Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-22
YALE AND HEIR ALUMNI. General KyraygOn @aRw0B Sets KHfE1ge9f Right Nh the Record.


 to the report, or rather synopsis, of his re- cent speech at the Yale alumni meeting in New York, which got into the panerss::- At the monthly meeting of the New York alum Iii of Yale on Friday evening last General Ives was introduced by MT. Depew as "a graduate known as somewhat radical in pub lie utterances and conservative in private Iife" General Ives improved the opportu- nity to correct misrepresentation of his re marks week before at meeting of Celum- bia alumni. He said
 Last week, in an unfortunate moment, l consented to speak at an alumni dinner in place of our president, MT. Depew. The re- suit proved the recklessness of my temerity. The reporters gauged correctly the difference between MT. Depew and myself, and instead of column, they would have given to his, they summed up my remarks in from three to six lines. But the worst of it was that, doubtless with the best of intentions, they made me responsible for sentiments which never entertained. The result is that 1 have been overwhelmed with protests, more or less indignant, both from individuals and the press in Connecticut and now ask the privilege of a personal explanation. stated explicitly, in reply to President Porter's remark about graduates who spoke fippantly of country clergymeH, that was but one of large number of alumni who regarded the clergymen only with honor and respect; that much as l might differ with their views we recognized grateful appreciation their zeal and the i'm portance of their work; that it would be natural to suppose that alumni living in New York and other large cities would know more of the world and of the views and needs
  of comparative seclusion; and tLat the strongest support which college could have would result from a union of these two classes. I did say Yale college had been heavily handicapped, at the out set, by narrow religious creed, but I intended to lay special emphasis on the words ''at the outset," and I referred for con fession of Faith, with it's doctrines of predes- tinatien, foreordination, the creation of the world and everlasting punishment. But I said also that the Congregational church had made such progress in Gberality that believed the majority of its clergynen leterodox by the founders of Yale college appreciate the fact that religious de has been more quick to recog- nize scientific truths and the growth of ad- vanced thought.
 These, gentlemen, were the thoughts and words which were converted into an attack on country clergymen and Yale college, and hearing them, I believe you will hold me guiltless of disloyalty to my alma mater or of disrespect to body of men who entitled to all honor. l never expected to find my self called upon to make such an explanation, IS in public and private I have always spok- sn of the college with love and admiration. nave often attributed such success as I have attained to the advantages of the instruction
 fhara ha1 al hi ipl1 of her with gratitude, come what may. But 1t is undeniable that the college af- 1 airs are not satisfactory. A feeling is abroad | hat the management is not abreast with the ! tines. Whether right or wrong, the fact | must be accepted, and proof is seen in the l he academic department and in the action | # many graduates in sending their sons else l where. I am not prepared to say whether hese facts are warranted or not, and admit | hcu with regret. Personally I sympathize with conservative management. I hold hat college should never be in the van, ut that it shall keep en rapport with the conservativa element of the com nunity. And how can this be doEe more asily or efficiently than through intimate nd harmonious relations with the alumnil cannot refrain from speaking here of the wo articles which appeared in the last num- er of the New Englander and which appear 0 me to be not only unjust to the alumni, 1 ut extremely injudicious. Professor Guli- CT speaks of the Eecent substitution of six lumni for the six senators as an objection I ble proceeding which other colleges should | e slow to follow" and Mir. Kingsley says: 1 The inexpediency of this representation rom the body of the graduates has become learlv manifest in these latter years" But either writer gives fact in support of his osition. Mr. Kingsley, moreover, says raduates are "the benefciaries of college" te who has paid his college bills.
 Now if there is any plot among the alumni , usurp the college government, or if any raduate or graduates are trying to force into the Yale corporation simply ,r the sake of office, I know nothing of leir schemes, and certainly have no sym athy with them. Nor do believe in their xistence. am sure that graduates