The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-25
He Tells the Graduates Of Other Days
the Problems of Life Yale
Is Solving.
MERRILL MooREs PREsIDEs
PRESIDENTS BUTLER, STONE AND
BRYAN AMONG THE SPEAKERS.
Glories of the Blue Retold I'm Prose
and SOng-Those Who Were
Present.

President Arthur Twining Hadley. or
Yale. was the guest of Indiana sons of old
Eli last night at dinner at the Columbia
Club. The occasion was one for the recall
ing of old days by the alumni. and for the
receiving from President Hadley Of mes
sage Of the Yale of to-day and her prom
ises of tomorrow. The old songs were
sung and the old yells given with all the
vim Of lusty-lunged undergraduates, while
the glories and virtues of Yale democracy
and Yale esprit d'corps. and the deeds of
Yale men were told and retold in prose and
verse. incidentally President Hadley was
given a cordial welcome "Out Our Way"
by President Scot Butler. of Butler College.
and by Presidents Bryan, of Indiana Uni
versity, and Stone, of Purdue University.
The tables were arranged in the form Of
huge Y, and the decorations of the tables
and the dining room were very elaborate,
the Yale blue predominating, of course. in
the color scheme. Just above the toast
master and the guest of honor hung a large
rectangle from which electric bulbs cleaned
the word yale" from a bed of violets. A
large picture of the late DR.. N. A. Hyde. the
first president of the Indianapolis Alumni
Association, occupied a prominent position
to the left, while to the right was group
OF New Haven views, showing the his
toric Yale scenes. Beneath the rectangle
of violets swung a rail from the old Yale
fence.
THE TOAsTs.
Merrill Moores, rs. president of the
ISOLATION, acted as POSTMASTER, and the
formal toasts were as follows:
yale .......Pre President Hadley
out Our ., ,;;;:. :. p,,,;o. c;o,;oro
Our Kind Of Man" Louis Rowland
Prof. n. A. Kent. Of wabash College
AFTER Many Days Evans Woollen
line Blue OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
....Charles Sherman King, Wabash Ind.
James whitcomb Riley was to have re-
sponded to the sentiment, ITO a Certain
on account of illness, and in his place Mr..
Moores called on e. N. Kendall, who is
also an honorary alumnus Of Yale. to give
In presenting President HadIey Toast
master M0ores took occasion to pay trib-
ute to DR.. Hyde, who was the moving
ton, and was its president for many years,
and he announced that Mrs. Hyde had sent
the violets and other flowers that formed
prominent part of the decorations.
In opening his address President Hadley
congratulated the association its his
tory and growth and on its president. Mr..
versity of the fields of usefulness and prom
inence to which members Of the class Of
rs had been called. citing as examples
Governor TAFT of the pi pniiipp pa Goysr
Moores, of the Indianapolis Alumni Asso-
citation, then stating that ii was the pre-
rogative of the speaker at the head OF the
list to speak seriously. he said he would tell
something Of what Yale Is doing and trying
to do.
MODERN PROBLEMS.
He said that there never was a time when
there was so much doubt as to what col
lege or university is and should be- For
merly at Yale they had had class rushes
and rebellions as the most exciting events,
and the university authorities were con-
cerned more with problems Of administra-
ton than with those of police. It Is differ
ent to-day. There are still rushes and in
cipient rebellions. but the faculty has
ceased to bother about them, leaving inves-
tigation and action to the police, who, as
usual. found out nothing about them, and
everybody is satisfied. Now the faculty is
concerned largely with the problem of
meeting the modern demands in the way of
education. A college course Is no longer
the separate and distinct thing ii once was.
The conception had broadened, there were
demands for scientific as well as academic
courses and for shorter courses, giving de-
grees for three years and even two years
work instead Of as well as four. Yale
had met these demands In a measure by es-
tablishing the Sheffield school, which offers
the scientific course In three years, but
would stand strongly for the old academic
course Of four years.
YALE DEMOCRACY.
President Hadley spoke at length of Yale
democracy and said that it still exists but
that 1t is not communism. Democracy is
easy to maintain when all people meet on a
common plane of indulgence" he said, and
ha rofe Inn nSl 70 he fiy,no uhax
bathrooms were at a premium in New
Haven as a time when communistic democ-
racy was a possibility at Yale. He went
on to tell Of the present problem of democ-
racy at Yale and of university plans that
are of especial interest to alumni. In con-
clusion he said that a university gives a
man two things-a theory of his profession
and theory of his life There is danger
in the study of the theory of profession to
the neglect of the theory Of life. and Yale,
he said, stands for the development Of the
theory OF life and the establishment of the
highest standard of Christian citizenship.
At the conclusion of the formal toast list
Mr.. Moores called on DR.. Bryan, OF Indiana
University, and DIR. Stone, of Purdue who
extended greetings from their institutions
to DIR. Hadley and the university he rep
resents. The dinner was brought to a close
with the long cheer for President Had
The guests were as follows: C. b. Cole
knight, Joseph r. Morgan, William H CO.
burn, F. b. Birge. w. K. Stewart. Clarence
E. Coffin, F. NJ; Ayers. w. G. Comley, Fran
son, c. H. Morrison. J. s. Holiday III. j.
Brandon. Augustus Coburn. William p.
Herod. Evans Woollen, Louis Rowland.
Clinton L. Hare, Scot Butler, Merrill
Moores, John Perrin. Calvin N Kendall.
Fred 8. Chase. II. G. Atkins and Larz A.
Whitcomb, of Indianapolis; Alfred M.
Cressler, OF Fort Wayne; N. A Kent. of
Charlottesville; William T. Bryan. OF
Bloomington, and w. +. Stone. Of Lafay-
cite.
President Hadley is making a two weeks
tour of the Middle West. visiting q num-
Der of the alumni associations and he goes
to Chicago to-day from Indianapolis Mrs.
they are In this city they are the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas c. Day, North Me-
ridian street.