The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-15
ANNUAL BANQUET
OF YALE ALUMNI

Green prefaced his address with an
assurance that he would not read any
of his poetry. IT don't write poetry
any more" Mr.. Green said. II have
reformed. I am now earning my liv-
ing honestly as a lawyer" Continuing
he said
HOMER GREENES ADDRESS.
The best evidence of the character Of
college lies in the character of her
alumni. And the people of Scranton are
not unacquainted with Union college pro-
l duets. Those of you who attended the
New England dinner held in this room In
December cannot fail to remember the
charm and brilliance of an address by
Union alumnus, DR.. William NJ. McL,l-
roy. Nor will you scon forget the mas
terly speech made here on n similar
| occasion Il few years ago by DR.. Ray
mond. an alumnus and president of the
college.
Another loyal alumnus Of Union who Is
| well and most favorably known I'm Scran-
ton is Charles Emory Smith, the present
postmaster general Of the United states,
"a man whose ability and manhood and
, broad craftsmanship ought to and will
one day, l trust, land him in the presi-
dental chair.
1t is not after all the man who has
achieved fame and fortune, whose name
is a household word and whose deeds
make history. who most truly reflects on
his fellow men that which his college has
! given him. He must have credit indeed
for what he has done. AS a rule his
eminence has been achieved by hard and
persistent labor, and sine qua non Of per-
narent success. But he should not be
| put forward to the exclusion of every
one else. AS Ocm Paul is said to have
remarked to the Right Honorable Joseph
Chamberlain, 'There are others
No college ever yet graduated body
of students every one of whom became
or will become great No class ever went
4 out from Yale or Princeton or Union .v-
cry member Of which became or Is des-
tined to become famous. 1 do not think
i put 1t too strongly when l say that not
five ner cent. of the members of any
class of any college become what the
| world calls great. In Difference to the
Yale class of 81 I'll make that nine per
cent. Nor do think put it too strongly
when I say that barely one per cent. Of
the graduates of any first class college
make total failures in life. The wedding
process during the college course Is too
thorough and severe for that.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEsT
No more splendid example Of the law
of the survival of the fittest can be pro-
| class of any high grade college i'm this
afterglow of the nineteenth century. But
when you have set aside your nine per
| cent. as men of mark, and your one Der
| cent. of men too deeply markcd--w what
about the other ninety? They are the av-
eragc alumni.
It's the average alumnus after all who
among college men is doing the best and
| biggest part of the worlds work And
| | "a / hn
| college is not so much to pi oducc tie
| genius who shall do mighty things on a
broad arena-not so much that, as it H. to
| uGln the average man to make tie most
! Of life which Is his TO becone proficient [
! in any calling he may choose, however
| humble. and IL coed citizen of any COM
munity however small in which his lot is
! cast. And in this noble and munificent
| work. God speed your college. sir and
mine and all others to the end that tie
| work may be well done.
"Three times three for Homer
| Green" was given with q will and then
all Joined In singing Delta Beta PHI
after which Major Warren introduced
| DR.. II. s. Durand, of Rochester, to re-
| srond to the toast bright College
Years" the title of one of Yale's most
| popular songs, of which DR.. Durand is
| the author.
| DIR. DURAND'S WIT AND POETRY.
Before he had been talking five min .
| utes DR.. Durand evidenced that he
was no less wit than poet For the
| past three days he has been travelling
with President Hadley. He began his
address by referring to this fact and
then kept his listeners in almost con-
| tinuous laughter with his ''reminis-
! cences" of the trip. He followed this
with number of his short poems on
Yale topics and concluded with the
following lines to "Old Glory:
| oh. hearts which are lost in the mazes
| OF doubt and the ways of despair
| Behold how our starry flag blazes!
1t is there! It is there! 1t is there!
Like a fabulous dawn 1t arises,
Revealing a world of surprises.
And our hopes and our tiplid surmises
| They are changer into certainty rare.
| For We know that the selfish and cruel
Shall be bowed at the touch of the rod.
| WheE this flame shall be set to our fuel
In the love and the goodness of God;
Where the red of the blood OF the Ma
| tion,
And the white of the pure of creation,
| Win our 1dle = CtcDeSl Ulue III 1eld
| tion,
| Shall be waved in the flag of our sod.
He added the comment that the field
| of blue was covered with stars, as
usual.
JUDGE BURLINGTON SPEAKS.
| Judge Burlington, Trinity man.
| was called upon for a few remarks
and, although totally unexpecting the
call. entertained the company with
timely witticisms and stories, and
| aroused unbounded enthusiasm in a
brief speech on the work of the small
er colleges. President Mckinley, Sec
| retary Root and Postmaster General
| Smith We're mentioned as some OF the
products of the smaller colleges. The
biographies of the country, he said
| tell what the smaller colleges have
done. he concluded by paying hand
some tribute to his own Alma Mater
The banquet was concluded with
reading by DR.. Durand of a poem on
"The Transformation of the City OF
Paris Into the Cruiser Yale" written
by Robert Cameron Rodgers, 'S3, OF
| Buffalo. 1t was q most clever bit OF
burlesque and sent everybody away
in a laughing mood.
COMMITTEE ADJoURNs.