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Gilman’s Life of Dana.
The Life of James Dwight Dana (Yale
’23) Scientific Explorer, Mineralogist,
Geologist, Zodlogist, Professor in
Yale University. By Daniel C. Gil-
man (Yale ’52), President of the
Johns Hopkins University. Published
by Harper & Bros.
President Gilman has produced an ad-
mirable sketch of one of Yale’s most
distinguished alumni, in “The Life of
James Dwight Dana, Scientific Explorer,
Mineralogist, Geologist, Zodlogist, Pro-
fessor in Yale University.” As the title
shows, it is written in a thoroughly Yale
spirit, by emphasizing not the honors
which he gained, but the services he ren-
dered to Science and the University and
to all those whom he touched in his busy
life. James Dwight Dana graduated in
the Class of 1833, and at once combined
teaching with investigation by taking the
position of school-master on board the
United States Ship “Delaware,” which
cruised into and about the Mediterra- -
nean Sea, returning in 1834. Again in
the years 1838 to 1842 he was one of
the Scientific corps of the Wilkes Ex-
ploring Expedition, which took him to
various points in South America, the
Antarctic regions and the isles of the
Pacific, and the then little known west-
ern part of America, thus opening the
whole world to his knowledge. He re-
duced the heterogeneous facts of Min-
eralogy and Geology to the form of
systematic branches of Science. And
in the groups of crustacea and corals,
he performed a similar service for the
science of Zodlogy. He took up the
Academic cloak of Silliman and for
some thirty years was leader of Scien-
tific instruction at Yale. He died in his
eighty-third year, a remarkable example
of a man full of energy, of knowledge,
of service and of love to his fellow men,
of whom all Yale men may be well
proud. This book is so entertainingly
written that all Yale alumni, whether
especially interested in science or not,
may read it with pleasure and learn from
it of the man who did so much to make
Yale great.
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YALE.”
The following lines were read in re-
sponse to a toast at the Indiana Alumni
Association banquet, reported on page
180 of this paper:
Once more we meet to toast the dear old
college,
And bless the fate that made us sons
of Yale!
Not that she burdened us with wealth
of knowledge—
For that, we read, before true love shall
pale! ay
But we adore her for the inspiration
To high endeavor, work, contempt for
gain
Won by foul barter of the soul’s salva-
tion,
For triumphs only bought with honor’s
stain !
The Magdalena River Colonization Company,
which owns 300,000 acres on the Magdalena River,
in the United States of Colombia, has determined
to subdivide the same into 20,:‘40, 50 and 100-acre
farms, and sell the same at $5 per acre, payable $1
per acre cash, and $1 per acre in 1, 2, 3 and 4 years,
without interest. The Climate, soil and produc-
tions are the same as Southern California, to which
is added alltropical fruits, such as Oranges, Lemons,
Limes, Pine Apples, Grape Fruit, Grapes, Pears,
Cocoa, Rubber trees, Ginsing root, Tobacco, etc.
There will be some of the best farmers from Switz-
erland, France, Germany, Italy, England, Canada,
and from many of our United States. Some New
England farmers already located. The colony has
a frontage of 25 miles on the Magdalena River,
with steamers running from there to Cartagena and
Bananquilla several times a week. We expect to
have at least five hundred settlers located in one
year. For further information address,
WM. H. MARTIN, Land Commissioner,
1014 Empire Building, New York.
CALIFORNIA.
Improved and unimproved fruit and vine-
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residence of the late Witson hone
taining 8 acres of beautiful lawn and some fruit
trees. House contains over so rooms, magnificent
stable, the whole property costing about $400,000
Will be sold ata sacrifice, on easy, long terms, or
exchanged,
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YW Ate: «}§«©ATIIIMNG
For what is failure? Not to lose the
guerdon
Bestowed on those who win the world’s
acclaim,
But rather this—to balk at life’s great
burden!
Defeat is naught, but not to fight’s the
shame!
We love, ah do we not, with love most
tender
The ’leven that fails to gain the longed-
for prize?
We know full well the guard will not
surrender,
And so we cheer it as it proudly dies!
But life means conquest, so our Mother
teaches!
We must crave victory in every fight;
False to her doctrine is that son who
preaches
The beaten side is always in the right!
To win, ah yes, this is the hero’s duty!
Let us not scorn success, nor meekly
yield;
Fighting for truth, and not for worldly
booty,
We must prevail or die upon the field.
But what of Yale? Not for her wealth
we love her,
But for her faith, her truth, her courage
high!
What Shall we hold in our heart’s depths
above her
For whom her humblest son would
proudly die?
Ah, this the spirit that shall save this
nation— .
Devoted, quiet work for God and man!
May our blind souls feel her illumina-
tion,
And oe their tasks as only Yale men
can!
And now we'll drink to Yale and sing
her praises,
For lose or win, to her it’s all the same!
For no one on her banner blue e’er
gazes
Who does not know the thing’s to play
the game!
That banner blue, may it e’er float be-
fore us,
Symbol of light, and dyed with heaven's
hues!
With that dear emblem ever waving
o’er Us,
What other leadership would brave men
choose?
—Louis Howland.
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