Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-21


 hirtb we have watched and in whose | growth we can claim an almost batter nal interest stand here side by side with delegates from those institutions, whether in the new world or in the old. which can point to a longer past than ours. and with whose acnleVe- ments the centuries have rung.
 Our brotherhood knows no bounds of ! place. no limits natural or artificial. | Characteristic of university learning from the very first was it's cosmopoli- tan spirit. While cities and states dwelt in self-centered isolation, the l universities of the Middle Ages estab- lished the first post office by which ln- telligence could be interchanged and l nations grow by one another's intellec | tual work That commusity of thought which the members of the | brotherhood of learning have thus pur- sued from the outset has been ill recent | days belped beyond anticipation by i those modern inventions which have annihilated space. and have made it possible to have with us representa- ' tives not only from the north and the south, from the Mississippi and the | Pacific, but from Stockholm and St | ! tralasia.
 1 Our brotherhood knows no bounds of occupation. The day is past when people thought of the learned profes- sions as something set apart from all ! others, the exclusive property of a i privileged few. Opinions may differ as to the achievements of democracy; but none can fail to value that grow 1 ing democracy of letters which makes | of every calling a learned and noble profession, when it is pursued with the clearness of vision which is fur nished by science or by history, and | with the disinterested devotion to the public welfare which true learning in spires. We are proud to have with us not only the theologian, the juri>~ 1 or the physician; not merely the histor- ical investigator or the scientific dis coverer; but the men of every name, who by arms or by arts, in letters or in commerce, have contributed to bring all callings equally within the scope of university life.
 Nor does our brotherhood know any bound of creed. Even those institu- tions of learning which at some period in their history have had a more or less sectarian character tend to grow as the world grows-making their the ology no longer trammel but an in- | spiration. and welcoming as friends all who contribute to that inspiration, whether under the same forms or un- der others. Our common religion, so fundamental that we can all unite therein, teaches us broad lessons, of reverence, of tolerance. and of earnest ness. Ours be the reverence of those who have learned silence from the l stars above and the graves beneath; ours the tolerance which can s'see good in evil, and a hope in ill-suceess;'' ours the earnestness which would waste no time in the discussion of differences of I standpoint, but would unite us as leaders in the worlds great movement toward higher standards in science and in business, in thought and in life. l In response to the address, formal utterances of congratulation to the uni versity were extended by various speakers: For the graduates. Hon Anthony Higgins, LL.D. of Whining
 ton, Del. class of 1861. delivered the re-
 sponse; Mayor John P. Stud1ey, Yale
 graduate, spoke for the city of New Haven; Governor George P. Mclean
 for the state of Connecticut, and Hon O. H. Platt, United States senator
 from Connecticut, for the nation. I Foreign and American universities
 were represented in the responses as
 follows: The universities of Great
 Britain, James Williams. D. c. L., fel-
 low of Lincoln college, Oxford; the
 universities of Continental Europe,
 Fedor Fedovevic Martens, LID. uni
 versity of St Petersburg; universities
 of the south, Charles William Dabney.
 1n.O., LLD., president of the univer-
 sity of Tennessee; universities of the
 west, Dr William Rainey Harper, pres
 ident of the university of Chicago; uni versailles of the east. Charles William
 Eliot. LID, president of Harvard uni, versity.
 The exercises closed with the read ing of the names of universities, col leges and learned societies sending delegates.
 : At , o'clock this afternoon President Hadley, received the distinguished
 guests of the university and represent atiyes of the alumni in the school of
 fine arts building.
 The final feature of the day will be the spectacular parade of students and
  graduates of Yale accompanied by stu
 dent delegations from other universi- } ties. who will march through the city's gaily decorated streets. gowned in
 costumes symbolic of the history of the
 two centuries. It is expected that s I,OO0 men will be in line.
 Archbishop John Ireland, the head of the Roman Catholic church in the United States, and one of Yale's most distinguished bi-centennial guests aud on whom the college will confer q de-
 gree, arrived in New Haven it 6 ? o'clock Sunday night from New York. Archbishop Ireland was in the com E pany of the Rev J. R. Slattery, of Bal F tim0re. and the Rev A P Doyle, of
 New York. James F. Brennan, one of the leaders of the T. A. B. movement
 here, escorted the distinguished gentle
 men to the Tontine Hotel, where suite was engaged some time ago. . After dinner Archbishop Ireland ris- . ited Prof Tracy Peck. of 124 High street, with the Rev Father Slattery. At 10 o'clock fhe three men walked to : the hotel and the archbishop enioyed II, q +Eo rrh hiC.Il