New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-18
1DTTCE From PROFESSOR TYLER.
HE SENDS A LETTER TO AMHERST ALUMNI. IN
PRESSING UPON THEM THE NEEDS
THE DAY

The venerable Professor W. :. Tyler. Of Amherst
| College recently sent letter 81 greeting 10 tho
| New-York alumni 81 Amherst. and after express
ing hts regret at being upable TO attend proposed
! reunion tool. occasion TO offer some Impressive
advice which IS worthy Of larger audience than
| q dinner-table company.
81 should Ike 20 be present at your dinner. he
wrote 1T would give me the greatest pleasure TO
reclprocatc your kindneas. 10 see You all ia'e 10
face TO hear your voices which are even more IN
changing than your faces. and shake your hands
which are stlll nearer your hearts, to learn from
vour own lIps how you have Jared and how YOU
are doing your lifc work. 20 tell You all about the
old homestead and the oh folks az home; ana last
but not least. your younger brothers the boy' o!
the family. aye and III" girls. your sist'r' NJ
Smith and Uoyoke. with both Of which my con-
necton is SIN pretty intimate should Ike 70 tell
Won something OF what ] have been doing. and
perhaps read YOU some scraps OF your own history
and the history Of the college. which nave Dcch
writing; the history especially Of President Seeiey
administration. which has never been written ne
fore and some OF which ! think is pretty spicy
particularly the history Of the Amherst system OF
self government which has caused so much eX-
element lately And after stating the factS' !
should Ike solicit your wise ana klnn oHces IN
the restoration n rs INTEGRITY OF hora,
Last OF all and above al should lKe 10 oarN
with you little about your Smy to your n cI"n non
fess that some OF the signs OF the unhes APP
near o be pOrtcntOuS IhNN Tflillnu loo loi'-
iblv OF the scenes that preceded the Reign OF
Terror and the French Revolution. II the consul
tuition and the laws 10 be trample1 under ioot,
n tho rule OF the constituted authorities Legislative
executive and judicial are to be superseded ny
lynch law mob rule and the march OF the mis-
called armies OF the commonweal- in reanty,
armies OF tramps sans-culottes and hosts OF the
uncnployed who refuse employment when IL Is
offered them with liberal wages-thcn government
OF the people. for the people and by the people
will indeed have passed away from our country ana
from off the earth. , ~
Something deeper and more radical than change
OF parties tariff reforms and economic measures
is needed for such emergency. We need u
change OF character in the rulers, q chahgc OF
mind and heart among the people. We need rulers
who fenr God and do not fear anything else. VINO
love their country than they love their party
or themselves. We need people who nave the
law OF God written I'm their hearts and the golden
riile Impressed on their lives. The young men or
the country the young Of our great cities. the
educated young OF great cities. need TO re-
view their Aristotle and remember that pontlcs ~
only a branch OF ethics: to review their Plato ana
he reminded that II IL always better TO suHer
wrong than TO do wrong; above all to read ther
Dihle and learn to do unto others all Things Whht-
aoeyer they would that others should 40 unto
then and remember the words OF the l.ord jesus.
now he said II is blessed 10 give than 10 re-
ceve Under such circumstances Amherst CoIcRe
exnects all her sons. and especially her young
alumni 10 do their duty Very sincerely Yours;