Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-21

~G ~~~~-~ meeting of the Yale Corporation was held in New Haven, Monday. The most important action taken ct the meeting was the election of Thomas Walter Swan. Yale 1900, l. B. Harvard 1908, and a member of the firm Of Burling, Bently and Swan of Chicago to Professor of Law and Dean of the Tale Law school MT. Swan, who IS the son of the late Thomas w. Swan Yale 1889, lawyer of Norwich was uated from Harvard with great dis ttnction. He was associated with Professor Beale of the Harvard Law school in organizing the Law Depart nent Of the University of Chicago and has since been engaged in private practice. Douglas Clyde Macintosh was promoted to Professor of Theol- ogy in the School of Religion, and David Stanley Smith was promoted to Professor of Music in the Yale School of Music. A new instructor in Eng fish appointed for next year IS Thomas Lawrason Riggs, of Washing ton, D. C., a graduate of Yale Col lege in the Class of 1910 and at pres ent 2 student3n the Harvard Graaus ate School. The corporation adopted resolutions regarding the death of Professor Schwab. The report of the committee on the 200th anniversary of the coming of Yale College to New Haven, including the plan to hold an n4ztOIAl1k Pd6Cc4t@ III lAAC \ 0A1 4@OWA on the afternoon of Saturday, October 21, was adopted by the corporation. It is planned to finance the pageant by guarantees from the corporation and from graduates with the expectation that the sale of tickets will meet all the expenses involved. A report was accepted from Professor Ernest w. Brown, F. R. S., regarding the Lunar Tables, on which he has been work ing for eight years. These are of such importance that they have all ready been adopted by most of the nations of the world to serve as a basis for calculating the places of the moon for every hour in the year. They are of special service in connection with nautical almanacs. The tables are being printed by the Cambridge University Press, and will be publish ed in about two years with the inn- print of the Yale University Press and the Oxford University Press. When completed they will represent an ex- penditure by Yale University of about $30.000.
 Last Friday afternoon John Mase- field, the eminent English poet read from his own work in Lampson Lyc- cum. The reading was under the aus piees of the University Dramatic As New York, Jan. 12, having just come from serving in the Red Cross ser vice on the Western front and more recently in the Dardanelles. He be- gan two months featuring engage ment Friday in New Haven, and be- fore returning to England, he hopes to visit the most prominent American Universities and some of the larger cities. This is his first American visit since he began to write. and the lecture on Friday was of extraordinary interest because of the unusual cir , ufo nP raf11 fn fhia country as one of England's most prominent men of letters after hay ing left New York some years before as a day laborer. During the present
 war he has stood out as one of his country's clearest interpreters and 1 thinkers; his famous poem, August, 19f4", has been perhaps the most not able contribution to the literature of the present conflict. When but a
 small boy he manifested a passionate longing for the sea. At the age of IA
 he left England on his first adventure. He made many voyages to all parts of | the world. Not only on sea, but on land, was his early life adventurous; among other occupations he was once 1 a farm laborer and later bartender that he became intensely interested in good literature, and since that time he has developed into one of the
 greatest living literary genii.
 
 Announcement has been made that ] England, and of New York city, a Yale graduate in the Class of1906. has been appointed Pageant Master, to | take charge of the pageant to be held l in the Yale bowl on the afternoon of Saturday, October 21, next, to com I memmorate the 2o0th anniversary of I the coming of Yale to New Haven. Mir. Markee wrote the masque for the pageant at the University of Oxford.
 few years ago. and was was associ- ated with MT. Frank Iascelles in the coronation pageant at London. He pageant. It is now expected that about 4,000 people, including students, I citizens of New Haven, and school children will take part in the pageant, which will indicate in various epi- sodes the most important events in l the history of Yale and New Haven. l It is hoped that the bowl which ac- l cornmodates 60, 900 people will be fill 1 ed on this occasion. The most prom inent literary men among the faculty
 and graduates of Yale will be invited l to write the various episodes. This Is the first time that a pageant on SC large scale has ever been attempted | in America except at St. Louis. Mem bers of the Faculty of Fine Arts
 Music, English Literature. and His | LO1y VIII CO~ORCAdLC W4lA L4AC SNO- l dent body to make the pageant ir every way a memorable event.
 l The general committee in charge oi ! the celebration of which the page ant Is to be the most conspicuous l feature, Is to consist of the following The Secretary of the University, An son Phelps Stokes, Chairman, Hon. Fl Whitney of New Haven, Rev. Joseph Anderson. of Woodmont, and Hon Vance Mccormick of Harrisburg from the Corporations; Hon. J. Benja. min Dimnick of Scranton, from ths I Alumni Advisory Board; Dean Jones from the College; Director Chittender from the Sheffield Scientific School; Dean Parker from the School oi Music; and Director Kendall of the School of Fine Arts. On the preced. ing evening, Friday. October 20, the l fiftieth anniversary of the founding oi
 the School of the Fine Arts will b. comm Professor John F
 Weir. the Director Emeritus of tho School of Fine Arts, will deliver thu : | QddFaza and fhaFa will ha a8I1f