The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-05
YALE'S OLD LEGACIES.
CURIOUS RESTRICTIONS PLACED on
ENDoWMGNTs.
bishop BcrkeIey's Gift for Prizes in
Latin COnpOsition-Seve Doc
trinal Tests for Divinity Profess
sOrships-Anti-sIave Funds.

Of Ocio1er, 1901, there can hardly be en-
tries more suggestive and curious than
copies Of some of The provisions under
whfth various gifts and legaei-s have ben
made to Yale during her ~ years Of life
one of the earliest of the cola &c gifts was
that made by Bishop Berkeley in 1888,
after the failure Of his pan for estab-
fishing college in the Bermu las In tina.
year he gave the farm near Newport r.
l., from which the fund-now amounting
10 s3,Soo-was derived which at present
pays for the eight annua Berkeley prizes
in Latin composition. Bishop Berkeley
in his deed of gift, provided hat the profits
of the farm were to be paid 70 three stu
denis. They were TO be examined on the
9th OF each May, but if it shah be on
Sunday then the election shall be on the
day following" two morning hours in
Greek and two afternoon hours in Latin,
by the president of the college and the
senior Episcopal missionary of Connect
cut, the examinations 10 be public Any
other Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut
in order of seniority could take the place
OF examiner in the absence of the senior
Episcopal missionary, and, If no Episcopal
clergyman attended, then che president
mad to conduct the examination alone. A
public examination for four hours of the
candidates by President Hadey and Brew
ster In these days would be an edyfying
spectacle.
During the theocratic period the ortho-
doX restrictions on gifts are interes ling. In
100 President Clap gave piece of land 70
be used for a professorship on condition
that the incumbent should "believe. pro-
fess, and teach for truth all the doctrines
Of the assembly's (Westmnster catecn-
| ism and the Connecticut confession of
faith, land none contrary thereunto.' and
should preach in the college chapel "as
often at least as other ministers generally
do in their respective pulpits." If the pro-
lessor failed to preach in the college chapel
during the period of seven years or preach
ed contrary TO the foregoing doctrines
then the gift was to be revoked. The
conditions were in the line with the whole
ecclesiastical policy of President Clap.
who indeed forced through the corpora
ton similar tests for both entering and
holding any Yale College prOfessorship
They were not more severe than those Of
the Dwight professorship of systematic
theology in the Yale Divinity School es-
tabished in 1922, which compel the incum-
bent to assent to the confession of fai n
and rules of ecclesiastical discipline agreed
upon by the churches of the state in 170S %
and provided further, that. falling to hold
and preach the doctrines, the corporation
should dismiss him; if the corporation fail
ed to do so, the money reverted TO heirs.
The Dwight professorship fund by the last
treasurer's report, was $27.0i9 Similarly
the Holmes professorshp Of Hebrew is
held on condition that the incumbent he
lin substantial agreement with the evan
geiical system of faith held by the Con-
gregadonal churches Of Connecticut
which at the present time is somewhat
puzzling. Much more liberal are the con-
| ditions of the SiNiman memorial fund left
! in reVersion in 1884. which provide for a
| course of lectures on THE Presence and
| Wisdom of God as Manifested in the Nat
ural and Moral World and that the lee
| lures distinctly shall not be "on topics ap-
propriate to poiemical or dogmatical theol-
ogy."
| The professorship of Sanscrit, endowed
| by Prof T.. +. Salisbury recalls the ven
| cradle joke of the older graduates that
the professor waited for years for a single
| Sanscrit scholar, and when Whitney took
| the course was so frightened that he en-
| dowed his professorship for Whitney and
| retired. The fund $4,000 is somewhat
| exceptional, in allowing the elected pro
fessor to receive the income during the
three years of preparation for duties
In the gift of the Root scholarships of
I
i provided that the beneficiaries must be
of decided and hearty anti-slavery char
| acter, sentiments and sympathies"-to be
| ascertained by the faculty by examination
| or otherwlse-llkeiy to exert an anti-slav-
| cry influence, and neither color nor race
| to be considered. With prescience of soft
| money dangers, there is attached TO the
! Bronson fund the pfoviso that the prin-
cipal shah be kept equal at least in value
! to United States gold coin of the standard
! of 1880 of weight and fineness. The Ben
ner fund of $500 received in 1852 for an
agricultural museum still remains at that
| figure in the university treasurer's report
for the scientific school. worthy Chi
nese students" in The course may receive
| aid from a fund left by the late Prof S.
! Wells Williams. The Lef11ngwen profes-
orship in the art school is endowed with
| the provso that the incumbent shall be
"a practical artist of the old school," and
| be dean and director of the school, but the
! Office of director 10 terminate as soon as
the professOrships of sculpture and archi-
| lecture shall be estab,i shed and filed. I'm
der the reversionary Porter fund, the sum
| of $500 is 10 be applied to a lecturship on
| righteousness and Common Sense" The
| Bristed scholarship in the academical de-
! partment provides that az the mathemat-
| cal examination the papers shall always
| include three propositions taken from the
Euclid, and that the winning scholar shall
not be deprived of his scholarship for any
| offense short of one punished by expulsion
but forfeits it during rusticatiOn or sus-
| pension.
President Woolsey, in founding the
| Woolsey freshman scholarships of the
| academfcal department in 1916 provided
that the incumbents must take in junior
year the calculus as a study, ana could be
deprived Of the income IL he lose charac-
/ ter or scholarship. The president made
the liberal provision that the corporation
! could make, at their discretion, any
change in the scholarship or even divert
Il, entirely with his consent during his
| lifetime.
OF funds not given for prizes and intend
ed to benefit descendants of family con-
nections of the donor the Day fund OF
5000, given in 1892, provides that the
president of the college may withhold il
from a beneficiary for immortality, OF
apply il to his benefit, on reformation
or add the income TO the principal, as is
! deemed fit To the De Forest scholarship