Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-30

her alumni. Tear Uy yohE yOu Ah0o' 0o Ho- | new those bonds, all those impressions of | intercourse between man and man. (Ap- | plause.) Our position is fixed and I trust | will be maintained. am very glad to see | you all here Yale rejoices in your suc- cesses. We never open newspaper that l tells of the success or mayhap the misfortune of an alumnus but with emotions, of in- terest and sympathy. We rarely do read news of dishonor to any of our sons Applause Often we read tidings of the honor and usefulness of Yale's sons and of their devotion to the welfare of man and their country. (Applause.) Here are our wards You are our pride. This is Yale College. You are the representatives of those absent that with you constitute that community which makes for Yale so much of strength and honor. God grant for us still greater aims of usefulness. God grant that we may continue from one generation to another as long as Yale endures. (Great applause.) have letter here. expected the President of the United States. The ex- pectation has not reached the newspapers, although Yale has more editors among it's graduates than any other. I will read the Presidents letter.
 .u PRESIDENT GARFIELDs LETTER.
 LONG BRANCH, June 21, 1881.
 greatly regret the delay in responding to your in Yale College the 2sth instant, the especially after careful consideration am compelled to de- cline
 I find that the demands of the public business as also the delicate condition of Mrs aarelds health talities you have cordially profered
 Very truly yours,
 To the Rev. Noah Porter D. D., President Yale Col
 lege, New Haven, Conn.
 At mention of the Presidents name there was hearty and general applause.
 General Walker was introduced. Presi- dent Porter said the college parted with him with sincere regret, and spoke of his ap- pointment as president of the Pathological School in Boston. General Walker on rising was greeted with an ovation of applause.
 He said, thank you with all my heart for the kindness of this greeting on this occa- sion, when it is hail and also farewell. Eight and half years ago came to New Haven to be resident of this city and 8 teacher in this college. He spoke of his call to the college, l an unexpected call, since he was not of this State, and an Amherst graduate. He paid a l fine tribute to Yale and to it's treatment of
 him, and in feeling and beautiful remarks
 said it was hard indeed to leave Yale. Wher-
 ever his lot in life was cast his feeling for Yale would be of the tenderest and most grateful President Porter spoke of the appointment | of Henry W. Farnam as Prof. Walkers suc- cessor. He then introduced Senator Hoar,
 of Massachusetts, saying that blood, culture
 and honor all combined to make in him 8
 man whom he was proud to say graced his
 lineage.
 Senator Hoar in opening said that the
 hospitality of Yale was surpassed only by her
 modesty Oaughter), and said he could not
 conceive why he had been called upon until
 the list of graduate speakers was exhausted. He said he was little reluctant, not only to l appear before this audience, or to address any audience, because, said he, have spent the winter in a place where one gets thor I oughly tired of hearing the sound of his own voice. AS I was sitting few weeks ago at | the close of 8 rather tedious debate, I reflect ed on picture in Milton. The speaker told | of Satan's downfall from the battlements of
 heaven and falling days and nights like Vul-
 can, and then floating for a time in lake of birthstone and fire. The speaker added that such torments as befell Satan came to those
 in the Senate compelled to hear one another's
 speeches. Great applause followed the l speakers brilliant simile He then paid a
 tribute, saying that one of the greatest con- forts and help of his life had been the ben 1 efts he derived from his friendship with Yale
 men. (Applause.) He spoke of the large numbers who attended Yale. It was not a 1 little parish institution, but sent it's roots in | education far and wide over the land; and | although that influence has not been sufi- cient to prevent civil strife, it was great | power for good. In the future certainly it | would havo such influence as | will most tend to reunite this nation if any | division ever came to it hereafter. (Ap- l plause.) And the love of classmate for | classmate and for alma mater was stronger | than any civil hatred with which the bosom l of any American scholar could be inspired l Another feature of which he would speak was suggested by the sentiment in the class ora
 tion of '81, which gave him special pleasure the thought that culture and the highest
 patriotism went together. (Applause.) The | spirit of Yale was one of courage, hope and
 love of country, of confidence in it's great
 present and great future Whenever any body of American scholars gets together 1 to whine over a dark public future, when l their culture teaches them to find nothing in 1 public life but it's corruptions, nothing in l democracy but it's faults, it is time for that l body of scholars to disperse and take
 themselves to some other country than this. 1 It is said that there can be no more pleas | ant memory that man could feel for him.
 self than to be remembered as benefactor to
 a great institution of learning; that there is | no more beautiful memory than 8 picture in | a hall like this. And it is true. And it is | also very pleasant to think that the expert l ence of civilized countries has shown us that | there is one thing above all others that seems 1 to be permanent, that is the fame of men | who have been founders or endowed institu- tions of learning. Senator Hoar quoted
 from the poets in sustaining this view. Why, think of it. he continued, think of the great l schools in England, Eaton, Rugby, Christ, l Winchester and others, some of which were founded in 1900 or HOO, and Oxford and l bridge. whose origin is lost in the dark ness of antiquity. Harvard was founded in l 1885. The charter of a State may vanish, but in England the Tudors, the Plantagenets | and the Stuarts have come and gone, and the war of the Roses and CromwelPs civil war | swept over the land, but never was hand | lifted to strike against the schools. A man of wealth dies and comes back in 500 years
 and finds no trace of his money, but if he
 has given it to a college if he comes back he will find it there Applause and laughter. ) Our English brethren have law regarding 1 the accumulation of property, real estate by I corporations, that they call mortmain, put I ting in dead hands, but money which is giv- l en to good institution of learning is given l into no dead hands. Senator Hoar said $19,- | OOO, 900 had been given in this country for educational purposes in the 15 months pre-
 ceding the 1st of April last. He closed with
 8 fine tribute to Yale and was most heartily ! applauded.
 The next speaker was General Ashbel | Smith, of Texas, who spoke with the fire of l youth, though graduate of 57 years. He is one of the regents for the establishment of
 the Texas College. He paid sterling trib- use to his alma mater. Texas was a wilder ness when he first located there and Connec- | ticut men had helped make that State
 President Porter now paid a fine tribute to | the genius of William D. Howells, the gifted American novelist and late editor of the At