New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-29
Mr. COMMENCEMENT SEASON
v,Jr COLLEGE ALUMNI.

rr,vc OF YALE COLLEGE ALUMNI.
nv PRESIDENT PORTER OF THE ADVANCE
81 s.~xr Of HE COLLEGE In TIE LAST ffiELN
,syox.I CORRESPONDENT OF THE rEIBUSE'l
r,w.H,yrN, Conn.,, June ZS.-lhe 1aie
=, ,ee,in was held this morning at Ia in' at me
e -, U.l The attendance was somewhat less 'nah
s. - reeeu, meetings. President GARFIELD was ex-
f.ss ,nt n telegram TO President Porter announced
{ ..sp,,, to attend AT 9;i3 the meeting was called
s. -. and he following officers appointed:
a r,-sA,ert-lsfhop Clark, X l.
e 80 ,,resdrnts-The Rev. Dr. j. NJ stnrteVant' OK
e -, Of rlliuois College: Professor Lyman Ii. Al
& -, D. D. IL d.. of Princeton College juices j.
3 -..syd anil ". L. Learned, OF the supreme Court vi
z S-,York; ex-Judse Biriseye esq OF Ne"-ioih ny
'".,t.b sturyes Of Cooperstown, y. y; Robbins Lit
= ss.,;.p Il M. Asor Library; DIR. H. r. Sterns, ex-
.,.,epd.,i of the Connecticut Retrcst,at Hartford
~. xssa brown Of Kentucky General Brayton Ives.
s,a.,, of the Ncw-Yok Stock Exchange; Professor
Z = n sin. ,f ihe University OF California
proessor George L Day z He'd the Aininni 10 ofaer
-. psv Dr. Atwatcr, of princeton. offered prayers
ts..ora L. Baldwin elected Assistant Secretary
- p,.ho, CTort took the chair, saying, In part:
4 = ~. eome ND once more TO pay our respects to our
.,,. ,,.tber We rejoice TO see that her eye N not
.sa NOR Ter maternal or intellectual force abated
az nj, proud 10 he called her children Most OF us
.-st thai We cannot bring practical dcmonsr'-
49, a. M
az fouudatiou Of this great University Tor suppose
sh,t milton or two every year would not be anss'
Laughter r.-,,... r...o -,
>.,eS with President Woolsey. The applause lhat
erected them was Gcaienlng
= STATISTICS INDICATING PROGRESS.
prs.,deut Porter presented report al the advance
an, Al the college for the last fifteen The sta
e,cs ineuded the fifteen years for ls6o'66 to lseeel
Inclusive.
In 1896 he said the officers in the government and
snstrue,on were 49, and the total number OF students
-. esp I'm lsaOsl there "A total OF los instruc
80 and 0s7 students. In the Acaderca Department
n 1895 there IL professors intending the pres
3lent Instructors There are now - brolsssus
EaI stu.enis 6l2. In Sheffield sciennhc school
sSere were professors and Instructors; now there
Sssta IN sir I'D was 92; IL IL 1872 In theology
xSsre vere professors aud "a students now profess
nrs Ard or lecturers and 90 STUDENT. In law thefr
~ one professor aud 35 students now professors
Seefurers aud Gf stndents In medicine there were
professors lecturers and 40 students now there are
pfaesor lecturers and 2ostuosnts tne school o we
line Arts had organized existence then now II has
fhree professors. four instructors, fortysX regular
ELEVEN eelrtc and seventy students from the scenilnc
Was one professor and four or rye students
now there az six univerify professors hn9
svcnty-nine students. The Peabody Museum MAJ az
'Oc,SScr % 1860. There 5000 volumes III the
college library aud - 900 in the students hhlaries no"
there ART " in the former and 2,OOO III the latter
There were expo ndea annually siSo 10 replenish re
library in 1871 there were spent nearly SCUM anu
hle offs this replenishing have beeu received RON
Presielf WcOsey, Professor Salisbury anu tic latc
George Brihley There have been multitude OF DINER
Gffts few years the Winchester CONSERVATORY was
given land yalGcd ut SlOO0O0 THIS was added I" and
given by Cornrla Hhouse and her daughters. HtIlhS
Inc pa the observatory has been orcaIcd
1he university fund had existence III $50 &C. III Is
for proeorhs library and general services ana Is as