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Vou TX.° Neste THE PRESIDENT AT DENVER, A Most Enthusiastic Meeting of the Colorado Association. Fifty-six members and guests of the Colorado Yale Alumni Association gathered for the nineteenth annual ban- quet at the University Club, Denver, on the evening of January 9. A very few were absent; in almost all cases they were physically incapacitated. One of these was Leonard H. Eicholz, Jr., who has typhoid fever. The Associa- tion sent him its best wishes for his _speedy recovery, a big Yale blue knot and a bottle of champagne. Before the banquet a business meeting was held and the following officers were elected for the coming year: : President,. Henry E.;» Wood, ’76 S.; Vice-President, L. E. Curtis, ’72; Secre- tary and Treasurer, George P. Steele, ‘92; +‘Executive Committee, Gerald Hughes, ’97; Harry K. Brown, ’92 S. President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University was the guest of honor; and Gov. Charles 5. Thomas, President William F. Slocum of Colorado Col- lege, President James H. Baker of the State University, and Chancellor Henry A. Buchtel of Denver University, were also guests of the Association. The toasts were as follows: “The Passing of the Old Yale,” Henry Lyne, ’79. Dum mens grata manet, nomen laudes- que Yalenses © Cantabunt Soboles, unanimique Patres. “The New Yale,” President Arthur T. Hadley, 776. Stronger than the trowel builds, Deep-laid by toiling scholar-guilds, Her corner stone’s free-masonry As broad as this broad century, Our new regenerate Yale shall be— Our Yankee Universitv. —Beers. “Post Graduate, ‘Yale Grit,’ ”’ Louis R. Ehrich, 60. “Be Bold! Be Bold, Be Bold and Ever- more Be Bold! Be Not Too Bold! Inscription on the three gates of | Busyrane. ‘National Values in the Yale Temper,” Rev. David N. Beach, ’72. “He taught us that life is a whole.” —Thomas Hughes of Thomas Arnold. “Yale Wives and Yale Widows,” Gerald Hughes, ’97. “And truant husband should return and say: My dear! away.” “Come, let us seek the dewy lawns And watch the early lark arise.” In his speech President Hadley fol- lowed the general lines of previous ad- dresses. pine Speaking of the changes in the curri- culum he said: “The next generation will see a reorganization of the college forces which without in the least inter- fering with the esprit de crops and demo- cratic loyalty shall yet bring general and technical education into closer re- lations to one another; and without in the least interfering with the making of American citizens shall save time in preparation of those same American citi- zens for the work of professional life. If we had to sacrifice either, if the choice were between making experts who could earn a living and making men who could serve their country, we should choose the latter every time. But the choice is not between these two. It is the busi- ness of the faculties, if they know their business at all. to arrange to do both.” I was the first who came’? : NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24, 1900. AN AGE OF EXPANSION. Speaking of Yale and the school sys- tem he said: “This is an age of con- solidation, an age of expansion; no in- dividual industry standing in its own place has done its work unless it has brought all allied industries throughout the country into affiliatien with it. It is my ambition and hope that Yale may bring the school system of the country thus into an affiliation with higher in- stitutions of learning. Not necessarily that Yale should go alone in this matter. Every other university that goes with us is welcome with us, but we should not wait for others. We ought to have plans which look not merely to two thou- sand or three hundred thousand or four thousand students that we have with us, but to the two hundred thousand or four hundred thousand. students that are working in the high schools and acad- emies of the country as a whole. In this way and in this way only we shall fulfill our mission in education. “And finally,” said President Hadley, “Vale looks in this work toward a closer relation to its graduates. The larger we become and the more departments of instruction’ we add, the more public sentiment among the graduates will be needed to give that coherent force to university life. which shall make Yale men of our university students. We ‘look to you, gentlemen, for help in maintaining this sentiment. Yale needs it more than any other college in the land, because Yale is more distinctively a national university. Yale needs it more to-day than she ever did. before, because Yale is undertaking more kinds of work than she ever did before. After all, what makes Yale is her alumni. What makes Yale the force that she is in the nation is the body of her alumni scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land. Gentlemen of the Alumni Association, for this more than for all else I thank you, that by your enthusiasm, by your support of the-men who are at Yale, by your influence on men who are coming to Yale, you have made yourselves always and forever a part of us, a part of Yale, a part of an institution which has had a great history -in two centuries, and whose history in the third century promises a development _ beyond all of our ideas in the past.” There was a great deal of singing and the best of feeling through the evening. The sentiment, “For he’s a jolly good fellow,” directed towards the new Presi- dent, was a very popular one all the evening and frequently and musically expressed. Those present at the meeting were: ’56—Thomas Ward; ’66—Henry T. Rogers; ’69—Louis R. Ehrich, Alfred Bartow; ’7o—Nathan B. Coy, Wash- ington McClintock; 7°72—David N. Beach, Leonard E. Curtis; ™73—Alfred T. Bacon; ’74—Roderic Williams; *76— Allen S. Bush; ’76 S.—Henry E. Wood; 77 .S —Charles R. Dudley; 778—Wil- liam H. Taylor; ’79—Henry Lyne; ’80 Hon.—J. Raymond Brackett; ’82— Benjamin Brewster, Theodore Holland; ’°83—-Charles M. Kendall; ’85—Robert J. Pitkin, David Plessner; ’86—Edward B. Morgan, Philip B. Stewart, William A. Otis; ’88—Frank L. Woodward, Orland S. Isbell; ’88 S.—John E. Field, George B. Berger; ’89 S.—Theron R. Field, Clayton C. Dorsey, Harry J. English; ’92—Pierpont Fuller, Harri- son J. Teller, William C. Daniels, John F. Lorance; ’92S.—Harry K. Brown; ’°92 L.S.—George P. Steele; ’93—Chas. W. Mills; ’93 S.—William B. Berger; ’94—-Ernest Knaebel; ’96—Lewis R. Yeaman; ’96S.—Robert W. Haning- ton; ’97—Gerald Hughes; ’97 S.—John H. Porter; ’98—Peter H. Holme; ’og— H. T. Herr, H. R. Guggenheimer, Wal- ter L. Ehrich; ’99 S—G. W. Mabee; E. B. Kellogg, Post Graduate. About seven hundred people attended the reception given in the afternoon at the Club to President and Mrs. Had- ley. Those who aided in receiving were: i Mrs. William Cooke Daniels; Mrs. Henry E. Woods; Mrs. Theodore Hol- land; Mrs. Alfred T. Bacon; Mrs. Henry. T. Rogers. and Mrs. Harry. K. Brown. : The committee which made the ar- rangements for the reception were com- posed of Edward B. Morgan, Chairman; George B. Berger, Theodore Holland, Charles W. Mills and Harry K. Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Bacon enter- tained Mr. and Mrs. Hadley at luncheon. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Rogers; Mrs. C. B. Kountze; Mrs. W. S. Ward; Mrs. Henry Van Kleeck; Miss Tappan; President Slocum; Dr. D. N. Beach and Mr. Orland Isbell. Mrs. Frank Woodward gave a theater party the night of. the alumni dinner. The guests included Mrs. Alfred T. Bacon; Mrs. C. B. Kountze, Mrs. Theo- dore Holland; Mrs. Henry T. Rogers; Mrs. Henry E. Wood; Mrs. Geo. Steele. Mrs. Henry T. Rogers entertained many of the same party at dinner be- fore the play. we a a ee KANSAS CITY BANQUET, © Strong Sentiment for Wale in the West and the West in Yale. The most notable event in the life of the Yale alumni of Kansas City and its neighborhood occurred Jan 12, when President and Mrs. Arthur T. Hadley arrived in the city, and were entertained by the Yale men of that section of the country. The visitors were met at the depot by Hon. Gardiner Lathrop, ’69, and A. A. Austin, F. A. Leach and the Rev. B. B. Seelye, classmates of the President in the Class of Seventy-Six. They were at once driven to the home of Mr. Lathrop, where they were enter- tained during their stay in Kansas City. At eleven o’clock the President ad- dressed the pupils of the Central High School, receiving a great ovation. At three o’clock the President and Mrs. Hadley were given a reception at the Coates House, where there were pres- ent between two hundred and fifty and three hundred of the graduates of Yale and their families. The greeting given President and Mrs. Hadley was an en- thusiastic one. The banquet at the Coates House in the President’s honor, was in rooms literally covered with Yale and class flags of blue. The table for the guests of honor had a handsome floral centerpiece and was decorated for the whole length in the brightest of blue ribbon. There were a number of old Yale men from out of town, among them being E. L. Ripley, ’50, and Dr. F. R. Lincoln, ’51. Before eight o’clock the guests began to arrive. Throughout the evening, songs were given by the entire assembly, -led by Messrs. Ross, Clarke and Porter. The toasts were arranged as follows: “Vale and her future,” President Arthur T. Hadley, ’76. “Wale in 76,7... A. Leaeh, °76. “Yale and her friends,’..W. B. Clarke. “Vale and the law,” Thomas R. Morrow, ’80. “Vale and business,” Jemuel G. Marty, ’96. “Yale and the West,” | William H. Rossington, 68, Topeka. Copyright, 190%), by Yale Alumni Weekly. tory. Price 10 Cents. MR. LATHROP’S INTRODUCTION. Hon. Gardiner Lathrop, the toastmas- ter, said, among other things, in his in- troductory remarks: “Gentlemen: We celebrate to-night an event unique in Kansas City’s his- We have had with us in former years Presidents of the United States, representing the two great national par- ties. We have also had in former years the President of Harvard University, but for the first time within the lives of the loyal men of Yale, from Lincoln and Ripley down to the Class of 1899 and the representatives of 1900, we have with us the President of the great dem- ocratic University of Yale. And for my single self,—and I believe that I reflect the sentiments of every man within the sound of my voice, I had rather be the President of that great democracy of letters than to be at the head of the political administration of these United States. “We all rejoice in Yale, because even in these modern days worth still counts for more than wealth, manhood counts for more than aristocracy of blood; and as long as worth and manhood entitle a man in Yale to the highest honors, the perpetuity and the grandeur and the supremacy of Yale are assured. “It is a very gratifying thing to me to-night, my friends, to indulge in the reflection that more than half a century ago the brother of the father of our honored guest joined with my father, 5 “pracuate or - Yale,’ tags -Of “r81o-71e this State of Missouri, in laying the foundations of the State University of our Commonwealth. It is doubly gratt- fying that life has been spared to me to have at my right hand the nephew of that associate of my father, and to be privileged to sit at his side to-night and preside over the festivities of this occa- sion. And asI think of the same of Had~ ley, my mind reverts to the elder Had- ley, that prince of gentlemen (cheers), that man of the highest scholarship, that man of the kindliest. culture, that man of whom it has been truly written—and when I saw it, I felt feelingly about it, because I had occasion to know that it was true—‘that in serving upon exami- nations for admission to the college, he gave his whole mind to these ungrate- ful labors, opening his heart to the special circumstances of each individual. “Tn looking up Yale’s historical record for this occasion, it made me prouder of my college than I had ever been before. We may be narrowed by the sordidness of modern life. We all of us naturally grow selfish in our grasp for wealth: but no matter how sordid, no matter how selfish, I believe in my very soul that I speak the truth when I say that no man has come out from Yale, of high or low degree, who be- comes so sordid, so selfish that when the name ‘Yale’ is spoken and a man asks fellowship becatse he came from Yale, that the heart does not expand, that sordidness does not vanish, that selfishness does not disappear, and the heart and hand go out to the man who acknowledges the same mother that you and I acknowledge here to-night. Death alone, my friends, can extinguish that feeling. And I know that my friends here to-night who were not pfiv- ileged to take their degrees at Yale, but who have sent their boys there, rejoice that their boys are to go out animated with the sentiment which stands for worth and for manhood, and have a cord in their hearts that will keep them fresh and free from the selfishness of life whenever Yale and its traditions are appealed to, no matter where they may live or what their circumstances may be. “And so I feel proud of my Yale lin- eage. I feel doubly proud that in our chosen city that we love so well, Yale men, graduates, fathers and sons, have
