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After the histories were finished the
Class formed behind the Second Regi-
ment band, which had furnished the
music for the day, and marched to the
East side of Chittenden Library, and in
the angle formed by the joining of the
Chittenden Library wall with the
covered passage way, the Class ivy was
planted. The Committee in charge of
the planting was: Thomas F. Law-
rence, Anson C. Goodyear, and Lau-
rence Tweedy. The Ivy Ode was written
by Huntington Mason of Chicago.
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Class Poem and Oration.
The Class poem and oration were
delivered in Battell Chapel, Monday
morning, June 26. Space does not per-
mit of more than a brief quotation from
each. The closing stanza of the
poem, which was by Howard Chandler
Robbins of Springfield, Mass., is printed
below:
O fearless faith, that with unwearied wing
Starlike hast burned thy heaven-attaining way,
Forgetful of what earlier heights achieved
Might tempt impatient hope to pause, forego
Her pristine aim, so fail at last to win
Abiding place that God accounteth great—
Since half the strenuous rapture of thy flight
Was heritage of unremembered need
That sought no aid, nor grace of guiding hand,
Be this our hope: never in utmost strait
Through vain desire of thine averted face
To cast between thy sunlight and tts bourn
Some earth-flung. sudden shade, but straining on
With foot defiant of all hinderance
To strive in fitting silence, that the dawn
May find us,—unestranged of alien end—
Standing on snow-crowned hills, austere and still,
Whence strife and triumph shall conspire, so blend
To unimaginable chords of peace!
The oration by George Dana Graves
of Manchester, N. H., was on “Force,”
and at its close he addressed himself
to the President as follows:
“eir:: One. of the . most: illustrious
presidents of Yale, upon retiring from
office, once. said to. the Senior class,
‘We have now reached the zenith of
our glory.’ What was then said, in-
formally, we wish soberly to repeat.
To the Class of Forty-Nine we are
linked by fifty years of true scholarship,
noble activity and the highest manhood.
For thirteen years one of our number
has inspired with his spirit a great cen-
ter of education. Under his charge a
struggling college has grown to a large
university; its once meagre curriculum
now requires a catalogue of over 400
pages; the whole aspect of the Campus
has changed; instead of a few scattered
buildings is now seen our beautiful
quadrangle; and at this moment
throughout the continent great men are
busy with the wider plans which he con-
ceived. It is not alone that this man
has changed a college into a university
that we honor him, nor that he has
served our college with a labor of
love,—so fully given himself to its
interests that the gift of a fortune is
scarce remembered,—these things are
known to the world; but because wher-
ever our lives have touched your life
we have found a friend, wise enough to
be strong, great enough to be kind.
We respect in you the man of affairs,
we reverence in you the great president,
we have the highest pride in our class-
mate, but for our friend we have a feel-
ing better than all.
“Our parting wish is that you may
long live to enjoy the fruit of your
labor, and that you may not withdraw
from Yale that distinctive spirit which
makes every man proud to have lived
within her gates.”
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Sheff. Class Day.
The Class-day exercises of the Shef-
field Scientific School were held June
24, on the vacant lot at the co-ner
of Grove street and Hillhouse avenue,
where a large ampitheater had been
erected. The day was delightful and
the attendance large. During intervals
between the histories, the Second Regi-
ment band played selections and ac-
companied the songs. The _ historians
of the Class were: Henry Seidel Canby,
Wilmington, Del.; Walter Murray San-
ders, Montclair, N. J.; James Mclean
Walton, Ridgewood, N. J.; Myron
Turner Townsend, New York City, and °
Benjamin Vernon Norton, Detroit,
Mich.
The Class poem was by Lee Wilson
Dodd of New York City.
When the exercises were over, the
Class formed behind the band and
marched to the houses of the Faculty,
where cheers were given for each pro-
fessor in the School. From _ four
o’clock till seven the annual reception
was held in Winchester Hall.
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LAW SCHOOL EXERCISES,
Gen. Griggs Delivers the Address—
Studinski Wins Townsend.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the
Yale Law School was held on Monday,
June 26. At the alumni dinner in the
Law School Library in the afternoon
there was a very large attendance and
speeches were made by Mayor C. T.
Driscoll, ’69; J. B. Woodruff; Judge
Dwight Loomis; Augustus B. Bowers;
W. F. Foster, ’94 L.S., and Dean Fran-
cis Wayland.
At 3 o’clock the members of the
graduating class, the Faculty and guests
marched to College Street Hall, where
the prize speaking and the address of
the day were heard. The address was
by United States. Attorney-General
J. W Griggs, who closed his remarks
to the Class as follows: |
“For your exemplar let me commend
the ideal of the good lawyer—I do not
say the great, but the good lawyer—an
ideal that has been realized in the life of
every substantial city and courthouse
town, especially in the older neighbor-
hoods. His mind is grounded upon
the broad and deep principles of juris-
prudence rather than upon “wise saws
and modern instances,” but over all is
reflected the illumination of a strong
common-sense and a refined tactfulness.
To his clients he is an object of con-
fidence and real affection; the secure
depositary of family secrets, and the
safe guide and counsellor in trouble and
difficulty; composing, not stirring up
strife, but when in actual trial, strong,
aggressive, confident; never quibbling
or dissembling, respectful to witnesses,
to jurors and to judge, as well as to his
adversary.
“Tn the judgment and feelings of the
community there is something of the
CLASS POET, H. C. ROBBINS.
venerable and illustrious attached to his
name; not for his learning in the law,
not for his success as an advocate, not
for his mere usefulness to his fellow-_
citizens as a counsellor and guide, but
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for the benignant influence of his whole
life and character; and when he dies
to every mind there comes a suggestion
of the epitaph that -shall most fittingly
‘preserve the estimate which the people
have formed of him, “the just man and
the councillor.”
The Townsend Prize orations were
delivered by T. M. Connor, of North-
ampton, Mass.; C. W. Birely of New
Haven; E. L. Smith of Hartford, and
C. H. Studinski of Pueblo, Colo. The
prize was won by Mr. Studinski.
Prizes awards were made as follows:
The Jewell Prize to that member of
the Senior class who receives the high-
est marks at his annual examination—
A. Corbin, A.B., University of
The Munson Prize for the best grad-
uating thesis by a member of the Senior
class—F, S. Jackson, B.A., Yale Uni-
versity, 1806. :
The Betts Prize to that member of
the Junior class who receives.the high-
est marks at his junior examination—
C. P. Getchel, B.A., Yale 1897.
The Wayland Prize to those three
members of the Yale Kent Club who,
in a public competitive debate, are
pronounced first, second and third in
excellence as debaters—First prize, J.
B. Ullman, New Haven; second, N. A.
Smyth, B.A., Yale 1897; third, F: A.
Lord, B.A., Yale 1808.
The Edward Thompson Company
Prize to that member of the middle
class who shall pass the best examina-
tion in the required and ‘optional studies
= oe year—George Zahm, Syracuse,
Kent Club Diplomas for Excellence
in Debate—C. H. Harriman, Fryeburg,
Me.; W. C. Keane, New Haven; T. F,
Noone, Rockville, Conn.; S. P. North-
rup, Augusta, N. J.; L. M. Sonnenburg
and J. B. Ullman, New Haven.
HONORS.
Degree of LL.B., magna cum laude
—C. M. Birely and A. L, Corbin, New
Haven.
Degree of LL.B., cum laude—T. M.
Connor, Northampton, Mass.; Harri-
son Hewitt, New Haven; N. L. Mont-
gomery, Micanopy, Fla.; T. F. Noone,
Rockville;, Conn,, and. FE. To. Sera.
Hartford.
Middle. Class—W. FF. Conway,
Newark, N. J.; J. E. Edgerton, Middle-
town, Conn.; L. E. Hubbard, Meriden,
rate and George Zahm, Syracuse,
Junior Class—M. T. Bennett, Hart-
ford, Conn.; H. W. Fisher, New Ha-
ven; John Hillard, Farmington, Conn.;
C. P. Hine, Poland, Ohio; W. B. John-
son, Enfield, Conn.> GC.” P...Mitchell,
New Haven; W. D. Makepeace, Spring-
field, Mass.; N.. A. Smyin and: fea.
Townsend, New Haven.
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Law Journal Officers,
At the regular annual meeting of the
Yale Law Journal Corporation held
June 23 the following officers were
chosen for the ensuing year: Nathan
Ayer Smyth, ’97, Chairman, and Walter
Dunham .Makepeace, ’97, Business
Manager. ;
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.
An Important Move for Funds—
Alumni Exercises.
The annual banquet of the Yale Medi-
cal Alumni Association was held at the
Hotel Tontine on Monday evening,
June 26. The president of the Asso-
ciatron, Dr. Samuel D. Gilbert, °74
M.S., presided and Dr. Henry L.
Swain, *84M.S., acted as toastmaster.
The following toasts were responded
to:
“The Mental Scientist,” Henry P.
Stearns, M.D., 755 M.S.; ‘‘Medical Men
in the Army,”’. J. F. Calef, M.D., 80
M.S.; . “Harvard,” Prof. Charles S.
Minot, Sc.D.; “Medical Yale; Retro-
spective and Prospective,’ Prof. Her-
bert: #.: Smith, .M.D.;. .“Expansion,”
Leonard W. Bacon, M.D., ’92M.:5S.;
“The Ladies,” Ernest Dwight Chipman,
M.D,, 707 M.S.....Embryos . of ~ ’99,”
Thomas Bergin, M.D., ’99 M.S.
At the twentieth meeting of the Asso-
ciation on Tuesday morning at the Med-
ical School, President Gilbert delivered
the address. The success of the lec-
tures of the Association given during
the past few years has been such as to
cause their permanent establishment.
There will be two or three given
annually hereafter. A vote of thanks
was taken for this year’s lecturers—
Profs. Barker, of Johns Hopkins,
Alexander, of Cornell and Morris
Richardson of Harvard.
The report of the Secretary and
Treasurer showed the past year to have
been the most successful in the history
of the Association, both in the number
of new members and in the amount of
money collected from the old members,
as well as in the work accomplished.
A most important move was made at
this meeting ‘in the election of a com-
mittee consisting of eleven oraduates
from different sections of the country
for the purpose of collecting funds for
the Medical Department from the
alumni’ and friends of the institution
between the present time and the bi-
centennial celebration in 1901. ‘The
committee consists of the following:
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