The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-29
YALE ALUMNI DAY
 FITTINGLY OBSERVED
EXERCISES CONSIDERABLY VA-
 REED FROM PAST FEARS.

Diminished Number of Speeches at the
 Alumni Meeting-UnvefIing of the
 Horace Tracy Pitlkin MemoriaI-New
 Financial Connection Established Be-
 tween Law School and University--
 Annual Reports of Various Depart
 ments Read-The Winners of Import
 ant FeIIosshfps Announced.
 The exercises yesterday of alumni day" at Yale were varied from those of past years by a diminished number of speeches at the alumni meeting, the transfer to it of the presidents annual report, usually read at the commence rqent exercises, and the postponement of the class meetings so as to ensure larger attendance. Julian W. Curtiss '79 of New York presided at the alumni meeting.
 PITKIN MEMORIAL UNVEILED.
 Following the general alumni meeting the memorial to Horace Tracy Pitkin, Yale '92, a missionary who was killed by the Boxers in China in 1900, was un- yelled. The memorial, erected by the class of '92, stands on the outer wall of the ambulatory connecting the dining hall with Woolsey hall. It is construct ed of Vermint white marble, and bears a bronze bas-relief of Pitkin's face. The Rev. 70. H. Bronson of Simsbury, Conn.,, spoke for the class, and President Had ley accepted the memorial in behalf of the university.
 Much interest attached to the choice of member of the corporation to suc- ceed Henry E. Howland of New York. The polls for the votes of the alumni were open from 10 to o'clock, the can didates being Judge Rowland and James E. Houghteling of Chicago, the latter being put forward especially as a representative of the west.
 A very large vote was cast, necessitat- ing the services of several counters. More than 800 votes have had to be thrown out, chiefly because cast by graduates of less than five years stand ing, to whom the ballots were mailed by friends of the two candidates.
 NEW FINANCIAL CONNECTION.
 Owing to the receipt of the Foster legacy and other funds and probably to tbelarge number of men in the academ- ic department choosing law courses. a new financial connection between the law school and the university has been made by which the school becomes an integral part of the university, and the old system, under which the governing board of the school had a pecuniary and proprietary interest in it's returns, ceases. This assimilates the relations of the school with the university to those of the medical and divinity schools, and, to 8 less extent, the scien- tific school, which has It's own separate charter and the separate Sheffield fund.
 It is probable that hereafter in the policy of Yale the free tuition plan in the graduate school will either be drop ped or greatly modified, with the result of somewhat reducing the number in the school by enforcing tuition charges. This abolishes the competition with other graduate schools, and, 1t is be- lieved. will raise the standard of schol- arship in the department.
 Anonymous friends of the university have given $20,000, the income to be used as maintenance fund for build ings, which have been given Yale as memorials. From the estate of w. S. Pitkin has been received a legacy of $1o,600 for the Anthony D. Stanley memorial fund.