The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-18

sity, but l do not know that we all APP
preciate what an advantage il is to
have a university of this size in a town
of this size. Some universities are so
big and are situated in such small
towns that the university swallows UP
the town; others situated in a metropo-
lis are swallowed up by the town. Have
any of you ever thought what an adj
vantage it would have been had Jonah
run across a whale of his own size?
Instead of being swallowed up by the
whale and spending those very uncom-
Portable nights in his inward parts, he
might have used him as a life preserver
and got back much more quickly, while
the whale would have been saved the
fit of indigestion of which he gave such
painful evidence. Yet this is precisely
the advantage which the university
and the city enjoy in being fairly
matched.
THAT the university can and does
help the city in many ways is too trite
a statement to require emphasis. The
mere presence of some $500 students
and more than 200 instructors must add
from 81, 900, 900 to 100000 year to the
retail business of the city, while the
large investments of the university in
buildings, museums, and other facilities
greatly adds to the value of all the
land that remains. You as business
men need not be reminded of the adj
vantages which such enormous invest
ments bring with them. If other cities
give premiums and exemptions in order
to induce manufacturers to establish
themselves there, how much more
would they give for the establishment
of university like Yale with its con-
slant additions to the wealth of the
place?
but I prefer to dwell rather upon
the less obvious benefits which the uni
versity confers Our modern universe
living apart from the world in cloisters
and having their own jurisdiction and
their own life. They are an integral
part of the community. They are
vital force which can be called upon by
the community at all times and for
many purposes, and / am glad to say
that this duty Of the university to the
public Is being more and more recog-
nized and more and more acted upon,
especially in the newer departments of
the university.
while the university can do much
for the city, the city is constantly, es-
pecially through it's business men, do
ing much for the university. Here
again I need not refer to what is obvi-
GUS at the first glance The names of
Street, Sheffield, Winchester, Welch
and many others that might be men,
toned which are attached to buildings
or endowments show how generous the
business men of New Haven have been
towards the university But in many
other ways less tangible and less obvi-
Gus they have contributed towards the
| comfort and well being of this institu-
ton of learning. BY giving us a good
city government, by paving our streets
well and keeping them clean, by tend
ing to the sewerage and other sanitary
| needs of the place, by identifying it
| and regulating it's life, they make the
city more desirable as a dwelling place
| for the university and indirectly help
| on it's work.
Can we not devise means to Coop
crate in this respect? Especially in the
matter of elm trees cannot the univer-
| sty and the chamber of commerce
| adopt practical measures for saving the
| old trees as long as possible, for pro-
| tecting them against the ravages OF
| the beetle as we'll as against natural
decay, and, above all, for planting new
trees before the old ones have fallen?
"Unless we very soon take some meas,
| ures they will see many of our trees
gone, our stately avenues irregular and
| i IL -, Nf ife
beauty. Our great-grandfathers plant
ed they will say, our grandfathers
watered, but our fathers We're too In
different and lazy to even squirt paris
| green at the elm beetles, and as a con,
sequence we are now living in what
was once, but is no longer, the City of
Elms'
MANY knotty questions of forestry
| Of entomology, Of finance, must be con
siGered, and these can only be worked
| out by a small commission of experts
| May T not urge upon you the import
ance of taking up this question prompt
| ly, of treating it as real problem
which must be solved deliberately anC
carefully and inviting the corporation
of all the experts of the university who
|
not have better proof of the cordia
feeling existing between the university
and the business community than theil
union in solving such problem as this
and I can confidently say that if the
chamber of commerce will lead the way
Yale will bring along the best that she
has of science and experience and bt
glad to follow"
Rev. DR.. Chapman pastor of the FRS
Methodist Episcopal church of this city
next responded to the toast 'Tht
Church." On suggestion of DR.. Chap
man one verse of America was sung
! DR.. Chapman spoke as follows:
I find myself here tonight by your
kind invitation face to face with one
of the great opportunities of the
preacher. Here is a needy, benighted,
corralled Congregations congregation
not always seen in church, / fear-a
splendid site for sermon, and the in
stinct of the pulpit is strong within
me. But 1 am arrested and you are
spared, by certain barriers of embar-
rassment. One of these, grieve to
say, is somewhat personal and physi-
cal-of the ear in earthly 1t has hap