The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-26
TO HONOR YALE SOLDIERS.
PART OF BT-CENTENNIAL GEL F.
 BRATION IN THEIR MEMORY.

Who Were Yale Men-What Yaie and
 Connecticut Have Done in the Re-
 cont yyars-The Cheney-Ives Gate | way.
 The memorial gateway now being | erected at the entrance of the campus between Osborn Hall and Welch Hall will bear the names of Gerard Ives and Ward Cheney, the last of Yale's sons to give their lives to their country's ser
 vice. The beautiful structure will fitly
 commemorate the bravery of these two
 men who died true soldiers deaths, one
 in the uncomplaining performance of
 strict hard duty far from where his
 daring and. ambition hoped to bring
 him; the other facing the enemy on the
 firing line. One might wish that at the
 coming Bi-centennial celebration,
 where Yale men are going to show
 what their history records of achieve ment along every line, some effort
 might be made to erect suitable me
 morial to all those who went from the college at the nations call.
 The roll of honor is long; it begins
 with the five Yale men who fought be-
 hind the rail fence at Bunker Hill. It would include Huntington, the young
 student who preferred to miss his di-
 noma than the chance of serving under
 Washington; and Hitchcock, whose regiments charge helped win the battle
 of Princeton Yale raised a military company, which Aaron Burr led
 against the British when New Haven
 was raided in 1779, and it was at the same time that ex-President Daggett' exercised the rights of war as he called it, to the extent of firing on the raiders from a post he chose on their road into town. For this he was cru ely handled when later he was cap tured by the enemy, There were Yale men In every division of Washington's army. There is no need to speak of Nathaniel Hale '73, but others, many as brave as the herospy. fought with him to the number of 102, and as betit- ted a school for training ministers Yale sent thirty-six chaplains to the army besides the fighting men.
 What the college did toward helping the Union during the civil war was more even than her contribution of men and leadership during the Revolution. The present generation forget some times how magnificent is that chapter In Yale's history The college was small affair forty years ago. It was barely half the size of the present ac- ademic department. But out of that body of undergraduates ITO enlisted in the northern army, and of the few southerners in college nearly every one fought for the cause his people thought was right
 From the whole body of Yale men, alumni and students, s36 were actively engaged on the Union side and of these 11O were killed or died in the field hos pital. Connecticut's war record was one of the finest made by any state. She gave far in excess of her propor- tion, and Yale, Connectlcut's own col- lege. followed the states example. No college can equal her. Williams and Harvard gave noby, but Yale's contri- button was three hundred men more than her famous sisters, and the rolls of those sons who died for their cause is longer.
 What Yale men did to help our re- cent war every one remembers. The contest was not of such importance or of such personal as well as national in terest as were our other wars, but men were needed, the government called | and the college responded. She sent forty undergraduates to the field bat tery She raised money for two rifles for the cruiser named after her; she sent forty-five undergraduates to join | their home regiments. Of the alumni | 215 were enrolled in our land and sea | forces, many as officers. Of the whole | Yale contingent five were killed or died | of disease contracted in camp. Miller | fell in the attack on San Juan Hill; | Ives gave way to the fever at Tampa.
 All these figures and what they stand | for should be known by every Yale | man. They are one of his most pre- rious heritages. It would be we'll too | if all those who have heard of the col | Iege were to realize that its life does | not tend to foster only scholars, but | that Yale is ready to train men for ev- cry branch of American life. And as . proof of this one has only to read of the Yale men who wore army blue; one has only to read the inscription on the new est of the campus gateWays.