The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-11

| ry, has given five thousand dollars fol
 the establishment of a prize in Ameri. I can history. MT. Porter, when stu
 dent at the Russell military school ir
 New Haven, with Hon. Allan W. Paige
 of Bridgeport, was thorough English
 scholar and was greatly attached to
 the study of history. Ex-Speaker
 Paige and MT. Mcclure, the son of J.
 K. Mcclure, of Philadelphia, were mo- | ted for their English pursuits. | William Lyon Phelps, who graduated from the Hartford High school, will
 enter upon the fall work this year of
 the professorship in English literature,
 He became the assistant professor in
 this department in 1S96 Charles Fos- ter Kent, of Brown university, has been elected to the Woolsey professor
 ship of Biblical litera ture, and Dr. Ed
 ward Wheeler Scripture has been made
 assistant professor of experimental
 psychology. Robert Louis Sanderson
 will be the assistant professor of
 French. He is a native of France. In
 September, 1S99 he came to New Ha- ven from Harvard on a tWo-year ap- pointment as instructor in French.
 
 ties this month as tutor in Latin, He has spent the last three years in Flu rope. He is the son of the editor of the New York Evening Post, Edward P. Clark, who graduated from the uni versity in 1870. Editor Clark was the classmate of Judge Morris F. Tyler, the present treasurer of the university. Judge Morris B. Beardsley, of Bridge port, one of the foremost members of the class, and of the Rev. Lewis w. Hicks, of Hartford. The additional new instructors for this year are Guy s. Ford, in history; Dr. Rudolph Schwill, in French; Arthur Sullivan Gale, in mathematics; George Merrick Baker, in German, and Arthur Gustavus Ward also in German. Cloyd North McAllis- ter, Ph. D., will be the new assistant in the psychological laboratory and lec- turer in experimental pedagogy and John Pease Norton will be the new as- sistant in political science Dr. Hawkes. has a years leave of absence and will spend the time in mathematical study in Berlin and Gottengen.
 The loss by death of Prof. Edward Salisbury, which took place during the last university year, will be deeply felt by the faculty and friends of the institution. Professor Salisbury was one of the most generous benefac- tors of the college. The foundation was laid by him for the scientific study of the Oriental language at Yale and n the United States. It was his prompt 1 action and overflowing liberality, says | President Hadley, which kept at Yale TWO of the men who, during the past | century have shed upon 1t the greatest | ustre, Professor Dana and Professor | Whitney. Professor Salisbury was the | argest contributor in 1S45 towards the | ,rection of the college library and in l S70 he gave his Oriental library to the ! institution. Professor Salisbury mar jed the daughter of Charles J. Me yurdy of the Connecticut supreme ! ourt, Evelyn McCurdy of Lyme, who urvives him. The death of this noted of the university was an rreparable loss.
 Great interest is felt by the gradu- tes throughout the country in the in the campus grounds that re now in progress. The 'old brick ow'' will shortly be a memory of the ast. The material prosperity of the ollege has never been greater than 1t at present.