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*52—Rev. A. N. Lewis thas been
elected Grand Prelate of the Grand
Commander of Knights Templar of
Vermont. He has been Rector of
Christ Church, Montpelier, since 1891.
‘52—The Strand Magazine for Sep-
tember speaks of Dr. Ephraim Cot-
rer’s microscope as “the most powerfu!
in the world’ for “fine
detail’ in proportion of 136,000 Imes
to the inch. It magnifies 15,000 di-
ameters, or 225,000,000 times.
*53—Andrew D. White has an article
in the September Forum entitled, ‘“En-
couragements in the Present Crisis.”
It is his answer to many communica-
tions which have come to him in: re-
gard to his recent open letter ad-
dressed, “Tio Patriotic Democrats.”
’*56—Rev. William A. Bushee has re-
cently settled in charge of the Con-
gregational Church of Northwood, N.
H.
’56—Rev. James O. Denniston has
removed from Williamsburgh, N. Y.,
to take charge of a church at State
College, Penn.
’56—Justice Henry. ‘B. Brown, LL.
D. and wife have spent the summer
abroad. They were among the Yale
quota at the Henley regatta.
’*60—William H. Hale has an article
in the Recreation number of the
Bachelor of Arts entitled, “The Mon-
etary Standard.”
’61—-Frederick R. Jones is the au-
thor of a new book entitled, “History
of Taxation in Connecticut.”
*63—Judge Irving G. Vann, LL. D.
was nominated for Judge of the Court
of Appeals by the Republicans of New
York State.
‘66—The Democrats of the Second
District of Connecticut have nomina-
ted Dr. Austin B. Fuller for Congress.
’66—Judge C. F. Brown, of the New
York State Supreme Court, has sailed
for home from HBurope, where he has
been spending the summer with his
family.
‘67—_W. A. Peck was recently elected
County Surveyor for Asapahoe Coun-
ty, Col.
’69—Louis R. HBhrich, a member of
the National Committee of the gold
wing of the Democratic party, is the
author of a new book, entitled, ‘“‘Ques-
tion of Silver.” This book is a brief
summary of legislation in the United
States, a practical analysis of the
present situation, and of the argu-
ment of the advocates of unlimited
Silver coinage. Published by G. P.
Putnam & Sons. ,
73—Clarence D. Ashley ‘has been
chosen dean of the New York Univer-
sity Law School.
73—Frank B. Tarbell is the author
of a history of Greek art just publish-
ed for the Chautauqua Association by
Flood & Vincent.
"73—Plato Mountjoy has been ap-
pointed an examiner in the National
Department of Justice. He travels
about the country investigating the
accounts of United States District At-
torneys, Commissioners and Marshals.
‘75—Newell Martin has been ap-
pointed Secretary of the Class.
75 'T. S.—Rev. William P. Clancy,
of Troy, N. H., has accepted a call to
the Congregational Churches at He-
bron and Gilead, N. H.
"76—Horace R. Buck is a candidate
this fall on the Democratic ticket of
Montana, for the office of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
State.
77_Frederick J. Stimson is the au-
thor of a book published by Lamson,
Wolffe & Co., Boston, entitled, “King
Noanett; A Story of Old Virginia.”
77 T. §—Prof. George B. Adams, of
Yale, has written a new book, en-
titled, “The Growth of the French
Nation,” published by Flood & Vin-
cent.
microscope
‘79—Timothy L. Woodruff, of Brook-
lyn, is the Republican nominee for the
lieutenant-governorship of New York.
79—Margrave Coxe has been ap-
pointed Envoy and Minister to Hion- ~
duras and Guatemala by President
Cleveland. .
79—Poultney Bigelow is to have a
series of articles on South Africa in
Harper’s Monthly Magazine. He has
been for some months on the ground
gathering material. |
*80—W. D. Bishop, Jr., of Bridge-
port, Conn., Secretary of the N. Y., N:
H. & H.R. R. has severed ‘his connec-
tion with the law firm of Bishop &
Shelton.
*80—Henry W. Taft was appointed
a member of the Board of Education
of New York City by Mayor Strong on
September 10. He succeeded John L.
N. Hunt, who had resigned.
’82S.—S. L. Williams is the Gen-
eral Manager of the Gladstone Co.,
and Secretary and Treasurer of the
Oliver Typewriter Co., with offices at
the Atwood ‘building, Chicago, Il.
"828.—E. L. Whittemore went
abroad in August for .a six week’s
trip. He sailed in company with his
brother Norman C. Whittemore, ’92,
who goes to Corea as a missionary
gunder the Presbyterian Board.
°83—John Franklin Crowell is the
author of an article on “The Position
of the Church in France,” in the July.
number of the Methodist Review pub-
lished iat Nashville, Tenn.
°83S.—Allen Hubbard was married
on Wednesday evening, September 23,
to Miss Edna Louise Woodruff at Win-
sted, Conn. Mr. Hubbard was cap-
tain of the University Baseball nine
during his Senior year.
*86S.—The Republicans. of Great
Falls, Montana, have nominated Sam-
uel B. Robbins for Representative in
the Legislature.
’*88—The marriage of Miss Edith
Green, daughter of General and Mrs.
Joseph G. Perkins of Lyme, Conn., to
Wolcott G. Lane, took place at the
bride’s home on ithe afternoon of Sep-
tember 15. The ceremony was per-
formed ‘by (Rev. Mr. ‘Thomas of North
Andover, Mass.
acted as best man, and the ushers
were Mr. Charlton M. Lewis, ’86; Mr.
Charles ‘Pierson, ’86; Mr. John J. Kutz,
’°88, and Mr. Richard G. Perkins.
’*88—Asa O. Gallup was on July 4,
1896, appointed President of the Board
of Directors of the New York Prep-
aratory School, at 15 West 43 Street.
°39—Frederick W. Wallace and Miss
Grace M. Seccomb, daughter of Mrs.
Edward iA. Seccomb, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., were married in Washington,
Conn., September 9. Dr. William B.
Brinsmade, ’88, acted as best man, and
the ushers were A. H. Mosle, ’89;
George E. Eliot, ’°86; Frederick C. Per-
kins, °94; Harry Beecher, 88; Arthur
‘L. Shipman, °86, and Edwin Parsons,
88.
°90—Thomas IF. Bayard, Jr., ‘was
nominated for Congress, at Wilming-
ton, Del., by the sound money Demo-
crats.
‘91S.—Homer 8S. Cummings, of
Stamford, Conn., has been nominated
for Secretary of State by the silver
Democrats.
92 L. S.—G. P. Steele has formed a
law partnership with Charles Haut-
zell of Denver, Col.
’°92—-The marriage of Miss Ruth
Lambert, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Lambert, of New York City, to Knight
Dexter Cheney, Jr., will take place on
Tuesday, October 138, at twelve o’clock,
in the Congregational Church, New
Canaan, Conn.
°93—C. O. Graham is studying med-
icine at the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
’*93—Tihe engagement of Miss Adele
Corning to Mr. Alvah S. Chisholm is
announced.
793—Samuel Scoville has an article
in the American University Magazine,
entitled “The Progress of Track anid
Field Athietiies at Yale.”
°93--Miss Eidith Bishop, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Heber R. Bishop, of
New York, and Moses Taylor ‘were
married in ‘Trinity Church, Newport,
R. IL, on August 19.
°93.—_-Charles W. Clark and Mrs.
Clark have just returned from EHu-
rope. Mr. Clark’s marriage took
place last summer. Mrs. Clark was
Miss Roberts of Butte, Montana.
Dr. Alfred Hand, ’88,”
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"93 L. S—George H. Stanton has
been nominated by the Democra's of
Great Falls, Monttana, for the State
Legislature
’94—Ellsworth D. Whiting of Rush
Medical College, Chicago, was award-
ed the L. C. P. Freer medal given to
that member of the Junior class writ-
ing the best thesis upon an assigned
subject. The subject of Mr. Whit-
ing’s thesis was “Malaria.”
’94S.— Frederick N. Sinks has re-
turned from Belgium, and is now in
the law office of Nash & Lentz, Co-
lumibus, O.
’945.—Frederick H. Lee has become
Superintendent of the Erie branch of
‘the W. 'L. Scott Coal Company, Erie,
Pa.
"94S.—Harold E. Hewlett was grad-
uated from the College of Physicians 7
and Surgeons last June.
94 L. S.—John C. Clark, who has
been connected this winter with ithe
firm of E. B. Cuthbert & Co., of New
York, will take charge of a branch
office of that firm,
about October 1.
"95—Eid' ward Beatie of Helena,
Montana, entered the Yale Law School
this fall. | wee
’95—Henry G. Miller has been
obliged to discontinue this law prac-
tice in ‘Chicago on account of ill-
health and is now travelling out west.
’"95—T. H. Stevenson has ‘been
awarded a prize of fifty dollars for
highest proficiency in the studies of
the Junior year at the Chicago Col-
lege of Law.
95—On Tuesday, August 4, Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Grace
Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard T. ‘Wilson, were married at
the home of tthe bride, in New York
City. 3 :
°95S.—H. Hollister Robinson will
take a post graduate course at Yale in
Civil Engineering.
© 90—Tf. KF. Archbaid is at the Av-
burn Theological Seminary this fall.
’°96-—G. H. Nettleton is taking a post
graduate course in English at Yale.
’96—Ward Cheney is pursuing a
course of study at Brunswick, Ger-
Many.
’96—A. E. Hunt, Jr., is working
with the Hunt & Cornell Co., of
Seranton, Pa.
’"96—The engagement is announced
of Carroll H. Fitzhugh and Miss Mary
M. Bell, both of Pittsburg, Pa.
’96—G. L. Buist. was assistant in
heavy gymmastics, and coached the
‘boat crews at Chautauqua during the
summer. :
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The First Sunday.
The opening sermon of the collegiatte
year was preached Suniday in Bait'teld
chapel ‘by Professor Ladd on thie text:
“Hor none of us liveth to himself, and
no man dieth to himself.” ;
In the evening Dean Wright talked
to the studentts at the general meet-
ing in Dwight Hall. He emphasized
the necessity of absolute honesty at
all times, suggested the great oppior-
tunities ffor usefulness that a college
life opened for onle, dwelt on the value
of the constant forming and streng th-
ening of a good character, and the
wisdom of taking a positive istamd in
matters religious and moral.
The meeting of the Freshman classes
hield immediately after brought a very
lange numiber together. A great dieal
of interest in religious ‘work ‘was
showin.
———2»4> > —_——-
Reception to Freshmen in
| Dwight Hall.
A reception to the members of the
Academic and Scientific Freshman
classes was given in Dwight Hall last
Friday evening ‘by the University
Young Men’s Christian Association
and proved a decided success. Music
was furnished by quartets from the
University Glee and Banjo Clubs and
light refreshments were served. In
the absence of President Dwight, Pro-
fessor Henry P. Wright, Dean of the
College Faculty, welcomed the new
members of the University, and the
entertainment committee consisted of
the following: William H. Sallmon,
94, chairman; °97, L. M. Bass, G. C.- .
Brooke, E. E. Garrison, F. T. Mur-
phy; 98, D. F. Rogers, E. Sawyer,
and L. M. Williams; 99, C. A. Brayton,
W. H. Field and T. Wright; 97S., T.
W. Best and E. H. Brewer; 988., A.
Cheney and G. C. Greenway.
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Obituary. |
HON. ALFRED HEBARD, ’82.
Hon. Alfred Hebard, ’32, died after
a protracted illness at New London,
‘Conn., on Monday, September 21. He
was born at Windham, Conn., May 10,
1810. On leaving college he engaged
in teaching at the Edgehill Seminary,
Princeton, N. J., and two years later
took charge of a boy’s school at New
Londicn, Conn. After about two years
more iof service as a teacher, he went
west, and was engaged in railroad en-
gineering in Indiana. The following
year he gave up this occupation, start-
ed westward, and settled in southern
lowa, near Burlington. He was one
of the earliest settlers in that part of
the country. |
In 1841, Mr. Hebard married Miss
Anne M. Huntington of New London,
Conn. They had four children. From
1853 he engaged in the construction of
railroads for several years. During
the Civil War he was employed in
maintaining lines of railway in south-
ern Missouri and Tennessee. After
the war he became a member of sev-
eral of the first Legislatures of the
new State of Iowa. Albout 1869 Mr.
Hebard settled himself permanently
at ‘Red Oak, Montgomery County,
Iowa. In 1875 he was elected to the
State Senate, being re-elected again
in 1879. He was one of the two
United States Commissioners from
Iowa to the Paris Exposition.
PROF. JOSIAH DWIGHT WHITNEY, 839,
The death of Professor Josiah 'D.
Whitney, 39, occurred at New Lon-
don, N. H., August 19. He had been
Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology
and Metallurgy at Harvard since 1865
and was a prominent member of the
American Association and of the
National Academy of Science.
Professor Whitney was born in
Northampton, Mass., November 23,
1819. After leaving Yale he devoted
himself to the ‘study of chemistry,
minerology and geology at Philadel-
phia and elsewhere in this country,
and spent nearly five years abroad as
a pupil of the School of Mines in Par-
ils and att thie Universities
of Berlin ‘amid! Giessen, Re-
turning in 1847 he commenced the
geological survey of the Lake Supe-
rior region under the authority of the
United States Government, complet-
ing it in 1851. He also was engaged
in the surveys of Iowa and Wisconsin
and had made explorations in at least
twenty-five states. Complete reports
of his surveys have been published
by hhim from time to time. In 1854
he published a work on “The Metallic
Wealth of the United States.” He was
unmarried. The burial took place at
Northampton, Mass.
DR. PETER COLLIER, ’61.
(Peter Collier, Ph. D., ’61, died at
Ann Arbor, Mich., on June 29, last.
He was born at Chittenaugo, N. Y.,
August 17, 1835, and after graduating
from Yale in ’61, entered the Sheffield
Scientific School, where he devoted
himself to the study of chemistry.
For several years he was assistant in
the laboratory. In 1867 he removed ito
Burlington, Vt., having been appoint-
ed Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy
and Metallurgy, in the University of
Vermont. Four years later he was
elected Secretary of the State Board
of ‘Agriculture, Mining and Manufac-
tures, and Dean of the Medical Faculty
of the University, which conferred up-
on him the degree of M. D.
Dr. Collier was a member of the
United States Scientific Commi ission
appointed by President Grant to visit
the International Exposition at Vien-
na in 1873. He resigned this professor-
ship in the University of Vermont in
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