New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-19
SERMON FOR YALE MEN
Or. HadIey Says Fighting MUST u
Mark "L.ife Worth Anything"
MANY PRIZES AWARDED
Rogers Scholarship for Excel,
lence in Biological Course
Won by J. F. Cooley

New Haven. June g tspeciaD. With the
delivery of the annual baccalaured,e
mon by President Arthur Twinhs 49,
YaIe's commencement week was ioI
begun to-day. Seniors from every depart
ment OF the college, in their c"p' GU,
gowns crowded into Wosey Han TOT the
sermon and 10 hear the announcement ol
the standing OF the class oil III io'
scholarship honors.
DR.. Hadley said, in part.
Every one Of US here assemDied1 hn 10
that life which is worth any thiIIS ,ba.
life OF fighting. | trust } hlaS a. en- II
every one of us IL glad 10 hS'e coi1aae
training tho can 10 arms is itself an IN
spration. Each of us wishes to ne IN t'o
heart Of the contest and prove "'''''
man. lou. o,d
There are few things so important ana
few SO little understood as the Iedl " -
traditions Some people DO nor e.tair nwn
at all others revere them TOT theii w Nv"
sake and care for nothing besides; -
true man reveres them because they help
to keep his ideals high and hold mem ad ,e the
in lifes storms. The strongest u IL
enc which drives its roots deepeTr ~ The
ground. The taller the tree grows lie
harder it's roots must take hold on me spl'
So il is with the life OF man il' 'in'
desires TO reach forward furthest lll'o LII o,
future which he would serve mus 49, ,,t, bn
back hardest into the past from WHICH he
has sprung. vo,,
Gentlemen Of the graduating class: hou
know We'll the kind of contest winch II
fore YOU. You have already measured "
some degree the forces against Whlch' Eo,
have TO fight and the powers that YOU eau
use I'm the contest. You have learned Ihd'
YOU have little strength IN yourselves
You need much more than you have. You
have learned 10 despise alike the brasSart
end the quitter-the man VINO thlnks ne
can do everything and the man VINO lnl''s 50
he can do nothing. You have learned 20
need your friends. YOU have learned "
stand by your friends. You go out INTO tils
world shoulder TO shoulder with group OF
associates whose help YOU VIII value more
and more with each day Of your lives. You
Lave studied the history Of Gods universe
in the books of science and the history oi
mans work in government ana IN morals.
You should know better than all others
how large are the ideals for which men
ought to live. You have entered into
Heritage of traditions or service Wnlch
have grown up about this place through
the life and death of honorable men who
have unselfshy consecrated themselves 10
this institution, and you nave 1Veo uurlns
| these wears in Christian surroundings. You
have lived among men In whom the spirit
Of helpfulness is strong. who hate the
man who rises by pushing another man
down and honor the one who leads an
together toward the common goal
The following eighteen members Of the
class attained the highest general scholar
ship rank: Wifred Atwood Beardsley,
Waterbury, Conn: Charles Edward Clark
| Orange. Conn: James Dwight Dana, New
| Haven: joel Ellis Fisher. jr., New YORK
City: James Theodore Iilhouse, Whitman
tic. Conn: Truman Andrews Kilborne, East
Orange. y. j. Louis Kofsky. Hartford,
Conn. Thomas Armtage Larremore, New
York city: Stanley Penhold Mead. New
Canaan. Conn: George Crandal MeagIey'
Bingharton. y. Y; Fred Carl Reckert'
Terro Hauto. Ind: Bernard Wertheimer
scharn. Natchez. Miss; Howard Francis
Shattuck. Columbus, Ohio; Reginald George
Trotter. Toronto. ont: Gouverneur Morris
wilkins Turnbull. New York city: Everett
Ovlcr Waters. New York city; Lawrence
RAYMOND Wheeler. Portvllle, y. Y. and
Stanley Thomas Williams. Merden. Conn.
In the Sheffield Scientific School the gen
nraI three Years honOrs for excellence in
all studies were awarded IN tho following
students: Stanley Crttenden Ball, zoology
and botany. Shelburnc Falls. Mass; Rufus
Frank BIount. chemistry. Wabash. Ind;
Samuei Winship Case. mining engineering,
Norwich Conn: Franklin Jerome Champ
lin. electrical engineering. New Haven; Ar
sen Nishan Chorba Jan y. \. ST PauFs IN
stitute. Tarsus 1906, electrical engineering,
Marash. Turkey; Charles Francis elise.
mechanical engineering Seattle; C'oyd
Cummins electrical engineering. Vienna.
n. J.; Samuel Goldschmidt. biology South
Norwnlk, Conn: Simon Brctzfelder Kleiner,
biology. New Haven; Albert Shelley Low,
civil engineering. Danbury. Conn; Robert
| Cecil Moran, chemistry Hartford, Conn. ;
Washington Platt. biology. Baltimore;
! William Edwin Prindle, forestry, New
Haven; EustIs Thatcher Rowland, mechan-
teal engineering. New Haven; Charles
| Henry Stokesbury metallurgy Derby.
| Conn EIihu Smith Wing, biology, Green
field Centre. y. Y; Richard Wrenshall,
mctaIlirgy. Sewickley, Penn.
Eight prizes were awarded for excellence
in special studies. The Rogers scholarship
| for excellence in studies Of the biological
| course was awarded to James FRANCIS
Cobey. Of New Haven. The Penheld prize
! for excellence In mineraogy was won by
! Philip Raymond Gleason, of South Nor
walk, Conn, with an honorable mention
| for Donald McRuer Eddy, of Bay Guy,
Mich.