The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10

| equal credit upon their forebears The l regal profession is one of the highest to
 pc chosen in life and the aim of the
 connecticut Bar association is to keep
 tlils loea uppermost in the minds of
 young men taking up the law as life work.
 An interesting Yale reunion, wholly l lmproVised, took place not long ago at
 the home of the Hon. John H. Perry in
 southport, town of Fairfield. The Rev. 1 John $. Chandler who has been a mis-
 sionary in India for thirty years was tne guest of eX-Speaker Perry at the
 tlme.Thinking to give his guest a, sur
 prise by bringing down a couple of
 Brlogeport classmates, the Hon. Morris
 B. Beardsley and Dr. Nathaniel E.
 Wordin, formerly of the state board of
 health, and for years secretary of the
 State Medical society, he visited that
 city. There he found also Dr. Iobn
 Kendall of Litchfield county. another
 classmate of Missionary Chandler, and
 the four returned to Southport togeth-
 CT. The three Johns of the class of
 1870, Dr. Wordin and Judge Beardsley.
 had one of the most memorable after
 moons of their post-college career.
 Judge Perry, who is noted for his
 splendid hospitality entertained his
 classmates with felicity that exceeds
 description. It was all in honor of the maa who has spent the most of his life
 on the foreign missionary field, and
 showed the respect and friendship in
 which he is held. It was just like John Perry to arrange the charming event
 for his old friend at Yale,
 Colonel William c. Skinner of Hart ford, one of the most popular gradu- ates of Trinity college in the state and
 vice-president of the Colt Fire Arms Manufacturing company, will visit Florida this winter during the tarpon fishing season, and is looking forward to the expedition with great enthusi- asm. Colonel skinner met with seri- ous accident in the Adirondacks last fall, breaking one of his limbs, and has since been obliged to use crutches. The disadvantages of that sort of locomo- ition have grated on his spirit and en- ergy, and the day when these artificial aids can be thrown aside will be heart fly welcomed. Colonel Skinner is one of Hartford's representative men, at home in National Guard circles not less than in its busiest industrial centers. He was member of Governor Bulke- ley's staff back in 1891, and was beau ideal officer, As graduate of Trinity his chief laurels have been won. Trained under the best auspices of broad culture, lover of art and litera- ture and trustee of the institution of which he is so conspicuous a graduate, his life in Hartford has been an exem- plification through the past twenty years of high civic manhood. But few men in twenty years from the reception of a college diploma can show more in teresting results than Colonel Skinner. His career has been one of spotless in tegrity and honor.
 Miss Alice M Bacon, of New Haven, will deliver a lecture on Japanese Cos tunes at the Center church chapel, in this city Friday evening under the aus- pices of the Young Woman's Home Missionary club. The lecture will be H. lustrated with stereopticon views. Much interest is felt in the event.
 It is not easy to find copies of the | Connecticut War Record, which was published in New Haven during the last three years of the civil war. This periodical was edited by the Rev. John M Morris, chaplain of the Eighth Connecticut. Chaplain Morris was the valedictorian of the class of 1860 at Yale and became chaplain of the Eighth n 1862. He was the first man of the Connecticut brigade under General Edward Harland of the famous class of 1853 that was wounded at the battle of Antietam, being shot through the arm. He refused to leave the field and re- mained with his men through the whole engagement. At the battle of when the "forlorn hope' was called for to lay the pontoon bridge across the Rappahannock in 'ront of Fredericksburg, he was one of he first to step out from the regimen tai formation for that service. He was ! man of unspeaIkable daring under ire, Chaplain Morris lived in New Ha- ven after the war for couple of years 1r so, his home being a charming cen ter for Yale men. He received an ap- )ointment from the United States Sem lte in 1868 and died in Washington in 1873. The War Record, which he founded, came into close contact with men in the field and was ,.rI,I