The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18
WILLIAM B. HORNBLOWER, BE- FORE LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI, DENOUNCES JUDICIAL RECALL, ADVOCATED BY THIRD TERM CANDIDATE.

1Hc CIdSS Ol ISUO COQloS .DdCR dS Chinese mandarins. 150 strong, with flowing jackets of blue and black silk. The class of 1909, the triepnial class,
 bigger than ever, is logged out as a band of farmers #
 The long distance record for return ing graduates is divided between Ar
 thur F. Judd, of Honolulu, and Hen ry E. Barnum, of Constantinople
 The academic senior class held its class day exercises yesterday after noon on the campus. .Ehe poem was by Joseph Le Conte Bell, of Aiken, Campbell Tener. of Sewickley, Pa. Laurence Marshall Cornwall, of Bridgeport, read the class history.
 Class Day committee included Peter
 Howe E. W. McDevitt and Henry A.
 Street
 In Sheffield square the Scientific
 School seniors held their class day
 exercises. The reading of the history
 was by Lucien Platt.. of Baltimore. Texas, delivered the class oration, and the class prophecy was read by Joseph Breckenridge Cary, of Fort Wayne, Ind, George Thompson, Jr.. R. B. Rowan, P. B. Lanius, H. M. Lathrop and AS. Litt1efield .compris-
 ed the Class Day committee.
 Hornblower Opposes Recall. l w
 school Alumni Association was held in the University dining hall and the
 anniversary exercises of the school
 were held in Hendrie Hall An ad-
 dress was delivered by William B. Hornblower. of New York. who depre
 cated the recall of judges and de- nounced the scheme. advocated by a one time President of the United
 States for the recall of judicial deci"
 sions..' He said the independence of the judiciary is the keynote of our form of government.
 The self-styled progressive" he said, ''is not necessarily the. true pro- gressive. He may be reactfonary of the worst kind. Civilization rests up- on law. Law rests upon the courts. tuted the voice of a temporary ma
 jorfty of the people, then we are abandoning the achievements of civ ilixation and drifting back to ,baroar- ism. ' .sleis
 The most, serious aspect of the prea- rent agitation, he said, was not in it's immediate effects but in. the tendency toward increasing the demand for fur
 ther changes in the direction of the impairment of the integrity and inde- pendence of the judiciary. The tests of the recall would come in times of great public excitement he said, when some class of. the community would, be affected by the enforcement of tho law. He asked what would have been the result if the recall had been in McNamaras, trial No amount of evidence could have convinced their sympa thizers beyond controversy of their guilt. and only the confession ,of the men vindicated the prosecution and judge.
 Judge Pitney Praises President.
 Justice Pitney, of the United States | Ss,,, fA 0p7f
 Taft as the leading statesman of the times and said he believed the country was safe in his hands. He depfored
 the controversy between MT. Taft and the third term candidate. Other speakers included Judge Edward J.
 tor Clarke, of New York: Hadlai A.
 Hull, of New London, who is presi- |dent of the Connecticut State Bar As sociation, and Edward T.. Smith, one time Mayor of Hartford.
 | Some of the more important prizes awarded at the law school were: Townsend prize for best oration, An drew J. Alrdidge, Jr.. Stratford'; Way land prize for best debaters, Ralph C.. Bennett. New York; Irving Mengel. Birmingham, Ala, and F. J. Breen, Bridgeport; Parker prize for best nett and Walter l.. Summers, of King
 man, Ind; Montgomery prize for high est marks in examinations, Harry $. Irons, Elkins, w. Va.
 The Yale Medical School held it's graduation exercises yesterday after
 noon with smaller class than usual receiving degrees. The chief address was delivered by Professor Henry
 Herbert Donaldson, of the Wistar In- stitute of Anatomy and Biology. of Philadelphia.
 That Yale is too inclined to require perfection in too many. studies, and that in this way a student who may
 be very brilliant in certain desirable branches may be disqualified, while a
 student of less intelligence in any par- ticular subject may pass because Of his fair understanding of all required subjects, was the statement of pr: Ar thur T. Hadley,l president of Yale, in, his annual report before the alumni
 advisory board. Announcement of arrangements for hospital service for medical school stu dents provided $500, ,O00 can be raised and statement that the new stadium can be built for $500, 900 were interest ing items in his report. Among gifts mentioned were $40,00O. for original research in biology and $38, GOO from Frances E. Schuttler for two graduate fellowships. Dr. Had. ley's report also disclosed an endow- ment of the Yale Elizabethan Club with fund of $1O0, 900 by Alexander Cochran, Yale, 1896. This is in addi- tion to gifts by MT. Cochran of a house and it's furnishings and the val uable collection of Elizabethiana- bought by. him in England and >esti- mated to be worth about $2O0, 900. The Alumni Advisory Board elected these officers: Chairman, Henry r. Rogers, Denver; corresponding secre- .tary, Edward J. Phelps, Chicago: exc cutiye committee vacancies, Tendon Chubb, New York, and John K. Howe and Thomas Thacher, Albany
 At the meeting of the Yale corpora tion announcement was made of a scholarship of $2,50O from Mrs. Vir- ginia A. Curtis, in memory of her son. Thomas Hamlin Curtis. 1887, and scholarship fund of $5,O0O from Mrs. Arthur Ryerson, of Philadelphia, in memory of her son, Arthur Ryerson, Yale, 1914, who died in an automobile accident. s.a