Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-23

of our misguided citizens trying
to apply some of their peculiar
methods of doing their private business and
public affairs, and they were turned down.
Now am not going to speak favorsbly OF |
our schools. do not think we have good |
schools. We have not got the poorest nor |
have we got the best. There has been |
tradition in New Haven that she has the
best schools in the world. Now 1 have
read the financial reports OF the board OF
education for the past five years and find
an item which comes up with unfailing
regularity, called the extraordinary ex-
pense. This has amounted, at times, to
as much as $29, ZOO. Sometimes 1t has been
for new buildings, and sometimes for other
PURPOSES. But instead of coming out like
men and telling the district about 1t there
is q bond issued and the board trusts to
some future good luck to get 1t out of its
trouble. It isn't a very large fact. bat Is,
I think, an indicative one. According to
the report for five years in the high school
the average attendance has dropped and
the average hardness has doubled. This
indicates that our schools, so far "a disci
pline is concerned, slope the wrong way.
The condition of general discipline in the
high school last spring was such that
teacher could not be determined up
on for one of the lower classes. One
particular class had seven teachers inside
of thirty days. The time was, gentlemen,
when men who came from Hillhouse were
considered and did stand above almost any
others in the university. There is an honor
list for excellence of entrance examination
to the university, and Hillhouse never failed
to be represented on that list until this
year. Out of 421 applications for admis-
sion to Yale college SO were Hillhouse
boys. Comparing the standing of our
boys with those of other schools, our boys
ia found to be below that of those from
other schools.
Now, gentleman, isn't there something
the matter with our public schoolss You
may think that 1t is strange that I say
these things here. But I think that any
reform will have to be brought about by
outside pressure, and do not think that
there is any body which can exert the in
fuence that this body can. You have been
told to look out for the sound dollar. But
the living-growing child is of far greater
Importance than the gold dollar. And 1t
Is Of these things, gentleman, that wished
to tell you"
REMARKS BY DIR. HIGGINS.
Rev. A. V. Higgins, D. D., responded to
the next toast, "The Point of View" He
said that perhaps the one characteristic
which our cultured mind of to day is
tempted to regard with scorn, contempt
and pity is the idea swaddled in the grave.
| clothes Of prejudice. And on the other
hand is fthe young and progressive mind
finding, the higher criticism. Both these
| are morbid and unwholesome states of
mind. To discard anything simply be-
| cause it is old, and to believe 1t or use 1t
because it is new, are both equally wrong.
LIST the moral code of laws cease to operate
and anarchy succeeds. I appreciate, and
am glad to appreciate, that I am with
| you tonight as the representative of our
old institution which has ever striven to
inculcste those ethical codes which keep
alive conscience and the moral sense. It
is the recognition of breaking over of lines
which ought never to have been drawn,
the pulling down of walls which never
/ should have been built. And this comea
just at the time of a sorrowful leave taking
And wish though, tonight, to publicly
deliver message of tenderness and love to
the people of New Haven"
Mr. P1aoTT SPEAKS.
The last toast, "Our Member" was re-
sponded to by the Hon. James P. Pigott
He said in part: "During the recent silver
discussion many newspapers in New Yorl
and New England had great deal of praise
for the senator from New York, who in
sisted on the right of the majority to rule
But 1t is nothing new. 1t is question
that comes home to every taxpayer. Thu
residents of the smaller towns have just al
much right to voice in legislation as thu
residents of the city. I do not forget thai
I represent forty smaller towns beside New
Haven.
political corruption is another evil thai
assails us. Too much money ia used IL
our politics. Public sentiment is becoming
stunted. I would rather honestly servl
one term in congress than spend my life
time there with simply a money backing
any other state in the union, the Legislature
has created Offices for It's own members 1
is pernicious custom, and We need con
stitutional convention to correct these
evils"
The banquet then closed with singing.
LIST OF THOSE PRESENT.
quet:
Table Major T. Attawater Barnes
Hon. N. D. Sperry, James D. Dewell, Hon
Lewis Sperry, Rev. A. V. Higgins, D. D.
Hon. James P. Pigott, Hon. Charles J
Boatner, Morris F. Tyler, Nathan Easter
brook, jr., Rev. William A. Beardeley
Hon. J. B. Sargent, Hon. Henry F. Peck
Joel A. Sperry, General George 81. Ford.
Table 2-Charles A. Lindsley, NJ. D..
Virgil g. Curtis, O. NJ. Parker.
Table 3-John G. Gallagher j. Rice
Wineheu, William P.Weaver, Harry Voor
his, Willard G. Warren, L. w. Cleave
land.
Table M Zuuder, Albert Zunder,
Charles L. We'll, William F. Stahl, john
Ruff, Isaac Newman, F. D. Grave, P. J.
Cronan.
Tabs 5-!ohn Hsnney, j., George E.
Frank h. Quinley, Frank Il. sper-
~, Burton Mansfield, W. D. Whit.
ing, John d. Plat, Edward S. Gaylord,
Charles Ward. William Nicely, Major Isaac
Bromley, Edward q. Phipps, W. F. Hen.
ney, John I. Goodrich, Chsrles T. Ward
Table 6-Max Adler, Henry Herr, Eman.
uel Moses, s. B Shoninger, NJ. Sonnen.
berg, Isaac Wolfe, F. NJ. Adler, Isaac NJ
Ullmsn.
Table 7-Bepjamin R. English, L.
Wheeler Beecher, William J. Atwater
General E. s. Greeley, Herbert 9. War
rem.
Table s-Lorsn q. Stannard, Il. S.Mun.
son, Edward NJ. Clark, Major B. e Brown,
George T. White, Harry W. Asher, W. F.
Gilbert, David d. CLARK, John NJ Cramp-
ton, Rollin Mcneil, NJ. D., E. s. Kimberly,
Edward I. Atwater, Harry Leigh, Edward
| MCGOWAN.
Table Oh. W. Crawford, Hon. James
Graham, Charles E. Graham, I. A. Kelsey.
William N. King, Henry Sutton, E. Harris
Weaver, 8. Harrison Wagner.
Table 10-Charles Il. Trowbridge, viii.
liam S. Beechsr, Clifford Booth, William
81. Hull, Frederick L. Tibbals, E. A. Chat.
field, Frederick -. Lum, Cornelius T.
Driscoll.
Table 11-John NJ. Peck, s. 81. Moseley,
Lucius w. Moody, George A. Maycock,
George W. Lewis, Fred L. Downs, Charles
| 81. Downs, Charles L. Baldw
Table 12-John Adj, George F.Newcomb,
A. z. Rowland, 8. ]. Hoggson, Henry q.
Newton, John B. Judson, Ed win Kelsey,
Charles Il. LOOMS.
Table 13-Frederick A. Belts, Robert A.
Bronson, Frederick B. Bunnell, G. F. Bur-
CESS, Merritt F. Burwell, b. @. Fuller,
Ehphalet Killam, J. E. Killam, John T.
| Manson.
Table 14-william Il. Beecher, F. L.
Avsrill, e. f. Merrill, J. Wheaton Stone,
| +. B. Farnsworth, Lewis A. Plat, Albert
Tilton, r. 81. Brown.
Table 15-William A. Wright, Charles
F. Bates, George Henderson, Professor
George D. Watreus, Alfred N. Wheeler,
George r. Chamberlin, W. B. Powell,
Frederick A. Pickering.
Table 16-Stephen A. Howe, Hon. Rufus
8. Pickett, F. 81. Russell, Samuel 81. Street,
L. W. Robinson, A. B. Hill, A. B. Hen
dryx, Walter B. Law.
At a late hour word was received that
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