Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-29
THE YALE BANQUET.
ANIMAL Reunion of Graduates From Thai
Famous Institution.

Yale men, to the number of sixty-odd, had
glorious time last night at the Arlington
on the occasion Of the annual banquet OF
the Isle Alumni Association OF Washington.
They ate and drank and chattcd for an hour
CT 80, and Yale talk flowed with n per-
sistence and an that smacked unusually
of the extreme fondness with which the chill
dren Of the university regard their alma mater.
even after the lapse of many years. There was
strong delegation present to represent the
very young blood of the alumni, graduates of
SO and 90, and there we're almost many
others whose class numbers are dates Of refer
once for the present university student. and
mark periods tina. extended away back before
the war.
The table at which these Jolly fellows sat was
n sort Of distorted ''E, with the center arm
somewhat longer than the others. The
younger men were generally seated near the
junction OF tins long arm with the main stem
and they seemed just whit subdued by the
close proximity of the grave and reverend
seniors whose forms were familiar enough on
the ;lOor of the Senate and on the bench of the
Supreme Court. Still thew evidently enioyed
themselves in huge. undenisble manner that
Was led by the unbending iollity of the repre-
seatatiyes Of the more ancient classes across
the board from them
THE MENTAL FIREWORKS.
There was good deal of disappointment felt
when, early in the evening, before the diners
had sat down, it was announced that of the
makers Of mental fireworks who had been ex-
pected two OF the most renowned were not to be
present-Wayns MacVeigh and Chauncey De-
pew. Senator Eyarts was also absentee. but
though. perhaps, there was a little less brilliant
post-praudial Oratory and wit pure and simple,
such as is always sure to flow from the lips of
the opponents of the great classes of 50 and sc,
who were adroitly piIted against each other on
the toast lis. so that there would have been an
inevitable battle royal between them had they
but attended. 1t Is quite certain that what of
speechmaking there was made was Of prime
order and second TO none ever delivered in this
city in the hearing Of a company of diners
Senator WolcOtt presided in his capacity as
President of the association, and ably sustained
his reputation for ready wit and grace of man
at the helm of such an occasion. In OPEN
ing the section of the evening that is perfumed
by the odor OF coffee and the smoke of cigars.
he mentioned the more than local influence
which Yale has upon her students and then
made Use of some remarks that might have
been interpreted into something significant, in
view OF recent happenings on Capitol Hill. He
said that the limitations of the Legislative arm
OF the government seem to be wei nigh lost
and that now IL - reaching out and touching
almost every topic under the sun. 1t would be
well. he added. If we legislate less as to the hab
its anu thoughts of men and give more thought
TO matters that have a bearing upon their edu-
cation in general In introducing Justice
Brewer he noted the wonderful but perfectly
natural order of things which calls to the
highest positions in the country's ranks of
statesmen, jurists and thinkers men from Yale
and il quite the thing. he thought. that
there should now be two such men sitting on
that highest of tribunals, the Supreme Court of
the United States-
"cIScH' ON THE SUPREME COURT.
Justice Brewer remarked that it was the func-
ton Of a judge, he had always thought, to
listen, and many was the time that he had
listened, so often and so long, and now he felt
that he had chance to get them-the lawyers
upon the hip and take his sweet revenge. He
made some very quaint remarks about the high
and honorable body of which he is a member
with especial reference to Justice Brown and
he said that il would surely seem at the present
day though Yale has q ''cinch'' on the Su-
preme Court
When Senator Wolcott presented ex-
President Andrew ID. White of Cornell
TO respond 10 the toast ''Universities,' he
called attention to the facial least he
said II was a fact-that whenever a new
college has come to the front Yale man has
been at its head. Mr.. White spoke for some
time on the humorous side of his early efforts
TO reform the cause of education in America.
the cold shoulder given to his schemes by his
fellow educators. the denunciations cast upon
his head by men who. he said, should have
known better, and, finally, the unanimi.y with
winch these same opponents have fallen in with
his ideas and not only praised them but adopted
them He mentioned the ease with which fads
are given room at Harvard and the correspond
ing difficulty with which they take root at
lale, and he went on 10 say that a fad is simply
a WORKOUT custom that has ceased TO be popu-
lar in Europe and is brought here and cut up
into small Piecesfor distribution among favored
classes.
A SCHOLAR FROM YALE.
Senator Wo.cott said. when Mr.. White had
taken his seat and he was about to introduce
the next speaker, that it was very fortunate for
those present that Prof. White was president
OF but one university. Senator Gibson spoke
to the toast "A scholar Of Yale" He reviewed
all the men who had achieved distinction after
coming from Yale and said that none of them
had So thoroughly come ur TO his standard and
ntted himself for the title scholar of Yale
As DIR. Iheo. Wolsey, the learned president OF
the university, when he n student there
He noted single incident to his career which
dweit upon q lecture given to him and fellow
student by the grave doctor for having re-
moved the college bell. DIR. Wolsey had told
them that the trick might be done by u scholar
but not by gentleman, and of the two he would
prefer that they be gentlemen The Senator
warmly urged the prosecution of the collection
that Is being made for the erection Of a monu-
nent on the college Campus to the memory Of
DIR. Wolsey.
Mr. A e. Wilkinson made bright speech in
ASefOAASS " oAc toast Nldr-tlalts- ne renem
bered some very funny things about his own
classmates, those of the class Of So and spoke
Of the band, which was like nothing else that
ever was or ever can be again. DIR. Depew he
added, was Their a musician of the first order
because IN singing fugue he would always end
hrst although he started last. This was the
grand test of a man. musical abilities He
made a pretty allusion to the arrangement o.
the table by saying that ~ ones hair grew
grayer and thinner he gradually progressed
xlong 70 the center and head of the board.
YOUNG YALE
Judge W. II. Taft the solicitor general
spoke sloquently TO the toast Young Yale =
He said that he did Vpt feel like young Yale
nan. for, although lie graduated in the class Of
rs, his commencement day fell on the twenty.
eth anniversary OF the graduation Of the class
OF 50 and he had always regarded himself a,
one OF the latter. Until he came to Washing
ton he had not faltered in his allegiance to hi,
adopted class, but since ne has become u week.,
contributor to the Numbers OF the Suprem,
Court, which contains two Of another class. hi,
faith las wavered- He is row raising an ur
tiergradaate Of the class Of 1910. he remarked
Senator Wolco:. said that he had great deal
OF sympathy with those old Greeks who grew
tired OF hearing Ar:sti6es called 1.-The Just "
anil ne Thought that in the future SO mer
should be made to talk about the class of So
end wee versa. Justice Brown then responded
TO the toast, The alumni o. Yale" the distir.
gnishiag feature Of whom, he said, was theii
ub,Quity. Yale men were 70 he found eyerx-