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YALH ALUMNI WHE EKLY
Murray, ’80; W. R. Moody, ’91; F. L.
Slade, ‘91; N. C. Whittemore, ’92;
Smith, ‘94; George Smith, ’96; Mc-
Gallumge'o7: “As Di- Fite, “o7- “Fx. Fi:
Hime, “O7>-38.° “E. sWare,.07; FP. M:
Gilbert, ’98; R.- E. Hume, ’98; H. D.
Gallaudet, ’98; A. B. Williams, Jr., ’98;
H. B. Wright, ’98; J. K. Clark, ’99; L.
Cogswell, Jr., ’99; G. P. Leonard, ’99;
W. E. Ford, ’99 S.; J. R. Mott, M.A.,
709; R. E. Speer, M.A., 1900.
Theological School—L. B. Chase.
Graduate School—Dr. Rokuro Na-
kaseko. (26)
1900—D. B. Casler, W. S. Coffin, F. C.
Cook, W. E. Crittenden, Robert Fergu-
son, F. F. Ferry, A. G. Fox, Gilbert
Lovell, Matthew Mills, Fred Nash, W.
S. Sanford, W. B. Seabury, Herman
Shaffer, H. P. Smith, P, C. Walcott,
A. C. Williams, C. H. Wilson. (17)
190I—E. B. Adams, A. C. Angus, L.
H. Bronson, J. B. Chamberlain, G. M.
Clark, R. H. Edwards, H. O. Gray, J. P.
Grosvenor, H. B. Hunting, P. B. A
Johnson, W. W. Linsley, P. D. Moody,
A. H. Richardson, G. M. Smith, B. P.
Twichell, G. A. Welch, O. M. Wiard.
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Cg B. Barnett, G. E. Davis, C.
D. Francis, G. W. Hitner, B. I. Low, A.
C. Ludington, C. A. Roberts, A. E. Rora-
back Ce Russ; 1, Ga Russ, FB:
Sincerbtaux, E. A. Stebbins, J. F. Ten-
ney, H. W. Tomkins, B. A. Welch, C.
D. White, P. G. White. (17)
- 1903 Theodore Andrews, S. M.
Brereton, E. R. Clark, H. T. Clark, D.
U. Cory, R. D. Day, Alan Fox, F. C.
Gilbert, ©. Thomas Hooker, F. 5.
Houghteling, D. P. Lewis, Cameron
Mackenzie, H. C. McClintock, D. :
Moffat, F. W. Moore, H. B. Pomeroy,
Hugh Rankin, T. R. Strong. (18) |
1900 §.—E. C. Dean, Howard Rich-
ards, Jr., O. H. Schell, J. E. Wheeler.
pe S—P. W. Alling, W. M. Clark,
feo Ferry, Me Ferry, .B. Ww. Kunkel,
Bradford Wells. (6)
7 ion 5G. W. Butts; gt.. J. Bs Coffin,
Rolfe Kingsley, R. B. Schley. (4)
1904-1903 S.—Alton, Boies and Pown-
ing from Hotchkiss School; Colby,
Mosley and Stebbins from Andover ;
Houghteling, Jarvis, Lord, Tripp and
Van Kisk from Hill School; Goodell
from Montclair High; Miller from Her-
mon; Whipple from Bells. (14)
Preparatory—J. D. Cutler, H. D. Gil-
bert. (2)
Northfield and the Wale Dele-
gation.
fA. C. Ludington in the Association Pamphlet.]
As the train nears South Vernon, one
catches the first glimpse of the North-
field buildings across the Connecticut,
half way up the long, smooth slope that
stretches back to a range of wooded hills.
Just a glimpse—then the train stops, you
rush for a seat in one of the covered
surreys that stand waiting,and are
quickly started on the three mile drive
to East Northfield. Traversing the
wide, shady street, with the double row
of trees arching across from either side,
—the characteristic feature of New Eng-
land towns,—past one old-fashioned,
white colonial house after another, you
finally come out on the open hillside,
where the large stone and brick build-
ings of the school are scattered, widely
separated from each other. East Hall,
one of the School dormitories, is en-
tirely occupied by the Yale delegation,
who live there and make it their head-
quarters, and you are soon settled in
your room.
After supper—the meals in the
crowded dining room are, to say the
least, informal—there is the evening
meeting on Round Top, a little knoll
crowned with a few pine-trees, and com-
manding a glorious view of the sunset
off across the Connecticut valley. The
people come trailing over the fields in
small groups, and sit bareheaded on the
ground under the trees while the leader
stands in the center, as might Abelard
have stood at his little abbey of Para-
clete, surrounded by his pupils. After-
wards, at the platform meeting in the
great auditorium, one of the principal
speakers, some man whose words are
strengthened by a wide reputation, gives
such an address as you may seldom hear
elsewhere, practical, suggestive, and
above all, thoughtful. There follows a
short delegation meeting of the Yale
men in East Hall, at which every man
is expected to be present, for of all the
meetings, this means perhaps the most
to each one, and embodies most fully
the Northfield spirit. About half past
ten everyone turns in for the night.
In the morning, there are the special
meetings for those interested in various
departments of Y. M. C. A. work and
the platform meeting in the auditorium,
lasting till a little after twelve. The
afternoons are entirely given up to out-
door sports, a series of baseball games
between the various colleges, often end-
ing in the finals with a game between
Yale and Princeton, a track meet on the
Fourth, a tennis tournament, and num-
erous scrub games of various descrip-
tions. Besides, the baseball teams must
of course practice, and the stunt events
in the track games, stich as the three-
legged race, must be worked up.
The Fourth is a great day, beginning
with a thorough canvass of the town in
search of flags and bunting, a hard after-
noon’s work decorating the auditorium,
—each college hanging its own flags and
colors over the section where its seats
are assigned,—and ending with a speech
. . by some army or navy officer in the even-
ing. At this meeting each college is
called on for its song and cheer,—often
one or two men from Klondike Univer-
sity or some stich place get up and ren-
der an elaborate duet in the way of a
yell,—which ceremonies being concluded,
. the assembly adjourns to a huge bonfire
in the open, where a sort of Omega
Lambda Chi celebration is performed.
NO CLASS DISTINCTIONS.
As for the times between the various
meetings, when one is reading, writing
letters, or loafing under the trees, the
life at East is mutch like the life at
New Haven, except that class distinc-
tions are done away with almost en-
tirely, and things are rather more free
and easy—to the extent of an occasional
rough-house. The piel tournament is a
Yalé importation deserving of the high-
est esteem; also the custom of sing-
ing on the steps in the evenings—a re-
minder of the fence. Indeed the Yale
delegation, on account of its size, is more
or less of a colony by itself, though there
is a great deal of intercourse with the
men from other colleges, and a reception
is given at East for those men in the
other delegations whom any of the Yale
men know. It is natural, however, that
friends should see the most of each
other, whether on a Sunday afternoon
walk to the boundary of three States,
or at the daily swim in the Connecticut
—where the rudiments of the noble art
of riding a log may be learned,—or in
going to the meetings together. It is
the natural consequence that these
friends often get to know each other bet-
ter there in a week—and perhaps on a
more serious basis—than in months at
New Haven, and this, though by no
means the primary aim, is one of the
finest results of the conference.
Then, after ten days of listening to
magnificent addresses, perhaps helping
to win the baseball championship or the
track meet, perhaps exploring the coun-
try a little, and resting and loafing in
between times, the covered surreys again
make their appearance, the long street.
is passed in the other direction, and,
with a parting baseball game at the
station while waiting for the train, the
conference ‘breaks up.
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Columbia Degrees for Yale Men.
At the Commencement exercises of
Columbia University thirteen Yale grad-
uates received degrees.
As has been before noticed, President
Arthur T. Hadley received the honorary
degree of LL.D., which was conferred
by Prof. John Howard Van Amringe.
Arthur W. Bingham, who received
the degree of M.D. from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, won _ third
prize ($200.00) for proficiency in exam-
ination and also stood fourth in rank in
list of ten honor men of the Senior
class in that department’of the Uni-
versity.
The complete list of Yale men receiv-
ing degrees, besides President Hadley,
is as follows:
Degree of LL.B. from the Columbia
University Law School: Everett L.
Barnard, A.B., ’97; Thomas G. Shear-
ian, Jr, Av... 60.
Degree of M.D. from Columbia Uni-
versity College of Physicians and Sur-
geons: -Milton H. Ballin, Ph.B:7°o6S.;
Arthur W. Bingham, A.B., ’96; Daniel
B. Brinsmade, A.B., ’96; Lewis F.
Prissell; <A] B.:) ALM 795 ‘Lester cd.
Hoole, A.B., ’96; Edward L. Trudeau,
It, A, 66:
Degree of Master of Arts was con-
ferred upon Norman E. Ditman, Ph.B.,
96S.; Charles R. Frazer, A.B., ’99;
Louis S. Levy, A.B., ’98.
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A Yale President at Hllinois
College.
Rey. Clifford W. Barnes, Yale ’89, has
recently received and accepted the offer
of the Presidency of Illinois College. Mr.
Barnes was in the Faculty of the Uni-
versity of Chicago, when the call came,
teaching in the Department of Social
Science. The offer came without warn-
ing and was coupled with the assurance
on the part of the trustees of the College
that a number of very important changes
and improvements would be made if
Mr. Barnes accepted the Presidency.
Among these is the guarantee of the
increase of the endowment fund to a
very good figure. Satisfactory progress
in this work has already been made.
Illinois College is the oldest educa-
tional institution in Illinois, founded by
a company of Yale men nearly seventy-
five years ago. Its condition for a num-
ber of years back has been very quiet,
and the appointment of Mr. Barnes is
perhaps the most important among many
plans to revive its strength, and to move
it along the best lines of modern educa-
tion. Its environment, traditions and
the number of its generous friends
promise well for it in the future. Mr.
Barnes will take up his work in the Fall.
Mr. Barnes took his B.D. from the
Yale Theological Seminary in 1892 and
his M.A. from the University of Chi-
cago in 1893. He was Head Worker in
the Men’s Social Settlement in connec-
tion with Hull-House, Chicago, for a
year and was engaged in institutional
church work in Chicago from 1894 to
1897, first as pastor of the Sedgwick
Street Congregational Church and then
of Christ Chapel, Presbyterian. For a
short time he assisted: the Rev. Dr. John
Hall of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York City, during an ill-
ness of the latter. He has pursued his
REV. CLIFFORD W. BARNES, YALE ’8o.
special line of study at Oxford and
Paris, and in the latter city he was pas-
tor of the American Students’ Service
in the Latin Quarter.
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Successful Year of Medical
School.
The year in the Medical School which
closed in June last is probably the most
successful in the seventy years of its
history. The unusual success which has
attended the efforts of the present
graduating class is probably due to the
change from a three-year to a four-
year course, as this is the first class
to graduate after four years’ study in
the School. ,
In the competitive examinations for
hospital appointments, a greater number
of such appointments was secured than
has fallen to the lot of any previous
class. Out of a class of twenty-four
twenty secured hospital appointments,
of which the majority were appoint-
pa Onn. *
ments as first internes. Of these six are
in New York City hospitals, which were
open to competition.
Everything considered, the class has
made a remarkable showing, especially
for a school just gone under a new
system. Further changes in the curri-
culum will be instituted when enough
money can be secured.
The complete list of hospital appoint-
ments is as follows:
Edward F. Ashley, Ph.B., ’97S., W.
W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, Conn. ;
George L. Buist, Jr., B.A., 96, Brooklyn
City Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y-;
Frederick Coonley, B.A., ’96, Presby-
terian Hospital, New York City; Cyrus
W. Field, Presbyterian Hospital, New
York City; Nathan L. Griffin, New Ha-
ven Hospital, New Haven, Conn; Carle
W. Henze, New Haven Hospital, New
Haven, Conn.; Thomas V. Hynes, New
Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.;
John W. Ives, Soldiers Home, Noroton,
William Jt Maroney, St. Vin-
cent’s Hospital, New York City; Her-
man C. Pitts, Rhode Island General
Hospital, Providence, R. I.; Charles O.
Purinton, Connecticut State Prison
Hospital, Wethersfield, Conn.; James F.
Quinn, New York City Hospital, Black-
well’s Island, N. Y.; Frank W. Stevens,
Bridgeport General Hospital, Bridgeport,
Conn.; Harold A. Tarbell, St. Barnabas
Hospital, Newark, N. J.; Robert G.
Tracy, Post Graduate Hospital, New
York City; Wesley G. Vincent, B.A.,
*96, Post Graduate Hospital, New York
City; - Noan->. Wadhams, Ph.B., ’97 S.,
New Haven Hospital, New Haven,
Conn.; John G. Williams, St. Mary’s
Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William H.
Wright, Freedmen’s Hospital, Washing-
ton: 2 es.
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Yale Graduates of New York
Law School.
There were twenty-five graduates of
Yale in the class which graduated from
the New York Law School, June 14.
Of these, one, Harry G. Brockius, Ph.B;,
received an LL.M. He had previously
taken an LL.B. from Ohio State Uni-
versity. The remaining twenty-four had
conferred upon them the degree, LL.B.,
and are as follows: Thomas Allen ,’98;
Frank Clyde Baker, ’90 T.S.; Thomas
G. Barnes, 97; Luther G. Billings, Jr.,
798. (cum laude); Colby M. Chester,
Tf. >) OF 3. ewenard —>, -Chisolm, ’97
(cum laude); Edward A. Colby, ’80 S.;
James 1. Crane, 08;° Henry H. Curran,
798 (cum’ laude); R. G. D. Douglass,
98; Philip Earl Dudley, ’98; Charles
Fred Gehrman, ’98; William A. Hart,
’O7;.. James “Hess; ’98S.; Frederic
Kernochan, ’98; Everett P. Ketchum,
’°8; Oscar. Loewi, 98; Frederick A.
Lehlback, ’98 (cum laude); Orlando P.
Metcalf..-08 ;.. W... Stevens. Ray, ’08;
Robert D» Reynolds, ’98 S.; Henry Sill-
cocks, ’98 (cum laude) ; John A. Walsh,
98, and Harold M. Wilson, ’98.
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Sigma Xi Elections,
A meeting of the Yale chapter of
Sigma Xi was held Friday evening, June
8, and these officers elected for next
year: President, Prof. Percy F. Smith,
"88. S.; Vice-President, Dr. E. W. Scrip-
ture; Secretary, F. J. Carnell, 1900S.;
Treasurer, Dr, John C. Tracy, ’oo S.;
Nominating Committee, Asst. Prof. P.
E. Browning, ’89; Asst. Prof. H. A.
Bumstead, Ph.D., ’97; Asst. Prof. S. E.
Barney, ’79 S.; Dr. A. W. Evans, ’90 S.,
and Harry W. Foote, ’95 S.
The Society, of which the Yale chap-
ter is a branch, is growing very rapidly
in importance. In the West it is said
to be outstripping Phi Beta Kappa.
A charter was recently presented to a
chapter at Brown University, where
the majority of the members are scien-
tific -professors in the Faculty. At the
presentation, President Faunce empha-
sized the importance of the event to
the university. The officers of Sigma Xi
Society are: President, H. S. Williams
of Yale; Vice-President, S. W. Wil-
liston, Kansas; Corresponding Secre-
tary, J. McMahon, Cornell; Recording
Secretary, F. C. Caldwell, Ohio; Treas-
urer, E. W. Davis, Nebraska; Chairman
of Council, E. L. Nichols, Cornell.
At the last meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science in New York a large meeting
was held of members of Sigma Xi who
were attending the Association meeting.
