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YALE ALUMNI WHEKLY
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Gentlemen of the graduating class:
Never has there been a time in the
world’s history when these lessons of
patience have been more needed. New
scientific discoveries, new methods. of
economic organization, new political
opportunities in the quick revolution of
the world’s kaleidoscope, put in your
hands a power to use for evil or for
good. There is so much chance to show
what you can do that you are in danger
of forgetting the need of proving what
you are. I entreat you never to let the
consciousness of this power lead you to
prefer the joy of its exercise to the
assurance of its subordination to great
ends. You hold that power as trustees
for your fellow men. Never allow your-
selves to shape a selfish definition of
success in whose creation and enjoyment
they shall have no share. True success
in politics or in business lies not in the
gaining of authority, but in the use of
authority as leaders possessed of a wider
vision and foresight. True success in
art or literature is not to be sought
simply in the development of new ideals,
but in the interpretation and expression
of those ideals in such a way that they
shall be a public possession. May Yale
be buried fifty fathoms deep under the
sea if ever she begins to teach her men
so to define success that it may be
purchased at the price of self-centered
isolation! And finally, remember that,
however much you may be able to
dazzle the multitude or lead the multi-
tude, the respect of your own conscience,
under God, is the one enduring posses-
sion. In patience, in the profoundest
sense of the word, shall you possess
your souls. Thus, and thus only, can
you rise above the caprices of fate in
achieving a character and a fixity of
purpose which it is beyond the power
of fortune to take away. Thus, and
thus only, shall you enter into the estate
of him that hath
‘three firm friends, more sure than day or night ;
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.”’
Be ye followers of them who through
taith and patience inherit the promises.
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LAW SCHOOL EXERCISES,
Address by Hon. W. Bourke Cochran
—Makepeace Wins Townsend.
The seventy-sixth anniversary exer-
cises of the Yale Law School and the
annual meeting of the Law School
Alumni Association were held Monday,
June 25. The annual dinner of the
Association was held in the library of
the School from 1 to 3 o’clock and
speeches were made by Judge Loomis,
President of the Association; Judge
Simeon E. Baldwin, Yale ’61, who
acted as toastmaster; Homer S. Cum-
mings, Yale ’91 S.; Judge W. K. Town-
send, Yale 71, and Charles H. Studinski,
Yale 672 43.5) 90.
The new officers of the Associations
elected for the following year were:
President, Judge Loomis; Vice-Presi-
dent, Mr. Bowers; Secretary, Prof.
Foster.
After the close of the banquet the pro-
cession headed by a band marched to
College Street Hall, where the graduat-
ing exercises were held. The award of
prizes were as follows:
The Townsend prize ($100) to Walter
D. Makepeace, Springfield, Mass., B.A.
Yale ’97, L.S. ’99, subject, “The .White
Man’s Burden.”
The Jewell prize ($50) to George
Zahm for best stand in annual examina-
tion.
The Munson prize ($50) to Harry B.
Agard, for best graduating thesis.
The Betts prize ($50) to John T.
Smith, B.A. Creighton College 1899, for
highest marks at Junior examination.
The Wayland prizes ($50, $30, $20), to
those three members of the Yale Kent
Club, who, at a public competitive de-
bate, are announced first, second and
third in excellence as debaters, awarded
first prize to Cornelius P. Kitchel, B.A., -
Yale ’97; second prize to John T. Smith,
B.A. Creighton College ’99; third prize
to Franklin A. Lord, B.A. Yale ’o8.
The Edward Thompson Company
prize: A set of the first or of the
second edition of the Encyclopaedia of
Law, or a set of the Encyclopaedia of
Pleading and Practice, as the successful
competitor may elect, as the successful
of the middle class who shall pass the
best examination in the required and
optional studies of that year, awarded
and Hulbert Taft.
and life.
to Martin T. Bennett, B.A. Yale ’98._
Kent Club diplomas for excellence in
debate in the regular exercises of the
Yale Kent Club were awarded to the
following members of the Senior class:
Harry B. Agard, Orrin M. Clark, B.A.
Yale ’98; Thomas F. Hickey, Leslie E.
Hubbard, Walter D. Makepeace, B.A.
Yale ’97, M.A. Yale ’99; James A. Marr,
B.A. Bates ’97.
Honors—Degree of LL.B., magna
cum laude awarded to Herbert D.
Palmer, B.S. Southern Iowa Normal,
95, B.A. Yale ’98, and George Zahm; de-
gree of. LL.B., cum laude, awarded to
William F. Conway, John W. Egerton,
B.A. Trinity ’94, M.A. Yale ’96; Nathan
A. Smyth, B.A .Yale ’97, M.A. Yale ’9o.
Middle class—Martin T. Bennett, B.A.
Yale ’98; Cornelius P. Kitchel, B.A.
Yale ’97; Xenophon P. Huddy, Henry
H. Townshend, B.A. Yale ’97.
Junior class—Harold R. Berry, Gar-
field R. Jones, Edward H. Kelly, Charles
T. Clark, B.A. Gettysburg, ’98, Yale ’99;
Jono... 1. Smith, B.A. Creighton. “99:
Wendell M. Strong, Ph.D., Yale ’go.
The address of the afternoon was by
the Hon. W. Bourke Cochran on “The
Lawyer of the next Generation.”
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Litchfield County University
Club Meeting.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Litchfield County University Club was
held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Stoeckel, Norfolk, June 15. There
were present about 150 members. After
a reception in the library and the trans-
action of necessary business, the Club
sat down to a handsome banquet in the
dining room. At ten o'clock the speak-
ing of the evening was intervened, with
a toast to Mr. and Mrs. Stoeckel, which
was responded to by Donald L. Warner
of Salisbury. The guest of the evening
was ex-President Dwight, who was re-
ceived with great demonstrations of re-
spect. The remaining speeches were
studied addresses with a purpose, not
light after-dinner speeches. They re-
viewed the history of the Litchfield Law
School, founded in 1784, the Indian
Mission School of Cornwall and con-
sidered various political, social and
educational questions.
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Academic Class Histories.
At 2 o'clock Monday, June 25, when
the reading of the Class histories began
in the large ampitheater, constructed on
the Campus between North College and
Dwight Hall, every seat was taken, and
although the day was intensely hot, the
spectators suffered no inconvenience, as
their seats were covered with a canvas
awning. The historians were Edward
B. Hill, Yonkers, N. Y.; Maurice P.
Gould, Wamego, Kansas; Clare H.
Draper, Hopedale, Mass., and Ashley D,
Leavitt, Melrose, Mass. After the his-
tories the ivy, which was taken from
Lincoln’s tomb, was planted at the north-
east corner of the new Chittenden
Library, and the Ivy Ode, written by
A. W. VanBuren was sung. The Ivy
Committee was E. A. Park, T. W. Swan
The Class Day Com-
mittee which had laid the plans and car-
ried them so successfully throughout
was: Preston Kumler, Chairman; Nor-
man W. Bartlett, Charles S. Brooks,
Malcolm Douglass and John B. Hartwell.
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SCHOOL NOTES,
Columbia Grammar School.
A review of the year—of the Columbia
Grammar School—just closed, presents
a gratifying record of interest and pro-
gress in all parts of the school work
The output to the colleges is
large, well up to the average in quality,
and is divided between Columbia, Har-
vard, Princeton, Yale and New York
University, while several have taken out
Regents’ diplomas, for direct entrance
to the New York Law and Medical
Schools.
Two clubs have kept up their debates,
but the demands of other organizations
have checked the customary effort of
many of the older boys in this laudable
work.
The Dramatic Club gave two success-
ful representations at the Berkeley Ly-
ceum; the Chess Club took second place
in the Interscholastic tournament, and
the Columbia chapter of the City His-
tory Club held several meetings, with
lectures and trips to historic points.
The editors of the News, while offering
creditable issues, failed to stir up the
artists of the classes to contribute —
sketches to the usual amount.
The Athletic Association carried. out
its Interclass and field day games and
gymnastic contests with spirit and suc-
cess. Credit should be given it for the
great improvement effected in the year’s
football, hockey, baseball, basketball and
track teams.
for hope of championship in several of
these teams for the coming year.
The track team placed the School
second in the Interscholastic champion-
ship games, and second, again, in the
Intercity games. But for an accident
to one and the sickness of the other of
its best two sprinters, the “C. G. S.,” it
is believed, would have made the cham-
pionship.
The Thacher School,
THE INCREASE IN NUMBERS.
The year at the Thacher School just
ending has been unusual. The num-
ber of boys has been ten more than
ever before, and has reached the per-
manent limit of membership—thirty-
five. To increase the accommodations,
an annex was built to the school build-
ing, containing two large recitation
rooms and four bed rooms; and an
addition was made to the north of
the main hall, being a porte cochére and
billiard room below, with four bed
rooms above. A well has been drilled
675 feet deep, producing a fine water
supply of at least ten miner’s inches,
which a 12-horse power: engine delivers
to the orange orchard and to the swim-
ming reservoir, which is to be completed
before the next school year.
ATHLETICS.
The school baseball nine, Stetson cap-
tain and Burke manager, has been de-
veloped into an excellent and well uni-
formed organization, and has _ played
‘match games with the high school nines
of Santa Paula, Ventura, and Santa
Barbara, the school nine winning from
Santa Barbara and Santa Paula, with
many “Casa de Piedra-rah’s.”’
The Interscholastic Tennis Tourna-
ment was held in the Ojai in April,
twenty-one schools of Southern Cali-
fornia sending representatives to com-
pete for the championship cup, offered
by Henry Farnam, Yale ’95, the first
student of the Thacher School. Gridley
got second place in singles, Los Angeles
High School winning the cup. Gridley
and Barrows won second place in
doubles also. An open tournament was
carried on at the same time, in which
H. Farnam won every match without
playing, by a curious combination of
defaults. W. L. Thacher, Yale ’87, and
Waldo Forester, Harvard ’74, were the
chief managers of the tournament,
which was a decided success.
The Track Meet of the Interscholastic
Association of Southern California was
held in Ventura on May tioth. The
Santa Barbara High School won, with
the Thacher School coming into prom-
inence for the first time by tying for
second place. Dudley W. Hopkins of
Chicago got first in the 220 and in the
hurdles, second in the running broad
jump and third in the too yards, scor-
ing more points than any oher indi-
vidual. L. L. Haggin of New York
tied for first place in the shot put.
DOWN THE. COLORADO.
The Christmas trip down the Colorado
River was one of the peculiar events
of the year, and, through disappoint-
ing as to hardships and hunting, was
a great experience for the eleven boys
who went, under the care of Mr. Price
and Mr. Vanlandingham. The party,
well supplied with guns, reflex sleeping
bags and provisions, went by rail to
Yuma, and thence by row boats with
Indian guides down the Colorado nearly
to the Gvlf of California, up the Hardy
Colorado, and back to Yuma over the
hot, dry, dusty desert by wagon and
on foot. The boys of the party were:
Bodman, Chandler, Farnam, Freeman,
Hazard, W. Hopkins, McCormick,
Morris,. Putnam, Stephens, and T.
Vail. The game shot included 3 deer,
2 wild hogs and countless ducks, snipe,
and pelicans.
During the Easter vacation there was
no camping trip, most of the boys
scattering for visits; but during the
There is good ground now.
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YALE GOLF
Is thriving, whatever critics may say
about other branches of Yale
athletics. It is natural for Yale to
take a good place in any new
branch of sport, and this time
she will try to keep a lead.
The links of the New Haven Club,
where the students play, are
among the oldest and best in the
country. Then there are the
-new Country Club links, al-
though the Yale men seldom are
on them. On both links the
Vardon clubs are very popular.
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