The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Change Your Name
and Go to Yale Free

~ YER the name of the director Of the
bureau of appointments of Yale Uni
versity there is the advertisement
announcing the vacancy, of two scholarships
which make the possession of a certain sur
name the criterion for an award, You're in
or out $780, according to whether or not
your name is Leavenworth. But the found
ers of the second scholarship were more
Iiberal--if your name isn't Lockwood or
DeForest the $333.3S may be yours If you'll
BE some other name" to wit: DeForest
Now if you want to do something in thu
interest Of higher education and at thc same
time preserve name. at a cost, here's how:
Accumulate money to yield S333.9S annually
as David c. DeForest did in 1929 founding
a scholarship for the education Of "the male
descendants Of Mehitable Lockwood the
mother of the donor. In default o. descend
ants as aforesaid, the same sum to be applied
to the education of others of the name Of
DeForest. giving preference to the next OF
kin of the donor. And in default Of candi-
dates of the name Of DeForest the same
sum to be applied to the education of younG
men i'm INDECENT circumstances and Of good
talents who willing to assume the namc
OF DeForest."
deed of your gift the insertion Of advertise
ments, so that the education and the name
will be kept going: that some "indigent
young man" who might be thinking up
bizarre and uncomfortable ways Of earning
his tuition may gain it by simply swapping
one cognomen for another.
There is the story Of a young Italian
Giovanni Salvini. who, In an effort to find
some genuine American name to substitute
for lie
such person might now make a further
change and become "DeForest," a high
sounding and Huguenot name Then we
should have a repetition of the anecdote
which tells how O'Patrick was asked what
his name was before ii became OPatrick.
Zach. 1t was Murphy" well" pursued the
questioner relentlessy and what was it
before il was Murphy"
Even O'Patrick's Teutonc easy-goinsness
was ru1ied. Hadn't he assumed the name OF
OPatrick because. while his name
Murphy. he always had TO answer that II
was Katzenellenboeen originally? No not
even two names belied his identity. What
was the use?
Precisely What is the use of trying TO in
sure a names Immortality with n college
education as a bait? Times and names GO
and change-even if Romeo did remain
Romeo. And with the going of time there
appears the following notice. AT present
there are no applications for the Leaven-
worth Scholarship" which is open for com
petition TO all students whose surname Is
Leavenworth and who are regularly enrolled
in Yale.
There was a story current about twenty
five years ago OF how one OF the young
Rothschllds was scoffed nc by a self-made
man.
you would never have amounted to any
thing, never would have had so much
penny II you hadn't inherited It from your
father" inveighed the self-made one.
You're wrong" retorted young Rothschlld
II would have had a fortune anyhow I'd
get some ono TO make me his heir"
And he did. He advertised in the paper
for some one to adopt him as his heir. Be
fore the lapse OF many days he received o
letter from an elderly gentleman who would
he very glad to have the young man as his
heir. The letter further explained that he
was a man Of well nigh so with a claim
against the Mexican Government. lie didn't
think he'd live 10 fight It out. The young
man. IL he cared TO- the letter continued
could join the fight and inherit the claim
which ran into theNnilliona