Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-26

doctrine Of e1n1l8fs or Tn the doctrine Of dis similars is there the whole truth. A law of nature has nc exception, and if exceptions be found to the alleged law it is plain that the law is only an allegation and not reality.
 Time presses. cannot undertake to-day to expose with any fulluess the fallacies of homeopathy; merely would give you a glimpse of their incompleteness, their falsity, their absurdity. In Europe there are 1 ,022 practitioners of fhomeopathy-this in popu.
 lation of at least 300, ,000, 900 of people. Sure ly 6 sect which has obtained such small pro- portion as 1t Is, and which is distinctly de- creasing in it's proportionate numbers cannot be said to be on an ascending plane. It is to be noted, too, that the largest number of homeopathic proportionate to the population is in Spain-the one country where the gen. eral level of education Is the lowest. The homeopath rarely if ever confines himself to the practice of homeopathy. He professes theories, but in his daily life he lives not &C., pathic writer says that Homeopathy is a Aumiliated beggar to allopathy." Whatso- ever good there has been in electioism, in Hahnemannism or in bare faced quackery we have appropriated. The assertion that the regular profession is hampered by prejudice and bigotry from properly weighing and testing all methods, is an untruth, disproven
 by the whole history of medicine" The Medical School Alumni. At 5 p. m. the alumni of the Medical school held meeting at the school building on
 York street. From eight to ten o'clock a re- ception was held in honor of Prof. Fl. O.
 Wood, the medical lecturer of the day, at the residence of Dr. o. A. Lindsley, 15 Elm street. A large number of medical men att tended. At ten o'clock a banquet of the Medical school alumni was held at Prokas- ky's restaurant.
 NIT. Depew - Jolly Scenes Near the
 Campus and at the New Haven
 House. s-'r
 This was not the year for reunion of '55, but '53 was we'll represented. This enter prising class is always on deck. Among its representatives standing in front of the New Haven House yesterday afternoon just +v.rd befoEe %o1s h. the hour for the Seymour, one of the judges of the Superior court, Fish Commissioner Wm. M. Hudson, Harry H. Babcock of this city, and several other members of this class.
 Just arrived at the New Haven House the observed of all observers was Hon. Chaun- cey M. Depew of Yale '56, whose time evil judging from the rush of hand shaking and greetings he encountered from dignitaries in the throngs that filled the hall way. Flashing genial greeting to all here and there he hurried on with racer-like rapidity to bring the ladies with him through the throng to the hotel elevator, and get in trim before going to the Center church chapel to deliver his oration.
 Beside those mentioned there were in front of the New Haven House exchanging greet ings of welcome Governor BulkeleY, Senator Graham of Orange, Senator E. s. Cleveland, Senator Coffin, Rev. J. H. Twitchell of Hart- ! ford, M. W. Seymour of Bridgeport and dozen other notables in the State. The ball ! game was @ leading topic and Governor Bulkeley looked interested in the bustling scene on the corner just above where stood 8 half dozen busses and long wagons with driv- game," while a dozen young Arabs were shining around" bearing blue flags, which l they were selling at lively rate to young and old Yalensians: The Voting for Members of the Corpor- l Closed at p. m. It took place at the librs- \ ry and as usual was as devoted of all excite I ment ss could well be imagined. Most of | the voting had been done beforehand, and from what could be learned an unusually | large vote had been boiled. The only candi- | dates in the field were John Addison Porter, ! editor of the Hartford Post, and MT. Sloane, | the donor of Yale's Sloane laboratory build ! ing. The committee to count the votes were | Rev. Dr. Munger, Rev. Dr. Bushnell and | Vice President T. G. Bennett, of the Win chester Repeating Arms Co.,, all of this city. | MT. Bennett said the result would be com municated to President Dwight for announce ment at the commencement dinner this after noon. The committee met to count the votes in the latter part of the afternoon.
 The Oldest Living Graduates of Yale are Rev. Joseph Wickham, D. D., of Manchester, Vt., born April 4, 1797, class of 1915, and Hon. Charles J. McCurdy, LL.D., Lyme, Conn.,, born December z, 1797.
 Corporation Meeting or Yale.
 At the meeting yesterday afternoon the Yale corporation voted to have the old cab inet building in front of the library building torn down very soon. The other work done was routine business.
 No Law school Reception.
 No reception by the Law school faculty was held this year.
 tYaIe Divinity school.
 The special lectures st Yale Divinity Ichool for the year are announced as fol- ows:
 Rev. Adolphus J. F. Behrends, D. D., of N. Y., Lyman Beeoher lecturer on 
 Rev. John Hall, D.D., LLD., of New York -"On the pulpit; how to use, how to abuse md how to elevate it."
 Geolge W. Cable, N. A., of Northampton, Mass.-"On Bible class teaching"
 Prof. Leonard J. Sanford, M. D., of New the preservation of health"
 The Hon. Edward J. Phelps, IL. D., Kent professor of law in Yale university and re- gently minister of the United States to Great Britain, will deliver 8 course of lectures to he students of the Divinity school on the subjects:
 1. The application of legal principles to he evidences of Christianity.
 9. The coincidences between the precepts ,f Christianity and the fundamental princi- oles of the common law independently de- ived.
 8. The legal duties appertaining to the ministerial office.
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