The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-23
COM fNCEMENT AT YALE.
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Ing Rev. Joseph II, TWiChell or Hart ford, who delivered the dedicatory ad- dress. Rev. MT, Twichell spoke in sub stance as follows:
 At time when to his view England was darkly shadowed with unhopeful aspects, her desponding laureate, sigh ed Oh God, for man with heart, head and hand, like some of the simple great ones gone forever and forever by, one still strong man in blatant land, whatever they call him. what care | aristoCrat, democrat, autOCrat, one, who can rule and dare not lie And surely, while we may hope that men of that stamp are not gone forever by; are never indeed wholly wanting, there is in whatever day, in whatever capacity, vital needs always of them, and their appearance marks an access of light and strength arising from no other source-men of will and men of truth. Such eminently was he whose memori- al we are assembled to inaugurate. He could rule and dared not lie. l know that am not mistaken when I say that with the survivors all of thousands who, during the forty years of his affixed of fiCial relation to Yale college marked his ways and came into touch with his mind and spirit, that impression of him remains distinct and ineffaceable. He had many titles to admiration, indeed there was none that he lacked of that large and various learning, old and new, of which he was master, he bore in his person the insignia He was the figure and mould of the scholar. The regal light of intellect glowed in his eyes and illumined his face. Capacity for af- fairs was his also. Under his leader ship Yale college advanced long step onward in every particular of develop ment and prosperity. He was in com plete, most generous sympathy with hls own age. His patriotism was passion ate in it's intensity. How well I re- member-if I may be pardoned a per sonal "reminiscences summer morning in 1863, when, having lodged in New Haven on my way home on leave from the army and going early to the old chapel to prayer, as much to get sight of him as for anything, l met him walk ing up and down on College street be- fore the campus, waiting for the second bell; and with what warmth he greeted Ill6 dIlO dI OllCS DtSdIl tO ply lIt III eager manner, question on question about the battle of Gettysburg, which had just been fought, and the Yale men who had borne part in it and other things at the front, till there was not a second more. His tone and manner showed that he loved his country, It stood revealed in his whole with all his hopes and fears. I cannot even in the briefest reference recapitulate all or nearly all for which we who knew him venerate his memory. But here is one other thing that pleads for mention to ever so many of us, and I do not doubt to those in general who were of this academic community in his time. He is reckoned one of the noblest of Chris tian preachers. It is not possible that any member of the twenty-five classes graduating during his presidency fails to recall how on those occasions when he assumed the duty of the pulpit on the Lord S day every year, even the most careless, ordinarily, was attent to hear him, And the manner of its de- livery in that thin, clear straight for ward, refined penetrating voice which we can never forget, was simple as the matter But 1t was full of deep-hearted eVangelistic wisdom and full of power But with all and in all and above all that came of knowing and observing him was the sense of a certain dominat- ing personal attribute of manhood in which his statue in every other choice element of worth was completed; was fulfilled-as manhood which was his by nature, by discipline and by the grace of God. A strenuous, downright mas terful imperial will came into it. And along these with a courage that shrank not from his association of him his life long friend, Professor Thomas H. Thacher-clarum ct venerable nomen- fit to be spoken here to-day-once said that neither friend nor foe ever found it necessary to prompt him to be just and to fear not, Be just and fear not and the crown of his manly strength was truth, truth transparent, ingrained, memorable, whose ayes was aye and it's nay, maya glorious universal veracity; of intellect utterance of conduct which no one acquainted with him deemed it possible for him by so much as sign even for a moment to transgress. A man of birth and a true man was Theo- dore Dwight Woolsey in the sight both Ol H6dN6u dLu edTlH. lHe llluSlIlOuS honors that are his right as scholar, teacher, thinker, ruler, citizen, bene- factor, yielded precedence to the more exalted honor of that greatness which was the endowment of his soul nor is there any wish and prayer for our uni versity which we can frame more prop CT to this present hour than that, by the blessing of God in all time to come the training which is received in these halls, may tend to the fostering of that moral manhood of which this Prince of the House of Yale whose memorial we now consecrate was so signal and ex- emplary"
 In addition to the above he spoke of Professor Woolsey as being an intense Union man during the war, and in this connection made an utterance which created somewhat of a sensation among his audience. He said: "He was a Union man, heart and soul, and it would make this bronze statue avert its head were he to know that the grad uating class of Yale were to plant on the walls of a building on the campus, an ivy from the grave of General Rob- ert E. Lee General Lee was a good man. but he was loyal to an infamous cause"
 This utterance at once became the theme of discussion among the guests