The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-25

will deserve.
 In conclusion he said that above and
 beyond the athletic successes are the friends made in college, who remain ! friends while life lasts and whose
 friendship does not cease until the spark of life is eXtinguished. He said that he thoroughly appreciated the 1 honor done him by Yale in conferring on him a degree and said that it was | his intention to so conduct himself that no alumnus should feel that a mistake had been made in comforting upon him l the honor.
 1 Judge Brewer. who is a member of l the Venezuelan commission, was then | introduced and began his remarks by addressing the gathering as MT. Presi- dent and Boys" He spoke of President Dwight as the guardian angel of the class of '56" After few humorous remarks he said that in the last three months he had been engaged in some thing else besides law and had been 1 trying to find an invisible line between British Guiana and Venezuela. Three | graduates of Yale are on the com mission and Judge Brewer said Yale has a majority there" He said that at | 1 those present had become effected by the lateness of the hour a gentleman present, who feared that the commis- sion in it's investigations in the Vene- zuela swamps would contract malaria presented to it five boxes of quinine pills and five little bottles of whiskey
 The Yale members of the commission,
 who were generous like all Yale men, 1 ,J,,N,,. l,a
 quinine pills, but these two not be-
 ing generous Yale men objected to the division. He then spoke of the satis- faction in the thought of what the
 commission may accomplish. At the outset of the work of the commission
 all facts and evidence possible to ob-
 tain were placed in the hands of the commission that an opinion acceptable so far as it was right might be secured.
 Early in the life of the commission letter was written to an officer in the l English service asking for certain doc uments. The officer replied that he
 must get the sanction of bis govern ment Lord Salisbury ordered him to 1 give up the documents and has since
 written to the commission saying that he would gladly give to it all the infor-
 nation he could. The commission has power to decide finally for neither coun- try, but can express its judgment in such way that the thinking world will say it is right. If it can secure peace
 between the two countries it will be case of right rather than of force tri-
 umphing in the world.
 Judge Brewer then spoke of the great pleasure it gave him to once more visit Yale and as he saw the buildings of his alma mater he felt again all the l impulses and ambitions which directed 1 him in his early life. He experienced also a feeling of sadness because the
 old familiar faces are not here now. He spoke of the time when the students of Yale were counted by hundreds and
 the instructors by tens. He said that
 there were things which his class ex- perienced in college which the Yale student of to-day don't have and can't
 have. He may have forgotten the les son texts which he learned in college,
 but the ennobling, strengthening in huences of Professors Woolsey, Hadley and Thacher were something more than
 that of good instruction and something
 that can never be effaced from those ! NHD ltil lllGlli. i 1It oUU lIlotl uNlolo oL
 the university to-day cannot possibly have the personal influence on the stu dents that the few instructors of fifty years ago had,
 Hon. Theodore Bacon '53 was the ! next speaker. He spoke in a humorous vein and was followed by Hon. John
 W. Foster secretary of state during the last year of President Harrison's ad-
 ministration. He began by making slight hit at Ambassador Bayard, say ing that he supposed as diplomatists
 were not allowed to speak in public he ought not to attempt to do so. He then spoke of the influence of the Yale spirit all over the country, and alluded to it as a spirit which makes men better and has proved a chain of brotherhood
 to all men imbued With it, He con- cluded by pledging devotion to the cause so beautifully expressed at the Glee club concert Tuesday evening For | God, For Country, and For Yale"
 Dr. w. H. Welch Of Johns Hopkins | university, was next called upon to speak, but was not present. Judge c.
 F. Brown of the New York state su- preme court, was the next speaker, and he was followed by Archdeacon Rev. c. | C. Tiffany of the Episcopal diocese of 1 New York. Wallace Bruce '67, of New | York was the next speaker lie said | that every heart went out to the little ! house at Henley with Yale blue waving over it. He then spoke of the policy of l tearing down the old brick row. He l said that South Middle should stand 1 somewhere forever as the shrine of l Yale. It could be and would, if nec- i essary, be taken up bodily by Yale men and litted over the library building without a brick being removed. He | spoke of the custom of planting the 1 class ivy, and said that his class plant | ed two, that they might be sure that l one at least would live. One was from 1 Melrose Abbey and the other was from | Sunnyside, the home of Washington l Irving. lie then spoke eulogisticaIly i of Theodore Winthrop, one of the Yale 1 heroes of the civil war on the northern i side, and said that he would like to i see an ivy from his grave planted by i the side of the one from the grave of l General Robert E. Lee He said: Let l the two ;vys grow lovingly together 1 (great applause). Yale is a national l college, and knows no sectional feel i ing. Let the ivys grow and twine to- 1 gether as this nation will for centuries i to come"