Evening star., 1901-10-22
Distinguished Graduates Tell Of the
University's Work.
IMPRESS ON NATIONAL THOUGHT
DR.. Cyrus Northrop and President
Gilman Chief Speakers.
FOOT BALL IN AFTERNOON

lations to affairs, university foot ball. the
performance of an oratorio, student dra-
| matte performance. and a jollification in
song by graduates, young and old. con-
stitnted the features of this days pro-
gram of Yale's bicentennial
| The exuberant and spectacular demon
! stration of last night, with all it's fatigue,
| seemed not to dampen the enthusiasm of
| today.
| The first exercise was held in Battell
Chapel
The first address was delivered by Cyrus
| Northrop, LID, Yale 81, president of the
University of Minnesota. He was intro
duced by Judge William Kneeland Town
send. DR.. Northrop's address presented
Yale in its relation to the development Of
| the country
DR.. NOrthrop's Address.
| He enumerated the political and educa-
| tional leaders graduated from the univer-
sity, and briefly sketched their careers. He
| began with the Yale men who aided In
framing the national Constitution, and then
ran through the list of those who have
graced the bench of the United States Su-
preme Court and have been heard in the
| national Senate, and said:
But the real history of country is not
the record of its great men, either in war
OF IN peace. 1t is rather an account of the
| development and progress of the people.
| and especially SO in this country, where the
peoples will can govern and ultimately
i does govern, and where the wfsest leaders
| before they speak listen for the voice of
the people. The hope of the country is not
IN the astuteness and ability OF its great
men put IN the virtue intelligence and
| good sense of the great body of the peopIe
| AN institution of learning whose influence
educational and ethical, has permeated the
sleat mass OF the people in all parts of the
country, an y aHectlrg alike their ideas. their
| mode OF thinking, their habits of life thei,
| conceptions of public and private vir-
| Tue, OF patriotism and religion. has i'm
pressed itself upon the character of the ma
neor. o,. III ,rS a more permanent way and with
.ie .oI Mioe-reachins results than an institu-
tioh whose chief glory is the deyelonment
OF lew party leaders
| Limitations of COLLEGES.
| Ffooabiy the man of real genius never
owes ms SUCCESS entirely to his college.
| The greatest men of the world have NOT got
| 'nelr inspiration from the college curriculum
| nor the college faculty. Some men have
oeen great without being trained at COL
| iege, and some have been great in spite of
| being trained al college.
| The attitude of Yale College as repards
| puphc affairs has generally been one of
| protest against pending mistakes and dam
gers ratner than one of effective advocacy
OF positive policy of its own. The col
lege has criticised, regulated, warned.
| rather than originated and led
| Passing from the political to the edu-
car cationai leaders. he outlined the work of
| found or labor in other universities. and
| said: "ii0
| Most Of the Yale men who have en-
| sageo In the work of education have had
| on them, all their lives, the stamp of Yale
| College, and have cherished the Yale ideas
and have followed the Yale methods. No
| other single word describes what these are
| SO Well as conservatism. They have held
| fast to what was good and have been slow
| 10 enter new and untried paths. As a result
| the manlines, force and independence which
particularly characterize the Yale student
| have been reproduced throughout the coun-
! try by the permeating influence of Yale
! training"
| Comparison of Genius.
| In concluding the speaker said: 'eThe
! prairies that for hundreds of miles stretch
| in almost unbroken continuity through the
| west do not excite in the traveller to the
Pacific any especial emotion Of wonder
| Such emotion is excited by the tall peaks
| further west that tower heavenward the
| sent1nels OF the Rockies, grand, gloomy
solitary. sublime. But the prairies, mo-
| notonously level and tame though they are
| can feed the world. The largest part of
| the alumni Of the college are like the
neutrality-suspicious. but useful. Some of
| the others are like the foothills elevated.
| but small in comparison with Shasta's
heaven-piercing head. But the inconspicu-
GUS lives are not always the least useful
lives. I would rather have the glory which
rests upon the memory of DR. Arnold of
Rugby than the halo which encircles the
proudest don of Oxford. 1t is great thing
| to be a real thinker. 1t is a great thing to
have noble character. But 1t Is a greater
thing to plant your thoughts in intellects
where they will grow and to put your prin-
ciples which have made character into
hearts where they will be cherished. In
| this thought the teachers Of all grades can
rest content. And Mother Yale, as sae
| calls the roll of her sons who are worthy
/ of her love, will not omit a single one
however humble, If only he has done what
The second and last address of the day
| was delivered by Daniel Colt Gilman
LID, Yale. 80, president of Johns Hop
| kins University. He was introduced by
Thomas Maynes Ford Lounsbury, l.. H. D..
| LID, professor of English in the Sheffield
! Scientific School. He treated of the rela-
| ton of Yale University to letters and sci
| ence.
! President Giiman's Address.
President Gilman in his address gave a
long list of names of Yale men, omitting,
however. praise of any living man. who
have been more or less prominently identi-
fed with both these spheres of effort Prof
Gilman's endeavor, as stated by himself,
| was to 'set forth the relations of Yale to
| science and letters in such a way that with
historic insight you may discover the tend
| ency and the influence of the school in
which we have been trained and may thus
appreciate its benefits more fully than ever
| before The process" said Prof. Gilman,
"has been that of evolution, not revolution;
| unfolding, not cataclysmic; growth not
manufacture; heredity and environment the
] controlling factors"
OF Yale's wise and liberal intellectual he
| redity Prof. Gilman said: New England
| brought from old England the customs, the
studies, the graduates of Oxford and Cam
bridge, not those Of Scotland or France or
| Germany. The exotic gems were nurtured
I by Harvard for more than sixty years be-
| fore the times were ripe for second col
lege in this region. Yale has never ceased
| to be grateful for this noble ancestry nor
broken the chain of historic continuity.
| Yale does not forget that an honorable
pedigree is its priceless possession
| Two Periods of Development.
Prof. Gilman divided his description Of
the life Of Yale into two periods. corre-
| spending with the eighteenth and nine
/ teenth centuries of the calendar. In the
first, he said, religion and law were the
dominant concerns of patriot and sage; and