Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-01
LOCAL NEWS.
Commencement.
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CONTINUED FROM SECOND PAGE. Betts Prize ($5O); for the best examina tion in studies of junior year, John P. Bart lett, Ph. B., New Britain.
 HoNoRs. Seniors-E A. Futile (Jewen prize); A. A. Browning, Ph. B., Norwich; s. L. T. Car veil, Hampton, Canada A. L. Talcott Ph. B., Mt Union College, Jefferson, O.. James H Mclean, Trenton, Ga
 Prize) M Darlington, B. A., Knox College Peoria, III. O. H. D. Fowler, Ph. B., Nortt Haven; w. W. Bailey, B. A., New Haven.
 PRESENTED FOR DEGREES.
 Graduate Course-For Degree of D. c. L. -Kazuo Hatogama Qate Miura), LL.B., (Co lumbia College M. L., Attorney at Law Isaac Franklin Russell, M. L.;. LIB, (New Kneeland Townsend, B. A, M. L., Attorney at Law.
 For Degree of M. L.-Bruce Fenn, Ph. B., LLB., Attorney at Law; Edward Burritt Smith, LL.B., CUnion College of Law-)
 Undergraduate Course-For Degree of IL. .B.-William Caldwell Anderson, William John Beecher, Amos Avery Browning, Ph. B. George Lafayette Camm, Samuel Leonard Tilley Carvell, Jesse Lewis Case, B. A., John Wallace Childs, Attorney at Law, Will Van Her Childs, Attorney at Law, William Henry Everett, Edwin Burpee Goode1l, B. A., Had lai Austin Hull, Bernard Keating, William De Witt Kellogg, Henry Winslow Lamb, William Henry Law, jr., B. A, Robert Alfred Lowe, James Hodge Mclean, John Martin Mur- doch, Charles Henry Northrop, Miner Gibbs Norton, Ph.B., Mt. Union College, James Protus Pigott, B A., Orlando Belknap Pond, Edwin Archer R Indolph, Edward Lyon Rob- inson, James Rosenthal, William Ruggles sSanborn, B. A., Gerrit Smith, B. A, George Loomis Sterling, B. A, Albert Lewis Talcott, Ph.B., Mt. Union College, Charles Martin Taylor, Ezra Armstrong Futile, James Eu- gene Walsh, John George Wilson, Attorney at Law, Charles Eggleston Woodruff.
 The exercises closed with the benediction by President Porter.
 The Townsend prize (given some years ago by the Hon. James M. Townsend) has proven a very valuable incentive to ambition and ex- cellence in orations and interest in this i'm portant department of Yale.
 The ushers, who performed their duties most acceptably, were N. w. Bailey, J. c. Gallagher, Harry Hall, l.. N. Cleveland, k. A. Smith and B. A. Bowers.
 The Law School Reeeption-A Very Bril-
 liant Affair.
 The reception by the Law department last evening was conspicuously brilliant affair. Never in the history of the institution was there finer reception. The occasion was honored by the presence of the President of the United States, two members of the Cabi- net, viz, Secretary Evarts and Postmaster General Key, also Edwards Pierrepont, ex- Minister to England; Mir. Hazen third assist ant to the Postmaster General President Porter and many of the professors of Yale, and large number of distinguished members of the bar and other leading citizens. There was profusion of exquisite toilets and the attendance was very large The various ele- gant rooms were decorated in an exceedingly tasteful manner with the colors of the repub- lie, all arranged and arrayed elegantly. The guests as they arrived were introduced to Professor and Mrs. Wayland. Later on Presi- dent Porter and Miss Rebecca Porter arrived with the President and Mrs. Hayes, and a course of introduction to the distinguished visitors began, of which a large number availed themselves. Fine music was furnish ed by select orchestra of ten pieces. The ushers were Messrs Bowers, Cleayeland, Hall, Gallagher, Smith and Bailey of the junior class.
 The Degree of D. c. l..
 Many inquiries are made with regard to the degree of D. c. L., Doctor of Civil Laws) conferred yesterday in three cases by the Law school. The degree is rare, and is conferred by but two colleges in this coun- try, Yale and Harvard. The course of study involved is elaborate and profound, requiring much thorough reading in the original tongues of the great French and Roman law writers and the previous requirement of the degrees of l.. L. B. and M l.. For practising of the bar the course is four years for non -practicing, two years Prof. Hatogama, one upon whom the degree was conferred yes terday, leaves soon for Japan, having been ap- pointed Professor of Law in the Royal College at Tokio. Another, Mir Isaac F. Russell, who delivered the Doctors oration, was valedicto- rian of his class in both the academicaI and law departments of the College of the City of New York. MT. Wm. K. Townsend, the third, is a Yale graduate class of '71, the at torney at law, of this city. It is also worthy of note that the last named is a grand nephew of Prof. Isaac H. Townsend, first professor of law in the Yale Law school be- fore it's union with the college, and the donor of the gift from which the coveted prize among Yale academies, the Townsend prize, arises. The degree of D. c. l.. is held in this country only by U. s. Grant and Bishop Potter, conferred by Oxford, and few oth- CTS, and in England it is held by Fuxley, Tyndall Alfred Tennyson and others.
 To-Day.
 To-day, Commencement day, there will oc- cur the-crowning exercises at Center church, preceded by the usual procession, which will be formed in front of the Lyceum. The usual brilliant array of toilets will adorn the occasion. The President and other visitors will attend
 At D. m. occurs the Commencement din ner at Alumni Hall.
 From to II p. m. occurs the reception of the president.
 The following is the number of vessels that passed Southwest Ledge light, up the harbor, during the last fiscal year, ending June 30: Ships 20, barks B, brigs 137, schooners 6,99s, sloops 1,294 steamers 4,32O-total 12, 79S
 E. THOMPSON, Keeper.
 Hancock Meeting the Green.
 This evening the Democrats will holdp and English ratification meeting on the Green. Prominent speakers are an- to address the meeting, among them English, United States Senator W. W. Eaton, General Darius N. Couch of Norwalk and Hon. Jerome Buck of New York
 Fatally Injured.
 Stevedore McCord, of the steamer Ston- ington, was fatally injured yesterday at New