New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-29
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
TIE CLOSE OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK.

THE CLOSE OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK.
MEETINGS. OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI-CHANGEs IN
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES EXERCISES
MIDDLETowN, Conn.,, June 2S.-Wesleyah
University = closing les fftysecond year Win orSn
prospects. VITA its splendid equipment oil puuns' aN
land ,Sorh nearly half a million, an endowment oi
s75oc1o scholarship fund Of $500 900 more, large
capable and earnest faculty and high standard OIL
scholarship 1t possesses every requirement OF coeee
The prospects are that the number OF students VIII
greatly increase in the immediate future.
Yesterday gas given over 10 the meetings Oh INC
trustees and alumni The meeting OF the
latter was presided over by Judge Gecise
G.. Reynolds, Of the Brooklyn City Court
The Rev. Drs A. s. Hunt, W. c. Steele, Joseph Pullman,
W. NJ Ingraham sidera Chase. Professor H. b. Lane ".
c. Wallace, b. L. Beach, Professor Henry 5ewau' u
Michigan University, judges Northrup, Blrdseye anu
Caef. OF this city, the Rev. Dr. b. X Perce' anu 'Ho
Rev p Mains were among the persons present Bsnop
z. @. Andrews and the Rev. DR.. j. E. King were re-
elected trustees OF the COLLEGE The Rev Dr. Hunt was
elected president OF the Alhn. Association. teie-
gram was received In regard to Orange Judd an non
ored aumnus ana trustee of the college, VINO WIS
thought to dying. and It resolved, by rising
vote 10 telegraph message OF sympathy to MS amiF
The matter OF absent members voting by proxies On
the alumni meetings was the subject of long discus
aon the drift of which showed that some plan VIII DO
adopted in regard TO alOwingit.
The trustees made important change In aoollshipg
compulsory attendance upon the religious services In
the chapel Sunday afternoons after long ana e1-
citing debate. ,,- -. ri nj
The question OF prohibiting the publication OF me Oot
0e Argus semi.mOnthly wspaper OF the studehs
on Of OF the articles IN IL the past
was settled by placing the paper under the censorship Vi
the faculty. - a. NH
President Beach having purchased house In High
at some distance south OF the college buildings son-
ing the house of Orange Judd, the mouse now
occupied by tue president. adjoining the college c9mpus
on the north, N!il be made dormitory Tor the women
studens whom there now twelve or nteeh III tho
college which open on equal terms 70 both sexes
The important loss To the faculty TINS year tnl
of DR. H. g. T. chel, for the ant three years tutor IN
Theology Boston University, aud VIII nave cihrgo oi
the Semitic Department OF the Marthas Nlneya sum
lncr Institute IN the coming two mouths. Two Olber
tutors Gordy and Harris will go 70 Europe for year
Professors Atwater and Crawford VIII return 10 tAo
posts af er absence OF year ,
Last night the annual alumni festival crowded the
auditorium college chapel Many OF the alumni
cnt we're panied by their wives or daughters
isespOnsss tOasts we're made ny representatives V
tue classeS OF oS. 'oS, 10 10 anu o0 "HiOH "o'1
special reunions. ~, -.
rhe JUNIOR prOGena took place at Armory Hal last
evening A prominent fekture OF zoe evening was tue
pon teDders u Governor Waller ana secretary OF
state NOrthrOp Young lady friencs OF the lnemDes Oh
the cas, of '5l present froL York, Phlide-
phia, Boston ani UIica. Tho patTonessss were MIS-
Bartlett Bent, Mrs. j. W. Douglass. Mira y H. Bacon,
Mrs H. l.. shaler ani Mrs >. L. warner Inc committee
were Messrs Hoyt OF Cncinnati Smith, OF "lecohsih
CarAhan OF OAc; IaleuIn. OF MAssachosetlr ana Dan
uistsT, OF New York. -,
The commence mont exercises to-day were largely AZ
tended GoyeFaur waller present, and mace oIeI
speech. The degree Of DID. was couterrod upon the
Rev. James X. Day ana the hoY. NnhAm v helley'
ana the degree OF IL ID. upon Judge Miles J. Granger
of le Court OF Connecticut