YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
uated at Yale in 1855. A brief experi-
ence in the study and practice of law,
a number of years of service as Assist-
ant Professor of Mathematics at the
S. Naval Academy, and a longer
period in which he was engaged in
business, did not avail to quench a
predominant taste for literary pursuits.
During the last fifteen years this native
bent has had full control. The Maga-
zines, English and American, have
welcomed to their pages numerous
productions from his pen. Of several
volumes of which he is the author,—
in none of which is there any waste
of space,—one treats of English Ety-
mologies in a way to render an instruc-
tive text-book attractive to the general
reader. Another is composed of lec-
tures on Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson,
and other modern authors of genius,
three of them being American and
three English. A third book is a
modest collection of poems.
writings there is no lack of evidences
of scholarly study. But they are
leavened throughout with critical dis-
cernment, with traces of a spirit
sensitive to the humorous and the
pathetic aspects of life, and with the
charm of poetic insight.
DAVID BRAINERD PERRY.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
the Rev. David Brainerd Perry, Presi-
dent of Doane College in the State of
Nebraska. Mr. Perry was graduated
with high rank at Yale, in 1863. He
served for a number of years as a
Tutor in the College, and having taken
a thorough course in Theology entered
the Christian ministry. Since the year
1872, he has been absorbed in the work
of creating and building up the college
of which he was the first officer and is
now the head. While active in foster-
ing higher scholarship in that Western
community, and well esteemed as a
preacher, he has spared no exertion in
advancing the cause of general educa-
tion in Nebraska, and in elevating the
character and increasing the efficiency
oi tts churches. Inspired, as he once
said, by his experience here and _ his
love for “Old Yale,” he has made it
his aim “to build up a new Yale in
what was once known as the ‘Great
American Desert.’” Mr. Perry is one
of the pioneers, now not small in num-
ber, who have gone forth from Yale to
plant institutions of learning and relig-
ion in the vast regions extending to the
Pacific; and whose lives would furnish
a most interesting chapter in the annals
of the University.
DANIEL MERRIMAN.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
the Rev. Daniel Merriman, Pastor of
the Central (Congregational) Church
in Worcester, Massachusetts. After his
graduation at Williams in 1863, fol-
lowed by a short period of service in
the army, Dr. Merriman pursued his
theological studies at Andover. He
was then for ten years pastor of a Con-
gregational Church in Norwich, Con-
necticut, and he was installed in 1878
over his present charge. A member
of the Board of Trustees at Williams,
a Trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, and active in the management
of other important literary and religious
institutions, he has brought to these
responsible offices a culture enriched
by study and travel, and a wise, dis-
interested devotion to the public good.
Dr. Merriman’s contribution to the
Reviews, and his discourses on public
occasions, are admirable for their
breadth of view and for the evidence
afforded of ability both to comprehend
the perplexing problems of the day, and
to judge soundly concerning them.
HENRY SAMUEL BARNUM.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
the Reverend Henrv Samuel Barnum.
Mr. Barnum was graduated with high
rank as a scholar, in the class of 1869.
In the last thirty- years, under the aus-
pices of the American Board, he has
been a missionary to the Armenians in
Eastern Turkey. His stations, Harpoot,
Van, and Constantinople, have been
always posts of danger, and, of late
scenes of massacre. Besides: teaching
theology, Organizing new churches
and preaching, Mr. Barnum has written
In these ©
a commentary in the Armenian tongue
on several books of the New Testament.
A weekly journal, edited by him, and
published in three languages, finds room
for articles on scientific topics. It has
had an even wider circulation among
non-Protestants than among Protes-
ants. Mr. Barnum has won a high
reputation for literary ability and for
skill in the use of the Armenian lan-
guage. Noble services to the cause of
Christian truth, courageously rendered
during the lifetime of a generation,
merit a token of honor at this seat of
learning.
CHAUNCEY BUNCE BREWSTER.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
the Right Reverend Chauncey Bunce
Brewster, Bishop Coadjutor of the
Diocese of Connecticut. He received
the Bachelor’s Degree at Yale in 1868.
In the interval before his ordination he
was a Tutor in College and a student
of Theology at the Berkeley School at
Middletown. Prior to his recent eleva-
tion to the episcopate, and while in
charge of important parishes, three of
them in large cities, Bishop Brewster
found time to verify the high expecta-
tions that his instructors had cherished
respecting him as a scholar and writer.
A little volume of sermons, and certain
miscellaneous discourses on Catholicity
and other topics, bear witness to his
gifts as a preacher. He has published,
moreover, papers of a high order of
merit, as timely as they are able, on
themes relating to the foundations of
religion and ethics. In them are dis-
cussed the subject of Pessimism, an-
cient and modern, including a criticism
of Schopenhauer and Hartmann, the
subject of the’true theory of Morals,
and fallacious ideas concerning Nature
and the Supernatural. Besides being
abreast of the times in their range of
thought, these essays are specially at-
tractive as combining the fine literary
taste that marked the author’s earliest
productions with the philosophical dis-
crimination of the mature student,
whose ear is not deaf to the voices of
the present time.
IRVING GOODWIN VANN.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Laws, the
Honorable Irving Goodwin Vann, a
Judge of the Court of Appeals of the
State of New York. Judge Vann was
graduated at Yale in the Class of
Sixty-Three. Having held several of-
fices in the County of Onondaga, where
he established himself in his profession,
he was elected in 1881 a Justice of the
Supreme Court of the State. He was
one of the seven judges, chosen in 1888
from the forty-six Justices of that
Court, to preside in the newly consti-
tuted Second Division of the Court of
Appeals, and served in this capacity
during its entire existence. Unani-
mously re-elected in 1895 a Justice of
the Supreme Court, he was placed in
the same year on the bench of the Court
of Appeals. In all these stations, Judge
Vann has been eminent for his learning
and his integrity. His reputation as a
jurist is surpassed by that of none who
have been associated with him in the
administration of justice.
CHARLES ANDREWS.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Laws, the
Honorable Charles Andrews, formerly
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals
in the State of New York. Such was
the reputation of Judge Andrews as a
lawyer, that in 1870, at the age of forty-
three, without previous judicial ex-
perience, he was raised to the bench of
the highest court of the State. He was
elected Chief Justice in 1892, and held
this station until he reached the limit of
age defined by the law. During these
years of judicial life, his reputation as
a jurist has. constantly advanced. A
natural courtesy, based on kindly feel-
ing and blended with dignity, has not
disarmed enmity, but completely fore-
stalled it. His lucid, impartial, and
sound judgments have established him
not only in the respect, but in the ad-
miration of the Bar. He has retired
from the exalted tribunal of which he
was the head, with honor due to per-
sonal excellence and to judicial quali-
fications of a high order.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Laws, in
absentia, His Excellency, William Mc-
Kinley, President of the United States.
Allow me to say to this audience, that
President McKinley gratefully accepted
the invitation to visit the University on
this occasion and to receive from its
authorities this mark of honor and ap-
preciation. He has looked forward
with cordial anticipation to the oppor-
tunity of meeting in person the assem-
bled alumni. But at the last moment
the pressure of public duties constrains
him to resign his cherished purpose and
to defer his intended visit to the Uni-
versity till a more propitious day. To
rehearse the career of President Mc-
Kinley would be to repeat a chapter of
American history that is familiar to all.
In times past he has exemplified the
virtues of the soldier. In recent trou-
bled days he has touched the heart of
the people by the calmness and self-
command of the true statesman. He
has acted upon the principle that if war
is the last resort of kings, it should be
not less the last resort of republics.
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Academic Class Day.
The Academic Class Day exercises
were held on Monday, June 27th, at 2
o'clock in an amphitheater erected on
the Campus between the new Chitten-
den Library and Old South Middle, a
change of location made necessary by
the laying out of the plot of ground
usually occupied for these exercises,
into enclosed lawns. The new _ loca-
tion is but little shaded and the sun,
which was intensely hot, poured down
on the Class and _ spectators with
its full strength. Many people were
obliged to leave the enclosure to seek
relief from the heat. The committee in
charge was as follows:
CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL, JR.
Edward Carter Perkins, Chairman;
Morris Upham Ely, Josiah Judson
Hazen, Frank Hunter Simmons and
Edward Sawyer.
The historians spoke in the following
order: J. Hamilton Scranton, Madison,
Conn.; Frank <A. Lord, Moorhead,
Minn.; Philip W. Hamill, Chicago:
Julian S. Mason, Chicago; Arthur D.
Baldwin, Maui, H. I. After the his-
tories the Class marched in a body to
the quadrangle of Vanderbilt Hall and
planted the Class Ivy, Charles E. Ives,
Chairman of the Ivy Committee, per-
forming the ceremony. The Ivy Ode,
by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., of New
York was then sung, the words being
as follows:
Atr—“‘Lauriger Horatius.”’
Taciti maerebimus
Dies noster brevis,
Tamen et spondebimus
Quoque fuit levis.
Hederam cum viridem
Tempus roborabit
Sempiternum amorem
Nostrum memorabit.
Ubicumque erimts
Ubivis sors erit
Cautio acerrimus
Hederae vixerit,
The names of the Ivy Committee were:
Charles Edward Ives, Chairman; Her-
bert B. Wilcox and Julian S. Mason.
At the conclusion of this ceremony
the Class marched to the houses of the
President, the Dean, and some of near-
by professors, and cheered them.
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Shefficld Class Day.
The Class Day exercises of the Shef-
field Scientific School were held as
ustial within an amphitheater on the
vacant lot at the corner of Grove and
Hillhouse avenue, on Saturday, June
25. The day was perfect, being warm
and sunny, with a cool breeze stirring.
The historians of the day were: F. +
Tytus, Middletown, Ohio; Lawrence
Fitch, Milwaukee, Wis.: George H.
Humphreys, Jr., of New York City; W.
P. Stewart of New Orleans, and S.
Sherman Day of New Haven. The
Second Regiment band filled in the in-
tervals with music and accompanied the
songs. The Class Committee consisted
of the following men: Philo R. King,
Chairman; Walter L. Worrall, Fred-
erick K. T. Gause, James L. Thompson
and Edgar D. Pouch.
The Class Ode was written by W. F.
C. Tichborne of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., one
of the first to enlist in the Yale Battery,
now stationed at Niantic. Mr. Tich-
borne with his classmates had obtained
leave of absence for the exercises.
They were greeted with rousing cheers
when their names appeared in the his-
tories. The ode, which was sung to the
tune of “Integer Vitae,” closing the
festivities, is given below:
To-day we part, perhaps ’twill be for-
ever. :
Years we have cherished now pass into
history.
But while we linger may our hearts
Blend into closer fraternity.
As has the past, so may the future bring
1s .
Bright years of happiness all along our
pathway.
May Lux et Veritas ever be our watch-
cry,
Guiding us day by day.
Tho’ Fate decrees our ranks should be
disbanded,
This cheerful thought our
hearts retain,
That friendships formed at Yale parting
cannot sever,
But firm till death remain.
saddened
After the exercises the Class formed
into procession and, preceded by the
band, visited all the buildings of the
School, cheering each.
In the afternoon from 4 to 7 a recep-
tion and dance was held in Winchester
Hall. .
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Professor Jeremiah Smith of the Har-
vard Law School has been elected by
the trustees of the Phillips Exeter
Academy to fill the vacancy on the
board occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. Sherman Hoar. Judge Smith
was trustee from 1868 to 1874, when he
resigned on account of ill health.
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Please send this news as fast as it comes
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