The sun., 1896-02-05
HAMILTON ALUMNI DINE.
SENATOR HhTLEY MAKES AN
AMERICAN SPEECH.

Hc saw. thnt we Must Re Prepared 90
Buck Up Our Protest Against Great Hrt-
tnin'- .AEcrrrion- ON u sister Hepubltc-
President sStrykcr speaks for the College.
Dr. NJ. Woolsey StryGcr, tho President Of
Hamilton College, after n Slide down the long
hill. caught II train at Clinton yesterday morn.
ing and brought up last night at the Hotel
Savoy. where tho Hamilton alumni banquet
was held. One hundred Hamilton alumni met
him there and ch.ered him enthusiastically
when the Rev. Charles II. Knox, President OF
the Alumni Association, called upon him to
respond to the toast to the college
1--WE nru under vogue OF table talk nowa-
days" said President Stryker. IF the dose 10
much increased question iii will not result In
death to the patient Ultimately we shall ro-
bound to the other extreme. and the rule Of our
dinners shall be silence.
"To-nlcht. however. there Ia reason why We
should talk. and talk about Hamilton College.
We are here for sentiment; sentiment of the
present the past. and the future. l suppose We
could stretch hands and reach clear back to '39
here tonight, and we are proud or our old
name and our old traditions. Our critics have
said to us that the college should DO moved.
don't believe 1t.
"It wouldn't be Hamilton College II It were
anywhere else but on Kirklnnd's hillside To-
day tho country college is doing moro for the
moving into town.
And want it understood that We arc noA
isolated because We are insulated. believe In
a college which is insulated, and would see the
chapel steps the very centre point Of all our col
lege interests and loyalty.
I'VE hear great deal of tho university now
adays. l believe in the university. but not ~
a substitute for the college. Tho college
stands for liberal culture; tho univer-
at,y fnr toll xyht Oh h~
based on liberal culture. Not long ago
the Presidents of Cornell. Princeton. Yale. and
Harvard met to consider what a college course
Thence. @ " What do they know @ Of the College
Their provin"e is the university. Cobbler, stick
lir. slryker then told of tho progress and
growth and broadening Of Hamilton College.
He WAS followed by Dr. Thomas ). Hastings,
senator Joseph X. iiawiey. 80 ''''N ''''>' A'''-
Britain and this countrys attitude, and he said
IT, as he mentioned. with rather more frankness
There is danger of culture becoming sop
aratcd from manhood in our young men. We
by y> great % power. There are 1T two forces Which
ernnent OF Great Britain. The English people
British government.
That is another thing, and in every emer-
confronted the British Government has been
our enemy. She is gushing, US on every side
Whenever sic gets hold Of = 81 Of land, from
that time her boundary line is shoat
Look at the map OF India and stop and
think. That began with a trading company.
English mud British arms. and British war
al II British possession. That is he kind of .
nation that we are facing. Look at their fancy
drill the other day. when in five days power
full squadron was gathered at the inenaced point.
lis there no object lesson for America In
thnty tell You that we must 3e ready to fight.
Either we will float dead whale on the ocean,
or wo mus, say to Great britain: Here is
where you stop Whether the Monroe doctrine
/, an international law or not. it is our law of
self-Iefcncc We must stand by 1t.
" Even now Great Britain could take possess
sion OF Portland and Boston in twenty four
of New York We must hold her back. ana
when she reaches for our established American
republics she must meet "A protest that 10
backed with u will TO fight IL necessary"
Senator Hawl.y's straight mer!canism was
received with cheers In his speech he also ad.
vocatcd national university. which should re-
and make specialists OF them on the basis OF .
St Clair McKelway. editor of the brooklyn
EdUir. followed in n speech. in which he made
fun Of and for the Hamilton men, and told
Anthony H. Evans made an eloquent appeal fof
loyalty to Hamilton College. and the reunion
closed with n song.
cty S. Truax. Judge Warren Highly. Prof.
sasi orS Il ' Sns prof c%r!os stone
Norton Brockway. Ellis II. Roberts, and Brat
nard Tolcs.
were elected: President, Isaac H: Hall, Phi. D..
| 80: vice-Pres!dents Hamilton B. Tompkine.
nee IS US1 No esS NJ
spending Secretary. DR.. A. Norton Brockway,
81; Recording Secretary. DR.. J. Conger Bryan
| 'S4; Treasurer. James S. Greves. VI.