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SHEFFIELD SCHOOL CATALOGUE.
Enrollment Greater than Last Year—
New Instructors, :
- The annual statement of the Sheffield
Scientific School for the college year
1898-99 appeared a few days ago, and
contained several changes from last
year. The announcement of the resig-
nation of Director George J. Brush,
is made and also the election of Profes-
sor R. H. Chittenden to the position.
The additions to the Faculty include
the following: Charles C. Clarke, Jr.,
B.A., Instructor in French; Munson D.
Atwater, B.A., Laboratory Assistant in
Chemistry; Yandell Henderson, Ph.D.,
Assistant in Physiological Chemistry;
George H. Nettleton, B.A., Instructor
in English; Charles M. Cooke, B.A.,
Laboratory Assistant in Botany; Wil-
liam K. Shepard, Ph.B., Laboratory
Assistant in Physics; Treat B. Johnson,
Laboratory Assistant in Chemistry.
The catalogue also announces that six
scholarships of $100 each (covering the
charges for tuition), to be known as the
Sheffield Graduate Scholarships, will be
awarded, on application, to those mem-
bers of the graduating class of the Shef-
field Scientific School who have attained
high proficiency in the special studies
of their respective courses, and who
desire to spend one or more years in
graduate study in the School. Each
scholarship will be available for one
year only. Application for these
scholarships must be made in writing
on or before June Ist, to the head of
the Department to which the student
belongs, with a statement as to the
character of the graduate study to be
pursued.
The Belknap Prize, founded by Wil-
liam R. Belknap, Esq., of the Class of
Sixty-Nine, will be awarded this year
for excellence in all the Natural His-
tory studies of Senior year.
The catalogue of students shows a
total enrollment of 567, an increase of
23 over last year. A summary of the
various classes for the years 1897-98 and
1898-99 is as follows:
1897-8 1898-9
Gratin ese ol bes 60 59
No Oe aS eee eet 121 140
lene rj ae 162 163
FIRB ous ne vee 187 192
Special students ........ 14 13
fee eA 544 567
The date for Class Day exercises is
set for Saturday, June 24th. Examina-
tions for admission will be held at the
thirty-five cities in which the Academi-
cal examinations are to take place and
will begin on Thursday, June 2oth.
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Mr. Ide’s Statement about the
Home Life Fire.
George E. Ide, Yale 81, President of
the Home Life Ins. Co., has sent out
the following statement in regard to the
fire in the building of his company:
“In view of the general interest at-
taching to the recent fire in the Com-
pany’s building in New York City, we
desire to offer to our friends and
patrons a statement regarding the dis-
aster. At the time of the fire, which
originated in the building adjoining
ours on the North, thcre was a hurricane
blowing from that quarter, which drove
the flames with irresistible force against
our side walls and into our light-shaft.
The violence of the fire in the adjoining
building, taken in connection with the
very high wind, was.so great as to
ignite certain of our upper stories, the
result being an injury to the upper part
of the marble facade, and the destruc-
tion of the interior trim, plaster, etc.,
in the offices in that part of the build-
ing.
“There was not at any time any com-
munication of the fire from one story
to another through the floors, the fire-
proof. brick preventing such transmis-
sion. The conflagration in these upper
stories was simply a series of independ-
ent fires on the various floors. These
were for a long time successfully com-
batted by the city fire department and
the fire apparatus which had been in-
stalled in our building, but work in this
fessor
direction had to be abandoned on ac-
count of the intense heat prevailing.
During the entire night this building
stood as a bulwark, preventing the
spread of the flames toward the South,
and it is admitted by all experts that
a most serious general conflagration
was thereby prevented. It is most note-
worthy that, notwithstanding this tre-
mendous ordeal, the steel structure of
the building is practically uninjured, the
roof is virtually intact, and the entire
edifice to-day stands as an object lesson
of the durability arid strength 6f modern
~ construction.
The marble front, which is irreparably
injured in the upper stories, and which
will have to be replaced in part, is a
structure, entirely independent of the
main building, and was simply melted
and disfigured by the intensity of the
heat. From the eighth story down the
only injury is that caused by water, and
this part of the building can be readily
repaired and made tenantable.
The general offices of the Company
are located on the 2d, mezzanine and
3d floors. Here the damage is very
slight, and the Company, from the
morning after the fire, has been trans-
acting its business, regularly and with-
out delay, in its own quarters. There
is not a single book, record or paper
injured in the slightest degree, and the
reports to the contrary never had any
basis in fact. The Company carried
$320,000 insurance on its building, and
in consequence of this precaution it will
suffer no pecuniary loss. It is with
natural pride that the Company sees in
the preservation of its own records, and
in the prevention of a general conflagra-
tion in our City, the vindication of its
good judgment in erecting a building
which by reason of its superior con-
struction so well withstood the test to
which it was subjected.”
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Philadelphia Smoker.
The Yale Alumni of Philadelphia
held a smoker at the University Club of
Philadelphia, rto15 Walnut street, on
Thursday evening, December 15th. A
quartet from the Glee Club composed
ot RoC. “Schneetoch: “WES. 6E T.
Noble, ’909; G. W. Simmons, 1900, and
M. K. Parker, 1901 were present.
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Teachers’ Lectures.
The Fall course of lectures offered by
the Graduate Department to the public
and private school teachers of Connec-
ticut came to a close on December Ioth.
Each course consists of ten lectures,
which are given on Saturday mornings
during the Fall and Winter terms.
The courses offered for next term are
five in number—Educational Theory, by
Professor Sneath; American Social
Problems, by Professor Blackman;
Constitutional History of the United
states; DY Professor. Us -f- Smitn;
Classes of Elizabethan Plays, by Pro-
Beers; . The. Chemistry and
-Physiology of Digestion, by Professor
Chittenden.
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December “ Lit.”
The contents of the December num-
ber of the Yale Literary Magazine,
which will appear on the 15th of this
month, are as follows: :
Essays,— Felis, Rex,” by Ray Morris,
1901; “The Comedy of Manners,” by
H. Taft, 1900; “Paul Lawrence Dun-
bar,’ by J. M. Hopkins, 1900;
Prophet of the Humble,” by J. W. Bar-
ney, 1900; “Jose-Marie de Heredia,”
by R. Kingsley, 1901.
Poems—‘Never Fear,” by Ray Mor-
ris, 1901; “Ad Juventuem,” by M. Mc-
Cormicke19007=: “Stanzas;” «by L.. W.
Dodd, ’99 S.
Portfolios—“A Paradox,” by J. M.
Hopkins, 1900; “Atlanta in Calydon,”
by J. W. Barney, 1900; “Persephone,”
by B. B. Moore, ’99; “The Arming of
Sir Tristram,’ by J. W. Barney, 1900;
“The Soldier Rests Not,” by G. D.
Morgan, 1901.
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A Princeton chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa has been established at Prince-
ton this Fall. Applications for a char-
ter of the Society was made in 1896, and
it was granted on September 7, 1808.
It is to be known as the Beta Chapter
of New Jersey.
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Dividend additions credited to.
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Total amount of Insurance, .- — $1,465.00
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