Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-06
SONS OF OLD ELI
The Yale Dinner Last Night Great
Success.
The Dark Blue Waved, hut the Feel
ings Were Rosy-Bright Speeches
by Bright Men.

Full two score sons of old Yale sat
around a square table at the Arlington
last night and looked into each others
faces 1t was their annual dinner. and
they had a very merry time. Forming
a hollow square facing inwards they made
a brave attack upon the viands and then
stood by to resist the flood Of oratory that
poured upon them. Justice Brewer, the
president Of the alumni association, pre-
sided over the dinner with that happy
manner and easy flow of witty things that
characterizes his work at all seasons. The
banquet hall was beautifully decorated
with green things and the middle Of the
table was filed with palms and other
plants, while on the table itself were great
jars of roses and peoples. mandolin or
the evening and furnished accompaniment
for the college slees that were sung be-
tween the toaSts.
Previous to the dinner there was brief
business meeting, devoted to the reading
of the class history by Mr.. J. Edwards
Clark. The subject of the paper was the
late Colonel Garrick Mallory, Yale alum
nus and a member of the local association,
and MIR. Clark read a most interesting
sketch of Colonel Mallory's career. and res
olutions were adopted extending to his
widow and relatives assurance of the
warmest sympathy of his fellow graduates
of the university. In reciting the worth
of Colonel Mallory the resolutions say:
In law, in literature, in science, in the
Held OF active warfare, and in filling lead
ing executive positions, he achieved &C
knowledged success. AS soldier and civil
Ian he has left a brilliant and unblemished
record. In all the varied relations of life
he was ever the courteous gentleman. well
coined and honored by his associates. A
life of such varied activities, so cOnscen-
tiously and successfully performed, would
seem to imply the possession OF perfect
hoo +,
struggle against the effects of wounds
ceived in battle and the results of subtle
disease contracted in Virginia campaigns,
SO that a life of invalidism would have
seemed to most men inevitable In view
of the facts revealed by his death the
wonder is not that he passed away, but
that in his physical condition he could
have filed a quarter of century of active
life with such fruits of industry and of
devotion to ideals of duty. His glorious
record as soldier in the field is more
than equaled by his patience and persist
ent courage in the study"
About Foot Ball.
The first toast of the evening was 1.-The
new university" and was responded to by
Prof. Arthur w. Wheeler. who fills the
chair of modern European history at Yale.
Prof. Wheeler spoke at some length of
the requirements of the present and the
prospects of the university. but perhaps
-
re marks upon the foot ! all problem, OF
which he spoke with considerable earnest
ness and good humor at the same time.
The trouble. he said. with foot ball is not
with the game itself, but with the Ameri-
can spirit of pluck and Impotence, with
the national characteristics that called the
nation into eXisteTc e. This same spirit
has called the modern game into the de-
velopment that 1t has reached, and what
ever evils there may be cannot be cured by
the mere amendment of rules, and much
less by the fats of college authorities. AS
long as Americans are as they are there
will be foot pail. and it will be rough to
those who do not quite understand all of
the factors which 1t represents. while to
the true lover of the sport-the Americans
who possess to the greater degree those
national qualifications of pluck and impa-
tience-the game will not appear brutal or
rough beyond reason. In other words, the
substance of Prof Wheelers explanation
of the game that it is in effect an
epitOme of the national character. and will
continue to remain as it is until that char
acter is changed. He noted the difference
between the American and English foot
ball player under the stress of defeat. The
tsrs and cry, and he declared that he had
himself witnessed such exhibitions year
after year. The Englishman, on the other
hand. forgets his disa ppointment after the
game and joins with his victor in jollifi-
cation over the event. The main trouble
here is that the opposing players are too
prone to regard their adversaries as enc
MES, and his tends to make the game
more rough. In leaving this topic Prof.
Wheeler said that he did not believe the
games are as rough as they are reported
to he, but he conceded that If they are
that bad they should be discontinued.
The Old Times.
Mr. Morgan Beach, one Of the younger
graduates, spoke of the "old college," and
he made rather witty and graceful re-
marks on the difference that exists be-
tween the present Institution and the orig
inal establishment, which the founders
only ventured to call a collegiate school.
He noted some quaint changes in the YER
nacular of the university, and his remarks
were received with generous applause
throughout.
Mr.. Herbert Giesey was pressed into
service to respond to the toast of Smaller
colleges" in place of Judge ]. M. Wilson,
who was absent Mr.. Giesey is graduate
of Trinity College, and he showed his de-
votion to his alma mater by claiming that
from Trinity came the best of all in the
university. His proposal of three cheers
for Trinity was responded to with good
will.
Mr.. De Witt C. sprague's response to the
toast Mother Yale's loyal sons" was a
poem of some length, reciting in excellent
meter and rhyme the achievements Of
Yale en- the battlefield 1t was heartily
applauded after it had been read with ex-
cellent effect
For the Deaf.
President e. NJ. Gallaudet Of Kendall
Green was not on the regular program of
toasts, but Justice Brewer called upon him
for a few words about what Yale has done
for the education Of the deaf. He showed
how Yale men have been foremost in this
work ever since the first institution for ed
ucating the deaf and dumb was estab-
IiShSd in this country. His family has
been most prominent in this work, but
Prof. Gallaudet modestly failed to mention
names, though they were prompted by
those around him. He enthusiastically told
how both his ancestry and posterity are
true to Yale, though he personally had not
the good fortune to be a graduate Of the
university. He told couple Of very
amusing stories of the deaf mutes.
Other Talks.
Frank H. Jones, third assistant post
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