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Excerpt from History of the Yale Class of 1873: Academic The Class of '73, whose college course began September 15, 1869, and ended june 26, 1873, numbered, according to the college catalogue, 143 men in freshman year, 131 in sophomore, 134 in junior, and 118 in senior. Degrees were conferred, on commencement day, upon 112 men to whom another was presently added, and in 1892 the name of a former member of the Class was enrolled upon the list by order of the univer sity authorities, making 114 in all, of whom 98 survive at this writing. Charles Parker Bodfish of Wareham, Mass, died during the third term of freshman year, and Frank Ward Howard of Brooklyn, N. Y., during the second term of senior year. The most important events in the col lege world during the career of the Class were the erection of F arnam, Durfee, and East Divinity halls; the demolition of old Divinity, which stood on the college square just north of North college the resignation of President Woolsey and inauguration of President Porter; the death of Professor Hadley; and the substitution in the corporation of six alumni for six state senators. Other incidents while it was in college were the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance on Sunday after noons, the accession to the faculty of Professors Gibbs, Sumner, Carter, Arthur W. Wright, and Henry P. Wright; the resignation of Professor Gilman of the Scientific school to become President of the University of California (and later of Johns Hopkins) the resignation of Dr. Dag gett as college pastor; the inauguration by Henry Ward Beecher of the Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching the establishment of the Yale Record the organization of the first intercollegiate rowing association 5 the inauguration of field athletics at Yale; and the erection of Scroll and Key and Psi U. Halls. The Class was the first to recite to Dean Wright, and has always held this popular instructor in especial affection. It was emphatically an athletic class, defeating as freshmen the Harvard freshmen in baseball and rowing, contributing three men to the six oared crew which in 1873 turned the long tide of disaster in university aquatic contests, and furnishing the catcher of the first baseball team to defeat Harvard. But the most lasting influence of the Class on athletics was effected when as seniors a few of its members, inspired by David. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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