Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-27
Personal.

The Rev Moses Hill, of Norwalk, dieC Thursday evening.
 Richard Tinker, town clerk of Waterford for many years, died of blood poisoning Sat urday.
 Hon. F. J. Kingsbury, of Waterbury, and Hon. s. w Kellogg, of Waterbury. were among the alumni on the campus yesterday. Charles F. Buchholz was on Sunday pre- sented at Turn Hall with gold medal cost ing $50 by thirty-two friends who felt that he had been unjustly treated by the referee in his recent club swinging contest with Luke Doyle. Jacob Miller made the presentation speech. The medal is suspended from crossed clubs of gold and is handsomely en- graved and enameled. On one side is mon ogram of the letters c, F and B, and on the other side is an inscription of presentation.
 A visit to the State prison at Wethersfeld was made yesterday by party of gentlemen connected with the press of this city. The inspection proved very interesting and the witnessing of the admirable way in which every detail connected with the manageme It is carried out wersyery gratifying and reHet ts great credit upon the officers of the institu- tion. The presence and attentions of BaIt- ford's noted publishers, Messrs. Burr, Goodrich and Spaulding, made the occasion doubly pleasant one, and incidents by the way were highly appreciated.
 The Election of q Member of Yale Col
 Iege Corporation.
 If the truth were realized people would understand more and more that the most lm- D ,rtant thing which happened during con- mencement week is this selection of & mem- Der of the college corporation There aIe only three candidates this year-ChIef Jus tice Waite, Judge Shipman of Hartford, and MT. M. Dwight Collier of St. Louis, Mo. Everybody supposed thst Judge Taft would stand for a reelection for it is his successor who is to be elected. But when he received his appointment to Vienna he withdrew from the competition. The New York alumni might have taken the initiative in the nomi- 4tion of somebody had it been known ln time that it was to turn out in this wsy' Judge Taft was good man because he took an interest in the college and lived in the West. He was the only man on the corpora tion who did not come from New York or Connecticut. The strength of Yale is in the West. Her comparative reputation IS the greatest there, and her alumni, who are to be found in every county through the western States, feel that they ought to have 8 representative in the governing board of the college. Chief Justice Waite has, on this account more than on any other, been receiving considerable sup port in New Haven. Professor Sumner, for example, has voted for him, partly because of his geographical claims and partly because he is one of the most distinguished of Iale's alumni. Mir Collier, the other western can didate, is young of large wealth from St. Louis He is brother in law of Judge Hitchcock, whose name heads the list of en- dorsers which has been published in his be- half. The general opinion among men with whom I have talked is that MT. Collier will be elected His friends have been making great efforts to procure votes for him: He Is looked on. moreover, as Mir. Mason Young's candidate, and tLis fact will bring him no lit tie strength among certain class of gradu- ates, who take out into the world their under graduate affections and prejudices. This cal culation, however, leaves out of consideration Judge Shipman's possible support, about which more is probably known at Hartford than in New Haven. Here it can only be re- membered that no active canvassing has been made on his behalf, and that his election would add one more to Connecticut's repre- sentatives s-HGrtf0rd Times.