The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21

ed at the transformation. All is new
 and impressively great
 AT BAYFIELD, CHAPEL.
 Battell chapel was packed to the
 doors yesterday morning, when with a
 magnificent sermon Rev. Joseph Hop kins Twichell, A. M., opened the first
 gathering in connection with the Yale
 bicentennial. The gathering of distin-
 guished men was a notable one Rep-
 resentatives of universities in this and
 foreign countries were gathered there,
 each garbed in the academic gown set
 off with hood the color of which show
 ed the wearer's learned title.
 On the platform with President Ar i thur Twlning Hadley and Dr. Twichell
 were Former President Timothy
 Dwight, ex-Judge Henry F. Rowland,
 of New York, Rev. Charles Ray Palm 1 CT, D. D., of this city, and Thomas G.
 Bennett also of this city. These dis | tinguished men were, like the others In | the audience, gowned in their academic | robes.
 | When the opening chant by the col lege choir was begun standing room was at premium. The galleries had been | reserved for the ladies' and every seat was taken, as well as those on the floor of the edifice. Hundreds were turned
 away and many more remained to soon-
 CT or later take the place of some rest
 less one who did not care to renal nfor the entire service.
 Following the chant by the choir was the Lords Prayer, repeated by the en- tire congregation President Hadley then read from the Scriptures. The
 musical response was Vests Te Deum
 in F flat, The congregation united in singing the hymn made famous by be- ing sung at the opening of the first col- lege erected in New Haven. in 171S. The first four verses of the sixty-fifth psalm were set to the music
 Dr. Twichell followed with a most el- oquent prayer, after which he announc- ed his text: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love Thee. Peace be within Thy walls, and prosperity within Thy Palaces. For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee"
 The speaker noted that not all fruit ful discoveries have dated from the place of learning; yet" said he, "the porch, academy, college, university, has been the laboratory in the crucibles of which the ideas, the principles, that were the original germs of discovery have in general, emerged to view and apprehension.
 He spoke of the two centuries of the worlds intellectual onward march which might be traced from it's cradle of this university of ours" the grand history of the university's past achieve ments and advance in learning and the fact that what each latest generation wins of any knowledge rises on the basis of knowledge before existing. Nothing is more infalible,' said he, "than that to the eyes of our succeed | ing generations we shall appear in those same aspects of deficiency in | which our preceding genera tions appear to us."
 The keeping step of the academic with the worlds progress makes 1t sensible to those claims of re- and to their appeal, was | the speakers thought when to illustrate it he said:
 The retrospect now engaging our thoughts is, to be sure, as the retrospect of such a community, comparatively not g long one. Age Is ours only as we are old in a young country. In that relation indeed, we are old. When Yale college was founded a few colonies sea altered along the Atlantic sea- board were the whole of English Amer ca. La Sales discovery of the Mis- sissippi was then recent. More than thirty years were to elapse before Wolfe would storm the Heights of Ab- 'aham It seems a far distance to those events Still in the august sis -erhood of universities, so many of hem venerable ere our fathers landed )n these shores, we are of the junior 'ank Age enough we have, however n our two hundred years, to bring out Q our view as we look back the chain hat links the generations of the mind ogether, and to cause the organic uni " of the work of to-day with the work If yesterday to appear-the yesterday | hat is near and the yesterday that is emote.
 Age enough, tod we have to make us
 ch in the memories of illustrious and ,ood men who from our beginning, in lnbroken succession have dwelt and abored here. There are shining names , mong them, bright with the luster of ,enius and learning, of wisdom and I ,iety, such as are written on these : windows above us: and that are our ust pride Many more less famed hut lot less worthy, who have made this in- titution their home and who have pent their lives in it's service, have cen content with the scholars unob- | E rusive career and with the scholars modest usefulness This ground is by their contemplative steps Iere was the scene of their patient toll | \ nd their achievement. Here, from outh to age, they fulfilled the duty nd office to which they were conse- rated of awakening in opening minds he love of learning, and leading them nto possession of the priceless patri- 1ony of knowledge. Here they diffused Charles H. Day. the old circus man."