Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-21
YALE ALUMNI.

YALE ALUMNI.
 Festive Celebration in New York Witty Chauncey's Address-PresI dent Dwight Also Speaks.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Ysle alumn gathered in Sherry's for their annual din ner, to celebrate Yale victories, sing Yale songs and listen to Yale takers.
 Foremost among the speakers was Dr. Chsuncey NJ. Dspew, the president ot tho association, who said:
 The year juet closed once more gave te us the championship with the oar, the ba, and the ball and we enter upon 1893 with rainbows covering the Yale sky. Every year we are told by the ex 2erts that the Yale crew Is not so well trained and the Yale team Is not so heavy or 80 expert as in former times and yet when the referee and the umpire render their decisions the championship still rests with New Haven. When the carping critic says eff your prowess is so incontestsble why do you oc- casionslly permit Harvard or Princeton to wina" Our answer is: 'In order that Harvard faculty and Harvard overseers may not prohibit athletic games, and the Princeton students may not deem 1t neces- sary to continue expert athletes in college more than eight yesrs."
 This wordy battle as to the merits or de, merits of athletics is continued, and the opinion upon the question is not unani- nous. President Woolsey in one of his addresses said the first year he was tutor in Yale there were nineteen hundred panes of glass broken by the students. Now there are not nineteen broken from the same cause. The enthusiasm, the surplus steam, the revolutionary energies of youth are as dynamic as ever, but discipline now regulates the body as we'll as the mind.
 In the the good old times the irrepressi- ble tendencies of the undergraduate, in spired by beer, made night hideous and smashed the property of the college. The processes were dangerous 10 the health and character of the student and to the community. In these days, under expert teachers and the stimulus of competitive trials, steam never reaches the bursting point, but is worked of in the gymna- sium, on the field, and on the water, under @ regulation of wise work and healthful diet. The rule of higher education has al- ways been discipline. It is the glory of Yale that she has never surrendered on the question of discipline. She still guides the mind of the undergraduate in the stud les which he shall pursue, and points to the soul of the undergraduate the path he shall follow. We have seasons of epidemics Two years ago it was the grip, last summer the cholera. This year it Is the big head. I have enjoyed unusual sd- vantages in minglipg on intimate terms and never have witnessed such an ab normal enlargement of the cranium and tightening of the hat band as within the last three or four months. It is said that there Is a considerable increase in the population of the state of Texas because it Is the only commonwealth whose area is sufficient to accommodate some successful mems heads. This disease rarely, if ever attacks those who have the advantages of liberal education. It Is the re- suit of one sided development and is cured by an all round education. Yale, especially, so trains, educates and disci- plines her sons that there is no necessity for them to emigrate to Texas. The chronic condition of the majority was apparently expressed by confused congressman in the now famous phrase, "where am I stl" It Is the perfection of the training at Yale that her sons know where they are, where they are going and how to get there. Yale and the other colleges are invading the business world and destroying by practi- cally successful examples the theories of my friend, Andrew Carnegie, and other self-made philosophers. Yale has entered the political field and steadily struggled for the control of the government. In this new departure of practical politics Yale first developed the mugwump from the original microbe- Here is not the com mon type which doubts and theo-
 
 aggressive, efficient and forceful factor in public affairs best represented by Wayne MaoVesgh. Yale discards the old style of democrat whose stock in trade is the tra- ditions of the cotton bales at the battle of New Orleans and the shibboleth "I am a democrat" She produces the intelligence which James the Tammany tiger, satisfies the critical mugwump and corrals the Jackson mossback, and the wand which keeps the happy family in order Is held in the hand of William c. Whitney. She pro- duces republicans who are great In record ed achievements and those who have per spective of limitless possibilities.
 Every alumnus in this country was cleo trified and delighted this morning by the announcement of the splendid gift of the Vanderbilt. In time the old brick build
 
 of the fame and progress of the university will enclose campus ss broad as 1t is beautiful. When I speak of manual training school or at business college they argument easily runs upon their great and undisputed merits. When I stand in the presence of Yale and Harvard and Prince ton and Columbia and the younger insti- tutions which dot the country l bow to that mighty power in the moulding of brain and brawn upon which the profes- sions and business build their best results and which gives to the college alumnus paths and fields of happiness outside of the industry by which he lives. Old Yale, her memories, her traditions, her gloriss; old Yale and the happy years we spent within her walls, old Yale and her professors; cid Yale, with her fence and her societies, is, as ever, our sentiment tonight.
 It is a spring whose depth can never be sounded, joy whose delights can never be fully told.
 The other speakers were President Tim othy Dwight, James G. Norton and John Oakley of Yale, Charles c. Beamsn of liar. yard, Brsnder Matthews of Columbia and ef ,tr