The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-29

fund, the memory OF his departed
brother; and a lady of Liverpool, Mrs.
Higgin, who established professor
ship; besides Fellowes, Boardman,
Sampson, Dodge and many more. BY
their encouragement the school was
doubly strengthened, for during the
lifetime of it's chief benefactor every
such gift brought another from him.
Since his day, the munificence Of Mrs.
Winchester and the bequest Of Mr..
Fayerweather are indications that new
friends have arisen to strengthen these
foundations.
The relations of the school to the
state began after the federal govern
ment, by the Morrill, act of 1868, dis
tributed among all the states GER
tain amount of land-scrip for the pro-
motion Of scientific education. Connec-
ticut gave the income Of it's portion to
the Sheffield, and although the amount
annually received from this source was
not large, 1t seemed so, and was accept
ed as token of public confidence most
timely and encouraging. This disposi-
ton was good for the state and good
for the college, and fully justified the
action Of Governor Buckingham and
those who concurred with him in advo-
eating this appropriation. A long line
Of governors from his time onward tes-
titled to the value of sucn an arrange
ment. Its termination, after almost
thirty years of harmonious union, is
much to be regretted among the unfor-
tunate annals of divorce.
Soon after the reception Of this grant,
several members of the faculty enter
ed upon an educational campaign
which which can only be brought to
mind, in retrospect of this long inter-
val, without provoking smile at the
enthusiasm of youth and at the Tex
pulsive power of a new affection" The
principal towns of the state were visit
ed and the chief men Of the tribes
were assembled to hear Of the new
education Sometimes in lecture rooms,
frequently in private parlors,, once in
a court house, once in the governors
room at Hartford, and once in a fire
engine room, the story was told with
the earnestness Of conviction, If not
with the graces Of eloquence, and with
the certainty, not Of historic but Of
prophecy. Dana, a. constant friend,
had inaugurated the campaign some
years before by public address. Whit
ney's "Aim and Object was distribute
ed freely as a campaign document, and
the newspapers, always responsive to
the claims Of the school, echoed these
professional utterances in villages and
byways. The school did not reap much
money from the farms or mills, but it
made hosts of friends, whose favor has
never departed One ofthe most valued
was Horace Bushnell, and Governor
Hawley was another.
But why should further extracts be
read from the book of chronicles? Let
us rather consider the significance of
the circumstances, gifts, sacrifices, la
bors, methods and suggestions which
have made the Sheffield school.
From beginning to end this institu-
ton has been department of UNI
versity, of a university which never
suffered it's love of letters to blind it's
eyes to the value of science. In the
days of closely restricted income, dur
ing the first half of the century, chem-
istry, mineralogy, geology, botany,
mathematics physics, meteorology and
astronomy were taught in Yale Nor
will any one think that scientific re-
search was undervalued if he recalls
the preparation of Dana's mineralogy.
the light that was thrown on meteoric
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