Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-25
College Items.


The Harvard students did not attend the
Glee club concert in Boston very largely, and
Harvard papers are inclined to speak dispar-
agingly of a concert which delighted a critical
Boston audience and drew forth favorable
comments from the Boston press.
There will be a praise service tomorrow
night. Doors open at O'Clock.
Quite large number of pS3 men are away
from college at present on account of sick
ness.
The new launch will be tried for the first
time to-day.
1913 is having weekly examinations in as
tronomy.
The Neaos is disposed to ''sit on" those
juniors who have expressed themselves dis,
satisfied with the new board.
The crew were not on the water yesterday
owing to the cold weather. Mr.. L. B. Hill
lard, '93, is acting coach at present.
President Eliot of Harvard, was rendered
a reception Thursday evening last by the
University club of Philadelphia, at which
many distinguished men were present.
The recent death of Professor Kun-Hua-
Ko, of Harvard, is said to leave his family in
a condition which will appeal strongly to the
benevolent. The university pays the ex-
penses of the family's return to China, and
continues the fathers salary until they reach
home 1t is proposed to raise by subscrip
ton fund sufficient to yield $500 year,
which is to be put into the hands of trustee
and disbursed by him. 1t is thought that
this sum will keep the family comfortably in
China. Contributions can be sent to Presi-
dent Eliot
Professor Silliman, of Yale College, read
paper day before yesterday before the Amer
lean Institute of Mining Engineers, of Phila-
de1phia, upon ''Some newly discovered min
eral regions in southern New Mexico, " and in
the evening banquet was given to the engi-
neers, at which Senator Hoar and General
Sherman were present and. responded to
toasts.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Mary A. Miller, of No. 81 Clark street,
having on Thursday reached the age of so
years, was the recipient of numerous pres
ents one being a cake studded with eighty
gold dollars.
William F. Poole, librarian at Chicago, who
began to index periodicals when student at
Yale, having two editions published, one in
184S and the other in 1853, has brought his
work up to the latest dates and it will be
published in April.
Conductor Beebe and Brakeman Thomas
Cahi1l, of the Shore Line, are back at their.
places, having been reinstated. They were
left off for while for neglecting to send
back man with danger signal when the
train was stopped one minute at Branford.
Rev. H. l. Bodley, rector of Christ church,
Canaan, has accepted a call to North Adams,
Mass. Rev. Mr. Barnett will supply the pull
pit of Christ church for the time being.
R. Jones, travelling man for Coburn & Co.,
4 in Nayu
Haven, and well known among the grocery
men here was robbed of $500 while board
ing train in Hartford, Thursday, bound for
this city.-Me72des Republicans.
Mr.. c. T. Langley, foreman of steamer 4,
has met with a sad affiiction in the loss of his
bright little boy, five years old, who died
Thursday night of paralysis of the heart.
Landlord Brown, of the Grand Central
House. Newtown, retires April list. He re-
tains the Lake View House, Litchfeld, for
the summer.
Richard King, widower 45 years of age,
living at 229 Hamilton street, was found dead
in bed yesterday morning at o'clock. One
of his daughters went up to wake him and
found that life was extinct. He had been
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oner deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Willard, the galangal root man, is still alive
and on his travels.
Mary Anderson will appear in Bridgeport
on March as ''Parthenia, in 'Ingomar."
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the famous war cor
respondent, and Mr.. D'Oyley Carte, the well
known operate manager, were the guests of
Mr. P. T. Barnum Wednesday.
Thomas U. Robertson born in 1895, died
in New London Thursday. He was am es-
teemed citizen.
Mrs. Judge Seymour, who has been spend
ing most of the winter in New York, has re-
turned to Litchfeld.
Rev. Mr.. Waters, pastor of the Bethel
Congregational church, has resigned his pas
torate to take charge of the missionary field
in Arizona and New Mexico. Mr.. Waters has
been with the church in Bethel nearly ten
years, having been ordained in July, 1S72.~
Azanat Mack, of Redding, member of the
Twenty third G. v, died recently.
Mr.. Harry E. Medcraff of Bridgeport, was
one of the graduates at the New York College
of Dentistry Thursday.