New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-11

part of speaking for the West and I hopeful
OF receiving early Affirmative reply nvlt,tlon ex
tended to General j. Gordon Of Georgia. 10 respond for
| the South. CONTINUED applsuse1
Courts-matal. military law martial law, the Suspension
OF the Writ Corpus Jurisdiction OF state and
United States Courts time and martial law I'm
tine OF VIII be represented bv Major John W. Cons
u A. judgc-adyocate and professor Of law West Point
Academy appauso) and Municipal Government by Seth
| Low president Of Columbia College. tApplause)
GREETING PRESIDENT wEBsTER.
Harrison f. Webster, the president of Union College
was the next speaker. When he got upon his feet he
was greeted with prolonged applause This Is some OF
what he said
| One of the best have the faculty came 70
me and said SEQ here, Doctor, when you go dJwn
| 10 New-io;k those men Will expect something eiabo-
rate for you will be speaking 10 large audience, which
and of great business connections. That brought back
my mind The time when the Rev Dr. G9rgs @s 10
R,dsnt Of Union c'ege did no. Ts sn 10
really did not know IN what direction ] was 10 seek
TO d s?'@ know P ace IL popy
Union COLE GO 10 pnblc. am not speaker l nave
on Ny business Sc 70 teach and to teach only one
or perhaps half dozen at time They SAID there .,
ss' Of o Gnon College besides sns laugh
ter Well, accepted the presidency: Now, should
% put Union College in proper shape, and soon as
tat Is done am willing 70 go ont and make ron Tor
a
and appauseJ The place Is not much good to me. II
Is hard place. You have 70 put to II all your
week more thoroughly and awfuly and horribly De,
n sa9 The The week f re wa held ~ eTe
body we have won. AppIause) some say that
! did t That is not So No one man could
hadn't helped me- If the faculty hadn't helped me- we
should never Lave conquered as we have. Applause
whole soued thoroughly honest ana capable than
cooperation of these powerful agencies we will with
Gods help: make Union. College what it ought to be-
there Unless You II" men H dOnble the endowment causn
and do straight. honest work for we will not do any
work that is not honest. Conunuei applause 81
shah be performed there that is not real solid and
sincere tApplauseel friend Of mine said to m.
to much. l wish you had graduated from some other
COLLEGE tell You gentlemen that there Is but one
thing, and its name is Union prolongc applausel; and
there is no who has been at school elsewhere who
come once TO Union College and take some sort OF
! degree there. renewed applause)
GOLD MEDALS FROM A GOLD MAN.
Henry J. Cullen. of Brooklyn. of the class Of go.
| announced that it twenty since he
and Mr.. NcElroy, both classmates, left Union College
together took my bachelors degree at that time,s
said Mr.. Cullen, but never had time since TO take
my masters degree Perhaps l shall take II In the
ensuing YEAR nave applied 10 lne lucuit! W create
d. Z, p, and Will graduate in that. a department
of practical politics. Qaughter.) believe IN gold
am hard shell Democrat. Gan Alumnus: \ Dave
Hill Democrat) Uaughterl No. Kings County
Democrat. QaughterJ And we rolled up more than
10000 majority there, too. (ROars OF laughterD
And will give gold medal OF 1928. and
another OF 49, for the next two years special
prizes for the first aud second best alarOund man In
the college" prolonged applausel
The Rev. Or. A. V; " RAYMOND. Of Albany, chan
quest TO acknowledge this gift of Mr. Cullen,
was upon his feet in moment. and took lust about
minutes 10 make Of the wtest speeches OF the
evening He said that it part OF his religion u be
withsandng what some other speakers had said. that
the year 1900 would show the largest graduating
class that had gone out OF old Union. ZAP
plause.) -,
Charles J. Noyes an exSpeaker of the Massachusetts,
Legislature said TINT II his misfortune 70 live IN
the shadow OF Harvard College (laughter) winch
claimed be the only university under the sul but
which in his opinion was composed largely OF the
of like kind In the country. aughter lie instanced
many striking examples In the Bay State OF how grad
etes of Union College had made Roadway I'm all the
walks OF life and then turned aside for moment TO
In practical politics." said be- and do not dream 81
paradise. Practical politics Is to learn what are the
Industrial the moral the intellectual interests OF more
than 6O,0O0000 Of people, applause
Seth Low, president OF Columbia College spoke OF
how important it that men Of thought and scholars
should lie full of American sympathies aud trained in
American ideas. He was proud TO be abe TO say tha
United States universities were now side by side with
the best opportunities to be obtained abroad.
Warner Miller the last speaker. ana he referred
chiefly the advantages to be gained by course OF
lectures such that provided for by General Butter
field. $50.
the participants in the feast separated
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