New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-14
new HAVEN AWAITS
ALUMNI OF YALE
Greatest Attendance in
University's pa Years
Expected Next Week.
'55, 16 SURVIVING,
MAY HAVE REUNION
Sons of Eli Hope DR.. David F.
Atwater. 80, Oldest Grad
uate, Will Be Present.

New Haven, June 49, Ore Of the
features Of Yale's 2l4th commencement
exercises, which begin next week. will
be the presence Of the largest number
Of alumni that has ever gathered for
a graduation at the university. A total
OF fifteen classes will return for formal
reunions, and there will be informal
gatherings OF other classes. The formal
reunions will be Of the fve-year classes
from 1860 TO 1905 and 1909 and 1912.
There may be an informal reunion
e the members of the class Of 1850, of
which sixteen members survive. Among
these are John l.. Mills, president OF
Marietta College. Ohio; Judge Samuel
/. Bronson, of New Haven; Judge Will
lam n. Alexander, Of Honolulu; Profes-
sor Charles T. Johnson. Of Trinity Col
leGo: Edwin Corning, Of New York;
Professor Frederick W. Osborne. of
Adelph College, Brooklyn; Professor
Charles VI. Tyler, Of Cornell, and Will
lam c. Wyman, Of Boston.
The oldest living alumnus Of Yale is
Or. David F. Atwater, Of Springfield,
Mass. the sole survivor of the class Of
SO. He was unable 70 be present at
the commencement last year, but it is
hoped that he will try TO make the
journey next week.
From the class Of go will come Judge
Lowndes II. Davis, Huntsville, Ala;
Dr. Francis Delafeld New York City;
Or. Henry c. Emo, Saugatuck; Horace
l.. Fairchild, Bridgeport; William F.
Foster, Buffalo; Dr.. David L. Haight
New York; William |. Kip, San Fran
cisco; Judge Marcus p. Knowlton,
Springfield, chief justice Of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts,; Or
lando Leach, Avon, Mass; Charles II.
Owen. Hartford; the Rev. Charles II.
Richards, New York; Judge Robert ~
Wilson, Philadelphia, and DR.. Lewis n.
Worthington. Paris.
From the class Of 1865 are expected
Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill, of
South Norwalk; William H. Drury,
Boston; CX-Congressm John Dalzell,
Of Pittsburgh; Judge Elmer b. Adams,
st. Louis; DR.. Edward B. Bronson, New
York the Rev. Marshall r. Gaines,
New York; Francis W. Kittredge, Bos-
ton: Judge Cyrus A. Leland, FL Do
RADIO, Kan; Payson Merrill and the
Rev. Henry A. Stimson, New York.
In 1870 were Judge Morris B. Boards
ley, Charles ". Heald, the Rev. Lewis
w. Hicks, Wellesley, Mass; James G..
Mcclure, president of Lake Forest Uni
yersity; Noah II. Swayne and Dr. ". H.
Welsh. Five years later Edward S.
Atwater, Samuel p. Belts, Judge Clar-
ence Z. Rloodgood, James Hillhouse,
Samuel Isham, Justice Almet F. jerks,
of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, and
Melville a. Stone were graduated
Prominent 80 men are DR.. Cecil X.
Austin, Walter II. Buell., Walter Camp,
DR.. Walter Chaplin. William r. Innis,
Walter Jennings, Bishop Frederick W.
Keator, Professor Alfred B. Nichols,
Colonel Norris G. Osborn, Bishop Sid
ney c. Partridge, Professor Horatio VI.
Reynolds, John F. Shepley, Henry W.
Taft. Professor John +. Woodruff and
Charles p. Wurts. In 80 were DR.. Jo-
seph A. Blake. Senator Frank B. Bran
degee, Henry S. Brooks, Judge William
s. Case, Professor Wilbur L. Cross,
DR.. Albert II. Ely, Chief Justice Walter
F. Frear. Of Hawaii Lyman B. Peet,
president of Foochow College. China;
Eugene L. Richards, jr., Richard 5.
Storrs, WHY'S Terry and George +.
Vincent. president of the University Of
Minnesota.
OF the more recent classes, 80
contains Roger Sherman Baldwin,
Thomas F. Bayard, Professor Frederick
Bedell, of Cornell; Bert Hapson, Fair
fax Harrison, Lewis s. Haslam, ]. de-
Courcy Ireland, Robert L. Ireland, Yale
Kneeland. Garrison McClintock, Major
Edward L. Munson, Herbert Parsons,
Stowe Phelps and Wallace Simmons.
Frank s. Butterworth, Ben S. Gable,
Walter F. Carter, Julian Chamberlain,
William Delano, Lindsay Denison,
Judge Charles Hammond, Burton j.
Hendrick, Francis Burton Harrison,
Edward B. LYMAN and Cornelius Van
derbilt were graduated in '95. Among
the ten-vear men, 'O5, were Robert d.
Dalzell, Stuyvesant Fish, jr., and How