New-York tribune., 1909-03-20

as matter Of chance. He had character and
Yale training make President but never by
chance The original Taft man was Elihu Yale
The toastmaster then referred to other illus
trious sons of Yale, and the fact that there was
something more in Yale man than mere Latin
and Greek. continuing:
music Of the stock ticker with the music Of the
first violin when the orchestra is PLAYING Ny Coun,
private property, but 1t aroused public conscience
more tea and few regulations have been thrown
overheard, a calm masterful figure has arisen TO
government Of law and order Men have differed on
the problem but they seem TO have agreed pretty
well the to solve IT
You know they say where there is a viii there
Is way" Where there was Will there was
way 10 solve many problems in the Philippines and
elsewhere So long as We have a VIII we Know
his this Rspu6io 5ji lie ''''''1 way ','' '' ',''',,
It, he IS here tonight not only because he is Presi-
dent, but because he Is a Yale man. we expect at
TO the time when we judged our problems by the
light that filtered through the campus elms.
letter was read from ex-P President Dwight in
which he regretted his inability to be present
and said: Say to President Taft thera is no
Yale man who wishes him more success and
happiness in Office than do
GUESTS AT THE DINNER.
Seated at the guests table with President TAFT
were James r Sheffield. 81. president OF the
Yale CLUB, VINO p1sSluSus L ItdulcSs ip'
president OF Yale University: Payson Merrill.
80; the Rev. William r. Richards. 10. and AL
fred L. Ripley. rs. members OF the Corporation
Of Yale University; Thomas Thacher. II: Otto
T Barnard. rs; William NJ. Barnum. IL and
Julian W. Curtis, 10, former presidents OF the
Yale Club and Senator Depew. '56. a former
member OF the corporation and ex-president of
the Yale Alumni Association
Among the others present were William T
Booth Edwin Corning J. Evarts Tracy, Frederic
". Stevens DR. Francis Delafield Henry Holt.
Richard c. Morse. Judge Frederic c. Adams.
the Rev. Edward B. Coe. the Rev. Leander 7.
Chamberlain, J. Frederick KernOchan. DR. E l..
Keyes. Dr. Lewis a StImson, John W. Sterling.
Justice Charles F. MacLean. General w. w.
skiddy, Judge George c. Holt, Henry B. Barnes,
Charles A. Collin, George p. Sheldon, Allen W.
Evarts, Robert w. de Forest. Charles N. Chad
wick George Bird Crinner. Professor George
Chase, Charles Hopkins Clark. Howard Mans
field Justice Joseph A. Burr. DR. d. Bryson
DeIayan, Gerald /. Hoyt, Frank Sullivan Smith,
Hart Lyman. Clarence w. Bowen. Joseph P
Ord, Archibald Rogers John w. Auchincloss'
the Rev. Hollis b Frissell. John A. Carver.
Justice Almet F. jerks, Judge James B. Dill.
George L. Sterling. United States Senator Kean,
G. Creighton Webb John Hays Hammond,
Frank H Patt, Frederick ]. stimson. Justice
John Proctor Clarke, Marion WILCOX, Eu"dro
Whitney, Ex-Governor Henry Roberts OF Con-
necticut, ex-United States Senator Fred T. Du-
bois of Idaho; Clarence H. Kelsey. Frederick A
Stokes John W. Keller, Judge Severyn B.
Sharpe. Henry w. Taft. Mayor ]. Benjamin
Dimmick of Scranton, Penn; George Z. lde.
Dr Arthur E. Bostwick. Judge George w.
Wheeler. of Connecticut; DR.. George Woolsey.
Henry B. Platt Asa P. French. Borough Presi-
dent Cromwell, Horace d. Taft, ex-senator
Frank D. Pavey, James Bronson Reynolds, Will
lam Williams, Robert H. Lyman. Eugene Lamb
Richards Dr. Joseph A. Blake S. Reading Ber-
+ron LAFAYETTE B. Gleason. Truman H New
berry. Colonel Austen Colgate, the Rev. William
Adams Brown, Frederick Trevor Hill. Walter
p chamber, Charles H Sherill, Congressman
parsons Deputy Police Commissioner Hanson.
Iea McCung, treasurer of Yale University; John
Henry Hammond Judge William N. Runyon Of
p,atnfeId: Moses Taylor. Frank L. Polk, Senator
Frank 6 Butterworth, of Connecticut; Mortimer
n Ruckner. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Rev An
son Phelps Stokes. jr., secretary OF Yale Univer-
it,,. Francis P Garvan and Speaker Wads-
worth