The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-02-03

honest pride, to the imagination, to sentiment and so to what is best in us.
 NO school ever had 6 nobler begin ming than our own. The men who planned it and established 1t were among the best men of New England, and their motive was high and unsel- fish. There are no names bound into our history more honorable than the names of Seabury, Mansfield, Ives, Hubbard, Baldwin, Ingersoll, Shipman, Nichols, Wooster, Johnson. These names stand well for the old life of Connecticut. They were educated men, nearly all graduates of Yale col lege They had no other purpose than to serve we'll good learning and pure religion. They had large and generous outlook and hopes for the school and it ill becomes us to forget them,
 Strong men have guided the fortunes of the school; Drs. Bowden, Smith Bronson, MT, Morgan, Drs. Beardsley Paddock, Horton. but in the list there is none to be honored before him who is the head of the school to-day, the good friend of us all, Professor Wood bury.
 We are not left to recount the glo- ries of the past. We are glad to have been numbered in the school which sent out a. great company of our early clergy to lay foundations for religion in the middle states and in the west The school of the learned pr. Jarvis, the school of MT. Slater, whose name is associated closely with New Eng 1rt, ,I t~I al @1 of NT,. George A. Jarvis, founder of the Colo rado Diocesan school, she benefactor Of the General Theological school, of Berkeley Divinity school and Trinity college, the school, of Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy during the civil war, and of Admiral Foote, whose in fluence abolished the spirit grog and | fiogging in the navy--the great admi- ral who opened the western rivers and made possible the onward march of our armies into the heart of the Con federacy. Our great men who are dead have left their successors in eve ry useful calling, and the old school is serving we'll to-day both church and state.
 | Because Professor Woodbury is at the head of the school we believe that | the succession of boys going out into | the world with high ideals of life will not be broken. A man strong, patient, serious, kindly, just-it has done us all good to be under him. A good soldier i as a youth out of college, a strong classical teacher, a great master of discipline, we think of him with af- | lection as the head of our school
 He preserves for us the good tradi- I tions of the past and he holds the l school up to the demands of the new
 time. Under him all pertaining to the school will be genuine and strong. The old boy sends back his thoughts to | the academy and thinks of the school under its new principal with joy. Doc I tor Horton, the master of so many oi us, has gone, but there is strong and
 we'll loved man in his place. And all
 about the school and its old building | battered by the storms and boys of I century, is at 1t ever was There are
 no fairer hills too look upon than the
 Hanging hills, the Sleeping Giant and
 Mt Carmel and the western range | No streams flow with greater beauty | than Honey Tot dHu hodTihe pi"oh
 It is a noble setting for a school with a
 great history and a great future. II
 all lives in our memory and our affec- 1 ton as the years go on. We belong tc
 a school not of yesterday, a schoo which exists not for private advan' | tage but for the common good, fol
 sound learning and pure religion, witt l great public responsibility. witt l great traditions and great hopes. witi 1 gentle associations and tender memo l ries. She sits enthroned among oul l fair Connecticut hills, a queen, ruling l our hearts forever.