The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-23
YALE'S GREAT FESTIVE WEEK
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES BE-
 GAN SUNDAY MORNING.


 ranged for the Week-Perfeot weathe,
 Conditions Predtcted-Mauy Guests n
 the HoteIs-The Concert and Prone.
 made.
 With perfect weather Yale's great fes
 tive week was ushered in and the indi-
 cations are that the commencement ot
 1902 will be held under the most aus
 picious conditions imaginable. The city
 presents an appearance in keeping with
 the season. The Yale blue is every
 where conspicuous. Business houses
 are draped with blue flags, banners
 and bunting. Many private residences
 and all the university's social club
 houses are bedecked with a profusion of
 blue. The city is rapidly filling up
 with Yale graduates and their friends
 and families. The friends and rela-
 tives of the undergraduate are also
 upon the scene. The programme for the week is extensive and appropriate
 and with pleasant weather the week will be one of the most important, from social point of view, that New Haven has experienced in years.
 The commencement programme was formally opened with the exercises in Battell chapel yesterday morning. The graduating members of all the depart ments of the university were present in cap and gown, occupying the main floor of the chapel. The galleries were filled to overflowing with friends and rea- tives of the seniors. The exercises be- gan with a selection by the college choir. The Scripture reading was by President Hadley, ex-President Timo- thy Dwight offered prayer. Another se- lection by the choir was followed by the baccalaureate address by President Hadey. The address in full follows:
 In reading the account of the tempta- tion in the wilderness we can hardly help being impressed and overawed by the way in which it anticipates the ex- perience of our college men when they first go out into active life. We might almost say that the higher each mans powers and possibilities are, the more completely is he likely to repeat the whole series of the temptation which fell to the lot of the Master nineteen centuries earlier. The first of the three temptations comes to us all alike. The second will sooner or later come to the majority of those who are here to-day. The third comes to relatively few; but those few are the men of rare endow- ment, who have most of the power of God in their own hearts.
 You are going out into q wilderness. The temptations which you are to face may not be any harder to resist than those to which you have become ac- customed during your college life. But you have to meet them with less sup port from those about you. In any good college man finds himself part of a in which each takes his share of others burdens. The stand l ards of that community may not al ways be ideally high; but, such as they are each man helps his fellows to live | up to them. Especially is this true Of | ! college like Yale; and the help which | you have gained from your associations 1ere should stand you in good stead | when you come to face by yourselves he temptations of materialism or ann ,ition, and of self exaltation. But the pressure of these temptations has only been deferred; it has not been avoided You have them before you, and you lave to face them alone.
 The first that meets you is that Of naterialism. "If thou be the Christ, command that these stones be made ,read" For years to come this will De Iinned into your ears from every side, Of what use is college education" nen will tell you, except as it enables on to make a living?" "Of what use re ideal standards" the press will say, as compared with the hard necessities f daily life?" You will probably be in
 position where you will feel these ard necessities. The need of money omes home with vastly increased force ? the man who has to earn that money imself; and it requires a hard struggle pr him to retain his ideals amid the ressure of immediate physical want fill harder is it for him to retain his leal where those about him are so en- aged in the winning of bread that uccess in this seems to them the one est of power which marks man as than his fellows.
 Far be it from me to say anything gainst the value of this struggle for alf-support. It is hard taskmaster, hich keeps you from dreaming. It lrnishes a stimulus which brings out ,me of your best powers in a way in ,, bich they never could be developed -herUise, The modern business strug~ Ia has been so arranged that in serV- ,g himself each man, on the whole, nds to serve others. But when, in the < ress of this effort, man forgets that : lere is anything higher; when he z ,ases to regard it as means for the derng of society, and makes it an end <
 itself-then he destroys the posslbil- f V of what is best within him; and the T eater were those possibilities, the f rger is the loss to the world. It is q ritten, Man shall not live by bread i one" If you have it in you to give f en more than this, be sure that any ilure to account for the added talents III be heavily visited upon your soul hen YOU have to make up the final &C., 4, rnt. There is no more pervasive dan- D r than the danger of thinking that the h oney standard is everything; that n iIity and business honor, and love and r, ,rriage. are all marketable commodi- I! .. Tbo etraee of hunger may excuse i