Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-06-30
"wednesday, juno 30, 1855.
YALE Co1ImENOEMENT.


mencement An Eloquent Grafton BY
Wayne MacVeagh 1.-TWO PoWerf 1
Coz demnatfons OF The Crime Of
BoycotGing ny Prize Speakers-The
Prizes-The sheffield school Exer-
cIses The Graduates And The
Prizes-The Glass Cup And Glass Boy
Of 's3-The Ball Game-Class Reu-
nions-GIee Club, Etc.
The alumni meeting was called to order
at $50 o'clock by Rev. E. S. Lines, the sec
rotary, who nominated Hon. Chauncey III.
Depew, of the class of sc, ss chairman. Mr..
Depew was received with loud applause. He
said that he had found that thirty years of
| absence from the college had not diminished
| his fondness for collegiate humor. Whenever
he had attended alumni gatherings he had
| always wondered by what process the cleo
| ton of the president of the meeting was
| attained and from his experience in politics
he had been led to suppose that there had
been some sort of trickery made of in
the process of such a selection, but he
free to confess that upon the present occasion
| the election of a chairman had been an over
| whelming demonstration of popular will.
| The speaker did not sympathize with the
new doctrine that holds that mature youth
of nineteen knows more than the faculty of
| the college which he attends. This meant
anarchy. He thought that anarchy had no
place in this world. The proper place for
the anarchist at large was inside the Jail and
for the college anarchist outside the college
walls.
His reference to Gladstone filled the hall
with applause. He pictured him as he is at
the present moment, engaged in herculean
efforts to wipe out the wrongs of centuries
by one marvellous stroke. The world was
engaged in watching the movements of
Gladstone, he said, with almost the same
breathless intensity that it awaited the result
of the election of a member of the Yale cor
poration. Apropos of this he remarked that
he had read with great interest the nantes
toes of the different candidates for the
position, which manifestoes, he said, were
worthy of such men as Churchill, Salisbury,
Chamberlain and Parnell He would like to
vote for them all, but whichever was elected
the college would be safe. The speaker referred
in glowing terms of farewell to President
Porter and in welcoming President Dwight
he said that he had been the tutor of the
class of '56. When the class graduated one
member whom the mantle of prophecy had
hit pretty hard stated that he was confident
that ''Tutor Tim Dwight would some day
preside over Yale college.
Mr. Depew concluded amid a storm of ap-
prOVal ana Cn6 ReY. InOmaS u. f1Ck1n,
formerly assistant rector at Trinity church,
this city, stepped forward and introduced
the class of '36. The doctor is getting aleng
we'll in years and was obliged to cling to the
back of chair for support, but his mind
has evidently lost none of its keenness, and
the manner in which he reflected upon the
follies and foibles of the ancient class of '36
brought tears of laughter to the eyes of the
alumni.
elk Marvel" Westville's Donald G.
Mitchell, spoke for the class of Al, and his
remarks, while productive of much sport to
the alumni, were also of interest to the audi
ence generally.
The class of '93 was ably spoken for by
Tutor Bunce, while John Mason Brown, of
Kentucky, spoke in behalf of the class of '56.
Frederick J. Kingsbury of the Yale cor
poration addressed the gathering for the
class of 48 and dwelt upon the Improvements
that have occurred in the world at large, and
Yale in particular, since the proud year of
his graduation.
Messrs. Richards, Holtz and Wooster spoke
for the classes of 80, '66 and '76.
Professor w. K Townsend was then call
ed up. President Depew very handsomely
introduced the professor in complimentary
terms. Professor Townsend spoke for III.
He recounted the progress of Yale under
the fostering care of III, and compared its
standing with that of rival universities. He
said that in the words of the west
the class of III flung it's
platform to the breeze the hand Of provi-
dence has not failed to smile upon Yale col
lege." Professor Townsend was in great ia
with the meeting. He spoke at length,
but was enjoyable throughout. He Ikened
the class of II to the 500, 900 Morgan peach
blow vase, immutable as work of art only
to be appreciated by cultured taste. He
stated that President Porter, discerning with
a prophetic eye the undeveloped possibilities
of their gigantic int lects, entrusted his
last and greatest work on the "Human Intel
lect" to them as a class, impressed with a
full sense of the Importance of their self con-
seriousness and individual "Egoes" Here
Professor Townsend told how they pre-
scented Abraham Pierson to the college after
their triennials supper and wound up by
quoting from LIST Timothy, saying
that as the feeble representative of
the donor of Abraham Pierson, of
the class which represented Yale's
history from Noah to Timothy, he charged
Timothy according to the prophecy that led
up to him, to avoid 'profane and vain bah
blings and oppositions of science falsely So
called" and to flee youthful lusts and take a
little wine for his stomach's sake and the
class of III.
Secretary Lines read off the names of the |
standing committee for the following year,
which include almost all the faculty of Yale. |
The question of accepting the report of |
the JOINT committee recommending that the
faculty consider the ACCESSIBILITY of changing
the corporate title of the college from the |
President and Fellows of Yale College" to 4
"Yale University was next taken up. At |
ter Professor S. E. Baldwin had explained |
the matter thoroughly the report was accept |
ed.
President Porter then announced that the |
increase in the wealth of Yale during the
past five years had amounted to nearly |
50 900, 900. The legacies amounted to about
100000, he said, while the gifts for the
Lawrence dormitory, the Sloan laboratory
and Dwight hall had amounted to as much
more. For the academic department about
5000, 900 had been donated, and by the will
of the late Mr.. Sheffield the Scientific school
has acquired about 100000. There were
other requests and conditional legacies that
were hard to compute, he said, but the col
lege had increased in wealth much more
during the past few years than in any period
of the same length before. The meeting
then adjourned.