The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-25

tIOuS Ol the HlSHeSL or COlleSldte SldAC' Now there are 4S0. In 1900 no normal
 schools; now LAOS. In 1900 no agricul- tural colleges; now 66. In 1900 no kin dergartens; now 2,8S4. In 1900 no man. ual training schools; now ITO, In 1900 no colleges for women; now 166, besides hundreds of coed. colleges and univer- sities. In 1900 no Chautauqua assem- plies; now 125, and c. l.. S. C.'s by the | hundred, with scores of thousands of students. In 1900 no summer schools; ! now over 400, In 1900 not over twenty | professional schools; now of law, 96;
 pharmacy, 51; medicine 151; theology,
 163 education of nurses, 393. In 1900 no educational associations; now one in
 every state and in each of hundreds of | counties, cities and towns
 In 1900 no superintendents of schools;
 now thousands. In 1900 not over 200 schools of secondary or High school grade; now 1888. So the. greatest pro-
 gress and the most powerful force in | American civilization in the nineteenth century was in educational lines. Here Yale, which in 1900 had but six or eight professorships, but which has 1 now siXty-seven, takes precedence of all, with the possible exception of Har- yard. Her contributions to the institu- | tions for secondary instruction have been almost innumerable. To the higher instruction, to colleges and universities, Yale furnished during
 the first three quarters of the nine teenth century as shown by the trien-
 nial catalogue, 390 full professors, and ,;,.t,
 presidents. Surely all the splendor of West Point fades in this greater glory of Yale.
 And as Yale takes precedence of all
 other institutions in that which is the
 prime object and special business of
 university, education; education in it's
 fourfold function of investigation, in
 struction, discipline and expression. so
 my own class, the class of '52, l think
 may claim precedence of all her sister
 classes in this greater-this all-impor-
 tant-Work.
 Besides tutors and instructors in all
 grades, the class of '52 has furnished
 presidents or professors to fourteen uni
 versailles, including Yale.
 Most important of all has been the
 work of men of the class of '52 in laying
 foundations. Having myself had some
 experience in the beginning of two uni versailles, one new college and three new seminaries, l know that one of the most difficult takes the educator ever en- counters is in marking out the plan and constructing the currculum My own part in such matters has been very humble; but others of my class have rendered a service in this direction that I believe has never been equalled by the members of any other class.
 William Preston Johnston, of the class of 1852, was the creator of Tulane university, the pride of New Orleans and of the south. How excellent this work was can be learned by reading the biographical sketch of Johnston quoted in the annual report of the United States commissioner of education for the year 1899. It is a noble tribute to nobleman by a nobleman, my distin- guished classmate, Dr. Jacob Cooper, professor at Rutgers college.
 Daniel Colt Gilman, of the class of 1852, originated and built up with con- summate skill Johns Hopkins universi- y. the foundations and superstructure of an institution that perhaps will be still more wonderful, the great university for which MT. Carnegie has given as a | first installment the princely sum of ten | million dollars.
 From 1900 to 1875, as I have stated, l Yale gave presidents to twenty-five un- iversites My own class of 1852 has | given presidents to six of the twenty | five. To Yale it gave three totors and | two professors.
 To one new college my class has fur nlshed president; also founder and | first president of a State Teachers as sociation; founder and first president | of the earliest broadest and for many | vars the most numerously attended of | the four hundred summer schools of America; a founder of the worlds first school of microscopy; q principal of an important state Normal school; pres ident of a great institution for the ed- tcation of the deaf and dumb; a lec turer for years in the extension of un- iversity educaton; a head of depart ment for five years in a Chautauqua school; an active trustee of the Peabody educational fund; president of the trustees of the John F. Slater fund; an originator and of the highest ideal of pub lie education ever embodied in the con- stitution of any state or nation, begin 1ing. "A high degree of intelligence pa -riotism. integrity and morality on the part of every voter in government by | he people being essential" etc.; princi- pals and professors in many academies md seninaries, thousands of whose pu- oils still hold them in affectionate re- gard.
 I believe I can safely claim for the ,lass of 1852 pre-eminence above all it's sister classes in this matter of educa- ion.
 Pardon this seeming boastfulness. We shall never again crave your indul- ,ence. We hasten to join the majority, md to meet again those great teachers if Yale in whose footsteps we have en- to tread, and from whom we lrew whatever of inspiration any of us nay have had-Day Silliman, Olmsted, rhacher Hadley, Larned, Wolsey and hose other leaders of thought, whose aces beam upon us from the picture aden walls. In the spirit in which By