Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-03-15
HIGH TRIBUTE
Paid by Ex-President Dwight of
Yale to the Late Hon. E.
J. Phelps.
FUNERAL AT new HAVEN
Largely Attended by His Former Assoc
ciates-- Gen. Mccullough One Of the
Honorary Bearers-Ex President
Dwight Speaks OF His Cour-
egeous Manhood.

New Haven, Conn. March 1.-THE fun
cral services over the remains of the late
Prof. l.. j. Phelps, former minister TO
Court OF st. James were held this after
noon in Battell Chapel on tho Yale cam
pus and were attended by an immense
throng of people. The services which be-
gan at o'clock were conducted by Rev.
Or r. T. Munger of the Yale corporation
ard EX-President Timothy Dwight made
the address Music was rendered by the
college choir under the direction of AS
sistant Professor Jepson who also Official
ted at the organ.
The honorary bearers were Ex-Gov. In
gersol. Judge Simeon L. Baldwin, profess
sor in the law school; Prof. William c..
Hummer, President Hadley. Prof. John j..
Weir of the art school Dean Wayland, F..
W. Whtidgc of New York and j. @. Nc
Cullough, of Bennington.
Eight students of the Senior Secret So
clety of Wolf s Head of which Prof.
Phelps was an honorary member, were
the palbearers, They included G. w.
Hubbell. r. B. Clarke, Howard Babcock,
G W. Simmons, j. p. Brock, Il. j..
Schweppe l.. B. Barbour, NJ b. Brain
ard.
At O'Clock the remains were taken by
train to Burlington. VT, the residence or
Prof. Phelps, where the funeral and inter-
ment will be had Tuesday.
In his euogy of the deceased, Ex-Presi-
dent Dwight said on the topic: THE
Man as We Knew Him"
He was. l think. man having In him
self by nature and thorough educa ton,
the finest characteristics which we ask
for in the membership of the university
brotherhood. With a strong intellect and
manly spirit; with an earnest purpose
and quiet determination to build up and
to build out the powers within him. with
,iat ion Of on ND irh
to give it it's most wide reaching influence
in mind and heart and outward manner:
with great generosity and maGnanimity
which lifted the life over and above 1t
tleness and meanness; with no wish to
seem more than reality would justity;
with a lofty ideal of the professional care
to which he had devoted himself he stood
in our company and among men every
where as worthy example of the edu-
Gated and refined scholar and of the Gull
tured manly man. So he appeared to me
from the day of my first meeting him even
to the very end.
In an age like ours, indeed. it must be
said in any age 1t Is pleasure to have
Witnessed a genuine life. He seemed to
me o be a man Of large kindness of spir-
it. Of the gentleness of a gentleman, of a
peaceful temper, Of the qualities in word
which win the kindly sentiment of others
But with all those qualities there were
united an independence of mind and a
courageous spirit which when the in err
ests of truth or justice were involved
made him ready to speak with all bold
ness and give to his words fullness Of
energy and power. Instincts of such bold
ness in the history of recent years will be
remembered by all, instances in which
the strength of his courage of his manly
character became impressively manifest
He was n man as well as gentleman
We like to be with such men while they
live. We grieve with sincerity and sor-
row when they die.