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NEW HAVEN, CONN., OCTOBER 25, 1899.
Edmund Burke was one of the most
liberal and progressive men of his cen-
tury; yet Burke was the man who set
the truest value on those forms of the
English constitution which, as he him-
self avowed, were rooted in prejudice.
The constitution of Yale to-day, with
its strange combination of liberty and
privilege, of prescriptive custom and
progressive individualism, has not a
few points of resemblance to Burke’s
England. I can avow myself a con-
servative in the sense that Burke was
a conservative; with him, I should hesi-
tate to cast away the coat of prejudice
and leave nothing but the naked reason.
—From President Hadley’s Inaugural Address.
THE INAUGURATION.
Those alumni and friends of Yale
who were not in New Haven on last
Wednesday, Oct. 18, the day of the
inauguration of Arthur Twining Had-
ley as President of the University, and
who might have been in New Haven
on that day, made a very great mistake.
Those who lived in New Haven sighed,
ere the day was half over, that they
had not used more strenuous measures,
—telegrams, personal appeals, taunts,
insults, invitations to choice companies,
and other urgings—to bring to the city
their friends from every corner of the
land. If any who could have come
staid away because of ordinary or even
somewhat unusual business ‘or personal
considerations, it will be an act of friend-
ship, looking to the future, if those who
were here tell them how they missed
that which will not return, to do some-
thing which at another time might have
been accomplished.
The moderns and those of the middle
ages say that Yale never saw such a
day, and that its meaning was greater
than that of any other occasion in the
two centuries. Some of the elders look
back to the inauguration of the elder
Dwight, saying that the corner-turning
which began then and was finished
under the auspices of that great Presi- -
dent, was of such absolutely incompar-
able importance that no other time or
season can outrank it.
But there is no contention between
them. Doubtless all will agree that
the meaning of Wednesday was more
borne in upon those who watched its
scenes than that of any other Yale day.
The old Yale was seen to rise in full
stature, and to move forward in her old
strength and to her new work. As
witness to the hope and confidence of
America in her, the men who lead the
thought and education of the Republic
gathered to honor the day. If you did
not see the faces on the platform and
in the pews of Battell Chapel, you may
read the names and think what their
presence meant. What high pontiff in
the temple of learning has taken on
the robes of office under the influences
and in the inspiration of such a goodly
fellowship! And these were not edu-
cators alone who came to the honoring
of a new Yale leadership. Yale’s city
of New Haven, Yale’s commonwealth of
Connecticut, Yale’s Republic—all ac-
claimed the day and the man. They
seemed to say again to Yale that she
had been strong because her teaching
was the “teaching of the heart, out of.
which are the issues of life,” and that
she would be yet stronger as she crossed
into another century, more ready than
ever to give that education which
is measured by lives and their service-
ableness. They seemed to say to the
new leader that they expected him to
make new uses of the old strength
which those who had worked before
him had left as their legacy.
And the new Yale President answered
these salutations and these hopes. The
readers of the WEEKLY know just how.
If they don’t it is idle to talk to them
about it. Let it be said again that the
careful reading of the Hadley inaugural
is an essential to a well ordered Yale
man. How strongly it stood on the
foundations of the Yale of the Dwights,
of Woolsey, of Porter! How confi-
dently it marked the way to the next
century! It was practical and wise;
simple and comprehensive; apprecia-
tive and discriminating; keen and full
of courage. Not only what should be,
was pointed out. It was shown that
generally what should be, might be.
Yale was ready to become more and
more the University; Yale was to be-
come no. less the College, the commu-
nity, the democracy.
Perhaps it was the latter pledge that
made the celebration of undergraduate
Yale so full of old fashioned enthusi-
asm. It was hard to say what made the
Yale heart glow the most—the pomp
and ceremony and dignity and solemn-
ity of the Chapel exercises, or the
swing and lift and electric life of the
Campus and the blazing streets at
night.
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SPLENDID MANAGEMENT.
The committee of arrangements for
the inauguration of President Hadley
did the best work of that nature that
any one in the present generation can
remember in connection with any Yale
affair. Indeed, from any standpoint,
the entire arrangements, from first to
last, were conspicuous for clearness
and forehandedness and their execution
was successful from the most exacting
standpoint. The Committee on the
Inauguration, appointed by the Cor- —
poration; consisted .of:, Dr....T... T.
Munger, Dr. Charles Ray Palmer and
Mr. Thomas G. Bennett, on the part of
the Corporation, and Mr. Thomas
Hooker and Professor John C. Schwab,
on the part of the Alumni and Faculty.
The practical management devolved on
Messrs. Hooker and Schwab. The
special committee, appointed to super-
vise the undergraduate part of the cele-
bration, were Prof. John C. Schwab,
Dr. 8. B, - Boltwood and” Dr, fw:
Reed. Dr. Boltwood and Dr. Reed
spent weeks of time on the special de-
signs for the train and other transpar-
encies. If the Bi-centennial celebration
shall be as well arranged and executed
as was the Inauguration, its unqualified
success may now be predicted.
YALE FOOTBALL.
It is not quite worthy of a good Yale
man to be blue and cynical about his
University in matters athletic.
part to remember that the Yale that
created in former days a matchless rec-
ord of victories, and, what is more, of
th: highest kind of work in all lines of
athletic effort, is quite able again to win
and to lead, and to make her sons feel,
when they contend for her, that it is
simply out of the possible that they
should do anything. but the best that
can be done, and that to yield when
there is on their side anything left is
altogether unworthy of them.
Besides being unworthy of a Yale
man, it is decidedly foolish for anyone
to be very blue about the football pros-
pects to-day. It is quite impossible to
_ predict and quite unwise to dip into the
future as to scores; but it is possible
to say that Yale has never gathered
herself for her efforts in the field of foot-
ball more worthily or more intelligently
than in the season of 1899. The spirit
of those who play and of the whole
University is excellent. The undergrad-
uate leaders, the captain and the man-
ager, are this year doing their part in a
thoroughly exemplary way, with indus-
try, with confidence, but with modesty,
and with all possible use of experience
and counsel of those who have gone be-
fore them in the same line. The man
who has taken the responsibility of
supervising the coaching is too well
known to Yale men to-day to need any
description or commendation. Mr.
Rodgers is a Yale athlete of the best
type, a man who commands the un-
limited confidence of those who work
under him. Mr. Bull has over and over
again demonstrated his knowledge of
and skill in the game and is now prov-
ing, perhaps in a more remarkable way
than ever before, his devotion to Yale,
bv the amount of time and energy which
he is giving to his department of the
game. The names of those who are
working with the men and furthering
the efforts of the Captain and Manager
are seen from week to week in our news
columns. That so many have already
taken hold, with such harmony, shows
the early development of a consistent
and reasonable plan of campaign.
There is very good reason for every
good Yale man to renew his faith in
Yale and to give every possible support,
moral and material, to those who have
her present fortunes in their hands. It
is time to stop talking about Yale mak-
ing a creditable showing and perhaps
doing a little better than last year. Re-
new and enlarge your faith in Yale
athletics, and believe that in this season
and in the seasons to follow, it will be
worthy of all that is best in the traditions
of the place and will make new causes
for pride. :
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Department of Music Changes.
At the Corporation meeting Wednes-
day morning, Oct. 18, besides the nam-
ing of Mr. M. F. Tyler for Treasurer
of the University, Mr. H. B. Jepson,
Yale ’93, instructor in organ playing
in the College, was appointed Assist-
ant Professor of the Theory of Music,
and Mr. Stanley Knight, who has been
the assistant of Prof. Samuel S. Sanford
in the Department of Applied Music,
was made instructor in pianoforte play-
ing in that department.
It was also announced that Doctor
Jacques Dumas, the distinguished
French jurist. had been elected Storrs
Lecturer in the Yale Law School in
April, 1900.
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There was a smoke talk before the
Graduates Club on the evening of Sat-
urday, Oct. 21, at 9.15. Lieut: Henry
H. Ward, U. S. N., spoke on “Watching
the Enemy,” being an account of his ex-
periences while engaged in that work in
Spain during the late war. ©
It is his |
THE AVERAGE YOUNG MAN.
It must be admitted with regret that
|| here in America the average young man
is not addicted to small savings. He is
too seldom a patron of savings banks.
He is inclined to postpone his deposits
until his salary or income will allow him
to spare for investment a considerable
sum, “say a thousand or so.” His daily
wants, however, usually increase with
his income, and that postponed invest-
ment either is never made, or, if made
at all, is too often lost in its infancy
by an attempt to “strike it rich.””’ Wzuse
is that young man who realizes early in
life that to acquire the habit of thrift is
to place himself on the road to wealth.
Such an one looking about him for all
that may help to this end, seeking for
that which will prove more lucrative
even than a savings bank deposit while
remaining full as sure, finds the object
sought in life insurance.
There is hardly one young business
man in a hundred who could not easily
pay the yearly premium on a life policy
for at least one thousand dollars. All
that is needed is prudent watchfulness
against the tempations of small, wasteful
habits. Once that he has gained this
stand, such moneys as are invested are
well invested. More than this, if he is
one of those to whom some other may
rightfully look for protection he will
realize with each such payment that he
is in this way the better fulfilling the
obligation.
The man with others dependent upon
him, and with no estate, should, above
all things, at once avail himself of this
opportunity to create an estate and pro-
vide an income. A large majority of
young men who marry do so before they
have acquired an amount of property
which would, in the event of their early
death, provide the means of support for
a surviving widow or parent. It would
require years to save enough from the
daily income to protect them adequately,
but with the first premium paid on a
good insurance policy in a sound com-
pany, an estate is created which cannot
be lost or alienated so long as the sub-
sequent premiums are met and the con-
tract carried out in good faith. Thus is
created an estate which is at once avail-
able without any slow and expensive
process of legal administration ; an estate
which can be ‘subject to no risk of at-
tachment for debt, inasmuch as the pro-
ceeds of an insurance policy are the
property of the beneficiary, if she be the
wife of the insured, and are absolutely
exempt from all claims whatsoever.
Wills may be contested by dissatisfied
heirs or pretended claimants, but the
life policy in favor of wife or children
admits no debate as to its ownership.
For such causes as these the Ameri-
can young man should early in life in-
sure his life. A policy in the Mutual
of New York means encouragement to
thrift, it involves the truest aid in sav-
ing money, it secures a profitable invest-
ment, and it provides certain protection
to those who are to look up to the
American young man in life, and bless
his memory in death.
Yate Law SCHOOL
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apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
THE WHITE CANOE
AN INDIAN LEGEND OF NIAGARA
By WILLIAM TRUMBULL.
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