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

theologians, an innumerable host, fror
 Edwards to Taylor
 Professor Kingsley was called tn
 Addison of America, and he had sucl
 wit, knowledge ond grace as migh
 have given him distinction in literar
 composition if he had so directed his en
 ergy; but he was one of those ''gener
 ally useful mem that this college pro
 duces, who held at one time what w
 should call four chairs. We should al
 be proud to claim, as the product O.
 our alma mater, James Fenimore Coop
 CT, but we cannot, for like Shelley from
 Oxford, he wos driven out because of i boyish misdemeanor. If we canno
 claim Cooper Theodore Winthrop Ii
 ours-the essayist and novelist, whost
 posthumous fame shows what was los
 to letters when he died patriots deatf i upon the field of battle.
 | In the second quarter of the nine 1 teenth century the influence of Coler- idge is apparent. William Adams, Hor-
 ace Bushnell, Lyman Atwater, William Watson Andrews, and Noah Porter are
 conspicuous examples of this 1nfuslon
 of idealisnl. The name of Horace Bush-
 nell Is a precious heirloom handed down
 from the Yale of the last century to the
 Vale of the present. He was an orator
 a poet, a lover of nature, and of man
 fearless original, persuasive, too liberal
 for the conservatives, too conservative
 for the liberals of that day, now honor
 ed in both their schools. Horace Bush-
 nell is the greatest of this, group. ln-
 deed should place him, in genius, next
 to Jonathan Edwards.
 Not a few of our brethren have ex- celed in historical writing. Stiles wrote a history of the exiled judges, and Ben jamin Trumbull the history of Connec- Jticut; Samuel Farmar Jarvis was designated historiogra pher of the Epis- copal church; Moses Colt Tyler Is the historian of American literature An drew D, White is the defender of sci- ence versus bigotry, whose history should make us grateful that Yale has been one of the most important Ameri- can agencies for the emancipation of the human intellect from ignorance and dogmatism; Charles l.. Brace Is the ex- ponent of Gesta Christi; George P. Fisher, an honored member of the fac ulty for almost fifty years, stands In the foremost rank among the ecclesi- astical historians of this country, and Leonard Bacon, the Puritan, always re- markable for clearness and vigor, whether religion or politics was his theme, is the author of discourses on the early days of New Haven, which remain unsurpassed in the field of local history. He was like a modern Isaih. the trenchant defender of political righteousness. Stiles pamphlet, How a Free People Conduct a Long War, was one of the most inspiring products of the uprising for the Union; and Schuyler's studies in Turkistan and his essays in diplomacy are enduring memorials of another "all round man" observer, critic, traveller, essayist, his torian. diplomatist-good in whatever he undertook.
 Comparative philoioey was introduc- ed among us by Josiah W. Gibbs-but the chief impulse in this direction came from Salisbury, the first to teach San skrit in America He recognized the ability and secured the services of one who was not graduate, it is true, but an adopted son, whose honors are our honors whose fame carries the name of Yale to every university of the Indo- European world that illustrious schol- ar, William D. whitney We must re- member that James Murdock in 1851 published translation of the Peshito Syriac version of the New Testament; that Moses Stuart at an earlier day carried from New Haven to Andover, an enthusiastic, if not always accurate, N rYitI tt,ra that learned and devoted scholar, Eli Smith. within sight of Mt. Lebanon, translated nearly all the Bible into Arabic-as in later days Hiram Bing- nam translated it into one of the lan- suages of the Pacific islands.
 Another interesting phase of philio- logical study is shown in the attention given to the study of the languages Of he North American Indians. This De- gan very early, when Sergeant Brain- erd, Spencer and Edwards were en- ragged as missionaries to the aborfgines n Western Massachusetts and in Cen .ral New York. Daniel G. Brinton In other branches of aboriginal research | las also won renown.
 An unusual manifestation of the love )I l6lteTS IS SIlUNH ny NhS ee'S'''OAi yiven during the last century, to | For time Yale was a ,eritable storm center. Webster yer 'us Worcester, and Worcester versus Webster were chieftains in this Battle if the Books" and both authorities were graduates of Yale.
 Apart from theology. philosophy has the attention of many of our blest brethren This is especially true f the time since Porter was called to he professorship which he held with distinction for almost half , century, including the years of his presidency.
 One of the greatest services which his college has rendered to literature nd science has been the preparation of n innumerable host of teachers and professors, The list is too long for re- apitulation here--but few names aust be recalled The earliest was onathan Dickinson, first president of Princeton. deemed in his time the peer f Edwards. whose immediate success ors were likewise Yalensians. Next anne Samuel Johnson, the friend of berkeley, first president of Columbia and his more famous son, William Samuel Johnson, elected pro- ost of the University of Pennsylvania, 'ho succeeded to the presidency of Co., lmbia, and stood In the first rank mong the statesmen of the period just