REPORT OP THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 1 67 



On behalf of the Sheffield Scientific School, Frederick Buss 

 LuQuiENS, professor of Spanish. 



On behalf of the law school, Wiluam Howard Tapt, Kent professor 

 of law. 

 Responses on behalf of the delegates : 



Dr. PEfJAHERRERA, of Ecuador; 



Dr. Jose; Matos, of Guatemala; 



Dr. EberIvE Firmin, of Haiti. 



On arrival at the Yale memorial dining hall the visitors were received 

 by President and Mrs. Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hubinger, Mrs. 

 Hiram Bingham, Mrs. Frederick B. Luquiens, and Mrs. Henry R. Lang. 

 The dining hall was elaborately decorated with flags, bunting, and 

 flowers, and across the west end were the flags of the twenty-one 

 American Republics. Each member of the party was presented with 

 numerous souvenirs, and the ladies were given bunches of violets, the Yale 

 University flower. 



President Hadley made the address of welcome on behalf of the 

 university, saying: 



" It is a great pleasure to take part in a gathering Uke this, which marks 

 the renewal of old ties and the creation of new ones. The ties that we 

 renew are of long standing. The Latin communities of the south and the 

 English communities of the north had many common problems during 

 the early stages of their development. All of us, south and north, had to 

 pass from colonial dependence to national independence. The contest 

 came a little earUer for some than for others, but it had to come every- 

 where. Each nation, Latin or English, looked with sympathy on the 

 struggles of the other and derived inspiration from its successes. And 

 when independence was achieved each nation had to work out for itself, 

 under conditions differing in detail but similar in underlying principle, 

 the problems of constitutional liberty and industrial emancipation, 



"There were certain special reasons why the interest in these problems 

 of Latin America was peculiarly strong in New Haven and at Yale. 

 During all the early part of the last century there was large direct trade 

 between this port and its Latin-speaking neighbors. The desire to secure 

 and safeguard this trade was many times the leading motive in the 

 political life of this community. And during all these years the pro- 

 fessors of Yale.University watched with special interest the developments 

 of constitutional and international law which came from the develop- 

 ment of this new world of ours. Well do I remember, in my own 

 career as a student, how large a part of the teaching of my honored 



