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a 280 YALE ALUMNI WEHEEKLY Prof. Beecher’s Election, Professor Charles E. Beecher, Uni- versity Professor of Historical Geology, and since 1888 Curator of Invertebrate Fossils in the Peabody Museum, was on April 20 last elected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that science can award, PROF. CC; E. BEECHER: Prof. Beecher is a graduate of the University of Michigan in 1878, receiv- ing the degree of B.S. After ten years’ work in the University of the State of New York, he came to Yale and a year later was given the degree of Ph.D. > ae Te sl Professor H. W. Parker. [Review of Reviews.] What Professor Paine has done for Harvard, Prof. Horatio William Parker has done and is doing for Yale. As a choral composer of note he is the fore- most of Americans. Professor Parker is still in the prime of life, having been born at Auburndale, Mass., on Septem- ber 16, 1863. He went to Europe in 1882, studied in Munich with Rheinber- ger, and returned to the United States in 1885. After a most successful career of teaching in various schools and for a time in the National Conservatory at New York, and officiating meanwhile as organist in various churches, he came to Boston in 1893 as organist and choir director of Trinity Church. In 1894 he was appointed professor of music at Yale University, though he still re- tained his position at Trinity Church in Boston, and since that time he has been the head of the Department of Music at Yale. Professor Parker has composed up- ward of forty-four works of importance, the latest being “St. Christopher,” a dramatic oratorio, performed in New York for the first time on April 15, 1898. His principal work is without doubt “Hora Novissima,” a setting of the ancient poem of St. Bernard, which was finished in December, 1892. In this Mr. Parker has a clear field. No- body has ever attempted to set this poem to music before because of the extreme difficulty of the meter. This work was first given by the large choral society of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York. It was also per- formed by the Handel and Haydn Society at Boston and at the Worcester music festival in 1898; and it has been accepted for the music festival in Wor- cester, England, where it is to be given in September of the current year. It is a work of great power and depth, and one of the few of its kind among modern choral works which seems des- tined to hold a place along with the imperishable oratorios of the past. Law Journal Election. The board of the Yale Law Journal for the year 1899-1900 were elected Monday, April 24, as follows: Editors—Nathan Ayer Smyth; Wal- ter Dunham Makepeace; Robert Hub- bard Gould; Henry Hotchkiss Town- shend; Leslie Elmer Hubbard; Robert Lewis Munger; George Zahm and John Warren Edgerton. Associate Editors — Cornelius. 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