New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-27
PARTING WORDS AT YALE.
PROFESSOR DWIGHT'S BACCALAUREATE.
TELLING THE YOUNG MEN OF THE GRADUATING
CLASS WHAT is EXPECTED OF THE NEW

TELLING THE YOUNG MEN OF THE GRADUATING
CLASS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE NEW
LIFE THEY ARE TO UNDERTAKE
NewHaven June % especially .-Bcfore an audience
that filled every seat in the Batte Chape PRESIDENT
Dwight, Of Yale to-day preached tic baccalaureac
sermon. His text from Philippians II, 10: Among
whom ye are seen as lights In the world. holding
forth tire Word Of Life" The speaker sold In part
"These words OF Paul 10 his Phnppan brethren iad
immediate reference 10 the spiritual life which they
had received by becoming Christian believers. II
may use them as applicable also 70 the mental lie
which education inspired BY Christian teaching ana
Christian faith impars, they will be found. am sure
my young friends OF the graduating class, 10 nave
special appropriateness 10 the hour that Is no" upon
US and will prove very suggestive OF btuhg Thought
The letter from which they are taken was i'te' Vi
love- which was written with the most tender re
membrance OF old associations In the great gomez
and with the feeling that there might never oc ccr
ing aesin between the writer and the rcaders
IL was a letter accordingly, which carried IN ltscH
farewell OF benedction. The words OF -uch lare
WELL whatever they may he, cannot but have an III
prcssiveness for us when similar words aie 10 oe
spoken In our hearing. for II Is the CHRISTIAN GU
ment which this writer and his associates lad re-
ocvcd into their souls life thIt gives TO our friend
ships of today their most sacred character Inc
recoections OF the pa years and the separation winch
now begins for us may bring the words, therefore, very
to our experience
"The educated man should rejoice In the CHRISTIAN
and manly education which Is his. lie should give II
its true place in his esteem as compared Win ou'""u
things lie should have his largest enthusiasm III
closest connection with that which is within himself
lie should glory in the light power because 1T IS HE
newer: and by his manifest glorying In II lie shoun
hold It forth to the view OF all about him. IiS Is tc
way for tho educa.ed man to live In MS mii" nv
o,,ylt IN
brought to our minds at this time In our Nauohai MS
tory when the development Of outward things is 50
remarkable and when the desire for these thS> Is
SO largely awakened everywhere. The saie'y OIL ''e
Nations inward life, its life oil thought anu c'''a0
ter and manhood rests In no small measure upon 'e
estimate which educated men place upon WHAT 10
within themselves. II those who have learned We
hgher lesson and have received the blessings for TIE
inward ufe who have been taught In manly way
what ths man himself Is as compared with his sur
ronudngs and PROFESSIONAL they are 10 thih" VI
wealth as the indispensable thing to make HE worm
living or Of Office station as the end OF all cor all
hope or of any external good more and better thah
the internal light power. the highest glory Oh 'ie
Nation must disappear
"And we may well remember that II Is the youhS
men OF the universities above a Others, WHO are 10 DC
the cnergYing force for the best life OF the coming
time What can become Of that best life, " tey lhiih
moro of what they gain than what they are ihe
great gilt OF enucatlOD, WlRH Vc"cu hV'" Wv "''"
and Christian standpoint Is not the knowledge WHICH
ACQUIRED or the training Of the powers for successful
accomplishment These part Of what 1t bestows'
but not the chief part The chief part is the Inward LIE
Of the e Just the chief part OF what pesio' mas
In its gift is the thing. The educated man. lheo'
fore. who puts success, or position, or wealth. or
fame or power over men, anything within the range
OF what the world calls good above the inward life,
denies his true self within the very centre OF his being
He turns aside from the lawful pathway as II ne hd
never received the gift in manly way for manly
purpose.
Who can look out today upon the political world
or tho world of wealth and its acquisition. or the world
wherein any every department men are struggling
to get In advance Of each other, without recosmzhg
tho description which the apostle gave as ruiiy ap
plicablc tn this generation. Into the mast or mnu
tudes Of such you are to so forth as you ch'cr
upon the work o. your manhood. Their manner oi
CIfe hike their life itself. will press upon you upon
every side. They will solicit YOU by their example
and by their persuasion to initiate and follow them
But tcy live 10 the darkness In the sense IN which the
Apostle understood the meaning OF that word, and Ia
which manly and Christian education understands IL
the darkness OF the soul and the moral lfc whe you
lave begun in the light and have the privilege OF the
Hight ever opening before you. II You are TO realize
the privilege apd resist the temptation. you
and not they must become the powers In the
generation The lesson taught by you, ana
taught impressvely and effectively TO all men
because Is taught by you must he not tho lesson
of peyerseness, but Of sincerity not OF crookedhcss
but Of stnightness. The summons 10 the euicated
man Of this age, who Is educated In Christian
university is the same winch addressed to the
Christian believer Of al the early ages-to be sincere
s,nigitorward man and If he refuses 10 yield obedl
eacc TO the summons he denies the first principles OF
his education, even the believer Of the Pauline era
would have proved false the life message which he
had heard II he had turned back into the darKes, 0!
the un-Christian men about MIN. NO man who thus
refuses can be light and 1T is to be illuminat
lus lights that you Cuiied
Il Is runrored that President Dwight has pleasant
surprise In store for those who attend the alumni
banquet Wednesday afternoon. He will announce. so
II "a said the gift Of handsome sum OF money 70 ale
10 DO expended In erecting the most expensive dorm!
tory that has adorned college campus PIesi-
dent Dwight has certainly said nothing TO newspaper
men corroboratng this rumor, and II may have no
foundation In fact but IL Is believed that William H.
Vanderbilt, Of Ncw-Yoik has given to the college a
large OF TO be used suggested, the build
ing to be In memory Of his son who was such a
favoTie at Yale, and who recently died of typhoid
fever Such building Yale Is In great need OF, and
nothing would add to the appearance OF the
campus or to the comfort Of the students than the
suggested dormtory. The old brick row. dear as II
Is to hundreds Of mon all over the country. Is IN
attractive IN Its external appearance aud odiahoned
In its Internal arrangements.
KENYON COLLEGE.
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