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§ 62

INTRODUCING CHARLES KINGSLEY

By "Mark Twain"

(Delivered in Boston, February 17, 1874.)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I am here to introduce Mr. Charles Kingsley, the lecturer of the evening, and I take occasion to observe that when I wrote the book called "Innocents Abroad" [applause] I thought it was a volume which would bring me at once into intimate relation with the clergy. But I could bring evidences to show that from that day to this, this is the first time that I have ever been called upon to perform this pleasant office of vouching for a clergyman [laughter] and give him a good unbiased start before an audience. [Laughter.] Now that my opportunity has come at last, I am appointed to introduce a clergyman who needs no introduction in America. [Applause.] And although I haven't been requested by the committee to indorse him, I volunteer that [laughter], because I think it is a graceful thing to do; and it is all the more graceful from being so unnecessary. But the most unnecessary thing I could do in introducing the Rev. Charles Kingsley would be to sound his praises to you, who have read his books and know his high merits as well as I possibly can, so I waive all that and simply say that in welcoming him cordially to this land of ours, I believe that I utter a sentiment which would go nigh to surprising him or possibly to deafen him, if I could concentrate in my voice the utterance of all those in America who feel that sentiment. [Applause.] And I am glad to say that this kindly feeling toward Mr. Kingsley is not wasted, for his heart is with America, and when he is in his own home, the latchstring hangs on the outside of the door for us. I know this from personal experience; perhaps that is why it has not been considered unfitting that I should perform this office in which I am now engaged. [Laughter.] Now for a year, for more than a year, I have been enjoying the hearty hospitality of English friends in England, and this is a hospitality which is growing wider and freer every day toward our countrymen. I was treated so well there, so undeservedly well, that I should always be glad of an opportunity to extend to Englishmen the good offices of our people; and I do hope that the good feeling, the growing good feeling, between the old mother country and her strong, aspiring child will continue to extend until it shall exist over the whole great area of both nations. I have the honor to introduce to you Rev. Charles Kingsley. See page 645.

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INTRODUCING HENRY WATTERSON

By Elihu Root

(Delivered at the eighty-ninth anniversary banquet of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1894.)

GENTLEMEN: We are forced to recognize the truth of the observation that all the people of New England are not Puritans; we must admit an occasional exception. It is equally true, I am told, that all the people of the South are not cavaliers; but there is one cavalier without fear and without reproach [applause], the splendid courage of whose convictions shows how close together the highest examples of different types can be among godlike men-a cavalier of the South, of southern blood and southern life, who carries in thought and in deed all the serious purpose and disinterested action that characterized the Pilgrim Fathers whom we commemorate. He comes from an impressionist State, where the grass is blue [laughter], where the men are either all white or all black, and where, we are told, quite often the settlements are painted red. [Laughter.] He is a soldier, a statesman, a scholar, and, above all, a lover; and among all the world which loves a lover, the descendants of those who, generation after generation, with tears and laughter, have sympathized with John Alden and Priscilla, cannot fail to open their hearts in sympathy to Henry Watterson and his star-eyed goddess. [Applause.] I have the honor and great pleasure of introducing him to respond to the toast of "The Puritan and the Cavalier."

See page 306.

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INTRODUCING FREDERICK S. JONES

By Frank S. Streeter

(Delivered at the inauguration luncheon on the occasion of the inauguration of Ernest Martin Hopkins as president of Dartmouth College, October 6, 1916. From A Record of the Proceedings, published by the college.)

GENTLEMEN: In order that we may be enabled to hear our friend Dean Jones of Yale, who is obliged to catch an early train, I shall ask him to speak next. In doing so, while I would like to say many nice things about him, I will restrain myself as I do not want to take up his time. I introduce him not only as a great college administrator, but also as a poet. Some Boston gentlemen-of course, it was a Harvard graduate,— tossed off this effusion:

"I come from good old Boston,

The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells,
And the Lowells speak only to God."

This was carried down to New Haven, and Dean Jones, with the spirit of poetry bubbling up in him, and to illustrate the absolute democracy of Yale, replied:

"Here's to the town of New Haven,

The home of the truth and the light,

Where God talks to Jones in the very same tones

That he uses to Hadley and Dwight."

I present Dean Jones, administrator and poet.

FRANK S. STREETER. Born East Charleston, Vt., August 5, 1853; graduated at Dartmouth in 1874; admitted to the bar in 1877; practised law, Concord, N. H.; trustee of Dartmouth College since 1892.

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INTRODUCING WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

By Shailer Mathews

(Speech delivered at a meeting of the Federal Council of Churches in Memorial Hall, Columbus, Ohio, December 10, 1915.)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The President.

SHAILER MATHEWS. Born at Portland, Me., May 26, 1863; graduated Colby College, 1884; Newton Theological Institute, 1887; on the faculty of Colby College, 1887-1894; faculty of the University of Chicago since 1894; Dean of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago since 1908.

CHAPTER XI

SPEECHES OF WELCOME

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THE BROTHERHOOD OF YALE

By Arthur Twining Hadley

(Address of welcome on the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of Yale University, 1901.)

Of all the pleasures and the duties which a birthday brings with it, the most welcome duty and the most exalted pleasure is found in the opportunity which it affords for seeing, united under one roof, the fellow-members of a family who are often far separated. On this twohundredth birthday of Yale University, it is our chief pride to have with us the representatives of that brotherhood of learning which knows no bounds of time or place, of profession or creed.

It knows no bounds of age, either among the hosts or among the guests. The Yale that welcomes you here includes in its membership all parts of the collegiate body, from the youngest student to the oldest professor. It includes all those who, coming here without officially recognized connection with the University itself, bear to it such relationship that they partake in its spirit, and feel themselves sharers of its glories and its duties. Nor is it the living alone that welcome you. Present with us in spirit are men who have recently gone from us, like Phelps and Dana and Whitney. Present is a long line of great dead who have devoted their services to Yale, and who, being dead, yet speak. Present are those givers of books who, two hundred years ago, out of their poverty founded that college of Connecticut which to-day welcomes brothers, younger and older, to its anniversary. Representatives of colleges whose birth we have watched and in whose growth we can claim an almost paternal interest stand here side by side with delegates from those institutions, whether in the New World or the Old, which

ARTHUR T. HADLEY. Born New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1856; graduated from Yale, 1876; on the Yale faculty since 1879; President of Yale University, 18991921.

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