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CLASS REUNIONS.
A Dozen Classes Held Their Reunions
and Banquets on Tuesday.
The Class reunions this year have
been marked by great enthusiasm. All
the more recent classes have among
their number those who have enlisted
in the service of the Country and when
their names were mentioned they were
cheered and toasted. After the dinners
broke up the graduates gathered in
front of Osborn Hall and celebrated
with Roman candles, rockets, cannon
crackers and band till after midnight
in a manner not often equalled in this
city of celebrations. A sketch, neces-
sarily limited, of each reunion and din-
ner follows:
THIRTY-EIGHT.
The oldest and most remarkable re-
union held on Tuesday, June 28th, was
that of the Class of Thirty-Eight, which
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
its graduation. As far as is known
this is the first class to have a reunion
so long after leaving College. The
Class at graduation numbered seventy,
ten of whom are supposed to be alive,
although two men, Richard E. Butler
and Samuel H. Lea, who live in the
South, have not been heard from for
many years. Those who are known to
be alive are Rev. James Tufts of Mon-
son, Massachusetts, the oldest, being
now eighty-six years old; Hon. Henry
P. Hedges, Bridgehampton, Long Is-
land; Rev. William T. Doubleday,
Binghampton, N. Y.; William W. Rod-
man, New Haven, Conn.; Theodore S.
Gold, West Cornwall, Conn.; Rev.
Edward Strong, Pittsfield, Mass.; Ches-
ter Dutton, Concordia, Kansas; Hon.
William F. Cooper, New York City.
The first five of the above named were
present at luncheon at the house of -Wil-
liam W. Rodman, Class Secretary, 165
York street. After the luncheon the
time was very pleasantly snent in re-
calling past days, and in giving per-
sonal histories. It is truly remarkable
that so long after graduation, at least
half the living graduates should meet
together at a sixtieth anniversary re-
union.
- at eleven o'clock.
FORTY-EIGHT.
The Class of Forty-Eight held their
semi-centennial on Tuesday, June 28th,
meeting with the Class Secretary, A.
D. Osborne at his home at 52 Trum-
bull street. Luncheon was served after
which those present devoted the time
to reminiscences of their college days.
The Class at graduation numbered
eighty-two, of which number thirty-two
are now supposed to be alive, twenty-
seven replying personally to Mr. Os-
borne’s letter of invitation. Since the
last reunion seventeen members of the
Class have died.
Mr. Osborne is preparing a record of
the Class and its members which will
be published shortly. The preface
which gives a descrintion of Yale and
Yale’s customs as they were in 1848,
was read at the meeting, and greatly
enjoyed. |
The following were present at the
luncheon: James Bird, Henry T. Blake,
Rev. Henry Blodget, D.D.; Ebenezer
Buckingham, Hon. David S. Calhoun,
Charles S. Hall, James C.. Hinsdale,
John P. Hubbard, Francis T. Jarman,
Arthur D.. Osborne, Rev. Henry M.
Parsons, D.D., Samuel -C. Perkins,
Timothy H. Porter, John H. Pumpelly,
Rev. Joseph kowell, Hon. Nathaniel
Shipman, LL.D., Professor G. Buck-
ingham Wilcox, D.D.
FIFTY-THREE.
Twenty-seven members of the Class
of Fifty-Three were present at the Class
Banquet held at the Tontine Hotel on
Tuesday evening, June 28. Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh presided, but no
toasts were responded to. ‘The men
spent their time in talking over old
times, the changes on the Campus, and
all matters which were interesting to
men celebrating the forty-fifth anniver-
sary of their graduation. At the busi-
ness meeting held in the morning in
Bt Osborn Hall no special business
was transacted.
FIFTY-EIGHT.
Eighteen members of the Class of
Fifty-Eight met at the business meeting
in Osborn Hall on Tuesday morning
Dr... Jantel. -G.
Brinton .. of... Pinladelphia .. presided.
Nothing special in the way of busi-
ness was transacted and an adjourn-
ment was taken till seven o’clock in the
evening, when the banquet was held at
the Tontine Hotel. Dr. Brinton again
presided but no set speeches were made.
SIXTY-THREE.
The Class of Sixty-Three had a very
large reprensentation at the thiry-fifth
anniversary meeting, held in room E2
Osborn Hall, at
twenty-six men being present. Profes-
sor . Sumner presided. The
committee appointed to take charge of
the next reunion was as_ follows:
Hamilton Wallis of New York; Judge
Samuel A. York of New Haven,
Samuel Huntington, New York; J.
Frederic Kernochan, New York. The
Class of Sixty-Three held their supper
at the Ansantawae Club house in West
Haven. It was purely informal. There
were thirty-four people present and the
evening was a pleasant one. Judge Irv-
ing G. Vann of New York was toast-
master. There were no set speeches,
but nearly all responded to toasts.
SIXTY-EIGHT.
Twenty members of the Class of
Sixty-Eight met at Osborn Hall at
noon for their thirtieth anniversary re-
union, John H. Webster of Cleveland,
presiding. Professor Henry P. Wright
of New Haven was chosen to be Sec-
retary. The Committee for the next
reunion was appointed and elected as
HuIOWS:) PTOI. tt. 2. Wile, 1. Lk.
Williams, J. H. Varick and Charles H.
Farnam. At the banquet in the even-
ing, which was held at the New Haven
Lawn Club house, W. A. Linn of the
New York Evening Post presided.
Among those present were Bishop
Chauncey Bunce Brewster of Connecti- .
cut and Rev. Edward K. Rawson of the
U.S. Navy. Washurcton, DD: &
SEVENTY-THREE.
At the meeting of Seventy-Three in
Osborn Hall on Tuesday morning,
Frederic W. Adee, the Class Secretary,
acted as Secretary and announced that
thirty-six members of the Class were
present. Besides other matters dis-
cussed was a proposition for the Class
to raise a fund for presentation to the
University, and for the appointment of
a committee for the purpose. The mat-
ter was laid over for further action.
Sixty members of the Class were pres-
noon on Tuesday, —
ent at the banquet in the evening ai
the Young Mens’ Republican Club,
which was beautifully decorated with
the national colors and Class banners.
Hart Lyman of New York presided and
introduced the following speakers, who
responded to these toasts:
Our Country—Eben Alexander.
Yale—Robert Williams.
The University and the World—
Samuel O. Prentice.
A poem entitled “The Veterans,” by
the Class Poet, E. R. Johnes, was read
and enthusiastically applauded. Atten-
tion was called to the fact that Dr.
Leonard B. Almy of Norwich, Conn.,
is at the front with the Volunteers of
the United States.
SEVENTY-EIGHT.
The Class of Seventy-Eight had about
forty members present when the busi-
ness meeting was called to order in
Lyceum by Charles H. Kelsey. The
resignation of John Addison Porter as
Class Secretary was read and accepted,
and a vote of thanks was tendered to
him for his services in that capacity.
Alfred L. Ripley of Andover, Mass., will
be Class Secretary in the future. At
the dinner held in the Anderson Gym-
nasium about sixty were present, Sherry
of New York catering. John Addison
Porter presided. Among those present
were Hon. William C. Whitney and
Assistant Attorney General Hoyt.
President McKinley who had accepted
an invitation to be present was unable
to attend on account of the business of
the war.
EIGHTY-THREE.
Horace D. Taft, principal of the Taft
School at Watertown, Conn., presided
over the business meeting of Eighty-
Three in Osborn Hall, about sixty
members being present. Captain Fran-
cis G. Beach of Battery C, Heavy
Artillery, Connecticut Volunteers, was
cheered loudly when he appeared in the
room in uniform.
The Class dinner was held in Veru
Hall in the evening, over eighty of a
Class of one hundred and forty-nine
being present. Dr. C. F. Collins was
toastmaster.
EIGHTY-EIGHT. *
Eighty-Eight numbered sixty-five
men present when the business meeting
was called to order at noon for the
Decennial reunion, by Philip Pond, 2d,
of New Haven, No business of im-
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