Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-28
Yale Commencement.

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 the absence of Sheriff Byxbee The mem
 bers of the faculty were received at the treas
 ury building and escorted to their place in
 Iine First came President Porter, also in
 cap and gown, accompanied by Governor
 Waller Next came ex-President Woolsey,
 leaning on the arm af Hon. HenryB Harrison
 They were followed by other members of the
 corporation and the faculty in all the depart.
 ments of the college. On College street they 1 were joined by the academlcal graduating
 class and the alumni, and marching past the | old State House proceeded to the church. At the door double line was formed by the
 graduating class, who stood with uncovered heads while the others passed into the church, l which by this time contained large assem-
 blsge.
 The door tending was under the general teharge, as usual, of John w.. Lane. The | veteran policeman, James Stuart, who has been at the central door for a long number ot years, could not attend this year, owing to
 sickness. Special Lyman Bradley was in his | place. Officer Orocker was at the north door. 1 The music under the direction of Professor
 Stosekel was by an orchestra of some eight- l cen pieces, eJl but five of which were from 1 Frederick Ritchels orchestra, New York- | The platform was occupied by President Por- 1 ter and many members of the faculty, Sena- tor Bayard, Gov. Waller and others The galleries were completely filled with ladles. | The exercises were carried out according to 1 the following programme:
 ! Music: Over.dre, ''semira mis-" Rossini.
 sai1tatory oration in Latin, by Fred William Kel- 1 loGg, Red Wing, Minn
 E--ay, ''The Political Futrre," by Thomcs D Hust
 Dissslta:ion, s-Ihe Den"nd upon College Men for
 Teachers in oar Com Schools" by Frank Herbert l Music Msrch ssTarnhauser." R Wagner. l he O. | ofation, The F uture of the south," by William | Irwin GrIbb. Cincinnati, O.
 l Music: "BIue Danube" Strauss. | Dis3ertation, "Peter Cooper's Life-A Practical
 Solution of the Ptoblem of Capital and Labor," by Charles Felsey Brooklyn, N Y.
 Dissertation, .'GG-ibaldi,' by Sherman Day ThAch- | er New Haven
 1 Mu4c 'sLucia 7" Donizetti.
 | Dirsertstfon s'The Influence Of Darwinism on Re- | gtous Thought" by Robert Harrson Cornish, Gill
 oration. '.1he Greek Drama" by woolsey carmalt, Mrqic ssserenade." little.
 Oratton, IF smus," by George Washington John
 o1ation, The English Constitution in the Thir-
 teenth Century" by Horace Dutton Taft Cincinnati Musio Introduction and March, 'Lohengrin," h. Grafton, "Ine Genius of Unrest," by Edward Tompkins Mclaughlin, Litchfeld.
 on Statesmenehip with the Vaiedictory Address, by
 Eliakim Hastings Moore, IT,, Denver % Col. Music: Overture, William Tell. Roes1n1. Degrees conferred
 Prayer by the President.
 Bourne BosWorth, BoTeIs' Esssist{p y.,! Price rice request, excused from speaking
 THE HONORARY DEGREES. Honorary degrees were conferred as fol- lows: D. D., Right Rev. John Williams,
 D. D.. IL. D., of Middletown, bishop of the
 Episcopal diocese of Connecticut Rev. A.
 S. Twombly of Boston, Yale '54.
 LL D., Senator Thomas A. Bayard of Del
 aware; Justice William B. Woods of the United States Supreme court, Yale '45 | George Shiras of Pittsburg, Pa, Yale '53. M A.-Hon. Thomas M. Waller of New 1 London, Governor of Connecticut; George w. Cable of New Orleans; Dr. Henry B. Sands of New York city.
 The degree of B. A. was awarded to 146 | students, that of Ph. B. to 46, that of ILL. l B. to A, that of B. D. to 26, that of M. D. | to ', that of M. l.. to 2 that of M. A. to Walter H. Buell., Roger Foster and Benja-
 min R. Wendell, and that of Ph. D. to Ar | thur E. Bostwick.
 The exercises ct Center church closed at about 12:45 noon.
 | HARRISON RE-FLEoIEo. 1 The result of the voting for member of l the corporation YVES announced yesterday
 morning by Secretary Dexter. Out of to- ] tai vote of 1870 Hon. Henry B. Harrison 1 has clear majority and is therefore re-elect- 1 ed The vote was as follows:
 Henry B. Harrison, New Haven. -Tb6
 Professor George F. Barker. Pennsylvania. .273 General William H. Russell, New Haven .257 Thomas L. Bayne, of 0uiGa1a.. 65 PRoFEssoRshlP.
 The corporation yesterday morning elected Dr. Thomas H. Russell 8 professor in the medical department. He will be assigned by the medicel faculty to the chair of materia medica end therapeutics, made vacant by the l transfer of Prof. c. A. Lindsley to the chair of theory snd practice. Prof. Russell is son of Gen. Russell, graduated at s. s. s. in '72 and at the Yale MedicPl school in '75. Com ing after only eight years of practice in sur gerry, his appointment merks a career of bril- 1 fancy.
 MEDICAL SCHOOL PRIZFs. h the meiiceI school the prizes offered by Dr. Stearns of Hartford-$3O for the student l most proficient in aI branches and $20 for the next best-were awe-ded this year as follows: F--st-Charles Me1vi'le Downs, New Haven; second George Foster Fisk, New Haven.
 THE kLJ-L NJ D. sNGR. The alumni d'nner was eaten at 2 D. m. at Alunr; He''. the alur-i passing in by twos 6 coor6=1g to classes, the oldest first. '93 ate outside under the A!umri tent, therenot being room n the heH. With President Porter on the platfo1 n were ex-President Woolsey, Senator Bayerd of Delaware, Gov. Waller, Judge Benedict of the U. S. Circuit court, Gen. SIocum, Professors Fieher, Thaoher,
 Phelps end Nort'o-op of Yale and several others of note. About 1,5OO of the alumni were present. Hon. N. D. 1 Sperry of tt:s city was in the audience, de- ching en invitation to sit on the platform, | having friend with lin, Hor. s. P. Gil l bert, of New York. The e:nner occupied | about helf e1 hour, after which President Porter rapped for attention e7d wes very | warmly greeted. He characterized the grad uating class as the best he had known since | t;s connection with the college in it's attsn- l ton to study, it's order and it's high tone Gap plause). He took this g good omen for l the future. And the period mentioned cov- | cred, Es he rsri1ded his hearers, not only bis own presidency but the presidency of President Woolsey. The college wes in no tone it's relig.ou faith, it's curriculum nor it's athletic fields (great applause with hurrehs). We don't say it is the best college in the land, but it is our own college eod we know
 we love it best. (Applause.) Weknow why we love it. No college surpasses us in man
 ly spirit self sacrifice to the public, in belief in downright honest work and de- votion to the public welfare. (Applause.) ) No college in the country is above ours in this spirit. (Applause.) Yale has it's grad uates and students from every part of the
 land. n this respect, if in no other, it is 8 OAROSsSA
 that we should say something of the needs
 of the college. (Applause.) The salaries of
 eIl the academic professors, save four, were paid out of tuition fees, something to which
 no other college in the country had to resort.
 Two more dormitories were needed Gap
 plause) more than tvo-ffths of the under
 graduates now have to room in the town.
 Might we not, President Porter continued, hope to see the old college campus lined with ed;fces the old line of worn out buildings displaced, softly one by one removed, and | might we not hope to see the noblest quad
 rangle surrounding the central buildings end | securing order and deoorum with
 one !'ne facing the other, and suggestive to the classes, per-
 chance, of some eye like that of
 Providence upon them (great enthusiasm).
 The college feeling spoken of is that we
 most rejoice in. and it is increasing. We
 need large building for lecture end recita- ton rooms. We need an increase for our i- l brary. We read of what is done for other l libraries, one and another receiving grand pecuniary eid, when our library for 1000
 students hsg an income of only $6.0OO or $7, 900 year. It ought to have new ad- l dition projected into the quadrangle and but tTeESed with fund If &R00 000 The ShAf-