Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-20
YALE JUNIOR EEK.
Interesting Contest at Batteu Chapel -Mr. Palmer rofBridseport Wins the

Interesting Contest at Battell Chapel -Mr. Palmer rofBridseport Wins the
 Prize.
 The Yale junior exhibition, or contest for the Henry James Ten Eyck prize, the income of two thousand dollars, "to be given to that member of the junior class who shall write and pronounce an English oration in the best manner" was held in Batten chapel at o'clock yesterday after noon. The speakers and their subjects were as follows: 1, Hugh A. Bayne, New P. Fish, Elmira, NY, General Custer; 3, Percy c. Eggleston, New London, Conn.,, Marianne Alcafarado; 4, Emmanuel E. Shy dacker, Chicago, H., The Beginning of the Commune of 1871; 5, Thornwell Mullally, Pendleton, s. o., Italy and Crispi; 6, Henry M Kidd, Albany, NY, The Restric- tion of Immigration; 8, Henry R. Rathbone, Albany, N. Y. ,Camoens; 8, Alfred B. Pal mer, Bridgeport, Conn, Cardinal New der, the prize being awarded to the last speaker.
 MT. Palmer after reviewing the life work of the great cardinal, in speaking of his character said:
 ''It is hard to understand this strange bondage of warm and tender heart to despotic thought His thought repels us, his great heart draws us to him. In telleetually he is slave-in his fire and love he seems divine. We feel, as we fol- low him, that we have left the free air of our day for dungeon, weighed down with the burden of old thought. But &1a %okro fha missal-page of the past, feels only the charm of seeing the letters glow upon the page, hearing once more the heart beat of sages of old, living in their life. We may almost fancy him in the days of the teach l CT of Nazareth, in the flowing robe of a grave doctor of the law, his soul thrilled by that gentle Follow Me- but with the l law of Moses as millstone about his neck. He belongs to another world. To us req son is king, free thought our right-how can we argue with one who says that req son is slave?"
 | In conclusion the speaker said: "He has wrongfully read the lesson of the past. The world has moved-and moved for ward-out of bondage and superstition in- l to liberty and manhood. Newman's ideal 1 is false. To be free man, knowing that | one is free, even though in the wrong, is nobler than to lie down fettered and ca ress ones chains. To make the world bet ter, man must act, not shut himself away in reverie. Let him catch the spirit of the wind, the cataract, the restless ocean, not watching on snow-crowned summit dream himself away. Save yourself, cries Newman, and listens for some whis- per from another world. Save mankind is the grander ideal of one who faced, un- finching, world without God. Free dom, altruism, trust, are the lessons from life which has not known them.
 l ''But it is harsh to charge him now. He has known not the hardened outer crust of wrong, but the soul of goodness in things evil.' He has found, as he tells us, rest after many heartaches, the home after many storms. Why trouble him: | The world will remember not Newman
 the controversialist, not the prince of the church; but Newman, the poet of calm and grace, the prince of thought, the pure and saintly patriarch who has seemed to walk l wifh God ,D