Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-26
Yale Oommencement.

| xoWng graduates were JoyIuHy mlngHnl
 again after a few years of separation tn graduating class mingled more than ever the under classes took new interest in Yal' and old graduates were arriving having conn | to shed the lustre of their achievements or the college and drink once more of the ben e6cent influences of their alma mater. Th' old elms never looked finer, the college lawn could boast as much and at the New HaveI House glimpses of fair faces from other cities which were to dazzle the seniors at thu promenade were occasionally visible. The class exercises at Battell chapel at II o'clock were very interesting, and, as usual the beautiful building was the scene of { large and beautiful gathering, Including many | of the relatives and friends of the members Of the graduating class from other parts o1 the country. The summer attire of the 1 young ladies diversified charmingly the pic 1 ture presented, and their presence added tc the dignity and importance pertaining to graduating class about on the eve of echoing the classic shades of their alma mater and mingling in the highways leading | to distraction. While the organ was playing the faculty, headed by President Porter, entered and took seats upon the platform. The exercises consisted of prayer by Pres 1 ident Porter, the delivery of the class poem by Joseph McKeen Lewis of New York city, l the reading of the class oration by Fred Churchill Leonard of Spring Mills, N. Y.. and the parting ode by Arthur Bradford l Cornwall of this city. The poem was en- ! titled GA College Farewell" i" and had for its l theme the power of love over knowledge. An 1 extract will serve to show it's spirit: And tho creed conquer creed, and priest slay ! And love for god or gods with torch or sword Wax mad and end itself, yet orc thing lives
 That hath not been in vain, nCf ever ceased
 Mans love for man cries out, and every % word
 The true Lords host the blessing of the Lord Therefore, my brothers seeing we surely know This love the only key to happiness,
 The The lives il1es here woven in one thread. that so | The faces we shall zee no more may grow
 1 In brightness year by year, nor hope be less | That comes in iron than in golden dress,
 Nor the high path more pleasant than the low.
 And may all blossoms whereof youth is sweet
 Nor each dear face and place. one after one,
 Bound on the wheels of swift oblivion;
 But rather all that youth has felt and wrought
 Por into frnit ra Sair tbsn e1ob Yet tired of jocund or of earnest hours.
 And hearts kept young beneath white locks and Forever fresh with fountains and with flowers, Safe in the happy fields of after-thought.
 MT. Leonard's oration was on ''The Needs of the Young Graduate" :" The speakers remarks embraced the thought that four | years of Yale were a mere paving of the way for the real battle of life. After that came ike struggle. A college diploma did not. strange as it might seem, imply the posses sion of this requisite. Long and pains taking application are necessary if one would aspire to leadership. ''With price are they
 bought and that price is measured by hours of weariness and drudgery. How many can say this last day on which we meet in this
 chapel: have paid that price. I have se
 cured that discipline of mind that will enable
 me to grasp and combat an intellectual an.
 tagonist with masterly skill. Some of you T | All | tive Some can look back over the
 past four years with high degree
 of satisfaction in the character and amount
 of work you have accomplished. But tho 1 majority of us, while we confess the fault tC
 have been largely our own, have quite diff ferent stery to'tell." The high aims and pur poses had on entering college have been in {
 measure dissipated through non-resistance tc
 the beguiIement of the temptations of pleas
 ure. The following wise and highly sensible and practical remarks were also included 1T the address
 A second need which causes many a mar to disbelieve altogether in the advantages oi 8 higher education is practical talent
 "Give your son" said shrewd business man
 'fa college education and I will teach mine how to get a livfng.' Decry as we may the narrow -mindedness that prompted the saying | we must confess that it has some plausibility I need not call to mind the numerous and hackneyed illustrations of men who, brilliant | in the world of theory, were extinguished il the world of practice. They are familiar to you all, as men whose works were brand ed with that much dreaded word, Failure. , l "For all the practical purposes of life, !" some one has said, 'ftact carries it against talent ten to one. Talent knows what to do, tact how to do it; talent makes man respecta ble, tact will make him respected; talent if wealth, tact is ready money; talent has many compliment from the bench, but tact touches fees from attorneys and clients Talent speaks learnedly and logically, tact triumphantly. Talent makes the world won
 der that it gets on no faster, tact excites astonishment that it gets on so fast.' To | transmute talent into tact is an imme diate problem for the young graduate to solve. Of course it is not to his discred. 1 it that he finds himself without this know | ledge of the practical. His whole student life has been one of dependence. Supplied with resources and guided in his course by others, it is impossible for him to be pro- l vided with what he has had no means of &C., quiring. The point is urged merely to show need that must be satisfied before real prog ress can be made. We make 8 grave mis- take if we suppose ourselves four years ahead of those who finished their school education with us at the preparatory. Let it ke said to | the credit of Yale, however, that there is a growing tendency among her graduates to consider no honest calling beneath their at- tention, but they are willing to begin any business of profession at the bottom, and go through the hardest discipline to gain g knowledge of the practical.
 | In conclusion the speaker said to his class mates: Our last meeting in Battell chapel naturally calls to mind the first. We think of the class as then constituted. We think of the many who from time to time have left us for other fields of labor. We think of the two who finished their life work with us. Mor- gan is remembered as careful. conscientious student, deserving of the highest esteem. Wonder window will, so lorg as these walls stand, commemorate our second loss. Of him need only say what was on every mans lips when the news of that shocking accident reached his ears: 'Loring Andrews was a gentleman in the highest meaning of the word"
 It would be trespassing on the province of 1 the class statistics were to dwell on the his tory of our class in college. Suffice to say the record of our achievements has been such as to inspire the deepest feelings of pride and loyalty. And now we part-each with the feeling, I trust, that scattered here and there over the world he has one hundred and forty eight more than passing friends by vir, | tue of Yale 'S3.
 THE PARTING ODE.
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