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LAW SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.
G. L. Hedges Wins the Townsend—
Address by Justice Andrews.
The seventy-fourth anniversary of the
Yale Law School was held on Monday
afternoon, June 27th, beginning at I.30
o’clock with the annual alumni dinner
in the Law School library. Judge
Simeon E. Baldwin acted as _toast-
master and brief speeches were made
by Dean Francis Wayland of the School
and several alumni. A feature of the
dinner was the presentation to the
School of the oil paintings of Dean
Francis Wayland and Hon. E. J.
Phelps, the gifts of Mr. Phelps, and the
graduates and friends of the Law
School respectively. Both portraits
were painted by Professor Weir of the
Art School and are admirable like-
nesses. Dean Wayland, in presenting
the portrait of Mr. Phelps, said:
“Edward J. Phelps is known through-
out the civilized world as jurist, publi-
cist and diplomatist. In this country he
is counted one of the leaders of the
American bar, walking securely and
serenely on the highest levels of his
profession. At Yale, while we are
proud of his diplomatic distinction and
his professional preéminenece, we come
into closer contact with him as_ in-
structor and comrade. Since 1881, bar-
ring four years in London, representing |
this nation at the Court of St. James,
he has given instruction in the Aca-
‘emical, Theological and Law Depart-
nents of Yale. His branches have been
jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, In-
ernational Law, Equity and the Rela-
tions of the Clergy to Municipal Law.
Yale University may well be proud to
enroll him in the rank of her world-
renowned Faculty.”
Dean Wayland announced the follow-
ing appointments to the Faculty after
the speaking: Judge David Torrance of
Derby, Conn., to be Professor of Evi-
dence, succeeding Edward G. Buckland,
resigned; Dr. William Frederick Foster
of New York to be Assistant Professor
and Philip H. Wells, ’80, of New
Haven, to be Instructor.
The annual election of officers of the
Alumni Association was held and re-
sulted as follows: President, Hon.
Dwight Loomis, LL.D., of Hartford;
Vice-President, Edward A. Bowers,
Esq., of Washington, D. C.; Secretary
and Treasurer, William F. Foster,
D.C.L., of New Haven.
At a quarter of three o’clock the pro-
cession, consisting of the Senior class
in caps and gowns, middlers and
juniors, graduates and invited guests,
was formed and headed by Chief Mar-
shal Roger S. Baldwin, ’95, marched to
SAMUEL PETERSON.
Winner of John A. Porter Prize.
College Street Hall, where the Class
Day exercises were held. |
Here the Townsend Prize speaking
was held, four men competing, E. W.
Beattie, J. O. More, G. L. Hedges and
S. Peterson. Mr. Hedges was ad-
judged the winner of the prize.
The Master's oration was delivered
by John Morris Sheppard, on “Pinck-
ney’s work in the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1787.”
The complete award of prizes follow:
The Townsend Prize ($100) to that
member of the Senior class who shall
write and pronounce the best oration at
the public anniversary exercises at
graduation; Gilbert Lawrence Hedges,
B.H., Yale University, 18096. The
Jewell Prize ($50) to that member of
the Senior class who receives the high-
est marks at his annual examination;
William Livesey Burdick, M.A., Wes-
leyan University, 1885. The Monson
Prize ($50) for the best graduating
thesis by a member of the Senior class;
Addison Strong Pratt, B.A., Yale Uni-
versity, 1896; with honorable mention
of William Livesey Burdick, M.A,
Wesleyan University, 1885, attorney-at-
law. The Betts Prize ($50) to that
member of the Junior class who re-
ceives the highest mark at his gradua- ©
tion; Arthur Linton, B.A., University
of Kansas, 1894. The Wayland Prizes
($50, $30 and $20) to those three mem-
bers of the Yale Kent Club who, at a
public competitive debate, are pro-
nounced first, second and third in ex-
cellence as debaters.
First Prize—John Morris Sheppard,
B.Ace 1805, LECB:, 1807,, University “of
Texas, attorney-at-law.
Second prize—Charles Heitler Stu-
dinski, B.A., Yale University, 1897.
Third prize—Louis Michael Sonnen-
berg, B.A., Yale University, 1897.
The Edward Thompson Company
Prize: A set of the first or of the sec-
ond edition of the Encyclopedia of
Law, or a set of the Encyclopedia of
Pleading and Practice, as the success-
ful competitor may elect, to that mem-
ber of the Middle class who shall pass
the best examination in the required and
optional studies of that year, George
Elijah Hinman.
Kent Club diplomas for excellence in
debate in the regular exercises of the
Yale Kent Club were awarded to the
following members of the Senior class:
Edward William Beattie, B.A., Yale
University, 1895; John Franklin Doug-
lass, B.A., University of North Da-
kota, 1895; Clement Austin Fuller, B.
A., Yale University, 1896; Gilbert Law-
rence Hedges, B.A., Yale University,
1896; Daniel Vincent McNamee.
The address to the graduating class
by Hon. Charles Andrews, LL.D., ex-
Chief Justice of the New York Court
of Appeals, was a masterly one, on “The
Influence of America on Jurisprudence,”
and drew forth prolonged applause.
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Yale in the University of
California.
“The Mother of Colleges’? is a term
that has often been lovingly given in
describing the alma mater in the City
of Elms of so many of the leading
American educators. She has furnished
the first president, and thus has been
potent in creating permanent influences
for many colleges, including Princeton,
Columbia, California, Cornell, Chicago,
Beloit, Dartmouth, Georgia, Hamilton,
Illinois, Kenyon, Johns Hopkins, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, Wabash and Wis-
consin. No other institution, save Har-
vard, has contributed so largely to the
teaching forces of schools in the United
States. It should not seem strange,
therefore, that the influence of Yale
predominated in the beginnings of
educational work on the Pacific Coast.
In the joint meeting of the Presby-
tery of San Francisco and the Congre-
gational Association of California, held
in Nevada City in May, 1853, the in-
creasing need of schools was carefully
considered. A committee consisting of
Rey. S. H. Willey, Rev. S. B. Bell, Rev.
T. D. Hunt and Rev. J. A. Benton was
appointed. They at once conferred
with the Rev. Henry Durant, who was
present. He was a graduate of Yale
in the Class of Twenty-Seven, and had
recently arrived from New Haven,
where he had been a tutor.
After overcoming many obstacles, Mr.
Durant: opened an academy in the
Autumn in the town of Oakland. The
school began with only three pupils,
but prospered from the first. Two
years later, the Board of Trustees was
re-organized and a charter for a college
was obtained. It was the first institu-
tion of the kind established in Califor-
nia. Only fifteen days after, the Roman
Catholics secured a charter for their col-
lege in Santa Clara, which, under the
auspices of the Jesuits, has continued
to prosper ever since.
Thus, in April, 1855, the College of
California began its corporate life. The
following year, a classmate of Prof.
School became President.
Durant, the Rev. Horace Bushnell,
DD 27, ~wistted: the Coast: for “his
health and became very much interested
in the small but promising college.
He was called to the presidency, but
declined; not, however, because of any
lack of interest or faith in the growing
school. Space does not permit more
than a reference to the history of the
college. The beautiful site, in what is
now the town of Berkeley, was se-
cured, six classes were graduated and
$93.000 expended in current expenses.
A debt, however, had been accumulat-
ing and the students were increasing so
rapidly the facilities were inadequate.
To turn the entire institution over to
the State seemed wise. This was done
and on March 23, 1868, the University
of California was established. After ap-
pointment, the Regents of the Univer-
sity met and requested the College of
year, which was done...
In August, 1870, Prof. Durant was
elected President. Upon his retirement,
greatly beloved, two years later, Prof.
D. C. Gilman of the Sheffield Scientific
Rev. Martin
Kellogg was graduated from Yale in
1850, and at once came West to enter
the missionary work of the Congrega-
tional churches. Six years later, 1856,
he was elected professor in Latin in
the new College of California. When
the College was merged into the Uni-
versity, he continued to hold the same
chair. In 1893, he was promoted to the
presidency and still presides. Yale, in
1895, honored him and herself as well
by conferring upon him the degree
LL.D. To few men is it given to wit-
ness so great development as he has
seen from the early days of the strug-
gling college to the great university of
to-day with its faculty containing 200,
and more than 2,200 students. From
the very beginning, therefore, Yale has
been represented in the faculty,—much
of the time in the presidency.
The following members of the present
faculty of the University of California,
nine in all, are alumni of Yale:
Martin Kellogg, ’50, President; Ed-
ward B. Clapp, ’75, Professor of Greek;
C. B. Bradley, ’71, Professor of Rhet-
oric> Vhos. Rh. Bacon, 72, Professor, of
European History; Wm. A. Setchell,
87, Professor of Botany; Clifton Price,
’96, Instructor in Latin; Clive Day, ’o2,
Instructor in Economics; A. C. Alexan-
der, *89, Instructor in Physics; Herbert
Nutting, ’94, Instructor in Latin.
PRESIDENT KELLOGG’S DUTIES.
President Kellogg no longer lectures,
his responsible duties as chief execu-
tive requiring all his time. As head
of the Department of Greek, Professor
Clapp must be much gratified with the
marked interest and growth of his work.
Prof. Bradley has no superior, if he has ©
an equal, as a stylist or rhetorician on
the Coast. To say that Prof. Bacon
is proving a worthy son of his hon-
ored father, Dr. Leonard Bacon, only
in part expresses the esteem in which
he is held by a large circle of friends,
both in and out of the University.
Professor Setchell has recently assumed
charge of his department. The four
instructors are quietly and faithfully
doing their work in a manner that
is a prophecy of certain advancement.
This brief sketch would be incom-
plete if it did not refer to the loyal
graduates of Yale, never on the faculty,
yet who served California often through
many years as member of the board of
trust or in other capacities. Such an
one was the late Rev. J. A. Benton,
’42, for fifteen years a member of the
Board of the College of California. In
other educational lines he also made his
good influence widely felt. The Hon.
Sherman Day, ’26, gave largely of his
time and means. He was the son of
Rey. Jeremiah Day, President of Yale,
1817-46. The Governor of California at
the time of the organization of the Uni-
versity was the Hon. H. H. Haight of
the Class of Forty-Four. The Rt. Rev.
W. I. Kip, 731, the first Episcopal Bishop
of California, was also a trustee and
generous supporter. -T. H. Hittell, 40,
indirectly, has aided scholarly pursuits
by his own careful historical investiga-
tions. Rev. Joseph Rowell, ’48, for
forty years the beloved pastor of the
Seamen’s Mission, San Francisco, al-
though never officially connected with
the University, has always freely lent
his influence to promote higher educa-
tion.
The list could be much amplified.
But it is enough to indicate that Yale
_met _ Eastern Schools.
California to continue the work as
heretofore during the coming (1868-69)
men, in the early day, the formative
period of the State, were leaders in the
movement to establish educational in-
stitutions. Purposely, the early times
have been dwelt upon. The first acad-
emy was founded and controlled by a
Yale man. Out of this academy sprang
the college. When the latter was
turned over to the State and the Uni-
versity was established, the former
principal of the academy—and professor
in the college—was made president.
At present, it would be scarcely possi-
ble for any Eastern School to exert a like
influence. Local institutions have been
organized—and all over the country
colleges and universities have been
multiplied in even too large numbers.
But it is no doubt true that Yale and
Harvard are now more influential in
the life of the Pacific Coast than other
Among the pioneers
were choice spirits, who builded better
than they knew, upon enduring founda-
tions, patterned after the ideals brought |
by them across the continent from New
Haven and Cambridge. It was a good
beginning. And the students of to-day
have inherited, consciously or uncon-
sciously, the wealth of this: priceless
legacy. :
Yale will continue to live in the ever-
increasing power and usefulness of the
University of California.
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The Cruiser Fund Surplus.
The Yale Cruiser Fund Committee ex-
pected to be able to give in this issue of
the WEEKLY a complete-statement of all
expenses and receipts, and show the
exact amount of the surplus. It has
not been possible, however, for the
Treasurer to make this report complete
up to the time of the WEEKLY going to
press, and the details will be given in
some later issue. On July 5th, word
was received from Mr. Sawyer, from.
York Beach, that the surplus would be
slightly over $2,300.00, and that details
of the account were on the way.
As already announced, the surplus is
held in the Continental Trust Co. of
New York, subject to the order of four
members of the Committee: Mr. Carter,
79: Mr. Welch, ’89; Mr. Day, ’98, and
Mr. Sawyer, .’98. :
It is probable that a meeting of the
general Committee will be held in the
Fall, at which steps will be taken to
secure the consent of the subscribers
to the appropriation of this surplus for
some special object.
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Historical Sketches of New
Haven.
By continued overcrowding of the
columns of the WEEKLY by matter of
immediate news interest, space has not
been found for the proper notice of a
book which touches Yale and is of in-
terest to any who have spent any time
in the city. It is called “Historical
Sketches of New Haven,’ and is
brought out by Ellen Strong Bartlett.
The papers have appeared in the Con-
necticut Quarterly and the New England
Magazine, but some of them were out
of print, and it was thought best to
bring them together in one volume.
The papers are interestingiy and most
carefully prepared and make a valuable
addition to the historical literature of
New Haven. The first of them is on
that most engrossing subject, the New
Haven Green. A chapter follows on
“A New Haven Church,” which is the
Center Church. The subject of another
chapter is the Grove Street Cemetery,
“the resting place of more persons of
varied eminence than any other burial
ground on this continent.” Another
chapter is on the beautiful Hillhouse
avenue, and the concluding chapter
treats of “John Trumbull, the Patriot
Painter.” All are very well illustrated.
The article on Trumbull reproduces in
engraving several of his famous paint-
ings which are now in the Trumbull
Gallery in the Yale Art School. The
book is from the Tuttle, Morehouse
& Taylor Press, and is excellently pre-
pared. In these days of the hasty con-
glomeration of photographs with a few
appended historical data, these careful
and finished sketches with their artistic
illustrations are particularly welcome.