New-York tribune., 1908-06-21
SPEAKER AT DINNER.

After the game the class Will gather on the cam
pus and march TO the home Of President Hadley.
e 70 serenade the head Of the university. their
contemporary in college. In the evening they VIII
bosrd cars at the clubhouse and go TO the New
Haven Country Club. Lake Whitney, for the re-
union dinner. AZ which Mr.. Taft doubt Will
respond 70 toast. Wednesday morning, COM
nencernent dav the men OF rs will take their
Place IN the procession Of alumni to Woolsey Hail.
where they will see the conferring of degrees. AT
the alumni dinner in University Hall in the after
mon il is expected Mr. Taft will he called on for
speech. IN the evening reception for the
women Of their families and the faculty will be
given by the class Of '7s the clubhouse On
THURSDAY the boat race with Harvard at New
LONDON MIL attract number Of the 76 men. VINO
Vii have reserved places observation tram
and at night they viii return to New Haven, per
TAPS for 2 victory celebration. and at any rate
for final symposium At the clubhouse before II
closes its doors on the tricennia reunion of MI
Tsfts class
While William Il Taft is logically the leading
nan # ne class OF - there some Of his class
mates not undistinguished in statecraft, hlgh
nhance letters medicine. theology and teachliis
What IN al human rroha tility will be known as
the Presidents class includes men. living ana
dtad, who's names are widely known Henry NJ
HoyT as Solicitor General Of the United States,
Place formerly held ny Mr.. Taft himself, has neen
resident Roosevelt's valued assistant t-o"ar"
Z Khitney of the New York bar. was PresidehI
tsVelsnd's Assistant Attorney General and con
spoUous anti-snap Democrat Herbert w Bowen
az Minister N Persia. Consul General AT bar
asions during the Spanish War Minister 10
ttnezuea and counsel for that country ana our
oRn before the Hague Tribunal, was larselF III
ne public eye William II. Hunt was calico from
~ Montana Supreme berch TO be Governor OF
'~o Rico, and returned % Montana as q leu
eial district Judge The Iate John A Porter was
4 [i,74e,
f1eolt in the SD Congress from the Ne"
maven district as a Democrat. James B. Mcb"an'
o Albany. was the Republican leader in that city
sno county and a leading figure In the Ne" fofh
'easte for three terms from 1902
HIS PROMINENT CLASSMATES.
John Proctor Clarke who stumped New YORK
.T Theodore Roosevelt for Governor, ano tne
Ses with him for Mckinley, is on the New forA
'ufferne bench for term Of fourteen years pc
e1hiae in 1851. 2 T. Tajri. the one japanese ot
.ae class is a baron a member of the House Oh
Lords and Minister Of Finance OF the Mikado $
Empire. The late Harold S. Van Buren was consul
: Nice Clarence II. Kelsey, who nosed ou'
~ Taft for the first scholastic honor OF the cias" ~
~ was its valedctorian. is president of the 'iiio
'udterlee ard Trust Company or Ne" foIf-' an"
ess The pioneer in that line Of business The late
easfles Parsons was il. several railroad direc-
sfatfs and yice-Tresdent OF the Rome, Naterto"h
Ogoensburg Railroad Professor William T.
aleis formerly presiden. of Wells CoIese' ID
OE dean Of the faculty of New York University.
~ m Henry c. Coe Andrew r. Currier and Key .
-" Wilcox stand high in New York; neoici
'es Tudor Jcnks's stores long ago mace nm nm
b''liai writer. Marion wilcox, another ho''
"f j. furthermore encyclopaedia aullOii , ,
D -atn-A n-AInerican anthropology. The hains %
bse Foster Il high the roll of the Ne" ion ,
dAd other practitioners there are w > u"
= William ". Green, Stanley W DeNpe,'
= Coz. John . = Johnson. Niiiiahi ~
-, '1aries Il. Shaw and &. u. Diley
Potter also a member Of the Ne" i iOlN
I-9minent in administration Of the Afse
alt5 ana other interests Of the estate of MS
si, Tie ate Orlando B. Potter In Pi'Souis