The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-17

The commencement exeIClSeS oL IiiC | Yale divinity school were held yester- l day and the meeting was one of the | largest ever held by undergraduates | of the seminary, prominent alumni | from all over the country being pres | ent.
 Battell chapel was we'll filled at 103O, | the hour set for the commencement Of | the exercises. President Arthur T, | Hadley presided. and made few opening remarks. The morning was taken up with addresses by five mem- | bers of the graduating class, and py an informal address by Rev. pr. Alex ander Mckenzie to the class. pr. Mc- | Kenzfe talked to the students for about half an hour, giving them good advice and urging them to the highest type Of Christian manhood. His words will doubtless be of great service to the young ministers.
 The first oration was delivered by ! William DeVerne Beach on The Ele- ment of Vitality in Preaching The | oration was a very strong one. George Rcdington Montgomery then spoke on Schools and Prophecy and was followed by Clement George Clark on "The Ascent of Christianity. The next oration, "A Two Fold Emphasis for Present Religious Teaching deliv- cred by George Manley Butler, was de- clared the best and accordingly MT But | ter was awarded the Susan B. Dwight | fellowship of $500 This fellowship en- titles MT. Butler to study a year in the divinity school in graduate work. MT. | Butler graduated with the class of '97, Amherst college. The last address was on "The Significance of the Miracles in Revealing the Personality of Jesus, by Joseph Bardwell Lyman, Ph. B., of New York university. Stapeton, S. l.. New York.
 At 1 80 o'clock the graduates of the school alumni and invited guests ad- iourned to United church chapel, where Caterer Stewart had in waiting one of his delightful dinners. About 200 sat down to the four tables, and at o'clock Rev. Mr Dinsmore of Philips church, South Boston, who was acting as toast master, rose and after a few remarks of welcome introduced Rev pr. Bras tow of this city a s the first speaker of the afternoon.
  tcws speech was that he urged upon the alumni of the school the importance of establishing two new departments in the divinity school, which he said were absolutely necessary if Yale wanted to be ranked as having one of the two leading divinity schools in the country, which she now has. The department in which practical theology and that in which home and foreign missionary work may be given the student, are those for which Dr Brastow made his earnest plea. He showed the necessity of having those departments and said that in order to establish them and to secure professors to teach the subjects, at least S30O000 would have to be rais- ed among the alumni of the school. Dr, Brastow suggested that provision committee be appointed to start the work of collecting funds
 Rev Frank R. Luckey of the Hum- phrey street Congregational church moved that the chairman appoint a committee of three, this committee to have power to appoint five other alum nj, and to make a canvas of all the graduates of the school for the purpose Ol idlSiiiS iIiibo HUI lilF bNLcpIlS of the new departments. Remarks were made on the motion by several present, and it was unanimously passed. MT. Dinsmore appointed as committees Prof Brastow, Prof. Porter and Rev Frank R. Luckey.
 Officers of the General Alumni asso- citation were elected as follows Presi- dent Rev. N. w Calhoun of Winsted Conn; vice president, Rev F. A. George of Willimantic; secretary, Rev. H. A. Bridgeman of Boston, and treas urer, Rev w. J. Mutch of this city. A nominating committee to hand in the names of officers In 1901 was appointed, and is composed of Prof. Stevens. Rev. MT Slack and Rev. MT. Lathrop of this city
 Prof. Moulton reported on the forma- tion Of the different state alumni asso- ciations throughout the country, five be- ing already formed. He spoke of the Connecticut association, which was formed about two months ago, and of it's rapid growth, there now being about 100 on the membership roll
 President Hadley spoke of the useful ness of the proposed new departments, anu Sdld Ilt WdS fbdlllly III IdVD1 DI having them established, as it would not only be of great benefit to the divi- nifty school, but would help the univer- sity as whole. President Hadley dur ing his remarks told a number of funny stories.
 He was followed by Prof. Fischer, who spoke briefly. Other speakers were: Rev. Charles L. Morgan, '75 T. S. of Jamaica Plain, Boston, "The Need of More Preaching of the Evangelistic Type by Our Pastors;" Rev. William w. Leete, 80 T. S. of New Haven, 'Is There an Adequate Substitute for the Revival of System ?" and Rev. Edward F. Aiken of China, who spoke on the "Political Condition of China as Bear l ing on the Work of Protestant Mis- sons."
 Last evening in the Lowell Mason room of the divinity school there was a reception to the members of the divin- ity school and their wives and families
 Some of those at the reception were President and Mrs. IIadley, Prof and :, Mrs Brewer, Prof. and Mrs Seymour, Rev. pr. w. w. Leete and Mrs. Leete | Rev and Mrs Frank R. Luckey Rev. | MT. Mutch and Mrs. Mutch, Rev. and |