The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-25
THE YALE ALUMNI BANQUET
HELD TESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN
 ALUMNI HALL.

Speeches by Hon. Chauneey M. Depew, ex-
 Secretary of State Foster and Other
 Prominent Men-Attended by About
 and Brewer Among Those Present-Mr.
 Bruce on the Lee Ivy-Mr. Depew's
 Tells of the Venezuela Commission
 Other Yale Doings Ycsterday-The Conn
 mencement Exercises at Battell Chapel
 The Conferring of Honorary Degrees and
 Degrees in Course-An Impressive Scene
 Professor Fishers Remarks-Names of
 the Men Honored by Yale Yesterday
 The Procession-Yale Corporation Meet
 ing-Dr. Ellting Promoted to be Director
 of the scrvatory-ProfcSsors Appoint
 cdr. G. Bennett Reelected to the Cor
 poration.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon the annual Yale alumni banquet was held at Alumni hall. At that hour the pro- cession of alumni began to file into the hall. At the head of the procession was President Dwight, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew and Rev pr. Parker of Hartford. Next after them came the members of the corpora ton, then the faculty and following in the order of their graduation came the alumni, by classes, nearly every class since '66 be- ing represented. The members of the corporation and speakers occupied a table on the platform at the rear of the hall. Tho classes down to '93 were in the hall, while '93 and the succeeding classes sat at tables spread in two large tents in front of the hall. Just before the dinner began grace was said by Rev. Dr. Bushnell '7f, of New Ha- ven. President Dwight presided and at his right hand sat Hon. John w. Foster, eX-secretary of state of the United States: at his left sat Hon. Chauncey M. DepeW. Other distin- suished guests at the table were Jus tices reckham and Brewer of the United States supreme court, Judge Brown of the New York state supreme court, Hon. Theodore Bacon of Roches- ter, N. Y, Judge William K. Townsend Of the United States court Rev. Dr. Munger of this city, and Prof Land man of Harvard.
 After the dinner had been thoroughly discussed President Dwight rapped to nrGGr nd n1 speak. He extended a welcome to all present, He then spokd in a humor- ous vein. and after referring to va rtous newspaper reports which had spoken of his as a talented after dinner orator, he said that after reading these reports he had begun to think that he was a rival of MT. Depew as an after dinner speaker, unless he were to oues- tion the veracity of the newspapers, which he inn0cently said he never did. He said that he had finally decided that he was not an after dinner orator. Tuesday afternoon he though he ought to have taken hold Of baseball. Pres ident Dwight next alluded to the dsap- proVal by the senior class ot the site chosen for the WOOlsey statue, and said that was the only occasion on which he had failed to understand the student mind He said however, that now President Woolsey's memorial, the senior class and himself were re- conciled and that there had been no "upheaval of the university" He then announced that the terms of office of the directors of the university fund had expired, and that he had reap pointed as directors, Robert w. DeFor- est, Thomas Thatcher, William Adams Brown and Otto F. Barnard. He then read a letter from eX-GoVernor Cham berlain of South Carolina offering to give $200 toward erecting a monument to the Yale men who lost their lives in the civil war. President Dwight an- nounced that the corporation had vot- ed to accept the gift. He then read a list of the various giSts to the univer- sity during the year all of which have been previously published in the "Cour- ier'' lie stated that the cost of the Woolsey statue was $3,945, which was paid by subscriptions from the alumni, and then spoke of the thanks due to Prof. Weir for his work in making the statue.
 President Dwight then concluded his remarks by saying that it was char acteristic of graduates of Yale and he presumed of graduates of all other uni versailles, that they think that the spir- it of the university began to change, to decline when they left the college. He said that this was not true; that the Yale spirit was as fully developed in the class of '96 as it was in AZ, which was the best class previous to '96 (tre- IT endous cheers for '96). The Yale spir- it is growing better all the time. He then introduced Judge Peckham, who spoke of having just received member ship in the august assembly of Yale in his youth to come to Yale, and he now began to see what he missed He said that some might ask when he graduated, what society he belonged to, where he lived, etc, and to all these he would answer in the words of the old Hebrew quotation, T stand pat" He then spoke of the growth of the Yale alumnus, who is looked up to as a self respecting man, and who is found in the senate. the house of representa- tives, in all sections of the country. in Japan and China, and wherever civiliz- ed mon are to be found He said that all work and no play, made Jack q les. realizing that Mems sana in cor pore sauo." He spoke of Yale's splen- did record in athletics, but said that