The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-22
YALE men
IN HAWAII
What They Have Done
For Good Causes
Here.

BALTIMORE, April 1.-The Alumni
of Yale University residing in Mary
land, held their annual banquet in Bal
timore on the 31st of March. Sixty
members attended. President Hadley
of Yale. DR.. D. C Gilman of the new
Harvard and Princeton, Frederick I.
Allen of the Washington city Alumni
and w. N. Armstrong representing the
Yale Alumni of Hawaii, were present.
After President Hadley and DR.. Gill
man had spoken on behalf of Yale and
the representatives of Harvard and
Princeton had spoken, Mr. Armstrong
was called upon to speak for Yale men
in Hawaii. He said: When 1 speak of
the remarkable work of Yale men in
Hawaii I cannot separate it clearly
Princeton. Cornell, Stanford, Williams
and other colleges. Still it is a priv
ilege which L claim tonight of placing
Yale men in the lead, and declaring
to you that the Yale slogan rings the
loudest in those tropical seas. We are
celebrating ourselves this evening and
in doing so we justly claim the earth.
When 1 look at President Hadley I
am reminded of an incident of my
early manhood and his very early
babyhood. 1t happened nearly fifty
years ago. A division of my own
class-that of '5s-had risen early one
morning to eaten the classic worm un-
der the instruction of Professor Had
ley-the father of the president. On
reaching the recitation room we were
notified that there would be no recita-
ton that morning. The reason soon
was given that an event had taken
place across the way and the Professor
had become a father. The division in
tensely sorrowful at the loss of an op-
portunity to recite adjourned to the
college fence where the event was dis
cussed and predictions made of the
future. With only a slight stretch of
students in the early morning, like the
witches in Macbeth. stirring the boil
ing cauldron and dancing around it
and pointing their fingers to the house
across the way exelaim: "All hail thou
that shalt be King hereafter
And now, fifty years after that event
I see the babe of those days sitting as
a guest of honor at this banquet. and
l representing the remnant of the class
again point to him and declare; "All
hail, Thou that art the King of the
Golden Realm of Yalei"
The history of Hawaii is the history
of Yale men. The old warriors threw
their spears into the ranks of their
enemies and struggled up to them.
Yale threw her men into the ranks of
paganism and then sent other men to
struggle up to them. Always an ad-
vance and always a reinforcement.
Yale supplied what was needed-mus-
cular Christianity Asa Thurston, of
the class of 1876 was pioneer. 1t was
said that he was the athlete of his |
class. When a pagan bully insulted |
nim he threw him over the fence. The |
throw an enemy from one island to an |
)ther. So he stood for the Church !
Militant. Whitney, another Yale man. |
vas with him. Bingham of the class
If 1919 was at his side Then follow
ID Bingham of the great class of '53
md his son of '9S There was Alex
,nder of So who corrected the British
nathematicfans when they observed .
!, fr-o, e
Thurston was followed by his grand
on who with the Yale spirit, threw
he dead Hawaiian Monarchy out of
he window in later years, with the
ordial help of other men all good and
rue. Now Carter of 81 carries the flag
md behind him are the Alexanders.
he Judds, the Cookies. the Damons,
olidIy loyal to Yale. These men have
,efora them problem vastly more
ifficult than any before you who are
n the mainland. Here our Institutions
re solidly planted-no earthly force
an disturb them. The alembic of
institutions is filed with the
trong solvent of wise customs and
avs. While a vast foreign population
5 annually cast into it these inmi-
rants are quickly dissolved in the
trong solution and are recrystallized
s American citizens.
But these Yale men in Hawaii face
n almost overwhelming mass of Asiat-
? and Latin aliens. A handful OF men
onfront thousand. To- assimiiate
hese aliens-to recast them in Amer
can moulds is the task of these men
f Yale and other colleges. Bolivar,
he great South American liberator,
aid that Republican institutions could
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