Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-24
YALE COMMENCEMENT.

Ties That Bind Old Graduates In Force-RriIIiant Exercises AZ The Law School Commencement -Vice President Hendrfcks- The ShefHeId schooI-The Prfzes-SOc1al Events And Suppers.
 The Yale alumni meeting was held yester- day morning at 10 o'clock at Alumni hall. | Many were the greetings and hand -shakings | just before the meeting of the classmates | who had come from afar to renew their youth again under the classic shades of old Yale, | and many were the words of satisfaction over | Yale's continued prosperity. Here and there | the ranks of the old classes, which long since | failed to present an unbroksn front, have been | again invaded by the fell destroyer during \ the past year, and the old faces now forever absent were recalled. Yesterdays weather was voted fine by all and, contrary to time humored custom, was delightfully."- cool.
 Judge Stanley Woodward '55, of Wilkes I barre Pa., who made 8 fine opening address, was chairman of the meeting and Rev. E. s. Lines, of New Haven, secretary. Prayer was offered by Rev. O. S. Chandler, of South h. dia, class of '57. The event of the occasion was the appearance and speech of Vice President Hendricks. He was greeted with applause. | He was accompanied by MT. J. w. Holcomb, l State superintendent of public instruction | in Indiana, and William A. Peele, Jr., chief
  | Hendricks spoke as follows:
 'sWhen was quite boy Yale was thing ! of imagination to me, something wonderful and greatly to be admired. Yale is no long | or thing of the imagination to the western youth. Wherever there is anything to be | done Yale is there. Yale is in the Supreme I court of the United States Chief Justice | Waite.) Yale is in the Senate of the United ! States (Evarts) Aye, she is, indeed, every | where. Shall go to all the legislatures and ' . 1 find Yale mens Wherever the de ! velopment of learning is in prog ress, wherever a railroad is col- \ ducted, wherever the progress of civilization | is advancing, there you will find 8 Yale man. ! It has been quite an effort for me to be here l to-day However, some of the legal gentle ] men of your beautiful city insisted that ] should come, and, indeed, am pleased with | the City Of Elms."
 The Vice President was cheered and ap- plauded for three minutes after he had re- stunned his seat Rev. Andrew Butler of Groton, Mass, class of '35; Rev. E. G. Mason, class of 50; Linus M. Child of Boston, class of '55, William.
 R. Coe, class of 80; Hon.
 Ellis H. Roberts of Utica, N. Y,
 class of '50, whose high reputation as gift
 ed speaker was well sustained by his ad-
 dress; Allnet F. Jenks of Brooklyn, N. Y, class of '75; Rev. Joseph D. Wickham, class
 of 1915, Gone of the three oldest living grad
 uates of Yale) and President Wheeler of the
 Tennessee Bar association, class of 1860.
 The appearance of ex-President Woolsey
 upon the platform was the signal for
 grand tribute of respect to Yale's revered
 and honored ex- president, the whole assembl,
 rising and remaining standing for short
 time. Ex-President Woolsey spoke briefly in response. He said he was no longer g member of the Yale corporation, having re aio hat off DO deafness that had been growing on him prompted him to resign after being mem- Der for forty-fve years. He rejoiced that he could confde in his successor. He promised that there would be no substantial change in the college system.
 President Porter, on taking the platform,
 was given rousing greeting. He spoke briefly in response, saying that the present standard of the college was gratifying aud that the institution was never in better con dition.
 Professor Simeon E. Baldwin then moved the passage of the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the standing committee of the society of the alumni be desired to re-
 port to the Alumni society of 1886 as to the
 advisability of changing the name from Yale
 college to Yale university.
 "The official and corporate name is not
 Vale college" the professor explained, "but
 is instead The President and Fellows of
 Yale college in New Haven.' That was never
 used now" The resolution was adopted. r A committee consisting of nine of the alumni were appointed to consider the re- pairing of the tomb of the founder of Yale. Then the alumni meeting adjourned. The alumni committee of 1886 consists of President Porter, Professors Salisbury, Day, Thatcher, Dwight, Newton, Brush, Wheeler, Weir, Lounsbury, Dexter, Baldwin, Peck, Sumner, Du Bois, Townsend, Woolsey and Tarbell, and Messrs. c. H. Farnam, Thomas Hooker, Morris F. Tyler, Henry B. Sargent, the Rev. E. s. Lines acting as secretary. The State of the College.
 Copies of the annual printed statement of
 the condition of the college and of the
 neurological record were distributed to the
 alumni. A feeling tribute is paid the mem
 ory of Prof Lewis R. Packard, and a similar
 tribute to the late, Prof. Silliman, both of
 which losses the college sustained in the
 past year. Of the internal working of the
 college the report says: "This institution was
 never more actively stimulated toward prog
 ress within and without than at the present
 moment-from within by deeper sense of
 our incompleteness and our inability to do
 what we know ought to be done than any
 outsider can possibly have, and from with
 out by the generous gifts and by the inteli gent suggestions of friends, and even by mo-
 rose criticisms.
 "Since our report of last year was printed
 
 which will amount eventually to more than
 575 900, has been announced; and it is here
 put upon the record of our annual statement.
 This large legacy is made by the testator the
 foundation of courses of lectures to be deliv
 cred under the direction of the corporation to
 the whole university.
 "The Academicel department has within a
 few months come into possession of
 two legacies of about $15, ,0OO each,
 one from the late Pelatiah Perit,
 of the class of 1902, and the other from the estate of the late William
 Burr Bibbins, of the class of 1845 Mr.
 Perit was, during the most of his active life, largely engaged in foreign commerce in New York, where he was highly respected and
 honored by all good citizens. As he desired that his gift, whenever it should come into
 the possession of the college, should be asso ciated with some one of the professorships of
 the 'Academical College as he called this department, the corporation deemed it appro- priate to give his name to the professor ship of political economy
 t'Dr. Bibbins showed his devotion to the college by bequeathing to it all of his estate that should remain after the death of broth CT to whom he gave 8 life interest in it. and \ his executor, himself also in earlier years a generous benefactor of the college, refused to accept any portion of the handsome fees al- lowed him by the surrogate for the settle \ ment of the estate, preferring to let his ! friends gift to the college remain undimin- | ished.
 "The plans for Lawrance college have been discussed and in substance adopted, and it is | expected that the erection of the building will be begun soon after commencement. It will stand next to Farnam college and, being five stories high, will with it's four entries contain the same number of rooms as Durfee \ college. In their general construction the | rooms will resemble those of Durfee." | The report notes further that: "In the ! internal economy of the department, the ! chief change the past year has been the en- \ lar3ement of the list of elective studies in ! the junior and especially in the senior class. | At the end of the years trial it may be re- \ ported that the new scheme is almost unani | mousiy approved by the faculty" | Appropriate reference is made to Professor | Phelps appointment as minister to England With reference to the Scientific school it was reported that the past academic year was | the most prosperous in the whole history of \ the school. It now has on it's rolls the high | est number of students it has ever had, and \ this too in spite of the multiplication of \ schools of a similar character, and the steady raising of it's own standard of requirements both for admission and graduation. | The school needs and should have one or more scholarships to be applied in aid of de- II I--s. l. L1-