Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-24
YALE hONORS JAMES ]. HILL
Old Eli Confers Degree on Railroad
King of Northwest.
PRESIDENT TAFT IS MISSED
Railway Builder Tells AIumnae that
Trickery is BAD Business Policy
Colleges Doing Good
work.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 2s.-The
commencement at Yale ended with the
alumni dinner last night. President Hadley
in expressing regret at the enforced alb
sence of President Taft said: bill Taft
Of rs is in the second mile Of the race and
he Is in the eel grass. Brethren, some OF
the best Yale victories have been won
over the third and fourth miles"
Great applause greeted this sally
little later the following message was read
by President HLdley:
1T Is the best eel grass we ever saw.
WILLIAM II. TAFT"
The alumni was told by the university
president that the present had been the
banner year in university gifts and in
alumni contributions, the former totalling
81, 2S2, 900, and the latter a little over $780,
co., these not including the Sloane labor
atory and other gifts to the scientific
school.
DR.. Walcott of Smithsonian institute,
told Of Yale ideals and Bishop Partridge
Of Kioto, class of 80, spoke Of the work Of
Yale men in the far east.
James j. Hill was introduced as the
youngest Yale son. President Hadley said
that two members of the family had won
Yale degrees, three had achieved them and
the last one had a degree thrust upon him.
Mr.. Hill expressed his gratitude for the
honor shown him. 1t gave him pleasure
to tell the thoughts which have helped
him through life
Il have never found the place where a
lie would take the place of the truth. In
nearly fifty years of active business ex-
perience have never found transaction
worth while when 1t came under the
81 Nrl,
tried to keep my hands clean. 1 am nov
too old 1 think to learn tricks"
Mr.. Hill then spoke of the value o.
university training as compared with tina
Of discipline in the school of the world
laying stress on the need of trained minds
as wall as practical hands in the years
to come. He said that Chief Justice Mar
shall in his Interpretation of the consti
tuition did a service to the nation which
Is incalculabe. The fathers laid the foun
dalton, he said, but Marshall reared tn
4 structure. The future of the nation woul
rest upon the courts and free government
would make its final stand upon the de
cisions of the United States supreme court
he said in conclusion.
An interesting incident during the con
ferring OF the doctors degree on Mr.. Hi
was noted by those on the platform @
Woolsey hall. Prof. Perrin had said Q
, Mr. Hill: His power is practically with
} out bounds, but he cannot raise the frelgh
rates on his own roads"
To this Mr.. Hill interjected: mot yet.
MISS Jane Adams, president of the Ma
) tional Conference of Charities and Correc
lions, and head of Hull House, Chicago
was one of the recipients of the honorar
degree Of master of arts conferred at til
} annual commencement Miss Adams
l the first woman upon whom the universit
has conferred an honorary degree.
: Otto T. Barnard, &c, of New York wa
: elected a member of the Yale corporation
Among the other honorary degrees COZ
ferred were John Burroughs, naturalii
= and author, received the degree Of dot
tor of letters.
Henry Cloud, the WInnebago, Neb, II
= dian, who is prominent at Yale securin
high scholarship honors, was toda
stricken with appendicitis.