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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
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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,
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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.
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