Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
Pays Tribute to Alma Mater at
Alumni Banquet.
GETS R0UsING RECEPTION
Makes Strong Plea for Higher Sal.
aries for Professors.
HADLEY's ADDRESS
Notes Tendency Of Colleges to Re-
turn to the Old Style
Of Curriculum.

The faith of Yale men in President
Taft and his administration was voiced
emphatically at the annual banquet
of the Washington Yale Alumni AS
ISOLATION at the Raleigh Hotel last
night. Speaker after speaker paid
tribute to Yale's best known living gradu-
ate and predicted that he again would
be the choice of the people Of the
United States for chief executive two
years from now. President Arthur
Twining Hadley OF Yale University.
who, with President Taft, was the guest Of
honor at the banquet, at the close Of
his address. said:
THANK God we have today Yale man
at the head Of the government Of this
country who will give Yale administra-
ton of a Yale Constitution
Not only Gid the Yale men pay tributes
to the chief executive of the nation as
Yale man, but President Taft spoke euIo-
gistically of other Yale men whose worth
he knew.
He declared that to the late Henry NJ.
Hoyt, solicitor of the State Department
and a claesmate of his at Yale, more than
to any other man. was due the success of
the present Canadian reciprocity agree
ment. Mr.. Hoyt. he declared, had laid
the broad foundations on which later
successful agreement had been reached.
Tribute to Mr.. Bowers.
To the late Lloyd W. Bowers, solicitor
general of the United States. and another
Yale man, whom President Taft had in
tended to elevate to the Supreme Court
of the United States, he also paid high
tribute, saying that he had considered
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first three or four in the country.
The spirit of Y ale was alive at the ban
quet. President Taft and President Had
ley took the lead In declaring that the
Yale spirit. which has stood for democ-
racy and competition for more than 200
Years, is as s'-Ions, TO-DAY in college and
in the larger world outside as it ever has
been.
The company which gathered about
the banquet board included some of the
most distinguished men in the country.
The banquet hall was decorated with
Yale flags. the Presidents flag and the
flag of China. in honor of LANG Tun Yen,
one Of the guests. Yale songs and Yale
cheers for Taft and Hadley were given
with enthusiasm.
President Taft in his speech kept al
most entirely away from politics. Only
once did the President-with his Taft
Smilo in evidence-refer to recent polit-
ical events. He said:
There has been revival in Old Yale.
and Sim Baldwin has come to the front.
When l was in college he was lecturing
on constitutional law-not the fellow
servant laM-and now he has taken hold
of the governorship of Connecticut with
the eagerness of Il boy
1t will be remembered that it was over
q decision of tho fellnw-servant law that
Gov. Baldwin and Col. Roosevelt had
their falling out during the campaign last
fall. and there was a general laugh when
the President made the remark.
Lee McClung Toastmaster.
Lee McClung, treasurer Of the United
States and president of the local alumni
association, acted as toastmaster. In his
opening address he paid high tribute to
two Yale men who stood high in the gov
ernment service. and who have died dur
ing the last few months. Solicitor Gen
eral Bowers and Henry NJ. Hoyt. Mr.
McClunS called upon President Hadley
first.
President Hadley, referring to his being
given precedence in the speaking over
President Taft. said it reminded him of q
story told of Lord Chesterfield.
He was going driving with the king
on one OCCASION" said President HadIey,
land when they were about to enter
the coach the king said, After you,' and
Lord Chesterfield got into the carriage
without comment or hesitation
Taking up the subject of Yale and her
activities today, President Hadley de-
clared that the old spirit of Yale. the
spirit of competition which made every
man in the college stand upon his own
feet. was still strong. He said that he
was reminded of story told by an old
farmer. who, when asked how he taught
his sons to swim, replied:
II threw them into the millpond, and
most generally they swum.' That was
the way with the men who entered Yale
in the old days, said President Hadley,
and they most generally swum."
Lauds President Of Harvard.
He declared there was general ten
dency throughout the educational insti-
tutions of the country. including Yale. to
get back to the old and more cohesive
style of curriculum.
He said that Yale had not drifted as far
toward the wide elective system as had
other colleges, but that even at Yale the
pendulum was swinging back. At Har-
ward, which had wandered farther afield
than Yale. he said, President Lowell was
causing reform. He paid a glowing
tribute to Lowell as a man fully alive to
the needs of the country and to the needs
of an educational institution
President Taft was given an ovation
when he rose. He said that he had been
delighted to hear President Hadlev tel,
In the curriculum. He said that 1t was
necessary in college as in a govern
ment to bring about economy, and by
that he meant a system to prevent dupli-
cation of work.
Remarks Of the President.
The President then paid a tribute to
Lloyd Bowers and to Henry NJ Hoyt.
He said:
My friends. 1 had expected to say
something tonight of the two Yale men
to whom our tOastmaster has referred.
l suppose that the falling away of
our contemporaries. and the increase
In the number of those who fall away
Is not due to exceptional circumstances
but it is due to the fact that we de-
cline to recognize that we are getting
older. and that the chances of death
grow greater as we go on. But it did
seem so unnecessary that two such
souls as Lloyd Bowers and Harry Hoyt
should be taken from active life at this
time. 1t is hard to be recOnctled to 1t.
Lloyd Bowers was great lawyer. He
stood among the first three or four law
yers of this country, and / do not say
that in any fulsOme desire to pay trib-
ute to his memOry-I say 1t with calm
ness, and after having known aid made
a search for all the good lawyers of the
country. Every member of the court
that sat to hear him argue cases and
that read his briefs will bear me out. and
it is one of the qualifications of my
friendship and association with Lloyd
Bowers that he knew before he died that
of his life and would sit as member OF
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