The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-20

t. me that life At Tale was one eontlnuou.
Midway Plalsance. -
don the use Of the personal pponoup Tor p tbs
c oHITIdea q, r, ~. Yale and the community 81
tS Ss to tSst nT thGsSht; are again
hero 10 certain SsePrinsetoSSe G ISSUE rp"1 oi
coming home to me Just now with psrpisuIas
force You have heard o. the Yale end Of the
princeton end OF il. You have " however W. YER
heard nothing from the hyphen., I feel It my
duty to speak Tor the hyphen. About q, year
ago friend OF mine and few friends Of his,
whose opinion on college subjects he regarded
with high respect, went or visit TO New. Ha-
vigorous letter, ran az follows
~ D ~ I'D; Yale is the college for you to be
Yes, sir This is the peninsula for us to in.
habit IL you don't. believe me ask Lydia
PINK Yours for health Tom
Gentlemen, | should like to nak you as
high authorities In all thauconcerns Yale's pol-
icy whether it Is not likely, as hear and as I
ness at New Haven such = Modification
O. the, required sub-ireshmen readings In
English literature as ,, Tha,nkssGiving Day ar.
thoughts again in the direction in which my
pulling the other. know OF nothing as terrible
a. the strain on the hyphen unless It be the
war But a still better metaphor has been
furnished to me ready made by one OF the
most remarkable rhetorcans that my own
to my own. time and to the class OF
s sixty somsihinE. In all sorts Of tropSs
as O strong as clear Colorado aad RnS;
cigar. Sir BOYLE Roche was dumb
deftook Journey in order to inspect a some OF
the, other wonders Of bis native land. and
on his return he delivered a lecture before
had travelled westward as FAR as a' Niagara ira
Falls. lie told how he went down to the foot
ence OF natures majestic phenomenon.
was down. he said. between two fires. On
one hand mighty ava d,5Sl Of descend;
volcano Of binding mist and dashing spray
That expresses my opinion on the hyphen and
The many things that We had in commo on
ten, There is this about us. though-the light
call our, college Yale Harvard. Princeton.
Brown-it makes no difference what the
BY what letters OF the a I sfe She
spelled her honored name. or what color OF
visage She has but ono name at last and that
name is mother. and the man who torgets
an alnmnus OF the South boston School Tor
Here is to the good old lady. by whatever
name she goes. who took us in and taught US
what we ought to know. and spanked us when
we needed it: who found us shrmps and made
and who turned us into blooming crysanthe.
NUNS who found US fresh and raw and veallv
and turned us out the specimens OF physical
Intellectual, and moral manhood you behold
around this table: and who sits yonder
on her campus smiling ald spectacled
struggles as We strive to crowd out the
last generation which she sent into the
world. only to he crowded out in
is still to send. and whose rejuvenating
in fluence upon us through life is such that
when we turn our Eases toward her we forget
the years.. 10. 10. 2U-and are close to her
dear old petticoats again.
Mr.. G. &. Beaman then spoke for Fair Har-
ward" "Old Nassau" was accounted for by
Mr.. Adrian ii. Joline. and Mr.. William G.
Lathrop. Jr, said q good word for Colum bia-
After the dinner everybody wanted a copy OF
Mr.. Bromey's poem to take home.
"It'l tickle Chauncey to DEATH" they said.