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...University has received a gift of $5,500 to establish the Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad...
...Robert Darrah Jenks died on January 22, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pa. He prepared for College at the Penn Charter School, graduated from the University in the Class of 1897 and after a year of railroading took up the study of law. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association...
...scholarship is the joint gift of his mother, Mrs. William Furness Jenks, and his wife, Mrs. Robert Darrah Jenks, who is at present engaged in Y. M. C. A. work abroad...
Dean Briggs went to New Haven yesterday to discuss plans for spring athletics with the authorities of Yale and Princeton, which universities will be represented by Dean McClenahan of Princeton, and Professor Robert N. Corwin, chairman of the Yale Board of Athletic Control. An attempt will be made to frame an understanding in regard to all spring sports, but special emphasis will be laid on baseball and rowing...
According to a statement in the Princetonian, Yale will have formal teams in baseball, crew and track this spring. This new decision was made by the advisory committee on athletics, of which Professor Robert N. Corwin is chairman. The committee decided some time ago that athletics would be conducted on an informal basis, as was football last fall, but as a result of many conferences within the past few weeks, the policy has been altered...