The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-23

DOdI TdCt, Sdiu d leWspdp5I COii o- spondent last summer, lis never lost by Yale till the race is ended" He meant by that that every particle of strength would be eXerted by a Yale crew to the last stroke, so that the race would finally be won if it were possible, as 1t generally is. It is that resolute determination to do one's best in a manly way everywhere in life, without affectation or snobbery or parasitical sycophancy or the undue worship of ancestors, that is the char acteristic mark of Yale men, and that is sure to appear wherever Yale men teach. And where have they not taught? North, south, east and west, Yale educators have been at work founding colleges, and academies and schools, formulating the principles of public education and making the policy of new states more liberal even than that of the mother New England, stim- ulating public interest in new methods and building up graded systems of popular education with all the varied institutions needed for its perfection. The earlier development of this work took the form of attempts to establish in new territory colleges as like Yale as possible. Princeton, Columbia, Dart mouth and Hamilton may be taken as examples. The first three presidents of Princeton were Yale men, and to the efforts of the first president, Jona- than Dickinson, Yale 1706, more than to the efforts of any other man are due the founding and early develop ment of Princeton university. The work of Aaron Burr, the second pres ident, Yale 1735, confirmed the Yale tradition in Princeton, and the name of Jonathan Edwards, the third pres ident, Yale TYPO, according to Hal lock contributed more to the fame of Princeton on the continent, short as was his presidency, than the name of any other official connected with it's history The first president of Kings college, now Columbia, was pr. Samuel Johnson, Yale TIA. He was the only Episcopalian clergyman in Connecticut; was highly esteemed by Benjamin Franklin and was urged by him to become presiednt of the insti- tuition founded by him in Philadelphia, afterward the University of Penn eylvania. When Kings college was reorganized as Columbia, William Samuel Johnson, Yale 1744, a distin- guished United States senator from Connecticut and an eminent lawyer, became the first president. He was the first graduate of Yale to receive an honorary degree in law, having been made a Doctor of Civil Law by ip pnllnph had for it's founder and first president Dr. Eeazar Wheelock, Yale 1733, for thirty-fve years pastor of a church in Lebanon, Conn. The story of his work for the Indians and the develop ment of his Indian school into Dart mouth college is too we'll known to need repetition here. The Yale stamp has always been Dartmouth, and the spirit of the two institutions has been and is, not unlike. Hamilton college was established by charter of May 26th, 1872 It was founded by Yale graduate, Samuel Kirkland of the class of 176S, who drew his inspiration from Eleazar Wheelock of the class of 173S, president of Dartmouth. Like Dartmouth, Hamilton was the out growth of Christian work for the In dians. For fifty years of it's existence practically all the presidents and pro- fessors of Hamilton college were Yale graduates Among them were some men so eminent that they will not soon be forgotten.
 The ordinance of 17S7 providing for the government of the territory north west of the river Ohio contained among other remarkable artlcles-a re- uuirement of public provision for edu- cation Its language is: Religion, morality and knowledge being neces- sary to good government and the hap piness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever bs encouraged"
 That ordinance has been most faith fully obeyed within the great region to which it applied, every state carved out of the territory having made noble provision for public education from the common school to the university. "Ohio university established at Athens, Ohio, in 1902, bears the double distinction of being the first college in the United States founded upon land endowment from the national government and also of being the old est college In Northwest Territory. pr Manasseh Cutler was the Father of the University" He was a Yale man of the class of 17S5 and minis ter of the gospel, pastor in Ipswich, Mass. He drew up the plan for the college, and made 1t as much like Yale as he could; but the legislature modified his plan and assumed large powers in the election of trustees, so that Ohio university, though child of Yale, did not ultimately resemble Yale as much as it resembled state university. But that was not because Dr. Manasseh Cutler had forgotten the character of his Alma Mater or had broken away from his Yale conservatism, but simply because oth- CT influences were too strong for him to control. Yale influence was thus the first to start higher education in the gerat Northwest Territory, and the institution founded by Cutler still lives and prospers with as many stu dents as Yale herself had when was an undergraduate.
 Twenty-four years later in 1726, when northern Ohio had been well set tied by good people from Connecticut, Western Reserve college secured it's charter. It was the first college estab- lished in the northern half of Ohio. The project to establish it originated