New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-22
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But gentlemen forget that these subjects have not
for me Most Of you old enough TO hnd your college
life already looking littlo dim, while YOU are not ola
your sons Interest In colleges undergOes sudden re-
vval at about middle life Let me assure YOU IN con
cuson the University felt strong aud con
hdent as II does to-day and let me give you very nearby
CLUB of New-iork City" lGreat applause
MI Choate then gave the second toast, The over
seers" to which the Rev.. James Freeman Clarke re-
sponded
SPEECH OF JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
lam exceedingly glad, he SAID among other thnes' W
be tonight and the exercises OF the OCCASION
l am also clad 10 something about inc boaru VI
Oyerseers because have been that Board through
two terms When was first chosen II was in the time
when that BOARD was appointed by the Legislature Inc
second time was when IL chosen by the alumni Al
that time 20 be chosen member OF that boaIu was :"
step 10 higher honors. Now il is quite different since
the members chosen by the alumni we nave Ia"
someof the best men all the departments OF knowledge
They came together frequently and discussed only inc
interests OF the college, The most lmp4rtaht us %
cOvery OF modern times is this, that ~ is the
teachers TO teach That has before Jus poeI r"c',
IL was previously the teachers business 10 near reCi
tons. If wanted TO bc taught any ulhg IL Mouiu
ut now onT professors are awakening interest in the
stndles they teach How good 1t IS for Fellow stuuets
20 keep together you do IN New YORK NY own cass
meets together annually. We had this year Y present
al annual dinner, and we nave IOfcu oho Vi o'o
bonds which time alone can sever
VIM Walter Phelps then called upon to speak IN
behalf OF Yale aud after humorous apology for taking
the floor and pointed references to municipal ana
national issues in which Tweed and Credit Mobier bore
prominent part he said, among other thlngs'
SPEECH OF WIN. WALTER PHELPS.
Harvard men always did look upon Yale as a
poor relation; and although you were very hh0' US
YOU WINGED a little at baggy umbrella ana seeuy
carpebag But really thank you, Mr. President, ior
have me
wed 10 the festivities Of this evening the name OF Inc
other great University which for nearly two centuries
has been Joined with yours in the hearts OF All VINO io
sound learning, and In the words OF all orators anu
writers who have chroncied the fountains Oh literature
and science in our native land Harvard and Yae-Yale
and Harvard may they he found in the future as III he
past-joned in generous emulation TO advance INC III
terests OF American scholarship.
Sitting on the Atlantic coast with their faces turned
eastward they appropriate, aSsimate ana distribute
through the nation the earliest discoveries oil European
science; while in their own Laboratories they orlse
learning of the world But better than learning DeeI
tnan thought, they cultivate moral sense haE oau1 20
moral act The students Of Harvard ana OF laie Hlt
their studies to fight the savage anu the ftSncn W.,
days OF the Colonies In the DAYS 9I Ine nst M Of
ton they left their clOisicrs 10 ocef inc a'0S u
In the DAYS Of the great Rebellion Harvard men and
Yale men in defense of liberty and Union mingled Their
blood in every river that flows from the keu 10 TUE
Potomac. | would like to trace this thought the mora
earuestness in every other good direction mat mas l
enced the alumni OF Yale and Harvard. But time Tor
ds and can only assure friends OF Harvard that
So long as they lead such good paths We shan always
follow They can't shake of our cOmpanlOnshlr we
may follow with unequal steps, for We are CONSERVATIVE
and YOU are radical but follow we Will We nave IOuhu
il "A safe and honorable companonship
The fourth toast The Press" responded TO 10y
Parke Goodwin.
SPEECH OF PARKE GOODWIN.
Mr. Godwin spoke Of his visit to the castle of Chilon
and of the deep hole in the foundation, called the
o,bliefte prisoner was sometimes told that he was
going TO be set free and taken TO certain door lie
stepped through it, aud fell forty feet TO certain DEATH
So he added among other things, when received note
from the President of this Society became yctiM
like the prisoner Of Chilon.
You must know that editors OF newspapers, whose
pens are always dipped in fantasy, are not TO be con-
troled by any ten minute rule They can do up any
suect in two minutes. and certainly will not do II in
duli manner Nevertheless very happy TO he here.
The fact that you alumni recall my own happy days
am sure that those who here feel the dim, shad
owy convictions that upon us IN the old college
hours,
and all the difficulties that upon us. Schiller said,
Revere the dreams of thy youth" The man who has
confidence in sucn prospects knows that what science
tCachcs Is absolute trutn things, the
center of this there is the God of wisdom, VINO Will eau
cate him into manhood
The next toast, Washington" was responded to by
James c. Carter. "The Harvard Club" was answered
bv j. H. Choate; "The Medical Faculty" by DR.. Norton
Folsom and q" The Bench and Bar" by Henry c. How