The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-23
CYRUS NORTHROP'S PAPER
DELITERED AT BATTELL CHAPEL
 YESTERDAY FORENOON.


 YESTERDAY FORENOON.
 Hissubject Was: "Thc Relation of Yale Graduates Who Have Been Leaders Along Various Lines in the Nations DeveIopmemt-An Able and Interest ing Address.
 At Battell chapel yesterday President Cyrus Northrop of the University of Minnesota delivered one of the ablest addresses of the bicentennial celebra- ton, his subject being, "The Relation Country" He said that it was not easy to say to what extent the politi- cal policy of our country has been in- fluenced directly Yale. He spoke of the four graduates of Yale in the conven- ton which framed our national consti- tuition, William Samuel Johnson, Will liam Livingston, Jared Ingersoll and Abraham Baldwin. Yale has to-day three members of the supreme court of the United States, David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown, both of the class of 1856, and George Shiras of the class of 1853, these men, all emil nently worthy to hold the high posi- tion which they occupy, have been call ed upon to decide questions of the greatest importance, and their decis- ions have probably affected the policy of the country more positively and per manently than has any other dlstinc- tive Yale influence.
 He spoke of the task assigned to Judge William H. Taft of the class ot 1S7, the work of bringing the Philip pine Islands under beneficial civil gov ernment and preparing them for self government. Of Yale graduates who have been senators and representatives in congress he said:
 "The representatives are too numer- ous to mention. Of the senators it will be sufficient to name John Caldwell CdIlOun Or CUulI Sdloiiii" iAN'AASNN Smith. Roger S. Baldwin and Jabez w. Huntington of Connecticut, John Da- wis. Julius Rockwell and Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, John M. Clayton and Anthony Higgins of Della ware. William M. Evarts and Chaun- cey M. Depew of New York, George E. Badger of North Carolina, Randall L. Gibson of Louisiana, William Mor- ris Stewart of Nevada, and F'rederlck T. Dubois of Idaho. All of these have exerted positive influence on either the politics or the legislation of the country. Most of them have been men of commanding influence in the senate, and I am glad to say in the language of another, 'all of trem have been hon. est and sincere, and in no instance have they betrayed the trust reposed in them.'
 Among the most distinguished of Yale's representatives at foreign courts he mentioned Edward Pierre pont of the class of 1887 and Wayne McVeigh and Andrew D. White, both of the class ol 1853. As prominent in the educational development of the country he mentioned the first Presl- dent Dwight, Josiah Clark, Noah Web ster and Joseph E. Worcester.
 He then spoke as follows
 The roll of presidents Is famous one but however much we may admire the former presidents, of whom the men in this audience have had personal knowledge, Day, Woolsey. Porter, Dwight or any of the earlier men, no one doubts that Arthur T. Hadley, son and intellectual heir of the ever-to-be- remembered James Hadey. Is at least the peer of the best of them.
 Mots of the Yale men who nave en- gagged 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 methods. No other single word de- scribes what these are so well as con- servatism They have held fast to what was good, and have been slow to enter new and untried paths. The education that in the past had succeed ed in giving men power, has seemed to them good enough for the future; and they have been slow to accept knowledge without discipline, or cul- lure without power. As a result the manliness. force, and independence which particularly characterize the Yale student, have been reproduced 5