Vor. IX. No. 12
NEW HAVEN,
CONN., WEDNESDAY, DEC.
13, 1899.
Copyright, 1899,
by Yale Alumni Weekly.
Price 10 Cenrs.
NEW YORK YALE DINNER.
President Hadley?s Speech—The Aca-
demical Course— Bicentennial
Plans -Wr. Reed Present.
The annual dinner of the Yale alumni
“of New York was held at Sherry’s on
Fifth avenue, Friday evening, Dec. 8,
under the auspices of the Yale Club.
Although the notice of the dinner had
been very short, more than 350 gradu-
ates ranging from 1845 to 1899 were
present. The dinner was primarily in
honor of President Hadley. Other
guests who were seated at the head
table with President Hadley and
Thomas Thacher, Yale ’71, President
of the Yale Club and toastmaster of the
evening, were: Hon. Thomas B. Reed:
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Yale ’56;
Hon. Thomas Hedge, Yale 67; H. F.
Dimock, Yale ’63; Samuel J. Elder,
Yale ’73; Dickinson W. Richards, Yale
80, and Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Yale
96, Secretary of the Corporation.
There was no regular toast list.
In his introduction of
Hadley, Mr. Thacher said that one of
the first objects of the meeting was to
show to the new executive of Yale the
love, honor and respect the New York
alumni had for him. He pledged the
cordial support of the entire body of
New York graduates to the man who
had been the wise choice of the Yale
Corporation for President Dwight’s
suiccessor. |
When President Hadley stood up to
speak there was tremendous applause
and cheering all over the great. hall.
Julian Curtiss, Yale ’79, jumped upon a
chair and called for the old and the new
cheer for the Presidént, and they were -
given with a force that made the build-
ing shake. After quiet had been re-
stored President Hadley spoke substan-
tially as follows:
“Tam going to tell you briefly and in
a straightforward manner about some
of our plans and invite you to share
in a work of which you are not only
a part, but the greatest part. The first
question of most prominence in Yale
men’s minds at this time is the Bi-cen-
tennial. Last Spring, the Yale Cor-
poration, being assured of the coopera-
tion of the alumni of New York, chose
for the site of the commemorative build-
ing, the ground at the corner of Grove
and College streets, diagonally opposite
the Sheffield Scientific School. The
choice was influenced by several reasons.
There was plenty of room there for
growth in the future, for we are plan-
ning not alone for the Yale of to-day,
but for the Yale of 50 years hence.
Again, the new buildings, which will
stand between the Academic and the
Scientific Departments, are meant to be
part of the new university in which all
shall codperate.
“The site chosen, the leading archi-
tects in the country were asked to draw
plans for the buildings, and they drew
some inspiring ones indeed. The
trouble was that they all called for a
million dollars, which in New York you
may regard as a small sum, but which
in New Haven still seems a great deal
of money. Those architects whose
plans seemed the most suitable when
considerable remodeling was done, were
Carrere and Hastings of New York, and
the award was made two weeks ago.
The remodeling is slow work and I
have not much to report definitely, for
the Corporation feel that they should
adopt the plans before the New York
alumni adopt them. In general, how-
ever, the main building on the West
side of College street will have an audi-
torium sufficiently large to seat 3,000
people.
President.
HALL FOR THE PROM.
“The seats will be arranged so that
they can be removed and the hall used
for the Prom or for an examination.
On the Grove street side we have plans
for a dining room which shall seat
1,500, and facilities for serving better
dinners than are now given in Alumni
Hall. The plans given by architects
even when they shall have been re-
modelled, are imposing ones, and when
carried out we shall have one of the
noblest examples of college architecture
in the whole civilized world.”
Touching the matter of money with
which to carry on. the work, President
Hadley said that, generous though the
subscriptions had been, he thought it
very unwise to .“start on a $700,000
building with only $150,000 in pocket.”
“Nevertheless,” added he, ‘we have
faith that the building will be carried
through, though faith will not, at all
times, cash a check. It would be a
great misfortune, in my estimation, to
build an inferior building. On this
200th anniversary of the founding of
the College, the structure we raise
should last a thousand years. What-
ever means we take to procure funds
for the work, money will not be drawn
away which is needed and should be
used in instruction, for the building
though a noble luxury, is still a luxury.
The pursuit of such a course would
mean that we were false to the princi-
ples of Yale democracy. When the
plans are finished we shall come to you
and say: ‘It is for you to decide what
we shall or shall not build, but we shall
certainly not build at the sacrifice of
the principal interests of the University.’
When Princeton at her 150th anniver-
sary raised a million and a half dollars,
I feel confident Yale will surpass that
achievement and give to the University
the building which will make a great
increase for University life. We have
delayed asking for support until the
plans are all in hand, for we wish to
show you that we know how to spend
your gifts.”
A SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.
In speaking of the proposed botanical
garden at Yale, President Hadley said:
“The late Professor Marsh left his
property to Yale with the hope that
a botanical garden would be established.
The gift, however, did not carry enough
money with it to establish such a garden
and much doubt has been felt as to
whether it was a good thing to attempt
it, but I believe that we ought to have
it. We need $200,000 to make a first
class garden and $200,000 more to add
a school of Forestry. Yale has two
graduates of recent years, Gifford
Pinchot, ’89, and Henry S. Graves, ’92,
in the employ of the United States
government who are leading a great
work in the forests of the country.
With a good school of Forestry, and
standing as she does in such peculiarly
advantageous relations to the Govern-
ment through these men, Yale should
take the lead in this subject of vital
importance to the whole country.”
The President also spoke of the needs
of the Department of Music and paid a
high compliment to Professor Parker,
whom he said was “a man of. great
ability who had achieved international
distinction by his compositions and who
was building up at Yale a fine school
of Music.”
He also referred to the possibilities of
growth in the Medical Department, of
the desirableness of a school of archi-
tecture, and of certain other lines of
University development.
ACADEMIC COURSE.
He also said that a systematic re-
modeling of the College course was
needed in order to prove in the future
that this course had a right to exist
as a means of general training for the
citizens of the United States. To ac-
complish this result, the Faculty are
laying plans which will be matured a
year hence, to make the course of study
more systematic; to prevent the elective
system from being a mere choice of
elementary studies in a number of lines,
and to insist that each student, as he
approaches his Senior year, shall be
doing more and more advanced work
in the line that he has elected, in order
to make his College course really pre-
pare him for something. Without be-
ing a professional course in the sense
of being technical, it should yet con-
tain work of a grade which will fit
him for the better exercise of his pro-
fession in the immediate future. The
proposal of President Eliot to shorten
the Harvard course to three years
would involve grave questions for other
colleges, and it was well that Yale had
for thirty years in the Scientific School
a course which was-so nearly like the
goal of President Eliot’s ambition for
Parvatd:
In closing his address, which had been
frequently interrupted by enthusiastic
applause of the sentiments he was utter-
ing, President Hadley spoke of the
athletics at Yale and that while he
was not exactly satisfied with the
Princeton game he would say “gloria
victis.- . fF
spirit had shown itself this Fall in the
better organization of the students and
that the training of so large a number of
men on the football field had gone
through the entire life of the University.
The difficult undertaking that had been
begun in September had been carried
out by the men in charge nobly and
well.
When Mr. Thacher introduced Hon.
Thomas B. Reed as a man who repre-
sented Harvard and Princeton and
Columbia and Bowdoin and all the col-
leges in the country, and the latter had
risen to his feet, he was given a great
welcome by the Yale men, ending with
niné lone Yale’s and a “Reed” = led
by Mr. Curtiss. Mr. Reed began by
saying that he was present at the Yale
banquet because of a ‘“‘wicked partner”
(Mr. Thacher), and felt somewhat
abashed because he was only a college
man, while all the men he was speaking
to were university men. ‘‘Neverthe-
less,” said he, “I see many evidences
before me to-night of the good manners
of college-bred people.” He closed his
remarks by saying that his real object
in coming to the dinner was to join
with Yale men in being proud of, and to
help in honoring, the man in whose
hands had been placed the destiny of
Yale University.
The other speakers of the evening
were: Samuel J. Elder, Yale ’73; John
Hayes Hammond, Yale ’768.; Hon.
Thomas Hedge, Yale 767, and Dickin-
son W. Richards, Yale ’86. ©
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Assistant College Pastor.
Prof. L. O. Brastow, Professor of
Practical Theology in the Divinity
Schol for the past 15 years, was last
week chosen Acting College pastor.
He was selected by the Church Com-
mittee, which was appointed by Presi-
dent Hadley, and the appointment holds
for one year. The duties of the acting
pastor will be to preside at Communion
services, funeral services, and in the
case of the President’s absence, read the
announcements at the Sunday services.
Dr. Barbour, who died last week was
the last College pastor. He resigned
in 1887.
He thought that a splendid
PROFESSOR LADD IN JAPAN.
Hiis Reception There—Japanese Stu-
dents at Yale,
The following details regarding Pro-
fessor George Trumbull Ladd’s experi-
ence in Japan have recently been re-
ceived in New Haven.
The steamer on which Professor and
Mrs. Ladd sailed cast anchor in Yoko-
hama harbor on the early morning of
September 4, a full day ahead of the
advertised time of arrival. On this
account the friends who had in charge
their reception, were not able to meet
them at the landing, which is made, not
from the ship on to the wharf, but in
one of several hotel launches. These
friends had, however, arranged with the
ship company to have the arrival of the
steamer telegraphed promptly to Tokyo,
and Profesor Ladd and his wife had
been only a short time at the hotel in
Yokohama before the escort began to
arrive. Indeed, Dr. Ladd had just writ-
ten a telegram to his former pupil, the
talented Professor Nakashima (to
whom, by the way, the late President
Porter, of Yale, left the larger part
of his valuable library) when turning,
he found him at his elbow.
About an hour later,- Mr. Trugi,
President of the Educational Society of
Japan, arrived with his son to act as
his interpreter; about the same time
came the Secretary of the Imperial
University. After luncheon the party
took the train for Tokyo, and at the
station there Professor Ladd was met
by President Kibuchi, of the Imperial
University. This was Monday after-
noon, and the next morning Professor
and Mrs. Ladd went to Nikko and re-
mained until the following Saturday.
On their return from Nikko they were
installed in a large well-furnished house,
belonging to the University, with a
retinue of excellent servants at their
command, and with the privilege of un-
limited orders upon the jinrikisha stand
around the corner. So excellent was
the service of their “boy” that Mrs.
Ladd had no care at all in the house-
keeping; and indeed they had only to
ask for what they wanted and it was
at once. supplied.
Professor Ladd’s lectures before the
National Educational Society began on
Monday, Sept. 11, just one week after
his arrival. The government gave leave
of absence to such principals of the high
schools, teachers in the Normal
Schools, and professors of Psychology
and Pedagogy, as wished to attend. But
they paid their own railroad fare and
board in Tokyo; and tickets to the
course of lectures were placed at two
yen each. Considering the small sala-
ries of the provincial teachers, this ex-
pense made a pretty severe test of the
sincerity and interest of the Professors
audiences from outside of the city of
Tokyo itself.
THE AUDIENCES.
The number of tickets was at first
limited to 300, which was about the seat-
ing capacity of the hall belonging to
the Educational Society. But after the
first two lectures the pressure for tickets
became so great that a much larger hall
belonging to the Commercial School
was hired, and the permanent audience
became somewhat more than 400., Of
this audience about one-half were
teachers from the provinces, some of
them coming from as far away as
Hokaido, or the Northern Island of the
Japanese group. Sixty teachers from