Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-07

New Haven. Feb. s.-The famous class of 1853 will be the oade@t of the Yale men back in New Haven in June for it's sixtieth year reunion Edwin Rogers. Embree alumni registrar, has been busy completing arrangements for the reunions of commencement week and has just given out preliminary statement of the plans.
 Edmund Clarence Stedman, the banker poet who in early life made Norwich his home, is one of the mem bers of '53 who afterwards became well known. Others were Hiram Bing ham, missionary to the Hawaiian is lands, Randall L. Gibson, senator from Mississippi and founder of Tulane university; George H Watrous, former Henry Cornelins Robinson, promi nent Hartford lawyer. Living mem bers of the class are former Attorney General McVeagh, Andrew D. White, founder of Cornell university, and Col. J. Stoddard Johnson of Kentucky, Civil war veteran and literary man. These names give an idea of what Yale has meant to these men and to their com munities during the three score years.
 1858 will hold regular reunion. It's secretary, Col William Plumb Ba- con, has the unique record of holding that office ever since elected by his class 55 years ago. He has been largely responsible in developing the present thorough publication of the records of every Yale class, thereby keeping graduates in close touch with the Wherea bouts and activities of their classmates.
 Fifty-two of the 12s men who grad uated from Yale in 1863 are living and many of them will be back for the semi i-centennial, customarily the chief of the older reunions. x-Dean Henry B. Wright will return with the class of 1868, of which he is secretary, for the usual fifth year reunion, and Pres, ident Taft will be among the '7S grads w a re markable gathering of the older Tale alumni.
 A movement to form confedera ton of the large number of Vale Alumni associations Acattered about through New England was preached at the annual banquet of the New Ha- ven alumni held in Yale dining hall this week Norris G. Osborn 80, was the toastmaster, and A. A. Thomas '01 secretary of the Alumni Association of Rhode Island. brought up this inter esting topic Of the union of New Eng land alumni, the idea of which, he said was conceived by the Boston Yale club and the Rhode Island association. He believed that it Is the height of folly that these alumni do not get together and do something. The Western Alum nj association has proved great sue cess, he said. and our idea is to form something here along the line. Judge Samuel o. Prentice, '73 recent ly appointed chief justice of the Con necticut supreme court, and professor of pleading in the Yale Law school, spoke Interestingly on "Reminiscences.
 The new baseball cage is proving an invaluable part of Yaie's athletic equipment, and for track athletics and soccer football as well as for the base ball squads. Indoor track meets are being held regularly this winter for the first time and two of the series have been held with excellent results in the way of keeping the men in training and of stimulating enthusiasm during the winter. The gymnasium itself is to be equipped with electric lights in the immediate future, replac- ing gas.
 Vale tradition was sadly shattered when the Vale Daily News appeared on Wednesday morning in it's usual form, but with decidedly different con- tent. For example, one notice read Dean Jones requests all those who desire to take short vacations, to see him immediately. as he plans to make this a feature of the winter term 5 The whole front page, on closer ex- animation. showed material of the the next page gave the explanation, the 1913 board had yielded their chairs to the editors of 1914 with one final rousing edition. The broadcast levity of the News really stunned the col lege. The New Haven railroad and it's new station were scerched in one al- legged interview and athletics were coy- cred as thoroughly in another column.