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James Russell Lowell, Martin Brimmer, Henry Drisler, Basil L. Gildersleeve, William W. Goodwin, Henry G. Marquand, Charles Eliot Norton, Frederic J. de Peyster, Henry C. Potter, William M. Sloane, Samuel D. Warren, John Williams White, Theodore D. Woolsey, Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens...
...consideration which bars out such men as ex-President White of Cornell; President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, General Francis A. Walker, and certain members of the faculty whose names have been proposed. True, it would be easy to ordain either of such men as was done in President Woolsey's case, but it is not likely that such a step will be taken. At present, the indications are that the professor of Sacred Literature, Timothy Dwight, has the inside track. He is said to be a man of liberal views on education, and may be put down as the compromise...
...expressed that it is necessary that he should retire from the active government of the college. He is the eleventh president of the college, and the terms of only three, president Pierson, 1701-7, president Andrew 1707-19, and president Daggett, 1776-77, have been shorter, while president Woolsey's term of office was twenty-five years, 1846-71, and president Day's term was twenty-eight years, 1817-46. He will long be remembered for his kindness and geniality; for his dignity under all circumstances; and for the general prosperity of the college, and for the additions that have...
...faculty a number of permanent and temporary changes have been made. Prof. James F. Colby, of the Law School, has resigned his office to accept a class of political enconomy at Dartmouth. His place is filled by Prof. Theodore D. Woolsey, who resigned two years ago, and has now returned to the law school's corps of instructors. Prof. E. J. Phelps's appointment as Minister to England has left a vacancy which will probably be filled by Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, who will instruct the seniors in constitutional and international law. Mr. Arthur E. Hadley continues his lectures...
Wednesday evening, the Woolsey Battalion of Yale, paraded in a grand Republican procession, and New Haven was literally painted blue of a most violent type...