Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-29

DEATH Oh IhhbibhNI bAts--JcIOhlau
Day, President of Yale College from 1917
until his resignation In 1916, died In
New Haven on Thursday evening at the
great age of "a years. He was q native
OF New Preston, CT, and entered Yale
College in 1889, but on account Of feeble
health he was not graduated until 1895,
the year when Rev. DR.. Dwight, whose
successor he was, became President Of
that institution. He also succeeded DR..
Dwight as teacher Of school at Green
field which the latter conducted with
marked success. After remaining In
Greenfield year he became a tutor in
Williams College, which he left in 1898
to accept similar position in Yale.
He had early chosen the profession Of
theology, and while acting as tutor be-
gan to preach as candidate for the
ministry, but before he took charge of
any parish his college elected him to the
proiessorship of mathematics and natu-
raj philosophy in 1901, and this, after an
interval of two years one account OF Ill
health, he accepted and held for fourteen
years, when he became President on the
death OF Or. Dwight In the same year
he received the degree of doctor Of laws
from Mlddlebury College, and the degree
of Doctor of Divinity from Union Col
lege in the following year, and from
Harvard in 1881 His first puousned
work was his Algebra in 1914, and be-
tween that time and 1917 he issued his
works on "Measuration OF Supertlces and
Solids" "Plsne Trigonometry," and "Na-
vigation and Surveying" Later was
published his Enquiry on the self-de-
termining power of the will, or contin-
gent volition," and "An examination as
to President Edwards inquiry as to the
freedom of the will" Besides these
works he published number of sermons
and contributed papers to various peri
odicals.
No President ever governed Yale Col
lege so successfully as President Day,
and none ever so gained the confidence
and affection of its thousands of pupils.
His goodness of heart and graciOusness
of manner, joined with his great piety
and learning, caused young men to re-
gard him more as friend than teacher,
and enabled him to WELD controlling
power over them. He was hard close
reasoner, possessed of a strong and solid
mind rather than of brilliant talents, and
was more remarkable for the perfection
and balance Of all his mental gifts than
| for the unusual development of any one
of them. Few mems lives, too, have
been as blameless as his, since his boy
hood, and few hereafter will leave as
high an example of an upright man and
pure and earnest Christian.
EUROPEAN NEws.-The leading Anti
Slavery men of the world met in an
Abolition Congress at Paris on Monday.
One of the objects of the assemblage is
to adopt memorial requesting all gov
ernments to do away with human slavery
within their respect domains.
The preiiminaries for meeting at
Baden, of King William, OF Prussia, and
the Sovereigns of the South German
States, are being arranged.
1t is reported that while Russian
war vessel on the Cretan coast was
taking on board number of refugees, 8
Turkish man.of-war forbade any further
embarkaton. The Russian vessel refused
to desist and both vessels prepared for 6
fight, when Omar Pasha, commander o
the land forces, interfered and prevented
an engagement.
The report of the troubles in Spair
o are very contradicting. The Government
dispatches announce the Instruction a
an end while the rebels claim that thei
y movement against the Government il
y going on successfully.
t The Holy Land Excnrsionists, Of
t board the Quaker City, has arrived a
e Odessa from Constantinople. All Of
q board were well.