the coast defences of the country at its
principal port. DE
miral Bunce has been an authority in
several branches of naval warfare. In
courts martial his services have been
highly esteemed.”
PRESENTING MR, DODGE.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity
Reverend David Stuart Dodge, Presi-
dent of the Presbyterian Board of
Home Missions. Mr. Dodge, a grad-
uate of Yale in the Class of 1857, mani-
fested as a student the disposition which
has prompted him to devote his time
and this means to the cause of educa-
tion and religion. While in Syria he
was inspired with the purpose to do
something effective for the enlighten-
ment of the people in that region. He
procured the charter and obtained the
funds for the foundation of the Syrian
Protestant College at Beirut, secured
for it instructors of marked ability, or-
ganized the course of study, himself
served as a Professor for a number of
years, and has ever since acted as a
kind of general Manager and Treasurer.
This college at Beirut has exerted a
strong influence over all the Arabic-
speaking peoples. In this countrv, Mr.
Dodge thas given much time and con-
tributed generously to the founding of
schools for poor whites in the South.
In the city of New York he has been
actively concerned in no small number
of charitable undertakings. All this
time, in connection with absorbing
activity in behalf of others, Mr. Dodge
has kept up scholarly studies with a
degree of success that merits honorable
recognition.”
PRESENTING DR. SMITH.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity
Professor George Adam Smith, Profes-
sor of Hebrew and Old Testament
Exegesis in Free Church College,
Glasgow. The name of Professor
Smith is well known beyond the bor-
ders of his own country as that of an
eminent scholar and author, and as one
of a group of men who, in the pulpit
and through other channels, have car-
ried into the earnest inculcation of
Christian truth a method and spirit
specially fitted to the altered times.
His experience as a preacher was
mainly in Aberdeen, during a period of
about ten years. Of his winning elo-
quence in the pulpit none who have
heard him during his recent sojourn
among us need to be informed. Be--
fore assuming his present post of in-
struction, for which ‘his studies at
home and in Germany were a complete
preparation, he twice visited Palestine
and Egypt. His elaborate work, the
“Historical Geography,” is the product
of his studies and travels. Better
known to general readers are his ad-
mirable Commentaries on Isaiah and on
the Twelve Prophets. These works, al-
though based on accurate scholarship
and familiarity with modern Biblical
Criticism, are not in the form of dry
annotations. They are fluent, spirited
writings—expositions of the text and
pictures of the times. Better still, they
combine with frankness in the expres-
sion of critical opinions, whether or
not at variance with popular tenets, a
profound belief in the divine revelation
at the basis of the Bible, and a reverent
appreciation of the incomparable value
of the Scriptures. The same qualities
have characterized his recent course of
lectures to the Yale Divinity School,
on the ‘Preaching of the Old Testa-
ment.” They have presented an ex-
ample of the harmonious union of
scientific thoroughness and Christian
faith. The last production ‘of Professor
Smith, the Life of Henry Drummond,
is the biography of one of the group
of associates to whom I have referred,—
of one who is remembered with grati-
tude in so many American colleges.”
PRESENTING JUDGE ADAMS.
“J have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws Hon.
Frederick Adams, Judge of the Court
of Errors and Appeals in the State of
New Jersey. Judge Adams was grad-
uated at Yale in 1862. His professional
life has been mostly spent in New Jer-
sey. His appointment (in 1897) to his
present station followed naturally upon
the high estimate of this qualifications
which had been formed by his brethren
at the bar. It verified an early judg-
For many years Ad- his c
judicial temper.
ment which his classmates formed, in
his college days, of his ability and his
The Court of which
he is a member is the Supreme Ap-
pellate tribunal of the State, whose
function it is to review: the decisions
of the Supreme Court and of. other
courts of subordinate jurisdiction.
Judge Adams is likewise, ex-officio, a
Judge of the Court of Pardons,— a
court which in New Jersey is invested
with unusual powers. Let me add that
he has not allowed himself to abandon
his classical studies, and has found time
for literary compositions both in prose
and verse.”
PRESENTING MR. KINGSBURY.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws Hon.
Frederick John Kingsbury, of Water-
bury, Connecticut. Mr. Kingsbury re-
ceived the Bachelor’s degree at Yale
in 1846. After studying law and spend-
REV. NEWMAN SMYTH.
Succeeds Rey. George L. Walker in Corporation.
ing a few years in legal practice, he
directed his attention to banking and to
business connected with manufacturing
and railways. Responsible _ stations
‘held by him in these employments,
' however, have not prevented him from
giving generously his time and counsels
to the highest interests of the com-
munity. In civil and ecclesiastical af-
fairs, his services have been prized.
While in the Legislature of Connecticut,
he served on a Committee on the revi-
sion of the statutes of the State. Mr.
Kingsbury’s literary tastes, early de-
veloped, have found expression in
numerous contributions to Reviews and
other journals, and in writings pertain-
ing to local history and social economy.
For three years he was President of
the American Social Science Associa-
tion. It has been truly said, that “in a
city devoted to manufactures and trade,
he has long been a conspicuous repre-
sentative of the best American culture,
illustrating the practicability of com-
bining an intelligent interest in litera-
ture, art and science, with fidelity to
important business trusts and to con-
stantly accumulating duties.” I have
only to add, that for the last eighteen
years Mr. Kingsbury has served Yale
University as a member of the Corpora-
tion, with unsurpassed fidelity and wis-
dom. The degree now offered to him
by the spontaneous act of his asso-
ciates, on his. retirement from office,
while it is merited on other grounds,
is a grateful acknowledgment of the
debt which the University owes to
him.”
PRESENTING MR. M’CLINTOCK.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws
Emory McClintock, a graduate of Co-
lumbia in 1859. The extraordinary
capacity of Dr. McClintock as a mathe- —
matician led to his appointment as a
College instructor while he was still
a student in the Senior class. Since
that time, his work in this department
of science has been such as to receive
for its originality and value the most
honorable recognition from the mathe-
maticians of highest repute in this
country and Great Britain. He has ob-
tained satisfactory results in relation to
problems of a profound and difficult
nature. At the same time he has devel-
oped principles and methods of great
importance in his chosen fields of re-
search. The titles of his printed con-
tributions to the American Journal of
Mathematics and to other periodicals
are themselves indicative of the depth
of this investigations. For four years
he ‘has been President of the American
‘Mathematical Society. While engaged
in scientific researches, Dr. McClintock
-has been the Actuary of more than one
‘of the chief Life Insurance organiza-
tions in America. He was the first
American to be elected as a fellow of
the Institute of Actuaries of Great
Britain, and he was for some years the
President of the Actuarial Society of
America, which he took an active part
in organizing, and which comprises in
its membership the entire profession on
this continent.
PRESENTING DR. VON ROTTENBURG.
“I have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws His
Excellency, Dr. Franz Johannes von
-Rottenburg, Curator of the University
of Bonn. For several years Dr. von
Rottenburg held a very high position
in the Foreign Office at Berlin, which
brought him into close and confidential
relations with Prince Bismarck. He
was rapidly advanced in official promo-
tion, received the title of ‘von,’ and
was made a ‘Wirklicher Geheimrath.’
Dr. von Rottenburg has given to the
public the first instalment of a learned
treatise, ‘Vom Begriff des Staates.’
Absorption in public affairs and im-
paired health have thus far prevented
its completion.
the important office of Curator of the
University of Bonn. The degree which
you are asked to confer is not only a
suitable tribute to acknowledged merit;
it is likewise a greeting from Yale to
a representative of a great Prussian
University. May it. contribute’ to
strengthen the bond of good-will which
connects our country with the Land of
Scholars, which is to so many of us our
intellectual Fatherland!”
PRESENTING PROFESSOR MINOT.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws
Charles Sedgwick Minot, S.D., Profes-
sor of Histology and Human Embry-
ology in MHarvard University. Dr.
Minot is a graduate of the Boston
School of Technology, and worked in
Leipsic,, Paris, and Wurtzburg, under
the most eminent teachers. His great
treatise of Human Embryology, which
has been translated into German, is the
standard authority on the subject. It
was followed by a large quarto volume,
‘a Bibliography of Vertebrate Embry-
ology, containing three thousand classi-
fied titles, with a full index of authors.
REV. NEWELL M. CALHOUN.
Succeeds Rey. J. W. Backus in Corporation.
Dr. Minot’s numerous works are not
mere records of observed facts and
of theories previously broached, but
abound in original and far-reaching
theories of his own, some of which
Will always be associated with his name.
He has, moreover, given much time
and attention to the practical, mechani-
cal work of investigation, and to the
invention of two of the best forms of
the microtome, the instrument, next to
the microscope, the most useful to
histologists and embryologists. It in-
dicates the high standing of Dr. Minot,
as a biologist, that he has served as
President of the American Morphologi-
cal Society, and, also, of the Ameri-
can Society of Naturalists.
PRESENTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL GRIGGS.
“T have the honor to present to you
for the degree of Doctor of Laws Hon.
John William Griggs, Attorney-Gen-
eral of the United States. Mr. Griggs
He holds at present.
aT pe ee
was graduated at Lafayette College in
1868. In 1871 he began the practice of
law in New Jersey, his native State.
He was early advanced by his fellow
citizens to public offices. He was first
a member of the General Assembly,
then State Senator, then President of
the Senate, and was inaugurated as
Governor in 1896. This station he re-
signed in 1898, to accept a seat, as
Attorney-General, in the Cabinet of
President McKinley. To dwell on the
legal ability and attainments of Gover-
nor Griggs would be to rehearse
familiar facts. : |
THE CENTURY REVIEWED.
The President’s Sketch of the Waking
of the University.
[Being the address, delivered at the Commencement
exercises in Battell Chapel, Wednesday morn-
ing, June 28. 1899, by President
Timothy Dwight.]
In the arrangements for our Com-
mencement exercises which were made
when the old order for the day was
abandoned and the new one was insti-
tuted, it was provided that the Presi-
dent should make at the beginning of
the service a brief address. This ad-
dress was intended to be, and in previ-
ous years it has been, a review, in
some measure, of the events of the
year as related to the history and pro-
gress of the University, and the setting
forth of those matters connected with
its life in the period just finished which
might seem to be of peculiar interest
to its graduates and friends. On the
present occasion, however, an address
of this character will be regarded as
less called for, and less appropriate ;—
less called for, because a full ‘and for-
mal record of the year 1898 and of the
portion of the year 1899 which has now
passed thas been presented by the Presi-
dent to the Corporation and been given
to the public within the last few days;—
less appropriate, because we stand to-
day at the dividing-point of two ad-
ministrations, and as it were, also, of
two centuries. If our minds turn back-
ward at all at such a time, it would
seem more fitting to take into the
thought a longer period and try to
get a larger vision. If we let our
thinking follow the impulses and in-
spirations of the hour, on the other
hand, we shall the more readily open
our view to the future, and listen to
its suggestions of hope and of promise.
~ In what I have the privilege of say-
ing at this time, accordingly, I would
leave the year that is behind us out
of view, and would give expression to
a few thoughts with reference to the
century now closing and to the era that
is soon to open.
The history of our institution in the
nineteenth century has seemed to me
in all my thought of it, as I have from
time to time traced its progress from
its beginning towards its ending, to be
remarkable in one particular aspect.
It has seemed to move, as individual
human life moves, in accordance with
a plan formed by an_ intelligent,
superintending mind at the outset and
carefully watched in its unfolding and
development by the same intelligence.
It is full of interest to me as I| think
of it thus.
THE PROBLEM.
The problem of the century, as I
look at it, was the making of the Uni-
versity. It was a problem of great
moment, but of great difficulty and far-
reaching in the time that would be
required for its solution. The very
idea of it was beyond the limit of the
thought of most of the men of the early
period. There was a college here, in-
deed, which had gradually grown out
of the original collegiate school, as it
might be fitly called. But there was,
as we.may say, no beginning for the
greater growth which was to be needed
in the coming time. Limitation was
manifest on every side. The gradual
development of what had already been
realized appeared to be the largest hope
that could open. The vision, unless
made clear by a peculiar light that was
beyond that of our common life and
manhood, did not seem able to take
into itself the great possibilities.
Strange indeed would it have been, had
there been such ability.
