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A Yale Man for Bishop Coad- jutor. At the annual diocesan convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church held at Waterbury, Conn., on Tuesday, June Sth, Rev. Chauncey Bunce Brewster, 68, Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., was elected Bishop Coadjutor. Rev. Mr. Brewster is the eldest son of Rey. Joseph Brewster, Yale ’42, and was born in Windham, Conn., September 5th, 1848. He was prepared for College at the Hopkins Grammar School, and entered from Mt. Carmel, where his father resided, being Rector of Christ Church, New Haven. During his College career he was a member of the Lit. Board and was Class Orator. The first year after graduation he spent in study at New Haven, the second at Berkeley Divinity School, | Middletown, Conn. He was tutor in Latin and Greek at Yale College one year, and then continued his theological studies in Middletown. In 1872 he was ordafned Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church and served | a year as Assistant Minister of St. Andrew’s Church, at Meriden, Conn. May 2nd, 1873, he was ordained to the priesthood, and became Rector of Christ Church, Rye, N. Y., in June following. On February, 26 1882, having resigned his parochial charge at Rye, he entered upon the Rectorship of Christ Church, Detroit, Michigan. In 1885 he accepted a call to Grace Church, Baltimore, where he remained till April, 1888, when he removed to Brooklyn, and became Rector of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights. He has published several ser- mons, and various articles in reviews. He was married to Susan Huntington Whitney, daughter of Eli Whitney, October 15th, 1873, at New Haven. Mrs. Brewster died May 24th, 1885. On June 20th, 1898, he was again married to Miss Alice Tucker Stephenson, daughter of the late George S. Stephenson, of Brooklyn. —___++—__—_ New York Yale Club Incorpo-. rated. The Yale Club of New York city has just been incorporated by the following persons: Ellis H. Roberts, 50; Isaac H. Brom- . ley, 53; Henry E. Howland, ’54; Chaun- cey M. Depew, 56; Brayton. Ives, ’61; Henry Holt, ’°62; M. C. D. Borden, ’64; Payson Merrill, 65; Edmund Coffin, ’66; George C. Holt, ’°66; Allen W. Evarts, 69: Robert W. DeForest, ’*70; Thomas Thacher, 71; Otto C. Bannard, ’76; Ju- lian W. Curtiss, ’79; Henry W. Taft, ’80; Philip G. Bartlett, "Si: George E. Ide, tk Henry B. Platt, 82: Henry L. Stimson, ’88; Gifford Pin- chot, ’89; Charles H. ES ee "89; ogy : aslam, °90; Asbel Green, Jr., : nee H. Swayne, 92; John S. Wood- ruff, °92; John H. Hammond, ’928.; Noah H. Swayne, 2d, ’93; Charles R. Hickox, jr., 798, and Frank L. Polk, ’94. The club will procure a clubhouse soon and will endeavor in every way to be the headquarters for Yale men to meet in New York city. =: One of the articles of incorporation reads as follows: ue : “The particular objects for which the Corporation is to be formed areto main- tain a clubhouse for the use and benefit of Alumni of Yale University, to pro- mote the frequent meeting together of Yale men, to secure mutual under- standing and confidence between the University and its graduates, and, in general, to uphold the influence and further the interests of Yale Univer- site ———_4+»—___——— Reunion of °S2 8. Of the thirty-two living members of the Class of 1882, ‘Sheff.,” fourteen have signified their intention of being present at the quindecennial reunion of the class, to be held in New Haven the coming Commencement week. it is ex- pected that more will add their names to the list and that this reunion will be as great a success as the One In 1892. re Athletic Calendar. June 12—Yale vs. Princeton at Prince- ton. June 19—Yale vs. Princeton (in case of a tie) at New York. June 24—Yale vs. Harvard at Cam- bridge. June 25—The Yale-Harvard-Cornell Boat Race at Poughkeepsie of New London. June 29—Yale vs. Harvard at New Haven. July 3—Yale vs. Harvard (in case of a tie) on neutral grounds. Yale wos AA MANE What a University Should be, [Edward Wetmore at Harvard Dinner.] The college has expanded into a great university. It was her manifest destiny that she should. But it is not upon a past reputation, however great, that her supremacy depends. It de- pends upon preserving unchanged through all changes, keeping pace with all her growth, that traditional spirit that puts deeds before words, that seeks realities and not shams, that no defeat can discourage and no success intoxicate, that maintains an ideal of courtesy and scholarship, of simplicity and honor, of truthfulness and patri- otism, that is ready, if the call comes, to follow the right, even to martyrdom, but is in ideal only to be felt and striven for, not to be paraded and talked about. (Cheers.) It is needed, too, that a great university keep in touch with the spirit of the nation. The time is past for cloister education. More and more in view of the require- ments of the society in which we live is the value of a university training measured by what it does in the mak- ing of the. citizen. Harvard was brought forth and nourished by the party of freedom. She is no home for the breeding of any creed that despairs of the republic: that finds in our country no place for a gentleman, and sees in our politics only a field of activity for knaves; that stifles the generous enthusiasm that ever hopes and strives for the best, and, for the faith that never falters, would substitute that paresis of mind and heart alike, whose victim con- siders our society in decadence and our Government a failure. (Cheers.) Harvard can only keep the proud place she has won by drawing her support from the whole country, and she can only receive that support because the country believes that her teaching and her influence develop true American manhood. Let that belief be lost and all the millions in our treasury, all our departments equipped for instruction in every branch of learning cannot save our leadership. But it never shall be lost. As has been the Harvard of old, such is the real Harvard to-day, and such will be the Harvard of the future. She will be judged by her children. Never Shall she lack sons to make her glori- ous by their lives and deeds. Wherever the’ struggle of reason against jgnor- ance, of right against wrong, of law and peace against disorder and vio- lence is going on, there shall you find them in the front, and hear their voices ring true on the right side. Come peace or, which God forbid, come war, whoever goes furthest, works hardest, dares most for his fellows, his home, his country, for humanity—will find be- side him those who bear the crimson badge for Harvard. —_> 6 ______ The Medical School Class Book. The Symptom Record makes its ap- pearance for the first time this week. It is the Medical School class book, and in addition to the individual his- tories, half tones, and articles found in all class books, it contains some pecu- liar to its own sphere. A half tone of the Medical Hall and Laboratory opens the book, which is dedicated to the Medical College. Scattered through the publication are plates of the Faculty, the Chittenden Library, interiors of the Medical Department and those of various wards at the New Haven Hospital. Of the Class of thirty-seven members twenty of whom come from New Ha- ven, Ernest Kilbourn Loveland is voted most versatile, Richard Stayner Graves brightest, most to be admired and most likely to succeed as a doctor, and Har- ry Little Welch most popular. The constitution of the Alumni As- sociation, a corrected list of living graduates of that Department, and a complete history of the School are other features of the book. —————_eo________ _- University Club Elections. The annual meeting of the Universi- ty Club for the election of officers was held Wedensday, May 26. The elec- tions resulted as follows: President, John Munro Wolsey, ’98, of Englewood, N. J.,; Vice-President, Louis Lasher Lorillard,, ’°98S., of New York City; Secretary, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, ’99, of New Haven; Treasurer, Charles Asahel Brayton, ’99, of Cleveland, Ohio; Executive Committee, Thomas Sabine McLane, ’98, of New York City, and Adelbert Stoen Hay, ’98, of. Washington, D. C. Thomas Kearny, "99, was elected Assistant Treasurer and. Augustus Canfield Ledyard, ’98, of Detroit, Mich., Graduate Treasurer. A reception to the newly-elected mem- bers followed the election. VW EAs The Ninety-seven Class Book. The Academic Senior Class Book which appears this week is the twenty- seventh of its kind, the first one having appeared in 1870. They have steadily increased in size, and improved in gen- eral appearance and interest to the Class as well as to the public. A de- parture from the conventional book has been made this year in nearly every portion of the volume. The cover is not the somber blue or gray of former years, but yellow with a black design. A new introductory chapter giving a history of the Class Book as an in- stituion, has been inserted. A new chapter on debating has been intro- duced, and those chapters treating of the four years have been written in a personal manner, following an indi- vidual through the course, rather than in the abstract method of previous years. The half-tones are the best yet produced in a Similar publication at Yale. The statistics have been care- fully compiled, and the votes as given here submitted only after several re- countings. Ninety-seven entered with 318 men and will graduate 279. Nine men have been lost to the Class by death, the largest number lost by any Class since the war. The average expenses of the Class have been: FEreshmen years, $750.58; Sophomore year, $803.29; Junior year, $891.03; Senior year, $970.40. At least twenty-five per cent. of the Class have helped to pay their way through college. Freshman year was voted the hardest and most disagreeable, and Senior year the easiest and pleasantest. Dean Wright was voted the favorite pro- fessor; Mr. A. L. Wheeler, the favorite tutor; Prof. A. M. Wheeler, the most polished professor; Prof. Hadley, the brightest; Prof. Reynolds, the pleas- antest; Prof. Duncan, the hardest to recite to; Prof. Schwab, the easiest to recite to; Prof. Richard, the hardest to ‘‘bluff;” Prof. Kitchel, the easiest to “Dlutiae In the Class the following votes were received: Class beauty, Stuart; hand- somest man, Fincke; meekest, Jente; most eccentric, B. B. Kaufman; most popular, Fincke; grouchiest, Updike; windiest, W. J. Lapham; laziest, L. G. Mead; greatest social light, Heffelfing- er; most to be admired, Smyth; most versatile, W. J. Lapham; most likely to succeed, Garrison; best dressed, Pierce; bigetest fusser, Heffelfinger; biggest dig, Hitchcock; brightest man, C. U. Clark; thinks he is the brightest, Kitchel; most melancholy, Wallace; most unadulterated, McCoy; best natured, Dean Sage; wittiest, T, L. Clarke; biggest bluffer, Patterson; man who has done the most for Yale, C. U. Clarke; best all-around athlete, F. T. Murphy. Dr. John Watson was voted the best preached in. the Chapel for four years. About thirty men have been arrested; the Register was voted the favorite New Haven paper, and the Tribune the favorite New ‘York paper. Seventy-nine men will study law; thirty-three, medicine; and twen- ty-two, theology. we i : Northwestern Alumni Bid Fare- well to Their President. One of the most successful and en- joyable meetings of the Yale alumni Association of the Northwest, was that of Friday evening, May 28, the occasion being a farewell banquet given to the Hon, Stanford Newell of the class of ’*61, President of the Association, and who has been recently appointed Minister of the United States to the Hague. The banquet was given at the Aberdeen Hotel, St. Paul. The banquet room was decorated with the flags of this country and Holland and the Yale colors. Among those who spoke were Hon. Samuel R. Thayer, Union College, 760; C. Northrop, Yale, ’57; D. W. Law- fer. "8s 33.°8.3 C. S.-Jelley, ?71;: M.D. Munse, ’81S.; R. R. Nelson, *46; L. K. Hull, ’83; J. B. Atwater, ’77; J. G. Pyle, “7; and C. Phelps, ’70. The new election of officers resulted as follows: President, Col. George C. Ripley; Secretary and Treasurer, C. S. Jelley. Col. Ripley acted as toastmas- ter at the banquet. —~e—_____ University Tennis Tournament, The final round in the University Ten- nis Tournament was played, Monday, June 7, between R. Hooker, ’99, and H. H. Hackett, 1900, resulting in a victory for the former by the score of 6-0, 3-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0. The tournament started four weeks ago with the matches for the class championships, the winners of first and second places in the class tournaments entering the University tournament. Hooker will shortly play Cc. P. Dodge, 799, last year’s champion, for the cham- pionship of the University. The Townsend Speakers. The winners of the Townsend premiums, in the Senior class, for the six best spec- imens of English composition, which: are later to he read in public, have been re- cently announced. Their records are of interest in this connection: Nathan Ayer Smith, of New Haven, Conn., will speak on the subject “The Prometheus of Aeschylus and Shelley.” Mr. Smyth prepared for college at Phil- lip’s Academy, Andover. He was one of the speakers to represent the Academic Department in the final trials for the Princeton debate, and was the winner of the Junior Hxhibition. He won a Sopho- more prize in English Composition and was this year an editor of the Yale Lit- erary Magazine, and member of Chi Del- ta Theta and Phi Beta Kappa. Henry Hotchkiss Townshend, of New Haven, Conn., has the Subject, ‘‘The French Canadian.’ He prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., but since his entrance to college kas had little experience in a lit- erary or oratorical way. Alexander Wheeler, of Bridgeport, Conn., has the subject, “The Prometheus of Aeschylus and of Shelley.’’ Mr. Wheeler was prepared at the Bridgeport High School and was the recipient this this year of the ‘Lit.’ medal. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. William Stone Hubbell, jr., of Buffalo, N. Y., will speak on, “The Grail Legend in English.”’ He prepared for college at the Buffalo High School, but has taken no prominent part in literary work during his course. » a he William Henry Harrison Hewitt of New Haven, Conn., wrote on, “The Prome- theus of Aeschylus and of Shelley.” Mr. Hewitt entered Yale from the Hopkins Grammar School and in his Freshman year took the prize in Latin composition. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Walter Dunham Makepeace, of Spring- field, Mass., will speak, on the subject, “The French Revolution and the English Poets.”? Mr. Makepeace was prepared for college at Williston Seminary, Easthamp- ton, Mass. He was the winner of the Scott Hurtt prize in his class, and was one of the speakers at the Junior exhibi- tion. He is a member of Chi Delta Theta and vice president of Phi Beta Kappa. ———_+>______—. Calendar of Important Events. The following is a list of the leading events» which are to occur in the Uni- versity world between now and Com- mencement: Friday, June 25—Speaking for the De Forest Prize medal, awarded annually to the member of the Senior Class who Shall write and pronounce an English oration in the best manner. The speaking commences in Battell Chapel at Ss Pm: Saturday, June 26—Scientific School Class Day exercises, 10 a.m. Reading of Class Histories: 4-6 p. m., reception to the graduates, under-graduates and their friends in Winchester Hall. Sunday, June 27—Baccalaureate ser- mon, delivered by President Dwight, in Batteil Chapel. Monday, June 28—College Class Day exercises. 11 a. m., presentation exer- cises of the graduating class of College, with the Class oration and poem in Battell Chapel; 2 p. m., reading of the Class Histories in the College Square, followed by the planting of the Class Ivy; 9 p. m., Promenade Concert of the Senior Class in Alumni Hall. Anniversary exercises in the Law Alumni Association in the Law School building, where luncheon will be served. The alumni will march in procession thence to the College Street Hall, where the Townsend prize speaking will take place, followed by an address to the Graduating Classes, to be delivered by the Hon. John M. Harlan, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. There will also be an innova- - tion, a Doctor’s Oration to be delivered by T. Masao, of Japan. Tuesday, June 29, 9:30 a. m.—Meet- ing of the Alumni in Alumni Hall. 10 a. m.-1 p. m.—Polls open in the Library for the election of a member of the Corporation. 12 m.—Address before the Medical School, in the College Street Hall, by “William M. Polk, M. D., of New York city. Meetings will also be held, at differ- ent hours on Tuesday, of the members of the College classes of 1842, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1862, 1867, 1872, 1877, 1882, 1887, 1891 and 1894. Wednesday, June 30, 10 a. m.—Pro- cession from the Library to the Com- mencement exercises in the Battell : Chapel. 1 p. m.—Dinner of the Alumni, in Alumni Hall. 9-11 p. m.—Reception of the President, in the Art School. Thursday, July 1, 9 a. m.—Examina- tions for admission to Yale College, the Sheffield Scientific School, and the Medical School, begin.
