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Vou. 1X22 No. 20.
CORPORATION MEETING.
Important Gifts, Appointments and
Other Action.
FORESTRY SCHOOL.
At a meeting of the Yale Corporation,
Friday, March 16, a gift of $150,000 was
accepted from Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Pinchot and their sons Gifford, Yale ’89
and Amos R. E., Yale ’97, for the estab-
lishment of a school of forestry to be
known as the Yale Forest School. Be-
sides thus providing for the theoretical
instruction, the Pinchot family has given
the University the use of a considerable
tract of forest land at Grays Towers,
near Milford, Pike County, Pa., for the
purposes of a practical Summer school,
and proposes to put in the village of
Milford a library for the use of that
school, and equip the school completely,
so that work may begtin there after
August I, I900.
It was decided by the Corporation to
put the care of the Department of
Forestry in the hands of a governing
board, which should consist of the Presi-
dent of the University, the Professor of
Forestry, Professor William H. Brewer
of the Scientific School, Mr. Gifford
Pinchot, “and such other persons as may
be associated with them by the Corpora-
tion, on their recommendation.” It is
understood that the work here at Yale
will be carried on at the residence and
estate of the late Professor O. C. Marsh.
Although the details have not yet been
settled, it is hoped to have everything
ready in the new department by next
Fall, so that instruction may begin then;
but just what the courses will be, and
what the length of work required for a
degree, is not yet announced.
CURRICULUM CHANGES.
The changes in the Sophomore curri-
culum, announced in the last issue of the
WEEKLY, were approved by the Corpora-
tion, and it was voted to extend the study
of English through the entire Freshman
year, instead of for only one term. It
was also decided to make the study of
Philosophy optional for Seniors.
APPOINTMENTS.
These appointments of full professors
were made: Charles Cutler Torrey, now
Taylor Professor of Biblical History and |
Languages at Andover Theological
Seminary, to be Protessor of Semitic
Languages, and Henry Solon Graves,
Yale ’92, to be Professor of Forestry.
The other new appointments were:
Robert K. Root, ’98, to be instructor in
English; John C. Adams, ’96, to be in-
structor in English; Dr. Albert Keller,
96, to be instructor in Social Science;
Sherwood O. Dickerman, ’96, to be tutor
in Greek; Edwin B. Wilson, to be in-
structor in Mathematics; Dr. Clive H.
Day, ’92, to be instructor in History.
Sketches of the appointees will be found
in another part of the paper.
RESIGNATION OF DR. HART.
The resignation of Rey. Dr. Burdett
Hart, Yale 1842, from the Corporation,
was accepted. Dr. Hart now spends the
greater part of his time at his home in
Germantown, Pa., and finds it difficult
to attend the meetings here. He was
elected to the Corporation in 1885. His
successor, who is, according to the Con-
stitution of the College, chosen by the
clerical members, has not yet been
named and probably no announcement
-will be made till the next meeting.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1900.
These members of the Corporation
were present on Friday: President Had-
ley; Rev. Dr. D:D: Munger}: Rev. Dr,
Charles Ray Palmer, Rev. Dr. Newman
Smyth, Rev. Dr. Joseph Anderson, Rev.
Dr. Augustus F. Beard, Rev. Newell
M. Calhoun and Messrs. Alfred L. Rip-
ley, Thomas G. Bennett, Henry F.
Dimock and Buchanan Winthrop.
The Appointees.
PROFESSOR TORREY.
Professor Charles C. Torrey, who has
been called to the chair of Semitic Lan-
guages, comes to Yale from Andover
Theological Seminary, where he has
given instruction in the Semitic Lan-
guages since 1893, having been made a
professor about a year ago. He was
graduated from Bowdoin in 1884 and
acted as tutor there for one year. Going
thence to Andover Theological Seminary
he completed the regular course in 1880,
making a specialty of the study of the
Semitic Languages under Professor
George F. Moore, ’72. The next three
years he spent abroad as Fellow of the
Seminary, taking his doctorate at Strass-
burg in 1892 in Semitic Languages with
History as a minor. During these
years he was a pupil of Noeldeke in
Arabic, of Jensen in Assyrian and of
Euting in Palaeography and Epigraphy.
From time to time he varied his investi-
gations at the University by making
scientific “pilgrimages” to Paris, Ley-
den and other centers for special re-
search. Since returning to the United
States he has devoted two sumners to
Paris and London, transcribing Arabic
Manuscripts of great importance.
Professor Torrey is a_ specialist in
Semitic Philology and Comparative
Grammar, but is also an inspiring teacher
of the literature of the Semitic group
of languages, Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew,
Phoenician, Aramic, Syriac and the
Assyro-Babylonian, with Persian thrown
in for good measure. His favorite lit-
eratures are the Arabic and Syriac. Dur-
ing the past few years he has published in
the Journal of the American Oriental
Society the results of his researches in
the Syriac, while, during the coming
year, he hopes to publish an edition of
the “Conquest of Egypt,’ an important
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PROFESSOR CHARLES C. TORREY.
work of an early Arab historian, Ibn
‘Abd el-Hakam, a source, hitherto un-
published, on which the later Arab his-
torical writers drew extensively. The
text will be accompanied by a critical
and historical commentary to which
future students of Arabic literature will
be greatly indebted.
Professor Torrey’s industry and
scholarly ability are attested not only by
these results and by many papers pre-
sented to the Society of Biblical Litera-
ture and Exegesis, and published in its
Journal, but by a Betheft to the Zeit-
schrift fur alttestamenthiche Wissenchaft
entitled “The Composition and Historical
Value of Ezra-Nehemiah,” which ap-
peared in 1896, by his doctor’s disserta-
tion in 1892 on “Commercial-Theologi-
cal Terms in the Koran,” and by many
book reviews. He is a contributor to the
Encyclopedia Biblica and the reviser of
the Semitic etymologies—the English
words derived from Semitic languages—
in the New English Dictionary.
Professor Torrey comes to Yale with
a reputation as a thorough, inspiring
and much liked teacher, as a scholar of
broad training and solid acquirements
and as an investigator at once methodical,
acute and fertile. The University and
alumni have every reason to feel assured
that the right man has been found for
an important chair. Yale can soon take
the influential place in the world of
Semitic scholarship to which her past
‘history, her affiliations and organization
and her collections entitle her. The
work of the Semitic Department has
been steadily maintained at the Univer-
sity since 1886, when Professor Harper
organized it, but since 1891 the responsi-
bility for both elementary and advanced
instruction has been of necessity assumed
by members of the Faculty who were
mainly responsible for courses of a dif-
ferent character. Under this arrange-
ment the necessary work of the Depart-
ment has been adequately maintained by
the appointment of special instructors,
and but little more has been attempted.
Under Professor Torrey’s leadership,
however, Yale may be expected to count
as a contributory, factor to the advance
of Semitic learning.
HENRY S. GRAVES,
Henry S. Graves, appointed Professor
of Forestry, was graduated here in 1892,
taught school for a year at King’s
School, Stamford, and then for two
years, 1893-95 studied Forestry at Har-
vard and in the field. In the year
1895-96 he studied Forestry at Munich
University, Germany, and for two years
thereafter practiced his profession as
assistant to Gifford Pinchot, Yale.’8o.
He is now Superintendent of Working
Plans in the Division of Forestry at
Washington.
OTHER APPOINTEES.
Sherwood O. Dickerman, who has been
appointed tutor in Greek, entered Yale
from Andover and graduated with the
Class of Ninety-Six. After one year’s
study in the Graduate Department of the
University he went to Athens and spent
two years in the American School of
Classical Studies there. His home is in
New Haven.
John C. Adams, who received the ap-
pointment of instructor in English,
entered Yale from the Boston Latin
School and graduated in 1896. In Senior
year he took honors in English and re-
ceived a Philosophical Oration Appoint-
ment. After graduation he studied for
a time in the Graduate Department for
the degree of Ph.D., but was obliged by
ill-health to give up his work. During
the college year 1898-99, he had charge
of the English department of Taft’s
School at Watertown, but has been
spending the last year in post-graduate
work in English at Harvard. He comes
from Lewiston, Maine.
Dr. Albert G. Keller, who was ap-
pointed instructor in Social Science, pre-
pared at the Hillhouse High School and
graduated from Yale in 1896. In Col-
lege he took the Hugh Chamberlain
Copyright, 1900,
by Yale Alumni Weekly.
Price 10 Cents.
‘Greek prize and the Robinson prize in
Latin. In Junior year he took the Win-
throp prize for excellence in both Latin
and Greek and graduated with a Philo-
sophical Oration stand. Since gradua-
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HENRY S. GRAVES, ’92, PROFESSOR OF
FORESTRY.
tion Dr. Keller has been studying in the
Graduate Department of the University,
except a short time spent teaching Greek
in the Hillhouse High School. He re-
ceived his degree of Ph.D. last year.
He was born in Springfield, O.
E. B. Wilson, who received the ap-
pointment of instructor in Mathematics,
is a graduate of Harvard in the Class of
Ninety-Nine. In College he specialized
in Mathematics, taking highest second-
year honors and highest final year
honors. Mr. Wilson has been taking
post-graduate work at Yale in Mathe-
matics, this year. His home is in Cam-
bridge, Mass., though he was born in
’ Hartford, Conn.
Robert K. Root, who was appointed
instructor in English, entered Yale from
the Hillhouse High School and gradu-
ated in 1898. During his course he
specialized in English and has been
teaching English in.the College since
Jan. I, 1900, on a special appointment.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, on
a Philosophical Oration appointment.
Dr. Clive Day, who was made instruc-
tor in History, prepared at the Hartford
High School and entered Yale with the
Class of Ninety-Two, where he was
chairman of the News and _ obtained
a Philosophical stand. After graduation
he continued his studies here for some
time and received the degree of Ph.D.
He then accepted a position as instructor
in History at the University of Cali-
fornia, which he held for three years,
and at the end of that time went abroad
for a course of two years’ study.
TenkEyck Speakers.
The following Juniors have been
chosen to speak for the TenEyck prizes:
George Peters Chittenden, New York,
on “Nathan Hale”; Arthur Huntington
Gleason, South Norwalk, Conn., on
“Notre-Dame de Paris”; Ernest Haus-
berg, Charles City, Iowa, on “Lord
Croiner”; Walter Bruce Howe, Wash-
ington, D. C., on “The Partition of
China”; William Hills Hutchins, Indian
Orchard, Mass., on ‘The Maccabees” ;
John Arthur Keppleman, Reading, Pa.,.
on “The French in the American Revo-
lution”; Malvern Hall Tillitt, Elizabeth
City, N. C.; on “The Lotlards’; Alired
Parks Wright, New Haven, Conn., on
“Andrew Jackson.”
Thirty-four essays were handed in.
This is about the average number.