Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-22

For him who manfully. doth cope | With wrongs and hydra headed ills, | Who faithfully his part fulfls,
 The coming years are big with hope, | And when his sun goes westering OCT the twilight
 Lfe's sweetest joys will wait him on the evening | slope.
 l The change is on us-it is meet
 That we should gather here once more | Where first we met, and thus we complete
 The circle of the years whose silent feet
 Has hither brought the parting, where-my tasl
 Hubert Wetmore Wells of Louisville, Ky
 delivered the class oration on "Moral Activi ! ty as the Consequence of Higher Educa
 tion." Features of the speakers effort
 were as follows: After speaking of our rev
 erence for the past and the delicacy of tn,
 present, and yet there are strong defined
 wave marks and eras and epochs. Code.
 alter continually, and what was right yester day Is wrong to-day. The code is variable
 man is the constant quantity. We live in (
 brighter light than our fathers knew.
 The chief distinguishing mark of our life
 to-day is it's intensity. The one man be-
 comes lost in the surging throng, the battle
 is between thousands. On every side we see
 the press of the forces of good and evil. On \ every side in our great nation we see the power of the forces of good and of evil. Never before was the world so nervously ' active. Eminent authority tells us that the worlds nervous belt is in the temperate zone, I and that it's sensitive center is the United States. The physical man of our national ! life is under terrific nerve pressure. The speaker here commented upon the power of intemperance as destroying blasting agency in our land.
 From Pittsburg to California the distillers are unified into @ powerful combination whose methods are the boycott and the ma nipulation of legislatures; and facts no lesn startling come from the east The evil is fnI nd fn11
 But greater threatening evil is that of immortality. At first sight strangely, at the second naturally, the evil looks for its sus- tensnce to the upper classes, the more en- frightened and SO the more easily wounded men who fill our shops and counting houses Here again is instanced, sharp and clear, the sturggls of 8 lower against e higher nature. until to-day the knight of old seems but dwarf and the giant shrunk to pigmy Sad as are many features of our modem life, none is set in so profound gloom, none Is so full of tears as that position in to which the times have thrust our women-forced them out of that seclusion eo essential to rarest womanhood and to pre- serve which was at once the pride and task of chivalry, into the battle for existence Women are rudely jostled in the crowd, and the old idea, so proper to the Anglo-Saxon race, that woman commands homage by vir- tue Of her womanhood, is no longer without exception. The most exquisite of life's wines has lost it's savor. Another barrier to i'm mortality has fallen.
 Another evil was the irreverent spirit which stands up in sneering defiance to the ordinances and laws of God. Man the ere ator, not the creature, is the formula for it.
 Over against the forces are those powers which make for righteousness, which run to meet the deleterious tendencies of our time and throttle them. For every brewers asso-I citation there is temperance society for every hnuNnff a Ez.. the injured one, for every brothel there is a mlghtier force enlisted under the banners of the White Cross Wrong is not triumphing, 1t is only stubbornly resisting. Back of every noble effort, lending it sanctity, crown ing 1t with dignity, giving it the benison of success is the Church of Christ. By which mean the men and women who love and serve him, and who. by living his life, find salvation in him.
 The man, then, best fitted to grapple with the problems of to day, the problems sug- gested by the individual, and thence man kind-its nature, relations, destiny, is most l of all that man who is abreast with the re- suits of to-day's investigations, who is a rnas- ter of facts, critic of theories, in short, an I man. And the ideal man to day is I not the man of Greece, mot the man of Rome, ! not the Morse giant, not the soldier, poet, | scholar, but the man of Nazareth. The old | world Greek refined and elevated by a lofty |
 
 sellect about its fathers business, @ soul whose every emotion is pure, ethere- I al, heavenly-that is the ideal | man to-day, that is the edu- ,ated man. The truly educated man, there- | fore, cannot escape the burden of moral ac- | tivity. It is essential to him and if he stands | idle while the world calls for him he is untrue l to that which is essential to him as a son of | light. His duty is in moral activity because I De IS best suited to cope with his environ nent. Charity demands it, manhood de- nands 1t, all that is highest and best de- hands it.
 The speaker further treated of the true cd loation and made an impessioned appeal for Allegiance to duty for high and noble stan- iards by educated men. The speaker con- luded with valedictory remarks to President Dwight and classmates. The address was ! worthy the hour and occasion. President Dwight then announced the foI- owing award of honors:
 Seldfers' Memorial Fellowship-w Irving Hunt, Silliman Fellowship-John Whitmore of 'ss Douglas FelIowship-Irving Fisher. of 'ss. taar Larned Scholarship, Class of 's7-William L. Larned Scholarship, Class of 'ss-Herbert c. Tol lan reappointed). colt.
 Clark Scholarship, Glass of 'ss-Thomas F. san- I Clark Scholarship, Class of 'sa-Lester Braaner, E :: R1chardson, Herbert A. Smith, all of 'S9 E Scott Prize in German, Glass of 'SQ-Ftrdfuand chwill. Iucius F Robinson Latin Prize, for Glasses of '89 1d 9U-t1rSt prize, Edmund D. Scott: second prize ,ll1am H. Page; third prize, George l.. Amerman. \ or class or '9l-FIrst prize, Nathan Glicksman; | ,cond prize, divided between William T. Bartley | nd Curtis O. Bushnell; third prize, Herbert K E niIn. Cobden Club Medal Philip P. Wells, class \ o9 with honorable mention of Robert L. Luce. E The exercises closed with the parting or lass ode read by Gordon Brainerd Pike of [iddletown.
 THE CLASS ODE. R ome, classmates, let us, ere we part he dearest ties that bind each heart eneath these sacred elms to-day
 ielding to loyal Friendships sway ing to old Yale and 'eighty-nine: UT love will still be ever thine; hen buffeted by Hfe's rough gale UT hearts (our hearts) will turn to dear old Vale Te'Il sing farewell to Yale and tyine loving wreath for 'eighty-nine; nd may that spirit fostered here,
 all our future ways appear,
 now we'll plight our hearts to thee ,r time and for Eternity,
 nd with affection ever hail
 " name (thy name) and fame dear m otl1ef Ysis ! Tomorrow forenoon at Bat+sell chanel ! esident Dwight delivers the AccaIaureate rmon.
 Relieved of $40.
 An unknown man, resident of New Ha- [, had $40 stolen from him Thursd ay even- 4I \