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LIEUTENANT LEDYARD.
Within a little more than a month
two United States Army officers, who
were Yale-bred, have given up their lives
in their country’s service. News of the
death of Captain Guy Howard, Yale ’75,
was followed last week by the brief
announcement that the uprising at Ne-
gros had cost the life of Lieutenant
Augustus Canfield Ledyard, who gradu-
ated here only a year ago last June.
Something was said at the time, of
the character of Howard and the loss
his falling meant to the men who
were his friends. It was the “shining
mark” again when Ledyard was singled
out. That is clear from the simple
record of his life. sand that is nearly
as far as one can go in trying to tell
what it means, to those who knew such
a man with any intimacy, to hear that
he will not come back from the Philip-
pines. He was the boy and the man—
the boy one comes to love very easily;
the man one must admire. He was
clear cut in body and mind; one you
would turn to look at a second time
as you passed him, and a man worth
knowing as well as vou had the chance.
He was clean of life, modest, whole-
hearted and warm-hearted. Everything
favored him, but nothing spoiled him.
He walked the ways of a happy life
and freely enjoyed them; but he turned
from the path marked out from boy-
hood, not carelessly, and came out of the
valley of decision a man of stuff. He
did a private’s work well at Niantic, and
-when he became an officer looked for
the hard assignment. Regretfully, so
we learn, he took his place in a quiet
land. When the unexpected happened,
he was more than ready.
_ One cannot complain, even if he may
not be comforted. When the country’s
hard work is to be done, who but the
best should do it? From Miller to Led-
yard, Yale’s and her country’s honor
list has now grown long in these last
warring years of the century. But so
the succession of sacrifice is nobly kept.
It began with the Hales and followed
with the Winthrops and the Camps. It
will. not be broken at Yale, while the
Republic lives and calls upon the best
to serve her in ways where death with
honor waits.
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One of the best of all the suggestions
for the development of Yale’s instruc-
tion is President Hadley’s suggestion
for a Department of Forestry. It is
according to the fitness of things, since
Yale’s Mr. Pinchot and Mr. Graves
are in such an unusual position in this
work. The President wants $200,000
for this purpose. That is a good deal
of money, but it comes to places like
Chicago University and Stanford and
California, frequently, and with appar-
ent ease.
THE NEW FOOTBALL CAPTAIN.
It is a very great pleasure to record
the election of Mr. Brown as Captain
of the Yale Football team of 1900.
We refer our readers to his record
printed elsewhere. It is safe to say that
it would be difficult to make a selection
so satisfactory from every standpoint.
Mr. Brown worthily succeeds Mr.
McBride. That is putting it very
strongly, but it seems to us an accurate
statement.
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President Dwight was particularly
successful in keeping up with the de-
mand for opportunities for the invest-
ment of capital in the work and equip-
ment of Yale University. He said,
“More” in many beautiful and allur-
ing ways and removed by columns of
needs any idea of abundance that might
have been suggested by treasury statis-
tics. President. Hadley is living well
up to the good tradition. Read his
speech in New York. The. most diverse
tastes ought to be satisfied. In all
seriousness, how splendidly great the
opportunities are!
AN IDEAL BIOGRAPHY.”
Dr. Munger’s Life of Bushnell—A
Study of the Man’s Power.
Horace Bushnell: Preacher and Theologian,
by T. T. Munger, Yale ’51. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.
In the writing of this book. the fitness
- of things has in no sense been violated.
There was only one man to write the
biography of Bushnell. Fortunately that
man was chosen. While it is not fair
to say that Dr. Munger is the product
of Bushnell’s thought, yet Bushnell’s
principles have found their fullest ex-
pression and most logical fulfillment in
Dr. Munger’s teachings.
The book is an ideal biography. It
is a type of what the biography of
to-day must be—a study of the power
and influence of a man, rather than a
detailed sketch of his life. The details
are of value only as they contribute to
the explication of his place among the
world forces. What we want to-day is
to know what the prophet has con-
tributed to the sum of the world’s
knowledge, what new train of thought
he has awakened, what new forces he
has set in motion.
Dr. Munger has fulfilled these re-
quirements and revealed Bushnell to us
with great force and clearness. He has
dwelt upon early environments and
youth only in so far as they throw light |
on the work of the man. He has spent
little time on the outward events of his
not very eventful life, but has plunged
right into an analysis of Bushnell’s
thought—separating the transient and
traditional from the permanent and new.
And with what masterly strokes and
keen insight this has been accomplished.
We had read all Bushnell ever wrote,
but we must confess that it is since we
read this book that we clearly see for
what the great man really stood, how
deep was his insight into nature, how
he anticipated our present modes and
habits of thought.
The biography takes up Bushnell’s
books, one by one, and shows how the
author, breaking away from the method |
of abstractions, and cutting loose from
relentless systems, to which in his day
all thought was bound, wrote out of the
experience of God in life, and grounded
his reasoning on nature and on the
laws of God as revealed in humanity.
This is the only place where theology
can eventually be grounded—for sys-
tems and books and texts have their
day and pass away—but nature and con-
science are eternal. Thus Dr. Munger
shows how Bushnell brings the atone-
ment in under the processes of nature,
making it a real, vital thing, a law
of life, an eternal process, a foundation
principle of nature. The thought of the
day made it a unique, isolated act, fall-
ing in, not with the order of nature,
but with the artificial requirements of a
system. ;
It is easy to see that the act of Bush-
nell around which Dr. Munger most
lovingly lingers, is his great contribu-
tion in the series of papers on Christian
Nurture. And here, perhaps after all,
is the most original contribution of ©
Bushnell to his own age and to time.
For the principles set forth underly all
our thinking. The book set in motion
a movement that is the dominating
thought of our day. Like his other
works it brought religion into harmony
with the laws of the universe—laws of
growth, of orderly development, of
gradual expansion into larger things.
Dr. Munger has here given us an admir-
able analysis of this book, and has.
shown us its far-reaching influence and
its large import for our day.
Times have changed. The principles
Bushnell discerned with his prophetic
vision are the accepted and acknowl-
edged foundations of all our thought.
Science has corroborated what the seer
saw. Men are becoming convinced of
the naturalness of religion. We all of
us, with Dr. Munger, bow in reverence
before the great Yalensian who gave
these principles to us to stand on and
to use while we look into the heavens
for our newer truth. We also extend
our gratitude to the eminent Yalensian
who has now made these principles to
stand ‘clear and luminous before us, in
this most excellent book.
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Yale’s Paris Exhibit.
The exhibit which the more important
American universities are planning to
make at Paris in 1900, will be of a
nature somewhat different from that at
the World’s Fair in 1893 at Chicago.
Each university, instead of having a
complete exhibit representative of all
the work done in that entire institution,
as was the case to a large degree at
Chicago, will rather devote itself to an
exhibit of some special department of
its activity. For example, Harvard will
exhibit its Astronomical work, Co-
lumbia its Pedagogy, the University of
Pennsylvania, its Archaeology, and the
University of Chicago, its collection of
Crystallizable Minerals. Princeton’s
exhibit will probably consist of the Uni-
versity publications and charts illus-
trating the history of the organizations
of the University, with other things of
interest.
As those who are in charge of Yale’s
exhibit have not deemed it advisable
to attempt a general display of all the
work done in the University, it was
decided to make an exhibit from the
Geological Department, because from
this branch of work a display could
be most easily made and would be
probably the most interesting. Yale’s
exhibit will consist of three parts, the
first to be illustrative of the method of
installation in the Geological Depart-
ment of the University Museum, set
forth by fifteen photogranhs, prepared
by Professor C. E. Beecher, curator.
The second part of the exhibit will
show the restoration of American ver-
tebrate animals; dinosaurs, toothed
birds, and mammals, done by the late
Professor O. C. Marsh of the Univer-
sity Museum. Photographs illustrating
the restoration of dmosaurian reptiles,
various toothed birds and extinct ani-
mals, the original specimens of which
are in the Yale museum.
The third and last part of the exhibit
will consist of examples of models used
for instruction in Geology in the Shef-
field School of Yale, as prepared by
Professor C. E. Beecher.
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The Need of Guam.
He (Commander Leary.) needs foot-
balls too, though he doesn’t say so.
No slothful people can be trained to
strenuosity without footballs and a
band to play ““A Hot Time in the Old
Town.”—E. S. Martin in Harper's
W eekly.
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A banquet in honor of the Princeton
Football team will be given at the
Princeton Inn, Friday evening, Decem-
ber I5.
President Hadley addressed a large
audience of teachers and professors and
business men of Hartford last week on
the subject of education in its rela-
tion to business responsibilities.
President Schurman of Cornell has
announced that Rear-Admiral Sampson
will deliver the Founder's Day address
at: Cornell. January. 11,1660. on. 1. me
Navy.” This will be the fourth
Founder’s Day address in the series of
professions or occupations in life,
planned by President Schurman. The
three former addresses were: “Journal-
ism,’ by Charles A. Dana; “Business,’’
by Andrew Carnegie; and “The Min-
istry,” by Lyman Abbott.
Y ALE Law SCHOOL
For circulars and other information
apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
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