The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-13

dents Among the former was CeSTee Wesb
iineton, who accepted the Office OF Chancellor
President, succeeded Bishop Johns Ia that
On the night of February 8, 1859. lust aH the
Alumni were about celebrating the l66th ami
yersary ef It's foundation, an accidental are de- /
most Of the valuable antiquities Contained |
In II. Contri5utions flowed In from all quar-
in May, 1851, II was again found necessary to I
close their doors. on account of the existence OF
led alternately by Union and Rebel foTCes. TSSs.
and on the 9th OF September. 1862 the principai
stroyed by fire, the torch having been applied
without official orders, by some struggling mem,
be OF the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, who had
just been worsted In an encounter with a
mounted detachment of Rebel troops.
Earnest efforts are now being made with q
fair prospect OF success to raise a new endow-
ment for the re-erection OF the buildings, and a
wealthy Washington banker, has made a llDe-
raj donation; as has also Mr. Alexander T.
5Uewart, OF New YORK, VINO conITlOuted largely
destroyed In 1859.
Yale College,
although the junior Of Harvard by sixty.four
years, has sent forth more graduates, and in its
academic department has almost always
headed the list In the number OF students in
lished, which includes the classes graduating
in the year 1865, contains the names OF 9ll2
persons upon whom the dT5 Institution IN mas mas con,
of publication, deceased, while 44W were still
living. Excluding those who had received
merely honorary degrees there were Sl35 regu-
lar graduates of all The different departments,
of whom 1851 were dead aud 1854 living. The
graduates of the academic department alone
amounted to 1853, of whom 1896 were dead and
1851 living, When the graduating classes OF
1866 and 1867 are added the total number OF
Bachelors of Arts" which Yale has given to
the world amounts to 765l, an average of 40
since its foundation in the year 100.
AS early as 1G47 the project of establishing
college in New Haven was agltated, but 1t was
postponed in the interest of Harvard. In the
col uun cd w a n
cation of the ministers of the colony at New
Haven. Another meeting was soUn after held
at BranfoTd, at which each one present depo-
sited few volumes on table, with the de-
claration, 81 give these books for the founding
ment of Yale consisted of forty folio volumes!
In those days institutions of learning did not
of half million dollars, as has recently been
the case with the Lehigh and Cornell Universi-
ties. The new institution received charter
from the General Court in l70l The intention,
at first, was to limit the instruction to the De-
partment of Theology, but this plan was soon
set aside, and the students were gifted for pub
lie employments, both in Church and Civil
State, !" although for a long time the religious
feature practically predominated.
The first rector was Abraham Pierson, who
instructed the students at his residence at Kill
lngworth, and continued to do so until his
death in 1907. AT the first commencement, held
in 1902, at SAybrook, there was one graduate
In l7t3 another student was graduated in 1904
The location of the college remaired at Say
brook until l7l6, when, after a sharp contest
H..
manently located at the latter place, where, at
the commencement of III, five graduates re-
eeiyed their diplomas. Up to this time there
this time the institution received the name of
Yale, from Mr.. Elihu Yale, native of New
Haven, who had acquired great wealth in the
East Indies, and on his return to London made
a contribution of books and merchandise to the
college of his native town.
In 17l9 the Rev. Timothy Cutler was made
Rector, but in l722 he was Excused from all
further service" in that POSITION, because he
m Z
New England creed ior Episcopal ordination
in England. He was succeeded as presidine
the Rev. Thomas Clap (l789-l766D, the Rev. Naph-
tali Daggett Q766-l777), the Rev. Ezra stiles
(l7TI-l795(, and the Rev. Timothy Dwight Q795-
1Sl5). In 1917 the venerable jeremiah Day
became President, continuing to hold the posi-
succeeded by the present incumbent, the Rev
Theodore Dwigh Woolsey, d. d., LII. d. Many
ton with the Institution for "a long period,
prominent among them being the late DR., Ben
and continued in their active discharge until
! 1858. President Woolseys connection dates
back to 1923, when he was appointed tutor;
! Large donations of books and money We're
made to it by persons residing in Englandand
! the Colonies. and in l747 portion of the means
| TO erect new building was raised by a lottery.
| In 1925 the graduating class numbered 49, in
1887 and l743 it had increased to 81 and in 1748 to
| SO. From that period to the Revolution 1t ave
ragged nearly 40, and in l77 had increased to SO.
! There was slight falling Off during the re-
mainder of the Revolution, but in 1885 The num-
|
Der was as high as 20. For the last thirty years
the number of graduates in the academic de-
! partment has been in the neighborhood of one
hundred, the largest being the class of l847,
which numbered l2s, and the next largest that
! of 1868, which numbered l22.
In 1918 a Medical Department was organized, ,
the first graduating class, that of 1914. NUMBER
ing three. The largest class ever graduated in
this department was one of 20 members, in
| 1929.
The Law School was commenced about 1920,
| but was not connected regularly with the OUl-
lege until 1880, and the degree of LIB. was
! ably prosperous, the largest graduating class,
| that of l847, having only IL members
The Divinity School was established in 1922,
| but heretofore has not been very dourisning
| rated, as its separate endowment has recently
| been increased TO $4,000, and by contingent
| bequest to S250000. rhe old Divinity building
| is about to be torn down, to make way for q
| new one. II is one OF the oldest buildings In
the city. and in 1872, being then used as a tavern
was a faVorite rendezvous of the State troops.
| In lS47, q department of Philosophy and the
Arts was established, and has since received
the name of the Shefeld Scientific School. In
this department, the student has the privilege
| OF pursuing those more practical studies which
are now SO rapidly coming into vogue.
| Yale College has recently received donations
and bequests amounting to over half a million
of dollars, ana is now one OF the wealthlest col
| lege corporations In the United States Among
| the most generous donors was Mr.. Street, whose
| contributions have amounted to upwards of
| 100000. Out of this fund an elegant Art Build
ing has recently been erected, at an expense of
| Sl70,O0O. The Alumni, in connection with the
| college authorities, are also about 10 erect a
| magnificent Memorial Chapel, as monument
| to the sons of Yale who perished in the recent
| war. IL is proposed TO eXpend about Sl9O,0OO on
the building, the greater portion of which Is
| yet 10 be raised by subscription. The various
| libraries, which now number 1880 volumes,
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