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...then read other apologies for non-attendance, among which were letters from Presidents E. G. Robinson of Brown University, Julius H. Seeyle of Amherst, Franklin Carter of Williams, Chief Justice Morton, Hon. O. W. Holmes, Jr., John Fisk, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Senator Dawes, Senator Evarts and Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. In his letter of apology, Senator Dawes said: "I am filled with admiration of him [President Dwight] and the new field of work on which he enters with so much zeal and with such a common consent of alumni and the entire public. The future of the university must...
...were made by the chairman, Judge Van Brunt; William Allen Butler, the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, the Rev. Dr. John Hall, Chancellor of the University; Prof. Henry M. Baird, Dr. Charles Inslee Pardee A. J. Vanderpool, John E. Parsons, the Rev. Howard Crosby, Prof. R. Ogden Loremus, and Chauncey Depew...
...annual alumni dinner of Yale will take place in Boston on Wednesday, February 2. Among those who have signified their purpose to be present are Gov. Ames, Lieut. Gov. Brackett, President Dwight, and Mr. Chauncey Depew...
...Chauncey Depew lately said in one of his witty speeches after a college Alumni dinner, with such an array of studies as Harvard offers the students the elective system becomes a necessity unless the students are to be worked 438 hours a week. The only absolute prescription is, in the freshman year, rhetoric and English composition, German or French, the other being required for admission, and attendance once a week upon lectures in chemistry and physics, and in the remainder of the college course English composition in the form of "themes" and "forensics" only. In addition to these prescribed exercises...
Yale isn't backward in tooting her little horn when occasion offers. At the alumni banquet in New York the other night, Mr. Depew allowed that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship...