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THE PRESIDENT RESIGNS.
Professor Brush also Retires—The
Corporation Meeting.
The Yale Corporation at its meeting
on Thursday of last week received the
resignation of President Dwight. The
members of the Corporation were sur-
prised beyond measure by the an-
nouncement.
The fact that Professor Brush had
declined another election to the direc-
torship of the Scientific School was also
first formally announced at the meeting.
The President of the University pre-
sented the resignation of his office in
the following letter: :
“Yate University, Nov. 17th, 1808.
“To the Corporation of the University.
“Gentlemen:—It has been my con-
viction for many years that it is desira-
ble—alike with reference to his own
happiness in the later, less active and
more restful period of life, and as related
to the highest interests of the institu-
that a person who is placed in
tion
the chief administrative office in a large’
university like ours should. not con-
tinue in that position beyond the age
of seventy. In accordance with this
conviction, I have had the purpose, ever
since I entered upon the Presidency, to
offer my resignation at the time when
I should myself reach that age. As that
time has just now arrived, I make
known to you my desire to withdraw
from the duties of my office at the close
of the present academic year, and my
wish that, at the regular meeting of
your body which is to be held in May
or at the meeting which will take place
in June, you should elect a President ot
the University who shall enter upon the
duties of his position immediately after
the next annual Commencement.
“As I make this announcement of
my wishes and present to you this re-
quest, I trust that it may not seem in-
appropriate for me to express the
pleasure which I have in the thought
that, in my official relations to the insti-
tution, I have from the outset enjoyed
the blessing which comes from the
existence of a generous sentiment on
the part of the membership of the Uni-
versity, both in its older and its younger
sections and also in the thought that
there is no one, so far as I know, among
the company of Yale graduates whose
residence and work are outside of the
University limits or among the friends
of Yale, who has other than kindly feel-
ings. toward me personally at the pres-
ent hour. The friendship of the Yale
brotherhood, abiding with me as it has
done in the past and enduring as it
does even to the closing days, is the best
reward of my long-continued and happy
life in the service and fellowship of the
University.
“With sentiments of the highest
esteem and with grateful acknowledg-
ment of your uniform kindness and
friendly consideration, I am, gentlemen,
“Very sincerely and truly yours,
TrmotHy Dwicut.”
After a recess of an hour had been
taken the following resolutions, drawn
up by the Hon. F. J. Kingsbury, 746,
were tinanimously passed and presented
to the President on his return to the
room:
“The announcement by the President
of his resignation of his office to take
effect at the end of this university year
has come to the Corporation as a great
surprise, and they would most pro-
foundly regret it if they believed it was
necessary to accept this action as final
and conclusive,
“While testifying their affectionate
admiration for him personally and their
gratification with his administration, the
Corporation most earnestly request and
urge him to fix the date of his retire-
ment at the time of the Bi-Centennial
celebration in 1901. Therefore,
“Resolved, That the Corporation
earnestly request of the President to de-
lay the date of his retirement until
October, 1901.”
' The President subsequently expressed
his feeling that he must abide by the
decision announced in his letter; and
the letter was then referred to a special
committee, to report at a meeting of the
or eoretay to be held on December
13th.
PROFESSORS APPOINTED.
During the routine portion of the
Corporation meeting, thanks were voted
to Miss Helen E. Carpenter of West
Woodstock, Conn., for the gift of an
interesting portrait of the Rev. Dr.
Jedediah Morse (Yale 1783), painted by
his son, Samuel F. B. Morse, about
1810.
Dr. George F. Eaton (Yale 1894)
was appointed Assistant in Osteology
in the Peabody Museum.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Moore,
of University College, London, a grad-
uate of Queen’s College, Belfast, was
appointed Assistant Professor of Phys-
iology in the Medical School, in the
place of Prof. Lusk, resigned.
Assistant Professors Beebe and Pier-
pont were made full Professors of
Mathematics in the College.
Professor George J. Brush, who has
held a professorship in the Scientific
School since 1855, resigned his chair
and was appointed Professor Emeritus.
Professor Brush having already de-
clined a re-election to the position of
Director of the Sheffield School, which
he has held sinee the creation of that
office in 1872, the election of Prof. R.
H. Chittenden as Director of the School
was confirmed.
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Sketches of Pres. Dwight and
Profs. Brush and Chittenden.
PRESIDENT TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
Timothy Dwight was born in Nor-
wich, Conn., on November 16, 1828,
and graduated from Yale College with
the Class of Forty-Nine. He studied
in the Graduate Department from 1849
to 1851, when he entered the Yale
Divinity School, and pursued his
studies there until 1853. He was
licensed to preach on May 22, 1855,
and on September 15, 1861
ordained to the minstry. On January
26, 1856, he went to Europe, where he
studied at the Universities of Berlin and
Bonn until the summer of 1858. He
was. elected Assistant Professor of
Sacred Literature at the Yale Divinity
School, on September 16, 1858, and
became Professor in the same Depart-
ment in 1861. This office he held until
1886, when he was elected President of
Yale College.
He received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity from the Chicago Theological
Seminary in 1869 and a like degree
from Yale College in 1886. He re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws
from Harvard in 1886 and from Prince-
ton in 1888. From 1866 to 1874 he was
associate editor of the New Englander.
He has also contributed to a large num-
ber of magazines and edited a number
of books, and was a member of the
American Committee for the revision
of the English version of the Bible.
was _
- -NEW- HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1898.
PRESIDENT TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
Photograph by Randall.
Resigned from the Presidency of Yale University, Nov. 17; 1898.
On December 31st, 1866, he married
Miss Jane W. Skinner, the daughter of
the late Roger Sherman Skinner of
New Haven, Conn.
During President Dwight’s adminis-
tration the prosperity of the University
reached its highest point. He was
inaugurated as President on July Ist,
1886, and one of his earliest official acts
was to propose to the Corporation the
change of the name Yale College to
that of University, which name was
adopted in the early part of the year
1887. In his first annual address he
laid especial stress on the need of more
dormitories, of bequests for scholar-
ships, and of new halls and recitation
buildings.
His labors in this direction first bore
fruit in the completion of the Kent
Laboratory in 1888, the funds for the
erection of which had been offered be-
fore 1886. Osborn Hall was com-
pleted in 1889 and Chittenden Library
in the following year. In 1892 the
Gymnasium was completed, as also were
Welch and Winchester Halls and the
Infirmary on Prospect Street. In 1893
the seating capacity of Battell Chapel
was increased by about 400 sittings and
the Laboratory Building of the Medical
School completed. In 1894 Vanderbilt
and White Halls were presented to the
University, as was Berkeley Hall,
adjoining White. 1895 saw the Chemi-
cal Laboratory of the Scientific School
and the Law Building completed and
in 1896 Phelps and Pierson Halls, the
former at the cost of about $120,000.
In this same year Farnam Gateway was
built, and the College Street Hall pur-
chased by the Corporation. Fifteen
new University buildings have been
erected, five buildings have been altered
and enlarged and one acquired by pur-
chase since President Dwight took
up his duties as the University’s exe-
cutive. A great deal of land in proxi-
mity to the Campus has also been pur-
chased. ’
The growth of the number of stu-
dents during President Dwight’s presi-
dency has been very remarkable, in
1886 there being 1,076 and to-day over
2,500,—about twice as many. The num-
ber of instructors has also been more
than doubled.
During President Dwight’s adminis-
tration, the elective system in the Col-
lege has had its main development,
the Graduate Department_has been
strengthened, the Music Department
has been established, the first movement
toward a University fund started, the
co-education system in the Graduate
Department adopted, and the whole
aspect of the Campus has been changed.
PROFESSOR GEORGE J. BRUSH.
Professor George Jarvis Brush was
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on December
1s, 1831. He was educated at the
schools of Brooklyn, Danbury, and
West Cornwall, Conn. In 1846 he
went into business at New York, but
two years later, owing to a very severe
cold, he decided to take up farming, and