The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-23
PRESIDENT OF MINNESOTA UNI
VERSITY A SPEAKER ATYALE
BICENTENNIAL
INFLUENCE on THE COUNTRY
Relation of school Rounded by old
Eli to the pevelopment of
the United States His
subjecf.

performance ana a. Jo1hllcatiCn iE song
| by graduates, young aid Old, constituted
the features OIL TINS DAYS programme OF
Yale's bicentenniaIk The exuberanr and
spectacular demonstration of last night
with all its fatigue, seemed aot to damn.
EN- the enthusiasm of today. The first of
the days exercises was held in Battel
chapel.
The first address was delivered NV CIV.
rus Northrop, Ii. D., Yale 81 president
of the University of Minnesota. He was
introduced by Judge William Krceland
townsend DR.. Northrops address pre-
sented Yale in its relation TO the develop
ment of the country.
President Northrop began by briefly
mentioning the great men that Yale had
contributed to the, craftsmanship of the
Gol'iltry-Calhoun, Evarts, Depew, Dawes,
Brewer, etc., and said:
But the real history of a ,.oun+rv !,
ECU the record of it's great men either in
war or in peace. 1t is rather an account
OF the development and progress of the
people. Probably the man of real eani,S
never owes his success entirely to his
coEege. The greatest men of the world
would have not got their inspiration from
the college curriculum nor the college
faculty. Some men have been gre9t
without being trained at college and
some have been great in spite of being
trained at college. Miami university did
not make Benjamin Harrison; nor did
Dartmouth make Daniel Webster: nor.
did Bowdoin make Nathaniel Hawthorn:
nor did Yale make John c. Calhoun
1heSe men would all have been men of
note no matter where they might be
graduated. The spirit of man in rha1n
was candle of the Lord, and thev could
not but shine.
The attitude of Yale college as regards
public affairs has generally been one of
protest against impending mistakes and
CANCERS Of
H0cacy OF positive policy of its own.
The college has criticised. regulated
warned, rather than originated and led.
Il II mas never been intensely partisan, but
that of the late Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon.
LIT Bacon was a free trader but he al
ways voted the Wing or the Republican
ticket. He said he had been wantinp for
Yeas to get chance to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, and so emphasized his
views on the tariff, but the Democrats
always did some foolish thing or other
just before election that comDelIed him
good deal like that. Voting one ticket
while wanting to vote the other, because
It's conservative critical attitude led it
to emphasize party errors that the more
enthusiastic partisan in his confidence in
the general excellence of party policy
would have overlooked. When the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill was passed, Yale
Numbered against it in no doubtful man
rer; and Taylor, Silliman, Woolsey.
Ihacher and others fearlessly voiced her
sentiments. The college was no less out
spoken for freedom and union when both
were endangered by the great rebellion
Some of the economic teachings of Yale.
like those of all colleges, have been at
variance with the prevailing policy of
the country. On no important question
of national policy has the influence of
fale been greater than on the financial
question, which in one form or another
has agitated the nation for many years,
and notably in the last two presidential
elections. The sturdy fidelity to what the
college regarded as sound principles, con-
trieuted in no small degree to the ma
tioEal verdict upon that question. Yale
has furnished the country with NUM-
Der of distinguished diplomats of Wnoin
Eugene Schuyler, Of the class of 1859,
though not the most prominent Or dis
tinguiShed was, l think, the most dis
tinetly Representatives Edwards Pierpont,
of the class of 1887, and Wayne McVea gh
and Andrew D. White, both of the class
of 1853, are among the most distinguished
OF Yale representatives at foreign courts.
In the triennial catalogue of Yale the
names of about 2,GC0 graduates are re-
corded. The number is very small COM
pared with the many millions of people
who have lived in the two centuries just
gone. And yet / do not doubt that in
some way, direct or indirect, the inf1u-
ence of Yale has extended, through these
22,GOO graduates, to a large part of these
millions, affecting their education or their
lucas VI lu6lT principles OF lnelr lives.
Most of the Yale men who have engaged
in the work of education have had on
them, all their lives, the stamp of Yale
college, and have cherished the Yale
ideas, and have followed the Yale meth
DDS. No other single word describes what
these are so well as conservatism. The
manliness, force and independence which
particularly characterize the Yale stu
dent have been reproduced throughout
the country by the permeatng influence
of Yale training. "A boat race said a
newspaper corr respondent last summer, sis
never lost by Yale till the race is ended -
He meant by that that every particle
OF strength would be eXerted by Yale
crew to the last stroke, so that the race
would finally be won if it were possible,
as it generally is. It is that resolute de-
way everywhere in life, without affecta-
ton or snobbery, or parasitical syco-
phancy, or the undue worship of anceS-
tors, that is the characteristic mark of
Yale men, and that is sure to appear
wherever Yale men teach.
President Northrop then discussed at
length the colleges that have been found
ed by Yale men, or which have felt the
Yale influence.
He continued:
I have chosen to speak of these COL
leges, not because Yale men were to be
colleges all over the country that cannot
be named today of which the same is
true; but because their institutions seem
to have been created as we'll as devel-
oped by Yale influence, and in their
career they have largely affected the
character of the great Northwest, all
of them having been established most
OPPORTUNITY by Yale influence within the
territory dedicated to freedom and edu-
cation and religion by the ordinance of
1887.
Yale furnished the first president of at
least eighteen colleges and the list is re-
IL 10 icI1o n
character of the institutions as for their
NUMBER name them Princeton, Co.
lunlbia, Dartmouth, University of Georgia,
Miam aamto m 1nG1s
of Mississippi, University of Wisconsin,
Beloit, Chicago, California, Cornell, Johns
Hopkins and Western Reserve. One hum
bred and five graduates of Yale have been
president of college, and at least efgh-
ty-five different colleges have at some
time had Yale graduate for president.
Among these are the state universities of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Da-
kota, Pennsylvania. louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Wyoming, Indiana, Georgia, Mis-
souri,, Vermont, California and Oregon
colleges, not state institutions, are Dick
ipson, Middlebury, Hampden. Sidney,
Amherst, Rutgers, Trinity, Lafayette,
Transylvania, Tulane, Lake Forest. Po-
University of Japan. More than go
graduates of Yale have been professors
in some college.
The prairies that for hundreds of miles
stretch in almost unbroken continuity
through the West do not excite in the
traveller to the Pacific any special emo
ton of wonder. Such emotion is excited
by the tall peaks further west that tower
heavenward, the sentinels of the Rockies,
grand gloomy, solitary, sublime. But
the prairies, anonymously level and tame
though they are, can feed the world
The largest part of the alumni of the
college are like the prairie-inconspic-
nous but useful Some of the others are
like the foothills, elevated but small in
comparison with Shasta's heaven-pierc
ing head. Comparatively few rise to