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4 VALE ALUMNI WEEKLY. Published every Thursday during the College Terms and conducted by a Graduate Editor and Associate eh and Assistants from the Board of Editors of é YALE DAILY NEWS. SUBSCRIPTION, - $2.50 PER YEAR. Foreign Postage, 85 cents per year. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Yule Alumni Weekly. All correspondence should be addressed, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. ADVISORY BOARD. For College Year, '96-7: H. C. ROBINSON, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87. W. W. SKIDDY °65 S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89 8S. C. P. LINDSLEY, %5 S. L. S. WELCH, °89. W. Camp, ’80. E. Van INGEN, "91 8. W. G. DAGGETT, ’80. P. Jay, ’92. EDITOR, LEWIS S. WELCH, ’89. ASSOCIAIE EDITOR, WALTER CAMP, °80. NEWS EDITOR, GRAHAM SUMNER, ’97. ASSISTANTS, JOHN JAY, °98, D. H. Day, °99. A. S. HAMLIN, 99. BUSINESS MANAGER, EK. J. THOMPSON. (Office, Room 6, White Hall.) Entered as second class matter at New Haven P. O. NEW HAVEN, Conn., OCTOBER 29, 1896. HONORS FROM PRINCETON. Five graduates of this University, and two others, who are members of its Faculty, received high honorary degrees at the Princeton celebration. Their names. are already common enough on the tongues of men and in almost every case their work has won them before this honors in the world of learning. Of those who received the LL.D., were Professor J. Willard Gibbs, °58, Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, 52, Professor William D. Harris, ’58. Be- sides, there was among the men re- ceiving this degree Professor George T. Ladd of the Yale Faculty. It was no surprise to find the de- gree of D. D. conferred upon Profes- sor George P. Fisher, of the Yale Di- vinity School, and Professor Augustus H. Strong, a graduate in the class of 57, and there was hardly one to whom the degree of Doctor of Letters could have more properly been given than to Thomas R. Lounsbury, ’59, of the Yale Scientific School Faculty. To mention honors which have come before to those men would be only to repeat a well known story. The rec- ord in the world of education and of scholarship, of such men as Gibbs, Gil- man, Fisher, Strong, Lounsbury and Ladd, is the record of leaders. But it does not hurt the Yale pride to run over a part of these records. Of the venerable President of Johns Hopkins, it will be recalled that, early after graduation, he became Librarian of Yale College, where he remained for nine years. He was afterward Pro- fessor of Physical Geography in the Sheffield Scientific School, of which he was later the Secretary. In 1872, the tresidency of the University of Cali- fornia was for the second time offered him and this time he accepted it. He retained this position for three years when he began his work as the Presi- dent of the newly formed Johns Hop- kins University. He has been one of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy and to the United States Naval Academy, and was one of the Judges of the Cen- tennial Exhibition of 1876. Among the literary and scientific associations of which he has been a member, may be mentioned the American Philosophical AS Lae a Cee ———E———— Society, the American Academy, the New York Academy of Science, the American Social Science Association, of which he has been the Vice-Presi- dent, and the Cobden Club of London. Both Harvard University and St. John's College have already given him the degree of LL. D. His latest na- tional honor was his appointment as a member of the Venezuelan Com- mission. It is possible also, to touch on the record of such a man as Professor J. Willard Gibbs of the Scientific School whose connection with the Faculty of Yale began thirty-three years ago and who has been Professor of Mathemat- ical Physics here for a quarter of a century. He also is a member of the National Academy, and for a series of papers published in the ‘Transactions of the Connecticut Academy,” he has received the Rumford Medal. There is hardly any one in this or in any oth- er university whose name in his de- partment is held so high among the scholars of the world. Of the United States Commissioner of Education, Dr. William T. Harris, it is hardly possible to speak in detail. His national record as an educator and an authority on education is also well known. Professor George P. Fisher is one of the great names of Yale in Eu- rope as well as in the United States. His first connection with Yale dates back to ’54 when he was made Pas- tor of the College Church. Seven years later, he was made Professor of Ecclesiastical History. Such works as “The Grounds of Theistic and Christ- ian Belief,” and ‘‘The Outlines of Uni- versal History,’ have made him wide- ly known to scholars and readers. Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury, who was graduated here in 1859, is another of the men who make the University strong and the sons of Yale proud to- day. He has been Professor of Eng- lish here for twenty years. His re- cent work on Chaucer has been alone sufficient to establish his high po- sition among the American scholars of English literature. ’ Professor George T. Ladd, who has been teaching Philosophy here for fif- teen years, is one of the men whom Yale graduates of that time know well by his record here as a teacher. Be- sides that, his various publications have brought him to the knowledge of students of philosophy and of the- ology. ‘‘What is the Bible,’ is one of his latest works and one that has been very popular. Rev. Augustus H. Strong of the class of ’57, one of the many Yale graduates who have taken high rank as teachers, is now President of Roch- ester Theological Seminary. He previ- ously received the degree of D. D., from Brown in 1870. Such facts as these, simply remind us, if we need to be reminded, of the kind of men the University has turned out in the past, and of the kind of men who are turning out others like them now. AAC TERE Ent 2 THE YALE V. M. C. A. Those who have read the accounts of the recent decennial anniversary of Dwight Hall, with its recollections of the earliest life of the voluntary student religious organization, now the Yale Young Men’s Christian As- sociation, have had a good many im- portant facts before them concerning the religious life of the University. Figures, of course, in themselves, do not mean so very much in such mat- ters, but the welcome fact atout these that they emphasize and ccnfirm all the features of Yale’s re- ligious life of to-day, known to those figures is, who are now in it or have most re- cently been connected with it. It is only to repeat a common observation of any one who becomes at all ac- quainted with what is a-doing on the Campus to-day, to say that the re- ligious life of the University is cen- tered in this organization. This life has been so strong, has availed so much for good, has enlisted in its service such a very large part of those who have influence in the College world that, true as it is to the conditions of Yale life and as far re- moved as it is from its purposes to at- tempt radical reforms in the govern- ment of its institution, it has by its own life furnished the strongest argu- ment to those who would do away with all forms of compulsory religious ob- servance. It has sometimes been said of the Yale Y. M. C. A. that not all of its supporters and workers were most sin- cere but that a purely selfish ambition induced many to take part in this work because it brought them into as- sociation with leaders of College life. If there are isolated cases supporting this charge, the fact itself becomes a most sincere compliment to. the strength of the organized voluntary religious life of Yale. RC REE ARS oe e S THE APPROACHING FOOTBALL CONTEST, This issue of the Weekly is quite abundantly supplied with information concerning the football status at Yale and Princeton, for the time is near when the Yale man, young or old, who is not greatly interested in that struggle is the exception. As to securing seats for that game, the Weekly hopes to be able to give its readers definite directions in that mat- ter in the next. issue. Arrangements for the graduates are not yet completed. ee 6 The Law Journal for October. The first number of the Yale Law Journal for the college years, ’96-7, contains these three important papers: “International Justice,’ by President David Jayne Hill, LL. D., late of the Rochester University, ‘Federal Judges and Quasi-Judges,” by Edward B. Whitney, Assistant United States At- torney General, and “Seen at the Jameson Trial,” by Prof. John Wurts, of the Yale Law School. The editorial department of this able journal which is. published by the students of the Yale Law School, considers the present poli- tical conditions and comes out strongly against free coinage and the position of the Chicago platform toward the Su- preme Court. i HO In the College Pulpit. The schedule of preachers for the present fall term has been announced as follows: November 1—Rev. Prof. Harris, of Andover. November 8—Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., of Washington. November 15—Rev. John De Pew, of Norfolk, Conn. November 22—Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D., New York. November 29—Rev. H. M. Curtis, D. D., of Cincinnati. December 6—Rev. A. H. Merriam, of Hartford. December 13—-Rev J. H. 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