Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
YALE GR[EIs TAFT
Alumni Dinner in Honor Of
Secretary Of War.
PROMINENT GUESTS
PRESIDENT HADLEY OF THE IN
srTTUTIoN FIRST SPEAKER.
Chinese Minister Tells What Yale Men
Are Doing in China-President
Roosevelt Toasted.
PROMINENT GUESTS

"Bill Taft, Yale. '7S." was a toast at the
banquet of the Yale Alumni Association at
Rauscher's last night. -"BiH Taft of Yale
| and Secretary of War William H. Taft are
one and the same person. 1t might be said
! in passing, and the dinner last night was
| In his honor. To Yale students and alum
nj Gov. Taft Is the greatest man In the
country. He is a graduate OF Yale's nails
| of learning. and he has been busily engaged
! in putting into practice the things taught
| him during the four years that ended IN
| '78. which prepared him for his work IN the
| world.
1.-THE problem is not only to make the
| man a minister or a lawyer President
| Arthur T. Hadley declared to the gather
| ing, ''but to make man and gentleman
| with high IDEALS
President Hadley's words were cheered to
| the echo, and all eyes were turned toward
| Gov Taft as though they had been aimed
at him. Everything that was GOOD was
| said about the distinguished graduate Dy
the assembled alumni last night. Many
distinguished graduates Of the old -unlver-
sity were present, and many others, VINO
were not able to be present. sent their SIN
cere regrets.
DR.. Daniel Colt Gilman, late president of
Johns Hopkins University, and at present
the head of the Carnegie Institute, was
toastma ster. He Is a member or the class
of 80. Mr.. Wayne MacVeagns former ~, AZ.
| torney General of the United States, class
of 80 was also present and made snort
address; Sir Liang Chang, minister from
China also a graduate OF yale, mace
brief address; DR.. Arthur I. Hadley, pres
emf head of Old ELS institution, made the
principal address Of the evening, ana there
were many other distinguished men pres
ent-lawyers, doctors, clergymen, diploma
<f tba fret
walk of life.
Tribute to Gov. Taft.
The dinner was the annual affair OF the
Yale Alumni Association of Washington
but was given as tribute by Yale men
throughout the country to Gov. Taft. the
assemblage represented almost every sec
ton of the country. The great banquet nall
was decked in flowers and flags in honor
of the occasion. A Yale dinner without
Yale songs would have been a failure, and
in honor of the distinguished guest OF the
evening the well-knoWn air OF MI Doc
ley" was seized upon, and. with the AID or
a prominent member of the class OF TO-
the following was evolved:
When Deweys guns gave Uncle Sam the Filipino's
lands,
We found we had a grouchy proposition on hands;
governor was needed there; the job was not
So a Yale man was selected, and his name it IL
Bill Taft.
Chorus
Oh Mister Eli Oh, Mr.. Ell!
You've some famous people graduate
But still the great class. the up-to-date class,
Is seventy evenly evenly evenly eight!
The dinner was all that could be desired.
The menu was excellent and was we'll
served. A clever cartoon by Clifford X.
Bergman was the souvenir of the evening
The picture was divided into three sections
the middle one an excellent likeness OIL
re- l. <1.<.r loft and
were the figures of several weeping Fill
pinos bidding farewell to a man carrying a
suit case labeled Taft, u 8. A. In the
lower right-hand corner were shown Uncle
Sam and Berryman'S bear, carrying Yale
flag and welcoming the man with the suit
case The picture created no little amuse-
ment when the guests first reached the
table. and many kindly things were said OF
the cartooniSt and his work.
Toast to the President.
Dr. Gilman called the diners to order inn
mediately after the last course had been
served. The first toast was to the Presi-
dent Of the United States. and was drunk
standing Solicitor General Hoyt responded
Mr. Hoyt said that while not a Yale man,
President Roosevelt ought to have been
one. He possesses the Yale spirit and has a
Yale degree.
President Arthur r. Hadley of Yale re-
sponded to the toast "Old Eli" He told OF
is regarded outside of Washington. He
spoke of the advantage of Incorporating
professional studies in the curriculum of
the college so that the students might be
kept in touch with the broadening inf1u-
ences of the university. The problem is not
of shortening the course for the sake of
| professional schools, but to incorporate pro-
fessional studies; not to make minister Or
lawyer, but to make an and a gentle
man with high ideals.
Gov. Taft's Address.
Governor Taft was the next speaker.
1.-THE great weakness of this people,, he
said, sis the great power of a single man,
or small mass of men, who may under
take to inaame the minds of the ignorant
masses. 1 have heard of the emphatic
sneers of leading educator, member of
the commission, who of late has become
silent ridiculing the Introduction of English
in the schools there Although 1 may be a
crank. 1 am surprised at the wonderful in
terest the Filipinos are taking in learning
English. 1t means that they are put on an
equality with the sovereign power in the
| land.
Gentlemen of the press have asked me
how long it will take to solve the Filipino
problem. l cannot tell. AS far as l be-
| came acquainted with the conditions there
| in four years, the work is not impossible. l
| believe, and it Is well worth the while of
| this great American people.
II am here as the advance agent of the
/
want to enter a protest against the intimat-
| ing and insnuating greeting you have ex-
| tended to me. You seem to think l have
| been to some land where took my life In
| my hands. and when / left you did not ex-
| pect to see me return. l protest against
| that. The Philippines are delightful place
| to live in. If you do not play hob with your
| -iver with Scotch and soda; keep the liver
| going by exercise.
| Success in the islands depends on the
| youth of this land, American college bred
| men. We didn't have the benefit of that
| kind of training at first 1t was humiliating
| to find that among the first men to go there
| were seventeen disbursing officers who de-
| faulted. They are now in the penitentiary
| and will stay there for twenty-five years.
! 1t at least afforded us the opportunity to
| teach the Filipinos that the laws were for
the Americans as well as themselves
| Tells Of Yale Men in China.
| The Chinese minister spoke next. He said
| that Yale seemed to predominant in all the
Governments departments I'm the caFtnef