Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20

SHINGION, -. ", ED
are three and four hundred, and that
must necessarily have introduced
change in the Yale life. / think the older
graduates have sometimes feared in re-
spect to the change: They wandered
whether the spirit remained the same.
They feared that it must have changed
| under the changed conditions; but have
| had a good deal Of opportunity to know
| something of the internal life Of Yale
since 1 left there. and to follow the effect
| OF the changed conditions in the larger
| classes, and what seems to be the more
luxurious accommodations that they have
! had there, and l agree with the dean
changed the spirit that prevails. In6eed.
1 think the spirit is better today than it
was in my day. think there is hig her
tone morally than there was in my day.
Perhaps ten years after we graduated
and came back to the college we enter
ts.lneu the ued that there ought to be
some roughness in life, and that there
ought to be good many temptations in
college life yielded to sufficiently to give
us full information as to life, and that
WITHOUT that we would not have the
training and the subsequent resistance
~ te.Eptat on that Was necessary to
make a real Yale man. Wen. I have
gotten all over that. I don't believe it..
I believe the higher moral tone that now
prevails among. the graduates of Yale
| makes Yale education more valuable
and a Yale experience more valuable than
1t was in my day, and I congratulate TIL
university and l congratulate those par
ents who have sons to send to Yale that
1t is SO.
The Spirit Of Yale.
Il cannot add anything to what Prof.
Emery has said with reference to the
spirit of Yale. for he stated it SO finely
and his quotations were much to the
~"nt that It would be painting lily to
do SO. The spirit Of Yale, as under
stand it, is the sp'r't of endurance the
desire to win, the willingness to face de-
feat but the unwtllingness under any
circumstances to resort to any method
that shall faint what comes
eve of Yale think we have something
that they don't have In the same degree
in any other university. I believe that is
so absolutely. Every other university
thinks the same thing. and it is well that
/ 1t does: but II you get men from other
universities away off in a corner or get
! the fathers off in corner who have had
sons at other universities, and force. them
| to confession. they are more likely
to admit that Yale has the spirit and has
| ates in a higher degree than any other
| university. The spirit Of service that we
| have there no one can have been 10 the
| university without feeling the effect of.
| and the spirit Of self-restraint and Of be-
| ing not only a good winner but a good
| loser, is something that makes Yale men
successful in life. and II they are not
successful, puts them in such a position
| that they can make success out Of fail
| ure."
Two Other Speakers.
| There were only two speakers besides
President Taft They were Henry C..
Emery. head of the tariff board, formerly
member Of the Yale faculty, and Dean
Jones OF Yale College.
In an eloquent speech. Prof. Emery
pictured Yale IDEALS, and declared that
as long as the Yale spirit LASTED Yale
would continue to be a great asset in
the development of the men Of the coun-
try.
II have heard the criticism that it is
ridiculous to expect men who receive
$2,COO salaries to teach men to earn
$4,000 salarit s. said Prof Emery. "Bu.
wish to say that If the only ideal in
teaching men Is to fit them for earning
much money. that ideal Is all wrong. It
Is the duty of the university to equip
men to win success In life. to be sure. but
should do more than that. 1t must
insti the spirit Of Yale and Of past his
tory"
mass of letters which is received by the
tariff commission, told an amusing story
of letter which reached his Office ad-
dressed to "Mr. Taraff.' Prof. Emery
! told his clerk that the letter was I'M
doubleday meant for the White House.
But the clerk insisted that 1t must be
| meant for the tariff board. So it was
opened. It was found to be addressed
| inside to Mr.. and Mrs. Taraff," and
| was in reality for the President and Mrs.
Taft. Prof. Emery paid tribute to Dean
Jones Of Yale College. who, he said. has
established the open-door rolicy at Yale.
IF you want to know who is boss
| around the deans Office nowadays" said
Dean Jones' Remarks.
Dean Jones said he came as stranger to
most of the Washington alumni. President
Hadley was too busy to come because he
must make his report to the Yale corpora
ton soon. The secretary Of the univer-
sity, Arson Phelps Stokes. is out with his
gum shoes somewhere raising money for
ale, and Billy Phelps is in the west, SO
1 alone was left to tell the tale. Prof.
Emery has talked about starting things,
but know what 1t Is to start something
at Yale. And / must say that the Yale
undergraduates do not always take kindly
to new policies.
Yale has become a great university.
1t has adopted new policies necessarily.
The two great departments Of the uni
versity, the college and Sheffield scientific
school, are cooperating now as never
before. Where their work overlaps they
are getting together for the benefit Of
both.
Plea for Better Salaries.
Dean Jones pleaded for higher salaries
for the professors, whom he declared
| were ridiculously underpaid. He said
| that there was no reason why western
universities should pay higher salaries
to the members Of their faculties than
| were paid at Yale. and should be abb 2
| to take Yale's best men away because
they could pay more money. He said
that 1t was loyalty to Yale that kept the
professors there now, when they could
get better pay elsewhere.
More dormitories for the undergraduates
was also a crying need, acco. ding to Dean
Jones. He said that at least two more
large dormitories were required by the
college before 1t could hope to house all
| its students.
Dean Wright, my predecessor. wrote
me before came to Yale to take up the
work in the deans Office, that / would
l find nod nf l,,o