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Show GENEROUS GIFTS TO YALE ANNOUNCED BY ALUMNI i New Haven, Conn., June 29. Pres-, idem Hadlcy presented his report at ho mooting of the Alumni in Alumni hall today at Yale. Gifford Hnchot, 1 ictlded. The report discusses the dlminu-'ie-n In the study of Greek, and its ef-fci: ef-fci: the possibility of combining j modoru culture studios with the old-; fashlonofi requirement of hard work, , the considerations which bhould gov- ern the choice of professors; and tho possibility of Introducing honor, forges, llko those of Oxford or Cam-1 '"Idee, Into the American college. j President Hadley said that many . I Jf the strongest men in England and ho United Stales have decided that i -h? Rtiidy of Greek takes more tlm3 ! 'han It 1h worth, j Continuing, he said. In part: "In trying, lo got. more practical r-: ; ?ultfi in the way of knowledge or cul-! lire, a great many American bo'6 j hayo lost the training which j fJrffk would have given Ihem. and I 'Raiiioji nothing of equal value In lfs j .1'lace. But collesres cannot teach a j 'ihlng to a public which does not want lo study it. a-id we nr.isl recognize tho ' 'act that an incn-aslng pa;t of the American public does not care to have Us sons give the time necessary for tho effective use of tne Greek language, lan-guage, as a means of competition and discipline. This makes academic problems prob-lems dlincult." Among tho recent gifts of special importance not previously announced aro $100,000 from Mrs, Morris K. Jes-up.-for the endowment of a Professorship Professor-ship in Culture in memory of her husband, hus-band, and $30,000 from an anonymous friend of ihe art school In memory of the late Richard S. Fellows, of the class of 1832. During the alumni meeting it was announced that Cornelius Vanderbllt, class of '95, had made a gift of $50.-O00 $50.-O00 as the nucleus of a fund, as a memorial me-morial to the services of Dean Henry p., Wright, who retires from the academic department with this commencement. com-mencement. Two tablets, placed In the vctibule of memorial hall, were unveiled today. to-day. One was In m-mory of Hiram Bingham, 1857, missionary to Mlo-on-ohla, 1908 navigator and Bibl trim-later, trim-later, and Cbarlc Hnrding, 1856 mla-Klonary mla-Klonary to India. U99. The other tablet tab-let Is hi memory of Arthur Uar-greaves Uar-greaves Mann, professor In Saint John's Uulvcndty, Shanghai, drowned in Kuliug. China, in 1907 |