ALUMNI NOTES. Graduates are invited to ec ntribute to this column.) '41—Judge Learned has taken a trip to Alaska this summer. '41—Rey. William H. Gilbert has removed from New Haven to 226 Sar- gent st., Hartford, Conn. '41—Donald G. Mitchell has just completed the fourth volume of his English Lands, Letters and Kings, covering the period of the later Georges to Queen Victoria. °4I—Prof. Joseph Emerson was hon- ored with the degree of LL.D. by Beloit College at its semi-centennial in June last. Prof. Emerson and the late Prot. J. J. Bushnell of the same class were chosen to professorships at Beloit in 1848. Dr. Pearsons is erecting a noble building for Beloit which he has named Emerson Hall. Prof. Emerson has just edited, by request, a volume of kis lectures and sermons. '52—Theron W. Towner, formerly of ] . 52, was seen in New Haven a few days before Commencement. *52—Class Secretary A. N. Lewis is at work upon the ’97 Class-Book, which is to contain, besides statistics, sketches, etc., half-tone pictures of all the 47 survivors whose photographs can be obtained. Information is desired of the following former members of ’s2: - Henry S. Bennett, (grad. ’53), William B. Clarke, George R. Downing, Thomas Dunlap, Matthew W. Edmonds, Benj. C. Flake, Hon. Alexander J. Fraser, James R. Frisbie, Sherwood D. Gould, Alvin P. Hildreth, Charles W. Kendall, Fleming J. McCartney, Jesse McCurdy (Dartmouth, ’53), D. Hastings Mason, Alonzo Megarge, Washington H. Mer- ritt (Harvard, ’56), Wm. N. Richard- son, Cyrus A. Royston, Daniel. T. Russel; Wm. H:- Sharp; -“John > G Thomas (753), Theron W. Towner (Trinity, °52), Geo. C. Tucker, Gurdon H. Wilcox, Geo. S. Williams, Giles B. Williams. Address A. N. Lewis, Mont- pelier, Vermont. °66—Mr. and Mrs. William W. Far- nam recently returned from Europe, where they have been for the last four months. ’69—The Buffalo University Club has taken a lease for 12 years of the elegant Delaware ave. home of Wilson S. Bis- sell, late Postmaster-General of the United States. The Club moved from its cramped Main st. quarters into its spacious new house early in Septem- ber. Sheldon T. Viele, Yale ’68, has been the president of this club ever since its organization. 69 S.—Dr. J. J. Skinner has passed the summer in the Maine woods, where he has bought a tract of land and will establish a headquarters for hunting and fishing. *72—Rev. Dr. E. S. Lines has been chosen President of the Board of Direc- tors of the Free Public Library of New Haven. ’72—To the vacant chair of economics in the Atlanta University (colored)— left vacant by the death of the lamented John H. Hincks, Yale ’72—has been appointed W. E. B. DuBois, a Ph.D. of Harvard, and a distinguished negro scholar. Such a choice must more than satisfy Prof. Hincks if he is where he can still know of these things which most closely interested him during the earthly career.—Waterbury American. ’'73-Dr. Charles H. Thomas of Cov- ington, Ky., passed several months of the summer in Europe. °73—Frederick J. Shepard became, July 1, reference librarian of the Buf- falo Library, which has just been changed from a subscription to a free library. nearly 17 years connected with the Buf- falo Courier, which early in May was consolidated with another journal. °73--The Rev. David S. Schaff has accepted the position of instructor in Biblical history in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. ’°732—_Eleanor Spurrier, oldest child of Prof. Eben Alexander, late U. S. Min- ister to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, was married Sept. 8 to Andrew Henry Patterson at Chapel Hill, N. C. ’'74—John G. Brady is the governor of Alaska, appointed under President Mc Kinley. ’77—E. C. Cook spent the summer in Europe. °77—T. Dwight Merwin has left St. Paul, and formed a partnership for the practice of law in New York City. *80—Rev. William B. Boomer, who has been missionary in Chile for the Mr. Shepard had been for- YY ALE