Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-24
COMMENCEMENT DAY At YALE
senator Lodge of Mhssachusetts De-
livers Addres 10 the GRADUATE
ing Class.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 2s-The com
mencement exercises Of Yale university
we're begun today with the class day cere-
monies Of academic and shefheld scientific
departments and the anniversary exercises
Of the Law school. Beautiful weather pre-
vailed and ali the exercises were attended
by large crowds.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachu-
sets delivered an address to the graduating
class OF the Law school.
After sketChinE briefly the early career
and training Of Oliver Ellsworth arr his
selection as a delegate from CuZecticui
10 the Philadelphia convention Of 1887, Sen
RtOr Lodge referred 10 the problems which
faced the convention and continued:
Now, exactly what was it that Ellsworth
state representation In one branch Of con-
Eress, but did far more even than this. for
be saved. the constitution itself and made
II possible.
Just now there is a movement on foot
70 bring about the election Of senators by
inevitably be followed by proportionste
representation IN the senate and the most
radical revolution conceivable will take
among the nations possessing q representa-
tive government have solved the problem
OF an upper house resting upon an inde-
pendent basis and effective in legislation.
II the senate Is placed upon the same
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same way by the same constituency its
character and meaning Depart. the states
- hoPSee NS6htne0l lht DhlanCe
Of the constitution will bs destroyed. cen
tr~alizaton will advance with giant strides
and we shall enter upon q period OF CON
cannot be foretuld. When we contemplate
what the equality Of the state meant at
the time Of the PHILADELPHIA Convention.
what II has meant throughout our national
life and what its overthrow would mean
today we realize the great service OF Ellis
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he holds in our history.
In speaking Of a charge made by one OF
EIlswOrth's contemporaries in the senate,
William MEclHy Of Pennsylvania, tina Ellis
worth was q tool Of Alexander Hamilton.
whom MaelBy regarded as totally corrupt,
Senator Lodge exclaimed:
How false II all Is. What e lesson. toa.
rs mere II we will but take the trouble to
learn ! never remember the time when /
have not heard the senate Of the moment
described as al its lowest point, as having
fallen from the high level Of the earlier
and better days. Then ! read Maciay and
take heart, for II he is right and our senate
scribed. and n fhe Sitfer Se eritie ss ~ n f aes
moment are also right, and II we are
worse now than in earlier and better days,
then indeed has the impossible come to
pass for the republic still survives. greater
and more powerful. more honored at home
and abroad than ever before. Then / feel
sure that the critic Of this kind, past and
present, must be wrong, for II they were
not the repuohc would have died. The
MBclays, like the poor. are always with
US. sole prUpfsetUrE of righteousness, un-
disturbed by any outcry against their self
Imposed monopoly.
The Law school faculty announced the
prize awards late this afternoon. Among
the prize winners were: Joseph Parker,
prize for the best thesis on q subject con-
nected with Roman law. to Louis A. DyRr.
WinonR, MINI.
Degree Of bachelor Of laws, cum laude
to Charles ". Durbrow. San Francisco.
Honors in the middle class 20 Louis r.
Rice, New Haven.
HOnors in the Junior class to Lloyd A.
Alderman. San Francisco; Hal c. Bangs.
ChEtsworth. Ill; David A. Dowett, Homo
lulu, Hawaii, n John H. Sears. ST. Louis,
No.
In the senior commencement appoint
ments. announced tonight, among the high
honors awarded were the following:
Philosophical GRAFTON, Kersey Coates Reid.
Kansas City, Mo.
High orRtionE: Clarence Henry Adams,
Denver, Colo: Isaac Gray Phillips, Win
chester, Tenn; william Wallis Plat, Colo
rado Springs, Colo.