The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-15
Y4LE'S BI-CENTENNIAL
Events Which NVil Make This One OF
the Most Importa Years In its Hi. =


Yale will begin its 199th year in few
days under the most peculiar circum-
stances which have marked the open
ing of any college year since the periods
of chance and uncertainty in the early
part of the century. Just now the col
lege faces both the new and the old
Although President Hadey has taken
his seat, he has not yet been inaugu-
rated, and the changes already made
are not regarded as any considerable
part of those he plans to put into effect
Aside from the new era which Presi-
dent Hadley has inaugurated. the col
lege starts the coming year to prepare
for it's gala celebra ton in 1901 when
the bi-centennial will he observed.
The preparation for the formal exer-
cises of that celebra ton will, of course,
not require many months. But the
scheme of ex-President Timothy
Dwight for raising 100000 for the
erection of new buildings to be COM
pleted by the time of the bi-centennial
is being pushed and in few months
grounds will be broken for a series of
new buildings, which will represent an
increase In the wealth of the university
by about one-t third. The bi-centennial,
committees will submit a report in 4
money they have raised for the bi-cen-
tennial is not yet known, but it is be-
lleved that the sum is over n million,
exclusive OF provisional pledges.
Not in many years have so many
vacancies in the professorships of the
university been recorded as now. The
resignation of Prof Creelman, the
death of Prof, Luquiens, the death of
Prof Harris, the resignation of Prof
Hoppin, the absence of Prof. George r.
Adams and of Prof Ladd, the resigna-
ton of Warren A. Adams, and the
resignation of Prof. Campbell have left
vacancies which the faculties of the va
rious departments have snent many
weeks in trying to fiji. Prof. Creel-
mans successor in the divinity school
will not be announced till about the
time for opening of the theological
school, Prof. Creelman, who has gone
to accept professorship in McGill Col
lege, Montreal was a. the head of the
instruction in the Semitic languages and
Biblical literature. Prof Luquiens
work will be taken up by Prof Lang,
who is expected to- succeed Prof Lu-
QUEENS as the head of the French de-
partment. No successor to Dr.. Cree-
man has yet been chosen. and the pro-
fessorship in the Yale divinity school
for a quarter Of a century held by
Prof Harris, will be vacant the coming
fall No funds are available for the APP
pointment of a professor to succeed
Prof. Hoppin in the Yale art school, |
and the enforced retirement of Prof. |
Hoppin, owing to old age, is a reminder
of his labor of love- at Yale for sew
eral decades. j. G. Eldridge Yale, '96,
will succeed Warren A. Adams in the
German department.
No disposition has yet been made in |
the Yale medical school of the profess |
sorship of obstetrics. Prof. Campbell |
was at the head of this. His retire |
ment has left large number of ply |
sicians from different parts of Connec- |
ticut candidates for the professorship, |
but nothing has yet been settled rela-
tive to the holder of the chair
Prof. George b. Adams, OF. the depart
rnent of European history, has sailed |
Tor Europe, 10 De absent dboul year. |
His work will be divided among sew
aral professors. Prof. George Trum-
bull Ladd, head of the department. of
mental philosophy, will spend the year
in Japan, Iecturing before the national |
Almost no changes are to
be made in the law and scientific de-
partments of Yale, either in faculty or
of study, the coming year
Radical changes are expected in the
Yale curriculum and administration
within a year, but President Hadley
'efrains from discussing them at pres
ent. His inauguration will not take
place for more than a month-Boston
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