New-York tribune., 1913-06-18
Ex-PreSident Taft Marches
Proudly and SmiIingly with
the Class Of '78.
1907 rs" USES BICYCLES
Night Devoted to Feasting and
Song-President Hadley
Announces Gifts for Year
Amount to S1,152,000.
IRN releerarh 70 Tn. TrIhune.

Now maven. conn. June lt-RIunlnl
/ flocked to Vale to-day for the most extern
/ sive reunion Of graduates ever held At
| the general alumni meeting this morning
/ Henry L. Stimsou. of New York city.
Yale IS. formerly Secretary of War. pre-
sided. The speakers included George
I Carter. formerly Governor OF Hawaii:
Judge Henry Ingersoll. Of Tennessee;
judge John Bartlett. Of New York city.
and Professor Andrew W. Phillips. OF
/ Yale
/ The class OF 10 was back. two hundred
( strong. The members raradcd around the
diamond dressed as Bulgarians. Each
member carried a scimctar. and tremen-
/ dous applause greeted them all along the
line
/ Next to 70 the presence Of William
/ Howard Taft marching proudly and smil-
ingly i'm his class Of '7S, back for its
| thirty-hfth reunion. received most attcn-
ton About one hundred members OF the
/ class were back. They were entertained
/ by Professor and Mrs. TaIL
- Men as Sailors.
/ The class Of - also had reunion,
with more than hundred members
marching rs sailors The %. s men were
dressed as messenger boys and ran
through the crowd selecting pretty girls
TO deliver and receive messages from.
They also had all kinds of bicycles. from
the ancient high wheelers 10 the most
modern. and succeeded in running into
most everything on the field.
Around the banquet board in many
places tonight graduates OF Yale, young
and Old toasted the victorious baseball
team. cheered the officers Of the uni
versity and sang the songs dear to every
son Of Eli. bringing alumni day to u
merry close.
President Hadloy Saye the aggregate
OF gifts during The asst eleven months as
S.15.VQ0. lie said the increasing size "l
freshman classes is again bringing FOR
ward the problem Of dormtory accom-
modaticns. Much progress was reported
I'm securing rational conduct Of entrance
examinations.
Among the sits especially referred 10
WAS the memorial fund Of $1,000 by 'ln
Dana family. to be available on the 10Th
anniversary OF the birth OF the lat, James
Dwight Dana ecolos,st
Professor William Howard TAFT pre-
sided at The joint meeting OF the two
undergraduate scholas tic societies. Phi
Beta Kappa, for tie academic depart
mCni. ana sigma n. for the Sheffield
Scientific Schoo. he presented Austin
Bryant Reeves. Of Chicago as the rep
resentatiye o: Sigma Xi, and Frederick
Curtis bangs. Of New York City, as the
Phi Beta Kappa representative.
Following their formal speeches. Dean
Frederick Shcetz Jones FOR the academic
de- artment. announced the annual award
Of philosophical GRAFTON appointments Tor
the work OF the four years course at Yale
10 members Of the class OF 10, and Pro-
lessor Louis Valentine Pirrson. acting di-
rector Of the Sheffield scientific School
announced the thrce-ycar honors FOR Cx-
ceilcnce in all studies IN the Sheffield
Scientific School
The members of 1915 who attained the
scholastic honor OF Phi Beta Kappa were
as follows, having philosophical Orauons
Frederick Curtis Bangs, Alexander
Humphrey Beard Donald StorIs BIIds-
man. William Edward Buckley, Phlhp
Burnham BuzZell. Charles Frcderlck Gel
larius, Richard StOrTS COci EdWdId Sdn-
ford Hammond, Paul OsgOCd HARDY,
William Watson House. Harrison Liln-
bridge. Henry Charles Link, John Went
worth Luce. Robert James Menucr, I'd
. ward Simpson Noyes, jefferson Patterson
Edwin Joseph SChnier, Arthur Ncutral
Sheriff, John Raymond Tuttle, Vanderbilt
Webb, Joseph Edwin Howe, Ferguson
Reddie Ormes. James Harold Sample
Others having high scholarship honors
with hig orations were.
Clarence Emir Allen. jr, Walter Irving
Badger. ir., Clarence Havelock Bolton.
Lorenzo Bull, William Cristian Bullett,
John Warwick Clark, James Fenimore
Cooper. jr., Francis Leo Daily, HaIold
Merriman Deane. Walter Grant Dickey,
Ralph Henry Gabriel. Addison Bennett
Green, Edmund Summers Hawley. Arthur
Ebert Hopkins.
Mortimer Bliss Lane Bernard Emerson
Jeete. Walter Norman Magulre. Iheo-
Mason. Robert Henry Mayer, James Ed,
ward Meeker. Michael Moses. Edward
Maurice Porter, John sherman Porter;
John Francis Ryan, William Samuel
Sachs. John Francis SchwieteTs, Gerald
Edwin SeBOyar. Ralph Comstock IaylOI,
Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe Ewing
Thruston Webb. Harold Cunningham
Robinson.
Those having orations were:
Paul Strong Achilles, William John Al
| ford. Kimball Ames. Henry Bolden Arn1- i,n1
Harry Berman, Arthur Bailly- Blanchard,
Francis Elbridge Brigham, Joseph Epes
Brown, jr, Norman sydney Buck, Paul
Brown Camp. Harold Danziger, John
Ludwig Delius. Roger Andrew ruler
William Williams eager Martin Eu-
genius Glynn, William Francis icaley
Robert Augustus Hendrckson and Ken
meth Niles Hillhouse.
William Ewart Lawrence, Augustus
Sidney Lovett, jr. Richard Sherman
I,,.ap Pbilfn Man1oney Emil Mariana.
httjiio Milici John Davenport Mooney,
Frank Edward Morris, Harold Thayer
Nearing. Ebridge Bancroft Pierce, Law
renee Barnes Proctor, Frank McNulty
Ransom, Abraham GottloD Helnrlch We. Tel-
mold. Gordon Lockwood Schenck, WIN
Trcd Charles Young, Heber Bryce Cum
mings, Harold Amos Logan and Francis
1 Stock