The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-16
THREE SENIORS OF MOST INTEREST A Winnebago Indian, a China man and a Son of President
 Taft
CLOUD MOST PROMINENT
First American Indian to Grad.
 uate From Yale University

vote on the three men of the class who were most interesting to the out sider- they would probably pick out Henry Roe Cloud, of the Winnebago tribe of Indians; Cheng-t-ing Thomas Wang, of Ningpo, China, and Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the President.
 Of these Cloud is the most prom inent, as he is the first American In- dian ever to graduate from Yale. He was born on the Winnebago reserva- tion in Nebraska, on December 28 1884, his mother and father being full blooded Indians of tribal importance Although he has been somewhat reti- cent about his family tree it is under stood by his classmates that he comes of the royal line in his tribe, his grandfather having been a great chief of his day and being known as Yellow Cloud.
 Visiting missionaries to the Winne- bago reservation became interested in Henry Roe Cloud when he was a boy and it was largely through their in- terest that he was finally enabled to enter Yale. In 1896 his father died and the year following came the death of his mother. Some time after that arrangements were made for him to come east to study and he entered Moody,s school at Mount Hermon.
 His undergraduate career at Yale has been unusually successful. He has maintained a high scholarship stand and has been connected with many outside interests by the aid of which he has been enabled to meet his college expenses in part From his freshman year he has been to a large extent self-supporting.
 In the last two or three years he has frequently lectured in New Haven and the surrounding towns on Indian customs and topics relative to the In- dian question. A little over year ago a question of importance in the government of the Winnebago tribe came up for discussion. Young Cloud was busy with his college work, but word came to him that his advice was wanted by his own people. With out hesitation he left college at once went back to Winnebago, spent some time there in consultation and then after having settled the dispute to the satisfaction of every ono concerned he returned to New Haven and took up his college life again. He made up his work and kept with his class.
 Ever since he entered Yale he has been interested in the work of the Yale Y. M. c. A. and has been one of the leaders in the Bible work of the class. His talks at Dwight Hall, the Yale Y. M. c. A. and at Yale Hall, the downtown mission of the Yale students, have always brought out a big crowd of Yale undergraduates. It has been one of his college successes that he has been able to interest so many of his classmates as well as other undergraduates in this line of work.
 He was a member of the Yale senior debating team and won the second prize in the Ten Eyck prize speaking contest, the highest scholastic honor. Socially he has been a success, being elected to the Elihu club. one of the coveted undergraduate honors. He has been one of the prominent members of the Yale Cosmopolitan club, whose members include the different nation alities represented among the Yale stu- dent body.
 he carries in his face the racial traits of his people. and his eyes, hair and complexion mark him of Indian origin. On all subjects except himself he is approachable and affable, but when it comes to his personal history he is reticent.
 Wait until I've done something worth while, then I'll give you my per- sona1 history" is all that his class mates succeed in getting from him when they ask him to give his history up to date.
 WlIeu IL came tO SlVlHS the QetdllS of his career in the senior class book MT. Cloud maintained his usual reti- cence and all the information that the editors of the book succeeded in ex- tracting from him concerning his fu- ture career was the fact that he intend ed entering the ministry.
 Although not the only Chinese stu dent to get a degree from Yale this June MT. Wang is one of the most prominent Chinese studying in this country at present. He entered Yale from the University of Michigan. al- though the greater part of his prepar- atory work was done in China. He has been at Yale for three years. and for some time was president of the Chinese Students Alliance of the East ern States. an organization which in- cludes nearly all the Chinese studying at eastern and middle western univer- sities.
 He is unusually witty and has been one of the leaders among the mem bers of the Yale Cosmopolitan club. He has been the bright particular star of the class room during his term at Yale and among the Yale professors he is regarded as one of the most promising Chinese students that has ever entered Yale. During the last two years he has maintained a Phi Beta Kappa stand. and his election to this society which includes only the AiiSiCSI SSdIIQ HIGH tuG cldSSs IS 6A- pected at the close of the year.
 Several generations of Yale men can testify that the name of Taft has be- come in Yale annals associated with high scholarship, and the last member of the Taft family to come up for a de- gree. the son of President Taft, has made good the family tradition. AL though MT. Taft entered Yale after having taken all the prizes in sight at his preparatory school. he started in his Yale career so modestly as a freshman that it was not until we'll along in the year when the freshman prizes began to be awarded that the rest Of the college woke up to the fact that Robert Taft was carrying off ev- cry scholarship trophy in sight
 With that start in college he has gone on winning right and left Mr. Taft has been interested in all the various branches of Yale athletics has played tennis and golf and taken part in some minor sports, but he has never gone in very heavily for sports. He has been interested in debating and has been among the candidates for the Yale intercollegiate debating team, and has taken part in a number of Yale debates. During his junior year he was elected to Bones. the Yale sen- for society of which his grandfather was one of the founders.