The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-23
YALE PLANS FOR
 $2O,OOO MEMORIAL
Handsome Tablets In Memory Of Sons Of Eli Who Died
 In Civil War.
NEW BIOLOGICAL
 LABORATORIES
Resignation Of Assistant Pro- lessor MacCracken Accepted Ready For New Year.

The Yale Corporation at it's first meeting of the fall yesterday after noon approved the plans made by the committee on a Civil War Memorial at Yale, which calls for the raising of $20,O00 for the erection of memorial tablets in the corridor leading from the university quadrangle to Memo rial Hall. These will bear the names of over one hundred and fifty Yale men who lost their lives in the Union and Confederate armies. The design was prepared by Henry Bacon, the architect of the new Lincoln Memo rial in Washington. Bas reliefs, rep resenting courage, patriotism, memory and devotion, by Henry Herring, a pu- p1l at St. Gaudens, will be placed on each side of the two large marble tab b. lets and the connecting archway will be in mosaic. It is hoped that the memorial may be in place by next commencement. Governor Baldwin, '61, Of Connecticut, is the chairman of the committee and Frank L. Polk, '94, of New York city, grandson of the late General Bishop Leonidas Polk of Lou isiana, is the acting treasurer.
 No action was taken regarding the selection of a successor to Dean Hen ry Wade Rogers of the law school, who has been nominated by President Wilson as United States circuit court judge. The course announced by Dean Rogers for this year will be given by him with such assistance as he may find necessary.
 The resignation of Assistant Profes- sor Henry Noble MacCracken, who has been appointed to a professorship in English at Smith college, was received and accepted.
 Arrangements were made for giving adequate assistance to Sergeant Ken dalI, N. A., who has just assumed his duties as director of the Yale school of fine arts.
 s The corporation approved plans for the administration of the new univer- sity biological 1abora tories just being completed, at a cost of Approximately one-half million dollars, and believed to be the most complete laboratories of their character in this country. The eastern wing is for zoology and com paratiye anatomy, the northern wing for botany. The committee which will have the direct management of the af-. fairs of the laboratorfes will consist of. the treasurer of the university with the professors and assistant profes- sors whose instruction is in the build ing. The governing board of the de- partments of the university continuing to arrange for the various courses of instruction given.
 May Humphreys, B. A., go, was ap- pointed as assistant in the university library, and Carlton McDoweIl, Ph.D., was appointed instructor In botany In the Sheffield scientific school.
 The corporation voted to leave to the alumni advisory board, after con sultation with the secretary of the un-. iversity, the arrangements for the Alumni meeting and for the various week, including the campus celebra ton on Tuesday evening, the baseball parade and the 1492 dinner.
 The corporation approved of having special exercises at the next com mencernent to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the confer ring of the first degrees in the Yale Medical school
 Another gift from Edwin NTilner of P1ainfe1d, Conn, was reported. It consists of $1O,0O0 in new converti- bIe 6 per cent. debentures of the New P1ainf1e1d scholarship fund for the as- sistance of students at the university from Windham county, Connecticut.
 The corporation passed a vote re- questing the trustees of estates in which the university is interested to make annual reports to the Treasur- CT.
 The two hundred and thirteenth year of the university opens Thurs day of this week. The only new pro- school, a national academician, who has had studios in New York and Newport. William B. Hooking, pro lessor of philosophy and Fred R. Fair child, professor of political economy have been promoted from assistant professorships.
 In addition to the university labor atory of biology referred to above, an other new building will be used this fall for the first time, the laboratory of electrical engineering, given to the trustees of the Sheffield Scientific school bv Austin C. D11nham of Hart ford.
 Vance Mccormick, Yale, '93 S., elect ed a member of the corporation last June to succeed former President Taft, was present and took his seat for the first time
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