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VotumE VI. No. 33 NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1897. Price Ten CEnts. Dr. C. A. LINDSLEY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS. YALE'S NEW TEACHERS. Sketches of the Men who Enter and of Those who Leave. . The recent meeting of the Yale Cor- poration put into effect a large number of changes in the Yale Faculty, which will materially add to the number and strength of the teaching staff of the University. Brief sketches of those men who are to come to Yale, of those in new positions, and of those who are to leave here at the end of this year, are given herewith : PROFESSOR LINDSLEY. The retirement of Professor Charles Augustus Lindsley from the Faculty of the Yale Medical School takes away from the corps, of instructors of that department a valued member. Pro- fessor Lindsley has been connected with the School for thirty-seven years. For twenty-five years he was dean of the Faculty. Last year he tendered his resignation, wishing to give up active work in the School, but, by spe- cial request of the Corporation, he re- mained as the incumbent of his pro- fessorship till the close of the present year, when he will retire. The Corpor- ation have made him Professor Emeri- tus. PROFESSOR ELY. Dr. John Slade Ely will succeed Dr. Lindsley as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Dr. Ely graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1881, after which he spent two years in Post Graduate work un- der Professors Lounsbury and Chitten- den. He then went to Johns Hopkins University where he studied Chemistry and Physiology and from there he went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which institution he obtained the degree of M. D. After obtaining his degree he received the appointment of interne at Bellevue Hospital, New York. He has. spent eighteen months studying in the princi- pal cities of Europe and held professor- ships at the College ox Physicians and Surgeons and at the Woman’s Medi- cal College of the New York Infirmary. He comes from the later institution. His writings and experience indicate him as unusually well qualified for his new position. PROFESSOR GRUENER. Professor Gustav Gruener graduated from Yale in the class of 1884. During the year of 1884-5 he was a scholarship student at Yale, at the end of which time he was appointed instructor in German, which position he held until June, 1887, resigning to pursue his stud- PROFESSOR JOHN SLADE ELyY. (From a Photograph at Graduation.) ies in Germany. After spending two years abroad he returned, and was ap- pointed a tutor in German. In 1892 he was made assistant professor. It is only necessary to add that there is no difference of opinion as to the wisdom of the Corporation’s action in Professor Gruener’s case and a large amount of personal satisfaction and pleasure among other members of the Faculty and both graduates and under- graduates. PROFESSOR WURTS. Professor John Wurts, who has been made a full professor in the Law School, was graduated from the Law Department of the University in 1884. tle sjent several years in Florida, where he was most successful in the practice, particularly of corporation law. Two years ago he returned and was installed as an instructor. Ecr the past year he has been assistant pro- fessor in elementary law, contracts, and real property. PROFESSOR RICHARDSON. Professor Oliver H. Richardson was graduated from Yale in the Class of Kighty-nine, in which he took high scholarship rank, After graduation he taught at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, for a year or two and then studied in Germany for a year. He then went to Drury College, where he held a Professorship in History. For the last two years he has been abroad. He took his Doctor’s degree at Heidel- berg, in 1897. | Professor Richardson has published a work on the National Movement under Henry III, which has received very high commendation. His work at Drury was rated most valuable, and great re- -gret has been felt there that he should leave. Professor Richardson’s home is in New Britain. Kk. F. GALLAUDET. ‘Edson F. Gallaudet, who has been appointed instructor in physics, was graduated from Yale in the class of 1898. Since then he has spent three years at Johns Hopkins University, studying electricity and physics. From this university he obtained a Ph. D. ‘He then went to Pittsburg, and entered the office of the Westinghouse Electri- cal Company for the purpose of obtain- ing a practical knowledge of electrical appliances. He will sail for Europe shortly, and will return to take up his work next Fall. ‘ EK. B. REED. Edward Bliss Reed was born in Lan- singburgh, N. Y., on August 19, 1872, and soon afterward his family moved to Holyoke, Mass., where their home has been ever since. Mr. Reed’s father was aclergyman. Soon after his grad- - uated. He PROFESSOR GUSTAV GRUENER. uation, at the age of 22, he went abroad, and he has been pursuing his studies in Huropean countries. He will return in the Fall to take the position of tutor of English in the University. At Yale he was elected Fence Orator in Fresh- man year, and in Junior year was one of the speakers at the Junior Exhibi- tion. Mr. Reed was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and: occupied the posi- tion of Chairman of the Yale Record | and editor of the Yale Literary Maga- zine. He was the class poet at the Commencement exercises. DR. THOMPSON. Dr. Guy V. Thompson, who has re- signed his position as Tutor in Latin, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich. He prepared at the Grand Rapids High School and then entered the Universi- ty of Colorado from which ht graduat- ed with the Class of 1888. After grad- uation 1.4 came to Yale as a _ post- graduate student for a year and then returned to Grand Rapids, where he taught for two years at’ the High School, from which he had been grad- returned to Yale and devoted a year to post-graduate work and in 1892 was appointed Tutor in Latin. Dr. Thompson received his de- gree of Ph.D. from Yale in 1894, In December, 1896, he married Miss Uhl, daughter of the former United States Ambassador to Germany. Dr. Thompson feels obliged to leave New Haven on account of his health, which is insuch a eondition as to indicate a dryer and more stim- ulating climate as the proper one for the present. tion in the Latin Department of the University of Colorado, at Boulder. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson will leave New Haven during the last of this week or the first of next. They leave a very large number here, both, of Dr. Thompson’s pupils and of the college family of New Haven, who very much regret their going, and will hope to see them here again before a very long time has gone by. ¥ MR. JOSEPH BOWDEN. Joseph Bowden, who has resigned his position at Yale, was born in Cornwall County, England, February 10, 1869. Shortly afterwards, his parents came to America and settled in New Haven, where he later entered the school, graduating from the. Hillhouse High School in 1887. He took his degree from Yale in 1891, standing sixth in his class. He.took the first prize in mathematics during his junior and Senior years and for two years after graduation, held the Foote Scholarship. During the year 1892-1893, Mr. Bowden was an assistant in mathematics in the Sheffield Scientific School, and in the following Fall was appointed Tutor in mathematics in the Academica] Depart- He will take a posi- public PROFESSOR JOHN WURTS. ment, a position which he has since held. Mr. Bowden wrote the chapters on Solid Geometry in Phillips’ and Fishers’ Geometry, published in 1896. Mr. Bowden‘s plans for the future are not announced. There is not a little reason to regret his departure from Yale, where his work has left a very excellent impression. ANOTHER CHANGE. The resignation of Professor Camer- on has already been treated of in the Weekly. The changes subsequent there- to in the Scientific School, have not been announced, a SENIOR SOCIETY ELECTIONS. Names of Juniors Chosen on the Came pus Thursday. The elections to the three Senior Soci- eties were given out last Thursday afternoon on the Campus in front of Durfee. The elections were begun promptly at five o’clock and were all finished a few minutes after six o’clock. The usual crowd, including a number of ladies, but mostly made up of under- graduates and graduates, thronged the end of the Campus and the windows of the adjoining dormitories. There were no refusals and only one unusual inci- dent. Williams, who was later taken to Wolf’s Head, was ‘‘ slapped” by mis- take early in the afternoon by Gillette, of Skull and Bones. The error was noticed by the Senior, when the two had proceeded some distance towards the Junior’s room, and Williams was notified of it. The latter returned later to the crowd, where he subsequently received an election, as noted above. The incident has been used by the Hart- ford Courant to call attention to what it calls an improper method of an- nouncement of elections. The criticism is based on the publicity of the action, as intensifying the disappointment of those who fail to receive elections. Below are given the names of the men chosen, and of those who gave the elections, with a brief statement of the college record of each candidate. The societies are named in the order of their foundation and the names of the new men are printed according to the order in which the elections were given out: SKULL AND BONES. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., Gen- eseo, N. Y., given by George Clymer Brooke. Mr. Wadsworth prepared for college at St. Mark’s School. He is a member of He Boule, Delta Kappa Ep- sinon, the Delta Kappa Epsilon cam- paign committee and the University Glee Club, and played on his Fresh- man baseball team. (Continued on fifth page.)
