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...January meeting the Yale Corporation elected Thomas Walton Swan, LL.B. '03 (Yale 1900), professor of law and Dean of the Yale Law School, to succeed Professor H. W. Rogers. The new dean graduated from the Harvard Law School with distinction, being both marshal of his class and editor-in-chief of the Law Review. He was engaged with Professor J. H. Beale '82 in organizing the law department of the University of Chicago, and has since been engaged in private practice...
...large collection of books on angling and fishing. Starting with only a scrapbook on trout and trout and trout-fishing, the collection grew to some 12,000 volumes, including treatise on all sorts of fishing, and even whaling. The most valuable single volume is a first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angle," copies of which have sold for more than $6,000. The library is also the most complete in the world in official documents of all countries on fishing. Mr. Fearing himself describes this collection in detail in the current issue of the Graduates Magazine, as follows...
...library has two copies of the most valuable and important book ever written on fishing, the first edition of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler." Copies of this first edition, which at the time of publication sold for 18 pence were worth $60 in 1847 and in 1889 their value has risen to $225. The high-wate mark was reached in 1907, however, when one of these first editions sold for $6,450. The library also contains a Flemish work published in 1492, which is the earliest known treatise on fishing. the original manuscript of the English translation, together with...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "A Comparison of Phototaxis in Animals from Different 'Communities,'" by Mr. J. M. D. Olmsted.--"The Spermatogenesis of Ascaris canis from the Spermatogonia to the Inter kinetic Period," by Mr. A. C. Walton. Zoological Laboratory, Room...
...Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship for 1915-16 was assigned to A. C. Walton, and the following other scholarships were also awarded: Austin scholarships in Architecture to K. J. Conant '15, and M. R. Rogers '16; in Landscape Architecture, to A. H. Alexander 1 G.S., and R. D. Cornell 1G. S.; the Joseph Eveleth scholarship to J. V. Wilson 1 G. S.; University scholarships, in Landscape Architecture to F. E. Allen, L. E. Foglesong 1G.S., and D. R. Fiske 1G.S., for special students, to G. E. Denham sG.S., S. Nesselroth, and A. H. Hutchason; the Francis H. Cummings scholarship...