in the Linonian reports are still "clear throughout
and well-preserved" as is his signature at the end,
after the passing of more than a hundred years.

During his college course his name occurs in the
reports of almost every meeting of the society.
At one time he delivered "a very interesting
narration"; at another, "an eloquent extemporaneous
address." On various occasions he is said
to have taken part in some of the plays that were
frequently acted, and to have proposed questions
for discussion.

Besides taking part in the society and college
exercises, he enjoyed frequent correspondence with
a number of his classmates on themes of taste and
criticism and of grammar and philology.

As incoming Chancellor at the end of the college
year of 1772, Hale responded in behalf of Linonia
to the parting address from one of the graduating
class.

Hale's farewell address to the Linonians of the
class of 1772 is preserved to Yale College on the
society records. In reading it one must remember
that the speech was made by a boy of seventeen.
The dignity of the address, the assured ease with
which he speaks, the sense of the Yale bond, as
strong then as it ever has been, all show the only
boyish thing about the speaker, namely, his sense

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