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[Continued from 3d page.] ‘97—J. R. Hilton is studying law in Brown & Cassidy’s office in New- burgh, N. Y. ’97—Edw. S. Brackett 1s assistant principal of Rockville High School at Rockville, Conn. ’97—H. C. Parke, Jr., is in the office of Parke, Davis & Co., 90 Maiden Lane, New York. ’97—A. W. Ferrin, Jr., has changed his address from Salamanca, N. Y., to 145 Prospect ave., Buffalo. ‘97 L. S.—Robert C. Fergus has opened an office in Room 1106 Fort Dearborn building, Chicago. ’97—Albert F. Judd and his brother James R. Judd of Honolulu will enter the Yale Law School this Fall. ’97—Philip Van Ingen and William Darrach enter the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, this Fall. ’97—Joseph S. Wheelwright enters the Medical Department.of the Univer- sity of the City of New York this Fall. ’97—J. H. Stalter, G..R. Holden, E. A. Wells and H. W. Carey enter Johns Hopkins, this Fall, to study medicine. ’97—The engagement of Albert F. Judd to Miss Madelaine Hartwell, of Honolulu, H. I., has been announced. ’97—Chas. Edw. Thomas has gone abroad to. study, France, the languages of those coun- tries. ’97 S.—The engagement was nounced, some time ago, of Miss May Tripler of Brooklyn to Allen Hartley | Seed. ’97 L. S.—T. H. Cobbs is at present working in Flower, Smith & Mus- grave’s office, First National Bank Bldg., Chicago, Ills. ’97 S.—F. W. Simmons spent the Summer of 1897 in Europe, and is now with the Simmons Boot and Shoe Company of Toledo, O. ’97—McKinley Boyle has given up his position with the Illinois Central Railway and will study law at the Bos- ton University Law School. ’97 S—E. A. Bredt has accepted a position as assistant chief operator at the American Telephone and Tele- eraph Comnany, on Courtlandt street. ’97—F. M. Burgess sailed for Japan, Wednesday. Sept. 15th, to remain three months. Upon his return he will enter the General Theological Seminary, New York City. ’o7—N. A. Smyth has recovered from a mild attack of typhoid fever and is now at Franconia, He will enter the Graduate Department of Yale University in about four weeks. ’97—-W.. -H. Morse,: class: “seeretary, was appointed to the position of assist- ant in the Cataloguing Department of the Congressional Library, Washing- ton, D. C., Sept. 1st. This appoint- ment was obtained through the efforts of the son of Senator George P. Wet- more, his classmate. ’97—Eleven members of the Class of Ninety-Seven entered the Freshman class at the Johns Hopkins Medical School this year. They are as follows: Baldwin, Butler, ’97S., Carey, Drake, G. R. Holden, Hume, B. Kauffman, Lamson, ’97 S., Lewis, Salter and Wells. Professor A. Guyot Cameron who resigned last Spring from the Sheffield Scientific School begins his work at Princeton this Fall as professor of _ French in the John C. Green School of Science. —_—___++e—_____ The Sheff. “ Rush.” The wrestIng matches between the Sophomores and Freshmen in_ the Scientific School, which, like those in the Academic, are the sole survivals of the old time rushes, occurred last Satur- day night. In the lightweights, Grey, 1900 S., overcame Verrill, 1901 S. the strong man. In the heavy weights Richards, 1900 S., won from Hurr, 1901 S. The middle weights Clapp, ’99 S., threw Knowlton, 1900. _ A large part of the Scientific School joined the parade which started for the grounds on Cold Spring st. at eight o’clock. The line of march was through Hillhouse ave., Trumbull and Temple streets to Whitney ave. The Second Regiment Band led the proces- sion. A score of students burned red fire and shot Roman candles, and a very grotesque and not altogether pleasant effect was given by the cos- tumes of the vanguard, numbering thirty or forty, who tried every form of unbecoming and highly colored array, which is affected by either sex. in Germany and |. ho eed YALE ALUMNI WHHEHEKLY — Obituary. JAMES P. GRAY, 747. James Presley Gray, ’47, died at Benoit, Miss., September 25, of soro- sis of the liver. He was the son of Ben Presley Gray and Ann Eliza (Offut) Gray, and was born at Newtown, Scott Co., Kentucky, December 16, 1824. When ten years of age his parents removed to Versailles, Kentucky, from which place he entered the Sophomore class of Yale in 1844. From 1847 to 1855 he was engaged in buying and selling bank and railroad stocks. He ,then became a _ cotton planter in Mississippi. After the civil war, in which he took an active part, he became a contractor, building rail- roads and levees. He retired from business a few years ago on account of ill health. On December 2, 1856, he married Miss Louise Hoyt of Woodford Co., Kentucky, who is now deceased. They had six children, of whom three daugh- ters are living. One of his sons, who died in 1873, was preparing to enter Yale. The oldest of his daughters is married to Mr. S. T. Rucks, of Mem- phis, Tenn.; the second to Mr. H. W. | | Wiggins, of Benoit, Miss.; P4o. Myr. Lut. the third Wade, of Mayerville, Miss. Distance and.ill health prevented Mr. Gray from attending the Jubilee anni- | versary of the class at New Haven last June. W. F. SANDFORD, 772. W. F. Sandford, a member of the ' Class of Seventy-Two, died at the Mul- lanphy Hospital, St. Louwis,, June 13, 1897, of nervous prostration following an attack of paralysis. Mr. Sandford went to St. Louis in 1872 and became a teacher in the Branch High School. In 1881 he became principal of the Polytechnic School, and when all the schools became centered in the Grand Avenue Building he was made assistant principal, which position he held with great credit. till the time of his death. His remains were buried in Bangor, Maine, where he had formerly lived. WM. T. BARBER, 773. William T. Barber, ’73, died Septem- ber 24th, at his home at West Chester, fe soa A <2 William Townsend Barber was a son of the late William E. Barber, of West Chester. He was born December 14th, 1853. He entered Williston Seminary, at East Hampton, Mass., where he graduated in the Classical Department in 1869. At Yale, from which he was graduated in 1873, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. On leaving college he made a trip to Europe for the benefit of his health. He began the study of law in the office of William E. Barber, Esq., his father, on December 15th, 1873, and was ad- mitted to the bar of Chester county on December 16th, 1876. Mr. Barber went: at once to New York. City, and for a year practiced law there, residing during that time at Yonkers, on the Hudson, but returned to West Chester at the close of the year 1877, and has since then been engaged in the practice of his profes- sion in this place until within a few days of his death. _Mr. Barber was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, of which he was a_ Trustee since January, 1884. He was Secretary of the Bar Association of Chester County for six years prior to January, 1897, when he resigned on account of ill health. He was for a number of years a member of the Examining Board for admission of students to the bar, and a member of the Committee on Rules. He was also a member of the West Chester Trust and Relief Society, and was on the Executive Committee for a long period prior to October, 1896, at which time he re- signed because of failing health. Mr. Barker married, in 1875, a daugh- ter of the late John Haldeman, of Lan- easter county, Pa., who, with one daughter survives him. — The papers speak highly of his legal attainments. A fellow lawyer, writing of him, says: “He was of great aid to the Court in the consideration of a cause. He ‘was frequently chosen by the Court as auditor and master in important cases, and was on the exam- ining board, both in preliminary exam- ination for the study of the law and [Continued on 7th page.| To NEW YORK YALE MEN: My day in New York next week is Thursday, October 14. Place, Astor House. Time, 12 to 4. I can serve you as satis- factorily there as though you came to my store in New Haven, as many of you did in college when you wanted clothes. FRANK A. CORBIN. - (@& Please send mail orders to my New Haven address, 1000 Chapel St. “A New Haven House Dinner.” <a That’s the synonym, in the vernacular of Yale, for satisfaction to the inner man. 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