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PROFESSOR OLIVER H. RICHARDSON. ALUMNI NOTES. Conducted by JOHN JAY. [ Graduates are invited to contribute to this coiumn.] ‘72—E. D. Merriman has been ap- pointed principal of the Berwick Acade- my, South Berwick, Maine. *72S.—Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden has an article in the June number of Harper’s Monthly entitled “An Elder Brother to the Cliff-Dwellers.”’ 73 S.—A. E. Rowland has been elect- ed a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. *8i—_Isaac Thomas, Principal of the Hillhouse High School, New Haven, will read a paper on ‘“‘The Conditions of the High Schools of the State,” at the meeting of the State Council of Education at the Capitol in Hartford on Saturday, June 5. ’*84—-Doctor G. Hudson Makuen has been elected to fill the chair of ‘“‘Pro- fessor of Defective Speech’ at’ the Polyclinic Hospital and College for Graduates in Medicine, This is said to — be the only professorship of the kind in the United States, and Dr. Makuen has been chosen to fill it on account of his peculiar fitness by reason of special training in voice culture, elocution, etc., and his wide experience as a throat specialist.—Public’ Ledger (Phila.) ’87.—Mrs. Peter Notman has issued invitations for the marriage of her daughter, Miss Ethel Notman, to Walter | Boughton Chambers, on June 9, at 4 Pp. M., at the Reformed Church on the Heights, Brooklyn. *89—Tsrael H. Peres has an article en- titled “Answer to Council Criticisms,” in the May number of the American Jewess Magazine. 90 L. S.—N. W. Bishop is assistant treasurer of the American Ordnance Company, Bridgeport, Conn. 9i—_James Eugene Farmer, whose recently published ‘“Essays on French History’ have been well received in Paris, has been made a member of the Societe de lI‘Histoire de la Revolution Francaise, of which society the presi- dent is M. Jules Claretie, member of the French Academy. 7°91—Mr. Arthur Marvin, who for the last five years has been instructor in English at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., has been elected Principal of the Union Classical Institute, Schenectady, N .Y. This insti- tution includes the High School of Schenectady, and the Preparatory De- partment of Union University. By vir- tue of his position, the Principal holds an Adjunct-Professorship in Union. | °91.—-Mr. R. H. Russell of New York announces for early publication, ‘‘'The Knave of Hearts, Fourth of July Come- dietta,” by Albert Lee. This is described as a picturesque cos- tume play in one act, designed for Inde- pendence Day celebrations, in which the Kings, Queens and Knaves of Hearts, Spades, Diamonds and Clubs, and the Joker, take prominent parts. The costumes and accessories are easily arranged, and by introducing the minor cards of the pack as courtiers and attendants the spectacular effect may be greatly increased. It is especially adapted for out-door celebrations and summer fétes, festivals and school enter- tainments. There are seven full-page illustrations in color, also head and tail pieces, by Edward Penfield. 791 S.—The folowing members of the class of ‘91S. expect to attend their sexennial celebration June 29th, 1897: Edward O. Sutton, F. M. Adler, George M. Sidenburg, H. W. Baker, J. Douglas Brown, G. M. Landers, Arthur E. Booth, F. J. Easterbrook, G. P. Starkweather, David M. Meeker, Gustave Osterweis, M. C. Isbel, Homer S. Cummings, Noyes D. Clark, M. R. Norton, A. FEF. Kountze, William YALE ALUMNg® Dr. Guy V. THOMPSON. Adams, Albert Francke, R. K. Welh- ner, Jr., H| W. Gregory, John C. Neale, De L. A. Cameron, Amasa Trowbridge, W. J. Black, . Sterling H. Bunnell, Arvine Wales, John T. Shattuck, George EK. McClellan, George Milton Smith, R. M. Wayerhaeuser, C. H. Saunders, Gardner Read, P. J. Wurts, W. Col- lier Hstes, Charles Robinson, C. M. Wood, George C. Kohler, George H. Pinney 2 ow. ones, Jr. Dr i B. Saneer, WW. oe. Goodwin, .C. .W. Leavenworth, Edward Van Ingen, T. ©, Janeway,-. he C.. -Sisson,,..w. i. W. Heffelfinger, L. A. Cooper, B. D. Blair, B. Crowell, F. C. B. Snell, D. A. Hayes, A. G. Beach, Arthur Stein, Robert S. Hotz, Harry H. Shepard, Brown Cald- well. °"92—O. H. Bronson is studying the- ology at the University of Berlin. "93—The engagement of Charles G. Trumbull to Miss Aline M. Van Orden of New York City, has been announced. 794-Charles A. Smith, after gradu- ating from the Berkeley Divinity School next month, will go to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he will be installed as assistant to the Rev. George Clark Fox, of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. . ’°96—Rudolph Schwill-is now studying at Munich, Germany, and H. A. Farr, 796, is studying philology at Heidelburg. —$_$_$_ 9 ___- Obituary. DR. JOHN P. ATWATER, 784. John Phelps Atwater, M. D., 734, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Sunday, May 23d. Dr. Atwater was born March 4, 1813, at Carlisle, Pa. His father was Rev. Jeremiah At- water, Yale 1793, and his mother was Clarissa, daughter of Rev. Eleazer Storrs, Yale 1762. His parents moved to New Haven, when he was two years of age, and resided there while he was in college. He studied medicine after graduation, mostly at the Yale Medi- cal School, and received the degree of M. D. from Yale College in 1837. In that year he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until 1845. Since that time Dr. Atwater has not been engaged in practice. After leaving Cincinnati in 1861, he lived a short time in Brook- line, Mass., and the following year re- moved to New Haven, Conn., where he resided for about eight years, and then went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dr. Atwater married July 27, 1845, Miss Lucy J. Phelps of West Town- shend, Vt. He leaves two children, Ed- ward Storrs Atwater, ’75, and Lucy Jane Atwater. RICHARD E. RICE, ’39. Richard Es Rice, ’39, died in New Haven, Conn., at the age of eighty- two, on Sunday, May 30. Mr. Rice was born in Winthrop, Conn., in 1816, and entered Yale with the class of 1839. Upon graduating he taught for some time in Ohio, and was engaged in busi- ness in Augusta, Ga., for several years. He afterward established and conduct- ed a private school for boys in Mad- ison, and later in Stamford, Conn. In 1864 Mr. Rice moved to New Haven, which has been his place of residence ever since. He was married in 1848 to Miss Scranton of Madison, who died in 1893. Two children survive him, a daughter, Mrs. Sedgwick, and a son, Professor A. R. Rice, of Williams Col- lege. Passports to Foreign Countries may be procured through New Haven Custom House, over Post-office.—ADv. To Yachtsmen:—Government Charts of Long Island Sound (latest editions) for sale at Custon House, over Post-office, New Haven.--Aavdv. Patriotic Assurance Co. of Dublin (capita} S. WEEKLY Mr. JOSEPH BOWDEN. Track Team Captain. At a meeting of the University Ath- letic Team, following the- Intercolle- giate Games in New York City, Ed- ward Carter Perkins, ’98, of Hartford, Conn., was unanimously elected Cap- _ tain for next year. Mr. Perkins was born at Hartford in 1875. He prepared for college at the Hartford Public High School and grad- uated from it with the Class of 1894. While there he took part in athletics, running in the sprints and both hur- dles. Entering Yale in the Fall of 1894 with the Class of 1898, he continued his athletics. .He devoted himself en- tirely to the hurdles, and his success has been most marked. He is now con- sidered the best amateur hurdler in the country. .He has a firm hold on every member of the Athletic Team, and his election is very heartily endorsed by all who know him and the record of his work on the team. In addition to. his athletic success he won the Junior Appointment of Philosophical Oration. The Art School Prizes. The anniversary exercises of the Art School were held on Monday evening, > May 31, in the south gallery of the Art School. Professor Weir delivered an address on “A Recent French Mas- ter.”’ After the address the following prizes were awarded: The William Wirt Winchester Prize, enabling the winner to spend two years in study in Paris, to Miss Mary Foote of Guil- ford; the Alice Kimball English Prize, to Miss Mildred Jordan of New Haven; the Ethel Childe Walker Prize, to Miss Hithel Wells Bennett of New Haven; the Anatomical Prize, to Miss Helen Elizabeth Booth of New. Haven. The Committee on Awards consisted of Messrs. J. Carroll Beckwith, N. A.; Frederic Deilman, N. A., and John H. Twachtman, S. A. A., of New York. ——_—_++—_____ Yale Freshmen Victorious. The Yale Freshman baseball team de- feated the Harvard Freshman nine in Cambridge Monday, May 31, by a score of 9 to 5. The features of the game were the all around playing of Sulli- van, Norton and Bronson, and the bat- ting of Russell and Ferguson. This vic- tory leaves the championship between the two teams in dobut, as it will be impossible to arrange the third and de- ciding game of the series. The batting order of the Yale team was as follows: Eddy, 1.f.; Norton, 2b.; Ferguson, r.f.; Bronson, s.s.; Russell, 1b.; Sullivan, c.; Crawford, 38b.; Whittlesey, p.; Lyon, e.f. A number of Yale graduates who are now in the Harvard Law School came onto the field with the substi- tutes, and by their cheering encour- aged the men greatly. The score by innings is as follows: VIG vine vestiG: & 2 4 4:0 & 6 1-8 PLATVATEG .o.ccis 12001000 1—5 Summary—Hits, Yale 18, Harvard 9; errors, Yale 3, Harvard 6; earned runs, Yale 2, Harvard 2; two-base hits, Rus- sell, McCormick; bases stolen, Yale 2, Harvard 2; double plays, Sullivan to Russell and Loughlin to Terrington to Lewis; bases on balls, off Whittlesey 4, off McCormick 38; hit by pitched bill, Ewer, Egbert; struck out, by McCor- mick 7, by Whittelsey 1; time of game, 2 hours; umpire, M. J. 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For announcements of the Curriculum, Apply to : HERBERT E. SMITH, Dean. MR. THACHER’S SCHOOL at Casa de Piedra Ranch, in the Ojai Valley, | Southern California, Begins its ninth year September 29th, 1897, preparing boys for college or scientific school, in an ideal climate and ’surround- ings. Highest references required. Address: SHERMAN DAY THACHER, (A.B., LL.B., Yale,) Nordhoff, Ventura Co., California. WILLIAM L. THACHER, A.B., Associate Headmaster, may be addressed at New Haven, Conn., from June 28th till September ist.
