Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05

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 agreement has been SUISSE
quently reached.
Plea for Higher Salaries.
Before / close l want to say some
thing Of the pleasure that there is in
having an insight into the way in whicn
Yale Cnive.sit is run. AS a member Of
the corporation l attend when 1 can. 1t
is great comfort to go there and to be
able to vote increases in the salaries o.
the Woodworking professors Of Yale Uni
versity. One of the great accomplish
ments of President Haoley is that We
have through him succeeded n increasing
the funds available sufficiently to maze
.hese inc.
They are not enough, however, and
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 is
any gentleman within the sound OF my
voice who is looking for a place to put
money where it will be best expended
let him give it to President Hadley for
the sole purpose of adding to the salaries
of professors of Yale.
yale is progressive and conservative
not too radical II you can be too radical.
and not hidebound. / think perhaps we
improve by considering the mistakes OF
other universities. But certainly every
one interested, every one who loves that
old mother, who informs himself as to
her real growth, must take satisfaction
in the president we have and in the fac
ulty that under his guidance are MAIN
tanning high the standard of an institu-
ton where we are so intensely glad to
send our sons and where We take the
greatest pride in having been ourselves"
His First Banquet In Years.
Justice Henry B. Brown, United States
Supreme Court, retired, said that this
was his first college banquet In twenty
years. His excuse for having neglected
them, he said, was that he was too much
occupied while he was on the bench,
but now that he had retired to private
life he eagerly accepted the invitation
to attend the Yale dinner
Il approve of man sowing MS WIG
OATS" said Justice Brown. but not until
he has reached the age OF seventy, When
he has no future to ruin.
Justice Brown referred to the college
curriculum of his day ana declared tnat
1T was medieval and that some OF the
courses which were most strongly IN
sisted upon were those for which a man
never had use after he left college.
"Whatever success l may have made In
NV life." said Justice Brown, Il attrlb-
ute to nv four years at Yale.
Secretary Franklin MacVeagh OF the
1.roasnry made an address, in which he
smoke Of the usefulness of Yale alumni
q associations and the work they did i'm
keeping Yale men in touch with their
alma mater. Liang Tun Yen, who was at
vale in the class of 1881, and who has re-
turned to this country after being at the
head of the bureau of foreign affairs in
his own country, said that he would tell
his countrymen of the honor paid him at
the Yale banquet and to their nag.
II will tell them that / went TO the
same college as Your president and the
other great men here tonight, and / will |
grow several inches taller in their eyes,"
he said LET us be proud of the present
President of the United States. Other col |
lepes have had Presidents of the United |
States. But the past is dead. We are
sure Of the present and of the future"
Charles H. Sheriff.. United States