The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-29

If so the reason may be found in the fact that the teachers have been absorpeu in class room work, and have consequently missed the opportunities which otherwise they would have surely enjoyed as sN- perts or as consutants In the various ue partments of civil, mechanical and dynamic engineering. But there was a period when the, leader of this group investigated With ability, ingenuity and patience the nature of comets and the principles of molecular and coSmical physics; and an earlier tlme, 9e when he made an Important series or ln- vestigationS upon the set of wood and met alS after transverse stress.
 Whatever else Is omitted from this i'm: perfect sketch, mention must be made or the improvement In the manufacture of as: tronomlcal lenSeS which after study or the mathematical laws involved, was ma tured by practical demonstration, pro nounced successful by eminent astronomers, and then adopted Qf am rightly informeu by the Clarks, those renowned telescopists of Cambridge, whose greatest and most re- cent triumph is the lens of the ierkes Ob' servatory. This distinction belongs to q former student, an actual professor Tn tne Sheffield school Physiological chemistry IS one of the latest additions to the subjects here taught At once in this department, the school has risen to the foremost place, Nowhere else in this country, not in many European laboratories, has such work been attempted and accomplished as Is now Tn progress on Hillhouse avenue, unoDserVed, no doubt by those who daly pass the laboratory door, but watched with welcom- ing anticipation wherever physiology ana medicine are prosecuted Tn the modern m sp1ris his of research. The younger workers Ill thls corps have right to say that the speaker Is not as familiar with the doings of these later years as he Is with those of an ear Tier day. unquestionably this is so; but there Is this consolation, that another voice at another time will then do them ample justice Seniores ad honores, juniores ad labores.
 The review to which you have now lis tened has suggested a gallery of portraits which ought to be etched by some Rem brandt of the pencil or the pen before the way of Trinity college. Dublin. stand the figures of Edmund Burke and Oliver Gold smith; in the ante-chapel of Trinity col lege, Cambridge, the statues of Isaac New pare our worthies with those of any other college or ask for them all the portraiture of marble and bronze; but would emulate the example. so common to old countries | of honoring in the places of their activity | illustrious men. Not to mention those now | living. how many pairs there are whose portraits might be pendants. Tablets, busts, paintings or etchings might be placed in | honor of them all,
 Whitney and Dana well described by the master of the house in his memorial dis course, are entitled to distinction as phil
 osophers, both renowned throughout the world; John r. Norton and Benjamin Sil- liman, jr., the two young chemists who perceived so distinctly the needs of the times; William A. Norton and John A.
 Porter who invigorated the school in a l critical moment by their presence and their | instructions; Lyman and Trowbrdge, pro- motors of the mechanic arts, able to apply their mechanical abilities to practical .af af- l interpreter of hidden laws of life; and | Walker, the far-famed economist and sta | tisticlan, the soldier and the patriot-all | these, have gone over to the majority, leav. ing the school rich In the remembrance of their abilities, services, influence and de- votion. Three of the earliest class that graduated are, still connected with it., adherence to noble ideals. Around them are scores of juniors, just as vigorous, just as hopeful, just as gifted as those by whom 1 they have been taught. May gratitude and l honor reward them all
 l I have lately heard this story. certain king, instituting a brotherhood, promised all who would join it, marble monuments which should be placed in rows upon the sides of an aisle. "A hundred years hence,'"' he said, ''you will see that the effect will be fine" Thank your majesty" said one of the brothers, 'the king will doubtless be here then, but shall not Sons, breth- many monuments will adorn our halls and avenues. The effect will be fine. We shall not be here to see them, but the school our sovereign, will be, and great will be the satisfaction
 By this course of remarks you have been reminded that this school was founded in | favorable environs, at a propltious time,
 and also that it is only one of many kin
 under review. The Lawrence Scientific school of Harvard was almost coeval. In quick succession, colleges, departments of science and independent institutes have ap' peared in every state. Of these, not a few have adopted the methods here followed or have called to their support those who have i here been trained For one such institu- | tion, now celebrating it's majority. permit
 me to acknowledge with tllial gratitude, the impulses, lessons, warnings and encour- agements derived from the Sheffield school,
 and publicly admit that much of the health
 and strength of the Johns Hopkins univer- sity is due to early and repeated drafts upon
 the life-giving springs of New Haven.
 This fellowship of scholars is one of the
 graduates and students of college can
 enjoy. Many of us are aware that we are l but lay brethren, servitors or postuants,
 in the temple of science, disclaiming even | the title of scientific men; but every one | of this concourse of students must be con
 scious that he has dwelt among the breth-
 ren, and that he can perform part. though it be a very humble part. in upholding and
 applying the principles that this school in- | culcates and for which it stands.
 We are enlisted, commissioned officers and
 privates, in an army which is not restricted
 to provincial recruits, and which carries | light arms and heavy ordnance. Far and
 wide throughout the civilized world; In oh scurity and poverty. or in stations of az l Uuence anu llllueHcps HlOHe or Tn COlnnl-
 nies; with complex engines and penetrat- | ing lenses, or with the nnaided powers of
 masterly brains; now searching the depths of earth or ocean, now watching the stars
 in their courses now bending over the | microscope, the blow-pipe the alembic. the comparator or the spectroscope; and now | engaged in abstract reasonings, wondering that these mathematical relations have been so long concealed; often disappointed or led to merely negative results. and yet
 sometimes encouraged by an addition tC
 erto unobserved-in all their diversity ot powers and occupations, noble corps is en- gagged in overcoming ignorance. that omni present foe. and the destructive cohorts | that ignorance leads Fear superstition bigotry, error misery weakness, pain and
 sloth are put to flight by this array of wis dom against folly.
 | It gives courage to remember that the
 work of each generation is continuous with
 us. Thought as well as matter is indeStruct ible. AS the long list of philosophers, from | Pythagoras and Aristotle to Isaac Newton | the great apostle of modern science-qu genus humanum ingenio superavit-prepare( the way for the achievements of tho nine teenth century, so men now living are her | aids and pioneers Of discoveries and con quests dimly foreseen or fantly foretod l Therefore it is not strange that while the
 other spheres, no pessimistic cries proceed from our ranks. k.owly. steadily, surely the stately column marches on never rest inr never halting" Victory follows vie tory: light penetrates darkness; health temperance, enjoyment, virtue and plet5 follow knowledge.
 | Finally let me say. with the solemnity ot 1 hot Inn hon