Appletons in 1878. The judicial charac-
ter of this work has been attested by
many of the most distinguished generals
and fairest critics on both sides, North
and South.
In 1880, Col. Johnston accepted the
Presidency of the Louisiana State Uni-
versity at Baton Rouge, which then had
but thirty-nine students, and thoroughly
reorganized it. When, in 1883, the phil-
anthropist, Paul Tulane, made to Louisi-
ana his princely gift, Col. Johnston was
requested by the administrators of the
Tulane Educational Fund to take charge
of the institutions to be founded. The
result was the merging of the University
of Louisiana into the Tulane University
at New Orleans, which, with its
branches, is now the leading university
in the Southwest, embracing Law and
Medical Departments, Woman’s College,
a department of Arts and Sciences and
one of Technology.
' Washington and Lée University in
1875 conferred on Col. Johnston the de-
gree of LL.D., and he had been for many
years one of the Regents of the Smith-
sonian Institute. His character was
what the above record of his life shows.
He was gentle yet firm, a sincere Chris-
tian without cant, conscientious in the
discharge of every duty, constant in
friendship, brave and serene in misfor-
tune and bereavment. 3
Col. Johnston’s first wife died Oct.
19, 1885. On April 25, 1888 he married
Margaret Henshaw Avery, of Baton
Rouge, La. His only son, Albert Sidney
Johnston, died in 1885, aged twenty-five
years. He has had five daughters, of
whom three survive him. D.
DANIEL GARRISON BRINTON, ’58.
Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton, 758, died
at Atlantic City, N. J. after a brief ill-
ness, Monday, July 31. He was a resi-
dent of Philadelphia, but was at the sea
shore for a rest.
Dr. Brinton was born at West Chester,
Pa., May 13, 1837. After graduation
from Yale, he studied two vears at the
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
Pa. He served in the. last three years
of the Civil War, being a portion of that
time Medical Director of the Eleventh
Corps. Two sunstrokes obliged him to
leave his position as Medical Director,
and from April, 1864 up to the time of
his honorable discharge from the United
States service, he was Surgeon in charge
of. the U, A. General Hospital:
Quincy, Ill. He was brevetted Lieuten-
ant-Colonel of Volunteers for “meritor-
ious services.” In September, 1865, he
married Sarah M. Tillson, took up his
residence in West Chester, Pa., and be-
gan the practice of medicine. Two
years later he moved to Philadelphia
and became assistant editor of the Medi-
cal and Surgical Reporter, a weekly
journal, and was made its editor in 1874.
Besides this publication, Dr. Brinton
edited the Compendium of Medical
Science, a semi-annual journal. His
duties as editor and publisher of many
medical works were so arduous that he
was obliged to give up the practice of
his profession entirely, immediately after
taking up his residence in Philadelphia.
In 1897 he resigned from the editorships
of the two journals mentioned. ~
In his leisure time, Dr. Brinton inter-
ested himself in the study of American
Ethnology, and his writings on abor-
igines of America, their language and
their myths, are numerous and valuable.
The names of works of this character
cover more than six pages in the Fifty-
Fight Class record, which was printed
two years ago. Quite recently he gave
his entire valuable library to the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, where he had
_been Professor of American Archaeology
and Linguistics since 1886. He was also
Professor of Ethnology and Archaeology
in the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia, at the time of his death,
having been appointed in 1884.
Some of the honors conferred upon
Dr. Brinton were, degree of LL.D. from
the Jefferson Medical College in 1891;
Degree of D.Sc. from University of
_ Penrisylvania in 1893; appointment ‘as
‘President of International Congress of
Anthropology at Chicago, August 28,
1893, also as one of the judges in
World’s Columbian Exposition in Chi-
cago, Department of Ethnology. He
was elected President of American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science
at its meeting at Madison, Wis., in
August, 1893.
In College, Dr. Brinton was a member
of Sigma Delta; Alpha Sigma Phi;
Delta Kappa Epsilon and the senior
society of Scroll and Key. He took
prizes in English composition; was a
Lit. editor and a Townsend speaker. _
Dr. Brinton is survived by his wife
and two children.
DOUGLASS WALCOTT, 68.
Douglass Walcott, 68, died at Den-
ver, June 29, after an illness of about a
fortnight. His death is. reported by the
Denver papers to have been caused by
an injury to the spine resulting from a
fall.
Mr. Walcott was born in Milwaukee,
Wis., about fifty-five years ago, and pre-
pared for Yale at Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy. He graduated from Yale in 1868,
and has spent his time since then, chiefly
in charitable and missionary work, hav-
ing served for many vears in India
under the American Board of Foreign
Missions as a medical missionary and in
Australia under the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association. In both places he left
a splendid record for fearlessness and
devotion to duty. He had traveled very
extensively. He was unmarried.
JOSEPH ALVIN GRAVES, ’72.
Joseph Alvin Graves, ’72, died at his
home in Hartford, Conn., Friday, July 28.
Mr. Graves was born Sept. 21, 1849,
in Springfield, Mo., and graduated from
Yale in 1872. The following year he
taught school in his native city and for
a short time was principal of the Shaw
School in St. Louis, Mo. He left the
latter place to take a tutorship in Latin
at Yale, which he held for several years,
leaving it to take the principalship of
the Skinner School in New Haven.
This position he held until 1881, when
he was appointed to be principal of the
South School in Hartford, Conn. Hé
retained this position until his death.
Mr. Graves was deeplv. interested in
the cause of education and was con-
sidered an authority on that subject.
He was the Connecticut Vice-President
of the National Council of Education
and. President of the Connecticut
Teachers’ Association. He was largely
responsible for the organization of the
Connecticut Teachers’ Annuity Guild, a
society which gives aid to aged and
incapacitated teachers throughout the
State. One of Mr. Graves’ works which
is in use in the Hartford schools and
elsewhere is his “Graded Speller.”
In politics Mr. Graves was a Republi-
can and had taken some share in muni-
cipal administration; having been a mem-
ber of the Common Council for two
years; Vice-President of the Lower
Board, and a member of the Board of
Aldermen for two years.
Mr. Graves was married to Mary Har-
mount of New Haven, and she, with
two children, Arthur Harmount Graves,
Yale 1900, and Ellen Graves, survive
him. The interment was in the Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Monday,
Julv 31. ,
The Hartford Courant, speaking edi-
torially of the death of Mr. Graves, says:
“For eighteen years Joseph A. Graves
had been principal of the South School.
His death is a public calamity as well as
a cause for private grief. He had man-
aged admirably the large work intrusted
to him, and, through the example of his
manly life, had exerted a large influence
for good upon the many young people
who looked up to him as their guide.
He was an enthusiastic teacher and edu-
cator, but that was only a part of his
well-rounded life of a Christian gentle-
man. Mr. Graves was a good citizen.
Occupying a position where being com-
pelled to take sides might have its per-
sonal embarrassments, he did not avoid
the duties and responsibilities of citi-
zenship. He attended caucuses, and,
when he was wanted as a delegate or
member of the council, he answered to
the call. He was not of the larger class
of “good people’ who stay at home and
complain of the condition of politics.
He took his part, voted as he thought
right and did not consult policy or stand
intimidation. He had the interests of
the city at heart and did much during
his career for its improvement. Boys
and girls of to-day will be better men
and women for the reason that in their
childhood they came under his influ-
ence. He will long be gratefully re-
membered and his good work will live
after him.” :
a ' og
The Late Professor Harris asa
Coilege Preacher,
Yale men of the early seventies are re- —
minded by the death of Prof. Harris,
of the marked impression which he made
VATE ALUMNI WEEKLY
as a preacher when he first came to the
College. In those days attendance on
chapel twice each Sunday was compul-
sory, and many of the fellows slept
through every service. But not when
Prof. Harris preached. Next to Presi-
dent Woolsey he became at once the
most popular College preacher. His tall,
impressive figure, his epigrammatic style,
the note of sincerity and of earnestness
in all that he said, his vigorous rhetoric,
were elements in his success. The boys
liked him because .he preached without
notes. His sermons were wholesome,
sane and practical. An address to our
class on the day of prayer for colleges
upon the subject, “The Createst Man,
the Servant of all,” made a deep impres-
sion. But the sermon that I recollect
most vividly was given one hot Sunday
afternoon in the old Chapel. The fel-
lows were more than usually uncomfort-
able on the hard seats, but Prof. Harris
seemed determined to keep us all awake.
Fe spoke on the need of a positive belief
in religion, and of course gave the
agnostics a hard drubbing. His fervor
increased as he went on, and the most
hardened Sophomore was _ interested.
Finally he paused for a moment, and
then, raising his long arm, with dilating :
eye and ringing voice, he exclaimed,
“Some men are nothing but interroga-
tion points all their lives.” As he hurled
out this sentence and pointed with
quivering finger to some of these
wretches up among the rafters overhead,
a wave of horror thrilled the crowd.
Even the tutors looked aghast. Never
before had it seemed quite such a hor-
rible thing to be an interrogation point
as it did at that moment. 1 would not
have been one just then for the wealth
of the Indies, or even an election to a
Senior Society. Every man of us re-
solved then and there that he never
would be so base as to become one of
those despicable points. We used to talk
over his discourses and were always
delighted when he entered the pulpit.
A true man—may his tribe increase.
LATHE, 773.
Pasadena, Cal., July 5, 1899.
es gg
COMMENTS ON PRES, HADLEY,
As to His Fame.
{Hartford Courant.]
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that
Professor Hadley did not “possess
wealth or wide fame.” This is inter-
esting. We are not in position to speak
as to the former article, nor is it a
qualification hereabouts for college
presidents, but, as regards “fame,” we
would be under obligation to our Phila-
delphia contemporary, if it would name
any man of Hadley’s age in the coun-
try, not under arrest for kidnapping
nor engaged in pugilism, who has more
fame than Arthur T. Hadley.
Miost Successful of Professors,
[Edwin Oviatt in the Criterion.]
Professor Hadley is one of the few
men in any college in the East, who
has the good fortune to be both a
profound scholar and a man of affairs,
a book man and a lover of bracing out-
of-door sport, a pedagogue and a bril-
liant public speaker. He is without
doubt the most successful of Yale pro-
fessors of the generation. He will be
none the less a successful president be-
cause he has been a successful professor.
Advance Along Yale’s Best
Lines.
[Congregationalist.]
For two hundred years the presi-
dents of Yale have been Congregational
ministers. Professor Hadley will be the
first layman to hold that office. But he
is a loyal Congregationalist, and the
religious interests of the University will
be safe in his hands. He is singularly
modest, approachable without being
undignified and the embodiment of the
Yale spirit of the present generation.
Under his administration the University
will continue to advance along the same
lines which have established for it a
distinct and foremost position among
the great institutions of learning of our
country. Her new president will have
the sympathy of all supporters of the
best American ideas of higher educa-
tion, and we believe his career in this
new field will be as substantial and as
conspicuous as it has been in the lines
in which he has already achieved dis-
tinguished success.
Eminently Fit for the Place.
[Journal of Education.)
Professor Arthur T. Hadley has been
elected President of Yale amid great
rejoicing. He is a graduate of Yale,
and his teachings has been done in that
institution, from which his father before
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