The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-31
YALE'S MEMORIAL DAY.
REV. JOSEPH TWTCHELL,S TRIB-
 UTE 20 IALE,S PATRIOTS.

Member of University Corporation Re- calls Associations With Heroic Glass;
 mates Who Died in Great Civil Strug- gle.
 The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell of
 Hartford delivered the Memorial day
 address at Battell chapel yesterday morning before a small audience of fac lulty members and their wives and about a score of students. President
 Hadley occupied the platform with Dr.
 Twichell.
 Having discussed the great questions
 involved in the civil war and paying generous tribute to some of the lead
 CTS on both sides, the speaker continued
 as follows:
 w shall remember, and ought al-
 ways to remember, our heroic dead
 whose lives were laid down in the ser-. vice of that cause. Endless regret and pity we have for the blood that was passed out in the cause that was lost.
 That, too, was precious. We count it Tn the sum of the awful sacrifice that
 was the purchase price of the golden
 fortune of which as a people we stand
 possessed this day. Among them were Yale men not few. Standing within
 these academic precincts, my thoughts run back to those undergraduate days
 that sometimes seem like yesterday and sometimes iinmeasurably distant, when we were singing an 'Gaudeamus here, little dreaming of what lay before the country and bfore many of those com posing the student fellowship of chat period. The mutterings that presaged the coming storm were, indeed, audible,
 but that there would be war. actual
 war, was thing incredible, impossible. That presently half our numbers would
 be in arms, and that many of those whose fresh, youthful voices were
 blendid in our choruses were destined soon to fall in battle-nothing beside that could be told would have seemed so utterly strange. Yet the day was near when, of my own class, a bullet would still the beating of dear Ned Carrington's heart, when Charley Wheeler, who all loved, would lie dead beneath Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg, and our gallant, tall Kentuckian, Dan iel. would fall under the other flag When. Of the class below us, Henry Camp, known to the whole college, a model of manly beauty, grace and vigor his oar was next to mine in the uni versity crew of '59--would yield phis heroic spirit leading the charge before Richmond when one of the class, Ned Blake, genial, generous, bright, witty, admired would die at the head of his regiment on the bloody slope of Cedar Mountain; when one of the older class es, John Griswold of '5T, would sink pierced with a mortal wound fighting in the line at Antietam While he lay breathing out his life in pain, General Burnside, in whose command he had served and who held him in warm per sonal regard as brave and skillful of ficer, came to see him, and kneeling at his side gave expression to his sorrow in finding him in such case. General said the dying youth (so the surgeon who overheard 1t told mel, T thank you. suppose that cannot live If it Is so, and have to say is, that it is meet to die for ones country
 "Others there were of those and ad- jacent classes whom we were there wont to meet and greet in our daily to and fro-I cannot delay to fill out the list to whom it was likewise appointed to lay down their young heads in soldiers graves where now for forty years they have been sleeping, for whom it be- comes us to clasp their hands here be- meath the elms and in the fateful year following shared with them the service in which they perished, ever to bespeak honorable remembrance while we live; for, though their names are inefface- ably written on the historic patriotic role of the republic and will not be lost, there will ere long be none left who knew them as we did.
 Tt cannot be questioned that by what was endured in the stress of that agony, the quality of American man hood was heightened and that fruit and legacy of those sad years remains with us and is also our common possession"