The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-27

ing of a Missions Library. Miss Mary
P. Mersick has given $4,000 to the same
department to constitute the Charles
Smith Mersick Fund, for prizes to slim
ulate improvement in elocution; and
Mr.. Morris K. Jesup had added $4,000
to the Charles Jesup Fund to promote
efficiency in instruction,
| In addition to her previous gifts to
| the university, Mrs. Lucy H. Boardman
left us by her will the sum of $4,000 for
seholarships-S10,0 900 of this going to
the Corporation to be used at its discre-
ton, and $4,000 to the Sheffield trus-
tees for the benefit of students in the
| Scientific department. A fund of $4,000
as a memorial to Professor Charles EN-
| erson Beecher, has been collected by
Professor Chittenden and PLACID in the
hands of the Sheffield trustees.
The Academic department has re-
ceived from Mr. William Kent, of the
class of 1887, a large and substantial
gift for a further addition to the labo-
ratory given by his father
The Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton is undertaking to raise $3.50, 900 with
which to endow chair of Applied For
estry and Practical LAUNDERING in the
Yale Forest school. Although this fund
is still far from competition, we have re-
sponsible promises in our hands which
warrant us in regarding substantial
gift for this purpose as assured.
BY an inexcusable error, the gift OF
$4,000 for a LOOMS fellowship in chen>
istry was credited in last years report
to a wrong source. The donor was Mr..
Henry Bradford Loomis of the class Of
1875.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching will prove Of
substantial value to the university, in
relieving it of the burden of the string
| allowance which 1t has hitherto made
out of general income. The relief from
this source during the coming year is
likely to be over $4,000, and will in
crease as time goes on.
| The sums actually received for a Uni
Versity Endowment Fund at our last
Commencement and during the months
| Immediately following have amounted
to something over 81, 400, 900. The in
SOAAtS OlJhepAAtVA lAOlli ILLS SUuktt mol OItlY
has cancelled the previous current de-
felt, which had already been much re-
dueed by the efforts of Mr.. McClung,
but will provide for certain things
1 which we could not otherwise have
safely undertaken. Among the most
important of these things are the prop
er development of the Summer school
and of courses for teachers; increased
publication facilities; Improvement Of
\ the Medical school; and a reorganiza-
ton of the teaching force of the uni
versity in such manner as to secure
1t is proposed to make change in
| the fiscal year Of the university. Hith-
erto we have closed our books on the
thlrty-first Of July The establishment
of summer schools, whose work over
laps this date, has rendered this an un-
desirable time. In future we shall close
our fiscal year on June thirtieth, and
| shall hope to issue our treasurer's re-
port somewhat earlier in the autumn
than we have done hitherto. The ifs
cal year 1905-06 will therefore consist of
eleven months instead of twelve. Fur
Their details regarding the working of
this change will appear in the treasur-
er's report in the autumn.