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“4. Conditional pledges have been
made of $250,000. __
“sc The plans which have been ap-
proved contemplate two connected
buildings, the Memorial Hall seating
3,000 with the Memorial vestibule, and
the University Hall which will be used
as a dining hall for students of all de-
partments of the University. Either of
these buildings can be erected sepa-
rately, but each is necessary to the archi-
tectural completion of the other.
“6. The estimated cost for the whole
in the architect’s plans is $940,000.
“7 Tt is not the opinion of the Cor-
poration that these plans can be ma-
terially reduced and suitable buildings
be erected. The cost is the result of
the size and the material required.
“8. The Corporation are further of the
opinion that the University Hall is
needed for practical and constant use,
and that its erection would powerfully
promote the democratic life of Yale.
For these and other weighty reasons, the
Corporation have voted to proceed with
the erection of the Bi-centennial build-
ings, and to let at once the contracts
for the University Hall. Although the
University Hall can in case of. necessity.
be used as an auditorium seating over
2,000, the completion of the group of
buildings for the Bi-centennial is never-
theless imperative.
“Three gifts of $100,000 each have been
made conditioned on three gifts of like
amounts being found. Large gifts are
appropriate for such a fitting, and
worthy of such an occasion. If money
sufficient to justify the President and
Fellows in making the remaining con-
tracts shall be subscribed by the early
Autumn, the Bi-centennial anniversary
will see us in possession not of one
building but of a harmoniously com-
pleted design.”
“Now,” said the President, “much as
we want these buildings, we will not
divert a dollar of teaching funds to a
luxury for the alumni. Our plans are
laid for going steadily onward collecting
subscriptions and letting contracts as
fast as subscriptions will allow. We
have every reason to believe we shall be
in possession of large funds by next
Fall, and”—as a roll of thunder from a
passing cloud shook the building—
“Jupiter having thundered, the matter is
settled.” The point was loudly cheered
and applauded.
Continuing, the President said that
the fear had been expressed that the
canvass for the Bi-centennial would re-
duce the Alumni University Fund, but
that, he was glad to report, it had not
done. He spoke of the great good the
Alumni Fund Association had already
done for the University with its gift of
$10,000. or more in cash annually, and
unrestricted. He read the names of the
Directors of the Association for the com-
ing year as follows: O. G. Jennings,
eee e Barnes, ’91; J. G. Phelps
Stokes, ‘92; G. B. Case, 94, and L,
W. Smith, ’os S.
“Regarding compulsory Chapel at-
tendance,” said President Hadley, “I
am happy to report that the system of
morning prayers instituted last Fall has
been gratifying in its success. There
has been better attendance than I have
ever known before. The retention of
morning prayers, is, therefore, regarded
with favor. The sentiment for them, I
truly believe, is stronger among the stu-
dents than among the Faculty and no
change will be made without consultation
with the undergraduates.”
In speaking of the needs of the Uni-
versity, the President said that one of
the most important was the addition
to the Department of Music of a course
in vocal culture, where the use of the
voice, not only for singing, but for de-
bate and oratory, could be learned. He
considered it one of the most pressing
needs, if Yale were to take her place in
training men for the platform.
SECRETARY ROOT’S SPEECH.
Before he sat down President Hadley
introduced Secretary of War Elihu
Root, who had in the morning been
given the degree of LL.D. in Battell
Chapel. Mr. Root said he did not feel
out of place at Yale as his own Alma
Mater, Hamilton College, was a child
of Yale, and every principal of it, as
an academy, and every president of the
college, with one exception, was a Yale
alumnus. One thing he had noticed in a
gteat many Yale men he had known
es a peculiar and fascinating sense of
mor, illustrated by Chauncey Depew
the great philanthropist, who gives SO
Many men happiness; Judge Howland,
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whose wonderful mind and gifted tongue
makes him the prince of after-dinner
speakers: Thacher, who now rules the
Czar of all the congresses, and Ike
Bromley, beloved of all.”
“T admire Yale,’ said Mr. Root, for
her sound sense of proportion,—which
makes her instruction valuable above all
description. I like her because she
arrives at whatever she aims at, and I
am proud to receive a degree from her.
And the American people like her be-
cause she teaches men to be practical,
sane and patriotic, and bases her instruc-
tion on popular faith which has its origin -
in the constitutional freedom of America.
Never before in the history of the coun-
try has there been more need for men
as men are educated here. We have
entered into a new era which is not
the work of any man or party, but the
growth of the Republic, and a natural
result. If Americans will manufacture
and trade, Americans must be protected ;
if American missionaries go to foreign
lands they must be protected. Our con-
dition is forced upon us and is the re-
sult of growth, nothing else. We begin
to elbow the nations along the path of
civilization, and as the country advances
step by step demand is made for more
competent, better trained, true men for
the service. The country is calling for
pe very education you give at Yale to-
ay.
“Education makes for happiness, but
to be educated for the individual alone -
is of little use. It must be made part
of the great work of the American
people, so that the training may enter
into the glorious fabric of the history
of humanity. That is something worth
working for, worth fighting for, and
worth thanking God for.”
General Lewis B. Parsons, ’40, was the
next speaker, being introduced by Presi-
dent Hadley as the man whom Secretary
Stanton employed when he _ wanted
100,000 men moved in the quickest
possible time. The President said he
wanted to see if Gen. Parsons could
move 2,000 men. Gen. Parsons in reply
said he would rather undertake to move
one million men with the means at hand
in the days of the war than to undertake
to move the two thousand before him.
Speaking of Yale’s great need of money
and her right to go to her sons for it,
he quoted Dean Swift as saying, “He
that giveth lendeth to the Lord,” adding,
“So if you are satisfied with the security,
down with the dust.”
Judge Almet F. Jenks, 75, of Brook-
-cast iron.
lyn, was next called on for a speech,
but he was not in the Hall and as the
President said he had “become fright-
ened and run away,” he introduced Prof.
W. N. Clarke, who told of the honor he
felt in having that day received from
Yale the degree of D.D. “The theo-
logian does not live,” he said, “who
would not feel honored with such a
degree from Yale. A great and noble
work has gone otit from Yale in the
past and she has contributed largely, and
is still contributing through the members
of the Divinity School to the theology
of the world.”
He pointed out that theology was not
a dead thing, as some of the younger
generation seemed to think, but that it
entered, by rights, into every part of
life and it was destined to be powerful
in the 20th century. _
Mr. Julian Kennedy, ’75S., of Pitts-
burg, Pa., spoke briefly on the general
topic of theory versus practice. “Theory
as taught at Sheff,” said Mr. Kennedy,
‘is all right. Some people say they
need a machine shop and a blacksmith
shop over there. They are better off
without them, for when a’man comes to
superintend three or four thousand men,
who are divided among the amalgamated
iron and steel workers, the Knights of
Labor and several other Sophomore
societies, he will find that a little knowl-
edge of human nature will stand him
in more stead than the knowledge ac-
quired running a machine or chipping
To such a man the knowl-
edge of English is.more necessary than
the detail of machinery, for he is often
required to draw up contracts involving
large sums of money where the wording
must admit of absolutely only one mean-
ing and that the right one; or he may
find himself seated across the table from
two. or three clever lawyers where he
will need all his English, and more.’
Mr. Kennedy closed a speech which
had been often interrupted with the
heartiest applause, by saying that the
success “Sheff” had had in the past was
due to the hard-working, self-sacrificing
men in the Faculty of the School.
PRESIDENT DWIGHTS ATHLETIC VICTORIES.
Ex-President Dwight’s appearance at
this moment was the signal for a great
cheer, and as he went upon the stage
he was introduced by President Hadley
as “a man who had won more athletic
victories than Julian Kennedy.” Presi-
dent Dwight said he was unlike General
Parsons, for he was very much afraid if
he spoke he would move them all—
toward the door. After some witty re-
marks and several anecdotes he said that’
he had calculated that in the 13 years
of his administration, from 1886 to 1899,
the number of graduates of Yale was
within 300 of one-third of all the gradu-
ates who had taken degrees since 1701,
and that nearly one-half had taken their
degrees from his own hand.
Mr. Robert Speer, who was given the
degree of M.A., in his speech said
that Yale, besides being a great
university athletically and _ nationally,
was the distinctly Christian university,
of America and that in no time in the
past 20 years was that religion so dis-
tinctly manifested.
The last speaker of the afternoon was
John Crosby, who represented the Class
of Ninety, back for its Decennial. He
had come 1,500 miles to be at the re-
union. He reported his Class to be
strong administration men and advised
younger classes to make themselves use-
ful in the small public offices, those of
alderman, councilman and assemblyman.
He thought it a good thing for young
Yale men to take what part they could
in such work, as there was a growing
need for such work as they could ac-
complish in such offices.
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Medical Journal Changes,
With the next, the July, issue of the
Yale Medical School Journal, there will
be put into effect the change which
was decided upon at the annual meeting
in June, 1899. This change is the put-
ting the Journal upon a twelve issue
basis. It will be published monthly
throughout the year instead of just dur-
ing the term time as in previous years.
The success of the publication during
the past year has been great and especi-
ally gratifying to those who have the
charge of the magazine. Tangible proof
of this success is evinced by the fact
that next year it will not be necessary
to call upon graduates for assistance
either in the matter of editing or of
finances. |
During the Summer the Journal will
be managed by James F. Quinn as editor
and R. V. Kowalewski as business
manager.
