The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-04
Warning from Taft at Yale
Party Must Keep Its Promises

night from meeting OF the skull
and Cross Bones to board his pri.
vate car attached to the midnigh,
train for Washington.
The Skull and Bones IL secret
society founded by the President
father when he was student az
Yale. All the Tafts have belonged to
1t. and it's proceedings are shroudcd
with all the mystery which charac.
terizes college fratcrnities The presi.
dent passed into the mystic shrine
Of Skull and Bones Temple all alone
tonight and all OF the secret service
guards had to keep watch outside.
Today's commencement was nota.
bic in many ways. President Hadlcy
announced the receipt In the past
year Of gifts to the university amount.
ing to million dollars. OF this sum
sl50000 came from the general cdu.
cational board. the allotment having
been conditioned upon the receipt OF
SSjOO0O from other sources one gift
os 100000 and three OF $4,000 each
were announced anonymous
President Hadley Secretary Dickin.
son. Doctor Timothy Dwight. former
president of Yale. and Bishop Law
renee of Massachusetts. were the
speakers at the Alumni dinner. in
addition to President Taft.
The president was given an uproar.
ious greeting. which was renewed
when. turning to President Hadley. he
addressed himself to M. President
and fellow Yale men"
President Taft said in part:
Since the fourth of March have
learned number of things. and |
am making no reference to the wealth
er bureau. either | have learned
that in the opinion of the American
people one of the chief functions of
the president of the United States
is TO increase the box receipts and
the sale Of excursion tickets am not
invited here on any such notion. /
have come because | could not help
coming to be Yale man and to be
part of Yale
You will think. possibly before
the end of this presidential term. that
! am as inevitable a presence at the
alumni dinner as the ham and the
chicken that we are all so fond OF.
! hope | may have the pleasure for
great many years of listening TO
the kindly benediction that We all go
ahead feeling better for from presi.
dent Dwight.
81 want TO congratulate the presi.
dent of Yale University upon the de-
gree which was conferred upon the
president of Harvard University in
such beautiful and felicitious friend.
" terms as those which he used this
morning It made man warm 10
Harvard as some OF us seldom do.
Then, too, it meets my full approval
that we orthodox men of Yale
should recognize and seem 70 approve
the liberality OF the theological vi VS.
Of Harvard.
II may note In the relations II
the university what has previously
been noted on this occasion a mum.
her of times; that the courteous con
vention by which Yale always oses
on Harvard class day as Cambridge
and Harvard always loses on Yols
class day at New Haven is stll
maintained
And then the corporation took M
the question OF the navy, and | "a.
sumo from its action. although the
spokesman of the university wua a
little chary on that subject, that Z
approved the voyage of the sISteen
battle ships around the world ana
that II recognized in Admiral Sperry
the supreme ability, the supreme
equipoise and the determination which
was able to meet the requirements OF
the custodian of $50 million dollars
Of United States property which, II
/ lost. could not be restored in more
/ than decade; and wish to say
with reference to that trip that while
1t was criticised at the time. there
is no single order OF my predecessor
many of whose orders tended sc
much to the peace of the world
which in my judgment. tended Sc
much to the peace OF the world, a,
the order by which he sent around
not as a messenger of war, but al
messenger of peace-those wonderful
mechanisms known as the sixteer
battleships of the United States"
The president spoke in the warmes
terms of praise and affection 70
Prof, William c. Summer, who I,
retiring from the Yale faculty afte
many years of active service. wa