The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-14
ALPHA DELTA PHI.
Public Exercises at Sayles Memo
rial Hall Last Evening.
Speeches Made by Rev. Edward Everett
Hale, Hamilton NJ. Mabie and Others.


was large audience at the Sayies'
Memorial hall to listen to the addresses
delivered before the delegates of the Alpha
Delta Phi societies, who are holding their
annual convention in Providence under
the auspices Of the Brunonian chapter.
The program for the evening was one
of unusual interest. Seldom has Brown
been favored with such a circle Of speakers
at one time as occupied the platform of
the Memorial hall last evening. After
Reeves orchestra had rendered two sclec-
tions, during the latter of which the
various delegates had been II shered TO the
seats reserved for them, the fratornities
united i'm their time -honored Greek song
Hail Alpha Delta Phi. "
AS was announced on the programs tho
subject OF the address was to be a sym
postum upon the topic "The Relation of
the College To the Republic Accord
ihgly, the secretary Of tho society, Mr.
Charles f. Sprague of New York, an
nounced as the first speaker the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale: d. d., OF Boston,
who would give the opening address.
A burst of prolonged applause greeted
the announcement Without any pre-
liminaries DIR. Hale proceeded directly TO
speak upon the topic Of the evening The
follows:
The Business of a College.
The business of the college is the edu-
cation of the people. III the college attains
to that end 1t Is a success, If not, "a failure.
The people of the American common
wealth are the sovereigus. Hence really
the business of the American college Is
the education of this sovereign people. T"
Wendall Phillips, in his last speech,
arraigned Harvard College because IL did
not interest itself In the affairs of the
nation. Today the charge is untrue.
The tendency..of the present is an aim to
inculcato in our colleges love for that
poblest, highest political unity which
shall put ooncordant end to the present
jArring social problems.
There is really no class of scholars in
America. No man can tell whether or
not the scholar of today may become the
workingman of tomorrow or vice versa.
There is no arbitrary class distinction,
for we are all scholars and worIingmen
together, and especially do we become
conscious of IL at such time rs this In
the truest sense we, tho college men, are
for the people. Their achievements are
ours and their victory is our victory.
Mr.. Mabie's Address.
After tho orchestra had rendered n
selection, DR. Hale introduced ms the next
speaker Mr.. Hamilton W. Mabie Of New
York. In introducing Mr. Mabic, DIR.
Hale said 1.-The great newspaper of today
reaches more Intelligent minds than there
were in America at the time Of the sign
ing of the Declaration Of Independence.
1t therefore gives me great pleasure TO IN
troduce the editor OF the Outlook, MIR.
Mabic OF New York.
If DR. Hale was the honored guest Of tho
evening, at all events, Mr. Mabie was the
orator. At frequent intervals during his
address no was obliged TO pause until the
applause subsidized. Mr.. Mabie from tho
| first of his discourse demonstrated that he
was one of the fow men who know ex-
actly what they wish To say, and, az the
| same time, have at hand the very best
language TO clothe tho thought. In brief
Mr.. Mabie said:
We are glad To remember that we are
college men. Some of us are glad TO have
| once shared the aspirations Of the student
and the realization of tho citizen. IL
would indeed be- n pleasure TO retrace his
tory and recall all the scholars and groups
of scholars that have gathered about
teachers i'm all ages and countries. We
might gaze far back into the remotest
past, into mysterious'Egpyta and coming
from thence into the Light Of higher civil
ization, through Greece ana Rome,
through tho Ivy shadowed cloisters Of the
Middle Ages, aaa eyen " our Gay. II V