The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

| university, Mr.. Taft said efforts were
| being made to analyze the results OBJ
| tanned. just as comparisons are made be-
| tween different departments of the gov
| ernment, to see whether the same line
! of work and the same achievements cost
| more than in another.
Mr.. Taft jokinSly remarked that it
| made him feel like the world was not
such a bad place to live in when he some
times received communications saying
President Hadley had failed to do some
thing or, if he had done it. had not per-
formed the task to the satisfaction of the
writer.
In conclusion. Mr.. Taft said:
But now. my friends, had expected to
say something tonight of the two Yale
men to whom our toastmaster has re-
ferred. ferred. I suppose that the falling
away of our contemporaries and the in
crease in the number of those who fall
away. is not due to exceptional circum-
stances. bat 1t is due to the fact that we
decline to recognize that We are getting
older, and that the chances of death grow
greater We go on.
But it did seem so unnecessary that
Harry Hoyt shotlld be taken from active
life at this time! it is hard to be recon-
ciled to it. Lloyd Bowers was a great
lawyer. He stood among the first three
or four lawyers of thi1 country, and
do not say that in any fulsome desire to
pay a tribute to his memory-I say it
with calmness, and after having known
and made a search for all the good law
yers of the country. Every member of
- h
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 II he lived he would attain the
ambition of his life and would sit as
member of the greatest court in the
world. l.
Then there was Harry Hoyt-a ma
ture so sweet, so responsive. so chivalric.
that one can hardly think of him without
having tears come to his eyes. He wos
man of great ability, of wide reading.
and represented in the highest sense the
literary Culture Of Yale. He would not
accept judicial Office, although it fell to
my fortune to press it on him. He pre-
ferred in less conspicuous station to
render a service for which he was Pc
culiarly fitted. He preferred as an agent
Of the state department to assist in the
making of treaties, and the bringing
about of diplomatic agreements, and to
him, as much as to any one. is due
the success of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. for he went to Canada, he
had long conferences with the gentlemen
representing Canada, and he laid the
broad foundations upon which that agree
rlent has been subsequently reached.
Before close want to say some
thing of the pleasure that there is in
having an insight into the way in which
the Yale University il run. As men,
ber of the corporation I attend when I
can. 1t is a great comfort to go there
ana be able to vote increases in the SAL
aries Of the hardworking professors of
Yale University.
''One of the great accomplishments Of
President Hadley Is that we have,
through him. succeeded in increasing the
funds available sufficiently to make these
increases. They are not enough. how
ever, and I hesitate to say what they
are. lest you gentlemen with very large
ideas should think they are not worth
mentioning: but they are an advance,
and II there = any gentleman within the