for
the future. We are rich in the memory .-
of Hon. Staats S. Morris, our first
President, who had been graduated for
fifty-three years before he reached the
pinnacle of his career in the Presidency
of this Association; Hon. Anthony Q.
Keasby and Chancellor Runyon, who,
after forty-two years of patient waiting,
received this, their greatest honor. We
look with pride upon Daniel A. Heald,
Rev. Richard Green, Frederick Adams,
Hamilton Wallis, Prof. D. A. Kennedy,
and the peerless trio who have broken -
all records for second and third terms,
Jack, Dick and Mike. It is dangerous,
in an Alumni Association, to even
name the Yale spirit, because of the
tendency of the speaker who utters these
mystic words to attempt to define them
and put them in concrete form. [I have
heard such descriptions, which, instead
of beautifying, but picked to pieces and
disfigured that which eludes description.
It is as indefinable as that sense of
the all-pervading beauty of which
Lowell writes: “It runs through all and
doth all unite.’ Whatever it is, we
know that it exists, that it is a power
no less than the power of gravitation,
and that it should be one of the great
forces to make the life of each alumnus
the sweeter, the nobler and better worth
the living; -*.0*
In education, while the President of
Cornell is now on his way to the islands
of the Sea, to establish kindergartens
and peripatetic schools of philosophy in
the palm groves of the Philippines, that
time has come, predicted by the ancient
Hebrew seer, when one week from to-
night, in New York, at this very hour,
the lion of Yale will sit down with the
ox of Harvard and eat spinach to-
gether. Our own Association is ex-
panding the limits of its domain, and
now is including in Essex County, the
Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and
The Bronx, for no doubt you all have
received urgent letters from our Presi-
dent, requesting you to make this occa-
soin the rallying point of all the mem-
bers of your class East of the Alle-
ghenys, but in our own inner circle we
hold fast that which is good. Mike is
again in the chair, and, so far as I know,
is to remain during good behavior,
provided only he will intimate that he
will follow the good example set by
President Dwight and retire at the age
of seventy. * * *
The ancient schools in the groves of
Athens could broadly be described as
a collection of men, but after the in-
vention of the printing press and the
multiplication of books, Carlyle re-
marked that a University of those days
consisted of a collection of books.
Judging from the rapid and phenomenal
growth of educational centres in certain
localities of the West, it would seem
that in these days a university consisted
Yale has .
of a collection of buildings.
combined these three great elements in
education, and she is to-day a university
of buildings, of books and of Bachelors
of Arts. She has builded on the broad
and enduring foundation of Christian
culture, and through all the changes and
fickleness of this careless age she has
conserved that which was best in educa-
tion and religion. We, her children,
strong men though we be, in her pres- -
ence are subdued and humbled, and a
feeling of restfulness and hope comes
over wus, as she places her venerable
arms around us and calmly says:
“Grow old along with me, -
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was
made.” :
The invited guests were: Chauncey
G. Parker; C. G. Kidder; John Rey-
Holds. harvard: Prot. Water ox.
Wyckoff; Edward D. Duffield; Bay-
ard Kirkpatrick, Princeton; E. M.
Colie, New York University; Joseph
Vernon, Yale ’85; Prof. J. C. Schwab,
Yale ’86; Yandell Henderson, Yale ’95.
The members of the Association pre- ©
sent were as follows:
‘41—D. A. Heald.
*55—Henry N. Cobb.
‘62—Frederic Adams.
°63—Hamilton Wallis.
’°64—F. E. Woodruff.
*71—Geo. M. Keasby.
*"72—W. B. Wheeler, Geo.. Richards.
*73—John O. Heald. .
"74—W. Campbell, D. A. Kennedy.
*75—-Wm. Read Howe, T. J. Lee.
’76—Geo. E. Coney, Jas. B. Dill.
*77-—R. M. Colgate. .
: Sa We Sherindn. Louis Hood,
CGhus, A. Feick, -C. He Kelsey, A.D:
Chandler. . 4
*79—L. H. Hyde. ~
’S0—D. W. Richards.
’81—-F rederick Seymour.
*84—C. A. Mead, C. E. Eaton, Joseph
Wood.
Be ee ocnaiize.- jr, Ros. Otorss;
W. E. Eaton, J. M. Magher, ’85%.,
Edw. Kenny, ’85 L.S.
26 —-N. M. Goodlett, Jr., S. M. Col-
gate, A. Colgate, C. W. Goodrich, Wm.
A. Brown.
’87_S, E. Cobb, Paul Spencer, W. S.
Brigham, R. D. Morse. 3
’°88—Geo. M. Gill.
’°91—Malcolm MacLear. :
°92—_Wm. N. Runyon, Otto Schreiber.
’92 S.—H. B. Atha.
94 —A. S. Taylor, Geo. B. Case.
°97—John L. Ewell, Jr., N. W. Wallis,
Geo. J. Ferry, Jr.
’97 S.—C. G. Altha, R. S. Kilborne, C:
Rudoff Schultz, Jr.
’98—George G. Schreiber, R. D.
Douglas.
’98 S.— Richard Krementz.
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FOR THE CORPORATION.
Mr. Henry F. Dimock is Named by
| Certain Alumni.
To the Alumni of Yale: Understand-
ing that the Hon. Frederick J. Kings-
bury, whose term of office as Fellow
of Yale University expires this year,
does not wish to be re-elected, and
deeming it desirable and especially fit
that his successor be one qualified by
nearness of residence and business ex-
perience to serve the University in the
same way as he has so well served it
during the last eighteen years, we re-
spectfiully present as a candidate for
election as such successor, Mr. Henry
F. Dimock, of the Class of Sixty-three,
who resides in New York, is one of its
most successful and influential men of
business, and is widely known, es-
teemed and trusted as a man of rare
ability, sound judgment and high
character. His faithfulness in the dis-
charge of all duties undertaken, his
especial interest in education and his
strong loyalty to Yale assure, in case of
election, his attention to the duties of
‘to the regular meetings;
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this high and responsible office, And
it seems to us peculiarly apt at this time
to put forward a representative Yale
man whose success is a striking proof
of the value of college training in a
business career.
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Col. Osborn’s Name Presented.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir:—As an alumnus resident in New
Haven, and a recent graduate, may I
suggest to my fellow alumni through
the medium of the WEEKLY, the name
of Col. Norris G. Osborn for the
vacancy in the corporation caused by
the death of Edward G. Mason?
The resignation of President Dwight
together with the withdrawal of: Prof.
Brush from the Scientific School, make
the selection of new members of the
Corporation at the present time one of
unusual import to our alma mater.
The new president, whoever he may be,
is almost certain to be chosen from
among the younger educators of the
country, and if the evident desire of
the great body of the alumni be con-
sulted, will be essentially an executive.
Appreciating to the fullest the great
work done by President Dwight, it
cannot be denied that the years before
us will be even more vital to the growth
of the University, and the broadening
of its influence, than the decade through
which we have passed. |
To properly support such a president
the new members of the Corporation
should be chosen from those able and
willing to devote the necessary time
men broad
and progressive in their views; and if
such a suggestion may be ventured,
