Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-17
ALBUQUERQUE GIRL
MEETS PRESIDENT
IN Los ANGELES
Address TO Yale Men by Mr..
Taft VIII Be Of Interest TO
Local Sons of Old Eli

Local. SOnS OF VA Ill
Miss Edith Eyerrt. an artist OF
some merit. from albuquerque. IS =
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs W. II. Taylor
Of Los Angeles. who, Monday last,
entertained President raft at a recep-
ton held at their home. S435 :.
Flower street.
only the Yale alumni and a widow.
son and daughter Of a classmate Of
President Tart and Mr. TAYLOR were
present besides Miss Everitt.
Mr.. Taylor escorted the President
from his automobile TO the exquisite
~ decorated drawing room. where
ne was hrst presented 10 Mrs. Tay-
Tor. who after the greeting pinned
upon the lapel Of his cOat a Yale
badge, tor which Mir. Taft thanked
her graeiously. He was then pre-
sented to Miss Everitt, Miss Julia and
Masters Willie and Thatcher Taylor,
Nj Taylor's three children. and then
the widow and children of his former
| classmate.
After the presentation the ladies
with John Hays Hammond and VIII
| lis Booth. escorted the President to
the spacious reception room. which
was artistically decorated with Yale
pennants. large silk American flags,
| f%estoons and draperies Of Yale blue
and flowers, ferns and shrubs OF the
rarcst varieties. when the President
entered the room he WAS greeted with
the Yale yell with q vigor which ex-
ceeds comparison. This was followed
by the college songs which the sew
anty-nve college men sang with the
utmost enthusiasm and in which the
President himself joined. He was
then escorted to a platform at one
end Of the room where he addressed
the Yale men in these words:
4 have been trying for the last
year to consider the different state
ments which have come to me as 10
who has shoulderod me with the bur
den | have been carrying. said Mr..
Taft. Los Angeles men are the first
10 lay it upon Yale. Her men are
certainly at the front on h jour
ney out. Hammond has been n Of
three or four bosses who have had
said what should do and what not
Another example Of Yale success
Yale men are to be found every
where and their influence Is to be
found wherever they are. This Is a
period when the university man is in
tho ~ascendency. 1t mt from the
practical knowledge which the univer-
atty man has gained. He deals with
the practical. and. finding that ne can
not 20 directly TO the point of his
ideals. compromises. and when neces-
sary. compromises again and again,
until ~ Il roundabout way he comes
to final success
Sacrifices are necessary to max
progress onward % upward. This
Is practically. / take IL, the essence
Of what we have learned AZ Yale. We
should determine to use what We nave
learned and make this knowledge
serve for our progress. The spirit OF
Yale. advancing our ideals, removes
that natural danger which might
arise Of lowering our standards.
W don't fight to win everything
70 would. but to win the greatest
number OF times In the struggle. We
should all preach optimism and rec
ognize progress when we see it. Look
ing back five or ten years. we should
SEQ things better nov than in that
last time. Anything that makes for
progress is this. while anything that
makes for retrogression is pessimism
and the pessimist. Th.re is more OF
ne optimistic feeling in old Yale than
n ans other university, and this ac-
counts for the success OF that insti- |
tuition. |
1t is the desire OF the father OF ,
his day to have his boys receive a |
Yale education in a school where !
there is a broad field of democracy |
nd where all are on the same level !
The life and spirit Of the institution
cannot b. transplanted. I am ana
always viii be proud 10 have been
q Yale man applause
on leaving the platform the Presi-
lent showed "a slight impediment in
walking and stopped for a moment
10 explain that this was the result
OF a walk OF about $500 feet down
4 mountain which has brought TO
my limbs a feeling OF in1ammatory
rheumatism
on his departure he was given o
rousing Yale cheer.
The living room OF the Taylor resi-
dence WAS decorated with Yale PEN
nants and with the colors Of the coll
lege. blue and white, carried across
the bcamed ceiling. from corner 10
corner. With q heavy mass OF stlken
cloth in the center. Pictures OF the
class Of 1875. IN which the President
and Mr. Taylor were students, were
hung in conspicuous places. The
Yale graduates were assembled under
the name Of the Yale Alumni associa-
ton OF Los Angeles.
After the address the party went
In Tho shrine auditorium, where the
presidential banquet was held |
Mr. and Mrs Taylor and children
md Miss Evcritt in a special automo-
bile followed that Of the President TO
the banquet hall.
President Taft and Mr.. TAYLOR were
classmates in the class OF IS for four
years and for two years occupied ad-
Joining desks