New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-24
TO THE SENIORS AT YALE,
PRESIDENT DWIGHT ON THE LESSONS OF
LIFE.
APPOINTMENTS FoR THE GRADUATING GLASS;
THE BAcCALAUREATE SERMON PREACHED
IN BATTEL' CHAPEL.
RCnA PHI To THE rkIRuSp

IN BATTEL' CHAPEL.
rBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TkIBUSE.l 4
NewHaven, June 23.-Hundreds Of strangers guests
OF Yale students, in town to-day, and In social
sense, at least this will be the greatest commences.
ment Yale ever had. Tomorrow morning President
Dwight will announce appointments Is follows fol
the senior class Of the academical department:
yaledctory William A. Mcouaid, New Haven, Conn
Philosophical orations-Horace Fletcher Wslksrs
Ralph Ensign, simsbury, Conn; clifford Pnchot, NsS:
Scott, New.Haven
High OFs assI Wallace Bank Guor Conn.,
Palmyra, n. T.; Herbert Augustine Smith, Worcester,
Mass; William Herbert Page, Ironton, Ohio; Harry
E"odfa seranon Andrew Gsus %nsS
Reading, Penn; Horace wyle, Washington. d. C.
1p Ga Pope cohen COHEN Hs la! W. "; f Hy
Rockville Conn; George lyman Lamphler; Goshen.
s Gassf Sam RYE ps "a
Pond, Falls Church, Va. Frederick Andrew Scott Tor
ryville. Conn. Howard Hunter Williams North Adsms
Dssertatons-willIam Whitney Ames. Rockville,
Conn Thomas Walter Buchanan, Albany, n. Y: saS
emeyer Daniels, Niagara Fails Ont Thomas Elliott,
CSiSsso' M John Cornelius Gr GentereoL
francis Leteher, sonthbridge Mass. Augustus Henry
Mosle New.York: Charles sanford skilton. NorthanS
n. J.; Lewis shelton Welsh Hartford, Conn.
Conn; Philip Embqry browning poushkeeps.s. y. u
hhOmas Michael Cullnan Bridgeport, Conn Frederick
Wesley Ellis Ansona, Conn Edward Barrett Hnck.
ley X0TthaP pIt Mass George Clark Pack Brook
storrs, Hartford, Conn. PIlip Psttstson TsIi,
second Rispn,es-Freeman Davidson Boem.n.
GouVerheur' y: H.. Dwight Walter Bsse Ahncdn. .
lam Herbert Corbn, Hartford Conn aA' Waam Nessf
Deforest Dickinson New Haven. Conn Albert Myrick
N Y ffnrdr Gam
John Bah Osborne Wilkesbarre, Penn. Charles Clark
pasdss goOAy sSry ars; Reynolds $S
Conn. /; William Hayden Rockwell, New:York; hngdon
T H,4 snps Bath Me JSseps Parsons Tgs
town, Mass; Hubert wsmore wells. Louisville KY,
First LS Sds Chit
H4Sa' hses1 e e sss'2a
Brooklyn =. y: Joseph UnderhII, Bath, Y. Y.
:, Second Cooqqes-Henry Cornelius Atkins. In.
ville Penn. Claude Lamot Forbes Csnastota, y. Y;
Edward James Gayesn, New. Haven Conn. Charles
ton, Hartford, Conn: James Henry Keefe, Chestsr,
Mass
President Dwight, OF Yale, delivered his baeea
laureate sermon At Bsttel Chapel this morning Ths
text was st. John xvi, IL: ~ have yet many things
to say unto you, but 80 cannot bear them now'
Among other things President Dwight said:
make these words the foundation OF what have
to say this morning because they seem to have
beyond their first design and meaning We find what
brings them IN closer connection with ourselves They
They open to our minds view Of the Divine process
In the education OF the soul In the earhy Ire, Wnlch
msy be especially impressive 10 Us as We look out from
such an hour this upon our future. IL IS In ths
wider sphere Of their suggestion that would turn
your minds 10 the UOIds, the sphere In which uey
bid u.s. even at the dividing point that separates the
paaOn from the future work receive the assurance
Of the lessons which the yeats will teach. these
lessons viii be OF truth OF duty and Of life itself They
WILL II rightly learned I've In the line Of Christian living
There be doubt in rte mind of any careful
observer Of young men who are Just closing what
distinctly his own OF thought and feeling when
he was IN their position that The tendency OF tass
e OF eF nature 1F influence Of the Studies and
acquisitions and attaipAcnts is In this direction a
Consc ousness OF mental power which comes 10 I h
recognizes himself. In sense In which be neyer az
before, - a thinking being, capable OF srssplng AZ
that i in this power is the dsunsushlpg glory Of h
manhood and alone has that Strength. accompanied
by no weakness which becomes the man.
A striking aud peculiar fact connected with cur
learning and knowing Is that the more We know the
more We seem TO feel and realize the limitations OF
our knowledge II ia the beginner who is satisfied
and wcaried, and who does not look beyond himself
\ who has gone far on In the way and who seems
10 us 10 know most everything, sees the field ever
widening before his vision and reaching out into .
luitless distance His own attachments are but the
The progress OF life I'm his way brings every truly
educated to constantly Increasing readiness 10
NAV teach. our sphere OF working is always larger
than ourselves The Sorrowful thing about our lives
In this rrgar is that We leave unused so much OF
power which we could make effective II we only
laid hold OF the opportunities that offer themselves 70
us. 1t 1, the weakness within which loses the 70
ward. The man himself fails. lie may al his sur
round ngs with the pcaceulness OF his soul II he only
makes his soul be fll OF falthfulnesS and love This
10 forget as we look out upon life from It's beginning
and oftentimes move onward IN IT. But let
man study himself as the years pass and he VIII