New-York tribune., 1901-10-23


pies and methods during period OF two centuries
i viii be my endeavor to set forth the relations of
with HISTORIC insight you may discover the tendency
been trained. and may thus appreciate it's benefits
more fully than ever before. / shall not follow
circumstances Of this address / must omit the
praise of living men. hover richly deserved.
honored and beloved. Law medicine and theology
II will be good for each one of to bear in mind
the seven searching questions OF an ancient critic
Quando and TO remember also that there is no
process by which we can draw forth in forty min
lustrums.
THE BEGINNINGS OF YALE.
The Collegiate School of Connecticut began we'll:
ae Ya GGHese improved upon the Cole giate School
process has been that of evolution. not of revolu-
ton unfolding not eataclysmic; growth. and not
trolling factors. What We are we to our
ntf ancestry and our opportunities. Hence the re-
quately treated without looking outside the walls
Quinnpiac; the dependence of the colony upon the
mother country; the bicephalous State of COnnecti
cut; the prosperous city of New-Haven and it's
proximity TO the great metropolis. and especially
by considering what has been going in the
represent microcosm. Such a survey | shall not
attempt for must keep close bounds. Yet even
original colonists of New-Haven the real progeni-
of educatiou-John Davenport. a student Of OK
ford and a minister In London: Theophilus Eaton.
fortune and earliest benefactor of American learn
Pierpont at thfront. were worthy exponents Of the
idea. they had inherited: they were the v-isest
broadest and most learned men Of this 81" region IN
that day. Liberal ideas then in the advance.
New England brought from Old England the ;us-
toms the studies the graduates of Oxford and
germany The exotic germs were nurtured by
We're were ripe for a second college in this region.
harvard Instructors. laws, courses. phrases
child OF the new Cambridge and grandchild OF
kindly ordered in Provdence are the Seso words Of
President Stiles Yale has never ceased to be
chain of historic continuity. Yale does not forget
sion and delights todsy TO honor its ancestTy
The seveeteenth century not the most brill
country. The functions of universities had been
usurped by colleges. Their scope restricted:
ters were su6ordinate to logic and grammar and
me Ihe I]n2lntsnanee ] OF orthodoxy Nevertheless. the
out out hxed habitation or name, acquired both
bricks; with teachers the best that could be had.
and with ideas in respect TO intellectual discipline
which soon bore fruit in the service of church and
The division between our, first and second CEN
teenth centuries Of our era. is not simply deter
mined by the calendar, There are two periods to
ing its eharaeteristics from the spirit the age
the good old colony times Of depenence upon Er
land the Revolution, the establishment Of consti-
tionaI life and hope II was the period too. when
free church was to be established in a free state,
rule Of hierarchy The business of a college was 10
train two sets of leaders those who would develop
conditions. and those who would be ministers Of the
Word of God among Christian people separated
from the Establishment. For scholastic discipline
the books and methods approved in the mother
struments. Such words as letters and science were
not In their vocabulary. Religion and law or. as
they said. the church and state were the dominant
Days OF privation. anxiety. dispute. apprehen-
prosperity and union-years Of plenty after years
cf wantIand the second century opened with cour-
OF original research, OF experiment and observa-
science had begun its trlumphai march. and the
humanities. in a broad sense. were destined to
gage more and more the attention of educated men.
JARED ELIOT. PHYSICIAN AND PRESENTER
In the first decade record of 1.-The noble living
and the noble dead includes the name of one who
train / by alma mater for more than provin-
like the sages of antiquity had the cure of souls
and the care of bodies. physician We'll as a
stsntiy. traversins a wide district on errands Of
mercy. he showed the qualities of an ortsinal in
ceed to search for their answers; he would make
experiment and he submitted has conclusions BY
the printing PRESS 10 the scrutiny OF the world:
terra incognita can advance not one step forward
but experience my only pole star. shall direct.
mouth, and light springs up before me as I ad-
e Of @ ana that f IS not 1Ps b rslmt Of upon
perience is vague uncertain. therefore 1t is with
of theory which is only conjectural. and shall al
ways take it as favor TO be corrected and set
It is not too much claim that he made the first
contribution from this land OF iron and gold TO the
art Of makns Very good if not the best iron from
advance of his times in the promotion of scientific
agriculture as any one may see by looking up the
and afterward collected in a volume on Field
Husbandry In N~w-England" His science did not
osraphy Of his laboratory assistant who was scep-
teal about results and needed stimuiant He being
drink with moderation and temperance. promised
him on6 If he ss9d s9g b bo bar ar 0m the IN &
NAL DAYS was the spirit that promoted research.
oG No anG him
with pleasure the cheerful hours enjoyed last
Saa 99s IN sy en OF old s ha
9th Of the stories You then told with so much pro-
prle9y, and hamor;' Poor Richard ,whsn. he
friend in Guilford paid a compliment to the col
efdte 1d school d, OF but ne had not IN
If it he true that Eliot was chosen a member OF
the Royal Society of London. the distinction is very
great, for only David Humphreys, among Yalen-
vrate-Dana. Newton and Gibbs.
JONATHAN EDWARDS.
OF. or Jonathan Edwards the PHILOSOPHER and theO
logian, have no right to speak. but he must not
be exiled from men of letters. especially since it
is customary in recent years to call him by the
name of one of the most illustrious OF epic poets
His contemporaries placed no limits their praise.
ana hs the ngnn e
entian epitaph Null setatis suse compar
His grandson. with pardonable atavism declares
that he
I'm little life the Gospel more
Disclosed than all earths myriads keuned before"
and then, alarmed by his own eulogy, he adds
THE reader will consider this proposition as poet
ically strong but literally accurate"
Edwards may be called poet suppressed. His
writings often noteworthy for the graceful
language in which refined thoughts have expires
sion, and although rhymes verses of his are
extant. some passages have Miltonic ring The