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YALE ALUMNI WHEEKLY of events or movements, in large measure or entirely apart from our- selves. Sometimes, it comes in connec- tion with our doing, under some per- suasive influence, what it had been our very strong desire not to do. In a thousand different ways it comes. We learn, perchance, afterwards how it came, but its coming never ceases to be the marvel of the life-time. It was, we Say to ourselves, the Father’s order- ing, and we never doubt afterwards the Father’s presence. Let me take an instance which may, perchance, fall within the personal ex- perience of one or more, here and there, among your number. I refer to the strange and unexpected way in which— after all had long seemed dark, or even utterly hopeless—the possibility - of securing the higher education opened. By some peculiar turn of events, or some interest awakened quite surpris- ingly in the mind of a friend with refer- ence to the realization of the end,—by some circumstance, which, in its hap- pening, seems to be just as if a higher intelligence and care had lovingly pro- vided a great blessing—the result which had been despaired of is placed within the man’s power. The clouds and darkness disappear in a moment, and the man goes on his way rejoicing. To such a man there is a life-lesson which reveals a Fatherly love. . His classmates,’ or the most of them, may know nothing of its meaning, because they have had nothing of the experi- ence. They have moved onward into the possession of the good which edu- cation gives so naturally and easily, that they think nothing of what is beyond itself or outside of themselves. It is to them like the health or the strength of each new day as it comes. Why think of the source of the gift? It is the simple consequence of life—as natural and as much to be expected as the con- tinuance of life itself. Zo him, it is everything, as we may Say, in its teach- ing. Yo them, it has no significance— and why should it have? But the truth—the hving proof-power for the soul—is where the experience is. The man, for whom the experience is real- ized, knows for himself that God has provided for him, and thus that God is ever near him. ‘ THIS ABIDING YOUTHFULNESS. I cannot but think, my friends, that this abiding youthfulness—this dream, if you will, that we are always young, which lingers with us far on and on in life—is, in itself, an evidence of immor- tality—a proof, which may well have impressive significance for the indi- vidual soul, that the powers and the life pass onward, in their full strength, to another and larger and more perfect sphere of activity beyond this world. The dream which attends us so lovingly through the years, and fills us with the youthful feeling all the way, has its basis of reality in its prophecy of the great truth of the hereafter, towards which we are ever moving and our life is ever growing. THE FAREWELL GREETING. And now, my fellow students, and may I not almost say my classmates of the year 1899, let me ask you to rise for a moment and receive my farewell greeting. The words which I have spoken to you have had a very personal character, as related to yourselves and to me—so much of personality in them that they may have seemed more adapted to a friendly and private con- ference, than to a meeting in a public place and in the presence of a large assembly. The occasion, however, has, in a peculiar measure, the personal ele- ment in it, and I could scarcely have found it in my heart or thought to speak to you in any other way. You and I, as I have already said, are leaving the University together; you in the younger life, indeed, and I in the older, but both alike going out into the brotherhood of graduates, and into new experiences and working and happiness. Fifty years separate the dates of our gradua- tion, but there is no separation between us in our love for the old college home, or in the pleasant memories that gather about it. We stand, indeed, at the end—you and I alike—with much of youthful spirit, with much of energy and earnest purpose, with many pleasant anticipations. But for me the Summer YALE CREW AND SUBSTITUTES. Greenway, su Wickes, 2. Flint, 4. Mitchell, sub. Bro Greenleaf, bow. B: wn, 5. Cross, Allen (Capt.), 5. Walton, cox. sub. Niedecken, 1%. Williams, stroke. : Brock, sub. Griswold, 3. Photo. by Pach. day has passed into the later afternoon, while for you it still lingers in the early morning. I have ventured to speak to you as from the later hours, and to bear testi- mony of what life teaches of its own happy progress, and also of what it tells of the loving Father, who gives it to us and orders its movements for us. I have not told you anything of sor- rows and disappointments. They will meet you, somewhere, and perhaps many times, in your rathway through the world. But they are of the disci- pline and education of life, and are ever working, as we suffer them to have their own true influence, towards the result of noblest character. You will find, as the years go by, that they are helpful, in no minor degree, in the up- building and glorifying of the soul within you. You will discover, by your own experience, that the Divine Father, as you trust yourselves to His educating care, is ever leading you out of the darkness into the light, and out of the shadows of the clouds into the brighter sunshine. The Summer dav has its clouds, at times, but as they pass away — in a brief hour they leave the light more beautiful. I wish for you, each and every one, the richest blessings, the happiest experiences, the best of strength and courage and hope and success which life can give in view of life’s great end and purpose. I wish for you that all things that befall you in your way onward—the joyful things, and the sorrowiul ones that may, from time to time, be mingled with them—may, as they do for God’s children, work to- eether for your highest good, and thus that you may have, in your own per- sonal living, this evidence that you are under His leading. I wish for you the faith in Christ, who has made known to. us His Father’s love,—and our Father’s love—as the inspiration of life for us all. I wish for you that you may lose every doubt and questioning and fear and weakness and sin in your . love for Him. And so I bid you farewell. May the long Summer day linger for you to its latest hours. May.the sunset hour at the end be filled with a beautiful light as. from heaven itself, and the calm twilight season, that follows the sunset, bear your thought and hope peacefully onward to the new day and the new and happier life beyond. And one word more—may your testi- mony and mine unite together, as it comes from our personal experience, in the words of the Psalmist’s song as we have now thought of them: Thou, our loving God and Father, makest the out- goings-of the morning and the evening to rejoice, Fellowships and Scholarships. The following is the record of fellow- ships and scholarships awarded at Commencement :— 3 ACADEMICAL GRADUATE. Academical Graduate Fellowships were awarded for 1899-1900 as follows: Soldiers’ Memorial Fellowship, to Abraham Royer Brubacher, B.A., Yale ’97; Schaefferstown, Pa. Eldridge Fellowships, to Arthur Sul- livan Gale, B.A., Yale ’99; Jacksonville, Fla. John Pease Norton, B.A., Yale ‘99: Los Angeles, Cal. Silliman Fellowship, to John Tread- well Norton, Jr., B.A., Yale ’98; Al- bany. iN. X35 | | Scott Hurtt Fellowship, to Charles Upson Clark, B.A., Yale ’97; Brooklyn, Ne X Douglass Fellowship, to Robert Kil- burn Root, B.A., Yale ’98; New Haven, Conn. Foote Fellowships, to Arthur Bum- stead, B.A., Yale ’95; Roxbury, Mass. George Dwight Kellogg, B.A., Yale ‘on: St. Louis, -Mo; gomery Hathaway, Jr., B.A., Yale ’99; Olyphant, Pa. Sydney Knox Mitchell, B.A., Yale ’98; Lakeville, N. Y. Macy Fellowship, to Samuel Eliot Bassett, B.A.,. Yale ’98; Wilton, Conn. Sloane Fellowship, to Edgar Selah Downs, B.A., Yale ’98; Southington, Conn. . Waterman Fellowships, to Henry James Nichols, B.A., Yale ’99; Bing- hamton, N. Y. Larned Fellowships, to William Churchill, B.A., Yale ’97; New Britain, Conn. Robert Ernest Hume, B.A., Yale ’98; Ahmednagar, India. Ralph Gibbs Van Name, B.A., Yale ’99; New Haven, Conn. John Francis Flynn, B.A., Yale ’99; Meriden, Conn. Class of 1890 Fellowship, to Guy King Dustin, Ph.B., Yale ’99; Hart- ford, Conn. UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS. University Fellowships were awarded as follows: George M. Chase, B.A., Bates Col- ege 1893; Wichita, Kans. Louise Dodge; Danvers, Mass. H. L. Hargrove, B.A., Baylor Univ. 1897; Waco, Texas. Agnes Hunt, B.A., Smith College 1897; Manchester, N. H. Cloyd .N. McAllister, B.A., Yale University 1892; New Haven, Conn. Irene T. Myers, M.A., Bethany Col- lege 1889; Wheeling, W. Va. Rokuro Nakaseko, Doshisha Univ.; Baltimore, Md. Paul S. Peirce, Ph.B., Cornell Univ. 1897; Ithaca, N. Y. : Charles Mont- Maurice H. Robinson, M.A., Dart- mouth College 1897; Madelina, Minn, Williant J. <-Faylor,; MCA. Univ. “ef Nebraska 1897; New Haven, Conn. Effie Thompson, B.A., Boston Univ. 1891; New York City. Charles H. Whitman, B.A., Colby Unit: r807;; Baneor, Me * George R. Wieland, B.S., Penn. State College 1893, New Haven, Conn. ACADEMICAL SCHOLARSHIPS. Academical Scholarships for 1899- 1900 were awarded as follows: W. W. DeForest Scholarship, to Charles Philip Wagner, B.A., Yale ’99; Putnam, Conn. Clark Scholarships, to Sidney Knox Mitchell, B:A., Yale ’98; Lakeville, N. Y. John Francis Flynn, B.A., Yale ’99; Meriden, Conn. UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS. The following is a list of University Scholarships awarded: Elizabeth F.° Abbe, M.A., Wellesley College 1896; Dorchester, Mass. DeForest Baldwin, B.A., Yale Univ. 18909; New Haven, Conn. Amy L. Barbour, B.A., Smith Col- lege 1891; Hartford, Conn. | Joseph Barrell, M.S., Lehigh Univ. 1897; New Providence, N. J. Thomas C. Bowie, Ph.B., Univ. of No. Carolina 1899; Chapel Hill, N. C. Ernest W. Brown, Ph.B., Yale Univ. 18907; New Haven, Conn. > Frank S. Bunnell, B.A., Yale Univ. 1894, M.A., Univ. of Minnesota 1897; Chicago, Ill- : Herdman F. Cleland, B.A., Oberlin College 1804; Pierce, Neb. Hamlet P. Collins, B.S., Rutgers Col- lege 1809; New Brunswick, N. J. Richard J. Donnelly, Ph.B., Yale Univ. 1899; Oxford, N. Y. Alfred Y. Dubuque, B.A., Yale Univ. 1899; Albany, N. Y. : Charles E. Farr, B.A., Yale Univ. 1898; Athol, Mass. Herbert F. Hamilton, B.A., Amherst College 18097; Greenfield, Mass. | Maude Hammond, M.A., Univ. of Nebraska 1806; Lincoln, Neb. a Edwin E. Hart, B.S., Univ. of Michi- gan 1897; Geneva, N. Y. George W. Humphreys, B.A., Yale Univ. 1899; Cohoes, N. Y. Arthur H. Hutchinson, B.A., Yale Univ. 1899; Seattle, Wash. Tyiichi Kairiyama, Fh.B., Cornell Univ. 1898; New Haven, Conn. Robert W. Neal, M.A., Univ. Kansas 1899; Lawrence, Kans. Charles A. Peters, B.S., Amherst Col- lege 1897; Worcester, Mass. John R. Powell, B.A., Yale Univ. 1897; Waco, Texas. of
