The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-24
YALE COMMENCEMENT WEEK
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 John Staige Davis, San Antonio Texas George Webber Mixter, New Haven
 Henry Hollister Robinson, Hartford
 Conn.
 Prizes, class of '96--For excellence fir
 all the mathematics of the junior year
 The prize divided between Clarence Ly'
 man Collins, second, New Haven, and
 Richard Shelton Kirby, Port Chester
 N. r., with honorable mention of Lem. uel Robert Hopeton, New Haven.
 For excellence in German: Clarence
 Lyman Collins, second.
 Prizes, class of '97-For excellence in
 all the studies of the freshman year
 Edson Allen Hoffman, Frankfort, Ky,
 with honorable mention of Robert Carr Lanphier, Springfield, Ill, and John Walter Best, Denver, Col.
 For excellence in physics: Edson Allen Hoffman, Frankfort, Ky, with honorable mention of Clarence Hoyt
 stilson, jr.. New Haven; John Walter Best Denver, Col, and George Paul 1 Wisdom, Chicago, III.
 For excellence in Germans: Edson Allen Hoffman, Frankfort, Ky, with honorable mention of Edward Arthur Bredt, Orange, N. J.
 For excellence in chemistry: John
 Walter Best, Denver, Col, With honor able mention of Robert Carr Lanphier, Springfield, Ill; George Paul Wisdom, Chicago, III, and Edson Allen Hoffman, Frankfort, Ky.
 For excellence in mathematics: The prize divided between Edson Allen Hoff- man, Frankfort, Ky, and Edmund Francis Tweedy, Danbury, Conn.,
 For excellence in mechanical draw ing: The prize divided between Rob- ert Carr Lanphier, Springfield, Ill, and Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, Chi cage H.
 The reading of the awards was lis- tened to attentively by the students and the many spectators.
 MEMORIAL DISCOURSE IN CON-
 REFRIGERATION OF PROFESSORS
 WHITNEY AND DANA
 A memorial service was held in Bat tell chapel last evening in honor of the memory of Professors William D. Whit eny and James D. Dana. Among those present were many of the, professors and students of the university, as well as some of the most honored citizens of New Haven, including ex-Governor Morris and Judge Simeon E. Baldwin.
 President Dwight delivered dis course of great eloquence and power, outlining the lives and works of these two great men. In his discourse he said:
 Aregretfulandyeta a pleasant thought will arise in the mind of every graduate and friend of our university who re- turns to New Haven for this commence ment season as he recalls the name and personality of each of two honored men whose long continued service here has recently been terminated by death. William Dwight Whitney and James Dwight Dana were known for forty years by all who knew anything of the institution as having their lives within the sphere of it's life, and as giving forth for it's life from the central forces of their own rich and abundant influences for good. They entered upon their work for it's well being and the we'll being of it's students, almost at the same time. They devoted themselves to the duties pertaining to their different de- partments of instruction and learning with a similar spirit of faithfulness and with similar enthusiasm.
 The years moved forward and the re- suits of them were discovered to be more and more affected by what the men were doing. Their fame, which came to be wide extended, not only in our own country, but in other lands, united itself with the fame of the in stitution.
 They finished their work and passed away to other scenes in larger life beyond the limits of our earthly vision at so brief a remove of time from one another that they must be remembered in the future with a common remer1- brance."
 President Dwight then gave a histor- ical biographical sketch of the two pro- fessors and their direct results upon the university. He continued: "It is certainly very interesting as we look back over our past history here and study the progress and development which the past has witnessed, to ob- serve the way in which different or ders of men have worked together toward the great end. These two men and those like them were pre-eminently scholars. Others who shared in the du- ties connected with the carrying for ward and up-building of the institu- tion were in a marked degree men of practical energy and executive force. Both classes alike were essential in view of the work that was to be done. But the influence of the two men in the academic community was by no means limited to that which was ex- ercised by them in the recitation or lecture room. All felt that they carried within them the spirit of the universi- ty--the spirit of learning and true ! science. The influence Of the two men and of the two in equal measure has l been also conspicuous as connected with the sincerity and honesty of their schol- | arship. Say what we will about hu l man weakness, the nobler class of men ! are affected in their living by good ' examples and there is an imitation of ! .he examples we who are here have | seen. The life of the place is better for ,he inspirations that are in it.
 Professor Whitney rendered a service \ 70 learning which is full of good for multitudes in his office of chief editor If the Century Dictionary. Professor Dana was for half century an editor If the American Journal of Science.