The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
YALE UNIVERSITY NOTES.
THE FIRST DEATH IN 'a6 OCCURRED
 SUNDAY NIGHT.

Medical School Commencement-Way
 Prize Debate-Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
 '95 Class Book to be Soon Published
 YaIe-Lafayette Game Spring Regatta. Burton Arthur White of the Yale
 junior class, who has been Ill with typhoid pneumonia at Yale inflrmary
 for about three weeks, died at about 11:SO Sunday night. It was thought up
 to Sunday morning that he would re- cover, but during the day he became
 much worse, steadily sinking until the end. A meeting of his classmates was held at Dwight hall at 9:30 yesterday morning, at which it was voted that badges of mourning be worn by the members of '96 for thirty days. A, s. Davis, Rowland Twomb1y and T. G. Vennam were selected as a committee to draw up suitable resolutions. The deceased was about twenty-two years of age and was very popular in his class. His Is the first death which has occurred in '96. MT. Whites home was in Brockport, N. Y. The remains were taken to New York yesterday after noon.
 The committee selected for that pur- pose last night submitted resolutions expressing the sorrow of the class, re- calling the many good qualities of the deceased, and the esteem in which he was held by his classmates.
 An address will be delivred to the students of the university in Osborn hall this evening under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa society by Pro- lessor Edward J. Phelps. His subject will be ''Debating."
 The '95 class book will! come out about June 1 and is expected to be the best and most interesting class book ever published. The binding will be in dark blue, and handsomely stamped In gilt on the front. The book will contain half-tone photographs of each member of the class and of the various class organizations. The frontispiece will be a view of Wander bilt hall.
 The commencement exercises of the medical school will be held in Battell chapel Tuesday, June 25. Dr. T. M, Prudden '72 S., professor of pathology in Columbia college, will deliver the address. The following prizes will be announced by the faculty at the same time: The degree of M. D. cum laude; the Campbell gold medal: the Reese prize, the income of a fund amounting to $40 annually to that member of the graduating class presenting the best thesis; and the obstetrfcal prize, con- sisting of a set of obstetrical instru- ments to that member of the class who passes the best examination in obstet- rics.
 A meeting of the Colorado club was held in 199 Old Chapel last evening and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. M. Bass 'I, presi- dent; J. H. Porter '97 S., treasurer, and W, Wilson '97, secretary. It was voted to hold smoker some time before col lege closes.
 The debate for the Dean WayIand prize will be held in Osborn hall Thurs day evening, May IS. There will be nine speakers. The judges will be c. P. Clark, president of the Consolidated road; Professor T. Harwood Pattison of Rochester university, and James H: Webb. a member of the New Haven bar.
 The Varsity nine will play Lafayette at the field this afternoon. The makeup of the Yale team will be as follows: Trudeau D, Greenway c, Rustin ss, Keator If, Redington of, Stevenson lib, J. Quinby 2b, Fincke 3b, s. Quinby If.
 The annual spring regatta win be held at Lake Whitney tomorrow af- ternoon The class crews have all been there for some time, and the freshmen crew seems to be ih especially good form, with good chance of win ninP