Votume VI. No. 31
INETY-SEVEN 1. §, GRADUATES,
Its Record in the School and a Sketch
of the Department— Biographies
of Seniors.
The anniversary exercises of the Yale
Divinity School were held yesterday
(Wednesday, May 19.) Addresses were
made by four members of the graduat-
ing class in the College Street Hall at
10:30 a. m. The speakers and their sub-
jects were, Shepherd Knapp, jr., of New
York, on “Religion in Current Fiction;’’
Charles C. Merrill of Newbury, Vt., on
“A Plea for the Right Kind of Revi-
vals; H. Frank Rall of Des Moines, la.,
on “The Theory of Evolution in its
Bearing on the Christian Doctrine of
Sin;’ Austin Rice of Danvers, Mass.,
on “The Minister as a Patriot.’ At the
conclusion, according to the new pro-
gram adopted, an addréss was given:
by Rev. Henry VanDyke, D.. D.,. of
New York.
The alumni of the school, with in-
yited guests, sat down to dinner togeth-
er in the United Church Chapel at 1 p.
m., when informal addresses were
made. A reception was given to the
alumni and members of the graduating
class in the Lowell Mason Library at
8 p. m.
DR. BEHREND’S ADDRESS.
On Sunday Dr. “A. J: FY Behrends
of Brooklyn delivered the anniversary
address before the graduating class
and the members and friends of the
school in Center church. The burden
of the address was the instruction to
return to tradition as the safest in-
terpretation of the Bible. Dr. Beh-
rends’ address was based largely on
the findings of Harnack, the German
scholar, who, he said, had delivered a
fatal blow to what is known as the
higher criticism. That, Dr. Behrends
said, had been coffined and laid at rest
forever. The two principal schools of
the higher criticism, he claimed to he
identical. Harnack’s studies had been
directed toward the New ‘Testament,
and he said that they had estahlished
the Pauline Epistles as the most direct
and trustworthy story of the Gospel.
The fundamental error of the critics
was their assumption of the theory
for the development of history. If the
facts did not coincide with the theory,
“so much the worse for the facts.’’ This
left out of account personality. His
concluding sentence was principally as
follows: “If you have bought your
tickets for this much advertised ex-
cursion, you had better sell your cou-
pons while they are negotiable. Road-
master Harnack has come along with
his hammer and has struck the wheels
of the train of higher criticism and has
pronounced them cracked and weak.
There is nothing ahead for it but dis-
aster. If you are aboard this train,
get off: if you are out of it, stay out.
Alongside is another and a safer train,
the train of tradition. That is the safe
one to take.”’
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THE YEAR’S RECORD.
The work of the year in the Theologi-
cal Department began with the. open-
ing address, September 26, in Marquand
Chapel, by Professor L. O. Brastow.
His subejct was ‘The Religious Life of
the Theological Student.” Professor
Brastow struck a high note for the
opening year.
PROF. SAMUEL A. HARRIS.
An event of marked importance since
the last Commencement was the final
retirement of Professor Samuel Harris
at the close of twenty-five years of ser-
vice. Professor Harris had resigned two
years before the chair of Systematic
Theology, but continued for a year
teaching the Junior class in Philoso-
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1897.
ee
H. L. Pyle.
Prick Tren Cents.
L. Coolidge. D.H. Evans. G.L. Briggs.’ G. L. Schaeffer. W.E. Page. D. Cameron. C.S. Marfarland. W. H. Rowe.
P. A. Johnson. W.B. Stelle. H.F. Rall. Prof, Brastow. Prof. Stevens. Prof. Curtis. Prof. Fairbanks. R. 8. Myers. D. O. Bean.
F.H. Lynch. W.H..Short. ‘Prof. Curry. Prof. Day. Pres. Dwight. Prof. Fisher. Prof. Bacon. B.M. Wright. A. H. Harris.
S. E. Lord.
M.S. Runkle. M.‘B. Fisher. A. M. Hall. R. W.Stimson. S. Knapp. E.H. Bronson. A. Rice.
A. Hodges. A. T. Harrington. Prof. Porter. Prof, Harris. Prof. Blackman. G. E. Ladd. OC. P. Pierce.
C. C. Merrill.
W.S. Beard. A. E. Johnson.
FACULTY AND CLASS OF ’97 OF THE THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
New Graduate English Course.
An addition to the pamphlet of elec-
tive courses in the Graduate School of 2
Yale is to be issued the last of this
week. It announces the addition of six
valuable courses in the Department of
English Literature. The first announce-
ment of Graduate School courses
showed some restriction of choice in
this department which were a source of
regret to many who wished to continue
their English courses in the Yale School
and who did not happen to be working
along the particular lines for which
courses were then mainly offered. The
final action of the Faculty of the Grad-
uate School, however, has not only re-
moved ground for criticism but made
this department very strong.
Two two-hour courses are offered by
Prof. Henry A. Beers, the head of the
English Department. One is
Drama.” This is a course in the history
of dramatic literature since 1660, in-
cluding the leading stage plays of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
and the leading verse plays of the nine-
teenth. Some French and German plays
will also be considered in this course.
Prof. Beers’ course in Victorian Lit-
erature,’’? announced for the Academic
Seniors, has now been opened to grad-
uate students, who will be given addi-
tional work,
Photograph by Phelps.
“Modern
Prof. William Lyon Phelps offers a
new course in ‘‘EKlizabethan Literature.”’
This will be made up of studies of poe-
try and prose of the Elizabethan age,
exclusive of the drama. The course will
be a series of lectures and discussions
with the preparation of special papers.
Prof. Phelps’ course in ‘“‘English Liter-
ature of the Seventeenth Century’’ for
the Academic Department is now ex-
tended to graduate students, who, as
in the case of Prof. Beers’ course in
“Victorian Literature,” will be given
opportunity for additional work. This
course. is a rather minute study. of
English prose from Donne to Dryden
and will include a study of the social
life of the times.
This department is further enlarged
and strengthened by the opening, to the
Grand School students, of two courses
offered in the Academic. Department
by Mr. H. A. Smith. These courses
are English Literature in the Hight-
eenth Century and English Literary
Criticism in the Nineteenth Century.
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Celebrations,
The two very gratifying victories
by the Yale track team and baseball
nine on Saturday, May 15, were pro~
ductive of considerable enthusiasm
among the undergraduates. Two hbon-
fires were built on the Durfee Campus,
one at-8 o’clock in the evening ana
the other in the early hours cf Sun-
day morning. The Winning athletes
were repeatedly cheered,
THE DUAL GAMES.
Harvard, 80-24—Many
Surprises. ;
Yale Defeats
The Yale-Harvard dual _ athletic
games were held at the Yale Field Sat-
urday afternoon, May 15, and much to
the surprise of everybody resulted in an
overwhelming victory for the home
team by the score of 80 to 24. Yale’s
feeling of uncertainty over the outcome
was greatly augmented by the fact that
Beck, ’99, a sure man for seven points
in the hammer and shot, was disquali-
fied by action of the Faculty on the
previous Thursday, and that Sheldon,
sure of five points in the shot, was
also not allowed to compete. The de-
cision of the games seemed to rest upon
the question of these two men compet-
ing, but even without them Yale won
ten firsts, ten seconds and ten thirds.
The afternoon was full of surprises.
The first great feat of Yale was in the
quarter-mile run, in which Hollister
of Harvard was a sure winner. It was
also thought that Vincent, the visiting
captain, would secure second place, but
Garvan of Yale beat him out by a yard.
Both men reached out to their very
best speed when 100 yards from the
finish, and the last twenty yards were
finished on pure nerve, both menthrow-
ing themselves over the rope, having
put every ounce of effort at their com-
mand into the race.
