The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-23
CELEBRATE FOOT GUARD DAY
SECOND COMPANY COMMEND
 RATE HISTORIC EVENT.

Religious Services Followed by Street
 Parade and Banquet at Tontine- l Keeps Company in COnvulsions of l Laughter--ProfessOr G. A. NettletOn Depicts Changed Relations of Town and Gown-PrincipaI Marcus White
 Among the Speakers.
 | The 132d anniversary of the organ ization of the Second company, of Gov lernor's Foet Guard, was fittingly cele- brated yesterday. In the early after- noon the members of the company gathered at the armory on Whiting street and forming in line marched to the Church of the Redeemer, where the religious exercises were held.
 These consisted mainly of a historic al address by the chaplaint of the com pany, the Rev. Dr. Watson l.. Phillips, and a memorial service for the dead. A special musical program under the di- rection of Prof. Benjamin Jepson, rem dered by a chorus of 100 school children and selections by the Wheeler & Wilson band of Bridgeport, completed the ser vices.
 After the services at the church the Icompany reformed and marched about the center of the city and back to. it's armory, where the red uniform was ex- changed for the dress uniform of the company
 Tn the evening a banquet was held in the Tontine hotel which was at tended by Governor Woodruff and some of the members of his staff. A number of his staff were unable to remain for the banquet, because they aare prepar- ing to leave with the governor to-mor- row for Jamestown, and they were present at the earlier exercises.
 The toastmastter at the banquet was IA w. Mattoon, who acted in place of Major Smith c. Weed, by whom he was introduced.
 He said. On this, the day we celebrate we take ourselves seriously. because many of us can trace our descent di- rectly to those who went forth in 1775 We do not stand for the commonwealth militant but rather for the activities of peace.
 The first speaker on the program was Governor Woodruff. His subject ac- cording to the toast list was "The State of Connecticut" He carefully avoided any reference to matters of state and spoke entirely cn his pleasant remem- brances of associations with the mem- bers of the company. The governor was never in a joller mood, and he kept his hearers in convulsions of laughter for almost half an hour.
 The governor said in part: The Foot Guard are under great obligations to l General Bradley, who stood out prom inently in the reorganization of the 7 company. l feel that the k0ot Guard are an important part of the state, The state looks to you to uphold the things that are good. Of coluse in my official position I do not 1now any (crles of you are right!) It is an im- portant thing for man to be a Foot Guard, and I hope that the organiza- ton will last for all time.
 Mayor studley, who was to have re- sponded to the toast "The City of New Haven" was unable to be present But said the toastmaster, he doesn't know any more about New Haven than Colo nel Ullman, and turning to where Col olel Ullman he'd been sitting and point ing dramatically he said He will now address youh But Colonel Ullman had departed when the toastmaster was not looking and the joke was on the latter In very inspiring address Professor Geo. A. Nettleton of Yale, treated the subject, Soldiers and the Universlty.' He said in part:
 l believe that at heart your organiza- ton and the university stand for some of the same things. l am glad that the days of the town and gown are gone and I am glad of the future which is | yet nobler with promise. The old idea of the university is gone. The old college professor kept himself in the world of books instead of the world of life The university Is fast working away from the idea of "Holler Than Thou" The culture of manhood is bet ter for us all, As I have watched the increasing number who have attended the concerts at Woosley hall and the lectures, l have come to feel that the , university has come to realize that 1t 2 is not exempt from responsibility but
 that 1t has an increased duty to the r city and the nation.
 One Of the things that the university and your organization stand for in ? common is loyalty. might call it
 fidelity or duty but loyalty is the higher word, 1t means more than obedience to law. It adds to obedience
 devotion, and love of the duty done The commonest word in the college vernacular is Yale spirit. There have
 been various attempts to define it. But in my opinion 1t can all De summed
 up in one word loyalty.
 Patriotism Is another trait that we two have in common. You celebrate not only the dead but the principles
 that live after them. You and we in
 common feel this trait when we re- call the incident of the young Yale
 man, Nathan Hale, whose only regret
 was that he had but one life to give for his country. I do not wish to
 weary you with a roster of Yale's
 heroes, but there are others. As VOL enter the campus from one side you pass under an archway erected to the
 memory of Theodore Miller who gave
 his life for his country in the last war
 As you enter from another side you
 pass under a gateway erected to the