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merely an inspiration to those who have
the good fortune to listen to his spoken
words, but afterwards, through the pub-
lication of his lectures in book form, a
means of helping a wider audience than
any which can assemble in New Haven.
A series of books, in which these lec-
ture courses for successive years are
published, will give to the American
people a truer idea than they ever had
before of the spirit in which Yale is
Stage with the political problems of the
ay.
TWO OTHER IMPORTANT COURSES.
This wider influence of the gift of Mr.
Dodge may serve as a type of the way in
which Yale University as a whole de-
sires to reach, and ought to reach, a
larger public than that which can as-
semble in its class rooms. For many
years the Scientific School has provided
a course of public lectures. This year
a gift of $5,000 by Mr. Rutherford
Trowbridge, in commemoration of his
father, has enabled the Art School to do
the same thing; and the University has,
in like manner, enabled the Musical De-
partment to provide public lectures of
the same kind. As a means of still
further extending the possibilities of
University lectures, we are indebted to
Mrs. Bromley, widow of the late Isaac
H. Bromley, for a gift of $5,000, whose
income is to be devoted to a course of
lectures on some subject connected with
journalism, literature or public affairs,
with the provision that as often as once
in four years the lecture shall be on a
subject connected with journalism—a
fitting memorial to a Yale man _ so
ie eg honorably. known in all these
ines.
WORK FOR THE COUNCIL.
With this increasing number of lec-
tures, the problem of so organizing them
as to avoid conflicts, and give them the.
greatest usefulness to the public, has
become an increasingly difficult one. It
will offer one of the chief subjects for
action on the part of the University
Council during its opening meetings in
the coming year. Preliminary arrange-
ments for this matter are now in the
hands of Professor Phillips, who has
done so much with the ‘Teachers’
Courses in years immediately past that
he understands, as no else can, the pos-
sibilities of this form of university ex-
tension at Yale. It is a great pleasure
to announce that the New Haven Uni-
versity Extension Center, composed of
citizens, hitherto disconnected with the
college, shows such readiness to cooper-
ate in every detail of this matter as to
help greatly in making the way clear
from a financial and administrative
standpoint.
-GETTING TOGETHER.
The work of University organization,
in its narrower sense, progresses slowly.
So much had to be done in the way
of adjustment of the interior relations of
the several departments that it was
thought best to postpone the activity of
the Council until the opening of the next
academic year. In the matter of ath-
letic consolidation a beginning has been
made by the voluntary action of the
various student associations, in placing
their income under the disposal of a
joint board, of which Mr. Walter Camp
is the active agent and adviser. It is
hoped that in the coming year these
matters may so far progress that the
athletic field will become the property
of the Yale Corporation, and Mr. Camp
receive, as an appointee of the Corpora-
tion, the full recognition which is due to
the importance of this subject and the
services which he renders in connection
with it.
_ The subject of organized assistance
to students in their efforts at making
their way through College in the face
of pecuniary embarrassments, is one
with which the University authorities
are planning to deal systematically. Mr.
Cornelius L. Kitchel has been appointed
to a position which will combine three
distinct duties, and, it is hoped, will -re-
sult in the more successful performance
of each of them than has hitherto been
possible. In the first place, he will have
charge of the administration of bene-
ficiary aid in the Academic Department,
and, as the work grows, not impossibly
in other departments also. Second, he
will discover and organize, as rapidly as
he can, the opportunities for self-support
which are open to the students of the
University, and will place those seeking
employment in communication with
those who have occasion for their ser-
vices. Third, he will, as far as possible,
do the same thing for graduates of the
University, especially those connected
with the teaching profession, helping
them to find positions where their abili-
ties will be properly utilized. The first
of these duties has been performed in
years past partly by the President and
partly by the deans of the several de-
partments. The second has been at-
tempted, but very imperfectly, by the
Cooperative Association, and sometimes
by those in charge of Dwight Hall. The
third has been under the general control
of Professor Phillips and Professor
Wright. It is hoped that, by combining all
these closely related duties in the hands
of one man who makes that his special
subject of study, the opportunities for
their wise exercise may be extended in-
definitely. Should this prove feasible, it
will be of the highest value to those
men who form the backbone of the
institution,—the men who come here in
spite of difficulties to work their way to
the possession and use of an education.
BI-CENTENNIAL FUNDS.
The date of the complete execution
of these Bi-centennial plans depends
upon the promptness of the response of
the alumni and friends of the College
to the appeal of the Bi-centennial Com-
mittee for funds for their construction.
As a center of University life, binding
together not only the different depart-
ments, as they exist side by side to-day,
but the College generations of the past
with those of the present, they will prove
of incalculable value; but they are
clearly not objects for which the general
funds of the University, already strained
in their application to strictly educational
purposes, can be called upon to contrib-
ute. Equally inadmissible is it to save
money in their construction by any
cheapening of material or reduction in
size. They are justifiable, and justifiable
only, as a monumental work, built -for
the ages, to commemorate the two cen-
turies of Yale life that are past, and to
stand for many times that period in the
future. —
The present condition of the Bi-cen-
tennial subscription is as follows:
Amount subscribed or pledged
unconditionally to the general
RG ssp ee $490,000
Pledged conditionally, in case
three additional subscribers
shall be found to give $100,000
each, thus making possible the
complete carrying out of the
building plan. (The thanks
of the Alumni are preémi-
nently due to Mr. M. C. D.
Borden, of the Class of 1864,
for his active efforts in con-
nection with this part of the
Die. ey ee eek eee oot
Given or pledged since the open-
ing of the Bi-centennial sub-
scription, but for special pur-
poses other than those of the
general building fund........
250,000
Total gifts received or pledged $1,090,000
The special purposes for which these
gifts were offered have been, in the most
important cases, acknowledged in the
foregoing report.
In addition to the gifts above men-
tioned, there have accured to the Univer-
sity during the year by testamentary be-
quest $100,000, free of tax, from the
estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt; a sum
estimated at $50,000 from the estate of
Charles J. Stillé, late Provost of the
University of Pennsylvania; $30,000
from the Peabody Trustees in connec-
tion with the estate of Professor Othniel
C. Marsh; and $15,000 from the estate
of Catherine W. Jarman. These, with
a few minor legacies, make a total of al-
most exactly $200,000. A
Of special note among our gifts is the
beautiful gateway between Durfee Col-
lege and the Chapel, erected by members
of the Class of Ninety-Seven in memory
of Theodore Westwood Miller, who feil
at the battle of San Juan Hill.
YALE’S LOSSES FOR THE YEAR.
During the past year four members
of Yale’s teaching force have passed
away: Jules Luquiens, James Campbell,
Edward J. Phelps, and Henry C. Robin-
son. Professor Luquiens was a man of
quiet devotion to duty; less widely
known, perhaps, to the general public
than some other members of the Faculty,
but filling one of the most difficult places
in the whole teaching force with rare
judgment and success. Dr. Campbell
had devoted to the service of the Medi-
cal School the closing years of a dis-
tinguished professional career. Among
the many men who have given much to
that School, with no reward except that
which comes from the assurance of do-
ing public service, his name _ stands
preéminent. Professor Phelps’s career
was so well known throughout the civi-
lized world that no words of apprecia-
tion of what he was can do any justice
to our loss. With him there has passed
away a gentleman, a scholar, and a man
of affairs, whom Yale delighted to
honor, and through whom she received
yet larger honors in return; a man who,
by his combination of wisdom, dignity
and experience, served as an inspiration
to all who came in contact with him.
Mr. Robinson’s teaching at Yale was but
an incident in his unceasing public
activity. None the less will his loss be
deeply felt and mourned in the lecture
rooms of the Law School, and in gather-
ings of Yale men everywhere.
It would be wrong to close this report |
without a word of grateful acknowledg-
ment of the zeal with which the various
administrative officers, deans, directors,
and members of the several faculties, as
well as the students in the different de-
partments, have shown in the service
of Yale University. Not in their official
relations only, but in their everyday life
and work, they have shown that spirit
of cooperation and of. self-devotion
which has been the source of. Yale’s
power in the past, and gives the promise
of its yet larger success in the future.
In a footnote the following gifts are
recorded: ‘
Besides the gifts acknowledged in
previous pages, and the gifts to the
various building funds (general, law,
medical), which will be subsequently
acknowledged when the subscription is
more complete, the following deserve
special mention at this point:
From Mrs. Virginia H. Curtis, $1,000,
to found a prize in English in memory
of her son John Hubbard Curtis of the
Class of Eighty-Seven.
From Professor Albert H. Cook, $500,
to found a prize in Greek Philosophy in
honor of Professor Jacob Cooper of the
Class of Fifty-Two. 7
From Professor George J. Brush
$1,000, for a special fund in the Scientific
School; and from an anonymous friend
$2,550 for the general funds of this
School.
From Mrs. Henry F. English an addi-
tion of $1,000 to the Alice Kimball
English prize fund in the Art School;
and from President Dwight a donation
of $1,000 to the general fund of the
School.
A fuller account and acknowledgment
of gifts will appear in the Report of
the Treasurer of-the University for the
fiscal year ending July 31, 1900. A
similar complete list of gifts to the
Library will appear in the Librarian’s
Report for the same period.
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GENERAL ALUMNI MEETING.
Classes Represented in Alumni Hall
—Presentation of Miller Memorial.
The general meeting of the alumni,
in Alumni Hall, Tuesday morning, June
26, was called to order by Thomas
~ Hooker, ’69, at 10 o’clock, and Hon.
John Patton, Jr., was made presiding
officer of the meeting.
After prayer by Rev. William E.
Park, of Gloversville, N. Y., Henry M.
Dechert, ’50, of Philadelphia, was intro-
duced and spoke for that Class. He
said that in the fifty years his Class
had been out of College there had been
-marvelous progress at Yale, as the mag-
nificent new buildings testified. During
his speech Mr. Dechert gave the ad-
ministration of President Woolsey credit
for the first great start that Yale had,
and that of President Dwight credit
for the present prosperity of the Col-
lege. He expressed faith in the leader-
ship of President Hadley and the fu-
ture of the University.
Judge Lyman D. Brewster, of Danbury,
Conn., speaking for the Class of Fifty-
Five, expressed the hope that President
Hadley would see to it that the old free.
literary societies were re-established.
He felt sure that with such a leader as
Yale now had she would go on increas-
ing in breadth and liberality and
strength.
Xenophon Wheeler. of Chattanooga,
Tenn., responded for the Class of Sixty.
He noted the great changes that had
come over the old Campus since his
. graduation, but was not sure that the
addition of great buildings helped the
growth of a college. He was followed
by Hon. F. W. Kittredge of Boston,
who spoke for the Class of Sixty-Five.
Mr. Kittredge, after giving a brief re-
view of the Class and the great part it
took in the Civil war, said although
Woolsey and James Hadley and New-
ton were missed all were glad to see
that Yale was moving steadily onward
and upward. The length, breadth and
height of the Hadley University, he
thought, were equal.
General Henry B. Carrington of the
Class of Forty-Five was followed by
Randall Spaulding, ’70, of Montclair, N.
J., who touched rather strongly on what
seemed to him Yale’s policy of educa-
tional isolation. He thought that in
_ discussions of educational questions in
the past years, Yale’s representatives had
neither been seen nor heard, and when
she did make herself felt it had been
in the way of obstruction. The speaker
recalled some lectures in his own col-
lege course which had been lacking in
interest, showing that the instructors
did not have insight into the student’s
mind, without which there could be no
inspiration. He thought also that col-
leges in general should be worked more
closely with the preparatory schools, as
there was such difference in the en-
_trance requirements of the different in-
stitutions that the preparatory schools
were of a necessity split in pieces. The
speaker thought all this had now about
passed and a new day was dawning. He
spoke particularly of the sympathy the
present administration of Yale was
showing towards the new movement, and
the desire to get better acquainted with
the teachers in the secondary schools,
and with their methods. He closed
with a tribute to President Hadley, who,
he said, was upheld by the entire class.
Samuel R. Betts, of New York, spoke
for the Class of Seventy-Five. ‘This
meeting puts*me in mind of an under-
taker’s session,” said Mr. Betts, refer-
ring to the preceding speeches which
had been given quite largely to remins-
cences of dead and absent classmates of
the speakers. “If these meetings can’t
produce something better in the way of
speeches I will be one of a large num-
ber to give an alumni breakfast here
in the future. In that way we may get
something in a more cheerful tone.”
Mr. Betts said one of the most pathetic
things about the reunion to him was that
the class had been asked to gather
“where the Fence used to be.” Mr.
Betts lamented the loss of the old Fresh-
man Society, where all were tumbled in
together to show what was in them.
He spoke feelingly on the death of Guy
Howard in the Philippines, and ac-
counted it as probably the greatest
honor the Class had achieved to have
a man of Howard’s stamp, who had
given up his life for his country. In
the course of his speech, Mr. Betts re-
ferred to Robert J. Cook, Yale ’76, as
the “best amateur rowing coach the
country had ever seen, a man who was
first, last and all the time for Yale,
keeping what he had for his College
alone.”
John E. Cushing, ’80, of New York,
spoke for his Class, dwelling on the
training Yale gave men for the world
outside, which he thought superior to
that given by any other university on
the continent. As Mr. Cushing finished,
President Hadley appearing at the back
of the hall, was given a great recep-
tion. He took his seat upon the plat-
form. Prof. J. W. Platner responding
for 65 said that Yale stood for a
training in manly character wherever
Yale men were-known. .
George ~Parmly Day, 97, spoke
briefly for his Class, which he said was
known as the “notorious Class of
_ Ninety-Seven,” which had tried to make
itself heard on the Green along with
Mr. Bryan and a brass band. After
touching on the closeness with which
the New York members of the Class
had kept together since graduation,
chiefly through the means of the Yale
Club reunions, he spoke of the death
list which had grown so long, and par-
ticularly of the death of Theodore
Westwood Miller, to whom a memorial
gateway had been built by contributions
from the Class, between Durfee and
the Chapel. Then turning to the Presi-
