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YALE ALUMNI
WEEKLY
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS,
Albert William Van Buren Leads in
Scholarship—Frank Eugene
Hale Second,
The Senior appointments for the Class
of 1900, which was made public Satur-
day, June 23, show that the leader in
scholarship is Albert William Van
Buren of Lynn, Mass., with Frank
Eugene Hale of Hartford, Conn.,
second. In the list of all the appoint-
ments, printed below, those of the
philosophical orations are printed in the
order of scholarship, the others being
printed alphabetically :
PHILOSOPHICAL ORATIONS.
Albert William Van Buren, Lynn,
Mass.; Frank Eugene Hale, Hartford,
Conn.; Sidney Adams Weston, Sharon,
Mass.; Thomas Walter Swan, North-
ampton, Mass.; George Lyman Hinck-
ley, Northampton, Mass.; Herman Max
Opitz, Norwich, Conn.; George Newell
Whittlesey, New Haven, Conn.; Elbert
Nevius Sebring Thompson, New Haven,
Conn.; John Bryant Hartwell, Provi-
dence, R. I.; Ernest Turrell Bauer,
Easton, Conn.; William Sloane Coffin,
New York City; Howard Logan
Bronson, New Haven, Conn.; Clarence
Whittlesey Bronson, New Haven, Conn. ;
Robert Ferguson, Springfield, Mass. ;
Roger Crossman Peck, North Benning-
ton, Vt.; Harry Augustus Dow, Pitts-
field Jll.; John Fisher, McLand, New
Haven, Conn.; William Lorimer Porter,
Winterset, .Ilowa.; Leon Farr, King-
fisher, Okla.
HIGH ORATIONS.
Walter Maxwell Adriance, Cincinnati,
O.; John Harry Bailey, New Haven,
Conn.; George Hiram Bartholomew,
New Haven, Conn.; Norman Williams
Bartlett, Evanston, Ill.; Cogswell Bent-
ley, Rochester, N. Y.; Francis Cross,
Jr., New Haven, Conn.; Stanley Wells
Edwards, Granby, Conn.; Edwards
Clarence Ellsbree, Meriden, Conn.;
Orville Devere Estee, Gloversville, N.
Y.;. Eugene Francis Farley, Derby,
Conn.; Frank Edson Field, Dover, Tl.;
Arthur Harmount Graves, Hartford,
Conn.; William Rodman Hamlin, East-
hampton, Mass.; Edward Buffum Hill,
Yonkers, N. Y.; William Savage John-
son, Meriden, Conn.; Charles Jones,
Seymour, Conn.; Charles Alexis Kel-
logge, Jr., Carthage, Mo.; Allen Irving
Kittle, Ross, Cal.; Samuel Samter Levy,
Bloomington, Ill.; Frederic Irving Lock-
man, New York City; Sydney Byron
Morton, Chicago, Ill.; Henry Leo Moses,
Scranton, Pa.; William Horatio Nelson,
West Suffield, Conn.; Leonard Adolph
Peck, Gloversville, N. Y.; Frank
Denison Pendleton, Somersville, Conn. ;
Horace Martin Poynter, Shelbyville,
Ky.; John Pierrepont Rice, Santa Bar-
bara, Cal.; Harry Granville Sanders,
Concord, N. H.; Laurence Van Dyke,
Milwaukee, Wis.; Elisha Walker, New
York City; Louis Schneider Weaver,
Newy, Pa.; William Howard Weiss,
Schuylkill Haven, Pa.; Sydney Mixsell
Wood, Gloversville, N. Y.
ORATIONS.
Frederick Baldwin Adams, ‘Toledo,
O.; Robert Lawrence Anthony, Provi-
dente, BR. 4.> janis Whitney Barney,
New York City; Stephen Russell Bart-
lett, Hartford, Conn.; Jerome Herman
‘*“Am abend spat
Im Morgen fruh,”’
And all the way
between, it’s one
kind or another
of a
Knox Hat.
Buck, Albany, N. Y.; Winthrop Buck,
Wethersfield, Conn.; John Roberts
Bushong, Reading, Pa.; Albert Norton
Butler, Meriden, Conn. ; Norman George
Connor, Marshallton, Conn.; Morton
Starr Cressy, Hartford, Conn.; Edward
DeLancey Eaton, East Orange, N. J.;
Sigismund Engelking, Peters, Texas. ;
Edward Bathurst Fackler, New York
City; Wilfred Lester Foster, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; William Frederick Gillespie,
Stamford, Conn.; Harry Heaton, Wash-
ington, D. C.; Robert Taylor Hinton,
Paris, Ky.; William Moses Jones, Cope-
ville, Texas: Lucius Collinwood King-
man, Providence, R. I.; James Phinney
Lombard, Kansas City, Mo.; Thomas
McCandless, Meriden, Conn.; Frank M.
MacClenahan, Allegheny City, Pa.
DISSERTATIONS.
Brinley, Casler, Colvocoresses, Crit-
tenden, Currier, Dean, Draper, Fisher,
Fuller, Gladding, C. Gleason, J. Glea-
son, Hayes, Jenkins, Logan, McKenzie,
Maclean, Nash, Nims, Paddock, Ricker,
Robertson, Robinson, Rockefeller,
Schoyer, Senger, Swartz, Tennant, D.
Thoms, R. Thomas, C. Thompson,
Treadway, Tweedy, H. G. Williams.
FIRST DISPUTES.
Andrews, R. Baker, W. Bartholomew,
Bruce, Carver, Chappell, Clement,
Crampton, C. Crawford, Dodd, Drew,
Eggleston, H. Field, Frederick, G. Green,
Gould, Hargrove, Hills, Kennedy, Lea-
vitt, Lippincott, Lombardi, McCartin,
Merrels, Milbank, R. Miller, W. Page,
Riggs, F. Russell, Seabury, Shepherd,
Sikes, Hi “Ro Smith,’ Speer, "latum,
Thorpe, A. Ward, Weichert, Wickes.
SECOND DISPUTES.
Alexander, Atherholt, Averell, Bar-
deen, Bassett, Beardsley, Bissell, Brooks,
J. Clark, Ely, Ferry, Havemeyer, Jen-
nings, B. Johnson, Kumler, Long, R. H.
McCormick, McGouldrick, Marty, Med-
way, Park, Payton, Pickett, Rosenberg,
Simmons, Steson, Stookey, Tiffany,
Tracy, Twichell, Wilson, Winters,
Zellhoefer.
FIRST COLLOQUIES.
Allen, Arnold, Babcock, Bindley,
Blount, Brock, J. Campbell, Carter,
Chittenden, F. Cook, Elkins, J. Fergu-
son, E. B. Greene, Hefferan, Heinz,
Jenney, R. McCormick, Moody, Phillips,
Price, Rosenfeld, Sherman, Sullivan,
Taft, Tuttle, Walworth, E. Ward, Wat-
son, Weeks, H. P. Wood.
SECOND COLLOQUIES.
B. Adams, Bell, Bristol, E. Bronson,
Congdon, F. Crawford, J. Cross, Dana,
Ellerbe, Franklin, E. C. Greene, Hedge,
Henry, Hunt, Lobdell, Lovell, Luce,
Lyon, McCutchen, Niedecken, Ordway,
D. Palmer Root, R. Russell,
Taylor, Wells, W. B. Williams.
Class Poem and Oration.
The Class Poem and oration were de-
livered in Battell Chapel, Monday morn-
ing, June 25. The following quotation
is made from the poem, which was by
Kenneth Bruce, Brooklyn, N. Y.:
“so forth and win;
Add to our glory by your valiant deeds,
Remember that the teachings of the
realm
Were ever thus: ‘Be noble, brave and
true’;
Rather to lose, than get what some men
gain
By gaining victories with practiced fraud.
Yours is the world. The upward years
have marked
An epoch grand of science and of art:
At yonder gateway meet two cycles vast;
The sunset fades. Behold the awaken-
ing east! 3
The distant hill top is aglow with light
Proclaiming wide a fairer, brighter morn,
Wherein the new shall fast usurp the old
Enshrouded in the darkness of a dream.
Yours is the future; go and struggle on,
Until the topmost pinnacle of fame,
Like vanquished warrior, lies beneath
your feet, ~~ os
And victor in the tournament of thought,
Your prize shall be the plaudits of the
brave.” Jee :
The oration was by Jesse Dwight
Dana. Several extracts are reprinted
below:
- safer,
Stone,
“Our class stands on the threshold be-
tween the old Yale and the new, the old
Yale with its conservatism, its democ-
racy and unity; the new Yale which
is merging the college into the wniver-
sity. As men we form an intermediate
type between the old distinctive Yale
man with his earnestness of character,
his somewhat narrow ideas of culture
and the new type, combining character
with broadening views of culture. It is
for the new Yale to cull out of the past
all that which is best and to hold loyally
to it. The most precious legacy which
the old Yale has to bequeath to the new
is the true element of democracy—
equality of opportunity. If Yale is to
retain a democracy which is an actual
fact and not a sentimental boast, she
must hold fast to this. This comprises
the ‘Yale spirit,’ and it is this spirit
which has sent out thousands of gradu-
ates who are to-day holding their places
as men among men and whose love and
loyalty for this university knows no
bounds.
“May the new Yale life maintain a
spartan individualism, the feeling that
each man is Yale, that Yale is looking
to him, only to be content when he has
exerted his best efforts in her behalf!
May she discard forever any false ideas
of conservatism first and unity after-
wards, but may she enshrine in the heart
of every man that other sentiment, that
true sentiment, conservatism and unity
‘now and forever, one and inseparable!’ ”
‘TO THE PRESIDENT.
“TI should be lacking in my duty if I did
not first refer to that venerable man who
preceded you and to whose thoughtful
guidance this University owes so much
of her present glory. To us his life has
furnished a lasting example of benevo-
lence and of high and noble purpose. To
you, sir, I can only say that we ask no
more loyal guidance for our
Alma Mater than that which we know
you will furnish.”
TO CLASSMATES.
“Tt is the hardest task to say to you
the words of farewell. If there is a
friendship in this world which is an
ideal one, it is a college friendship,
here where a man chooses his friends
for what they are, not for what they
have. May we never forget the friends
that we have made here, for we shall
never have better ones. Memory paints
many pictures, and it is her charm that
she paints the pictures of sorrow in fad-
ing colors while pictures of happiness
she paints in colors that can never fade.
She is painting a picture for each one
of us to-day and it is a picture in
which the colors will grow ever brighter
as the years go on. As we pass to-day
down beneath the elms to join that long
line of waiting graduates, may it be with
the firm resolve to hold our loyalty to
our university as strong in the years to
come as we have held it during our
undergraduate days. She has equipped
us with a coat of mail, armed us with
a lance, and as we go forth she pins
to each man as her favor this benediction
—You successes will be mine, your fail-
ures mine.”
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THE DEFQREST SPEAKING.
Improvement in Quality and Inter-
est—The Winner.
The speaking for the DeForest Medal
took place on the afternoon of Friday,
June 22, at three o'clock in Battell
Chapel. The audience, though far too
small, was somewhat larger and more
representative than usual. There was a
ereat improvement this year in the
amount of interest shown by the mem-
bers of the Senior class in the contest.
The contest itself was a good one, and
the interest was sustained throughout.
Good elocution characterized the speak-
ing, and in one or two instances there
was a display of oratorical power which
was of a very superior order.
- The first speaker to be introduced by
President Hadley was Maurice Phillipe
Gould of Wamego, Kansas. His sub-
ject was “Maximilian, a Drama of
Mexico.” Those who recalled Mr.
Gould’s work in the TenEyck contest,
a year ago, were somewhat disappointed
in his work on Friday. There were
times when he spoke with fine force, but
he lacked much of the life and animation
which characterized his work of last
year. This, in part, was the fault of his
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essay, into which he had introduced an
unnecessary amount of detail, such as
dates. This, with the obvious digression
he made in his reference to the Monroe
doctrine of to-day, tended to destroy the
unity of a piece, which in many respects
possessed literary merit.
The second speaker, Henry Thomas
Hunt ‘of Cincinnati, O. had for his sub-
ject “Richelieu.” Mr. “Hunt's . essay
possessed distinct merit. There was an
individuality in his style. Some of the
description was very fine, and there were
one or two striking word pictures. The
speaker was weak, however, in the pre-
sentation of his piece. He spoke alto-
gether too rapidly and his enunciation
was quite indistinct at times. In this
way he failed to realize the possibility
of strong effects which lay in his essay.
Herbert Brewster Fuller of Glen
Ridge, N. J. followed Mr. Hunt on the
subject “The Battle of Tours.” The first
part of Mr. Fuller’s essay was one of
the best things delivered on Friday. The
first part of his speaking also, was excel-
lent, as he threw himself into it effec-
tively. Had he sustained this good work
throughout, the decision as to the final
CHARLTON BRICE THOMPSON.
DeForest Prize Winner.
result might have been more complicated.
But there was plainly a weakening
toward the close of his presentation.
His description of the opposing forces,
and the principles for which each stood,
had been given with great force, but
he failed to take advantage of the possi-
bility for an effective climax in his des-
cription of the battle.
John Henry Klosterman of Portland,
Ore., spoke on “Edwin Booth in Ham-
let.” In point of elocution Mr. Kloster-
man’s work was unexcelled. His voice,
over which he had nearly perfect con-
trol, was deep and musical. There wasa
grace and ease in his platform presence
which was delightful. However, his de-
livery is possibly open to the. criticism
of being too stagey. His essay was in
places inaccurate in its criticism of Ed-
win Booth, and as a whole seemed to
fall a little short of the literary standard