The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24

sl ties, 1t i5 not strange that her son
 should be conspicuous for their devo 1 lioh to the public welfare. This is saiC
 m no d1sparagement to other college
 and universities, for 1t is a fact re l bounding to the honor of all that tht
 educated men of America have furnish
 ed most shining examples of pure, un
 selfish devotion to the public interests
 Every such institution can point tt | conspicuous examples among her sons
 many conspicuous in the present day Dut do make bold to say that the lives or the great body of her graduates pear witness to Yale's constant loyalty
 to her expressed purpose.
 Would that I could stay to speak of
 all that her sons have done iE further
 ance of public interest and for the gen. eral welfare. Her roll of graduates 1 what roll of honor. It were a de- lightful task to name them and tell the
 story of their achievements, but to
 name few and omit others would be
 lnvidious; and to speak of all who de-
 serve mention would trespass too much
 on your time. The roll call must be
 omitted, But this may truly be said, that
 in every department of life in which
 faithful service has been rendered,
 some sons of Yale has written his name
 near the summit My only regret is
 that I have but one life to give for my
 country came from the dying lips of
 one. During the great civil war more
 than hundred of her children Ca great
 CT number than the entire body of her
 undergraduates the year preceding its
 commencemenD dared all its horrors
 and dangers in obedience to their con-
 vlctions of public duty, and over one
 hundred of them poured their lifeblood
 on the battlefield. Who shall say that the purpose of training for public ser vice has not inspired and glorified the life of our Alma Mater!
 Senator Ingalls, said of Opportunity: T knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping wake; if feasting, rise before l turn away. It Is the hour of fate. 7"
 The founders of Yale heard the knocking and opened wide her doors to the great opportunity. 1701 and one of the thirteen colonies which afterwards formed the United States of America and one whose first governments were formed by the colonists themselves without the aid of royal charter or roy al governor, were suspicious and op- perfume time and place for the estab- lishment of college with such a pur- pose. The overshadowing political fact of the last four centuries is the evolu- ton of the problem of government of, by and for the people To him who believes that the worlds life Is not mere succession of accidents but a of forces along the lines of an infinite purpose, it is not strange that many things were cotemporaneous with and helpful to the solution of this problem. It was day of great mental and moral upheaval, unrest and ac- .ivty. The invention of printing; the | of the Bible; the spirit of l 'hivalry, outgrowth of the Crusades and 1 Teudal life; the birth of international | aw, founded on moral obligations; the | 'pening of new continent to the civ lized world-all these gathered about | md tended to the successful working
 if the great political problem. On the | -irgin soil of this new continent the most vigorous spirits of the most virile aces sought homes far from the over hadowing influences of monarchical ystems; and here began, at first in eeble way but with constantly gath ring strength, the inauguration into he life of the world of the thought that very man is free and every man a uler It was at such time, on such continent and during the evolution of his great problem, that Yale came lto being and has lived her life What
 magnificent opportunity! How great he need of such an institution. Popu- 1T government was not fashioned in II hour or born in day. It's relations 9 society and social order were not established by single act, or accom- lished by colonial charters, the Dec lration of Independence or the Federal Slowly the structure of opular government was to rise-dd se-and skillful must be its architects atient and faithful it's toilers. And to 10 work of educating it's architects nd training it's tolers Yale has devoted ST life. Ignorance would have wreck the movement; ambition and self hness would have stayed it's growth l fullest sympathy with the thought hich underlies the problem Yale
 rove to give her students the best of lucation, and to fill them with the )irit of public service. Is it strange ,at her sons have ever been faithful orkers on the great structure! It is range that the common people heard 1T gladly; and sent their sons to re- l i've her training! Is it strange that l 1T instructors, on meagre salaries and J owing divinely rich in the blessed $ If f-denials of poverty, continued from z ,ar to year their faithful work! Is it { range that in her undergraduate life I e has been the most national and the t ost democratic of educational institu- V ,ns and that by her students has al- c avs been recognized the truth: f
 King must be of men the manifest, V
 else we will not crown him" II To-day the great temple of popular t vernment in this Republic rises be- t re the world the most magnificent s 'ucture on the political horizon. Her t lndations rest on rocks more solid U an New England granite; her archi- Il ,ture, filled with a beauty richer than h n be found in all the luXuriant'growth a
 southern foliage and flower, and S ded with a shining splendor surpass- y y aught ever seen in California's e lden sands; and in and upon all that II ty structure from lowest wall to ,hest spire Yale has written these inn l c. ,r,to1 vynrde. CT treit1 for rJ1b1in eor- I I