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

| setting suns, and the round ocean, and ] the living air. and the blue sky and l in the mind of man the God Fin whom
 we live and move and have our being"
 The church has learned wisdom. The
 persecution of Calico is not likely to be repeated, nor even the milder forms of 1 persecution which assailed the geolo-
 gists at the beginning, and the evolu- tionists in the middle of our century, And science, too, has learned something. In all its wealth of discovery, 1t recog-
 nizes more clearly than ever before the
 fathomless abysses of the unknown and
 unknowable. It stands with unsandaled
 feet in the presence of mysteries and
 transcend human thought. Religion
 never so tolerant Science never So
 reverent. Nearer than ever before
 seems the time when all souls that are
 loyal to truth and goodness shall find
 fellowship in the freedom of faith and
 the service of love.
 The delegates present from other
 academies and scientific societies were
 the following:
 From United States: Essex Institute
 of Salem, Mass, R. s. Rantoul; Boston
 Society of Natural History, Prof. E, s.
 Morse; United States Naval Observa-
 tory, Prof. William Hardness; Harvard
 University, Prof Charles R. Lauman;
 Wesleyan university, Prof Van Week,
 Prof Rice and Prof. Atwater; Trinity
 college, Prof Pychon; Connecticut His torical society, Judge s. F. Baldwin.
 Foreign delegates: Geological socie
 ty of London, Prof. Brush and Prof. Dana of New Haven; Literary and Philosophical society of Manchester, Prof Gibbs of New Haven; North of England Institute of Mining and Me chanical Engineering, Mr, Rothwell of New York; Royal Society of London, Prof. E. w. Brown of Philadelphia.
 In the evening reception was held in the large lecture room of Winchester hall. Besides the delegates a number of the members of the faculty and their wives were present. The hall was prettily decorated with ferns and rugs and presented a beautiful appear ance. The catering was by Fleming Among those present were the follow ing: President Hadley, Prof. Brewer and daughter, Prof Brush and Mrs. Brush, Prof. Dubois and Mrs. DuBois; Prof. Richards; Prof. Penfied and Mrs. Penfield, Prof. Hastings and Mrs Hast ings, Prof Chittenden and Mre. Chit tenden, Rev. Dr. Lines, Prof, Seymour, Prof, Peck and Mrs. Peck, Prof. Bald win, Prof. Verrill Prof Wells. Prof. Van Name, Prof. Dexter, Prof. Gibbs. Judge Baldwn's address at the open ing of the evening session was as fol lows:
 After referring to several previous at tempts to organize such body. and the causes of their failure Judge Baldwin said that President Dwight was the first president of the Connecticut acad- emy, when it was finally chartered in October 1899, and then proceeded in part, as follows:
 Any organization of which President Dwight was the head had from that fact alone an assurance of success. His strong, dominating character, active mind, and untiring energy, set the academy at once upon a course of use full activity
 New Haven was but q small capital. Yale was but a small college. But there | were then few larger cities, and only l one larger college on the American l continent.
 The membership of the academy was | eo-extensive with the state, and em- oraced men of all parties and all | shades of opinion. Among those named | n the charter were Chief Justice Swift of Windham, whose treatises on egal topics were among the earliest as hey are among the best of American works of that character; Josiah Meigs, m ardent Jeffersonian, then holding he chair of mathematics and natural at Yale, but soon to find a nore congenial political atmosphere in Georgia. where he went in 1901 to be- 'ome president of it's state university; Noah Webster Abraham Bishop, whose lttacks on President Dwight in politi- al addresses soon put an impossible ,ulf between them; Chief Justice Hos ner of Middletown; Judge Pierpont Edwards; Chief Justice Ellsworth of and Dr. Bella Hubbard rec or of Trinity church, and the leader f the Episcopalian clergy of the dio- ese.
 President Dwight was particularly in- crested in political science. He was lso a close student of history, and saw he importance for the United States reducing to proper form for future SC all the historical and statistical ma arial, that so familiar as to be unin- eresting to one generation, is of price. 'ss value to the next. , Under his lead, in December 1799, / cton was taken towards memorializ- l lg congress to enlarge the objects of i le national census of 1900, and to se- } ire greater particularity in the re- z rms. Cooperation in this effort was l lvited from the American Phiosophi- ' Il society and the American Academy E Arts and Sciences. i The academy also, a week later, greed on a circular letter to be is led in it's name, asking for statistical ! formation as to the state of Connec- U cut and the several towns within it's l irisdiction The result of this request, hich was followed up by newspaper dresses, and much private corre- (, ,ondence. was that such statistics 7 ere obtained from more than thirty q wns,-(The Yale Book, l, 333)-by far It Q most valuable being those for New Il aven prepared by President Dwight. r lis piece of his work was published by e academy in 1S11, in a pamphlet of J
 Dapes as the first part of the first S