YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY.
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Dr. H. P. Stearns, Hartford, Conn.;
Dr. S. D. Twining, Chicago, Ill.; Dr.
G. R. Shepherd, Hartford, Conn.; Dr.
Robert Lauder, Bridgeport, Conn.; Dr.
T. M. Prudden, New York City; Dr.
H. H. Curtiss, New York City; Dr. G.
R. Fiske, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. E. R. Bald-
win, Saranae Lake, N. Y.; Dr. F..O.
Chamberlain, San® Francisco, Cal.; Dr.
Vertner Kenerson, Buffalo, N. Y.; Dr.
F. C. Bishop (Chairman), New Haven,
Conn,
It was felt that the present is a most
opportune time for such a committee to
act. Not only must this Department
share in the general development of the
next two years, but when President
Dwight declares in his last annual
report that the greatest present need
of the University in his judgment is a
new clinical and pathological build-
ing for the Medical Department, and
when the instructors of the school are
compelled to give tne larger part of
their time to matters of routine work
which is done by assistants and janitors
in other schools, it is felt that this De-
partment deserves in an unusual degree
financial assistance from the friends of
the University.
The following are the officers of the
Association for the coming year: Presi-
dent Dr. G. R. Shepherd of Hartford,
Conn.; Vice-Presidents, Dr. C. J. Bart-
lett, New Haver; “Conn? Dro Rio:
Peck, New Haven, Conn.; Dr. G. B.
Peck, -trovidence.- KR. I> Dr... GB:
- Welch, Winsted, Conn.; Dr. Dean Fos-
ter, Medford, Oklahoma. Secretary
and Treasurer, Dr. F. C. Bishop, New
Haven, Conn. Chairman of Executive
Committee, Dr. F. N. Sperry, New
Haven, Conn. Chairman of Lecture
Committee, Dr. C. J. Bartlett, New
Haven, Conn.
The annual address to the Senior class
of the School was delivered at noon
on Tuesday in College Street Hall, by
Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, of Bos-
ton, a professor in the Harvard Medi-
cal School. His subject was ‘“Knowl-
edge and Practice.”
GENERAL ALUMNI MEBTING.
Speakers from the Different Reunion
Classes Heard.
There was only a fair audience present
at the general alumni meeting in
Alumni Hall Tuesday morning, June
27, when Hon. Gardiner Lathrop, ’609,
the presiding officer, rapped for order
at a quarter of 10. Prof. Benjamin
W. Bacon, ’81, made the opening
prayer, asking a blessing on the out-
going and the incoming presidents of
Yale. The prayer ended, the usual in-
vitation to graduates of fifty years stand-
ing, or over, was given and seven mem-
bers of the Class of Forty-Nine took
seats upon the platform. They were:
Professor Franklin W. Fisk of Chicago;
Rev. S. Bourne, New York; Prof. Ed-
ward D. Morris, Columbus, O.; Gen-
eral William H. Jessup, Montrose, Pa.;
Hon. Francis M. Finch, Ithaca, N. Y.;
Rev. E. A. Buck, Fall River, Mass.,
and E. F. Hall, New York City..
In his opening address Mr. Lathrop
approved the election of a layman to
the presidency of the University, not
because the clergy were no longer eligi-
ble, but because he considered it ‘well
that both sides were eligible. Speaking
of the elective system, he thought that
Yale had chosen the golden mean be-
tween that which was compulsory and
that which was elective, and believed
that a change from it could not be made
with safety. In closing he urged a
wider circulation of what the University
offers and prophesied much good to the
undergraduate and post graduate de-
partments from visits the president and
professors might make to the large
cities of the West to spread abroad the
fame of Yale. ,
Hon. Francis M. Finch spoke for the
Class of Forty-Nine. “I speak for a
class that was never very famous,” said:
he. “We never looked down on the
crowd from a balloon, but belonged
to the average Yale class, seeking no
praise, avoiding no duty and doing our
work vigorously and well. We were
rather like the wheelhorses who
dragged the load than the dashing
leaders who rattled their harness and
.shook the foam from their mouths.”
Speaking of the membership of his
Class he said, that of the 94 mem-
bers who graduated in 1894, ss had
died and were holding their reunion on
the other side of the river with Wool-
sey and Silliman, and Olmstead and
Stanley and Thacher and Hadley; 39
had gone along the ordinary walks of
life soberly and patiently; 14 went to
the Civil War, where 6 fought for the
North and 8 for the South. Judge .
Finch closed his address with praise for
the new President’s father. “He took
some splinters out of me,” said he,
“which might have festered, without
hurting me.. I do not know the Presi-
dent-elect, but I respect the new Presi-
dent for his father’s sake, and by and
bye, my respect will be for his own
sake.”
THE NEW SECRETARY.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., ’96, re-
sponded for Ninety-Six. His first
words were for President Dwight, whom
he said the Class thanked for what he
had done to build up Yale, for his-
joyous philosophy as shown in his last
baccalaureate sermon, and for his ear-
nest faith, and hoped that he might live
long to be an inspiration to his succes-
sor. He welcomed Professor Hadley
in the name of the Class he represented.
“We welcome him,” said the speaker,
“for his democracy; for his whole-
hearted love for the students; and for
his earnest work as a Christian gentle-
man and a scholar.” Mr. Stokes also
spoke of the distinguished services of
Professor George J. Brush, and assured
his successor, Prof. Russell H. Chit-
tenden, of the support of his classmates.
will be preserved through all time.”
At the conclusion of the speech of
Rev. George W. Judson, of Meriden,
Conn., who spoke for the Class of
Eighty-Four, President-elect - Hadley
was seen at the doorway. As he passed
around the room to the stage he was
greeted with great cheering. He was
asked to say a few words and when
introduced to the audience spoke
something as follows: “I thank you
cordially for this friendly greeting. I
hoped to have something really new to
say when this time came, but I regret
I have not the words to answer and
express myself. I ask for your hearty
cooperation in the future of the friends
and graduates of Yale, which among
many things in days past was the
greatest.”
John Hill Morgan, ’93, of New York,
when called upon gave some interest-
ing statistics of his Class, which while
in College was considered to be a class
of misogynists. He said that out of
the 186 members eraduating 54 of the
misogynists had left the quiet of bache-
lor life, and had added to the population
of the United States 26 boys and 15
girls. He wished a godspeed to Presi-
dent Dwight and welcomed President
Hadley.
YALE CONSERVATISM COMMENDED.
The Class of Fifty-Nine was repre-
sented by Prof. John H. Hewitt of
Williams College. In the course of his
remarks he said: “I admire Yale for
her conservatism in the problems of
education. She has steadily resisted the
téndency towards the multiplying of
elective studies, and I, for one, hope the
day is far off when Yale will give the
B.A. degree with Greek.” He spoke of
having come under the influence of
Prof. James Hadley, the father of the
new President and told a story of the
young man’s precocity in the Greek .
language. He felt President Hadley
would keep intact the best traditions of
Yale.
Rev. E. L. Parsons of California spoke
for the Class of Eighty-Nine, “the Class
that. loved a:. ‘scrap,:”. he. said... He
asked the new President to see that
Yale men stood for stalwartness ‘as
well as culture.
Charles Es Gross, ’60, of Hartford.
Conn., spoke for his class, and said
that he was of the opinion that Yale
never kept close enough to her. grad-
uates. “Now that the Fence is gone,”
said he, ‘we are lost and know not
where to turn. When the new Alumni
Hall is built there should be provision
made for returning classes; places set
aside for the old graduate to rest and
smoke and meet his classmates. No
_man likes to be a tramp on his ancestral
acres.”
Hon. C. F. Joy, ’74, of St. . Louis,
and Henry M. Whitney, ’64, of the
University of Wisconsin, were the last
speakers of the morning and both spoke
words of praise for the old and the new
President.
‘more intention.
The DeForest Oration.
The DeForest speaking was held in
-Battell Chapel, Friday afternoon, June
23, and the medal was won by Carroll
Fuller Sweet of Grand Rapids, Mich.
His subject was “Colonial Expansion.”
The other speakers, with their subjects,
were: Horace Jewell Fenton, “Colo-
nial Expansion”; George Dana Graves,
“Faust”; Arthur Sears Hamlin, “The
Puritan Inheritance’; Richard Hooker,
“The Italian Struggle for Liberty”;
Henry Robinson Shipman, “The Cav-
aliers.”’
Mr. Sweet’s closing sentences are
quoted below:
“The greatest needs of the United
States to-day are not more, but better
citizens; not more territory, but better
CLASS ORATOR, GEORGE D. GRAVES.
government and better development of
what it has, not more, but better foreign
immigration; better relations between
capital and labor; a better development
of its foreign commerce, and.a larger
foreign market for its agricultural
products and manufactures; a_ better
financial system; and a speedy return
-of public sentiment to the conviction
that this nation’s first duty and great-
est usefulness to.the world consists in
the preservation of civil liberty and
popular government, in the fullest and
best sense of those terms. In short,
as one has so aptly termed it. ‘What
we need is not more extension, but
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THE RETIRING OFFICERS.
Corporation " Resolutions on Prof.
Dexter and Mr. Farnam.
At its meeting in Commencement
week the Corporation adopted the fol-
lowing minute concerning Prof. F. B.
Dexter, the retiring Secretary:
“The Corporation of Yale University,
in accepting with unfeigned regret the
resignation of Franklin B. Dexter,
M.A., for thirty years its Secretary, de-
sires to place on record its grateful
acknowledgment of the signal ability
and fidelity with which, through so long
a period, he has performed the onerous
and responsible duty of the office he
now lays down.
“Growing in importance and in the ~
measure of its requirements with the
development of the University, on none
of his predecessors has it brought a
burden of care and labor equal to that
which it has devolved upon him. To
his extraordinary qualification for it,
in native aptitude and in competency
of knowledge, he has added a devotion
and a diligence in service, which have
completely met its demands; which
have deserved and have won our united
admiration; and which entitle him, in
our judgment, to honorable-recognition
as the promoter, in no small degree, of
the interest of the University.”
The following minute was also
adopted in regard to Mr. Farnam, the
retiring Treasurer:
“It is with great regret that the Cor-
poration accedes to the request of Mr.
William W. Farnam, the Treasurer of
the University, to be permitted to re-
tire from his official position at the
end of the current fiscal year.
“Tt is well understood that he was
only induced to take the position from
a sense of loyalty to his Alma Mater,
and a friendship for President Dwight;
but his great success in the administra- —
tion of his office, his energetic and
judicious efforts in every direction
where the financial interests of the Uni-
versity were concerned, his sound sense
and conservative judgment on all mat-
ters within his province, have so im-
pressed the Corporation that they have
come to feel that it is almost impossible
to spare him, and in yielding to a re-
lease, which they admit his right to
ask, they wish to place on record their
profound sense of the value of his ser-
vices to the University and their per-
sonal regret at parting from an officer
who has won their highest esteem.”
Midsummer
Number.
On August 15th the Weekly
will publish its first midsum-
mer number. This will con-
tain an account, from our own
correspondent, of the athletic
meet in London, between Yale
and Harvard and Oxford and
Cambridge, with illustrations.
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the games in detail will be de-
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of the University, and of Yale
men, of the month, the number
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