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YALE ALUMNI WHEEKLY
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS. |
Sketches of the Men Who Were Ap-
pointed and Advanced Last Week.
At the Corporation meeting held on
March 16, three new appointments were
made and six promotions of assistants
in different subjects to instructorship
given. A brief sketch of each man
follows:
Sherwood O. Dickerman; who was
elected to a tutorship in Greek in the
Academic Department, graduated from
Yale with Class of Ninety-Six, and was
awarded the Soldiers’ Memorial Fellow-
ship. He has held this Fellowship for
the past three years, and has spent the
last two in Athens in connection with
the American School of Classical
Studies there. He is well fitted for the
position of tutor of Greek.
C. U. Clark was appointed Tutor in
Latin. Mr. Clark graduated from
Yale in 1897, and during his College
course won several prizes, the C.
Wyllys Betts Prize, Winthrop Prize, a
second prize in TenEyck speaking, the
Scott Prize in French and the Thacher
Prize. He wasia @ B.-K man. and
while in College was prominent in de-
bating, against both Harvard and
Princeton. In May, 1808, he went
abroad and while in Europe studied at
Munich and Grenoble, and later at the
American School of Classical Studies
at Rome, from which institution he
holds a scholarship. Mr. Clark is at
present traveling through Greece.
Milton B. Porter, who was appointed
Instructor in Mathematics, is a grad-
uate of the University of Texas, but he
spent several years in study at Harvard
and received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in 1897. Since that time
he has been teaching Mathematics in
the University of Texas.
Dr. Gervase Green, who was ad-
vanced from an assistant to an In-
structor in Philosophy, was fitted for
College at Mt. Hermon, Mass., and
was graduated from Yale in the Class
of 1894. He was granted the Macy
Fellowship and spent the next three
years as a post graduate student
here, serving also as Lecturer in
Philosophy during the last year. In
1897 he was given the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy and has since been as-
sistant, chiefly to Professor Ladd, in
Philosophy and Pedagogy.
Dr. Isaac K. Phelps was similarly
promoted to be Instructor in Chemistry
in the Kent Laboratory. Dr Phelps
prepared for Yale at the Enfield High
School, Thompsonville, Conn., and was
a member of the Class of Ninety-Four.
After graduation he held the Silliman
Fellowship for three years and was as-
sistant in the Kent Laboratory. In
1897, Dr. Phelps was given the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy and also
received the Thayer Scholarship from
Harvard, where he spent the follow-
ing year in study of Organic Chemistry.
He returned to New Haven last Fall
and resumed his position as assistant in
the Laboratory.
Dr. George D. Kellogg was ap-
pointed tutor in Latin, Mr. Kellogg
graduated from Yale in the Class of
Ninety-Five and besides making Phi
Béta Kappa won the following honors
and scholarships during his course:
Woolsey Scholarship; Berkeley prem-
ium, first grade; Thomas Glasby Water-
man Scholarship; First Lucius Robin-
son Prize in both Sophomore and
Junior years;  Bristed Scholarship..
After graduating Mr. Kellogg entered
the Graduate Department at Yale, tak-
ing the degree of Ph.D. in 1808, and
during this time he taught for one year,
1896-97, as substitute for Dr. Thompson.
He is planning to spend a year abroad,
if possible, before entering his work.
Dr. T. W. Heermance now Tutor in
Greek was appointed Instructor in
Greek and Archaeology in the College.
Dr. Heermance prepared for Yale at
the Alexander Military Institute of
White Plains, N, Y. and was graduated
from the University in the Class of
Ninety-Three. The first three years
after graduation he spent in post-gradu-
ate work, studying in New Haven the
_ first year ‘and in the American Schoo]
_ at Athens the next two years. Return-
ing to America, Dr. Heermance was
made Tutor in Greek in the Fall of
Ninety-Seven and in June of the follow-
ing year was given the degree of Docto
of Philosophy.
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Dr. Warren J. Moulton now an
Assistant was made a full Instructor in
the College, in Biblical Literature.
Dr. Moulton graduated from the Yale
Divinity School in 189%, having pre-
viously graduated from Amherst in
1888. After taking his degree in the
Divinity School, Dr. Moulton studied
for a year and a half in the School under
the Hooker Fellowship, then went to
Germany and studied at G6ttingen, tak-
ing his Doctor’s examination there in
June, 1898, entering on his duties in
College last Fall.
Yale Lit. Banquet.
The sixty-third annual banquet of the
Vale Literary Magazine was held at the
Tontine Hotel, Tuesday evening, March
21.
The following men responded to
toasts: H. A. Callahan, ’99, Chairman
of the retiring board; O. M. Johnson,
1900, Chairman of the incoming board;
Mr. C. M. Lewis, ’86; Professor Wim.
L. Phelps, ’87; Mr. E. Boltwood, ’92;
Dr. E. B. Reed, ’94, and Mr. Rideout,
of Harvard. :
The visitors included the following
men: A. Lee, ’91; Yandell Henderson,
95: C. W. Wells, ’96; N. A. Smyth, .
’o7; F. A. Lord, ’98; M. T.’ Bennett,
798: A. G. Vanderbilt, ’99; W. DeL.
Kountze, 99; J. M. Magee, ’99; BLE
Evans, 799; W. F. Whitehouse, ’99;
J. Brown, ’99; L. Cogswell, ’99; D. H.
Day, ’60;° C..E.-Hay,: 00; HSB.
Yergason, ’99; F. M. Davies, ’99; C.
H. Conner, ’99, and J. B. Adams, ’99. .
Yale Y. MW. C. A.
The annual election of the Yale Y.
M. C. A. officers was held in Dwight
Hall, Monday evening, March 20. J.
G. P. Stokes, ’92S., was elected to fill
the vacancy on the Board of Directors,
to hold office till 10905. Henry B.
Wright, ’98, was re-appointed General
Secretary for the coming year. The
others elected were: President, from
1900, Matthew Mills, of Chicago; Vice-
President from 1900S., Orville H.
Schell, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Vice-Presi-
dent from 1901, Paul D. Moody, of East
Northfield; Recording Secretary, from
1902, E. E. Stebbins, of Rochester, N.
Y.: Undergraduate Treasurer, from
1900, William S. Coffin, of New York
City. —
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