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YALE ALUMNI MEETINGS. How the Various Associations have Met and Dined. ————— The Christmas vacation is always a most opportune time for the holding of banquets and business meetings of the various Yale Alumni Associations. This year seems to have been no ex- ception to this custom, and the ac- counts printed below indicate that the usual large attendance and display of true enthusiasm were prominent feat- ures of the many gatherings. COLORADO YALE CLUB. The Colorado Yale Association held their sixteenth annual banquet at the University Club, Denver, Monday evening, Dec. 28th. It was the first gathering of the kind in the new University Club building, and was one of the most suecessful in the history of the Association. The dining room had been decorated with smilax and roses, and the colors were made con- spicuous by cross bars of blue satin ribon on the white table coverinigs. At each end of the table were placed handsome Yale banners. The toast list was inaugurated by an address by Theodore Holland, President of the Association and responses were made for the following subjects: ‘ “Tmhe Azoic Age,’ H. P. Parmelee; “Yale at Henley,” Stanley Pearce; “New Ways of Old “Yale,” Gerald Hughes; “The Old Brick Row,” Wil- liam R. Barbour; “Alma Mater,” by her youngest son, ‘Master’ Henry ae Wolcott, A. M., ’96. A letter from Prof. H. P. Wright, Dean of the College Faculty, was se- ceived and read. Among other things the letter said: “On looking over the Yale Banner just issued, I find that many college honors go to the representatives of your state. “The chairman of the editorial board of the Yale Scientific Monthly is from Colorado. So is also the manager of the Yale Football Association, the President of the Yale Civil Service Re- form Association, and the class orator of the Academic class of 1897. Besides this, Colorado furnished one player on the Yale eleven of the present year; two members of the Junior Promenade Committee of the class of 1897, one of them. was floor manager: the fence orator and the President of the Fresh- man Union of the class of 1898, and one of the four class deacons of the class of 1899. The Fresident of the Intercol- legiate. Civil Service Reform Associa- tion recently elected at Philadelphia is a Yale. Academic. Senior . from Colorado. “This is a very honorable record and you may safely compare it with that of the representatives of any other state. Competition is very intense here, as you well know, and men do not get college honors at Yale or at- tain distinction in scholarship unless they have good ability and manly character.” The Denver Evening Post made the following editorial comment on the above:— “Colorado students also take high rank in scholarship, it was added. All this has significance because it is a demonstration of Colorado civilization in the east whence not a few slurs are wont to proceed on the char- acter, ability, manners, ete, of Colorado pecple. Yale is peculiarlv the American university, where 2,500 young men gather from all over the lane, and even from Europe, to re- ceive instructions in various kinds of knowledge, and that Colorado’s repre- sentatives should be the recipients of so many honors at that university, where, as Prot. Wright points out, comretition fer trem is very keen, shows that Colcredo genius is more than a match for eastern genius, es- pecially that of New England and New York whose representatives vreatly outnumber those of this state. Doubt- less what is true at Yale is also true at other universities frequented by Colo- rado students and the young men dis- tinguishing themselves are deserving of the highest encomiums in conserving by their achievements the fair name of their state ir a hestile land. They have demonstrated that they have brains, manners, brawn, mora's, tact, capacity, to a degree that has drawn honors to them in unwonted abundance, wrest- ing them from representatives of a supposed superior race.” YALE ALUBINI WEEKLY The officers elected for the coming year were. President, H. B. Parmelee, ’63; Vice-President, WwW. A. Otte) (Colorado Springs) ’86; Secretary and Treasurer, W. B. Woodward, ’92S.; Ex- ecutive Committee, O. S. Isbell,’88, H. Phelps, 298L. S.; J. D. Skinner, ’948., and J. BE. Good ’95. The following smoking song was in- troduced: Foating away like the fountain’s spray, On the snow-white plume of a maiden, The smoke-wreaths rise to the star-lit skies, With blissful fragrance laden’ Then smoke away till a golden ray Lights up the dawn of the morrow, . For a cheerful cigar like a shield will bar, The blows of care-and sorrow. The dark-eyed train of the maids of Spain *’Neath their arbor shades trip lightly. And a gleaming cigar, like a new born star, In the clasp of their lips burns brightly. Tt warms the soul like the blushing bowl, With its roes-red burden streaming, And drowns in its bliss, like the first warm kiss ; From the lips with love-buds teeming. The evening “closed with another musical production by Joseph S. Nor- ton, 65, as follows: : (Air: “Auld Lang Syne.’’) What though my blood be bounding now, And years have tempered thine, And ashes be upon thy brow, And locks of youth on mine We'll find for every difference still Nepenthe in the wine, That sparkles in the cup we fill ‘To pledge the days Lang Syne. If there’s a chili upon thy heart, Then there’s a heart aglow To give thee back, before we part, The warmth of long ago; And ne’er a voice around the board But has accord with thine, To blend in every cheering word The tones of old Lang Syne. Then let there be no seeming here Of pleasures lightly quaffed, But fill the glass with kindly cheer, And take an honest draught; And find for care and every ill, Nepenthe in the wine , That sparkles in the cup we fill : To Yale and Auld Lang Syne. vee. % There were forty men present as fol- lows: Theodore Holland, ’82, Henry T. Rogers, ’66, Henry R. Wolcott, (Hon. 96.) Thomas Ward, °56, Heury Lyne, 87, R. J. Pitkin, ’85, Willis B. Herr’86S. D. Plessner, ’85, A. B. Adams, ’96, W. J. Berger, 99, H. K. Brown, °928., J. E. Gcod, °95, J. T. Field, ’88S., H. Phelps, 931, J. D. Skinner, ’94S., W. B. Ber- ger, ’98S., H. HE. Wood, G. P. Steele, 99S., C. C. Dorsey,’90, A. W. Pearce, 068., F. L. Woodward, ’88, C. R. Dud- ley, ’°77L., D. C. West, ’89, W. R. Bar- bour, ’80, W. B. Woodward, ’92S., HB. B. Morgan, '86, G. B. Berger, '88S8., Gerald Hughes, ’97, Jno. T. Lorance, °92, H. J. Teller, °92, P. Fuller, ’92, O. S. Isbell, 88 Stanley Pearce, °91S., and W. A. Otis, °86, E. O. Stanard, ’°92 and Howard Starr, °95, Colorado Springs. NORTHWESTERN ALUMNI DINE, The thirteenth annual meeting and banquet of the Yale Alumni As- sociation of the Northwest was held in the Minneapolis club, Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday evening, Dec. 29. There are 150 members of this associa- tion residing in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas, of whom 46 were present. The annual meetings are held alternately in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and are followed by the annual banquet. Stanford Newel, ’61, of St. Paul, presided over the business meeting and was re-elected president of the asso- ciation by acclamation. C. §S. Jelley, ’71, of Minneapolis was unanimously re-elected secretary and _ treasurer. The committee on the banquet of 1897 was appointed to consist of Dr. Burn- side Foster, ’82, and William R. Begg, 93, of St. Paul and W. W. Heffelfinger, ’°91S., of Minneapolis. The dinner and meeting will be held in St. Paul. Pre- ceding the election of officers the re- ports of officers were read and ac- cepted. At the conclusion of the business meeting the members present formed in line and marched down stairs to the banquet room singing “Omega Lambda Chi.’ The tables were placed in the form of a horseshoe. Stanford Newell acted as toast- master and toasts were responded to as follows: “Yale in the Judiciary,’ Judge C. E. Vanderburgh, ’52. exalie in Art,” BE. T Eliott, © ’58. “Yale in Philosophy,’ Samuel Ap- pleton, ’63. : “Yale in Finance,’ E, C. Cook, ’77. beam in Sports,’”’ Carrington Phelps, “Yale in Book-Making,” F. T.Berg- strom, ’88. le in Invention,” T. D. Merwin, “Yale in Poetry,” Dr. Burnside Fos- ter, ’82. “Yale in Scholarship,’ William R. Begg, 93. After the usual custom many im- promptu speeches were called for and among the responses were speeches made by C. McC. Reeve, ’70, E. W. Durant, Jr., ’87; Charles Gale, ’95; M. D. Munn, °81; W. W. Heffelfinger, ’91S.; T. L. McClung, ’92; W. C. Win- ter, ’98S.; C. S. Jelley, ’71, and others. Judge Vanderburgh in his toast gave a well deserved eulogy upon John M. Beery, °47, for many years justice of the supreme court of Minnesota. Dr. Foster read a poem on “Yale.” A quartet consisting of J. F. Merrill, ’81, W. F. Hutchinson, ’84; E. M. Dudley, 77, and C. M. Griggs, ’83, sang several times, and E. M. Dudley’ rendered some comic songs and a yodel. The list of those present follows: Stanford Newel, ’61; C. E. Vander- muren, 562; W. C. Winter, 993 S.: T. L. McClung, °92; W. R. Begg, ’93; J. H. Hill, °98: W. “Wheelock, °98; M. D. Munn, 81; W. F. Booth, ’84; W. D. Washburn, Jr., ’88; L. S. Rand, ’91; T. D. Merwin, ’77; G. L. Wilson, ’77 S.; W. S. Williams, ’86 S.; J. E. Stryke, ’83; E. C. Gale, °84: EB. W. Durant, Jr.; ’87S.; F. M. Crosby, °97; C S. Gale, °95; W. G. Noyes, °91; C. C. Bovey, ’90; W. W. Heffelfinger, °91 S.; C. E. Heffelfinger, ‘7; Ek. B. Graves, ’81; C. S. Jelley, °71; L. K. Hull, ’83; S. A. Booth, ’84; Burn- side Foster, ’82; F. Bergstrom, ’88; A. W. Clapp, °98: D. D. Tenney, 1900; P. R. Brooks, ’°98; Carrington Phelps, ’70; W. H. Bennett, ’°66; E. A. Platt, °58; EB. a mitott, “68: fH. ©... Cook, °77; John “Loman, °85; Sampel Appleton, °63; O. H. Briggs, °81; Preston King, °80; W. Goodyear, °86; J. F. Merrill, ’81; H. F. Hutchinson, °84; EB. M. Dudley, '77; C. McC. Reeve, °70. THE CLEVELAND REUNION. The annual reunion and banquet of the Cleveland Yale Alumni Associa- tion was held in the Hollenden Hotel on Saturday evening, Jan. 2. Covers were laid at the table in the banquet- ing room, which was_ decorated in blue, for more than sixty alumni and undergraduates. The guest of honor was Prof. Horatio M. Reynolds, ’80, who had shortened his vacation which he was spending in the Maine woods, in order to attend this banquet. The reunion began with an elaborate spread and was followed by speeches and songs. 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Ely, ’65, of Elyria also made some interesting remarks, after which several of the younger members and undergraduates spoke. At a business meeting of the asso- ciation held prior to the banquet, offi- cers were elected as follows: President, F. L. Baldwin, ’82S.; Vice President, F. L. Baldwin, ’67; Secre- tary and Treasurer, A. S. Chisholm, 798- Executive Committee, E. L. Leeds, ’88S.; P. W. Harvey, ’91, and C. W. Hitchcock, ’938S. pe PLAINFIELD CLUB. The fifth annual dinner of the Plain- field (N. J.) Yale Club was held at the Revere House on December 18, and was attended by about fifty men. It was voted the most successful dinner the Club had yet had. Mr. S. St. J.Mc- Cutchen, °70, acted as master of the toasts and was exceedingly happy in his introductory remarks. The fol- lowing toasts were responded to: “The University,” Mr. Thomas Thacher, President of the New York City Alumni Association, who spoke in part of the good the alumni might be to the University. Prof. Hadley re- sponded for the “Faculty,” and said that two problems now before that august body were the handling of the large classes and the preservation of the democratic spirit for which the old College was famous. Mr. E. C. Perkins represented Harvard and Mr. Leonidias Dennis responded for Prince- ton. “The Alumni,’ was the toast as- signed to Mr. Dickinson W. Richards, 80, President of the Essex County (N. J.) Alumni Association. He gave the Plainfield Club credit for send- (Continued on ninth page.) JOGs= Branch house or dealer in almost
