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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
consider himself at the time as a mem-
ber of the College, and therefore sup-
posed he was under no obligation to
treat Mr. Hull with any- peculiar re-
‘ spect.
It is true, he had not attended the
collegiate exercises, the present term;
but as-he had not taken a dismission, it
was the opinion of the Faculty, that
he was still a member of the College,
so far as to be amenable to them for
his conduct; and that their decision in
the case, must be in conformity with
an express law of the Corporation,
enacted upon the principle, that no
government can stand, which suffers it-
self to be directly and openly insulted
with impunity.
if he wished to make any explanations
to the Board, or to offer to them any
apology for his conduct. He appeared,
however, to decline it. * * * With
respect, Sir,
Your obedt. servt.,
JEREMIAH DAy.
The eighth letter is addressed to
General James Breckenridge, Fincastle,
Bottetourt County, Virginia, and is post-
marked “37% cents.”
YALE COLLEGE, June 13, 1815.
Deer: Sirs, Ree* «lishalicbe : very
willing to do anything which is in my
power, and consistent with my duty,
to remove the objections which are made
to the admission of your son into the
College where he has made application.
I am informed that Dr. Dwight has re-
ceived a communication on the subject.
I presume that our College will make
no objection to his being admitted to the
one in Virginia. Perhaps it will be best
to state the facts respecting his case,
and leave the government there to act
without any regard to the decision here.
Your son left the College in Septem-
ber last. Several months after, while
he was waiting a favorable opportunity
to return to Virginia, he was one even-
ing in the room of one of the students
when a tutor was treated with abusive
and reproachful language. Brecken-
ridge, did not deny the fact, but alleged
in his justification that, as he did not
then belong to the college, he did ‘not
consider himself under any peculiar ob-
ligations to treat its officers with respect.
It was, however, the opinion of a ma-
jority of the Faculty, that it was proper
to proceed against him by a formal sen-
tence. This it might be difficult to re-
verse, without an appeal to the Board
of Trustees.
Under the peculiar circumstances of
the case, I think no opposition will be
made on the part of the officers here
against his reception into another col-
lege. I presume, however, Dr. Dwight
will make a communication to Washing-
ton College on the subject.
Very respectfully,
JEREMIAH Day.
The lad, concerning whom these let-
ters were written, whose “ill health,”
as Professor Day wrote, ‘cannot be im-
puted to him as.a crime,”’ was not a
weakling, but an athlete; able to take
care of himself whether in contact with
tutors, classmates, or town boys. He
stood six feet one and a half inches in
his stockings, weighed 196 pounds, was
broad of shoulder and as straight as an
Indian. It is said of him that he could
stretch a cord above his head, step back,
and vault over the cord with ease. Had
Yale College given as much attention
to athletic sports in those days as Yale
University is giving to them now, he
would have been the ringleader in every
game; and probably he would not have
been expelled merely for an indignity
to tutor Hull if it had so happened
that a football game was about to be
played to the public by victorious Yale
boys.
After leaving Yale College, Cary
Breckenridge entered Washington Col-
lege in Virginia, which is now known
as Washington and Lee University. On
completing his studies there, having no
ambition for a public career, he married —
and began the busy life of a Virginia
planter, which he followed until his
death in the year 1867. When the
Southern States revolted he sent forth
his five sons, whose ages ranged from
sixteen to twenty-five years, to follow
Lee and Jackson in the terrible war to
which Virginia gave her best men.
Three of these fell on the battlefields of
the Confederacy. One is still living on
the family estate at Fincastle in Vir-
ginia; and it is he who has preserved
the letters from which I have quoted
this story.
I inquired of your son .
YALE DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION,
Report of Receipts and Expenditures
for First Performances.
The report of the Yale Dramatic
Association which presented the two
old English plays, “Pardoner’s Tale” and
the “Second Shepherd’s Play,” May 23,
shows that the deficit for the perform-
ance was $40. This deficit may be re-
duced to $15, if all dues are collected.
The complete report follows:
EXPENDITURES.
Frank Lea Short (for services
as coach and stage manager) .$ 300.00
Rent of Hyperion (performance
ane TENOATSAIS) saks ee oc ets: 200.00
Help and Miscellanies at
Paeater et eee rae. 62.65
Posters and expressage ..... oy 76.05
George Miller (making wagon) 25.00
Pilate TOT WTOMPAM, ve eae sce so ss 15.00
Printing program © .. cages. ss : 35.00
Ads ih TewsSpapers os ssace>-. 3130
Pasting Hosters 22%, . tease cs 23.61
Photos for advertising ........ 61.75
Gerenestha Ol oP oy are t sept 29.00
OT EE eee eer 15.00
H. W. Fisher (expenses and
payment of loan) (CS. .i..%, 76.30
" H. W. Westcott (expenses and
Nayment-of loans? sfx ey 5.) 36.45
Printing, typewriting, stamps,
SEES GAUSS. SE ae RR A & 18.85
Printing ‘date slips. Aires 4.00
Rent of Alumni and College St.
Falls oy eae) Gee) 11.00
Ads. Sheep Doctor, Properties
and Miscellaneous’ 2. 05..00.. 28.70
J. W. Westcott, part payment -
ork oan VIPS 2. Hn, es 160.00
$1,434.65
HPalanee I, Aa 7.05
Cash “Sioa, .60
$1,442.90
RECEIPTS.
Hox Ghice receipts 4 Bri Se eo 3% $1,144.25
Dikesai2og 2) Bs, ARTUR 10.00
Loaned by J. W. Westcott .... 200.00
er: abide Will tah r ia 7. 51.00
eo ea Veer iaus 1.65
FGbs i program... +. elas... 36.00
$1,442.90
This leaves the Association $40 in debt
to J. W. Westcott. There is still the
sum of $25 to be collected fot dues,
which when paid in, will leave the Club
only $15 in debt.
Signed: John Penn Brock, Treasurer,
and Thomas Benedict Clarke, Jr., Presi-
dent, of The Yale University Dramatic
Association.
June 22, 1900.
Yale Men at Rome.
Romer, May 24, 1900.
Although the Roman season, properly
speaking, is over, the stream of pil-
grims and tourists continues unabated.
Among the latter Yale has had her full
quota. One of the first to arrive was
Prof. George B. Adams, who spent
several weeks here with his family,
before proceeding northward for a win-
ter in Paris. One of the last has been
Prof. George T. Ladd, who looks in-
vigorated and refreshed by his journey
around the world. His experiences
among the native scholars of India
were almost as entertaining as his stay
in Japan, and his account of them will
be awaited with keen interest.
President D. C. Gilman, ’52, of Johns
Hopkins, gave on informal address at
the American School yesterday, in which
he reiterated what can not be said too
often, that students of the school should
become “centers of archaeological inter-
est” upon their return home. President
Gilman is on his way to represent his
institution at he semi-millennial cele-
bration of the University of Krakan
in Austrian Poland, which is to take
place early in June. Prof. Henry W.
Farnam, ’74, spent several months here
resting and has recently gone to Flor-
ence. Prof. Samuel Bill Platner, ’83,
of Western Reserve University. has been
the representative of the American uni-
versities at the Classical School for the
current year and expects to return Aug.
12. Prof. John Burnham, ’83, formerly
of the University of Missouri, has had
well as
some palaeographical study that has
kept him in Rome most of the Spring.
Others who have remained for some
time are: J. Phelps Taylor, ’62; George
Douglas Miller, ’70; Letchworth Smith,
04; Voorhees, ’91S.; H. LI.
pacsue, -Osy 4. Cy hee.."96 iGo.
Clark, ‘97; W. Keeler, ’97; Murray
Dodge, ‘99; Richard Hooker, ’99;
S. Kedzie, ’99; H. R. Shipman, ’99, as
Miss Margaret Sherwood,
Ph.D., ’98, and Miss Shackford (Grad.
Student, ’97-’98.) Early in the Winter
the resident colony was saddened by the
death of Col. Huntington, ’55. In the
list of Yale men one is almost tempted
to include our ambassdor, Gen. Wm.
Draper, who though not an alumnus,
is at all events the father of Yale sons.
When one considers that this list com-
prises only a part of the Yale alumni,
who must have been in the city at
the height of the season, it is very much
to be regretted that there is not some
definite organization by which those
who care to do so, may meet from time
to time—say in an alumni dinner.
Just a week ago the members of the
Classical School began to return from
the two months’ archaeological excur-
sion to Greece, Sicily and lower Italy,
and after a short series of lectures on
Renaissance Art by the Director, Mr.
Richard Norton, they will disband, to
travel or continue their special investi-
gations. The week at Pompeii, May 4-
II, with seven hours a day of lectures
among the ruins, by the greatest living
authority, Dr. August Mau, made the
hurrying tourists green with envy.
During our stay in Greece, we Romans
enjoyed the hospitality of the School at
Athens, which has from the start re-
ceived the guidance and support of Yale
men. The present Director, Rufus B.
Richardson, ’69, was absent most of the
time at old Corinth, where the School
is carrying on excavations. Among the
Yale men in Athens at the time were:
Martin Kellogg, ’50, former President
of the University of California; Dr.
Frank -H.: Chase, -’o43: Hoi. Shipman,
190 3: Gea Childs, 903.4 Re Bs -FPorrese,
003i) Hs Poa. Bowles, '00,;-cand- other
members of the same class, the last
four being at various stages of their
travels around the world. Chance
meetings, always delightful, are always
occurring. In Sicily at the station at
Girgenti, I very unexpectedly met C. U.
Clark, ’97, and for the next few days
we were tramping together among the
ruined temples of Selinunte and Segesta.
The fellowship examinations were
held in March and awards made to
Allen of Michigan, and Miss Emery of
Cornell. Yale is to have one or two
representatives at Athens next Winter,
and it is to be hoped that interest in the
much younger Roman school will not be
allowed to flag. Italy gives a different
sort of inspiration from Greece, it has
less of the thrill and fascination, but is
thoroughly human. Besides it is pos-
sible to see a good deal of Greece in
a month, especially if one is so fortunate
as to cruise two weeks. among the
islands of the Aegean from Crete to
Troy, as four of us did. Many of our
students have had several months in
Germany, before the opening of the
term; in fact our proximity to the
ereat universities, and world-famous
libraries and museums constitutes one
of the greatest attractions for a winter
in this very modern capital. The Ro-
man life is more engrossing, whereas
the Athenian conduces to meditation
and study, a distinction existing also in
ancient times.
GrorGE DwicHt KELioca.
~<tthin in
7 a
Insured for a Quarter of a
Million.
Charles T. Schoen of Philadelphia,
President of the Pressed Steel Car
Company, has taken one of the 5% Gold
Bond contracts issued by The Prudential
Insurance Company of America, of
Newark, N. J. The policy issued
amounts to $250,000, requiring an annual
premium of $18,270. The settlements
under the contract are unique, the heirs
of Mr. Schoen having the choice of two
options:
First—$304,250 in gold; or second—
the Company to issue to the heirs
$250,000 in bonds of $1,000 each, on
which 5% interest in gold is gauranteed
annually for twenty years by The Pru-
dential, the interest to be paid annually.
At the end of the twenty years, the
Company then pays $250,000 in gold as
a final settlement, making in all, half a
nee dollars paid by the Company.—
lv,
Jacob Cooper Greek Prize
Founded,
At the last meeting of the Yale Cor-
poration the gift of $500 from Professor
Albert S. Cook, for the establishment of
a prize in Greek Philosophy, was ac-
cepted. The prize is instituted in honor
of Professor Jacob Cooper, a graduate
of Yale College in the Class of Fifty-
Two, and it is to be known as the
Jacob Cooper prize in Greek Philosophy.
Competition for the prize is to be open
to all the students of the University,
candidates being examined in the Meta-
physics and Organon of Aristotle, and
being required to submit a thesis upon
some topic drawn from one of these
works, on a subject announced in ad-
vance. The main object of the prize is
to promote an interest in and sound
knowledge of the masterpieces of Greek
Philosophy, and especially of the philo-
sophical works of Aristotle. The prize
will be awarded annually if practicable,
but only to a student of high attainments
and ability.
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