The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-23
DANIEL C. GlLMAN'S PAPER
THE RELATION OF YALE UNITER-
 SE2Y TO LETTERS

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 Which Made Thom Fnmous-Th
 Influences of sheffield Soientin
 School on Agricultural Science 1T 1 the United States.
 Battell chapel was wholly inadequatC tC
 to accommodate the large crowd whicl
 attended to hear the bicentnnial ad.
 dresses given there yesterday morning
 The chapel was thrown open at Il
 o'clock, and at that hour large num- Der were on hand. Only standing room,
 could be found when the opening ex-
 ercise was begun.
 The exercises were opened by the
 singing of Bright College Years" Q
 college song composed by Henry &
 Durand, M. D., of the class of 1881. Introductory addresses were made by
 Hon. William K Townsend, D. c. L.,
 and Edward J. Phelps, professor of
 contracts, patents and admiralty jurs-
 prudence in the law school
 The latter introduced Cyrus Nor
 throp, LID, president of the Univer-
 sity of Minnesota, formerly of Yale, the
 report of whose address is given In an-
 other part of the paper. Daniel c. Gill
 man, ex-president of Johns Hopkins
 nit a1e a,I,r ,,e voJA @
 the next speaker.
 The address of Daniel c. Gilman was on The Relation of Yale University to Letters and Science" and was in part as follows:
 The Collegiate School of Connecticut began well; Yale College improved up- on the Collegiate School; Yale Univer- sity is better than Yale College. The process has been that of evolution, not of revolution; unfolding, not cataclys- mic; growth and not manufacture; heredity and environment, the controll- ing factors. What we are, we owe to our ancestry and our opportunities. Hence the relation of Yale to letters and science cannot be adequately treat ed without looking outside the walls. as we'll as inside-by considering the wilderness of Quinnipiac; the depend ence of the colony upon the mother country; the bicephaous State of Con- necticut; the prosperous City of New Haven and its proximity to the great metropolis; and especially by consider ing what has been going on in the macrocosn. Such a survey l shall not attempt, for I must keep close bounds. Yet even brevity must not suppress the fact--that among the original colonists of New Haven, the real progenitors of Yale college, were three broad-minded men of educationJohn Davenport, a student of Oxford and a minister In London; Theophilus Eaton. the kings ambassador at the Court of Denmark; and Edward Hopkins, a merchant of enterprise and fortune, and earliest benefactor of American learning. Their successors also, the men of f701, James Pierpont at the front were worthy ex- ponents of the ideas they had inherited; they were the Wisest, broadest and most learned men of this region in that day. Liberal ideas were then in the advance and thank God are not yet In the background.
 New England brought from Old Eng land the customs, the studies, the grad uates of Oxford and Cambridge, not those of Scotland or France of Ger many The exotic germs were nurtured by Harvard for more than sixty years before the times were ripe for a sec ond college in this region. Harvard in structors. laws, courses, phrases, were then adopted by the Collegiate School of Connecticut, and our alma mater be- gan her life as a child of the new Cam bridge and g. grandchild of the old. Harvard has nourished Yale eighty years kindly ordered in Providence" are the words of President Stiles. Yale has never ceased to be grateful for this noble ancestry, nor broken the chain of historic continuity Yale does not forget that an honorable pedigree is its priceless possession. and delights to-day to honor it's ancestry.
 Days of privation, anxiety. dispute apprehension and experiment intro 1uced a time of stability, prosperity and union-years of plenty after years )f want--and the second century open ad with courage equal to opportunities. It is true that the ideas of original re- search, of experiment and observation, now so familiar, were hardly percepti- ole, but science had begun its trium- ohal march, and the humanities, in a broad sense, were destined to engage nore and more the attention of educat- | I'd men.
 It Is interesting to dwell upon the names of Edwards and Eliot as men of | nore than provincial fame, because the number of Yalensians who can be re- ,arded as contributors to literature | md science prior to the Revolution is 1, mall. The historian. Tyler has taken he year 1765 as the close of the sterile | ,eriod when colonial isolation was nded and American literature began to ,e worthy of the name. Before that ! ime neither Harvard nor any of the 'ther colleges has much to speak of; { ,et afterwards. until the close of the | eighteenth century, the product is al- most as scanty. A recent paper enum- rates the texts by which the youthful | minds were disciplined (By Prof ,chwab). Although the manuals and he methods were not inspiring, they ncouraged discrimination and that ower which used to be called ratioc- Iation. generation of judgments from thers actually in our understanding" You may say that this is not t'experi- nental science nor literary culture" nd you say we'll The ore. indeed, may ave been extracted by the Eliot pro-