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For College Year, '96-7:
H. C. ROBINSON, °53. J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. SKIDDY °65 S. J. A. HARTWELL, °89 8S.
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NEWS EDITOR,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Twichell, of
Hartford.
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Mass., Conn., New York... 789 1261
Middle States......c..csccecse 173 88
Southern States.......¢..0.8. 46 47
C ntral States........... Rae iF 27%.
Western StatesS..........06. i. ae 66
Pacific States........ Sos kee See a 13
Foreign Countries........... 22 39
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