The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-11

all our hearts, gave poem on that occasion, as
he did also in more elaborate form at the recent
two hundred and fftieth celebration in 1856 At
the latter celebration the following three stanzas
from his poem rected fifty years before were
repeated, as the ones remembered by the veneer
able poet:
When the Puritans came over,
Our hills and swamps to clear,
The woods were full of catamounts
And Indians red as deer.
With tomahawks and sealping knives
That make folks heads look queer;
., the ship from England used TO bring
hundred wigs yeari
And who was on the catalogue
When college was begun?
Two nephews OF the president
And the professors son;
(They turned little Indian boy,
AS brown as any bun);
Lord, how the seniors knocked about
The freshman class OF onel
God bless the ancient Puritans!
Their lot was hard enough;
But honest hearts make iron arms,
And tender maids are tough;
So love and faith have formed and fed
Our true born Yankee stuff,
And keep the kernel in the shell
The British found SO roughl
Fain would dwell on the part Harvard took
In the war for union, but time forbids more than
mention that of her !, 232 volunteers Sol fell as
martyrs, and their names are enrolled in
Memorial hell.
The 25Oth celebration OF the college in 1886 is
oil recent memory, and its exercises, in which
some OF you took part, call for little mention,
Its exercises have been published in a hand
some volume. But among the profoundly inter-
eslng ana brilliant utterances on that occasion
l was impressed with the sermon of Bishop
Brooks, herein he says "rhat the college lay like
a bali of light in the Intention OF its founders
like rock in great sea, resting on its own
foundations, beaten by the waves, OF which it
took no manner OF account, stands the Puri-
tanism OF the seventeenth century in the Har-
ward college which 1t built in the midst OF the
multifarious and restless history of man." And
DR.. Brooks says that no break is TO be found in
Its progressive history, which conforms to the
elevation and advancement OF humanity. Yet
1t presents four epochs about one-half century
apart. In 100 there was movement of marked
significance connected with the university
regarding the true recipients of the Chris
tan saeraments, wherein the Aathers,
both father and son, took active
part and the result was a wider and deeper APP
probation OF the true significance of Christian
symbols Again in 1876 aud 17i0 there was an
epoch in connection with the pure and I'M
swervingly rigid teachings of Jonathan Ed
wards, OF 1ale. ana arising through the extra:
ordinary enthusiasm created by the coming of
Whitefeld to Boston. Without reviewing any
OF the controversies, the Hollis profes had oc
casion TO rebuke the English evangelist for his
aspersion of Harvard college pety; the result
was the enlargement of the deep life and moral
earnestness. Again, in 1894, the choice of
Henry Ware TO the Hollis professorship of the
ology was crisis, wherein dogma came in
conflict with truth, aud whatever views may be
entertained in regard to modes of church pol
ity and belief seriously entertained by
the respective controvers, sure it is that tho
change was Tor higher and broader Chris
tianity which we recognize as love TO God and
love TO man. Lastly, in recent times, those of
US in middle life have witnessed revolution
and can recognize the marked effects of the
emphasis OF sociology and psychology,
the enlargement OF all methods OF culture. con.
fined no longer to the humanities; we have seen
great advances, SO As to include not only the
triuiam of the medieval schoolmen, embracing
grammar aud rhetoric and logic and the QRGd-
riuittm, embracing algebra, geometry, music and
astronomy, but all philosophy aud science of
the universe, OF matter and of mind-art too as
well as sctenee-omne scfbiLO.
DR.. Brooks tersely put 1t: "Experience be-
came larger than Whiteheld, dogma than CAL
method We rejoice to think that scholarship has
not declined nor aspiration for the high
est religious and spiritual thought Even in
Whiteteld's day as the HOLSTER professor
college piety, we recognize gratefully the truth
of the tribute DR.. Herford, who, alas, is soon 10
return TO England, gave at last commencement
to the moral and religious earnestness of the
young men who came under his observation
one OF the college preachers, recognizing, as he
bore witness, their religious observations to
themselves and others, not under a spirit OF
compulsion, but OF choice: not of the must but
of the ought; n0bJesse obtge
At commencement time two years ago, of all
the brilliant orations and speeches il was my
privilege TO hear, was especially impressed
with that of President Eliot, wherein he gave
assurance, with a simplicity which bespoke his
sincerity, that Harvard university cherishes all
the good the past hath had and il is earnest and
Jealous TO establish and maintain among all
who come within its influence loyalty to truth
and earnestness in its DEVELOPMENT of higher
scholarship. connected with endeaYor
to think without bigotry, and TO
act in that spirit OF advancement
needed to keep pace with the highest spirit of
the age. And he spoke OF the recent acquisition
OF Photographic telescope, whereby il was con-
fdently anticipated there would be new reyela-
tons of the glory and grandeur OF Gods uni
verse, SURPRISING the widest reaches OF fancy:
that hypothesiSes advanced bv dFeamers would
perhaps in some measure be realized, and more
clearly than ever before would be made known
the extent and wonders, and the unity of the
universe In the past two years the use of that
marvellous telescope is said 10 have in some
measure justified those thrilling predictions.
Brethren OF the Harvard Club of Seattle, II has
been my privilege thus 70 recite this history.
not as anything new or unfamiliar 10 you, only
TO remind you Of the foundation and develop
nent of eur Alma Mater IRON the Puritan germ
to its present high position among institutions
of learning Performed in loneliness and pow
erty the generatve act OF 1886 has borne its true
fruit for humanity. Hence our pleasure and
pride to have shared suen privileges, which the
distance OF this Coast rather enhHnces than
allays. Hence the Impulse that calculates:
Alma mater H0strd. tue sigitIo "peTit1s" ta
secaG, secELOrHM, esto perpetual