The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-26
MANY CHANCES AT
 OPENING OF YALE
Unusually Large Number of New Professors on the
 University Faculty.
FOREIGNERS TO
 MAKE ADDRESSES
First Sunday Service of Year Will be Held in Wool
 sey Hall.

Yale university opens officially to-day with an unusually large number of new professors on the faculty.
 Dr. Ross Harrison, NJ. D., Ph.D., is the new professor of theology. He cones from the Johns Hopkins uni versity, where he was an associate professor. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Experimental zool- ogy.
 Rev. Ambrose Vernon, D. D., is the new professor of practical theology in the Yale Divinity school He is a grad uate of Princeton. He comes to Yale from Hanover, N. H., where he was professor of Biblical literature and pastor of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth college
 Joseph Marshall Flint NJ. D., Ph,D., is about to take up his work as pro- lessor of surgery. Dr. Flint is a grad uate of the University of Chicago, and of the Johns Hopkins university, and comes to Yale from the University of California, where he held the position of professor of anatomy.
 Ernest William Brown, Sc. D., is new professor in the department of mathematics Professor Brown is a graduate of Cambridge university, England He has been for many years a ,o~afnesa oe ,,,o +bnron+ios o4 ITor yard college. Professor Brown won last year gold medal from the Royal society and the Royal Astronomical | society.
 John Duer Irving, Ph,D., will begin his work as professor economical geol- ogy in the Sheffield Scientific school. l Professor Irving Is graduate of Co., lumbia university and was for some time associated with the United States geological survey, and later he held
 the chair in geology at Lehlgh univer- l slty.
 | Among other new additions to the
 Yale faculty are Rev. Marion Burton | who becomes assistant professor of | theology in the Divinity school; Hiram
 Plnches, Ph.D.. formerly of the Har- yard university library and more re- ] gently preceptor at Princeton, who Is l to give instruction in South American
 history, and Ellsworth Huntington, N | IA, who Is to be an Instructor in geog- l raply. aMf
 Three foreignets of distinction are l to be heard by the students of Yale
 university during the next few weeks
 The first to arrive will be Professor
 Dr. George Webbernin of the Univer-
 sity of Breslau, formerly of the Uni-
 versity of Berlin. Dr. Webbermin's
 chair at Breslau is systematic theol-
 ogy He is to give tho course of lec-
 lures at Yale in German in recent
 philosophio thought in Germany The
 lectures will be given in Lampson hall
 beginning Tuesday, october 1, at p. m He will also give some theological
 lectures before the students of tho Di-
 vinity school Dr. Webbermin is one of the most brilliant of the younger
 of the theological and philosophio lead-
 CTS of Germany. His books show him
 to be not only a master of his chosen
 field, but broadly read in modern It,
 erature and science The university is
 indebted to the Germanistlc society of America for Dr. Webbermin's general
 university lectures.
 Tho second lecturer is Professor Will liam Mateson, M. A., r. R, S., 9 fellow
 of St. Johns college, Cambridge uni-
 versity Professor Mateson will be the fifth of the lectures in the Silliman
 course, hise predecessors having been Professor Thomson of Cambridge Pro- lessor Sherrington of the University Of Liverpool, Professor Rutherford of Me {Gill university, and Professor Nernst of Berlin. Professor Matesons theme will be "The Problems of Gentica.' The lectures will be ten in number, and will take place ip the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Tuesday evening, october 8, and the following days at five D. m. Professor Bateson received In 1904 the Darwin medal of the Royal Society. He is an authority on matters connected with heredity
 Rt Rev. A. r. w. Ingram, D. D., lord bishop of London, is to preach before the students of Yale on sunday, Octo- Der IS. He will come to the university from the general convention of the Episcopal church at Richmond
 An iimportan change has been decid
 ed upon with reference to the first Sun ] day service of the year, which will this I lauditorium of the university seating 2,S00 students. The students of the ac- ademical denartment will be assigned seats as at the ordinary service in Bat- 1 tell chapel. while there will be ample accommodation for students of all other ldepartments of the university who may wish to attend The plan is to make the first service of the year as digni- iceland impressive as the last service. In fact, it Is hoped that in time matric~ ulation Sunday will be an event of as much university importance as bacca- laureate Sunday. President Hadley will deliver the address.
 If the plan is successful and students from the scientific tnd the professional schools of the university attend in large numbers, it is probable that Woolsey hall services will be occasion ally substituted for Battell chapel ser vices on other Sundays of the year when preachers of great distinction are
 The principal administrative change in the university is n the boston of superntendent of the dining hail. Ed
 ward c. Johnson, former Yale student
 who has had many years of successful texperience in hotel catering, will take the place made vacant by the resigna-
 tion Of Captain Samuel Smoke.
 It is hoped that ground may soon be broken for the nav Carnegie swim Iming pool. A laboratory has been fit ted up during the summer for the use of the new professor of surgery. Law Areneea Hall. one of the large student jdormitores has been completely refit- ted during vacation, with fire proof staircases and modern toilet rooms add ed. Linsley hall, the new building be- 1 l1-. ~Asgt