The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-25
YALE MEN PAY
 HIGH TRIBUTE
 TO CLEVELAND
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legal authority, was the second speaker called upon by President Hadley. He spoke with es- pecial pleasure of tho better feeling now existing between Yale and liar ward. the university of his state. than formerly was the case. At one time, he said. 1t was unsafe for Yale man to be seen on the streets of the com As an evidence of the had feeling he told story of what happened after the football game In 1890. Yale lost the game as every one will remember. Going away from the field one of the Yale men was al- most in tears, He was asked Cant you allow Harvard to win once In sixteen years. The reply was filled with Indignation. No. it Is enough for Harvard to tie the score once In every sixteen years"
 But" went on Mir Elder, during the past two decades this feeling has improved and purer and bet ter athletics have obtained in the colleges, as the result of movement
 
 The rules against freshmen playing on varsity teams. and other regula- tions of undergraduate playing have brought about more sportsmanlike teams and made the games cleaner.
 As for the famous class of '73, 1 later class has obscured the light, '1S Is here with a larger delegation. out of the 90 survivors there are forty-fve present And '7s has gen erously given it's son to the republic instead of keeping him for itself and for Yale. The return of 30 many of the class of '7S shows that as the years go by classes come nearer and nearer together and that the chums here are chums for life. And the class also shows that wherever In a lipe a Yale man is put there he serves"
 Ex-ircsicent Dwight.
 President Timothy Dwight of the class of '59, was then called upon by President Hadley, as the youngest
 
 swept through the hall as tutor" Tim arose. His address was very short and was one showing a deep feeling of friendship He said;
 There is no body of men in the civilized world that Is more affection ate than Yale graduates and students, and there is no one to whom this af- fection has been more shown than to me For this I can only thank you as the years go by. The. university has grown more and more delightful to me, ever since l have been con- nected with It, The older men seem like brothers, and the young men like sons. And as l look about this throng the delightful thought comes to me that there Is no one here, I believe, who has the slightest feeling against me, and no one for whom have any thing but love.
 May you nil in the lives have all the happiness you can wish for, and once in long while let your loving thoughts turn back and fix them selves upon me"
 The Yale graduates sang "Amlci' after President Dwight's address and after the last strains had died down President Hadley announced the reelection of Henry Bradford Sar- gent to the Yale corporation. He then called upon William II. Taft as the final speaker of the afternoon, with the words
 Hope shall change to glad fruition Faith to sight, and prayer to praise
 Secretary Taft's Speech.
 Immediately the large dining hal was in an nproar and the new hymn Everybody Takes His Hat off tc Taft" swept from one gallery to the other, and the large sounding board back of the speakers table sent tho cheer back again Mir Taft patiently waited for the uproar to subside and then addressed the alumni:
 T join with President Hadley ir an expression of deep sorrow at tht death of Grover Cleveland He wa. great man and great president He had the highest civic ideals and : rugged honesty. He had a high cour, age that now makes him happy in hi | death, revered, respected and loved l by all his countrymen. There Is nc Imore fitting place for a eulogium O | Cleveland than at meeting of Yalt men, filled with Yale spirit"
 Applause again swept through tht l hall at MT. Taft's tribute to Presden Cleveland, and 1t was five minutes be fore the secretary could go on witt his address Then he said:
 T again ask leave to enter the pro test 1 did last year against the Yalt managers of commencement who fai to get many of those who take hon orary degrees to speak Last year was compelled to take the place 0 Senator Knox on the toast list Thi l year 1 must take Senator Spooners l These men are different from man, senators who are sometimes Willln, to speak when no one wants to hea 1 them
 But on the other hand, commence ment is much better arranged than 1 used to be We have a color schem on the baseball field We also hay l arrived at a very courteous intercol 'legiate arrangement by which we al ways lose the class day game at liar ward and Harvard loses the gam commencement day here.
 This Is a non partisan meeting. A vet the party to which I belong ha l named no manager, and had there bee one, he would have told me to husban my resources to-day. But. MT. Blacl