New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-08

college friends
perohe appreciation OF the great body of Its graduates
Applause.
THE COLLEGE IN A HEALTHY CONDITION.
Let me say word two about the healthfulness Oh
the college, Much alarm has been occasoned In re"
weeks past in communities represented by our graduates
gar and near by the sensational reports which have orig
mated In part in New-Haven: and which seem to have
spread abroad with considerable alaerty concerning an
epidemic in the college. This morning before eft, my
mail was burdened with al sorts OF communications,
and with several boxes OF medicine appropriate for the
disease laughter suggestions relative to new varets
OF sanitary precautions, etc., etc assure you there
no occasion for this alarm. Not single case ct what
may called malaral fever can be traced to any oei
causes whatever college premises Every one OF Tue
serious be traced TO extraordinary personal I'M
prudence and exposure or to abors and cares w e
cities and towns on the coast In this peculiar season VI
exposed to what @6s T %aS Haed mna
predspostion in the climate there now than there
This suggests another important snhect-the subject OF
athletics. They may be pronounced IN very noarshnS
yetand may add not yet paid for Ilaugher-but all Is
promised that could be desired except greater TILES
70 reeard FIAT however as very slight consideration
The athletic interest its vgor the whole from the
plsusel If employs energies which might otherwise
be wasted IN deness perhaps be tI interest
may be approved matter conceTning which opinions o
differ and whether & % Ssfs naS Se
ADHERENCE Of opinion LaghtS 30 far as am n
formed think may speak truly lOT O%r m respect
to matters Of this sort. as any class Of
RnF GeE hsvo shown any as S under
defeat, plucky and honorable under dlsadvantage,
they have lost as the students Of any other university
Cres of "Goodl goodr II Yale College graduates arc
anything they are men. tApplausel
MORE SERIOUS MATTERS.
What shall say on the serious matters OF the
institutions First the Philosophical Depart
ment, which has increased considerably in Its
endowments and appliances. We have $4,000 in
foundations for fcllowships. I wish to call your
special attention to the great advantage of this depart
ment which furnishes opportunity to the members OF
the professional schools TO enlarge their studies ny
means OF these advanced In respect to the
Acadcmca Department have nothing specially to say,
except that have In all twenty-five professors ana
cal Department suppose the Christian religion is the
religion OF this country-siter fashion, Laugnte5l
am pleased to notice this: that among the students
in this department there has been for years past
tho representatives of from sixteen TO twenty
fe% To be nnE%t te GScne Of biblical
and what may be called the taa Re srence
which is the basis on which must be determined aer ALL
the truth or falsity of Christianity.
ADDRESS OF MR.. EVARTS.
After the applause following the address of DR..
Porter had died away, the Glee Club sang.
Mr. Depew then introduced Mr.. Eyarts to answer
for The Alumni" Mr.. Evarts spoke to this effect:
MR. president AND GENTLEMEN OF TIE ALUMNI: |
congratulate you, Mr. President, on having such noble
such generous. such patient, such an apprcciatye
body to preside l congratulate YOU gentlemen on
having president who combines in himself In marked
degree those two great traits OF presiding 0lcer-c0h
dence in himself greaJ laughtcrl and dstrust or all
who to come after hln llaughter'I
remember forty years ago TO have heard senator OF
the United States making stump speech In quiet town
IN Vermont amuso his audience with the story OF wood
sawyer who had worked for him. and who had the habit
OF accompanying the movement OF his saw with talking
to himself. lie asked him one day why he did SO.
why" SAID he " for two reasons The hTst o. Is
be 6Ts' man = talk, and the second is that it Is
5 eS have but i one warning to give YOU It sd
of Mercuto the west creation of Shakespeare. who
dispatched very early in the play, MY sword wound
hath served It's turn although it were not
as deep. as well nor as vide l. as G fnr,i
killed Ncrcuiio early Mercuti0 would have killed
him II you turning to the President are TO proceed
and bold key as you have assumed here tonight-f you
don't kill the Alumni dinners tue Alumni dinners will Kill
you. Great iaughter Yale College, as representedDy
its graduates is self conceited or obrsve 1t true
they have always felt the MAGNIFICENT compliment PAID
to the college by that greatest OF English thinkers ana
philosophers Lord Bacon who said III famous passage,
as you will recall: Eating makes full man, drinking
Z l0"a COLLEGE ;o'' wise man" Yet We are
modest and ven "a he the OF pos GSf
which the French bishop took towards that great
Almighty might have made better berry than
the strawberry, but doubtless he has not" lIAughter
CHARMS OF COLLEGE LIFE.
That is our opinion OF Yale College. Applause.l Now
to be an aumnus Yale College the object OF all those
who enter the college, and the object after getting there
Is get out sometimes, lndeeu, inc years
spent without that fortunate result. 1 remember
conspicuous gentleman who had desired TO give his chill
dren the benefit Of an education sch as ae aiOrds anu
who had spent years there but the entire four years
spent as member OF the FRESHMAN class
Laughter What fortunate condition TO be continually
lowering over and more OF those who are com
pcting with him in scholarship ana IOr distinction
know % none greater unless some mode might be dis
covered by which could be Senior for lour years
There nothing in human affairs that could equal that
happiness laughter T.. -onouo,,o,
WILL
and certainly P had O, sngu BELONGED Tsm To
generation has passed out of memory for you have
excited enthusiasm of this company only in the APP
plause that you have drawn from those who were
Graduated under Presidents Woosey and Porter What
you to say who graduated under President Day
College life was about say is charming life The
hest men we NAV presume are collected from the
community placed under the happest relations TO one
The President Of the College has spoken to you of the
pleasing fact that there s an endowment OF $4,000 for
feuWsips. ell when was In college, very moderate
endowment 50 contributed by those who were asso-
GOOD Fellowship Laughter And now, looking lie
II b as remember 1t in college and we have seen IL
since. who is there that would compare mere Fellowship
with good fellowship What Ia there that is
heartier what sinceTer what +, more generous
young OF liberal spirit toward one another In col
iege How many of us as We have gone on in Iie pros
as TO success, stuatOn-hOw many OF us have
was continually bafiled in holding closer conversation
with his goddess mother who always carried off IN
nmbus or her accents lost III the Whisper OF the Wlhdi
Cur de1tra juugere dextram
Non datur ct veras audirc &C reddere voces.
Maybe, in the good fellowship Of after.life, you
Mr. President Will hesitate to walk down Broadway
with your arm over General JacksOns shoulder and his
about your waist then all the people shall cry with
applause, how the Yale men love one another !"
FAVORING THE RETENTION OF THE CLASSICS.
You will observe from this little classic aluson that
am on the side those who favor in curriculum the
maintenance Of the learned languages. For myself,
whether an education in the classic languages and in the
classic literature should should not be discarded from
the education OF the noble youth Of the country is the
question whether worth WHILE in the advancing and
strenuous life of modern times that should have
liberal education DO that there trait In that
education that entities 1t To the name OF LIBERAL more
snre and more valuable than this education IN the
literature in the history In the language OF the great men
of the ages past II any boy is put through what Is called
a liberal education and finds when he goes out from II
thai he is not level with those who understand and