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.
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