The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-21

torney general of the United States am
 minister at the court of St. James.
 William Henry Hunt of New Orleans
 secretary of the navy. and minister q
 the court of St Petersburg.
 General Orris J. Ferry, who had al
 honorable service in the civil war anC
 was afterwards a senator of the United
 States.
 [ Two bishops of the Episcopal churci I-Bishop Davies cf Michigan and BishoI
 Brewster of Connecticut.
 Four governors Roger Sherman
 Baldwin, governor of Connecticut. Whc
 was also a senator of the United States
 William Warner Hoppin, governor of
 Rhode Island Charles Roberts Inger- soll governor of Connectieut William Henry Hunt governor of Porto Rico
 Wilson Shannon Bissel of Buffalo, post
 master general of the United States,
 The second President Dwight, who was
 also for many years the president of th2 trustees of the Hopkins Grammar
 School, and his successor in the univer- sity, President Arthur T. Hadley.
 Of the presidents of Yale during the nineteenth century, all but Day were either scholars or teachers in the Hop
 ltins Grammar school, and Day was one of the trustees.
 In this brief way I have tried to
 sketch In toughest outline the story of 1 this ancient institution, 1 A volume might we'll be devoted and some day by some hand will be, I hope, to recounting its history and telling of it's influence.
 It Is an influence not to be measured by the men 1t has trained up to bear off the honors of their day and place. The best work of every school lies in what it does for the ordinary boy, and in it's general upbuildng of standards of thought and life In the community to which 1t ministers.
 The Hopkins Grammar school has al- ways stood here for three things in cd ucation.
 1. It has set It's face against co-educa- tion of boys and girls
 This question was brought squarely before the trustee in 1884, and their de- cision that to admit girls would be to contravene the will of the founder has ever since been respected
 ?. It has set it's face against all ten dencies towards turning schools into colleges
 It is q preparatory school. It leaves the higher education to be given where 1t Is best given, by college or university It does not seek to divert the mind from the essentials to the frills of education. It's aim is to give solid ground on which to build In future years; not to antici- .ia Lut hn hat tot lat under different conditions.
 3. It has stood for a play ground as a necessary adjunct of a school house.
 Physical exercise and intellectual ex- ercise must go forward together if boys are to be trained up sound in mind and body both
 For it's first century or two our school house was on the Green, and it's play ground spread wide about it on every side.
 When the first of the present school buildings was put up on High street the trustees were careful to provide and have ever since kept open the play ground which adjons 1t; and few years since, when school athletics seemed to call for a larger field the Pratt field, in the suburbs of the city, was laid out through the generosity of one of our alumni Charles R. Pratt, of New York. It cost over seven thousand dollars, and is ample to supply the wants of the school for centuries to come
 These three things, then, education for boys only; education in fundamen- | tals only; play going with work; these have been, and l hope always will be, | characteristics of the Hop l kins Grammar school
 The will of Governor Hopkins as we | have seen, under which it was set up | was made in London in the distant day | when Oliver Cromwell was lord protec- tor of the commonwealth. There has l been time since then for the develop nent of school traditions; and we to whom through q long succession has zoe the administration of this trust are 1ot insensible to what they mean. So you, the present scholars of the school, lers of this ancient gift of distant lge you and your friends who gather with you on this anniversary, have in your charge It is to ;tand for the inherited ideals of those ,ld days of Cromwell and the Puritan heir best ideals in education and in fife.
 The commonwealth of Cromwell soon ,assed away. The Stuarts regained heirt hrone. Another revolution swept hem off. The Hanoverians came in 'he American Revolution parted the English people on one side of the sea rom the English people on the other. new power rose up on this continent O control it-the United States. But trough all their changes the princi- l les of sound education remained un- hanged, and here in this ancient school hey have heen steadily aintained. John Davenport headed his ancient | eed of gift with the expression of a 0pe: "Quod felix faustumque sit" $ we look back over this long stretch f years, the seventeenth century the ghteenth, the nineteenth, the twen- eth, all belonging to our school histo- y we can not only echo his words for le centuries to come; but for the past, nd for that we are competent to speak, l hot fo, !