~-FACULEY CHANGES.
About Wen Who Assume New Duties
This Year.
At recent meetings of the University
Corporation various appointments and
advancements were made in the Fac-
ulty, which -go into effect with the
present college year and have so far
been only briefly mentioned in the
\Weekly. It is now possible to make
the readers of the Weekly more fa-
miliar with the gertlemen in ques-
tion: eo
PROFESSOR HANNS OERTEL.
Hanns Certel, former instructor in
German and Comparative Philology,
was made an Assistant Professor of
Comparative Philology at a Corpora-
tion meeting last March. Professor
Oeartel entered the Graduate Depart-
ment of Yale in 1887. The following
year he received his degree of M. A.
and two years later in 1890, the degree
of Ph. D., both from Yale. He was a
Fellow in Greek at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, NaShville, Tenn., from 1890-91. In
the fall of 1891 he came to Yale as in-
structor. Since then he has spent con-
siderable time in writing, having edi-
ted in 1894 the Jaiminiya Upanishal
Brahmana, from manuscripts col-
lected by the late Professor Wil-
liam Dwight Whitney. He has also
contributed various articles on sub-
jects of Sanskrit and Comparative
Philology to the Journal of the Amer-
ican Oriental Society and Bezzenber-
ger’s Beitraege.
JACOB WESTLUND.
Mr. Westlund is Swedish by birth,
having come to this country in 1887.
He received his degree of B. A. at the
College of Oerebro, Sweden, in 1885.
For two years, after coming to Amer-
ica, he taught in the Augustana Col-
lege, Rock Island, Tl. In 1889, he went
as instructor to Bethany College,
Lindsborg, Kansas, where he remain-
ed until 1894. The following year he
took a post-graduate course in Math-
ematies at Yale, after which he re-
turned to Kansas in order to resume
his teaching. At the beginning of the
present college year he was appointed
instructor in Mathematics for’ the
Freshman class in place of Mr. Kel-
ler. He is now studying for the de-
gree of Ph. D., at Yale next spring.
In 1895 he published a ‘*T'ext Book of
Logic,’? and has several other articles
in preparation for publication.
THEODORE WOOLSEY HEERMANCE,
Theodore Woolsey Heermance is a
grandson of Theodore Dwight Wool-
sey, the President of Yale College
from 1846 to 1871. He was graduated
from Yale College in the class of 1893
and the following year took a post-
graduate course there. In the fall of
1894 he went to Greece as incumbent of
the Soldier’s Memorial Fellowship to
pursue a course of study in the Amer-
ican School of Classical Studies at
Athens. While there he specialized on
“Greek Verses,” and: “Epigraphy.” He
returned to New Haven some time
during the Summer. Last Spring he
was appointed tutor in Greek and be-
gan his work this Fall with the Fresh-
men.
for the American Journal of Archaeol-
ogy, among them being “Inscriptions
from Eretria,” in collaboration with
Prof. R. B. Richardson, and “A Grave
Monument from Athens.”
JAMES W. D. INGERSOLL.
James W. D. Ingersoll graduated at
Yale in 1892. Previously to his en-
tering College he had studied for a
year at the University of Rochester.
In his graduation he received the
Douglass Fellowshinv, by means of
which he pursued a_ post-graduate
course until 1894. In June of 1894 he
received from Yale his degree of Ph.
D., the subject of his thesis being,
“Quod Constructions in Cicero.” From
1894-96 he was a tutor in Greek with
the Freshmen. Last June he was
made tutor in Latin instead of Greek.
In addition to his Freshman work, he
offers two electives, one with Profes-
sor Morris to graduate students, in
“Historical Syntax,” the other on
“History of Latin Literature.”
CLEMENT G. CLARKE.
Clement G. Clarke came to New Ha-
ven from the Agricultural College of
Kansas, where he graduated in 1888,
He has written several articles |
Ada: : ATU IMEN®
He entered Yale in the Fall of 1891,
having studied and taught the three
years previously. While in College
here, he received the C. Wyllys Betts
prize, established in 1890, by the
Phelps Association, which is offered
to the Sophomore class for excellence
in English composition, and was also
the successful competitor at the Ju-
‘nior exhibition. In Senior year the De
Forest Medal was awarded to him, the
subject of his oration being, “‘The Re-
ligion of Milton and the Religion of
George Herbert.’’ On graduating, he
received one of the Foote Fellowships
and last year took a post graduate
course in the Philosophical Depart-
ment. When Professor Richards went
abroad, he was appointed to fill the
vacancy, and is this year’ teaching
Spherical Trigonometry to the Soph-
omore class
WILLIAM LEWIS ELKIN.
William Lewis Elkin, formerly an
astronomer at the Yale Observatory,
was made director of the Observatory
at the last Corporation meeting, held
in June. He was educated at the
Royal Polytechnic School in Stuttgart,
Germany, and was graduated at the
University of Strasburg in 1880. Sub-
sequently he was associated with Dr.
David Gill, of the Royal Observatory
at the Cape of Good Hope, in inves-
tigating the yvparallaxes of southern
stars. In 1884 he became an astrono-
mer at the Observatory of Yale Uni-
versity. His investigations at this
place have included a triangulation of
the Pleiades with the heliometer, the
only instrument of its kind in Amer-
ica, researches on the parallaxes of
northern stars, the distance of the
sun, and on meteor photography. The
results of these investigations have
been published in current astronomical
journals, and have given Dr. Elkin a
wide reputation among astronomers.
In 1892 he was elected an associate of
the Royal Astronomical Society of
London. In 1895 he was elected a
member of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States, and in
1896 was made director of the Yale
Observatory. .
EDWARD F. BUCHNER.
Dr. Edward F. Buchner, instructor
in Pedagogy and Philosophy, has ac-
cepted a call to the Professorship of
Descriptive Psychology in the New
York University. Dr. Buchner was
graduated at Western College, Iowa,
in 1889. He came to Yale in the Fall
of 1890 as a student in the Graduate
Department and pursued a course of
study in Psychology and Philosophy.
In 1898 he received his degree of Ph.
D., the subject of his thesis being, “A
Study of Kant’s Psychology with Ref-
erence to Critical Philosophy,” This
is in process of publication to appear
as a supplement to ‘*The Psychological
Review.’ In 1892 he was appointed lec-
turer in Pedagogy in the Graduate
Department, and in 1894 was appoint-
ed instructor in Pedagogy and Phil-
osophy. Although he has accepted the
call to the University of New York,
Dr. Buchner will still continue to car-
ry on his work here. His labors will
be in the Department of Pedagogy
and in the graduate service of the
University. Dr. Buchner will be asso-
ciated in his work with Professor
Charles P. Bliss, who graduated from
Yale in the class of 1890, and is in
charge of the Psychological Labora-
tory connected with the University.
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Ten Eyek Prize Subjects.
The subjects for essays in compe-
tition for the Ten Eyck Prize, which
are spoken at the Junior Exhibition,
were announced in last Saturday’s
bulletin as follows:—
1. Joan of Arc.
2. Armenia.
3. The Development of South Africa.
4. Sectionalism in American Politics.
5. The English Admirals of the
Highteenth Century.
6. The Policy of the United States
in Regard to the Further Acquisition
of Territory.
7. William Morris.
8. The Elizabethan
Blood.
9. The Book of Esther.
10. The Popular Election of
ators.
11. Reform in the Consular Service
of the United States.
12. Heine.
Tragedy of
Sen-
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