The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12

The Christian Spectator also, another
 New Haven magazine, which was
 founded ill 1919, drew heavily from the
 productive force of the academy. Thai
 and it's successors, the New EnglandeI
 and the Yale Review, were always
 mainly conducted by our members. The
 Spectator and the New Englander both
 cultivated political as well as theologi-
 cal science. and spoke on most of the
 subjects which from time to time con-
 manded public attention. The Review
 has confined itself mainly to matters of
 politics and economies.
 Judge Baldwin then described the
 character of the academy's current se- ries of published transactions, speaking
 of the high estimation in which they
 were held by scientific men. They now
 number ten volumes, and the exchange
 list includes over three hundred differ
 ent learned societies, many of whom
 were present by their delegates on this
 occasion. The closing part of the ad-
 dress was as follows:
 As we look back on the century which
 closes to-day we cannot but see that the
 Connecticut academy of 1799 was Yale ! college in another form.
 In one sense 1t was a higher form, for
 it was reaching forward to broader | field of requirements and achievements
 than any college could lay open. It was
 a movement towards bringing to New Haven the life of a university-the first movement, for the college had done nothing outside of college work, save l in the single line of theology.
 Most of the original members of the academy were graduates of Yale and, l if we except Dr. Webster, the leaders
 among them were actively connected
 with it's faculty or board of govern ment
 From such a body, formed in the eighteenth century, nothing was to be expected in the line of technical or ab- stract research.
 For that the mind even of their great chief, President Dwight, was untitted. He had large executive ability and re- markabe powers of close observation and forcible statement. But he was no scholar, as we now count scholarship.
 The same thing may be said of his colleague Silliman. He had the art of teaching others what he knew himself, He was active in gathering facts upon which later science might build theo- ries. But he was one of those from whose followers some soon must come to outstrip him.
 It was not indeed until the second half of the first century of our existence that generation of professed scholars existed in the United States. The ma terial of our college faculties before that time was taken from the church, the bar or the medical profession. -(Much of the teaching was done as it still is in our professional schools, by men whose life was mainly devoted to other pursuits to which their connection with the college was merely an incl dent. See life of Francis Wayland, l, 210.)
 There were no doctors of philosophy. Dr. Shepard and pr. Percival who made, as has been said the geological survey of Connecticut, were doctors of medicine. We are apt to forget how short was the entire list of college | presidents and professors in the United | States at the close of the eighteenth | century. Unsteady of the thousands whom we can count to-day. they hard ly numbered fifty in all. It was the | day of email things in American let ters.
 Our first volume of memoirs was such a collection as might now be made (but would not now be made) by | the colla boration of a dozen intelligent | men of liberal education, none of | whom had made any department of | human knowledge a special study ex- cept so far as it might afford him 9 means of professional livelihood I say would not now be made, for the world is quick to recognize the worth of specialization in scholarship, and to demand that what a learned academy shall publish be such as only learning and original research can produce.
 The history of the academy up to 1S40 was sketched by Edward C. HerriclS in the American Quarterly Register for August of that year. A later ar ticle in the Yale Books by Prof. Loomis, brought it down to 1S77 It's first cen Lury is now auspiciously closed, and It's story is before you.
 It is a record, perhaps, of now great It may have published 10 dazzling discoveries. Its influences nave been often indirect, and their source perhaps unknown. But in one way or another changing it's course rom time to time to meet the new conditions it had to face, as best it ,ould, it has kept steadily to it's work, with no break in activity and hopes hat it has done no dishonor to it's po- iition as the third In age of the liter try societies of the United States. It has failed in the original aim. in- Heated by it's name of serving to pro- { note and develop the cultivation of the Lrts and sciences In the state of Con- lecticut in particular Instead of be- oming real state organization, it las assumed the character of a local ne. An association formed between l nen who live at a distance from each l ther may be able to gather many of hem together al an annual meeting, or n soc special occasion when topics of interest are to be discussed by those r lhoSe opinions are worth hearing. F. uch is the case with our state medical . nd bar associations, and those of the l Q lergy of the various denominations. . ,ut if meetings are to be held monthly f nd always at the same place, they will |, oon inevitably become meetings of hose who reside there. and the pro- eedings will take a local coor
 To this may be attributed in mart the |