The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-08
BLOUNT GIFT
 IS REPORTED Judge stoddard Going to England This Fall to
 Represent
 Yale. NEW APPOINTMENTS
 ARE ANNOUNCED Corporation Voted to Make No Increase in Tuition Charges at Present.

1so7-OS was held yesterday in Wood bridge hall.
 As President Hadley leaves to-day to assume the duties of the Roosevelt pro- fessorship at the University of Berlin, Hon. Eli Whitney of New Haven, a member of the Yale corporation, was appointed chairman of the prudential committee during his absence.
 The corporation voted to make no increase in tuition charges for the present
 The receipt of S1oOOo from MT. James McLane was reported. This is the ma 1or part of the amount collected by MT. McLane from the Harlem railroad for the death of Mir. McLane's sister last spring. This amount will be added to the building fund which came to the university by Mrs. William Me- Lanes death, making about $1O7,OOO.
 Additional new appointments were as follows: Theodore Harding Eoggs, E. A. instructor in commercial geograA phy; Carl Kellner, as technician in the newly established laboratory of the professor of surgery in the Medical school. Charles Phineas sherman. D.
 c. L., at present librarian of the Law school and instructor in Roman law,
 was advanced to an assistant profess
 sorship. Mr. Harry F. Jepson, at pres ent university organist, was also made
 professor of applied music,
 1 Two new appointments in the Shelf field Scientific school were announced:
 Lorand Lodd Woodruff, Ph.D., instruc- | tor In geology, and Leon J. Cole, Ph.D
 instructor in zoology.
 Special votes of thanks were passed
 for the following gifts recently receiv-
 ed by the university; A copy, by Miss
 Mildred Jordan, graduate of the
 Yale School of Fine Arts, of Duchess portrait of Bishop Seabury, the first
 bishop of the Episcopal church in Connecticut and a graduate of Yale
 in the class of 174s. This painting is
 the gift of George Dudley Seymour, of
 New Haven, and will be hung in the
 university dining hall.
 A bust of Jeremiah Mason. a grad
 uate of Yale In the class of 17SS. Mir
 Mason was regarded as the leader oi
 the New England bar in his genera.
 ton, and declared by Webster to bt
 the most powerful legal opponent that
 he had met. The bust will be placed
 for the time-being in Hendrie hall
 Mrs. Edward L. Strong of Colchester
 Conn, Is the donor of the bust.
 The original manuscript of the we'll
 known poem entitled The Colum
 biad," by Joel Barlow. who was grad
 uated from Yale in the class of 177S
 The manuscript, which has been de
 posted in the university lihrary, Is thu
 gift of Mrs. Anica Barlow Chambers
 of Washington, Pa.
 Max Mailhouse, M D., was ap pointed clinical professor of neurolog,
 in the Yale Medical school. Professo Mailhouse was graduated from tn Sheffield Scientific school in 1876 anC from the Medical school in 1878. H has been giving instruction in tn school since 1900.
 Professor John Spencer Bassett, o Smith college, was appointed lecture on American history for this year il place of Professor Bourne, who ha leave of absence for the year Othe new appointments are those of Alber W. Van Buren, B. A., as instructor i the history of Roman religious, an ! Henry B. Dewing, M. A., instructor | q Greek.
 Official information has been re ceived by the Yale corporation fror the executors of the will of the lat Archibald Blount, esq. The last wil dated June [, 1907, makes the follow ! ing reference to Yale university: S give devise and bequeath all that m A manor of Orleton and all my farm : and land called 'Orleton Court and 'tt q Lodge and all other hereditament q situated in the parishes of Orleto q Eye and Yarpole in the county x Hereford generally known as my 'Orlt Y ton estate, and all other of my re- M estate Of any) and all my person V estate not hereby otherwise dispose q of unto. my trustees upon trust tn, A my trustees shall sell, call in and col < vert into money the same or such pa ' thereof as shall not consist of mont ' and shall with and out of the n ' moneys produced by such sale, calllI < and conversion and with and out
 my ready money pay my funeral al x testamentory expenses and debts al M the legacies bequeathed by this n 6 will or any codicil hereto and pay tl a residue of my trust estate to Yale ur N versity at New Haven, Connecticut, Aa the United States of America. to whi A said university I bequeath the sar s to be applied in such manner as sh sN be best for the benefit thereof and { SH receipt in writing of the treasur sM thereof for the time being on beh ' of the university shall be good d @ charge of my trustees or the surviV I of them or the executors, administl SA tors or assigns of such survivor"
 Judge Henry Stoddard of New # ven of the firm of Bristol, Stodda
 Beach & Fisher who have long bt M the legal counsel of the university, V . go to England thls fall to represent 1 ..NS unjvarsitv in fine matter of settlem,