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NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1899,
Price Ten Crnrs.
THE BROOKLYN DINNER.
The Theme was Yale in the War—
Speech of Gov. Roosevelt in full
—Gen. Woodford and Lieuten=
ant-Governor Woodruff
Respond — Professor
Phillips? Dream.
The fourteenth annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni Association of Long
Island was held at the Oxford Club in
Brooklyn, Friday evening, March 3.
The occasion, which was a remarkably
successful one, was especially devoted
to the part played by Yale in the recent
war—three of the six speeches being
given up to different phases of the
subject. The Yale colors, with which
the dining room was decorated, were
intermingled with the stars and stripes;
the “Star-Spangled Banner” was sung
alternately with “Bright College Years’;
and the important part played by Yale
in the Spanish war was suggested by ©
the presence at the speaker’s table of
Gen. Stewart L. Woodruff, ’66, and
Lieut. John C. Greenway, ’95.
The dinner was presided over by Mr.
Joseph A. Burr, *71, and at the guests’
table, in addition to those already men-
tioned, were Gov. Theodore Roosevelt,
Lieut.-Gov. Timothy Woodruff, Profes-
sor Andrew W. Phillips, Col. Tread-
well, James W. Alexander of Princeton,
and G. F. Price. The presence of Gov.
Roosevelt was, according to the com-
mittee, owing to the personal efforts of
Mr. Woodruff. The Governor sug-
gested his own subject, “Yale in the
War,’ and also requested that the com-
mittee have Lieut. Greenway upon the
toast list.
The menu was an elaborate one,
arranged in XI courses in the form of
an annual examination in elective
courses at Yale University. The menu
card itself was an exact imitation of a
Yale examination paper, one of the
most interesting numbers of which was
a “Sorbet Dwight,” served in a dainty
box, the cover of which consisted of
a life-like representation of President
Dwight in bas-relief.
THE SPEECHMAKING BEGINS.
The dinner was over and the toast
list begun at about nine o’clock. Presi-
dent Burr, in his introductory remarks,
dwelt upon the social advantages of a
college life.
“During the war,” he said, ‘we fre-
quently saw the sign ‘Men Wanted,’
and now, written across the heavens
we see the words ‘Men Wanted’—men
of brains, of brawn, of character.
these men must be sought within the
university walls.” |
PROF. PHILLIPS RESPONDS.
In the absence of President Dwight
the University was represented by Pro-
fessor Phillips. Prof. Phillips related
an imaginary conversation between
himself and President Dwight, which
he claimed. to have dreamed. In this
vision President Dwight passed numer-
ous criticisms upon a recent book of
the Professor’s—the chief of which was
the fact that throughout the entire
volume the letters, x, y, z and others
were used.
“ “We want an entire change }
vant ge in Yale
mathematics in the future” broke jn the
exasperated president. ‘We don’t want
letters! we want figures! I want you
to give Yale men a chance to count
out those figures they heard about
And.
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in my> last -report. And I want
them to be able to count at least a
million by the time of the Bi-centennial.
We want to celebrate in some appropri-
ate way the Yale scholars, soldiers,
teachers, legislators, cabinet officers,
jurists and those whose influence for
good has been less ostentatious. We
ask for a memorial as a birthday gift—
a home for Yale graduates, a place for
the commencement dinner and all simi-
lar gatherings of Yale men.”
OVATION TO ROOSEVELT.
Prof. Phillips’ remarks were followed
by Mr. Alfred Raymond, ’88, who sang
a “Dooley” song in honor of Gov.
Roosevelt, composed for the occasion.
This song, the last line of which was,
“And where did this Harvard boy get
that Yale sand?” was the signal for the
ovation which Governor Roosevelt re-
ceived. He was cheered and cheered,
given numerous rah! rah! rahs, and
only with difficulty found an oppor-
tunity to break in and respond to his
toast. He then said:
Governor Roosevelt’s Speech.
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen—I
remember in the Fall of 1890 going out
to speak at Yale, at the request of Pro-
fessor Lounsbury, and telling my audi-
ence that it was very rare for a Har-
vard man to be able to come there
with a proper feeling of self-respect
(laughter), especially in the Fall, after
the football games. I had waited for
fourteen years for that occasion, and I
did not know but what I would have to
wait fourteen years more. But I only
had to wait nine. It has always been
an article of faith with me that Harvard
and Yale should pull together, that we
were natural antagonists, and, therefore,
natural friends. In the State of New
York this year Harvard and Yale have
not only pulled together, but we have
“pulled off’ most of the things. The
Lieutenant-Governor got there and the
two universities, inspired by that suc-
cess, then divided up the senatorships
and other offices. JI am bound to con-
fess that so far as Mr. Woodruff and I
were concerned there was another Yale
and Harvard ticket in the field. You
all know how, in reading reports of
athletic events, it reads that Mr. Smith
came first; Mr. Robinson, second; Mr.
Jones, third, and Mr. White and Brown
also ran. Our two opponents on the
Goo-Goo ticket, of whom one was a
Yale and the other a Harvard man,
came under the head of “also ran.”
YALE’S HELP IN WAR PREPARATION.
Gentlemen, I asked to have the
honor of speaking to-night to the toast
of what Yale had done in the war be-
cause it had been my fortune to see a
little of the Yale spirit in the war from
two sides. The first was when I was
helping to get ready the Navy, and in
the next place it was my good fortune
to be one among those in the army of
Santiago. I shall never forget the
eager desire shown by Yale to put her
effort where it would do the most good.
In dealing with naval matters, when I
corresponded with the Yale men as to
the ship Yale, I found that they were
anxious to do not what would neces-
sarily redound to their own glory, but
what the Department would desire most
to have done in the way of fitting out
the vessel to make her most efficient.
YALE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES.
_And when it came to dealing with
my own regiment, the Rough Riders,
I had the honor of serving with a
number of Yale men, a half dozen of
whose names I could give, of whom
THE NINETY-NINE NEWS BOARD.
A. C. Goodyear.
L. E. Stoddard.
H. W. Chambers.
R. E. Forrest. M. T. Adams.
C. H. Conner, Jr., Bus. Mgr.
D. H. Day, Chairman.
Photograph by Pach,
Ay Seeeoin
F. M. Davies.
two gave their lives for their country,
of whom one, whom you have with you
to-night, for himself, in the eyes of all
his associates and of his superior
officers, had the reputation of being one
of the two or three men who on
the whole were the best soldiers, the
gamiest men, the men who could be
depended upon most in a regiment in
which bravery was common to all its
members. I speak, of course, of “Jack”
Greenway. In all that I have to say
I must be a little personal; I must
individualize, but I only speak of the
men of whom I shall- speak because
they stand as types. There are many
others of whom I could speak, for those
you hear of are not all of those who
gave up their lives and sacrificed ambi-
tion for their country’s good. The war
was, of course, not a great war. I
remember hearing a comment of-some
disgusted individuals after the Santiago
campaign that there was not war
enough to go around. The war was
‘not a great war because this country
was not compelled to put forth more
than a small fraction of its strength
and the value of the work that was
done and the sacrifices that were made
merely served to set forth the fact that
that work and those sacrifices were but
the earnest of what would be done if
the nation should be called upon to face
some gigantic peril.
REMINISCENCES OF JACK GREENWAY.
Where one Yale man in 1898 won
honor, where one Yale man gave up
his life for the flag which he held dear,
there were hundreds anxious themselves
to have the chance to win honor, ready
themselves to give up their lives if
called upon to do so. I may perhaps
be pardoned a few reminiscences of Mr.
Greenway. I do not make any excuse
for treating him as an object of note,
because of course the mere soldier in
him does not compare with the reputa-
tion of the football man or the man
who caught when “Dutch” Carter
pitched. (Applause.)
Governor Roosevelt spoke of a letter
which he had received from some per-
son in Germantown, Pa., saying that
Mr. Greenway’s picture taken with
Colonel Roosevelt at Santiago had been
recognized as that of a missing drug
clerk, who was wanted by his family at
once. The letter -was read by the
Governor and created considerable
merriment, particularly the ending,
which declared that everything would
be forgiven if the man, supposedly
Greenway, would come home to his
family.
When Greenway and his fellow Yale
men joined us in company with a num-
ber of men from my own college and
a number of others, said Colonel
Roosevelt, Mr. Alexander from Prince-
ton among them, the thing that I liked
most about the way that those men
came into the regiment was that they
did not come in with the desire or
expectation of having an easy time, of
getting a commission or having any
preferment; but they came in one and
all simply as Americans, to stand on
their own feet, to go un if the war lasted
long enough and they proved able to
go up, but not to get a favor of any
kind. They got nothing except what
they earned by earnest and hard work
and they claimed nothing except the
chance to show themselves just as good
as anyone else. In other words, they
had realized what it seems to me the
graduate of an American university
should realize, that his experience does
not confer upon him any immunity, but
on the contrary it entails on him the
duty of showing himself a little better
in the actual hurly burly of practical
life than those who have not had these
advantages. And Greenway and Waller
and Young and Miller, who died, and
Ives, who died also, Gerard, the captain
of one of your track athletic teams,
those men like Devereaux, Church and
other Princeton men, and Dudley Dean
Wrenn, Goodrich and other Harvard
men, went into that regiment as
troopers, went into it with the cowboys
and miners, with the ranchmen and the
machinists, with the railroad men an
all, taking nothing and asking nothing
except that they should be treated on
their merits and allowed to show Sr
they could work and they could fight
as well as any one else. (Applause. )
