New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-24
LOUD CHEERS FOR YALE.
MERRY DINNER OF HER ALUMNI.
ADDRESSES BY MR. DEPEw, ISAAC II. BROMLEY
GENERAL SHERMAN, JAMES w. ALEX
AMBER AND OTHERS.

GENERAL SHERMAN, JAMES w. ALA
AMBER AND OTHERS.
When Macaulay's NewZealander-you nav.
heard of him-shall have pondercd the fate Oh
London on the ruins of its bridge he Will repair
to America, and, having served his time Ill t'.e
dime museum which will undoubtedly cialm HIS
attractive Offices will write Looking backward
book. in which he will probably say Sc" icn
the progressive African pigmy sits on the ruins
of the Yale fence, etc. He will then Ne I'LL
mediately expelled from the country oecdu'
every citizen will be graduate OF Yale ana VIII
resent with the livelest indignation any Ilsilu"
ton that the ancient university anu "ll ny
traditions and traditional belongings, includ-
ing the fence, will not ldeV ivy
American scholars in the New-Zealanders DAY
NAV have FORGOTTEN Euclid, and may be wrang-
ling as to whether the exact site OF the Original
Mons asinorum is in the crumbling British me-
troro,is or on the East River, but they VIII
+harly their alma mater for her pioneer WORK
u; tho nineteenth century in the cause of physical as
we'll "a mental education which will have by steady
evolution produced race tremendous on the loot
ball field unequalled at the oar, and at the SAINT
time magnifcently equipped for wrestling WIN
the titanic abstruse problems dat will confront
mankind.
This may sound like eXaggeration; but as
matter of fact lale claims everything nowadays,
especially at the annual dinners of her alumni and
a good deal of what she claims is hers, and the
rest of her clams-those that may he disputed
by sister universities-may be accorded to
her if she only sticks to them and
works up to them in the future
AT present she has much to be proud of in
scholarship, much TO he proud of in athletics, and
she has Chauncey NJ. Depew, who prcsides at the
reunion of her alumni in New-Yorll, which last
night filed Demonicos big dining room with men
who yelled the Yale yell. shouted for the Yale
blue. and sang the songs of Yale.
With especial vgor they sang the ditty which
foreshadows the handing down of Yale glorlcs
from generation unto generation. Capio lumen!"
And IL it is boy. sir
I'll put him on the crew.
ne shall the Harvard's
As his daddy used to do
No reference was made to the fact that lIar
ward waXed" Yale at football. 1t is mentioned
here simply as a qualification to the enthusiasm
which eevates the rest of this article But who
present could forget that Princeton had been
properly waNed? 20, FORTUNATE, O. terque beati!
O. gaudentes, triumphantes alumni" Did the
British remember the battle of New-Oreans when
they celebrated Waterloo?
Up at the table on the dais with Mr.. Depew
sat General J. w. Hustled. Professor Iadley, Isaac
Bromley, President Timothy Dwight. of Yale Uni
versity; j. w. Alexander, president of The Prince
ton Alumni Association; William H. McElroy,
Major Bundy and Isaac Newton Lewis Others
present were:
J. \. Manning. of the class of 1892; G. Van SAINT
voord, f. :. Mather, j. L. Peet, L. Iobrook, W. b.
Ross II. c. Pratt, W. 5 Petkins. Joseph {; Piatt,
calf, W. II. Fuller, E: B. Convers, W. d. Bishop Ellis
H. Roberts ]. b. Elliot, General Wager swayne, I. G.
Platt, F. l. Neville, II. ". L.clar, NJ {. Day d. Il.
r. W De Forrest. E. III. Converse III. E. Waite,
7. salisbury, Arthur williams, Robert Jaiiray IT,
c G A. Hyd D. E e T. III b a&
Q. Harper: W. F. stgii F. N, Llttlehed' Il i,ol T.
F Fupa Bets, G. G. II HH' Ro9cc g. Adee G. L. Curtis
j. F. Russell, L. Francke, C. E. Paulding, 4. 5 Bus
rowe, F. w. Geissinhelmer. William +: Lusk f. !.
Brown, James 4. Robinson, {. +. Beebe G. NJ
Stocked E. R. De Grove Aaron ;. Thomas William A.
A. c. Hallam Charles II. Royce, George c. Holt.
Payson Merrill Daniel g: Holden, NJ. c. d. Borden
r. j. Rich IT, GeSTge C. Bra 1I,I y K ScShnG
W r Comstock, ". i. b; Pratt, II. Z. Gwen, v; G.
CULVER, ". B. Wheeler D. ,. Delsyan John Mills
L. S. Tenney. a. II. Ely and Allen NJ. Thomas.
CHEERS FOR MR.. DEPEW.
Mr. Depew, the king of the feast. cheered
again and again and again by his loving subjects
wien he arose TO deliver the address from the
throne. lie said:
Parties come and parties 90. but Yale on for
ever. We are here tonight to extend our annual
his 10y al subjects his ardent admirers and his cordial
friends Applause We greet old Yale and wei
come Young Yale. For the graduate OF the college
with his "reminiscences his recoliectlons Of the four
happies years Of his life, his memory Of friendships
Mafer il Is old Yale With her glgriOu, traditions
her two centuries almost Completed her long me OF
her une1ualled contributions 10 the liberal learning of
the Republic and her honor-rOu Of men prominent IN
nrotcSionS and in bnsinc. She is old Yale" But
Tor undergraduate The alisman which inspires mn
with enthusiasm in the friendly competitions OF the
classroom and campus, and the strlie WIN rVdls vi
The aln-etic held, l. simply " 1ale tAppidusc! ,
she is 19l wears old and exceeding rlGh III an tndc
venerable though she Is the second eldest OF e COZ
pr sre.s the youngest Of them AL She trc1 an jhS';
but clnss only to that which IS good A N
cnce has demon, tatcd to be the best but she grasps
and tests the value Of all the suggestions Of the age
G GSi Moved on to her the 'eads right '0@ and left
sudden cyclones Of theory or startling nnrrl I,
the land should be trained disciplined and guided she
knows that the ability 10 DO dimcut tnlnes easily ait
disagreeabe things cheeriuy Is the hrsl crct
hand and nothing else, accurately reproduce some
one feature OF e h mna wh ia'f The NJ" Tondcd and
perfect workman who presents TO the world the Seus
Of Milo the Apollo Belydere Lett TO nseh me me
artist art the endowed with the gift OF tongue.
the languages. But Yale takes the spu9 , Ser yS
nnon the lines where nature has largely endowed hm
and utilities them 10 supply by training ana dlscPIio
those elements Of success In which by nature lie =
deficient. LAppauseJ go ,,- -. 49,.
had on an steamer startling evidence OF tile
belief abroad in the extent 70 WHICH opuOnaI 7'"u'.
are permitted to go in the American universtles Al
concert I'm the saloon, presiding Onicer' miro
dcod twenty Yale aud Harvard students with the
otatement for the benefit of our English brethren VINO
we're largely in the majority among the passengers
tnat Male and Harvard occupied to the higher educit
ion Of America t1e same place as oxford and cam
hdqe did 10 that OF Great Britain, but the difference
~ 80 Environments for a diploma between the Ancr
nan and English universities was that Yale or lar
yard would grant diplomas for those VINO were most
80 ciont i'm the science, and expression of music Then
iihese yonng gentlemen who had Just graduated came
t t nd sang The Of a, son Of a. son of
Iorma ai :. Heres 10 good old whiskey. drink her
Sovn and sundry other enlivcning and dvcrting col
Eo NV ,dee heard of our kinsnen across the
w. III H. nck aerward discussing the concert, and
one Of them said - the other: What gentleman Of
Mr.. Depew's standing in America SAYS about the re-
ni,cdnts which will permit student 10 graduate ~
tnir ~ universities must be true and of them