The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-06-28
COMMENCEMENT AT YALE.
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 to find so little grass on the campus
 H thought that the signs must reaa' Keep the grass otf' instead or Keep on the grass"
 Nikola Tesla of New York city on whom the degree of M. A. was con tered, was the next speaker. Mrresla
 s famed for his electrical inventions
 He Is q Poiander by birth md has
 studied at several German universities
 Hls inventions have been in the trans
 mission of power by electricity. and ih
 eectric lighting. He has delivered sew
 cal lectures before universities poth
 atroad and in this country on the SUD-
 jed of electricity.
 David c. Porter '5t was then c'''eu
 up,n, but did not respond.
 Jrof Joseph L. Daniels, 60. Of oivet cdlege, Mich, on whom the degree ot D'
 b was conferred. was the next speaker
 Ie was followed by the Hon. chauneey M. Depew ,5s, who said: Mir. President and feliow-alumni-I feel iilTpreparea 60 speak. but no one can resist Presi-
 lent Dwight. He puts me much in the
 position that Peekseill baggagemas- tsr once was in. had given free pass
 b good clergyman of the town and ms family. When they came to the depot me clergyman tried to convince the baggagemaster that all his household furniture should be shipped too. The tSaIgagemastcr could not see It that waG But the clergyman assured him thal would not have given him the pas, at all if ] had not meant to include the furniture. At last the baggagemas- ter acquiesced and apparently remem-
 behng some of his Sunday school teaching, said: Well. since I've swal- lowed the camel, shouldn't gag at the tail.' My friend Everett alluded to the railroads as the octopus Of the country. I notcc people generally talk that way when thGy have the most free passes However, I agree with our Massachu- setts and HNrvard statesman in one re- spect, and that is that congress Is keep ins the country just where 1t Is.
 I certainly feel very grateful for my election to the corporation. will not state in the presence of Governor Nor .is and Mir. Everett how that prophecies the unanimity the country might have. U.aughter.) It is the ambition of all Yale men to be in the corporation, yet it is only for few The clergy lead the lay members every time in real prog ress and in grasping the idea of what the university really needs. It is their desire that Yale may not become a rich mans college-that the graduates of Yale, seven-tenths of whom are poor, may send their sons through college on the same basis and with the same hon. ors as the fathers had. .
 Yale men, in most things radical, when they get on the campus are strictly con servative. They want to see things just as they were when they were here. But Yale must keep pace with its own progress. Yale has the lowest income of any of the great universities in the country. Cornell university, the Uni Sersity of Chicago and the University of California can bid $7,Q0O for a profess sor against our $3,000. President Dwight should be severely criticised, surely, for what he has done. A man who spends his time and energy in, adding to Yale's income-that is the true Yale spirit, to keep right on until the goal is reached, right on until the right triumphs. ., ,' H. B. Staples then spoke for the class of "A. He said that there had been an actual decrease in living expenses at Yale in the last twenty years. Con- parison of the class books of "A and 94 shows that in "A the average price of living was s1,t38 and in '94 s1,1s2. In "A eighteen per cent of the students were receiving aid; in '94 thirty-three per cent. A poor man has just as good a chance and is just as much esteemed as twenty years ago..
 President Dwight then said that the next commencement would center prin- cipally about the conferring of degrees; that the endeavor would be to make it more truly a university commencement to which all other icommencements would be subordinate. The final ar engagements would be made in the au- tumn. -~~~
 Judge Rowland '54, of New York, was the next speaker, He said: Gentlemen When passed out of this hall forty years ago, after having passed through one of the most terrific examinations it ever entered into the mind of the facul- ty to give, I never expected to stand upon this platform. l. am very glad, however, tu recognize a debt we owe to the instructors. How much they arc doing for our boys! We know what kind of men they are. The habit of study, the thinking of high ideals apart from the sordid cares of the world, make their influence most desirable. The university-bred man knows how to- catch onto opportunity. I don't believe in the self-made man. Dr. Mary Walk CT is a pretty good example of a self made man, or the kind of man she would make. The class of '54 was rath- CT overshadowed by '53. Yet we have done all things we'll We have not tehtiary. sAsswe gather here under the elms we feel the old feeling-the old champagney, particular brandy-punchy
 Charlesf HowlaDd then responded for the class of '91.% .- < Joseph C.. Holiday of St. Louis. Mo-, responded for 'S4 He bewailed the departure of the fence and spoke with great affection $of sthe late President Porter. e.3iEs *
 pr. Walton w. Battershall, &rector of St. Peter'ss church, Albany, N: Y, and class poetof '@, responded for his class.
 No ore wassspfesent to respond for the
 The eombeny then broke up with the singing of Auld' Lang syne.',
 The Exercises at Center Church.
 The final exercises of commencement week were held in the forenoonsat Cen'i ter church. After prayer by President Dwight the speaking for the Townsend medal took place by six members of the