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described, some of them in distinct vol-
umes, and others in magazines or in
correspondence with journals. His
‘White Man’s Africa’ is the result of a
visit to the Dutch, British and Por- |
tuguese states of- South Africa. The
whole subject of colonial history and
development he has also explored, by:
personal observations in the West Indies,
and in the far East, where the advance
of Russian dominion towards Pekin, and
the movements of Germany and Japan
in the line of expansion have received
his special attention. A series of papers
DR. LEWIS A. STIMSON
Given the degree of LL.D. by Yale.
on colonial matters embodied what he
learned in a second voyage around the
world during the late Spanish war, when
he visited Manila. I should not omit
to say that Mr. Bigelow’s canoe was
the first to shoot the rapfds of the iron
gates of the Danube, and to open the
way for his published account of the
political affairs of the neighboring
countries. Mr. Bigelow is entitled to
the credit which belongs to the educated
explorer who is, at the same time, a
student of history and politics, and com-
petent to discuss the political problems
of the day. Mr. Bigelow has been re-
quested to codperate in writing the new
history of Europe, to be issued by the
University of Cambridge under the edit-
orship of Lord Acton.” |
PRESENTING MR. KENDALL.
“I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Master of Arts, Mr.
Calvin Noyes Kendall, who received the
Bachelor’s degree at Hamilton College
(1882). After a practical experience in
teaching for several years, he served as
Superintendent of Schools successively
in two of the larger cities of Michigan.
He was then (1895) chosen to the same
office in New Haven, and held it until
his recent election as Superintendent of
Schools in Indianapolis. During the
five years of his residence in New
Haven, the public school administration
was brought into close relation with the
Faculty of the University. Mr. Kendall
took pains to encourage the teachers
who were college graduates to continue
their studies in the Graduate Depart-
ment. A large number were led annu-
ally to enrol themselves in the classes
attending the Teachers’ Courses. He
secured as instructors of special classes
in the High School some of the best
qualified among the graduate students
of the College. In short, in addition to
keeping pace with modern methods of
education and the discharging of his
administrative duties, he has made it a
special aim to stimulate the teachers
subject to his guidance to systematic
study under the most competent instruc-
tion.’
PRESENTING MR. SPEER,
“I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Master of Arts, Mr.
Robert Eliot Speer, a graduate of
Princeton University (1889), and one of
the Secretaries of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian Church.
From the date of his graduation his time
has been largely spent in promoting the
cause of religion in colleges and univer-
sities. T'o the Student Volunteer Move-
ment for Foreign Missions he gave a
year after taking the Bachelor’s degree,
visiting more than one hundred of these
en —
institutions, and he has since been a
member of the Advisory Committee.
To the Christian Association Movement
he has rendered very beneficial services.
His addresses in the colleges have been
charcterized by an obvious sincerity, a
persuasive power, and a tact, which have
rendered them exceedingly effective. In
his few published writings the same
qualities are manifest.”
PRESENTING PROF. CLARKE.
“I have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
Rev. William Newton Clarke, Professor
of Christian Theology in the institution
now designated Colgate University,
formerly known as Madison University,
where he pursued his academic studies.
Before acceding to his present office
(1890) Professor Clarke was _ succes-
sively pastor of four churches, and a
theological professor in the Baptist Col-
lege at Toronto. The principal writ-
ings of Professor Clarke are a ‘Commen-
tary on the Gospel of Mark,’ ‘An Out-
line of Christian Theology,’ ‘What shall
we think of Christianity,’ and ‘Can I
believe in God the Father,’ and an ‘In-
troduction to Theological Study.’ These
books are pervaded by a thoughtfulness
and a freshness which have procured for
them a cordial welcome on every side.
Most of them are intended for the gen-
eral reader, and not exclusively for the
student of divinity. Based on sound
scholarship, yet free from pedantry and
not encumbered with the apparatus of
learning, lucid in their style and dealing
with topics which at present are of liv-
ing interest, these writings have a special
place among the publication of their
time, and of themselves merit this token
of academic distinction.”
PRESENTING REV. MR. EATON.
“T have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Divinity,
Rev. Edward Dwight Eaton, President
of Beloit College, Wisconsin, where he
was graduated in 1872. At the end of
the course in theology at Yale Divinity
School three years later, he spent an
additional year in study at Leipsic and
Heidelberg. From service as a pastor
near Chicago, he was called (1886) to
the presidency of Beloit, an institution
which was established fifty years ago.
It was at the outset and has continued
to be a college after the New England
type. Its first professors, and its first
and, prior to Dr. Eaton, its only presi-
dent, were graduates of Yale. They
were men imbued with its spirit and
bent on realizing the ideals which they
had acquired within its walls. Besides
being the administrative head of the
Institution, Dr. Eaton has given instruc-
tion in History and of late in Ethics, and
for nine years has been the College
preacher. Under his auspices the classes
have more than doubled in numbers,
and the increase in endowments and
equipment has kept pace with this ad-
vance. His publications have not been
numerous, but of a sterling quality. In
the state where he resides, and in the
Christian communion of which he is a
member, he has been appointed to im-
portant offices, both literary and ecclesi-
astical. n 1898 he was selected as a
member of the deputation sent by the
American Board of Missions to China.
The fruits of his observations there were
presented in articles contributed to lead-
ing journals, both secular and religious.”
PRESENTING DR. STIMSON.
“T have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Laws, Dr.
Lewis Atterbury Stimson. On graduat-
‘ing at Yale in 1863, Dr. Stimson entered
the Union army, and until the close of
the war served as a Volunteer Aide with
the rank of Captain, first on the staff
of Major-General Birney, and later on
the staff of Major-General Terry.
While in the service he took part in a
number of actions. At the close of the
war he engaged for a time in business in
New York, but being obliged to go
abroad by reason of the illness of a near
relative he pursued the study of medi-
cine while in Europe, in Zurich and in
Paris. He took the degree of M.D. at
Bellevue Medical School (1874). The
bare record of the places he has been
called to fill renders needless any words
of eulogy. Dr. Stimson became Profes-
sor of Pathology at the University Med-
ical College in 1878, of Physiology at the
same institution in 1882, of Anatomy in
1886, and of Surgery in 1888. This last
chair he held until he resigned it in 1808,
to accept the professorship of Surgery
in the new Medical School founded in
that year by Cornell University. From
1876 for thirteen years he was At-
tending Surgeon for the Presbyterian
Hospital from 1879, for twenty-years,
at the Bellevue Hospital; frem 1888
until now, at the New York Hos-
pital and the Hudson St. House of
Relief. In 1893 he was elected by the
Senate and Assembly of the State of
New York a Regent of the University of
the State, and thus became one of the
special superintendents of higher educa-
tion in that commonwealth. His dis-
tinction as an author is on a level with
his rank as a practitioner. His ‘Manuai
of Operative Surgery,’ and his two
works which are now combined in one,
the “Treatise on Fractures’ and the
‘Treatise on Dislocations,’ are treatises
of standard authority. He is, also, one
of the collaborators of the ‘American
Text Book of Surgery,” a contributor to
a ‘System of Surgery,’ and an associate
editor of Archives of Medicine (1878).
Dr. Stimson is a corresponding member
of the Surgical Society of Paris (1885),
and a member of the American Surgical
Association (1889-1899). For three
years he was Vice-President of the New
York Academy of Medicine, and for two
years President of the New York Surgi-
cal Society. Marks of respect like these,
multiplied to this extent, are rendered
only to extraordinary talents and ser-
vices. Dr. Stimson is called back to-
day to the University to receive the
highest tribute she has to bestow, in
honor of a career so distinguished in his
profession, a profession showing in its
best exemplars the courage of the soldier
mated with a woman’s gentleness.”
PRESENTING MR. ROOT.
“T have the honor to present to you,
for the degree of Doctor of Laws, Hon.
Elihu Root, Secretary of War in the
Cabinet of President McKinley. Mr.
Root is a graduate of Hamilton College,
and is a trustee of that institution. He
took his degree of Bachelor of Laws at
the University of the City of New York
(1867), and since then has practiced law
‘in that city. For the last twenty years
hs has been connected with all the most
important and best known cases that
have been tried there. His eminence as
an advocate is the result of his ability
to dissect a case, be it never so intricate,
and for seizing on every essential detail,
of his power of lucid and incisive ex-
position without any waste of words, and
the union of common sense with earnest-
ness and energy in forensic discussion.
SAMUEL TRAIN DUTTON
Given the degree of M.A. by Yale.
Mr. Root was for two years (1883-1885)
United States Attorney for the Southern
District of New York. Absorbed in the
work of his profession, he has taken part
in the political life only at a large per-
sonal sacrifice and when the call of duty
was imperative. Mr. Root was elected
to the Constitutional Convention of the
State of New York which met in 1894.
In the proceedings of that body he was
the recognized leader of the majority.
Among the measures of reform adopted
by that convention, either wholly or
predominantly by his influence, were the
establishment of the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court, a measure that
was entirely his work, the separation of
National from State and Municipal
Elections, and the provision for Civil
Service Reform,—a provision so framed
as to put it beyond the power of the
State Legislature to annul its vital fea-
tures. Mr. Root has been very efficient
in helping to secure improved election
laws, especially those pertaining to prim-
ary elections. Having declined a high
diplomatic appointment, Mr. Root felt
constrained by a sense of duty to comply
with the request of the President to
enter his Cabinet as Secretary of War.
Into this office he has carried the same
ability to unravel complicated subjects,
the same skill in probing to the bottom
matters calling for investigation, and the
same executive energy which have
JULIAN KENNEDY
Given the degree of M.A. by Yale.
characterized him at the bar. His atten-
tion in particular has been directed to
the forming of a better organization for
the army and to settling lines of admin-
istration for the Spanish Islands. How-
ever people may differ on questions of
public policy, discerning men know
how to value in a statesman the spirit
of self-reliance and that intellectual force
and precision which we look for in the
masters of the legal profession.”
The Alumni Dinner.
At the alumni dinner, Wednesday
afternoon, there was the same tremen-
dous rush by the younger classes to
get within hearing of the speakers, as
soon as the dinner had ended and the
gates were swung back. In an instant
every bit of available room was gone,
and the doorway was choked to the
outer steps, those in the rear standing
on chairs the better to catch what they
might.
Seated around the table on the plat-
form there were President Hadley, Sec-
retary of War Elihu Root, Mr. Robert
Speer, Prof. Geo. J. Brush, Rev. Drs.
Newman Smyth, T. T. Munger, E. S.
Lines, Joseph Anderson, Charles Ray
Palmer and N. M. Calhoun; Prof. W..
N. Clarke, Mr. Samuel Train Dutton,
Mr. T. G. Bennett, Mr. A. L. Ripley,
Mr. W. W. Farnam, Mr, C. N. Kendall,
Treasurer Morris F. Tyler and Judge
W. K. Townsend.
STATEMENT TO THE ALUMNI,
President Hadley rapped for order at
a quarter past three o’clock and began
at once on what he said he felt sure the
alumni wanted most to know about—the
Bi-centennial fund. He read the follow-
ing statement, which had been prepared
by the Committee:
“Recognizing the supreme importance
of completing the memorial building
plans at the coming Bi-centennial, we
would lay before the alumni and friends ©
of the University the following state-
ment for their information and urgent
consideration. ‘The Corporation is con-
vinced that this necessary business of
building should be pressed to comple-
tion at once for the sake of the higher
needs of the University, which demands
attention. But the Corporation would
be reluctant to divert to such building
purposes any existing funds, which are
needed for the development of the edu-
cational work of the University.
“The determining facts before the
Corporation for their present action are
these:
“1. The amount of moneys uncondi-
tionally subscribed for the Bi-centennial
Fund is $500,000.
“2. The amount already used for the
purchase of land and other necessary
expenses is $250,000.
“3. The amount immediately available
for building contracts is $250,000.
