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JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP LIST. Names of Menin °98S who Received Appointments. —_———_ The following appointments in the Tunior class were announced on last Saturday. PHILOSOPHICAL ORATIONS. Robert Wood row Archbald, Jr., Seranton, Pa.; Ashbel Hinman Barney, New York City; Samuel Elliot Bassett, Wilton, Conn.; Norman Buckingham Beecher, Hillsboro, Ohio; Franklin Hendrickson Booth, Newton, N. Y.; Zenas Marston Briggs, New Bedford, Mass.: Augustus Wilson Clapp, St. Paul, Minn.; Russell Ervin Colcord, Peabody, Mass.; Charles Everett Farr, Athol, Mass.; Morton Lazell Feary, Albany, N. Y.; Morrell Walker Gaines, Albuquerque, N. M.; Arthur Thomas Galt, Chicago, Ill; Richard Butler Glaenzer, New York City; Philip San- ford Goulding, Wilmington, Vt.; Charles Welles Gross, Hartford, Conn.; Robert Ernest Hume, Ashmednagar, India: Leeds Johnson, New York City; Frederick August Lehlbach, Newark, N. J.: Louis Jamter Levy, St. Louis, Mo.: Sydney Knox Mitchell, Lakeville, N. Y¥.: Ernest Clapp Noyes, Newton Center, Mass.; Edward Carter Perkins, Hartford, Conn.; Robert K. Root, New Haven, Conn.; Frank Hiram _ Shall, Little Falls, N. Y.; Henry Sillcocks, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Frank Raymond, Stocker, Jermyn, Pa.; Charles Howard Teeter, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Alfred Howe Perry, Knoxville, Tenn.; John Monro Woolsey, Englewood, N. J.; Howard Brown Woolston, Philadelvh‘a, Pa.: Henry Burt Wright, New Haven, Conn. HIGH ORATIONS. George Haven Abbott, Brookline, N. H.: Carleton Henry Barclay, Ho- mer, City, Pa.; Enoch Frye Bell, North Leominister, Mass.; George Alexander Bridge, Hazardv‘lle, Conn.; Noah Arthur Burr, Winchester, Conn.; Molton Avery Colton, Burkesville, Ky.; Edgar Selah Downs, Southington, Conn.: William Gage Erving. Hartford, Conn.: Herbert Wescott Fisher, New Haven, Conn.; Henry Fletcher, Brook- lyn; William Ruthven Flint, Collins- ville, Conn.; Charles Brownell Gage, New York City; Harold Ames Hatch, Brooklyn, Conn.; Abner Pierce Hayes, Bethlehem, Conn.: Charles Potter Hine, Poland, Ohio; Peter Hagner Holme, Denver, Col.; William Hazen Peck, New Britain, Conn.; Lemuel Gardner Pettee, Sharon, Mass.; Robert Kim- ball Richardson, New Britain, Conn.; George Minot Ripley, St. Louis, Mo.; James Robinson Smith, Hartford, Conn.: Wilmot Haines Thompson, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; Charles McLean Warren, Collinsville, Conn.; Walter Lewis Vaughan, Louisville, Ky. ORATTONS. Carl Emanuel Andreen, New Haven, Conn.: Herman Nathaniel Baker, Sunapee, N. H.; Hiram Bingham, a 5 oe Honloulu, H. I.; James Coffinberry Brooks, Cleveland, Ohio.; Eugene Wat- son Burlingame, Albany, N. Vit Ives Butler, Meriden, Conn.; Augustus Frisbie Cleveland, Oak Park, T11.; David Brewer Eddy, Leavenworth, Kansas: Edward Octavius Emerson, Jr.. Titusville, Pa.; Fred Julius Fas- sett, Waitsfield, Vt.; Malcolm Sh‘land Fearey, Albany, N. Y.; John Harold Fuller, Barton Landing, Vt.; Herbert Dranver Gallaudet, Washington, D. C.; Fred Erick Macdonald Gilbert, Brook- lyn, N. Y.; George Arthur Hanford, Syracuse, N. Y.; Junius Royal Judson, Rochester, N. Y.; Leroy De Wolf Kel- logg, Chicago, Il.; John Treadwell Nor- ton. Jr., Albany, N. Y.; Norman Day Otis, Wellsville, N. Y.; Darius Ed- ward Peck, Hudson, N. Y.; Worthing- ton Scranton, Scranton, Pa.; Archibald Delap Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ferrar Heaton Tows, New York City; Pierce Noble Welch, Jr., New Haven, Conn. DISSERTATIONS. William Park Benjamin, New Lon- don, Conn.; Luther Guy Billings, Wash- ington, D. C.; David De Forest Bur- rell, New York City; Louis Henry Butterworth, Brookfield, Mass.; Ralph Ewing Clark, Cincinnati, Ohio; Henry Baldwin Cogswell, Bridgeport, Conn.; weston Spies Gales, Elizabeth, N. J.; David Halliday Moffat Gillespie, New- [Continued on eighth page. | A tas AOU MN i ceeeeeeeeenecincinsnesenilagicirnsaetinespytissese SSeS SaasSS te et PT een eereeeteretinianpnestentperee aoe (Continued from fifth page.) geology. He was a life member of the American Museum of Natural History and of the New York Agricultural So- ciety, a member of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Secjence, a life member and fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a life member and Councillor of the Oneida Historical Society. Mr. Osborn married for his first wife Harriet N., youngest daughter of the late Joseph Moss of New Berlin, N. Y. She died March 27, 1861. Four daughters were born to them, Rosan- na, who died in early childhood; Ro- salie, wife of Albert Bierstadt, the ar- tist; Mary, wife of Charles C. Hall of New York, and Esther, the only one now living, the wife of William G. Mayer, of Waterville. On July 1, 1863, Mr. Osborn married Adaline, young- est daughter of the late Ellis Morse, of Eaton, N. Y., by whom he is sur- vived. EDWARD WELLS, ’39. Edward Wells, ’39, after a protract- ed illness, died at his home in Peeks- kill, N. Y., on Friday, October 9. Mr. Wells was born in Durham, N. Y., December 18, 1818. After graduating from College he studied law in the office of the late ex-Congressman ‘Ward and Judge Albert Lockwood, in Sing Sing, and also in the office of Minot C. Mitchell, in White Plains. On October 28, 1842, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney of the Su- preme Court of the State of New York . Later in 1842 he was regu- larly admitted as a solicitor in the Court of Chancery of that State. Mr. Wells was twice elected Dis- trict Attorney of Westchester County on the Republican ticket, and served from Jauuary, 1851, to January, 1757. He was urged to run again for that position but declined. Mr. Wells became a resident of Peekskill on December 9, 1842, where he entered into a law partnership with John Curry. He married Hannah Nassau, of Lawrenceville, N. J., on October 21, 1856. He has been for many years an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, trustee of the Presbytery, and eight times a coni- missioner to the General Assembly. In 1884, he was appointed a delegate to the Presbyterian Alliance, which met in London, but was detained from going by an important case on which he was interested in at that time. He was a trustee of the Temporary Home at White Plains, of the West- chester County Bible Society, a life director in 'the American Bible Society, a member of the American Board of Foreign Missions and of the Finance Committee, and judicial advisor and counsel to the Board. As an orator and public speaker Mr. Wells held a foremost place in the bar of the State. He delivered many lectures on legal, scientific and other subjects. As a lawyer he tried many well known cases,- especially in the United States Supreme Court. Two sons and a daughter survive him. Also one brother, Albert Wells, of North Dakota, for many years principal of the Peekskill Military Academy. —- + > Appointment Statistics. The class of Ninety-eight has eclipsed all previous records in mem- bership in Phi Beta Kappa. The class of Ninety-five, which had the largest record up to that time, had 31 mem- bers; Ninety-six had 46 members; Ninety-seven 41, and Ninety-eight has 55. The following are the statistics of the five last classes: : 794 °95 ’96 ’97 98 Philosophical Oraitiions 12 17 26. 22 31 High Orations 10 14 20 19 24 Orationis 2 24 27° 27 24 Dissertations 1416-10 17 26 First Disputes 1G 18:2 Zs At Second Disputes 24 23 384 28 26 Second Colloquies 33. 20° -20.-30- 25 Second Colloquies 33 20 29 30 & Total 156 165 189 197 209 —__+o—____ ‘““Sheff.” Senior Class Officers. A meeting of the Senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School was held last Monday and the following officers were elected: President, J. Walter Best, ’978.; vice-president, B. C. Cham- berlain, ’97S.; Secretary and treasurer, if; eee ar... 97 S. WY Eee rs be Manhattan Trust Company CAPITAL, $1,000,000. Corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. A Legal Depository for Court and Trust Funds and General Deposits. Liberal Rates of Interest paid on Balances. John I. Waterbury, President. John Kean, Amos T. French, Vice-Presidents. Ohas. H. Smith, See’y. W. Pierson Hamilton, Treas. Thomas L. 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