The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-18

 1t where it then much needed support. before the legislature. There was a long and strong effort during the last half of the eighteenth century to bring 1t under State control. Here, writes Pres- ldent Stiles in his Literary Diary, thu l publication of which, under the able ed itorship of Professor Dexter, was one of the most notable events of the Yale Ri- centenial in 1901, he was lever a friend to its interests, and to its being and continuing in the hands of the clergy, whom he judged the most proper to have the superintendency of religious as well as a scientific college"
 In l792, while he was & senator in Congress that controversy came to peaceful close. The General Assembly offered the college a grant of what was estimated to be worth about SS00OO. provided 1t would admit the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and the six senior assistants as, for all time. Eel lows of the corporation. This left the clergy still in full control, for they held | twelve seats, and could dictate the elac- ton of the president to occupylanother Nevertheless, the clerical fellows were divided in opinion, as to the policy of of them, Rev Nathaniel Taylon was especially reluctant to take this step. He consulted sherman, and by his ad- vice yielded to the rest, and made the vote of acceptance an unanimous one. 1 This was almost sherman's last ser- vice to Yale In the next year, under date of July 2S in Stiles Diary, we find an entry.
 sherman was an effective sneaker. put 1t was not because he had in him anything of the orator. His power in l debate lay in his habit of never taking the floor unless he had something new and important to suggest, and in stop- ping as soon as he had said 1t, It lay also in what Cicero said was the first qualification of the successful orator being good man. People believed him, because they believed In him. l Justice was his polar star. He beiiev- ed that 1t was the true mainspring of all political action on the part of the mass of the people. Popular opinion," he said on the floor of the first con- gress, is funded in justice, and the only way to know if the popular opin- ion is in favor of measure Is to ex- anime whether it is just and right in itself"
 The popularity that follows not that which is run after" was what he thought should be the wish of the leg islator.
 So lived, and so, in a green old age, still in high public station and still useful in it, passed away the man to whose commemoration this evening has been given.
 The church no longer thinks peace full end of well-spent life is to be taken as a token of the divine displeas- ure. It no longer discusses the theolog- ical opinions that were of such absorb ing interest in Sherman's age. He be- longed to the eighteenth and we are drinking in the inspiration of the twen- tieth century.
 But Sherman's religion is still our re- ligion. He stood for justice, and truth: he stood for duty. quietly daily, tn- tiringly done, in whatever station, high < O. low, God may see fit to place us. He was a good shoemaker, and he was a good senator
 His example will never die out of American memory, because it appeals to everyman in every walk of life, and shows how character, perseverance, in- dustry, joined to common sense, can, under our system of government, put within the reach of their possessor whatever the world has to give of op- portunity for doing public service and winning public esteem.