New-York tribune., 1908-06-24
80 carlond Rnune and Angelo Heilprin.

Two more professors it loses by aretirement-
Tracy Peck and John H. Niemeyer =. -
An event OF the very highest importance is
the selection of Professor Frederic Scheetz
Jones' of the University of Minnesota, to sue
coed Professor Wright as dean of the college at
the close of the next academic year.
From the financial standpoint the year may
be characterized as a difficult but IN nowlse
disastrous one The commercial crisis pre-
vented us from obtaining some Of the large
gifts which we had previously expected with
more or less confidence, but ii did not interfere
with our income from investments as much as
,,ould have been expected. The generosity OF
the alumni also prevented the commercial crisis
from resulting in any loss of disposable income
from the alumni fund.
Outside of the alumni fund the actual in
crease of the general university funds by slll
since the beginning of the fiscal year has been a
5i+tIe less fban S350 NAa About 100000 of this
came in the form of gifts to the endowment anu
extension fund, including a substantial I'll, ool,
e5ucafior board Besides this were received Dss
win the Benjamin ID. Sliman fund OF S'o.Vow ',
and the d. Willis James fund OF a Itue over
$4,000 x.-,
we shall also receive in the immediate future
+. sunn the amount of which is not yet ac1oaaS
known. but which cannot faa 1ar si1ort snort ol 49,. S
0o0 from the estate of Archibald fehrv 6loOii'
of 0rjeton Manor. Herefordshire, Englano
Nv q gift of S15o0oo received from ss MIS-;
James Brown Oliver of Pittsol,rs, t,iidin in
trustees Were enabled to erect d9Io 1ullu.is 10
-,e-rorz- Of her son. Daniel Ieet oIlNer, VIM W
was a member Of the Sheffield class T.,,, OF po
,he time Of his death II STANDS IN
o,,enye AT the northeast corner of the Shenlspu
,,ropertv and viii be used for the Mot ,,t. W err
sbef5eld school in modern languages iiS'o''
and economies
Other sneakers at the alumni meeting were
-,-.,,;a~ E r4ubreu. IS of New York; Horace
n Taft so If watertown, Conn; P Tecumsen
sherman. ,sSS. and Garner Richardson oo'
rHr-NDERsToRM BEFORE GAME.
Inst after the ceremony at the Ledyard memo
-,e1 bae ended crashing thunderstorm broke
for
~. 6ovn in such torrents that a postpone
-. f tho baseball game seemed imminent
--.,o man e-roaned as they saw reason TO lear d
-s,e+ition Of the drowning Of the first game with
princeton few weeks ago, but the sno"ei
r,roved short lived, and the sun was SOON ou'
again. hotter than ever. and buslly ensaseu ih
driving out the diamond.
So about . o'clock. the greatest feature oA
the dav began to attract attention S'ar'liis
from their various headquarters All over '
,ha classes. hack for their reunions. began 10
make their way TO Yale Field. The younger
oer marched in the old side TO side swing OF
,o, ,,n6areraduate days and the veterans rooe
=. ..--;.,es and trolley cars and other things 10
the entrance to the field
--here were men on horseback there "er0
cnanis, cavaliers and Rough Riders mlnshne
aniahly as they went to the scene OF "ar' 'Ne'
,rere-Chinarnen and every sort OF groOesquo nv
is;,o,,s. caricatures and here and there MOD
..+I,- s,r,,gr1ing along with an idea tnat MS
+o.r, corId win again. was Harvard man
TAFr,s CLASS LEADS WAY
co xs1s Field was reached the classes as
sernhle5 with amazing speed BY coiliiioi
s.r+ - had the right Of way, though II wash
she oldest class there, not by twenty years Du'
,ba general opinion that it was esselllldiS
-be dav of the men who were graduated with
..Iudee~ Taft thirty years ago. and there was
no one 10 dispute their supremacy
After half an hour of crazy demonstration lhe
,.rsde hegan to revclve around MI Tart ana
r. devoted lodv Of his classmates. Absolutely
,o+hj,o in the way Of noise was forgotten
--rings orieted down once for minute or TWO
-,-,e, lungs were worn out and throats were
marched Just then. however '9s made sooo'
coming t,v with cowboy yells and a frantic dis
charge Of revolvers. That started the uounie
an ,,,-er again. but they finally let the players
take the diamond and the Blue 1riumphed
A. the end Of the game the Secretary. accom-
ranied Ms Taft to the autonehile on the nelo'
in which she had made the trip from the city
Their walk across the field continuous
ovation Hundreds of people greeted them per
sonalv. classes cheered them, and the bands
rlayed inspiring music
SECRETARY ENJOTED GAME
on the game TT WAS one of the best games L
ever saw. Do you know, Mrs Taft is inclined to
think a poor game of ball is really more inter
esting than scientific game. and 90 not KNOW
that she may not be right"
There was a lot Of amusement in town when 1t
became known that 'S3. even if il didn't have
Presidential candidate for member, had put 2
Taft and Sherman ticket in the field. Horace
u Taft brother of the Secretary, has been
nominated for president of the class and the
nomination for vice-president went to Charles
C sherman. Of New York
Mr.. Tafts class held a meeting at the Ed
wards House about O'Clock, and adopted reso-
Ilfions on the death of Treat Campbell, the last
member Of the class To die Cable messages OF
greeting were also sent TO Baron lnijaro Tajlrl'
of The Iapanese Ministry of Finance TO Dr.
John Tr7Inabun al Valparaiso Chill. and to Dr.
William B. Scranton, at Seoul Corea
Mr. Tafrs full day ended tonight with the
class dinner at the Country Club. while Mrs
Taft dined with President and Mrs Hadley-
Secretary Taft announced this evening that
he uoI,1d visit his brother Horace D. Taft. at
watertown.. Conn. on Thursday night. after the
yale-Harz-ard boat race. He expects 10 return
from. New London TO New Haven and make
+be +rip from here TO Watertown in an auto
,,,obua II is likely that he will proceed d.
recslv from watertown TO New York on Friday
throughout the day the secretary has ex-
pressed great concern over the condition or ms
running mate Representative James S. Sher-
man. who is critically i'll in Cleveland. Up to
q late hour tonight Secretary Taft had re-
ceived no personal information.
iSOJTE OF Mr.. T4FT'S VIEWS