The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-26

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 It was not an easy discipline, for the intention was never to make things easy. .~
 Palma non sine pulvere'' is ever the rule of all true success in life, and We must needs first learn it here. Victory won in the class room over idleness, over sloth. over personal dis likes, would mean so much strength and prestige gained for victories over ] the same foes in the larger field of life. For my own part, am glad of this op- portunity to say shall never cease to be thankful that it was my privilege to be brought In contact with just such curriculum as Yale provided for us. Perhaps we can no longer work out the problems in mathematics which once we had to do; perhaps we can no longer read the pages of Greek and Latin With which once we were more or less famil- far. Nevertheless, is there one of us who does not now appreciate what the discipline of these things has done for him?
 May the day be far hence when Yale, 1 in deferenee to the so-called modern spirit, shall reduce her curriculum to ':the line of least resistance"
 The discipline of the class room had its counterpart in the discipline in the field and on the lake. There also We were taught ''te go in and win," no matter at what cost of sacrifice and en- durance, and the memory of the yicto- ries so won is still "a strength which never withers, tradition which never fails" ..... | To come back again to this place and to tell over our victories of long ago. will put new courage into our lives; as ! we return to face the difficulties and the problems which real work always brings. s.s.i .-., 1 One other ideal must be recalled Eodliness. It wasnot down i'll the cur riculum. Neither were the others l have mentioned. But its spirit was irl- deed there, surrounding us as an atmos- phere. Perhaps we did not realize it at the time, though we might have done so. .sv. .t-t
 It was there in the traditions of the Institution. It was there not less in the life and the example of the splendid men who were set to shape our lives and mould our character-men like Porter, Dana and Lcomis, who, while they kept ever before us high and lofty ideals in the search for truth, never forgot the highest, the eternal, the ever-living and the everywhere present God, in whom alone are the secret and the source of all this wondrous order land harmony of nature and this mighty majesty of law
 Not in any narrow and sectarian spirit was this truth presented for our contemplation, yet as the final and nl- ltimate truth, controlling and modify- ing all else, it was certainly kept before Jus. ,:
 As We have gone out into, life and have come face to face with lifes com mon. experiences disappointments, Tits sorrows and its losses-perchance we have come more and more to know and to appreciate the strength of this truth. ....-.... ,
 When all else, has seemed to tell oth- erwise the remembrance that Gods in His heaven, all's right with the world," has given new courage and en- abled us, with hearts again uplifted and faces agaihFset to the front, to move steadily forward. ,,.- ss ....~ | After these Twenty-Five years of ex- perience we come back to this spring, to taste again the water which still lgushes and spark1es in the sunlight of truth for our refreshmen. .5& .-.
 But this is not all. For still more we come tlitter to renew the friendships formed in college days. What these friendships have meant to us, and what the secret of their power, I may not daresto tell But this I know-that the lpassing years have not beeh able to lchange them, nor to lessen their power.
 Who of us to-day does not realize what an influence these friendships have been to him, and how they have bound us all together and united us in a brotherhood so close and. intimate that the experiences of one have been the experiences of all as we have re- joiced over each others successes and sorrowed over each others losses
 As We think to-day of the beginnings of these friendships in days now long gone by, there is 0ne perchance which stands out above all others in the sweetness and power of it's influence.
 William Hall Is not with us to-day in the flesh; but who shall say that his spirit is far away?
 An! how dear to us all is his memory, and what a benediction his friendship has been! ffl>~
 The secret of It's lasting power and influence may I venture to say, lies just fere--that he so truly exemplifiei the Yale spirit, and so closely lived up to Yale ideals.
 Earnest indeed he was as he looked out upon life and it's opportunities, and realized, as from the beginning, that the way to truest success is the way of service. -t... .'-
 Thorough indeed he was as he brave- ly met every duty and grappled with every problem, winning the place easily first in spite of ill-health and bodily ir- firnity. ,-s. :,
 And an example of true Godliness ir1- deed he was as walking in the way of service; the service of God was his first thought, though never separate or apart from the service of his fellow linen.
 Tennyson's words immortalizing just such a friendship we may make our own:
 "A willing ear
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