Excerpt from The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University: A Semi-Centennial Historical Discourse; October 28, 1897

M11655'1try to do justice to their wise and assiduous labors by showing their relation to the times and to the progress of science in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

If the Antiquary should now appear, you would be sure to remember that his task had already been well performed; and if I should assume the garb and chisel of Old Mortality, you might remind me that the moss has not yet gathered upon the inscriptions in yonder cemetery. While Argus and Briareus, the one for the University and the other for the School of. Science, are on the alert, it requires some assurance to traverse the annals which they have collected; and yet this discourse must be historical. So in face of difficulties, eu hanced by the distance which has separated the speaker from these once familiar scenes, from muniments and archives, I enter upon the duty of the hour, conscious of the honor received from your courtesy and grateful for an opportunity to stand once more among former colleagues, pupils and friends.

To a returning wanderer, it is a delight to see this favored university renewing its youth, at the approach of its second centennial anniversary - more comprehensive, more useful, more liberal and more worthy than ever before of loyal affection and support.

Eighteen hundred and forty-seven is the year of our nativity. But there was a pre-natal existence worth remembering. Truly, Yale College has always stood for Science, and therefore it is no wonder that those who initiated the department of Philosophy and the Arts, just after President Woolsey assumed the chair, had faint notions of the importance of their proceedings.

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