The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-28

Profs. Day. Fisher, Munger. Van Name Brush Wheeler, Deater, Lewis, Bald win, Peck, Lounsbury, Dubois, Dana
 Townsend, Wooleey Morris, SchWab | Parker, Tyler, H. F. Smith, Dr. Foster
 and Rev. Dr. Lines, Messrs. w. w. Far ] nam, H. B. Sargent, A. B, Hill, Ell | Whitney, L. S Welch, Thomas Hooker and President-elect Hadley.
 The obituary record for the past aca- demic year issued yesterday contains not many names of wide national or even sectional renown, but a singularly large number of graduates who have, in the college phrase, "done good work, and, in many cases, reached pretty high official places. $, K. Wightman '25, rep resents the oldest class In the necrology, ninety-siX years old when he died, twice speaker of the Connecticut house of rep resentatives, and once member of the state senate, and for more than fifty years a practising lawyer in New York city. He was the last of his class. As stated in the presidents report, Ben jamin D, Silliman PA, of Brooklyn, N. r., born September IA, 1895, is the oldest living Yale graduate. The oldest living
 graduate of the medical department is
 Chauncey Ayres '31 of Stamford, Conn.,,
 born August IA, 1901. The number of
 deaths in the years record is 116, and
 the average age of members of the aca-
 demical department is about siXty-tWo
 years.
 The list includes, besides MT. Wight
 man, s. G. Buckingham 33, brother of
 the ''War Governor of Connecticut, and
 brother-in-law of President Porter; J.
 B. Turner '33, professor of rhetoric in
 Illinois college: A. H. Clapp AZ, editor
 of the Home Missionary; H. l. Smith A.
 the carriage hardware inventor and pro
 hibition leader in this state; l. L. Peet
 AS, principal of the New York Institu-
 ton of the Deaf and Dumb; w. E.
 Moore AT, the authority on Presbyter-
 ian church government; F. B. Perkins,
 brother -in-law of E. E. Hale, editor and
 prominent librarian; J. w. Fearn '51, minister to Greece under President Cleveland; J. H. Bromley '53, the jour
 nalist; G. R. Howell 54, the genealogist and assistant librarian in the New York state library; W. McAlpin 50, a founder of the Cincinnati College of Music and its president; Prof. o. c. Marsh '60; Samuel A. York; mayor of New Haven; James Brand '66, class poet, prominent preacher and author of ''The Beasts of Ephesus;" J. w. Showalter '67, judge the United States circuit court, and Dr. L. F. Reid '75, of Trinity college The foregoing were all graduates of the aca- demic department. In the necrology of the medical schools are the names of Dr. A. J. White '46, president of the Yost Typewriter company and of pr. s. Wa terman AS, of New York city; in the record of the law school, H. E. Benton, the Connecticut republican leader and commissioner of the state school fund; and in that of the graduate school, Ku- mato Morita, teacher in the Doshisha college, Japan, and lecturer on the His tory of Philosophy at Yale" Ninety two of the 116 recorded deaths are in the academical department of the universi- ty. The carefully prepared volume of pages, with it's valuable obituary notices, is probably the last to be prepared by Secretary Dexter of the Yale corporation, and suggests the mag importance and exceptional ac- curacy of his registration labors for the A plan is afoot to unite sys- the university registration work with that of the Yale Alumni Weekly.