The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-28
IECTURESHIP FOUNDED

By w. E Dodge--Many Other Gifts An nounced--The Bicentennial Fupd, | Yale has received from w. E. Dodge of New York city. who is not college graduate, the unique and valuable gift | of $300o0 to found lectureship on the | responsibility of citizenship. It is stat ! ed authortatively that MT. Dodge con- sidered several universities and colleges | before making the gift, and finally se- | lected Yale as the Attest. The deed of | gift, showing it's objects and annexed conditions, is as follows:
 To the President and Fellows of Yale University:
 I desire to make a gift to the univer- sity for the purpose of promoting among it's students and graduates and among
 the educated men of the United States an understanding of the duties of Chris tion citizenship and a sense of personal responsibility for the performance of those duties. The amount of the fund which intend to give Is thirty thousand dollars in securities.
 For the furtherance of the purpose in view, it is my desire that the income of the fund should be paid each year to lecturer of distinguished attainments and high conception of civic responsi- bilities, who shall deliver a course of lectures on topic whose understanding will contribute to the formation of in- tellieent public sentiment of high standards, Of the duty of a Christian citizen, and of habits of action to give effect to these sentiments and these ssto o,,Io ,1C Tba fh,Ic y,rnxyiJad are to be known as the Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship. The incumbent is to be appointed annually by the president and fellows of Yale university with the advice of the pro- fessors of political science and history.
 Inasmuch as I am more solicitous fdr the furtherance of the end in view cer- tain as to the specific means by which that end is to be conpassed, 1t Is under stood that if, after a term of not less than five years, it shall appear that these ends would be better promoted by the endowment of more regular instruc- tion than by the appointment of special lee c.urers, this fund may after due con sideration and with my approval, if liv- ing and able to act, be used for such endowment either separately or in con nection with other funds; provided al- ways that the president and fellows of Yale university by the acceptance of this gift, bind themselves to emphasize in such instruction the element of moral responsibility in political action, and to use the income of the fund in ways which, in their judgment, will best pro- mote the sense of this responsibility among students and graduates.
 w. F. Dodge.
 99 John street, New York City.
 May 23, 1890.
 The new lectureship will supply fund each year of not less than s1, 200, an amount large enough to secure lead ing men of this and other countries as lecturers, and give the lecturer no little honor. In some respects, though on a larger scale, it Is analogous to the suc- cessful Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching in the Yale divinity school The latter has an endowment of $10,000
 Other new gifts are s5000 from the widow of tho late Isaac H Bromley, Yale '53, to found a lectureship to be de- voted to a course of lectures on some subject connected with journalism. It. oraturc or public affairs, the subject to be journalism as often as once in four years; S1,000 from Mrs. Virginia H. Cur tis, in memory of her son, John II. Cur tis, Yale 'S7, to found a prize in Eng fish; $500 from Professor A. S. Cook of the Yale English department in honor of Professor Jacob Cooper, Yale '52, to found prize in Greek philosophy; s1 ,000 from Professor G. J. Brush ex-director of the Scientific school, for a special fund in that institution; $255O from an friend, for the general fund of the school, and S1,000 from ex- Presi- 1 dent Dwight, for the general fund of l the art school l scription funds is as follows s490, 900 Is | subscribed or pledged unconditionally | to the general building fund: $250, 900 l is pledged conditionally in case three | additional subscribers can be found to l give $100,000 each, thus making possible | the carrying out of the building plan; | s350, ,000 is given or pledged for special | purposes other than those of the gen. aral building fund; total bicentennial gifts received or pledged, $1 ,090, 900. During the year the university has re- ceived also the Vanderbilt bequest of S1000O0 free of tax; S50O from the es- tate of Charles J. Stille $30,O00 from the Fl o00 from the estate of Catherine w ! Jarman, making, with minor legacies, 5200 900 more