Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-29
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donated for the boat house, and that in complete and letic 500 outright and $OO0 condition
 Besides all 0 her donations and bequesta we have EThe institution has had dsnite policy to which oon.sssnes h n # has employed @ ntfis Fsf aotiTe @ agency to solicit funds. It has opened no It has carefully refrained from odious comparisons to the disadvantage of sister institutions It has avoided appeals to the incidence the undue reli ance which are characteristic of young On the other hand if the testimony of those who have known it's nmost spirit and it's animating forces is worth anything it has not been too bgoted to learn nor too coneeited to improve Its windows are open towards the setting sun, and it is ready to welcome
 bomsoever they are guegested or gre reconmended if they commend themselves to the lessons of perience and our judgment. But it believes in the past as well in the future, holding 1t to be emi- nently becoming in those who have received the torch of knowledge from those who have gone before them to disparage the wisdom which the past has inspired or confirmed. At times it may have erred forcing attention to them by obtrusive importantly. As consequence it may have consumed it's income structors their salaries pupils needed forts and appliances One thing can be said of it with truth that college in the country has been richer than Yale College has been and now is in the confidence and gratitude of it's graduates No college has furnished richer and on the whole purer and nobler common life In no college have the instruct | ors been more generally honored Tor their hdenty age of their opinions and their devotion to their a
 ticuars the college has not degenerated during the last fifteen years It is hoped and believed that it | will not in the fifteen years that are to follow | The statement received with prolonged sp- | plause.
 1 President Porter added remarks humorous | in character regarding old days in college, and in closing paid fine tribute of affection 1 to ex-President Woolsey.
 A resolution was adopted, on motion of President Porter, expressing the thanks and | congratulations of the alumni on the compile l tion of President Woolsey's half century of devoted service to the welfare of the institu- l tion. It rising vote.
 | A vote of thanks was passed to MT. and l Mrs. Henry Farnam for improvements in Alumni Hall-to the former for the hand ! some chair and the latter for the changes in
 the building.
 It was voted to print President Porter's re-
 port on the condition of the college for cir | cu1ation among graduates.
 Interesting remarks were made by Dr.
 Bacon, Timothy Stillman, '22, Judge Hoar, l a graduate of Harvard, who claimed klnshlp ! to Yale in felicitous speech, John Mason
 Brown of Louisville Ky, B. l.. Heermance,
 '53, and others. Mir. Heermance took occa-
 sion to speak of the circulation of President | Porter's report as answer and means ot information to the wise men of Gotham, who
 write in the daily press concerning Yale with
 out knowing the facts.
 | Yale in 1881.
 | The annual statement shows as follows
 A greatly high prosperity in the Academica | department, though the standard Of adm1s
 sion is high and severe.
 | Attention is called to the great need of bet
 ter facilities for teaching chemistry, Eng 1 fish, history, the modern languages and as
 tronomy, and to the growing want of rooms | for residence for the students. Great regret
 is expressed at the loss of Professor Carter | and Professor Francis A. Walker. At
 tention is called to Professor Dexter $
 directory of living graduates Figures
 show the geographical distribution
 of the survivors, 3,59O in number, in tht | classes from 1906 to 1875. Of the 3, 59(
 there are living in Connecticut 636, in New York 921, in the States once called slave States 334, in the United States west of th' } Mississippi 311 in Massachusetts 269, in thu remaining New England States 107, in Penn
 sylvania 2O5, in Ohio 146 in Illinois 139, il , New Jersey 82, in foreign lands 75, in Wash ington 55, in Michigan 54, in Wisconsin 30 [For the JOURNAL CoURIER.l Farewell.
 Droop low thy leaves ye classic elms,
 | And droop thy storied branches low; For grief the heart of him oerwhelms, : Who soon thy shades no more will know. : - And many a breast responsive grieves,
 And many eye with tears will flow ! When comes the hour that soon bereaves : The hearts that feel true friendships glow. And soon, too soon we say farewell, And grasp the hand, and then part ;-
 While kindliest thoughts the bosom sweH
 II And fond regrets -ades the heart. Then droop thy lss Alms,
 And droop thysyea'in nw; e For grief sinceres heart p'eSTMS SSnoWss Of many one th13s-s1, still S= E.