PREFACE These addresses are published, not because I suppose that they are a contribution to human knowledge, but simply because friends have asked me to publish them. Most of the addresses delivered by me when I was connected with Yale College were unwritten and can not therefore be reproduced. Only two of the addresses in this volume belong to that period. Of the others, several were extemporaneous and they are printed in this volume as they were reported by stenographers. The address on Lincoln delivered at a banquet of the Loyal Legion in St. Paul, and the addresses on the day of President McKinley's funeral, at the banquet to Vice-President Roosevelt, at the unveiling of the statue of Governor John S. Pillsbury, and at the banquet in honor of Dr. James K. Hosmer, were all extemporaneous. They all bear the marks of extemporaneous delivery, but they may not be on that account the less interesting. The other addresses in this volume were prepared for special occasions and I believe fitted the occasions fairly well. They were doubtless more interesting when delivered than they will be in a book published years after the special occasion for them has passed. But even as they are, I hope they may not be without interest to the friends for whose sake they are committed to print. YALE'S RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY* Mr. President, Brethren of Yale, Ladies and Gentle men: The subject assigned to me, "Yale in its Relation to the Development of the Country," is too large for adequate consideration in a brief address. I shall omit all allusion to the moral and industrial development, and confine my remarks to a very brief consideration of Yale's relation to the political development of the country, and a somewhat more extended review of Yale's relation to the educational development. While Yale men have gone largely into politics and have done manly service in the ranks, and while many of them have attained to distinguished positions to which they have done honor and in which they have been influential, it is not easy to say to what extent the political policy of our country has been influenced directly by Yale. The college had four graduates in the convention which framed our National Constitution, William Samuel Johnson, William Livingston, Jared Ingersoll, and Abraham Baldwin, all of them good and able men. It has *Delivered at the Yale Bicentennial Celebration, New Haven, Connecticut, October 22nd, 1901. |