New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-28
THE YALE CONFEDERATION.

THE YALE DETERIORATION.
Nothing the Colleges have done this year has
been so well done as the memorial services Of
Harvard and Yale in honor of their soldiers.
The old ways Of Commencement were brokenup'
old traditions forgotten and suddenly the enthu'
siasm of the young men, the devoted patriotism
OF both young and old, gave strength and force
to the primness Of college ceremonies. Yale
remembers this week that she is part OF coun'
try which the soldierly courage OF her sons has
helped to save, and she has stretched out eager
hands of welcome to her heroes, has gathered
them again into her bosom with strange
emotion, and. CorneiO.like, points with
unutterable pride to these dear boys as her price
less towels. The living she summoned back to
hall and grove TO tell them that no trophies OF
learning or civil honor arc comparable to that
fame which the soldier ofthe Union hasfoughtior;
the dead she points to in the spirit of that more
than Roman mother who said when her son
took command of the first colored regiment
from the North am as proud of him as If
had heard that he was shot"
Yale sent seven hundred and thirty-seven
pupils TO the war, Of whom five hundred and
sixty.fivo were graduates. The remainder is
made up mainly of those who were
in college during the war, and left it
for the sake of the war-believing, and
rightly believing that in such an epoch
the duty Of each man is to his country rather
than to himself, aud also that the best tutoring
was 10 be found in the camps, not in the
colleges Who can estimate the influence
which their youthful enthusiasm had on
older comrades what living help
it brought to the country and the cause when
both needed help from all sourccs' OF the $50
graduates, 4i4 belonged to the Academieal De-
partment, % to the Theological, Medical, Law,
and Scientific Schools, aud "a are reckoned
who served in the Sanitary and Christian
Commissions. There are three Major-Gcnerals,
two Brigadier-G Generals, thirty-seven Colonels.
Yale claims ALFRED II. TERRY of Fort Fisher
ms one of her contributions to the war; Almost
the first martyr Of the early struggle in le6l
was hers-TnEopORR WINTHROP, twice famous
as soldier and author, and twice dear
TO the College as the nephew OF Its
President. Gen. JAMES G. RICE, who fell
wounded in the Wilderness, crying Turn my
face TO the enemy before L die"-he was @
child Of this mourning mother. 1t is impossible
to recall the names Of such men and not re-
cognize the motive which took them into the
field. As Emerson said Of their brothers who
went from Harvard: God knows they
had no fury for killing their old
friends ard countrymen. They said,
1T is not in me to resist. l 60 be-
cau.e must 1t ia o duty which l shell
never forgive myself if decline. l do not
know that l can make soldier. may be
very clumsy, perhaps shall be tinid; but you
can rely on me. Only one thing is certan-I
can well die, but cannot afford TO mistehavc. "
Tho reflex Of that heroic and sanity spirit
Tho college was cnnobled by it, and not for
generations, not forever shall its students fail
to find inspiration and incentives to noble
hearted manliness in the example. War which
tah-ico pA'9NA'So
creates many.
Yale will build monument TO her dead he
roes, who have built better and moro enduring
for her Yet the practical side OF tho question
ought to be looked at We do not know
whether the question has been decided, having
no final report as We write, but We trust Yale
will vindicate its good sense by utterly
rejecting show monument, and will
ash it, living graduates for generous
contributions to put noble building on college
grounds for college uses. There il no question
Of rivalry or competition with Harvard, and
mono such ought TO be entertained. The COM
memoration services of the two were perfectly
distinct, for though Yale happens to DO q
week later, everybody knows that such a cele-
bration requires months of preparation. 1t
was no slight task to bling together these
soldiers from every corps in tho army and every
State in tho Union, as they came together
Wednesday. So OF course there is no question
Of priority or originality between the two great
colleges Of the oountry--and no matter if there
were. Each Gun stand On iu own mer'