Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-29
The Alumni Dinner.

Speeches from England. Chilli and All
 Parts of America.
 So soon as the classes had arranged them selves at the tables in Alumni Hall yesterday | afternoon at President Woolsey said grace and the feast began. On the platform were | Presidents Woolsey and Porter, Governor Bigelow, Hon. Dorman B Eaton, Senor Don Marciel Martinez, Cyrus Bentley, Esq Profs. Phelps, Knapp, Northrop, and several mem- bers of the corporation. After an hours eating and jollity President Porter rose and said that the memorable events of the year were the celebration of President Woolseys fifty years service in the college, the death of Joseph E, Sheffield and Leonard Bacon, the beginning of an observatory on "Tutors'
 Lane, " which was to contain the best helio-
 meter in the world, and the acquisition of 8
 new laboratory. He did not fail to speak of
 the very important department of athletics,
 which had been well established by the pur-
 chase of the new athletic grounds. He said
 that the tone of morals and the tone of man.
 ners among the undergraduates had never
 been higher. But there is no disposition on
 the part of the faculty to relax the disci pline or make less the amount of required study of the course He found the graduates sat- isied with the present system and could say that Yale College would be the last institu- ton in the land of which it could be said, ''In her ancient halls there once was disci- pline." He then introduced the late Minister l of Chili to this country, Senor Martinez, to | whom the college has given an IL. D. The
 gentleman spoke in Spanish, but was closely | listened to and loudly applauded. Prof. Knapp interpreted him as returning thanks for his degree, which was the first that an
 American college had ever granted to man of his country. He said he had encountered in this country some things that looked like vices and many things that surely were vir- tues; he felt no fears for the future of the country. It was destined to successfully work out ths problems of the world. Rev. MT. Brown, of Bedford, England, the I sixth in succession to John Bunyan was in troduced by President Porter as unlike Bun van in one particular-he had not been in \ Bedford jail.
 He attended Penikeese last night and | probably thought he was in ''Vanity Fair !" ! MT Brown was greeted with applause and E u | who, elbowing his way through 8 crowd
 said ''Im a1nG naater of this college '' 1 "[ myself have so lost my head at this honor that may say am an alma n0ter to day" :" | Mir. Brown expressed his joy at the reception ! he had received in this country, where he had heard so many speak of the old home | He trusted that the same love shown for | England by Englishmen would be expressed | by Americans. The two great Anglo Saxon
 
 many ties between th-m-one of them was that of a common literature, and to this literature one of the most important contrib utors was John Bunyan, in whose pulpit he | now preached. He said that if you want to know what the English people think don't ! read the London papers.
 MT. Tracy, '57, president of the New York 1 Alumni association, spoke of the duties of | the citizens in public affairs. He sad he did ! not believe in the necessity of party and fac ! tion either in the government of the State or | the government of the college.
 | 5. J. Iilden, of the class of '37, the one ! over which President Porter was first tutor.
 and which numbers among it's living mem | bers Evarts, Waite, Pierrepont, was next ! called for, but failed to respond.
 Dr. Yerkes, of Kentucky, responded, admir- ing Yales discipline and President Porter's exposition of Christian truths. Chancellor Runyon, of New Jersey, re- ! sponded for '42, and made one of the most ! telling speeches of the day. He said com ! pliment is acceptable to every right minded
 man, but no compliment is equal to one which comes from 8 father or a mother, un | less perhaps one from wife. The college
 has just given him the degree of ILL D. He remarked that everywhere Yale men showed 1 their breeding. They were always modest He said that the alumni had 8 great deal to \ do with the government of the college, more | in fact than was apparent.
 Mir. Farwell, of '79, had the honor of pre- ! senting to the college a son, the classboy of | '79.
 Henry Holt. 'e2, contrasted the institution | of to-day and twenty years ago, and spoke of
 the necessity of having good text books ss well as good teachers.
 \ Prof. Phelps next called out. He \ said that he was the freshman of the faculty, \ and therefore the most modest of them, but ! in another year he might make as much noise \ as the rest. He said that Yale College was ! national institution in every sense of the ! term otherwise he should not be here. He ! said that when young man came here from a section full of sectional ideas, he went | away an American. He believes that there
 is no such body of alumni in the world as | the Yale alumni.
 | T. R. Bacon, '72, said that the progress of \ the university was plain to him Among ! other things the faculty had beautifed Alum ui Hall that tho graduating class might have an adequate ball room in which to dance ! their way out of college. His remarks were ] received with rounds of applause and laugh l ter, For AT there was DO response. Moves, 52, and Beard, '57, then spoke, and the ex. ercises ended by the presidents saying that l 82 were fit men to join the alumni, Mir. \ French, '82, failing to respond.
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