New-York tribune., 1903-06-22
ADVICE FOR YALE MEN.
VALUE OF UNSELFISHNESS
President HodIey's Sermon-Mauy
Graduates Going Into Business.

ew-Haven, Conn, June z tSpeclaD.-6acca-
laureate Sunday at Yale University to-day was
rainy for the first time in many years. but the in
clement weather did no- interfere with the usual
large attendance at the last services OF the aca-
deuic year in Woolsey Hail. or with the interest
taken in President Arthur T. Hadleys annual ad-
dress to the graduating classes by the hosts or
friends of the seniors. At 10 o'clock this morning
the senior classes, IN their caps and gowns, as
sernbled the college fence and marched to Wool
sey Hall, which already filled with the usual
brilliant assembly of visitors and alumni
This afternoon at O'Clock Professor Harry B..
Jepson the university organist gave public re-
citaI in Woolsey Hall on the great Newberry or
gan, which formally opened last evening The
great hall crowded to It's utmost capacity an
hour before the opening of the programme. it
being the first occasion which the general pub
lie had been given opportunity to visit the new
auditorium. Professor Jepson's programme was as
follows:
Largo (from New World Symphony .--.-.--.- Dv9rak
Intermez4o from sixth symphony ;Widor
Good Friday music Parsifal' Wagner
Reunion classes began to reach New-Haven on
Saturday afternoon and to-day groups of the older
classes met at the various reunion and halls
The class of rs is this year making the best show
ing In numbers out of 1O4 members eighty have
returned. Among the well known '7S men who are
back to reunion William H. Hunt, the Gov
ernor of Porto Rico; Herbert W. Bowen. United
States Minister to NeneZuelaS I)r JOnn lrufnDOil
a descendant of the famous Connecticut family of
Trumbulls who has to New-Haven from
Valparaiso. Chilli. for his class reunion, and ex
United States Assistant Attorney General Henry
M Hoyt Andrew D. White who is back for his
reunion with the class of 53 will speak in College
Street Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3. o'clock
"A Patriotic Investment" Wayne MacVeagh 49,
appointed recently by the President representa-
tive the Venezuelan controversy. will preside at
the meeting.
PRESIDENT HADLEY'S BACCALAUREATE.
President Hadley delivered in woolsey Memorial
Hall the baccalaureate sermon, taking for his text
and P1 II s e nd of a the 1e taaf o 2d w gs
And the three mighty men through host OF
ehem, that was by the gate and brought IT to David
out unto the Lord And he said. Be it far from o
6at vent in jeopardy Therefore would
not drink it
Judged by material standards" said President
Hadley. this IS tale of folly from beginning to
end 1t was foolish for David TO utter his wish;
it was douby foolish for his captives to risk their
lives to compass it; it was trebay foolish for him
to waste the gift which had been at much
risk He said in part
do not mean that all who read the story would
crcise it in this way ina In an episode Ike this we
makes such criticism inadequate and impertinent.
5one %nea a+ter Of ancient history but with this
evervdav world of the twentieth century, and are
valuing little deeds of heroism instead of great
ones we are prone to use material standards and
call them by the specious name Of common sense
Amid much that Is good in our twentieth century
spirit this generalization of material enjoyment
and of tangible success constitutes grave danger
All the achievements OF modern science and of
modern democracy will be worth little If. in the
long run they teach people to regard knowledge
for the sake of the return which 1t will bring and
TO measure success in life by the concrete results
with which men credit themselves.
do moi believe that there Is a single in
this audience who values life primarily a
of securing comfort. We value 1t field Of
action We care for the doing of things quite
much as for the results. a thing which thus
enjoy doing is play: and TO the well constituted
man pay rnfngles with work in such way that
he cannot tell where stops and the other be-
gins Signal achievement in itself appeals to our
Imagination and interest
This is NV first point: that value life as
field of action The second point that want to
make is that we value those lives highest which
are marked by the habit of unseiish action. Doing
makes the deed; unsefish doing makes the man.
Washington and Lincoln were mentioned as men
who steadily grew in the love OF the people. while
the success of Napoleon left him each year smaller
President Hadey continued:
Tho revelation of God the life OF Jesus Christ
r,eont more to the world in teaching the possl-
bi1ites of religion than all the theology that was
ever written And in the measure lhat our NE
ts like his we have the same power 70 reveal zoo
to others None of lives 10 himself
TO THE GRADUATING CLASS.
To the class he said:
Gentlemen of the graduating class: You are
,,obittous and Justly ambitious. TO he leaders OF
men. There are two ways III WhicH you can prove