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About Yale Alumni Magazine | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1898)
“w-ATLE ALUMNI WEEKLY portance transacted. At the dinner in Arion Hall in the evening, seventy-five sat down. The toastmaster of the occa- sion was F. A. Stevenson, Captain of the University Crew in Eighty-Eight. EIGHTY-EIGHT S. President Jesse C. Dann called the Class of Eighty-Eieht S. to order at Ir A. M. with thirty-five men present. After the usual preliminaries, a commit- tee was sent to escort Director Brush to the meeting. The Director made a short address, reviewing the advance of the Sheffield Scientific School since the graduation of the Class of Eighty-Eight, and spoke feelingly of the patriotism of the men of the present Senior class who - had enlisted. The following resolutions were then adopted by the Class: Whereas, This our Decennial Re- union is rendered less comnlete by the absence of our classmates R. H. Fran- chot and Morgan Walcott, who have volunteered in the military and naval service of the United States, and Whereas, Although we regret their absence yet do we rather rejoice and take pride that they have responded to their country’s call, not only because we are Americans, but also because as sons of Yale we have been taught to honor manliness and loyalty and to place duty always first. Therefore be it resolved, that we send our warmest greetings to these, our ab- sent classmates, and assure them that we will follow their careers with anxious and friendly eyes; and that we feel proud of our Class that they are of us. A committee to compile a decennial record was appointed consisting of Messrs. P. Smith, Curtis, Lockwood, and Anderson. J. C. Dann was toastmaster of the reunion dinner held at Stewart’s Cafe, -at which thirty-five men were present. NINETY-TWO. Eighty men attended the sexennial of the Class of Ninety-Two at the busi- ness meeting on Tuesday morning. William Burnett Wright, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y., presided. Coit’s Band of Hart- ford made music for the banqueters of the Class in the evening at Harmonie Hall and the following toasts were listened to: Six Years After—W. B. Franklin. Yale’s Martial Spirit—P. C. Egleston. Why we are Here—W. N. Runyon. The toastmaster was Hugh A. Bayne of New Orleans. NINETY-TWO 6S. Thirty-five men were present at the sexennial of Ninety-T'wo S. The chief business was the election of Class offi- cers for the decennial reunion. The ballot resulted as follows: Frank E. Barbour, President and B. B. Bolt- wood, Secretary. The decennial com- mittee decided upon was: Wilbur F. Day, J. K. Punderford and B. B. Bolt- wood, all of New Haven. It was left with this Committee to decide whether the Class should return in igor for its reunion or not. Paul Beach Sessions, the Class Boy, son of Albert S. Sessions of Bristol, Conn., was presented with the Loving Cup. The dinner, which was held at Stewart’s, was a jolly one and only’ impromptu speeches were listened to. NINETY-FIVE. The Class of Ninety-Five held its business meeting at 10.30 A. M. in 176 Lyceum on Tuesday, June 28. Before going into the meeting the members present, numbering about one hundred and twenty, sang their Class song. Benjamin I. Spock presided, and it was voted that David B. Lyman, A. Ray Clark, and G. T. Adee, who composed the Triennial Committee, be re-electe as the Sexennial Committee. The Triennial dinner was held in Warner Hall at 7.30 o'clock, and one hundred and forty-one men were pres- ent. At the very beginning of the ban- quet the Class Cup was presented to the Class Boy, Richard Tasker Lowndes III, who was born on Decem- ber 9, 1897. The presentation speech was made by James Fisk Hooker. Frank S. Butterworth acted as toast- master,’ and the following toasts were responded to: : The Class Boy—James Fish Hooker. “And if it is a girl, sir, we'll dress her up in blue, 2 And send her down to Saltonstall to coach the Freshman crew; | And if it is a boy, sir, we'll put him on the crew; And he shall wax the Harvards, as his daddy used to do.” Ninety-Five—Henry Neal Hyde. Here’s a health to the class of classes, Long may she live and thrive, ’Mid the sound of tinkling glasses, Here’s a health to Ninety-Five. The Faculty—George Dwight Kellogg. Athletics—Walter Frederick Carter. Ninety-Five in Business. 46 Lindsay Denison. Ninety-Five in Professions. Emerson Sanford White. Auld Lang Syne. : Emerson Gifford Taylor. Walter Allen, a member of the Naval Reserves, who had obtained leave from the receiving ship Minnesota at Boston, was present and was toasted and cheered to the echo. NINETY-FIVE S. There were only seventy-six men present at the business meeting of Ninety-Five S. in Winchester Hall, but one hundred and ten men were expected to attend the ball game and dinner. It was announced that Caldwell Colt Robinson, son of Chas. L. F. Robin- son, is the Class Boy. A vote was passed instructing the Secretary to record on the roll of the Class the ap- preciation of the members at the con- duct of the men of Ninety-Five S., who have gone to the front. The men were conspicuous through- out the day by their white duck suits and hats, with the numerals stamped in blue upon the latter, and by their un- bounded enthusiasm. The supper was held at Lenox Hall. The toastmaster was John Staige Davis. Lloyd W. Smith made the speech pre- senting the Class Loving Cup to the father of the Class Boy; ‘Charles L. Robinson of New York. The program of toasts follows: Sheff.—Richard Armstrong. : Around the World in Eighty Days, 3 Dick Crane. Athletics in Our Time—W. O. Hickok. Ninety-Five Sheff. at the Bar, | Shorty Caldwell. Our Men Who Have Travelled, 3 Billy Beers. Our Instructors—Bayard Barnes. The occasion was much enlivened by music by the Second Regiment Band. John Greenway, President of the Class, is in Cuba with Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO. The famous Class of Fourteen Hun- dred and Ninety-Two had a choice few present at its reunion and banquet at Savin Rock, Tuesday night. The meet- ing was a “patriotic” one, the toasts be- ing to the Boy King, the Queen Regent, and leaders of the Spanish army and navy, everything being as absurd as it possibly could be. i Yale Mission To Buiid. ’ Subscriptions amounting to $4,875.00 have been made to the Yale Y. M. C. A., for the building of the Yale Mission. The cost of the building will be $8000.00, but it has been decided to go ahead and put up the structure this Summer. It will be placed in the neighborhood of Grand:avenue, and will simply be a home for the continua- tion of the work of the Yale Mission, except that it has been decided to aban- don the lodging house department. It will be simple in design. The ground floor will be fitted for a Boys’ Club. The first floor will be the meeting room, with a coat room in the rear. On the second floor will be the library and Sunday School room, -and two bed rooms for the people who care for the hall. It is expected that it will be com- pleted about the middle of October. Mr. Hayne of New Haven is the archi- tect. The subscription by classes is as fol- lows: Eighty-EFight, $25.00; Ninety- Five, $100.00; Ninety-Five Sheff., $25.00; Ninety-Six, $225.00; Ninety-Seven, $500.00; Ninetv-Eight, $450.00; Ninety- Eight Sheff., $550.00; Nuinety-Nine, $1050.00;' Ninety-Nine Sheff., $550.00; Nineteen Hundred, $1300.00; a friend, ‘$100.00. Total, $4875.00. SPEAKERS FROM CLASSES. They Contrast the Old and the New at the Alumni Meeting. e The annual alumni meeting was held on Tuesday morning in Alumni Hall, a comparatively small company being present. Hon. Nathaniel Shipman, ’4o, called the meeting to order at 10 o’clock and invited the graduates of fifty years or more to take seats on the platform. Eleven white-haired men from the Classes of Thirty-Eight and Forty- Fight who were present in the room accepted the invitation and took their seats behind the Chairman. In a brief address Judge Shipman spoke of the value of character as exemplified in the professors and instructors .of the past and present, who worked often on a meagre salary with their whole hearts for the broadening and bettering of the College. He spoke also of the great work in the development of thorough- ness that had been accomplished by the Graduate Department. | Mr. Samuel C. Perkins spoke for the Class of Forty-Eight, which was back for its half century reunion. He spoke of the wonderful advancement made along all lines, but while acknowledg- ing its value paid a tribute to the drill in Latin and Greek as taught in the College in his own time as well as in that of his father and grandfather, who preceded him. Responding for Ninety-Five, Roger S. Baldwin spoke of the pride the members of that class had in its prowess afloat and afield. He felt that it was a class superior to most classes and in that connection told a good story to illus- trate his view of it, something as fol- lows: At a diplomatic dinner in Lon- don, when Benjamin Franklin was the U. S. consul there and at which Frank- lin was a guest, the official representa- tive of the Queen proposed the toast: “To England, the sun that lights the world!’ The representative of France, not to be outdone, proposed as the toast of his country: “The moon, that con- trols the tides.” The assemblage was at a loss to know what the representa- tive of the United States would do, having nothing at his command but the lesser heavenly bodies. Franklin was equal to the occasion, however, lor “his: toast: was: “To the ‘United States: The Joshua who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still; and they stood!” — He concluded by saying that his class would ever be found working for the best interests of Yale. Professor Edwin Alexander of the University of North Carolina spoke for the Class of Seventy-Three. He was in- troduced by Judge Shipman as one of the leading Greek scholars of the period. Professor Alexander thought that one of the chief things learned at Yale was exact knowledge of facts. He hoped that the good old spirit had not changed with the changing form of the Campus, but that it had grown and magnified twenty-five times greater than when his class graduated a quarter of a century ago. Rev. Leander P. Chamberlain spoke for the Class of Sixty-Three and in the course of his remarks eulogized his cur- riculum of thirty-five years ago, which required so much of Latin and Greek. He made a plea for the systematizing of athletics and for keeping them in bounds. He thought the development of personal ability and the practice of political independence was a_ better safety valve than sports, for the surplus energy of the student. NEW COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. For the Class of Eighty-Three Horace D. Taft spoke. He marvelled at the growth Yale had made in all Depart- ments in the past fifteen years and pointed with pride to what had been done in the much-abused English De- partment. Mr. Taft modestly advised the Faculty that instruction in the duties of citizenship should be added to the Yale curriculum, which should include a careful study of bossism, the operation of machines of both parties, and the history of reforms and municipal ad- ministration. The conclusion of Mr. Taft’s speech was a tribute to the patriotism of “the fiity who went and the hundred who wanted to go.” William A. Linn spoke for the Class - Green, of Sixty-Eight and Dr. Daniel G. Brin- ton of Philadelphia for the Class of Fifty-Eight. Hugh A. Bayne from New Orleans, of the Class of Ninety- Two, told how Yale was crowing in favor in the South. “It was not ve ee said he, “ten years ago.” At that time the place was infected with a kind of yellow fever—a yellow and black fever— and all the boys were sent to Princeton. We tried to get up a Yale association but found there was no one to associate with. So we took the matter in our own hands and administered to the populace a regular old blue pill which fortunately effected a permanent cure. Now for one boy who goes to the New Jersey institution three go to Yale, which is as it should be.” Mr. Bayne was followed by Henry M. Hoyt of the Class of Seventy-Eight, who spoke of the needs of Yale. Among the objects to be attained is a University Hall” said he, “which must Sy ready for the bi-centennial celebra- ion. : _ Rev. J. Franklin Carter of New Bed- ford, Mass., spoke for the Class of Eighty-Eight, and the meeting was brought to a close by an admirable speech by Hon. Theodore Bacon of Rochester, N. Y. He spoke of Yale and the good men that had come from her halls, and said he believed they would do credit to themselves and to the College. He deplored the war, and while he admired patriotism yet he thought that the war that we were at present engaged in was not a good thing for the country, and a spirit that would encourage war would in time bring trouble and disaster upon the nation. Before the meeting broke up Judge Shipman~ announced the Executive Committee of the alumni for the next year as follows: President Dwight, Professors Day, Fisher, Brush, Wheeler, Weir, Dexter, Lounsbury, Baldwin, Peck, Sumner, DeBois, Dana, Townsend, Woolsey, Morris, Schwab, Tyler, H. E. Smith, Parker: Rey, Dr. Munger Wr. J. 2. C. Foster, Messrs. H. B. Sargent, A. B. Hill, Rev. E. S. Lines, Messrs. Lewis S. Welch, W. W. Farnam, Eli Whitney, Thomas Hooker, and Van Name. <> <> a ae Medical School Commence- ment, The Medical School Commencement exercises were held in College Street . Hall on Tuesday afternoon, the chief interest being in the address of Profes- sor Clarence J. Blake, M.D., of Har- vard, who spoke on “The Citizen Doc- tors, At the Alumni Association of the School held in Medical Hall on Mon- day, President A. A. Crane of Water- bury, Conn., presided. Dr. Swain of New Haven, the chair- man of the Committee which has pro- vided for the lectures at the Medical School during the past year, made a report and recommended that the lectures be continued under the auspices of the Association for another year. The officers were then elected as fol- lows: President, S. T. Gilbert, ’71, New Haven; Secretary and Treasurer, Pred; erick C. Bishop, 94, New Haven; Vice- Presidents, Frederick Sperry, 94, eG. *cr, Henry Fleischner, aA Charles Bartlett, ’95, and J. L. Perkins, 98. Dr. O. T.- Osborne of New Haven announced that thirty-one members out of the Class of Ninety-Eight had re- ceived hospital SRE oe The ap- intments appear below: ae ary ia ine acst and F. T. Billings second, Paterson General Hospital, New Jersey; A. E. Cobb, first, and R. M. English, second, Bridgeport Hospi- tal: J. L. Perkins first, P. DuBois Bunt- ing second, General Hospital, Elizabeth, N. J.; W. E. Ray first, and J. J. Cohane second, Norwich, Conn.; F. P. Heery first, and H. Q.. Tyler second, New Haven Hospital; F. W. Hulseburg first, Colored Hospital, New York; W. W. Markoe first, Soldiers’ Home Hos- pital, Conn.; F. W. Nolan first, Charity Hospital, New York; M. S. Sherwood first, French Hospital, New York; H. A. Tyler, first, Hartford (Conn.) Hospital; H. G. Watson, first, St. Mark’s Hospital, New York; T. S. Mc- Dermott, St. Vincent’s, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Carmalt gave a recep- tion at their home on Monday night to the Faculty, the School alumni and the medical -rofession generally.
