The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-23

in the country" Graduates of Vest ern Reserve are now at the head of several of the most important depart ments of Yale; while several of the presidents and many of the professors of Western Reserve are now at the head of several of the most important departments of Yale; while several or the presidents and many Of the prores- sors of Western Reserve have been Yale men. Henry l.. Hitchcock of the class of 1892 Carroll Cutler of the class of 1928, Elias Loomis of the class of 1880, Nathan P. Seymour of the class of 1884, and Lemuel s. PotWln of the class of 1854, may be mentioned not as complete list but as sam pie of the Yale men who have made Western Reserve-now expanded into a university-the excellent college 1t has always been.
 Illinois college was established in 1880 at Jacksonville in the limits of what is now the imperial state of llll- nois. All the influences leading to the establishment of this college originat- ed at Yale or with Yale men. The promoters of the enterprise followed the advice of the president and pro- fesosrs of Yale college and these ven- erable advisers warned against sub- jecting the institution to political or denominational control" Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, Yale 1881, was the first president Rev Dr. Julian M. Sturtevant, Yale 1926, was his success sor, and his presidency was long and prosperous The college was founded when Illinois had no colleges and had a population of only 160,000 Yale put her impress on the young state and has kept it there to a greater or less degree ever since.
 Beloit college was founded in south ern Wisconsin in 1S4S. Half of its first faculty of two was a Yale man. It's first president was Rev. Dr. Aaron l.. Chapin Yale 1S37 who held the of- flee for thirty six years till 1866 TO- day as ever, Yale is represented in the faculty of Beloit. The ideas of the founders of Beloit were the same old conservative Yale ideas which have So generally characte erized Yale eau cators whether at home or abroad. As the Beloit men themselves express ed it, "Education was understood 10 mean chiefly a self lf-development or the individual under training to true possession and command Of his best faculties" To-day Beloit and Yale are alike presided over py one of their own brilliant graduates: what Arthur T. Hadley Is to Yale, Edward D. Eaton Is to Beloit; and If l were seeking in the whole west for young Yale I should go at once to Belolt; and I have no hesitation in saying that there is no denominational or in- dependent non -sectarian college in the west that is better than Beloit Presl- dent Eaton is graduate or one or the departments of Yale.
 I have chosen to speak of these col leges. not because Yale men were to be found in their faculties-there are many colleges all over the country that cannot be named to-day of which the same is true; but because these in- stitutions seem to have been created as we'll as developed by Yale influence, and in their career they have largely affected the character of the great northwest, all of them having been established most opportunely by Yale influence within the territory dedicated to freedom and deucation and religion by the ordinance of 1767
 Among Yale men notable as educa- tors President Northrop spoke of Hem " Barnard, Daniel C. Gilman, Dr. Will liam H. Welch, Hon. William T. liar ris. Andrew D. White. Dr. William R. Harper, president of Chicago univer- sity; Horace Bumst cad, William Pres ton Johnston, Charlton F. Lewis, Au- gustus H. Strong, Moses Colt Taylor, George E. Mclean,
 Yale furnished the first presidents of at least eighteen colleges: Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Georgia William, Hamilton. Kenyon, Illinois, Wabash, University of Mis- souri, University of Wisconsin Beloi;. Chicago, California, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Western Reserve. One hundred and five graduates of Yale have been president of college; and at least eighty-fve different colleges have at some time had Yale gradu- ate for president. Among these are the state universities of Wisconsin, Min nesota, Iowa, North Dakota, Pennsyl- vania, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wyom- ing. Indiana, Georgia. Missouri, Yer mont, California and Oregon-and prob ably others. Among the other colleges, not state institutions are Dickinson, Midlebury, Hampden Sidney, Amherst. Rutgers, Trinity, Lafayette, Transyl- vanla, Tulane, Lake Forest, Pomona and Whitman, and the Imperial Uni 1,arsi+v of Japan More than six hum dred graduates of Yale have been pro- fessors In some college.