The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-17
President of Trinity College, Who Delivered the Connecticut Day Grafton at the Jamestown
 Exposition Yesterday.

Virginia who restlessly pressed against your stormy frontier and threaded the wilderness and mountain passes. You and we had our common as we'll as our separate sets of troubles. You had much Indian fighting, and bore yourselves as brave men and stark soldiers, terrible in battle. Connecti- cut had but one Indian campaign within its border and at It's close the hostile tribe had ceased to exist.
 That was our fortune; our Indians were less numerous and less warlike than those whom you were obliged to face. Our territory was scarcely touched in the Revolutionary war-at least It Is said that no hostile soldier has ever slept on Connecticut soil ex- cept as prisoner. The Connecticut man generally has had to go a visit ing when he has felt need to fight and under your own leader they made calls In every one of the Colonies. Many very many, of us have also left home to dwell In other States and ter ritories, so that one of our distinc- tons is that more men have left Con- necticut than have migrated from any other State. We have been an incuba- tor for founders of Commonwealths, just as you were when Kentucky and Tennessee and other States were a-building.
 At home we think good deal of some of our political history. We have had a model constitution and ad- mirable laws. We recall with pride not far removed from conceit that what was to be the State of Vermont, through It's general assembly, once voted as follows: Resolved; That the Laws of God and Connecticut be adopted, until we have time to frame better ones.' We would not boast too loudly, here in the house of generous hospitality. It isn't boosting, it is two old friends talking over their past and telling how they used to do things toegther or apart.
 More important than all the past, but growing out of 1t and, doubtless, l to be modified by 1t, the future now calls to Virginia and Connecticut, as to their more than two-seore sisters 1 What are we to do with the priceless heritage that has come to us, with our great domain, our boundless wealth, our increasing power for good and evil Of what avail shall be the traditions of our heroic past, the con- stancy of Washington, Trumbull, and | Putnam? To what purpose do we re- ceive the instructions of the three centuries whose beginning we here commemorate?
 Obviously the past cannot be taken as in all respects a pattern for pres ent copying, It has not been wholly good and it was the product of condi- 1 lions which are now largely supersed- ed. What we can learn from the his tory of our three hundred years is not l political dogma not mercantile methods, not national policy, All these must change with the times as time cuts its path through eternity But we may profitably learn, may we not, what sort of men they are who i count in the growth of people to- ward high destiny, what sort of prln- ciples are safe guides among the changing policies dictated by vary ing needs and ambitions. Character and principles are things that enable men in any age and amid any ma- terial surroundings, to do good and evil, to upbuild a nation, to retard It's growth, or to tear it down.
 A Glimpse of Our Real Selves.
 "The questions change, human ten dencies take on new forms, men alter the very environments that have help. ed make them what they are. They build electric rnads and several con-