The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-24
HADLEY PLEADS FOR AGGRESSION Baccalaureate Address De- livered by Yale's Presi- dent at Woolsey
 Hall. BE STRAIGHT AT
 ANY SACRIFICE Defensive Warfare Breeds Timidity and Weakness
 Strong Men
 Needed.

Under most propitious weather condi-
 ticns the commencement exercises of
 the Yale graduating class opened yes
 terday with the baccalaureate address
 of President Hadley delivered in
 Woolsey hall. Besides the members of
 the graduating classes and their par
 ents there were present a large number
 of Yale men who have come back for
 their reunions.
 The candidates for degrees in the ac-
 ademic department assembled on Berk-
 eley oval at 10 o'clock in their caps and
 gowns and led by Gordon Wilson Ab-
 b, tt of Plainfield, N. J., and Fred Da-
 wis Abrams of Clean, N. Y, marched
 two abreast along University avenue,
 entering Woolsey hall by the side door.
 Wkich is only used at commencement
 tine. They crossed the rear of the
 auditorium and walking down the left
 aisle took seats in front. The Sheffield
 scientific school men assembled in front of Winchester hall and marching over took seats on the right Behind
 the academic and Shelf. men sat the graduates in the other departments
 filing the entire center of the parquet of Woolsey hall. To the left and right
 and in the galleries were the relatives of the candidates for degrees, the un-
 dergraduates and those who have come back for commencement.
 On the platform with President Had ley were Rev Charles Ray Palmer of the corporation, ex-Presldent Timothy Dwight, Dean Henry Wright of the &C., ademic department; Director Russell P. Chittenden of the Sheffield scientific school; Dean John F. Weir of the art school; Dean Herbert F. Smith of the medical school: Dean Henry Wade Rt gers of the law school; Dean An drew w. Phillips of the graduate school Prof. Williston Walker of the divinity school, and Director Henry s. Graves of the forestry school. Prof. Harry B. Jepson presided at the New berry organ, and the college choir, be- hind the president and the deans, led the singing. The choir selections were "Venite," Gregorian, and "Ecce Jam Noetis," Chadwick Prof. walker of- fered prayer and Dr. Palmer pronounce ed the benediction.
 Toward the end of the service Pyesi- dent Hadley addressed the graduating classes directly and the members arose and remained standing until the ser vices had closed and the president and his party had led the platform.
 In his sermon which urged the grad uatng classes to walk straight ahead, | not following any set rules but the dictates of ones conscience, To illus trete his point he told the story of an engineer on an express, who stuck to his post when he saw the train was to be wrecked because a bridge had broken through The train fell into the river. |
 Several days later.' said Dr. Had 1 ley "the searchers discovered the en- zine In the mud and In 1t the engineer looking straight ahead, with his hand | on the throttle and his eyes closed"
 The rest of President Hadley's ser mon follows:
 God comes before us with a demand and a promise. The demand is that we should be clean and straight The promise is that we shall get these qualities so inwrought into ourselves that we neither could be nor would be anything else.
 The demand sound, plain and simple enough. To a certain extent we are Ill ready to meet it. We avoid a dir y man; We distrust a crooked man. There is not one of us here today who would be willing to be enrolled in either of these classes. But there is a perpetual danger that we shall inter ,ret each of these obligations in mar ow way; that we shall shrink from particular forms of stain or orooker- less which we happen to see, and let ,ur character be undermined by other md more dangerous forms which we To not see. plead to-day for @ broad of these obligations; for view of cleanliness and straightness which shall protect us from the sub- Ter forms of evil no less than the ob- ious ones; for an interpretation of hese duties which shall concern itself lot with external forms, however im- ortant, but with mans inward spir- |. plead for a purity and a truth ulness which shall be positive, not egative; militant, not defensive; ag- ,ressive, not timid; which shall find it's alvation not in the complete fulfil lent of a narrow round of duties, but l the working out of large ideals and spirations. il Let me illustrate what mean by an nalogy from the art of war.
 There are two different ways of con ueting a campaign-the defensive Tay and the aggressive way In the ormer man selects a definite line which he desires to occupy He dis oses his troops in such fashion as to revent this line from being broken; ilways planning to take advantage of he shelter of his defenses, and seldom ever arranging to go outside of