New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-15

resentatve of the sober sadness Of the old Institution
st nCe9 n0 az oE trend Of Yale She sady behind
the Laughter There Is 90 ieSsor OF pngilsn
nual sparrng matches there She has no football team
which ranges the country from Toronto 70
dangering spinal columns Applause our students In the
many rowing clubs and football teams are content 70
practise with coeges near at home with Themselves
To the Indictment that Brown does not indulge much
in learning she pleads not guilty" IAppiause AN az
reminded stand here and look around me- OF "hat
Brown has done for New-YOrk one Of her sons leit
traces in the revised statutes Of this state that VIII
never fade The same son, Henry wheaton. gave ~
the English tongue that treatise upon international Law
which the civilized world looks to an authority.
thrice Governor and was Secretary OF War under Polk
and Of state under Pierce. Brown New York the
accomplished Dean and the great Univeryof Michigan
her renowned President Angel Where in the country
~ FoHcse "hlch IN proportion 10 ~ numbers, His a.
nished men OF greater learning and scholarship than
The question OF the best education ls In substance,
Whai studies give the best mental discipline and npart
az tue 'aAe Time he most sciul ana prctca khQWIeage
Inc experience OF generations must sho" what Is pest
for the end sought European education has grown to
be the best for European society. Revolution
IL always ruinous, and Is TO be resorted to
only m the last extremity. We have not yet
reached the chaotic period at Brown. No training can
NJ man To be legislator or philosopher or TO deai
Win the minds OF this generation tn which ne Will not DO
required to 20 back 10 the roots and origins Of things We
VIII not take Revolutionary course at BroWo ANY AZ
tempt 10 substitute for the classical studies the modern
for public life for which posterty will hold the colleges
that make the attempt strictly to accounts.
been Increased larger attraction IL paid to modern Ian
guaGes. and the facilities for studying physical scenoes
nave been enlarged. But certain weestaOshed studies
will always be required for degree. No student will be
ehIlleI 10 decree Wno mas not obtained Know
ledge OF the working OF his own mind and who has not
thorough in history the eternal
shall widen and give attention TO physical
sciences. This money IS ready for astronomical
observatory [Appalse The sum OF 800 900 is ready
also for laboratory for applied chemistry and mechanics,
one thing especially would speak Of We are happy At
because
quiring police officers maintain order daughter and
appause We not in the newspapers as under dis
clpine by the students; Continued laughter
Brow1 Is small D. COLLEGE but t hd ns' vo 9Ses
done among small number Of men lApplause.l Our
small college Is educating Rhode islanders for their WoLk
IL life and doing much for York IN remedyg the
defects Of the large colleges brown VIII do its best our
friends Yale and Harvard to help you positions Of
real usefulness Long continued applause and aughterl
When quiet had been restored. after President
Robinson ceased speaking the Collie &c Giee Gun
sang Alma Mater" and then Mr.. Curtis called upon
Governor Bourn of Rhode Island saying that every
Of that dlmlnutlVe State remarked Of n az
Webster did of his college Dartmouth, II Is
small but there are those who love it, The Gov
ernor was heartily welcomed. lie said that IN
spite Of Rhode Islands smallness 1t was the nrst
state in the history of mankind where
every man could worship God according to
lis own conscience. He referred to the DIS
tiugShed men whom Rhode Island had given to
the country in the Revolution, the War of 1872
and the Civil War, and spoke OF the great INDUS
tries that make the little commonwealth one vast
workshop. He praised Brown highly and was APP
plaUdcd 70 the echo tor his complimentary anu
sion to Professor Lincoln.
WHAT PROFESSOR LINCOLN SAID.
Mr. Curtl- then introduced Professor Lincoln with
a few eloquent sentences. These arc some OF the
points in the professors speech:
Mr.. PRESIDENT: It il delight to at this gathering
look into the faces and have part IN the cordial greet
n, OF SD many OF my brothers of Brown not few OF
waom are my pupils whom learned TO esteem and love
their college days and whom have followed - Far IA
D. has been allowed me- into their various ayocatons In
/
u such cheerful and merry company have looked mp
and down this festive board. and nave failed to discover
"tle elou ed countenances" daughter Just ~ muct as
the frugal fare and Tue sober coAVersatI0n Whl'H
training duln the days and evenings Of the past
week Laughter We may hope nat our irenn5 course
~ Austen lou. living TOT the week mas not severely I'M
paired his constitution; and we may De sure thdt ms
troracted diet OF YoIugs Night Thoughts has proved
very wholesome TO nm ana that 10 can neither uul nor
Dry up the sources Of his sparkling ana exuoerant Wit
Laughter bu1 laA aoI .ua u, w. ,ns ~ y, ,o
soft imp chment that we men OF Bro"n are some
what -rrous-niudCd fraternity perhaps becomes us
bee this rather serious human life Of ours Applause
Yeti Is suhclenty obvious lla we KNOW now ~ Gcs
o. bil truea To the carng cares ana sober business
OF the workday world and MIX dash Of folly with our
rumiuaons and IN the observance Of tho Floraan
motto THIS classic menu, 10 taste the sweotness
ihsve been asked to something OF what IA called
"the Greek question" suppose we mean ~ tHat the
Refa Kappa Grafton pronounced at Harvard last summer
by adistng ished aImnus Of that University. Now Sir,
90 not propose tonight carefully % traverse that crit
ei.m one ia wary OF getting into strife OF words on 50
peaceful and delightful theme as Greek speech and
he by the somewhat Incorporate tone
OF that grafton Then too the charges there made
against Greek are for substance not new they have
been made AZ least several times before and think have
been fairly answered But without going deeply into
these charges have only TO ask this company OF LIBERAL
y educated men, n 1t is fair and sound procedure 10
argue against Greek studies that our graduates, after
thew have gone into the world aud busted with
NJ trer U all even as we are told the unlearning
OF the Greek alphabet All that II were literally true
would be argument against the study or creek as
sucL hut against such study Of Greek Nay,
n You push the argument To lts lO5lcal SCI
uuences It IA equally valid against the other
languages with their lteratureS, which are studied In
college and against all the sciences too for are not these
too st rs much abandoned, and even fOrgotteni Ap-
pau-e. seriously let ask. Is It wlso and seemly In
literally educated American TO appear before an augus5
assembage OF American scholars convened IN tha grand
iheatIs OF our oldest University, and on tne
basis OF such arguing as have quoted. quoted
and cast reproach upon his alma mater FOR training HIM
sell and his fellows in the study Of GreeEas tine worship
Al, Sir We are a great people, indeed in this New
orld, and destined please God TO- great future IN
az we'll but future is possible believe, only by
thoughtful aud practical reinemrance that we are tne
neirs % great past and this past begins not with
landing OF the Pilgrims any more man our IIeedon
back certainly It's Intellectual side over to that country
II little and yet so great whose people were the very
first to the world what real civilization Is and who
have ever been and who continue be the teachers VI
mankind in literature, science and art lApplausel
Edward L. Pierce president Of the Brown
AIrr,,i Associotion of BOSTON spoke pleasantly of
Alliiii I,L pboda Island oSvod 70 Massachu-
SITS referring to the fruitful experience Of Mr. Cur
lis at Brook Farm and 70 the emigration OF
Roger Williams from the older state. Many OF the
men whom Rhode Island claimed and was most
nTond Of really belonged to the Bay State. Mr.
Pierce also touched briefly upon general questions
of education and the influence or college men IN
public life especially insisting upon what college
men had done for the publication of politics and the
reform of the Civil Service paying an
rlo0neut tribute 10 the services of Mr.. Curtis
which was received with the heartiest demonstra-
lions Of satisfaction.
TWO POEMS READ.
poem. largely humorous, but with passages of
sentiment and pathos, was read by Charles l. Cong
don.
Charles c.. Beaman, president Of the Harvard
Alumni, made a genial and witty speech, in which