New-York tribune., 1907-06-27
HADLEY ASKS FORFUNDS
YEARS GIFTS TO YALE
Fe7cer Honorary Degrees A7carded
to Increase Vaiuc.
IBy Teiegrapa to The Tribune. ]

announced AT the annual Yale dinner tonight thar
t4s total gifts and pledges TO endowment in the
las; years, exclusive of legaces was over
g 25oe' or chis amount S2SG000O is the direct re
silt Of The endowment movement started two Years
ago N7ooc'o already having been paid and sos 900
of TIE total sum being conditional upon further
gifts
President Hadley said that the endowment fund
mast conunue to grew rapidly II Yale was to keep
her place as great national university as higher
saiaries must be paid and more money spent on
research work. He said that unfortunately no
purchaser for the HiH house property had yet
been ioune. he lhanked Messrs. Barnard '76;
Barnum -. and Kelsey rs. for their assistance in
advancing most Of the money necessary TO hold
:hs property temporarily.
The gifts TO the alumni fund last wear amounted
n SSs"a Of which $4,000 VIII be devoted to the
general income and $4,000 TO class funds In zen
ersI Fhe largest gifts by classes announced were.
Class o. .. $500; 80 $4,000; 80 Sheffield $500
e. $6o1: 81 $500; o. $780, and "72 s. coo
President Hacley then read the names of the
contributors 10 the fund who have given more
than $25.@o These are: John D Rockefeller Al
fred @ Vanderbilt, '9s; Edward H. Hardness 'g7;
Charles y. Harkness, So Walter JENNINGS 81.
Sloane, 05: Robert c. Brewster 81. C+anrra 6
Brewster, 81; Charles Sullman. 80: Henrv F
Dimock. '63 Samuel Thorne '96; William Y. H
Thorne. - Sheffield Frederick c. Hewitt 'ss:
Jofn f. Dryden. '65; Gerald Hoyt, -; w. W.
F. Hopkinson Smith was introduced an author
who urged high ideals upon the coming writer's of
the country. Mr.. Smith said:
Don't cultivate the critical faculty The 1-a, 20
write IS TO write. and the habit of writing will beIn
you 10 do II better and better every time Let yoIr
mouths water for the things that are at the basis
cf our new literature the dialects that are at the
basis or our language, the colonial and the civil
life OF our country"
TIE Rev. William Adams Brown of Union Tbeo-
logical Seminary. first asked what was meant by
Toss Of democratic spirit at Yale He answered.
IT refers TO the loss Of certain simplicity which
has changed in the Yale life In day at Yale
horse owned by q student q rare thing and
the widest dreams of our imagination had not
thought Of automobile As q friend expressed
it 10 ne, Why, hang it, when was in Yale we
went around with any old clothes found lying
around. but low you can't tell by e mans clothes
whether ha is q Yale or Harvard man"
There is need to be disturbed over the
changes that are passing over the college. They
are only the refiexes Of those passing over the
country al large Ideals come OF tough old
stock, and take good deal OF burying before they
will stay dead and they have been inwrought
into the Yale life and into this Republic that there
IS danger 10 be feared.
''PTovinciaiism is democracy and the ideals OF
culture and refinement which you are opening to
Yale men Of to-day fit him for his duties in
Church and State as truly as those OF the ear
her Yale democracy"
President Hadey said that the remaining two
speakers were the two most popular Yale Of
The alumni lists-''3il' Taft and Tim Dwight
As Secretary Taft arose 10 speak. the alumni
70 Taft"
Secretary Taft said in part
Senator Knox and 1 agreed, after I chosen
70 speak this afternoon for those awarded the
doctor Of laws degree that tell this story 10
press our present view Of the political situation:
4 long time ago there a Republican Gov
ernor elected IN Kentucky and old man who had
voted the Republican ticket for years without any
result came down of the mountains on his old
mare Jenny and hung around the public square till
he became finally Of the opinion that Republicans
are ungrateful He at last turned his horses mead
toward his mountain home when some Of the boys
asked him why he looked so glun- He stopped his
mare and said slowly: Well boys, I've heard 1t
said that the Office should seek the man and not
the the Office. I've been down here for sew
eral davs and I haven't seen any Offices seeking
the man but If you do YOU Just tell them that you
seen jim Stubs going down the Alexandria Pike
his little mare Jenny, and that he was going
down mighty slow
IF there ara men around the country who are
prorhesvinE about Brother Knox and myself,
want 10 say that the only handicap he has had IN
ne race. fIiat on hol pelA6 d IaLo man, "fo
moved to-day. when he was given a ale degree.
tx President Dwight received rousing welcome
when presented by Dr. Hadley as Tim Dwight
He said:
one might think from all the applause for the
class Of '7s. in which Mr.. Taft was graduated and
t6st FOR '15 In which President Hadey gradu-
sted that there were Yale classes before these
but I say that when the class Of 81, which
for sen-ceutennial received their diplo-
mas. I just closing my last year as tutor
J met the members OF this class yesterday, and
they said that they feared that the reunion would
O. EnelanchoIy event 4haL We pei9'e 60. 80
went 10 the baseball game with Harvard AFTER
the game they felt differently
While the list Of honorary degrees granted by
Yale IS the shortest IN years il more catholic
than ever. The brevity OF the list was intentional
IT being hoped thereby TO add to the value and
dignity Of the honorary degrees
The following were the honorary degrees
awarded
Doctor of IaUs-Henry Pickering waIcott chair
man Of the Massachusetts State Board of Health
senior teIlow Of Harvard and acting president IN
DR. EliotsS absence: Frederick Newton Judson
Chairman Of Yale alumni advisory board and one
Of the leaders Of the bar in the Southwest; Phi
lander Chase Knox, United States Senator from
Pennsylvania and ex-Attorney General OF the
United States. and Herbert Putnam Librarian OF
Il Congress.
| Doctor OF Divinity-wilIiam Adams Brown pro-
tessor n Union Theological Seminary, Yale B. A,
~ and William Douglas Mackenzie, president OF
Hartford Theological Seminary.
Doctor Of Llterature-F. Hopkinson Smith. author
and artist
Doctor Of science-Joseph Paxson Iddngs
petrologist recently elected 10 the American Acad
efny Of Science Yale PHI. B.. 1871. and Archibald
Byron Maculum, professor Of physiology IN Uni
peTsity of Toronto.
Master Of Arts-Everett James Mcknight, surgeon,
OF Hartford. Conn; Henry Vaughn, ecclesiastical
Echitect: Lewis Frank TOoker. poet. Yale B. A,
~; Frederick Hi. lawyer, Of New York, Yale.
3 A, 1887; Vance Criswell Mccormick. ex-Mayor
q Harrisburg. Penn and former captain OF the
Ssls football team, and Edwin Bradford Crag1n. a
New York surgeon and an authority on obstetrics
The order Of march was as follows:
Professor Yaaden Henderson. procession marshal.
% Regiment Rand.
Candidates for the degree of 3. 4.
7rofessor Lafayette MendeI. marshal
Candidates for the degree Of IL 3
John ". EIgerton, marshal
CANDIDATE for the degree Of 3. F. A
Candidate for the degree Of Aus. 3.
Candidates for the degree Of B. D.
o n LangEettei. marshal.
Af.; .,t. y +, D2Sies 'r James F. Ferguson. X S.
a L. Roraback marrhals
Candidates for the degree Of NJ z.
Candidates for the degree Of c. E.
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