The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-05
YALE OFFICIALS
 INDIGNANT OVER
 TREASON CHARGE

| New Haven, Conn, Dec. 5.-Yale Of
 hcials are indignant over the action of | the New York Commandery of the | Military Order of the Loyal Legion in | passing a resolution last night that 1 the alumni of the university were un- patriotic. The resolution declared that | the alumni could not distinguish be- | tween patriotism and treason in de- ciding to erect a memorial tablet at Yale in memory of the sons of the university who lost their lives in the civil war;
 Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., secretary of Gale, speaking for the university, declared that there practically had been no criticism by the alumni, but that men from both the North and the South have expressed their approval 1 of the scheme.
 ! '@The memorial said MT. Stokes, 'is to be erected exclusively to graduates who lost their lives in the civil war. IL is not monument to those who
 enlisted, but to the courage and devo- tion of those who were willing to lose
 their lives for what they believed to be right
 Alumni of every age and section of the country were among the twelve stgners of the circular sent out few
 months ago, and three of them were l soldiers in the Union army, namely,
 the late Judge Henry F. Rowland, 1854, captain in the Twenty second reg
 innent, National Guard. New York; Henry P. Wright, 1868, sergeant, Fifty
 first Massachusetts Infantry, and
 Judge Henry V. Freeman, 1869, a cap tain of an Illinois company. The
 movement was formally started at the
 commencement of 1909, at public meeting at which President Taft pre-
 sided.
 Although announcement of the teCF1 4rA al jUi of the university, less than a half
 dozen have written criticisfng 1t, and hundreds, including many identified with the Union cause, have indicated
 their appreciation of the proposal to
 commemorate the fftieth anniversary which will show that the wounds of the nationu have been healed. The spirit which has actuated the commit tee is that given in the following lines
 of the well known poet, the late Fran cis Miles Finch, B. A., 1s49, entitled
 The Blue and the Gray which was
 published in 1867 and which may be
 used on the memorial:
 '' No more shall the war cry sever Or the winding rivers be red; 1 They banish our anger forever
 When they laurel the graves of our dead.
 Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Cray"
 Dr. Arthur T. Had1ey, president of Yale, said that he approved in every
 detail of what MT. Stokes said:
 The project to eFect the memorial
 took definite form in 1909, and only last
 month the committee appointed at that
 time, of which Governor Simeon E.
 Baldwin is chairman and MT. Stokes
 and TaIcott H. Russell, of this city,
 are members, sent out a letter for funds. The committee has adopted the
 design of Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln memorial at Washing ton, which provides for the placing of the names of more than one hundred and fifty Yale men on tablets with the following inscription, which was | the cause of all the trouble:
 gro the men of Yale. Union and Confederate, who gave their lives in the civil war, the University has | placed this memorial, that their high devotion may live in all her sons, and that the bonds which now unite our Ia,ad Taav eY1{711re