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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1899.
GIFT OF GERMAN LIBRARY.
A. L. Ripley, °78, Presents 500 Vol-
umes to the Department,
The University has just received from
Mr. Alfred L. ‘Ripley -of Andover,
Mass., a gift of over 500 German books
to be assigned as a nucleus of a Semi-
nary library to the German Department
for the use of the graduate and ad-
vanced undergraduate ‘students in a
room set apart for private work and
study. The books constitute an excel-
lent working library, containing the
best dictionaries of all periods of the
language, including the large Grimm’s
Woerterbuch, historical German gram-
mars, a considerable number of texts
from the earlier periods of German lit-
erature, monographs on philology and
literature, standard editions of the most
important modern classical authors and,
what is particularly valuable for a work-
ing library of this kind, the complete
set of Ktirschner’s Deutsche National-
litteratur, which contains over 200
volumes of the best edited texts from all
periods of German literature.
purpose of housing the library and
carrying out the wishes of the donor the
University authorities have assigned the
rom 117 North College, excellently
adapted to the purpose. During the
vacation this has been fitted up and is
ready for occupation.
A TIMELY GIFT.
The gift was a most timely one, as
the Department has long felt the need
of just such a room for advanced work
with small classes for which a reference
library is almost indispensable. The
Department had been further at a dis-.
advantage in not having a place for a
common meeting ground of instructors
and students for the various institutions
which the Department has been carry-
ing on for a number of years. These
include a Periodical Review. Club,
which meets every fortnight for the
purpose of presenting and discussing
reports from the various German
periodicals, both philological and _lit-
etary; a German Reading Club, which
has met alternate fortnights for the
treading and discussion of certain special
works in German, and a Book Club
for the circulation of the latest litera-
ture. ae
Mr. Ripley’s gift is a generous one
and has been given in a very generous
spirit. Mr. Ripley, who graduated in
1878, it will be remembered, was an
Instructor and assistant Professor of.
German in Yale from 1880 until 1888,
having entire charge of the Department
from 1883 until he resigned his posi-
tion to go into business. He practi-
cally reorganized the Department, hay-
ing been one of the chief promoters of
the introduction of the optional system
at Yale and of the entrance require-
ments in Modern Languages and their
study in the two lower classes. Though
carrying a heavy burden of work, with
large classes and few assistants, he stc-
ceeded in putting the Department upon
a strong basis.
This gift of a large part of his work-
ing library is but another indication of
Professor Ripley’s effective interest in
the University, and especially in that
branch of the work which he did so
much to further—an interest which he
hopes to be able to maintain in the
future in a practical and helpful way.
The members of the German Faculty
are very much pleased at this gift, which
they feel has allowed them to take a
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decided forward step in increasing the
usefulness of the Department and which
opens to them favorable opportunity
for further growth. They feel that no
more effective interest can be shown in
the University than by just such gifts.
And they are hoping that other grad-
uates may also become interested in the
Department and show their interest in
a practical way. Every year, libraries
of German scholars are put into the
market (as just at the present time the
library of the late Professor Baecht-
hold of Ztirich, an excellent collection
of works on German literature), which
would prove a most valuable acquisi-
tion to the Department and to the
University, but for the purchase of
which the University has no available
funds. Already graduates and others
have generously provided the means of
buying such libraries, e. g., those of
Count Riant and Professor Curtius
within a couple of years. The hope is
expressed that now Professor Ripley
has begun the work and furnished the
opportunities for making such a library
in German truly useful, other graduates
may supplement this gift and make it
still more valuable for the future with
its ever increasing demands.
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$150,000 Released to Yale.
The United States Court of Appeals
on Tuesday, Jan. 3, handed down a
decision which, if no further litigation
is engaged in, will free to Yale about
$150,000, from the Fayerweather resid-
uary estate. The decision vacated an
injunction granted by Judge Lacombe
of the United States Circuit Court, re-
straining the executors of the will from
paying any money of the residuary
estate of the late Daniel B. Fayer-
weather, to the twenty-five institutions
named in the will, of which Yale was
one. Yale had already received $300,~
000, $200,000 of which went into the
University funds and $100,000 to the
Sheffield Scientific ‘School.
At the time of the WEEKLY going to
press it could not be learned whether
or not the contesting heirs would at-
tempt to carry the case any further.
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Professor Hoppin’s Lectures.
Professor Hoppin’s lectures at the
Art School for this term are on the
following subjects in painting, sculp-
ture and architecture:
1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 2. Burne-
Jones; 3. Study of a Greek sculptor of
the Post-Pheidian period; 4. Study of
a Greek sculptor of the Post-Pheidian
period; 5. Bourges Cathedral; 6.
French Gothic Architecture; 7. French
Gothic Architecture.
The lectures may overrun the limits.
They will commence Tuesday, Jan-
uary 17th, at 4 Pp. M. and continue on suc-
cessive Tuesdays at the same hour.
This course is open to all members of
the University.
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Kneisel Quartet this Week.
The Kneisel Quartet will give its
postponed concert in the University
Chamber Concert series, Thursday, Jan.
12. The program is the same as that
arranged for the concert of November
20th.
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Winter Term Begun.
The Winter term at Yale began with
the services at Chapel on Tuesday
morning, Jan. 10.
Price Tren. Cents.
A COMPLETE YALE VICTORY.
The Supreme Court Decision im the
Tax Case—Passages from
the Finding.
The greatest battle .Yale -has yet
fought for her financial interests has
been won. The victory is.complete and
so sweeping that there is no chance of
a renewal of operations against the
University. The decision by the Su-
preme Court of Errors of Connecticut
was unanimous and so direct and un-
mistakably strong for Yale all along
the line that the hopes of any better
luck by the Board of Assessors of New
Haven, in a renewal of the contest in
the courts by an appeal to the United
States Supreme Court, is of the faintest
nature. New Haven is already a bit
disgusted with the long and expensive
litigation, which has resulted in heavy
legal expenses, rather than in increased
revenues for the city.
There has been for some time a feel-
ing that: the court could not possibly
construe the law so as to admit of the
taxation of the dormitories, but it
has been felt that there was some
chance that the opportunity might be
given to tax the unimproved real estate,
held by the University. This again was
denied by the court, which admits as
possible to be included in the list, over
and above the items furnished by Mr.
Farnam, one of the Observatory houses
and possibly one or two other minor
items coming under the same classi- ©
fication.
The attempt was made to add to
Yale’s list in the Winter of 1896-7. The
University appealed from the Assessor’s
list; the Board of Relief overruled the
appeal; the University again appealed,
and the case, which thus came _ be-
fore the Superior Court, was reserved
for the Supreme Court, Mr. Charles E.
Perkins of Hartford being named by
the court as a Committee to make a
finding of facts.
The Yale list as prepared bv Mr.
Farnam amounted to $57,680 and was
as follows:
56 Hallhause aves. va Se 2: $19,210.00
24) Work: Ste eS as. 5,000.00
PSRs irk SE xa ee ee 7,300.00
poo Collese “str cs. Bae. 2 ees 5,090.00
se Pi ist fas any ee 7,000.00
EY?s Bimsshoo2 oi Sea 7,200.00
156: Flumephrey vsti es ves. 2. 9 5,080.00
$57,680.00
The list prepared by the Assessors
amounted to $380,866, and included
White, Berkeley and Pierson dormi-
tories, and the Old Gymnasium. The
claim of the Assessors was that these
properties were not used for strictly
collegiate purposes, but came within the
meaning of the statute requiring taxa-
tion for outside properties yielding a
revenue of more than $6,000 annually.
Several passages in the finding of
facts by the Committee, Mr. Perkins,
are of particular interest as showing the
revenues and expenses of the College
and the amounts appropriated for
needy students. A part of the find-
ing runs as follows: :
“T find that the annual outgoes of
the appellant for tuition and the other
expenses of supporting, maintaining,
and providing for the institution of
learning authorized by its act of in-
corporation have generally exceeded
the annual income from its. invested
funds, tuition fees,, and all other
sources, including the amounts received
for the use and occupancy of the rooms
in said White Hall, Berkeley Hall, and
Pierson Hall, excepting benevolent and
charitable contributions, and for several
years past have so exceeded such an-
nual income by several thousand dol-
lars per annum; which sum has been
made up by contributions of divers
persons made for that purpose, with-
out which contributions there would
have been an annual deficit of income
over outgoes; and the tax laid on the
additions made by said assessors to
said appellant’s tax list if collected
must be met and paid out of such bene-
volent and charitable gifts and contrib-
utions,
FIGURES OF INCOME AND EXPENSE,
“And I further find that in 1886 the
income of the appellant, less donations
for income, was $276,000, and that the
expenditures in that year were $326,000,
showing a deficit of $50,000: that in
1894 the receipts of the appellant, less
donations for income, amounting to
$53,000, were $600,604: that the expendi-
tures were $662,338, showing a deficit
of $52,734: that in 1895 the receipts of
the appellant, less donations for in-
come, amounting to $50,000, were
$675,226, and its expenditures $713,804,
showing a deficit of $38,578: that in
1896 the receipts of the appellant, less
donations for income, amounting to
$35,000, were $704,445, and its expendi-
‘tures $719,225, showing a deficit of
$14,784: that in 1897 the receipts of the
appellant, less donations for income,
amounting to $35,000, were $719,726,
and its expenditures $742,959, showing
a deficit of $23,233.
“By the words ‘donations for income’
is meant donations for the current ex-
penses of the College. In the year
ending July 31, 1894, the donations to
endowments, by which is meant dona-
tions to the permanent invested funds
of the College, were $101,000, and dona-
tions to be used only for building pur-
poses were $142,000. In the year 1895,
the donations for endowments were
$235,854.66, and for buildings, $30.200.
In the year ending July 31, 18096, the
donations to endowments were $155,-
546.18, and for buildings, $63,000. For
the year ending July 31, 1897, the
donations for endowments were $412,-
497.91, and for buildings, $15,000. No
donations are included in the _ state-
ment of receipts and expenditures show-
ing an annual deficit as hereinbefore
stated.
CHARITIES LARGE AND SALARIES SMALL,
“T find that while the whole net an-
nual income derived by the appellant
from all the College buildings contain-
ing study and sleeping rooms, from the
students occupying the same, does not
exceed the sum of $55,000, the sum of
$54,000 and over, from the income of
its invested funds and from scholar-
ship funds, so called, is annually ap-
propriated by this appellant to the use
of worthy and needy applicants, to
help them to meet their expenses while
availing themselves of the educational
advantages afforded by the appellant,
whereby students to the number of 160
at all times receive their tuition gratuit-
ously, without the payment of any
money, fee, or reward therefor, while
additional students to the number of
about 270 have their tuition remitted in
part, most of the latter paying only
