Duty, and in working for the good of others. To the long list of these men who have passed away within a few years we add the name of one who was no whit less devoted than they. What Livingstone did for Africa; what "Chinese Gordon" did for the Soudan, what it was hoped that Keith-Falconer might do for the Mohammedan world, that was done for South America by David Trumbull. WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY. UNIVERSITY TOPICS. CLASSICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF YALE COLLEGE. TUESDAY, April 9.-Professor Goodell presented a paper on Recent Excavations at Mycena. In connection with an enlarged sketch map of the acropolis of Mycena, a general description of the locality was given, with a somewhat detailed account of the pre-Homeric royal dwelling brought to light by the Greek Archæological Society in 1886-7. The palace, though not so well preserved, closely resembled, in general arrangement and mode of construction, that of Tiryns described at length in the work of Schliemann and Doerpfeld. Above this palace were found, first, a stratum of poorer house-walls, built after the destruction of the palace, and secondly, crowning the summit of the acropolis, the foundations of a Doric temple, itself probably older than 500 B. C. The arrangement and depth of these two upper strata furnished the clearest evidence of the antiquity of the structure first described. Two inscriptions of the second century B. C., portions of decrees of the village of Mycenae, not only prove the existence of a settlement here at that time (contrary to the statements of Strabo and Pausanias, who represent the site as having remained uninhabited after 468 B. C.), but give us a glimpse of the village organization, with its popular assembly, various magistrates, and religious festivals. Doubtless the settlement was dependent on Argos, but must have possessed a considerable degree of self-government. Finally a brief account was given of the discovery of a number of pre-historic tombs in the slopes of the hills about Mycena. These consist of one or two rock-cut chambers, approached by a dromos like that leading to the socalled treasury of Atreus. In some instances these passages are over 20 meters long and two or more meters wide; the chambers are mostly square, with an area of 35 to 40 square meters. They were evidently family vaults, containing each several bodies, with a great number of articles of use and ornament, many of which are enriched with representations of animals and human figures, thus furnishing a mass of valuable material which cannot but yield considerable information with regard to the pre-Homeric inhabitants of the land. YALE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. No. 89.-WEEK ENDING MAY 18, 1889. Sunday, May 12.-Public Worship-Battell Chapel, 10.30 A. M. Rev. Edwin P. Parker, D. D., of Hartford. Anniversary Sermon before the graduating class of the Divinity School-Rev. Dr. Parker, Center Church, 7.30 P. M. Tuesday, May 14.-Mathematical Club.- Professor Newton, on the formation of a table of mortality; with a table formed from the recent General Catalogue of the Divinity School and Mr. Dexter's Yale Biographies. Sloane Laboratory, 7.30 P. M. Wednesday, May 15.-Last Day of filing applications for Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships. Yale Divinity School Anniversary—Addresses by members of the Graduating Class. Battell Chapel, 10 a. M. Yale Divinity School Anniversary—Alumni Meeting and Discussion on the Free Pew System. Marquand Chapel, 2.30 P. M. Yale Assembly— Debate on Local Option. Linonia Hall, 7.30 P. M. Friday, May 17.-College Faculty Meeting-7 Treasury Building, 4 P. M. Berkeley Association (Evening Prayer)—Room 89, Dwight Hall, 6.45 P. M. The Feudal System and the Comitatus of Tacitus-(Lecture to the Sophomore Class)-Mr. George. 194 Old Chapel, 7 P. M. Anniversary of the Divinity School, May 15.-Addresses will be delivered by members of the Graduating Class in the Battell Chapel, beginning at 10 A. M. In the afternoon there will be a meeting of the Alumni and friends of the school in the Marquand Chapel, beginning at half past 2 o'clock, and including a Discussion of the Free Pew System, to be opened by the Rev. C. A. Dickinson, of Boston, and the Rev. J. A. Biddle, of South Norwalk. In the evening, at 6 o'clock, there will be a social reunion in the rooms of East Divinity Hall. Scott Prize in German-Yale College.—Seniors who desire to compete for the Scott Prize in German must report to Mr. Goodrich on or before Wednesday, May 15. Winthrop Prize Examination-Yale College.-Members of the Junior Class who wish to compete for the Winthrop Prizes, are requested to report their names to Mr. Dexter, on or before Friday, May 17. ̧ Woolsey Scholarship Examination-Yale College.-Members of the Freshman Class who desire to compete for the Woolsey Scholarship, are requested to report their names to Professor Goodell, on or before Friday, May 17. Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships.-Members of the Senior Class in College, or recent graduates in Arts, who wish to be considered as candidates for any Graduate Fellowships or Scholarships which may fall vacant at Commencement, 1889, are requested to communicate with Mr. Dexter before May 15. College Compositions.-The last Sophomore Compositions for the term will be due on Saturday, June 1, at No. 2 Treasury Building. The prizes for the year will be awarded mainly according to the merits of these essays. Any subjects may be chosen except those assigned for previous compositions. SPEECH OF HON. DANIEL H. CHAMBERLAIN AT "The Yale Ex-Gov. Chamberlain responded to the toast Alumni of New York," as follows:Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Brooklyn Yale Alumni: Though I am in the habit of saying and feeling that to make a speech-an after-dinner speech-is to pay a very high price for one's dinner, still I should certainly be very churlish if I did not say to you that it is a real pleasure to me to meet the Brooklyn Yale men on this occasion. If I bring you no adequate spoken word, I bring you a warm Yale heart, and I bring you my thanks for the honor and pleasure of our meeting. It is possible that New York Yale men, surrounded by the everincreasing din of commerce and business, the hurrying tides of life and struggle which there go on, may agree with one of our enthusiastic Yale men of New York, who recently declared,—that the Yale spirit was all summed up in the one word "Go !"-but I venture to hope that somehow, here in Brooklyn, you have managed to retain some things of Yale and Yale influence and memories which are not quite comprehended in that magnetic word "Go!" I, for one, am disposed to amend our New York friend's word and say-"Think as you Go," or "Think before you Go." And the truest Yale man is, in my judgment, not the man who "goes" fastest or farthest, but the man who carries most weight of thought, of character, of scholarship; aye, most of the spirit and attainments of Woolsey and Porter and Dwight; and not the man merely who pushes hardest on Wall Street or in the race of mercantile or professional life in New York. One other word spoken by my enthusiastic Yale friend to whom I have referred, gives me the text for a remark. He said Yale oratory too was obedient to the talismanic word "Go ;"-that it meant no longer grave and eloquent discourse nor learned and witty discourse; it meant "the lively mingling of anecdotes and jests with appropriate comments on passing events!" Well, he was right evidently as to the fact. Yale oratory, in New York at least, does consist now chiefly of "quips and cranks and wanton wiles" of oratory. Understand me, I am not prepared to say this is not the very highest form of public speaking! What I would say is merely that it is a new idea, a modern idea of Yale oratory. And I will add that I love still the roll and cadence of true, lofty oratory. I love the ample sweep of view, the gorgeous panoramic march, of your own Storrs, the lofty diction and loftier tone, of Curtis, the keen blade, the perfect English, the always unselfish ideas, of Schurz. These voices are, let me say, though not one of them appears in our triennial,-these men are true old-fashioned Yale men. They love learning, they cultivate letters, they follow ideals, they affect the companionship of truth, and they do not make oratory a jest, nor life a race for fame or fortune, nor bow to the modern Geslers who at every cross-roads demand our homage on penalty. I do not think we often enough recall or value highly enough when we do, the simple fact of our great Yale companionship,that we are all, the humblest and the greatest alike, members and equal sharers in the tie of great memories, great influences, and great hopes which are associated with our College and its life. Part of that glory, that honor, that priceless heritage of scholarship, of fame, of patriotism, which almost two centuries and a half,-nearly ten generations of the best of Americans,-have gathered and earned-is ours. More and more, as the years go by, I am led to feel that the very best part of college life is its personal associations, its friendships, the identity which we feel with thousands of other men in all our States who have once walked the same paths we have walked, shared in the same life we have lived, known the same noble men and teachers we have known, learned the same lessons we have learned, not merely nor principally from books or lectures or recitations, but chiefly from men of the noblest aims, lives, and characters. There is no tie like it in American life. The tie of soldiership, the experience of camp and field, of common dangers and triumphs of arms, often bind men with strong bands to one another. Sympathies of party, of church, of profession, are powerful solvents to blend and fuse men into one body, but after all, I know of no tie at once so wide and strong and lasting as that of men whose youth was united in a great college. |